The best decade?
This is a subject under debate on the BBC website at the moment following a poll topped by the ’80s. It’s kind of an odd thing to argue about because surely all decades have their high and low points. Having said that I can see the appeal of the ’80s, especially for people who were teenagers at the time, it was a good time to be young.
On the radio last night, I heard someone from a ’60s band dismissing the 1980s and saying the decade wasn’t a patch on the ’60s. I’m too young to be able to make a real comparison, but I do think we had more freedom as ’80s teenagers. Not just to dress like idiots, but in terms of choices and opportunities. I suppose that may be because I’m female and lucky enough to be part of the first generation to reap the benefits of the women’s movement. So, yes, for me the ’80s were good. However . . .
. . . if I had a favourite decade, it would be the 1990s. It was a good time. The Berlin Wall had come down, perestroika and glasnost had swept through the Soviet Union and us human beings seemed to finally be getting somewhere. Of course, that all changed in the ’00s, but it was nice while it lasted.
Updated to add: The ’60s chap was from the band The Scaffold – I found it somewhat ironic that a man who gave us Lily the Pink should criticise ’80s music. I mean, it’s an ok song, I liked it as a little girl, but it’s hardly U2.
Currently listening to: Rain. Yes, more of the bloody stuff!
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1Kim Ayres
wrote on 8 September 2008 at 15:51
Definitely the 90s. Can’t say the 80s did that much for me- spent the first half in school and the 2nd half unemployed.
Music was crap too.
I loved the Brit Pop explosion.
Good to see you back where I can find you again…
2Ria
wrote on 8 September 2008 at 18:04
I did enjoy the 90’s was really into NKOTB (sad I know) but the best years were when I was at school. 90’s was also the year when Nelson Mandela was released, the internet was publicly released (HOORAY!) and the rise of doc martens..
3Cotswoldgent
wrote on 9 September 2008 at 11:09
Ah the seventies was my time, loons, hair down to my ankles, cowboy boots, cheesecloth shirts, the old grey whilstle test and cheap booze and ten number six for 10p.
4Kate
wrote on 9 September 2008 at 11:38
Kim – There was some good music in the 80s, unfortunately it did get rather swamped by the dreadful Stock, Aitken and Waterman stuff. Kylie has a lot to answer for.
Ria – Aha, now I know your guilty secret LOL
Cotswoldgent – The Old Grey Whistle Test, I remember that and that Whispering Bob chap. He was much better than the bellowing plonkers they have on music programmes nowadays.