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Leftest Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:16 PM
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What was your favorite decade?
Mine were the 70's.

:)
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Warren Stupidity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:17 PM
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1. 70s of course
the state had lost control for the first time in a long time
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:21 PM
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2. The 70's
when people were people.
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lamp_shade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:22 PM
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3. Yet another 70's here.
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liberalmuse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:24 PM
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4. 1970's.
I was born in the '60's, so I didn't understand what was going on, but the '70's were great!
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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:24 PM
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5. I admit to being partial to the 70's meself...
'course...I weighed less then, and had hair... :D
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Kalyke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:25 PM
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6. The 80s.
I was a teenager/young adult then.

I don't remember the 70s all that much - but I love the music from then, as well as the techno-pop from my generation.

Hell, my favorite bands are The Who and Led Zeppelin.
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Leftest Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:50 PM
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27. Donna Summer: I Feel Love
Even though I am a rock & roller. My first experience with electronic techno-pop was this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TBmeK9Abg
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scarletwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:26 PM
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7. I'll have to go with a split decade: 1964 to 1973.
I'm starting with '64 because that's when the Beatles showed up.

:hippie:
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 12:29 AM
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50. You've got it exactly right!
The 60s started with the British invasion.
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Sancho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:29 PM
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8. Sorry, but it has to be the 60's!
There has never been anything like it in American history: Vietnam, Kennedy, MLK, moon landings, hippies, Beatles,...no matter what, the 60's were a deal breaker and change maker.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:30 PM
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9. And, what's cool is that we could make the next decade the same...
IF we have the will.....
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:30 PM
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10. from 1951 to 1960.
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 05:51 PM by Mari333
after puberty, meh, it all went to hell.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:32 PM
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11. 70's were the best for me.



(Born in the mid-40's)
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:33 PM
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12. 90s
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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:34 PM
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13. The 60's
No Vietnam War for us in the UK. Beatles, Stones, Who, LZ, Pink Floyd, mini-skirts, everything seemed to have promise.
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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:34 PM
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14. Sixties!
For what it's worth....
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suede1 Donating Member (770 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:38 PM
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15. The sixties by far. But I was too young to know what was going so, of what I can remember - the 70's
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carlyhippy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:32 PM
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40. me too, I was a little kid in the 60's, but what I can remember it was awesome
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 07:33 PM by carlyhippy
but the 70's rocked......
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mudesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:38 PM
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16. The best music came from the 70's
Other than that, not much.
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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:35 PM
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34. Best movies, too.
The studios system imploded and the creative people ran free.
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Leftest Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 11:43 PM
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47. tinrobot remember these TV shows?

















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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 12:20 AM
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48. Yes, but...
I liked these ones better:
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sandsavage Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:38 PM
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17. 60's
from what I can remember of it.
A bit hazy at times.
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jdadd Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:40 PM
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18. The 60s......
Especially 1966....:bounce:
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Joe the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:44 PM
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19. I've only been alive for two decades sooooo........
Well just 19 years, I have my pick between the Bush years or the Clinton years. I'll have to go with Clinton years 1990's.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:45 PM
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20. 80's.
The heyday of the underground Metal scene, not giving a damn about anything except playing music, chasing girls and partying my ass off. The best of times.
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:45 PM
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21. The 60s....
...I was young and carefree...and skinny as all hell! :hi:

Besides, it was an interesting time to live through.
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Pyrzqxgl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:45 PM
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22. Why would anyone have a favorite?
It seems like most people here give as a reason the music that was around. Well I got married and started
a business in the 60s, Saw a lot of good music live in the 70s, & almost as much in the 80s. The most interesting period in music for me is the late 20s, early to mid 30s. For books it's mostly the 50s & 60s.
For politics I was more involved in the 60s (civil rights, anti Viet Nam, etc). However where ever I'm at
decade by decade I can find something to occupy my time & that's the way it should be.
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Ex Lurker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:46 PM
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23. I'll narrow it down to five years
late seventies through early eighties. College years, enough said.
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jaysunb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:46 PM
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24. 60's AND 70's
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 05:47 PM by jaysunb
Hard for me to separate them.

I was born in the mid 40's so my teenage and young adult years are my best memories.
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:47 PM
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25. i was born in 61- so i was too young to appreciate the 60's...the 70's sucked...
the 80's sucked harder...the 90's were o.k.- except for that whole onset of the painful and disabling spinal condition thing that eventually led to my retirement at age 38 in 1999...which meant that i no longer had to answer to anyone, or have anyone answer to me...
and then we sold our home a couple years ago for a $300K profit...
and then i got the 60inch 1080p...

so i have to go with the aught's. no doubt about it.

this is the best decade going, so far- by FAR.

