What was the best decade for culture?

[coloradodem2005]

I can't do a poll but here goes. Your choices are the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's. Probably won't see the 00's here very much.

[FloridaPat]

1. 60's. It had the most unique and fun culture I've been through so

far. A lot of ideas changed through the 60's. Maybe it was all those drugs. A lot of everything changed then.

[Old and In the Way]

6. I agree...........there was a cultural explosion that occured the likes

I haven't seen since. Music, clothing, ideas, social awareness, it seems like the changes started around Kennedy's assissination and peaked late in the decade.

[ET Awful]

15. Personally, I missed it, but I'd have to say the 60's as well . . .

It's when culture and society went through the most drastic changes of the 20th century. From civil rights to youth actually making themselves a voice for change to the "sexual revolution," the 60's brought about the most massive cultural changes of the century.

Yes other decades brought about change, but the 60's had such a huge number of drastic changes.

Whether it was marching on Washington or landing on the moon, the 60's is when everything really changed.

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. 90's

clinton in the WH, anime on the grow, travel up violence down, blissfull economy

[Fridays Child]

3. For acid-

-dophilus, I'd have to say the '70s. :hippie:

[rlev1223]

4. no one will believe me but

the 70s, especially up to around 78, before disco went big time.

Look at the list of movies, albums, books, etc, etc...very little in other recent decades compares. It took about 5 years for the 60s to sort itself out, so the first half of the 70s was the more reflective time. Oh, I could go on and on, but you youngsters would only think I was making it up .




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[Toxictoaster]

9. 70s for movies.

For sure.

[Toxictoaster]

5. For music, a dark horse:

The 80's. REM, the Replacements, Husker Du, beginnings of the great Seattle bands, seminal punk and ska bands from everywhere that got famous in the 90s but did some of their best stuff in the 80s (Bosstones, Bad Religion, Op Ivy/Rancid, etc.).

Plus you've got the last great original material from the great classic bands--the Who, Stones, etc. In all, a revolutionary decade, arguably the last great stand of rock and roll.

[slutticus]

7. The 1370's

[amazona]

8. huh

I saw the subject line and was going to say the 1920s. That's when they invented sex, you know. :-)

I suppose the 70s are the next logical choice since this is when sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll spread to all and even a redneck could be a "longhair" who was interested in music, unheard of in the 60s in the south for the most part.

[Deja Q]

10. Early 70s, BY FAR

Entertainment was hip to societal events and provoked thought.

It's an idyllic idiom.

By the end of the decade, mindless retro slop like Happy Days, The Waltons, and mindless envelope pushing such as Three's Company proliferated. (I don't recall the hwole series, except the show lost it after Chrissy left and only the first season had any engaging wit whatsoever mixed in with the double entendres; season 2 is all boring sex jokes. Furley's introduction helped, but not enough...)

[B Calm]

11. I agree with the early 70's, what a magical time it was

[flamingyouth]

12. Why not earlier than the '50s?

Say, the '20s? All that great art deco design? ;)

Man, just Natasha Rambova's set designs of Alla Nazimova's Camille alone makes it worth a mention!

Okay, I'll scurry back off into my corner now. ;)

[Fenris]

14. I say the forties.

The high point of U.S. culture. We dropped a bomb and it was all downhill from there.

[flamingyouth]

16. But see, you're young

You can't appreciate the really, really good old days. ;)

[Fenris]

21. Aye.

;)

Not like you.

[flamingyouth]

23. Yes, I'm 90

I remember the '20s well! ;)

[wickerwoman]

13. 70s. The Free to Be You and Me decade.

The 50s and the 00s are both too mindlessly conformist to produce anything lasting.

[flamingyouth]

17. Ah, Free to Be You & Me

The second reference today! :)

[DemWitch]

18. Where's the 40's?

Look at the advances made in our culture, from art, design, technology, construction, attitudes, etc. Did they have a lot further to go, of course, but what a kick start...

[OKNancy]

19. For the world of dance

the mid to late 70's, even into early 1980's
( I'm talking high art, not pop )

[kodi]

20. is positive impact on culture the measure? the '60's changed everything

look at the culture on the first day of the decade, look at it on its last. just imagine the things that changed for the better.

[expatriot]

22. Nirvana formed in 1984 so is Nirvana part of the 80's culture?

I am of the belief that culture is a constant... it just appears in different forms and manifestations.... from the surface, it looked like the fifties were hell but man, look beneath it.

[NashVegas]

24. There Are Good and Bad In All Decades

50s - the birth of rock and roll. Beatniks. everything else is safe and sterile.

60s - good design, good dance, good sex, consolidated rock and roll.

What was bad was that the counter culture was adopted by corporate America and dumbed down for mass consumption, made less thoughtful.

70s - bad design, bad almost everything but movies and NYC punk.

80s - good music in the underground. A *few* brilliant movies, but mostly bunk. Some good dance also emerges from the underground, and plays.

90s - the underground subculture explodes into mainstream culture and again gets harnessed by corporations. movies start to get interesting again in the last half of the decade.

[antigone382]

25. The 20's

Sorry, I broke the rules.

[Cerridwen]

26. I'm from Las Vegas - we don't do cultured

In any decade.

I'm not completely joking.

[NightTrain]

27. If you mean popular culture, I'd have to say the 1960s.

Here's a very incomplete list to back up my assertion:

The Beatles
The Blues music revival
The Brill Building sound
Cream
Dance music (Twist, Limbo, Bristol Stomp, Mashed Potato, Hully Gully, et al)
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Doo-Wop revival (1961-62)
Elvis Presley's 1968 comeback special
FM rock radio
Folk music
Garage rock
Girl groups
Huntley & Brinkley
James Bond
James Brown
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
The Kinks
Lenny Bruce
The Monterey Pop Festival
The Moody Blues
Mort Sahl
Motown
The Outer Limits
Phil Spector's Wall of Sound
Psychedelia
The Rolling Stones
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Sly & The Family Stone
The Smothers Brothers
Southern Soul music
Star Trek
Stax Records
Surf music
The T.A.M.I. Show
Twilight Zone (It aired from 1959-64.)
The Who
Woodstock

[DenverDem]

28. 65-75

I don't get better than that.

[Rhiannon12866]

29. The 1960s changed everything

Well, actually late '60s, early '70s. Every decade sees noticeable changes, but, IMHO, the cultural explosion that took place during that time totally changed this country forever.:hippie:

And, apparently, you can now conduct a poll. Congrats!:toast:

[Maccagirl]

30. 60's

The sitcoms on TV were a little lame-but the music, movies, fashion etc. were absolutely righteous! I'm glad I at least have the memories-sigh.