I was a teenager in the 1970s, it was a difficult time for me and I couldn't appreciate all the cultural and fun things that were going on.  Remember Mood Rings?  I remember I went around telling all my teacher to "Have a Nice Day" and was really out of style because my parents were too old fashioned to let me wear what the other kids were wearing. 

The 80s was a bad decade for me--I wouldn't mind going back to the 90s though.