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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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