It's interesting to hear about what people miss from the 80s. I thought it was an awful time in which to grow up and whenever I hear some pop song that I haven't heard in 20 years I don't get that warm-inside nostalgic feeling; it's more like, "oh god, noooooo!" Maybe you could call it anti-nostalgia or something. I hated cheerleaders with their big hair. I hated Ronald Reagan. I dressed in the fashion and listened to pop songs on the radio until I discovered other music that I liked a lot more. I guess it doesn't help that my teenage years were pretty miserable.

If someone starts a thread about 60s and 70s music with Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and . . . erm, Tom Waits (who is still going strong), I'm there. My husband and I say we were born 20 years too late.