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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Jan 31, 2020 9:01:23 GMT -5
Since I’m currently laid up at home and can’t go anywhere, I’m curious to know what people’s favorite decade is. My fave decade is the 60’s, I love the fashions, the movies and especially the music. I have an extensive collection of 60’s music ranging from the British Invasion to American pop to Motown and different types of R&B and psychedelic music. I grew up listening to 60’s music since my Dad grew up in that era and we had the oldies station on all the time at home. That’s why My Favorite Things is set in the early 60’s in Britain, that’s a time period I’d love to see
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Post by Tim on Jan 31, 2020 12:51:26 GMT -5
The 1980's for me. That was the decade of my youth.
And there are times I wish I was back there now.
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Post by Squad 51 on Jan 31, 2020 15:07:08 GMT -5
For me it's the 1970 and 1980ies. Though some was the times I was just born and then grew up, well, the music was cool in that era. Still is, by the way.
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Post by Tim on Jan 31, 2020 19:05:07 GMT -5
Well, how about the rest of you?
What was your favourite decade?
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Post by BettyNewbie on Jan 31, 2020 20:42:39 GMT -5
*Points down to my banner*I love lots of things about the 50s/60s/70s/80s, like the music, fashions, and decor. My Sims Tumblr is full of Art Deco and Mid-Century Modern sets. But, I wouldn't have actually wanted to live in any of those decades. No way would I ever want to go back to an era with Jim Crow and no Civil Rights Act, when women could get fired for being pregnant, abortion was illegal, and LGBT people risked death if they didn't stay shut in the closet. Also, hell no to the Cold War, Vietnam, and Nixon/Reagan. However, the 90s were a different story. Unlike previous decades, the rights of women/POC/LGBT people weren't too far removed from nowadays. Internet and cell phones were more limited (and more expensive), but that also meant that people weren't wasting their lives away on sites like Facebook and Twitter. The early internet, in general, was a friendlier place. Factor in the booming economy, lack of war, and excellent fashion/music/TV shows/movies/video games, and you can take me straight back to 1999 right now. I lived through the 90s as a kid, but I really wish I had gotten to experience the decade as a teenager or young adult. The 00s and 10s weren't anything but a giant disappointment in comparison.
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Post by Tim on Feb 1, 2020 0:15:10 GMT -5
You wish you'd experience the 90's like I experienced the 80's.
I was 13 when the 80's started and 23 when they ended. I experienced the whole thing.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Feb 1, 2020 1:54:32 GMT -5
You wish you'd experience the 90's like I experienced the 80's.
I was 13 when the 80's started and 23 when they ended. I experienced the whole thing. For that, I would've needed to be born around 1975 or 1976. I'd be trading away a 90s childhood for an 80s one (not the worst thing), but gaining an early 90s adolescence (win) and a late 90s young adulthood (also good). I'd also get to be Gen X instead of a Millennial. Definitely beats being a teenager during the War on Terror and graduating from high school at the height of the Great Recession. The 00s were a pop cultural wasteland, too. Only decade worse was the 10s (which barely even had a pop culture of its own).
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Post by Dark Avenger on Feb 1, 2020 3:26:36 GMT -5
Well I say which decade I hated, and that was the 10s. This past decade was the worst.
I have a personal fondness for the 90s, as my favourite decade. I grew up as a child in the entire decade, became a teenager in the next.
Times were better without social media, but I still do enjoy the early days of the internet, although I was still too young to enjoy the early days in the 90s with it, I have fond memories of it in the early 00s.
I'm just not interested in music today. I really am appreciating the older stuff from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. I wish I could have been old enough to grow up with it. But, not being born in the 70s, maybe the early 80s.
I do have some fond memories of the early 00s too, but the late 00s was when things started to change.
But the late 90s was the best period of television, well for me. All my favourites were here. I was too young to see X-Files and wished I got a chance to enjoy it like people who were older, in addition to many other shows, and have more memories.
Maybe, I'd just change me being born at the end of the 80s. So maybe me just being born five years back then when I was, so I'd have a childhood in the 80s, and a few teenage years in the 90s, with college in the 00s.
Most of my cousins were born in the 70s and early 80s on my father's side, as my dad was the youngest from my uncles and aunty. Now, I'd just put myself in their generation. So maybe me being born in 1982 would be ideal. I'll get an 80s childhood and ending the early 90s. Than my teenage years in the 90s, and starting college in the 00s, not that bad.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Feb 1, 2020 4:45:12 GMT -5
Being born in 1980 with my childhood going up until 1998 I lived through the two best decades I suppose though I do remember the 90's more than 80's been a teenager of course.
