Are the '80s and the '90s now in the same breath as the '60s and '70s?

Question

The '80s are now treated like an old decade everyone loves to hate like the '60s and '70s. The '90s are even beginning to become old as the early '90s pushes 20 years ago.

By 2050 will nobody know the difference between 1990 and 1960?

Answer 1

the 60s and 70s may be old but it produced the best in music of any period in time,lets face it who will remember these so called rapper bands in a couple of years let alone 40+ example the beatles they will still be remembered a 100 years from now,queen with freddy mercury,kinks,moody blues, eagles ,bob dylan,jimi hendrix,i could go on forever,you people dont know what you missed the 60s were nothing like any other time in history never to be repeated.

Answer 2

They're not at all the same. The 60's was a decade of protests against war and all forms of discrimination. Protests and the war were the important news of the day. We'd never seen a war coming right at us on our TV's on the evening news before, and it was a shock. Also, we hadn't had a president assassinated in 100 years, and to have a charismatic young president shot down in his prime paralyzed the nation. We lost our innocence that day.

In the 1970's, we got a lot more carefree. "Mellow" was the word of the day from the beginning, and disco ruled in the end. But when Watergate hit, we got another shock--we'd never had such a scandal in our lifetimes. I remember being 11 years old and watching the Watergate hearings devoutly every day. It took the fact that Carter was an outsider, and didn't have the "taint" of scandal, to start trusting the government again, even a little.

The 1980's was when things seemed to get conservative. The Reagan Republicans (aka, the young republicans) were the ones in the business suits and red ties (Nancy's favorite color) who seemed to be running everything, and Big Business became the real enemy. There was still a lot of scandal, but it couldn't be Reagan's fault--he was such a nice guy, after all.

Finally, we have the 1990's. We started out with a war we could cheer about, since it lasted only about a month against someone we could all agree was evil. When Clinton came in, we relaxed a little--Big Business was still around, but we had a president now who was a little more like us. How bad could he be if he went on Arsenio Hall and played the saxophone. So he had a fling--nobody's perfect.

Even if the spirit of these decades didn't begin and end exactly when the decades ended, there was quite a difference.

Answer 3

We're just simple turn-of-the-century folks to people 50 years from now.
Do you know the difference betwen 1860 and 1890? When you were taught history in school, the 1800's were probably a single chapter, and the 1900's split up into a few chapters.
As time goes by, there is more history to learn.
By 2050, only the major stuff from the 1900's will be remembered, and stuff from 2000 and later will be taught in more detail.

Answer 4

60's: Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" electric powered at Newport with all the booing & cheering. 70's: "alterations" via David Bowie, or "Alison" via Elvis Costello, or any Zeppelin 80's: "females merely Wanna have relaxing" Cyndi Lauper (i had to BE Cyndi decrease back interior the day. :)), or "fortunate celebrity" via Madonna ninety's: "revolt female" via Bikini Kill, "Istanbul (no longer Constantinople)" via TMBG, any Nirvana, the forged recording of any musical i exchange into in in extreme college...

Answer 5

I would say '60s & '70s would be breathless more often!

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