:woohoo:
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LordJFT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:50 PM
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26. the 2010s!
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:56 PM
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28. Yeah, you got it right.
This country was never more free than in the 2nd half of the 70s and first couple years of the 80s.
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fla nocount Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:06 PM
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29. 50's, they gave me the rest of them.
I became politically aware when 11, this wasn't considered odd at the time but was encouraged at least by the NA community that was being assimilated. I was the future...hah.

Barry Goldwater was an ugly, ugly individual, uglier than George (something about a name) Wallace even. Both would come down solidly left of center today. That was the FDR legacy at work, if you didn't represent the people's wishes, you didn't represent them.
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mirrera Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:13 PM
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30. SEVENTIES~~~
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:28 PM
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31. They were all different. But music in the 90's was a wild ride.
The 70's was PARTY! Sex. And mostly friendly cops.

But the 90's was super high quality pot, and music that blew doors on the 60's and 70's. Don't get all upset. It's subjective. But having spent all of my time listening to music, I have never encountered a better time than the 90's. My Bloody Valentine kicks ass on Led Zep, Beatles, Stones, combined.

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Leftest Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:45 PM
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That's cool Gregorian.
Please don't take this the wrong way. I am not trying to be argumentative or anything like that. I just wanted to remind that Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was on the hit charts for 740 straight weeks (14 years).

:P
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Systematic Chaos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:30 PM
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32. I was born in 1969, so for me it's the 80s.
Up until 1987 anyway.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:33 PM
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33. The 70's - although if I were a few years older it would have been different
As a kid, I followed the counterculture of the 60's with a passion. There was so much going on - the protests, the exploration of new ideas, the social scene.....

If I were about 3 years older, I would have been a "dirty hippie".
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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:38 PM
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35. I like now.
I think this next decade is going to see a LOT of very good changes. I'm looking forward to it.
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Fearless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:44 PM
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36. Is there one that didn't have a Bush, Reagan or Nixon in office?
Hmm... The 1910's? I guess that one.
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WhaTHellsgoingonhere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:45 PM
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37. '90s, by far...
I was a child of the '70s and grew up just outside of SF. Three things really stand out from that decade: Nixon's disgraceful exit, Leo Ryan's murder in Jonestown and Harvey Milk's murder.

Didn't know who I was or what I was made of throughout high school and college during the '80s. Early '90s was a period of great personal growth. And changes in the music scene paralled my own. It was awesome!
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:45 PM
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38. The music and dancing
to disco in the 70s.:)

Earth Wind & Fire, The Bee Gees, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers, Chicago, Diana Ross, The Commodores, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Boz Scaggs, Lynrd Skynrd, Samantha something?, she sang that song "Emotion", ELO, Crystal Gail singing "Don't it Make My Brown Eyes Blue", Bob Seger.

Thanks for the mental trip down memory lane, Leftest.:)
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 06:50 PM
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39. Mine too!
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 07:40 PM
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41. 70s !! When cops were friendly and Greed wasn't 'Good' yet n/t
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gblady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 08:03 PM
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42. mid to late 60's....
early 70's....
most fun time of my life...
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ileus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 08:10 PM
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43. 1980's
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 08:14 PM
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44. All the ones I really remember kinda sucked.
We had a nice run in the mid/late '90's, and I had a good childhood in the '70's.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 08:19 PM
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45. It was the Age of Aqaurius..all things ere possible,,
sex was guilt free, fly me to the moon had multiple meanings, there was promise and daring and confidence in the air. And lots of pot in the air, everywhere.
And the best damn music since Elvis invented rock and roll.

My middle aged sons are seriously jealous. I have not yet confessed there is much I was too stoned to remember.
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Waiting For Everyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 08:29 PM
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46. The '60s, the rest since then is pale in comparison.
It was the last of real life.

It would've been that much better without the fucking war and all the assassinations. But even with all of that, the powers that be couldn't screw it up.

And it was the last time that we were on the right track to anywhere.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 12:26 AM
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49. 90's for me. Seems like I had my shit together pretty well, and I wasn't
too old and grumpy, and Bill Clinton was doing okay for us. I'm over 50 now.
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David Zephyr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-22-08 12:30 AM
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51. The 70's were the most fun. The 80's retrogressive. 90's better. 00's mixed. The 60's the best!
I wish I'd been just a few years older in the 1960's, but I lived through that decade and it was magical. Nothing touches it.
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