Talkin 'bout my generation

So, I was laying in bed - thinking about the 80's (of course) I had this fantastic thread of generational based ranting, and I thought to myself  ''Self! blog this shit'', of course I have forgotten most of it! However, I do somewhat have some stuff to say :-
The 80's was responsible for some terrible things, we had shell suits, the sideways ponytail, some truly god-awful music and leg-warmers. There was also white dog shit - Everywhere!
This all said, we had some great shit going on too, clearly not fashion wise! The 80's was a great time for metal, so forgive the awful music, because it can be counter balanced with some great music too. Then there was the movies; Films like Ghostbusters, The Goonies, Labyrinth and Back to the future and the film that personally, for me epitomises the 80's The Lost boys, Nothing of today has any of the feel to it, that these things did!
I'm not sure I its just because I was a kid, but for me, I think it is a time that symbolises innocence, however at the same time it was a very experimental era. People were getting more rights, gays were starting to be more open about their sexuality, more people were experimenting with more drugs.
The big fear in the 80's was the AIDS, a fear borne purely from ignorance, but kids were outside, kids did stuff, they had real friends. Me, I spent my childhood up a tree, or on my bike, building dens and climbing into, onto and over everything possible! My summers were passed on the beach and I think to be fair, I probably wasn't actually indoors that much when the weather was shit! We were pretty poor, but it was irrelevant, because I was happy with that shit!
Today, kids don't really go out, the media has made the world more aware, it has also spawned fear, so parents wrap their kids in cotton wool, they don't let them to far out of sight, they worry about abductors or peado's or whatever! A game console is a substitute sitter, on-line 'friends' are deemed less of a threat.
I think this has, in a general sense, caused people to have less creativity, less imagination - and more fat kids! (no, not the wonderfully awful drink, I was a little to fond of, at the Marquee).

Fuck it! Give me my dodgy leg-warmers, my sideways ponytail and power ballads, give me movies that had some feeling to them, and if you must, put the damn white dog shit back! I for one wouldn't change my generation for owt!