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As I Love The 90s rolls into the Glasgow SEC on 30 September, we started to wonder just what was the best decade ever in the history of time? As we took a sample of opinion on this very matter, against all the odds, three people actually did plump for the 1990s. But what about all the other decades that there have been . . . ?
THE 1940S: OK, a devastatingly
apocalyptic war took place in that decade, but what about these movies: Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Dumbo, Rebecca,
Ivan the Terrible, The Big Sleep, The Great Dictator. They sure don’t make ’em like
that anymore, etc.
THE 90S:
William Byrd’s masses, the opening of the Globe Theatre, the introduction of the water closet to the UK, Jacopo Peri composes the first opera, birth of Diego Velázquez. I meant the
1590s, obviously.
THE 1990S:
Because Illmatic, Twin Peaks, Tazos, R Kelly, Married with
Children, Bhindis, Daria, My So- Called Life, leopard print coats, Kids (the film), pagers, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), global hypercolour t-shirts, Northern
Exposure, Romeo + Juliet,
Pavement, Naf Naf, Beauty and the
Beast (TV series): *mic drop* roproppp
THE 1990S:
The ladies of hip hop (Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Roxanne
Shanté, Salt-N-Pepa, Lil’ Kim and others) finally got their chance to shine with some excellent releases. Grunge was in its heyday and the riot grrrl movement was
spreading thanks to bands like Bikini Kill. But, perhaps most importantly, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was still on TV.
THE 00S:
The mantra ‘if Britney can survive 2007, I can survive today’, still gets
me through the hard times.
I think there’s something
about that era when reality TV was just beginning to flourish, with Big Brother being streamed live on E4 throughout the night, when
Justin Timberlake had
ramen hair, and Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck
were flavour of the month, that was just amazing. As Paris Hilton used to say, inexplicably, that’s hotttt.
THE 1960S:
A decade that I never lived in but it has to be the greatest as it gave birth to alternative lifestyle choices and destroyed automatic
respect for all authority. It was the decade when people really began to question. The music
was experimental and it spawned
many of the greatest bands of our time. The pill gave women greater sexual freedom and it
was a decade of fighting for what
you believed in. Whilst much of the positivity was crushed in the 70s, it still provided the foundation for modern culture as
we know it today.
THE 1990S:
A classy period unparalleled in culture – The Sopranos, Bill Hicks and Bottom.
THE 1970S:
The fashion, the disco and Bianca Jagger. Because who doesn’t want to ride on a white horse!
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