What was/is the best decade to live in ?.

[glasfryn]

60's winning just shows how many old farts visit this board ........inc moi

 

[GT49er]

Have to be the 60's and 70's then - post-pill, pre-AIDS. What more could you wish for?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

It's strange now to look back on the 60's, 70's and 80's with nostalgia, bearing in mind that the possibility of a nuclear holocaust was a very real possibility then. The protect & survive information films shown on the tv, films like "When the wind blows"and the fact that my dad was storing food and water in the cellar was frightening, but it didn't affect the joys, trials and tribulations of growing up.

 

[perth seagull]

The '90s for the Britpop and techno. Also Super Nintendos and PlayStation. The world wasn't living in fear as the Cold War was over. A good decade to be alive and grow up in.

I'm not sure why the '40s is in this polls. That would've been a nightmare time to be alive.

 

[Gwylan]

That's an astonishing showing by the 70s seeing that it's a decade that has been roundly disparaged in recent years. Power cuts, the 3-day week, rampaging inflation, an oil crisis, terrorism at its peak in the UK, some truly horrendous fashion and music, Watneys Red Barrel everywhere ... have the 70s been under-rated as a decade.

No votes at all for the 50s - the decade where we'd never had it so good. I'm surprised that none of the oldies voted for that, the vast majority of Britons were indeed comfortably off and is generally seen as a prosperous time.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

70's were pretty good with the Ballroom Blitz and Teenage Rampage by the Sweet and Cum on feel the noize from Slade as a 11 year old but the 80's were the one for me. The trouble is I only realise now how good those times were and did not make the best of them.

story of your life i'm afraid

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Still your biggest regret is that you were not born in the 30's and 40's in Nazi Germany , you could have even got involved in Krystalnacht in 1938 if you were around. Oh how you must hate being born too late for those fun and games.

 

[Peter Grummit]

Now is the best time. Having been to Kenya recently and witnessed the poverty and the drought, we don't know we're born. All this whinging by politicians and people about how dreadful everything is gets on my wick. Get you're head up and see the bigger picture.
PG

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Loved growing up in the 60's but Ballroom Blitz probably my favourite single of the 70's too.

 

[jmsc]

70's were pretty good with Cum on feel the 11 year old.

Pervert!

 

[xenophon]

The 90s. I wasn't around for the 60s, but the nineties were the only decade since then where men didn't dress like wankers. Great music too. Football wise - less said the better about the Albion, but Euro 96 flickered briefly.

Only some footy lads dressed well in the 80s, but it surpassed even the seventies in dressing stupidity when you look back at it (the immortal permed mullet anyone?) although it didn't seem so at the time in school.

Skinny jeans with the arse hanging out of them have put paid to the noughties - either have one look (baggy) or the other (tight) not both. And get your f***ing hair cut!

 

[NMH]

Sixties, easily.
Great time - imagination abounding in fashion, music, tv and film, dance, and the post-war blues finally fading. Britain was 'swingin', the youth were paving the way and strutting whatever stuff they wanted to freely strut. Our island nation was the centre of a lot of activity.
Sexual freedom came hand in hand with loose moral attitudes, but getting laid wasn't likely to kill you. The mini-skirt.
Football was brilliant.
Stones, Kinks, Beatles, Who, Dusty, Scott Walker, psychedelia, beat, mod, ska, electric blues, underground rock, pop-art explosion!

The following decades were to owe so much to that period, between 1963 and 1972.

 

[1234andcounting]

The plural should be phenomena - I would of thought that the brightest kid in my class at downs jnr school would know that.

Surely the brightest kid in your class would have thought that the plural is phenomena, not would of.............

 

[cheshunt seagull]

70s for me.

Not an easy time and you had to work for your fun. You often had to keep your wits about you on the terraces; finding good music was all about word of mouth and experimentation; the food and beer were crap; everything seemed to close just when you needed it..

I just enjoyed it so much more; the good moments were a treasure, not an expectation.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

70's were pretty good with the Ballroom Blitz and Teenage Rampage by the Sweet and Cum on feel the noize from Slade as a 11 year old but the 80's were the one for me. The trouble is I only realise now how good those times were and did not make the best of them.

70's - Great glam rocktastic Bolan was the king thou.

80's was the decade for shagging, Football and bikes.

I would like to have been born 20 years earlier and been involved in the 60's love fest.

 

[Legend]

The 80's were definately my most enjoyable years

 

[brakespear]

The 1970's, where I spent my first ten years from the start of the decade to the end, when all I wanted to do was to grow up to be Jim Rockford.

I still maintain the only reason I enjoy watching golf on TV is that it's one of the few things still practically unchanged since the 1970's.