80s coming back

Are the 80s making a come back?

I just love this song... Rufus - 80s coming back:

You thought you had it coming
But now you really really just don't know
It seems you make a deal far too big outta this
You thought that you'd done it
Yeah you thought that you had heard it all
But the state of things is putting you down now just because

You know they say it's just the eighties coming back
Can you feel it? It's the eighties coming back
Oh I know it's just the eighties coming
Eighties coming eighties coming
Eighties coming eighties coming back

You said "Let's do it"
"Let's take it out and dance all night"
But those deep synthesizer sounds freak you out
Wo!
And now you wake up in the middle of the night
In terror and all you do is cry
Cold sweat a cup of tea no nothing seems to help you through the night
My god!

Now it feels just like the eighties coming back
Can you feel it? It's the eighties coming back
Oh I know it's just the eighties coming
Eighties coming eighties coming
Eighties coming eighties coming back

Yeah you thought you had it coming
But now it looks like you didn't know shit*
But everybody's wearing their hair hair the way you did fifteen years ago
And it makes you wanna cry

Rufus represented Estonia in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest (the best in many years).

What did you love about the 80s. I loved everything, the vile political climate, the pop stars, the fashions... The 00s are relatively boring, in my humble opinion, dear reader. The world is full of boring people. It's vile.

These days (just saying that makes me feel old - my Mum says it a lot) - criminals are just thugs, not glamorous at all. Pop stars are shallow and all come off of a production line. They're as thick as pig shit. Record companies are scared that if they show any level of intelligence, it will ruin their careers.

Where is all the originality and fabulousness?

Sure, in the 80s, we all followed fahion trends (some of which, I hope, will never be repeated), but everyone had a sense of originality. Every youth looks the same these days! They all wear the same clothes and sport the same hair style, especially the chavs/neds/schemies/cackers/white trash.

Roll on 2010. Perhaps some originality will seep through the gloom by then.

Oh, aren't I just a miserable sod today, dear reader?

I remember the Red Hand Gang. Do you? Check out this funky list.

What else do you remember from the 80s? Thatcher? Rubik's cube? Mr T? Transformers? My Little Pony? Bronski Beat? New Romantics?

Ah, nostalgia...!

*There is much debate as to whether they guy is singing this or shit. I think he's quite clearly singing this. However, he may have written shit as the lyric but been forbidden to sing it.