60's hands down. The Doors, civil rights movements, War, the peace movement, Zodiac in the bay area, Moon landing, Manson Family Murders. Best decade ever.
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Which decade would you choose to live in?
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You mean like Styx?I have to tell you- there was just as much bad as good back then, as there is now. You just have to dig for it these days, but there's a lot of good stuff out there. This has been a great year for music, IMO. You just have to look. You won't find it on the radio. That has always been the case. The demise of the record industry as we know it will be even better for music.
Did you just insult Styx, or did I misinterpret
? *cry* One of my favourite bands. Want to go see them live again...
While the ability to live in the past is certainly tempting, as people had a simpler way of life back then, I can't say I would actually want to live there. In a way, things were easier. University was not required to make good money, life was a little slower, people a little warmer. But as a minority woman, I never had more rights in the 21st century than anytime else, so I'd stick with now. Plus, I don't want to go back to no portable music or having only 10-15 songs with you at any time .
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I chose the 90's because, even though I was around for 7 years in that decade, I loved the technology in that era. Game Boy Colour, PS1 (with dual-shock!), iMac G3, Nintendo Sixty-Fooour and, I know I'll regret saying this, but using Windows 98 was my first experience with a computer, and I thought it was awesome 10 years ago (except for the "blue screen"- that used to make me run away from the computer).
Music in the 90's was really good as well. I loved dancing to the Spice Girls when I was 4-6 years old (1997-1999), along with my baby sister swinging her arms and legs in her highchair. I also enjoyed watching Pokemon (the original series, where Ash wears a cap with an L on it, and Brock and Misty are in the show).
Music in the 90's was really good as well. I loved dancing to the Spice Girls when I was 4-6 years old (1997-1999), along with my baby sister swinging her arms and legs in her highchair. I also enjoyed watching Pokemon (the original series, where Ash wears a cap with an L on it, and Brock and Misty are in the show).
Actually, that came because of the Great Depression. It forced people to stop being lazy an indifferent. It's really what the country needs nowadays.
Anyway, I'd want to live in the 40's myself. I really think people from that generation did more than most have.
Early 80's yes, late 80's no.I think I would have loved being a teenager in the 80's. So much great music.
I would politely disagree with you there - the advent of digital composition has ushered in a whole new era of art and interpretation. Perhaps content-wise it's the similar to earlier stuff, but in the creative sense it's new. My take..
So much to Wang and Chung about!I think I would have loved being a teenager in the 80's. So much great music.
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I picked the Zero-zeros. Oh-ohs? Snake-eyes... 2000s? What are we calling them today? But only because of love, My First Apple, and personal maturity (it took me 26 years to be comfortable in my own skin - I'd hate going through that again).
To all those who wished I had put earlier years I'm sorry, as this is a tech forum I was thinking about years things started to advance in a technological way.
Unfortunately we don't yet have the technology to add options to an online poll so you're stuck with it
Unfortunately we don't yet have the technology to add options to an online poll so you're stuck with it
Sorry dude, but that kind fo thing was already going on in the 80's. Techno, hip-hop, rap, dance, house, all of it started then. Digital movies, video, photography, etc. also started in the 80's. In the creative sense nothing new has happened since then. It was a very exciting time.
Nothing new has happened to revolutionize the arts since then, unless "boring" is the new art form.
Just because we now have GHz instead of Mhz, it doesn't mean much has changed. We can do it faster, but that's about it as far as "difference" goes. I want to see something completely new. I want kids to p*** me off. I want them to scare me. I'm 41, and the "alternative" kids dress like I did when I was their age. That is ridiculous! Come on you guys! I want to see something that is going to freak me out. We did it. It's your turn now. Do something to change the world.Yep- around that time is when the 70's started to get recycled by Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Nirvana I thought was great. The other two I could do without.
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I'd love to see how things progress. That, and I'd pull the "Back to the Future" thing but instead of sports, I'd invest in winning companies.
You could argue that digital ruined music, it is over produced now and over processed. You never would have the great Pink Floyd albums with digital.
Sorry dude, but that kind fo thing was already going on in the 80's. Techno, hip-hop, rap, dance, house, all of it started then. Digital movies, video, photography, etc. also started in the 80's. In the creative sense nothing new has happened since then. It was a very exciting time.
Nothing new has happened to revolutionize the arts since then, unless "boring" is the new art form.
Hey dude,
Chill, these are not the political forums!
You sound like me, a condescending old man (I am around your age), and the younger crowd probably think people like us (who did live through the incredible 70s and 80s of culture, fashion, music) sound like we are reminiscing. It reminds me of being a kid back then and having older people, middle aged, tell me about how great big band, sinatra, elvis, and doo-wop were and how stupid the gen-x/boomer disco, punk, new wave, and heavy metal were.
Hey dude,
Chill, these are not the political forums!
You sound like me, a condescending old man (I am around your age), and the younger crowd probably think people like us (who did live through the incredible 70s and 80s of culture, fashion, music) sound like we are reminiscing. It reminds me of being a kid back then and having older people, middle aged, tell me about how great big band, sinatra, elvis, and doo-wop were and how stupid the gen-x/boomer disco, punk, new wave, and heavy metal were.
My issue isn't with music or art today. I like a lot of it. I love tons of current bands and artists. That's the problem, they're almost the same now as they were then. I'm 41, I shouldn't like an of it. It should be totally different by now. But it's not. It's almost exactly the same. It's the kids who seem to be retro and reminiscing. I'd love to see something new. A new form of music, art and culture that has the ability to change things, but it's not happening. Why?
Very true.
Though I was a huge fan of Jim Croce, John Denver, and Kiss in that decade, namely famous stars in pop/folk, country-western/pop, and hard rock/metal/pop, there is still no doubting the huge impact the Bee Gees and Abba made on future pop icons of later years.
There were huge names among musicians like the Ramones, MC5, Laura Nyro, Return to Forever, and many others that never made it to the same level of success as a huge selling pop icon in that decade, too. The 70s, who I voted for, were very dynamic and exciting all around and is sometimes overlooked by a more prolific decade, the 1960s, 1968 in particular.
I have to say 60's or 70's. I could live with out computers. Mainly because gas was cheaper and so where the cars. Cars where allot cheaper and so was insurance.
Edit: Can you say TransAm!
Edit: Can you say TransAm!
I will take a stab at defending this decade, as far as innovation.
electronics/computer/high tech - iPod
politics (for an all new low never seen) - the guy there now at 1600 Penn. Ave.
music - Coldplay, Norweigian metal
photography - inexpensive accessible high quality digital cameras
communication - ditto to above but in a cell phone
my field/business (skateboarding) - street skating, urban and aggressive and very technical and manual (and the fashions attached to it - Krew jeans, Volcom Stone, Element, DGK wear, etc)
clothing/fashion in general? - OK, you got me on that one
, the new does seem retro or wanna be retro. Levi's, the icon, are doing re-issue jeans from the 60s/70s and they trump the new designs. But it's still cool that the younger crowd recognizes us. www.levis.com and look under the female section-junior designs and the retro fits (as this last tidbit would belong well in the jeans thread).