This  is in response to this post,  which is pretty funny and asks, “What’s so great about the 80’s?” from someone who was too young at the time to understand the significance of the times. As a veteran of the 80’s, I’m here to answer your questions and give you a list of what was right and wrong with the 80’s, which truthfully weren't as bad as you young, rascally kids like to make them out to be.

Here are a few of my main beefs with the 80’s:

New Coke; Jolt; butt rockers and big hair bands—both the kind you listen to and the kind you put on your head; copious amounts of Ozone depletion because of rampant and uncontrollable Aqua Net addictions; leggings; Ronald Reagan; the first George Bush; big jacked up trucks; the Sweet Valley High teenaged romance series; Sun-In, fake-n-baking and the whole desire for orange skin; the Smurfs; and last but not least, high school.

Here’s what was right about the 80’s:

Madonna; Prince; the Fresh Prince of Bel Aire; Mr. T; the first Simpson’s episode; every movie ever made by John Hughes; Alex P. Keaton; Boner;  Arnold Schwarzenegger movies; Rambo movies; mullets; rat tails; Revenge of the Nerds; slumber parties; cheap candy bars at 4 for a buck; the Brat Pack; music that you could listen and dance to without popping a pill; the beginning of M-TV; cruising around the main drags in the burbs; couple skates; big coke slurpees; more bowling alleys and leagues; sweet gas-guzzling vans with velour interiors and captain seats; a gallon of gas for under a buck; pop rocks; the "Greasy Gopher Guts song"; re-runs of 3’s Company, The Brady Bunch, and Laverne and Shirley; ghetto blasters; late-night coffee at Denny’s; asymetrical hair cuts; leggings; and lots of entertaining fights at school.

And, as far as the 80’s music nights go, the same thing will happen ito you in a couple of years when 90's retro becomes super-in and you can go out and have nostalgic little rave parties with all of the music and do all the same drugs you did in the 90’s. Nostalgia cover bands sell just as many tickets as the new, innovative bands that probably play much better music. Just wait a year or two and it’ll be your turn to explain to your younger friends and relatives what was so great about the 90’s.