The '80s and '90s had great music and television shows which I listened and watched too.
Having blank cassette tapes I used to record the weekly top 40 chart shows usually and what songs I liked before mp4's came out and mobile phones that could play music also.
My mum liked those decades in terms of music because she could understand what songs meant actually hearing lyrics instead of a lot of them now being rapped on which she can't unfortunately.
I remember pre-satellite TV when there were only 3 or 4 channels and how I did view a lot of that throughout my youth including children's programmes and soaps.
The different trends in shoes and clothing, Brit-pop with Oasis and Blur battling to be number 1 band.
I remember my computers being both floppy disk ones and CD's also which I still have actually the disks and CD's not the computers obviously plus the annoying dial-up internet that took too long to connect and cost £400 sometimes in phone fees my mum had to pay before getting sim only deals in the '00s and '10s lowering cost values considerably.
My best holiday ever was 1991 when my dad, mum, and I went to Disneyland Orlando another thing I liked about the '90s also.
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Post by Squad 51 on Feb 1, 2020 8:58:25 GMT -5
You wish you'd experience the 90's like I experienced the 80's.
I was 13 when the 80's started and 23 when they ended. I experienced the whole thing. For that, I would've needed to be born around 1975 or 1976. I'd be trading away a 90s childhood for an 80s one (not the worst thing), but gaining an early 90s adolescence (win) and a late 90s young adulthood (also good). I'd also get to be Gen X instead of a Millennial.
Definitely beats being a teenager during the War on Terror and graduating from high school at the height of the Great Recession. The 00s were a pop cultural wasteland, too. Only decade worse was the 10s (which barely even had a pop culture of its own). Then you'd be me, Betty since I experienced this first hand, yet behind the Iron Curtain. Still, we were not so different back then.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Feb 1, 2020 11:01:00 GMT -5
Like, did the 00s and 10s even do anything right? Sure, internet speeds are faster and more convenient than ever. But, does it even matter when so much of that internet time is spent on toxic, worthless social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? When every other site is spying on you and collecting personal data? When e-commerce megasites are destroying every smaller competitor and monopolizing retail? And, yes, the US elected a Black president in 2008 and legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, but those feel like hollow victories in retrospect. The same time period also saw the rise of a new wave of fascism and white supremacy that the Democrats have mostly been powerless against. Our first Black president was directly followed by a violent fascist whose blatant, open racism literally helped him get elected.And, it feels like the economy has permanently been in the pits since 2000 and especially since 2009. The Great Recession never really ended for people outside of the 1%. I guess you could make a case for the 00s being a "Golden Age of Prestige TV" due to shows like The Sopranos, Lost, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad. But, that "Golden Age" didn't last into the 10s at all. "Prestige TV" became yet another worn-out formula, and both cable networks and streaming services alike discovered there was more $$$ to be made in rebooting old shows than making new ones about angry white men (lack of diversity was yet another issue with 00s "Prestige TV," alas).
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Post by Tim on Feb 1, 2020 13:10:47 GMT -5
One step forward, five steps back.
Not to mention streaming. Oh don't get me started...
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Feb 1, 2020 14:49:28 GMT -5
I was a kid in the early 90s and a teenager throughout most of the decade, to this day I have a soft spot for 90s alternative music and TV. The first half of the 90s had great music and I loved watching Beavis and Butthead and MTV in general, finding new artists on 120 Minutes and Headbangers Ball. My ideal society would have the pop culture of the mid to late 60’s and early to mid 90s with the social mores of the 21st century in terms of rights, I dislike most current pop music and haven’t seen a contemporary TV show in years and I prefer older stuff in general
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Post by Tim on Feb 1, 2020 18:00:07 GMT -5
Ah, yes, when MTV was still worth watching.
Now it's all reality garbage.
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Post by BettyNewbie on Feb 1, 2020 18:31:35 GMT -5
I was a kid in the early 90s and a teenager throughout most of the decade, to this day I have a soft spot for 90s alternative music and TV. The first half of the 90s had great music and I loved watching Beavis and Butthead and MTV in general, finding new artists on 120 Minutes and Headbangers Ball. This is me 100%, even though I was only a baby in the early 90s. Feel free to start threads about any of these things, Vanessa. I'd love to have someone to discuss them with.
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