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Old 02-19-2013, 09:10 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Yeah I wasn't suggesting that any decade is completely free of those kinds of issues, but there are definitely decades where it seems they were more on the public's conscious
I think that's more a product of perception than anything. It's easy to look back with the benefit of hindsight and underestimate how scary a given era was for the people living in it who had no idea how things were going to turn out.

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That and I just like mopey British/American indie rock, new wave and post-punk lol
I love a lot of it too. And I relate to why those people were so mopey back then.
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