your favourite decade 60s 70s 80s 90s 10s 20s ?

[graveyard johnny]

without assuming that all posters on here are of a certain same age and have the rose tinted specs on - just wondering about your best decade and why?

for me am gonna say the 70s - although I was a kid and not so wise about the world - it just seemed so simpler and easier - putting the radio on to hear the latest charts and bands was great in those days - no social media - never heard of people getting stabbed  or shot -summer lasted forever - the salvation army band playing on a sunday morning - the rag and bone man coming up the street with his cart -a trip to a packed wembley -  getting in a nice warm bed with a comic was just magical before school the next morning - I suppose for me less was more - people here may remember the 70s very differently and have another decade they are fond of?

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[Futtocks]

As an avowed fan of good-bad movies, I have to pick the Eighties. Everything was bigger, louder, more colourful and far more stupid than in older films.

Plus even PG flicks had nudity and gore back then. A vitally important factor for the teenager I was in those days.

[JohnM]

Hopefully, the 2030s.

[graveyard johnny]

25 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

As an avowed fan of good-bad movies, I have to pick the Eighties. Everything was bigger, louder, more colourful and far more stupid than in older films.

Plus even PG flicks had nudity and gore back then. A vitally important factor for the teenager I was in those days.

never had you down as a nudity and gore man lol

[Futtocks]

4 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

never had you down as a nudity and gore man lol

Everybody was a teenager once apart from, possibly, Brian Sewell.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

I'll say the 90s because I was a kid in the 90s and all that mattered to me was making it into the school football team. If I had to live forever and could choose what age to stay forever, I'd choose about 10 years old because, similar to the what the OP said, everything was just so much simpler. 

[GURNER]

70's for me too. When summers were just summers and not heatwaves (even the ladybird summer of 76). We had lots of snow in winter that wasn't down to climate change/global warming/ no ozone layer etc etc.

Things were quite simple back then, even music. Some heavy duty songsters in amongst the glam rockers.

Mid seventies things began to change, musically we had punk but on the film scene, things moved on apace with with The exorcist, which scared the bejeezus out of me (wasn't old enough to pay for tickets) so somebody let us in through the fire exit. Then Superman, wow and the legend that is life of Brian.

 

Tv seemed to be growing up too, with a lot of american imports. Apologies, anyway 70's for me

[Padge]

70s, saw bands live, legends such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Bad Company, Groundhogs and established and up and coming bands at Wigan Casino, Iron Maiden, UFO, Judas Priest, Stray, Strife, Slade, Stranglers, Scorpions, Sutherland Bros & Quiver, Canned Heat, Motorhead, Hustler, Nutz, Heavy Metal Kids, Edgar Broughton Band, Medicine Head, Steve Gibbons Band and many more.

 

 

[ivans82]

70`s ail the way for me especially for the music . The 70`s had it all prog rock , the beginnings of heavy metal , reggae was thriving due to Bob Marley , then you had punk , ska and two tone , things were constantly changing .

[graveyard johnny]

the 70s - no internet - magazines in bushes and bushes in magazines and if you werent that lucky - the freemans or littlewoods catalogue 

[Eddie]

90s for me, but that’s probably because  I was 13-23 so was having a great time.  The 70s seems like a time of strikes, 3 day weeks and power cuts to me, whereas the 90s was a time of comparative wealth and the ability to travel, though before the age of social media which has changed things for the worse imho. It also had Italia 90 and the dawn of SL. 

Edited January 8, 2025 by Eddie

[gazza77]

Born 70s, but only heading towards my 3rd birthday so can't really remember. I wouldn't suggest school days were my favourite time of life, so that's 80s out and onto 90s. Going to uni in the 90s did however bring me out of my shell and develop much of who I am today. I also bought my first home in 99. 00s I moved twice, including to cohabit my my now wife who I met in 07. 10s were a mixed bag, getting married but a couple of work related issues put me under a lot of stress at times and I broke my elbow which weren't great, but moving again in 2018 to where I live now turned out well. 2020 I lost my dad, and COVID obviously has been an issue. It has however made me exceptionally grateful for what I've got in my life today.

My best times have generally been in 3-4 year spells, but if I was to pick one it would probably be 00s.

 

 

[CanaBull]

4 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

the 70s - no internet - magazines in bushes and bushes in magazines and if you werent that lucky - the freemans or littlewoods catalogue 

Haven’t thought about catalogues for yonks . The clickbait shopping (and more) of pre internet times!  My mum used to have the Empire Stores one regular. Traffords? Was that one them?

[Sidi Fidi Gold]

I was born in the late 1960s so I can remember the 70s, having an older brother and sister, the early musical back ground to my life consisted of David Cassidy, David Essex, Donny Osmond/Osmond's, Bay City Rollers, Sweet, Slade, Wizzard, T Rex, David Bowie. I didn't identify with my own music until the late 70s, particularly with Blondie then The Jam, then all the 2 Tone stuff, I didn't get into 70s punk until I was about 14. Children's TV was good, other shows I used to watch were Doctor Who, 6 million Dollar Man, Incredible Hulk, Starsky and Hutch and The Professionals, Comics I used to get were The Fantastic Four and Shoot, school was good, I had plenty of friends, quite a few I still have today.

Overall the 70s were great with a few exceptions such as

Almost getting your head kicked in every time you went on a rival estate unescorted. 

Being chased by the farmer and having him set is dogs on us.

Being attacked by a Sausage dog.

Being attacked by a ghost.

Onto the 80s,once again school was great, I started noticing girls around about 1980/81, had my first experience with girls about 1983 and all the back ground music that goes with that. Mid to late 80s was when I stared clubbing, that lasted until the early 90s. 

Up to this point the majority of my life was largely stress free, then came mortgages, bills, marriage, bills, kids, bills, bills, bills, Grand kids and more bills.

I've just realised, I haven't answered the question from the OP and I don't think I can.

[GURNER]

38 minutes ago, CanaBull said:

Haven’t thought about catalogues for yonks . The clickbait shopping (and more) of pre internet times!  My mum used to have the Empire Stores one regular. Traffords? Was that one them?

You are now going down the road of a thread worthy of it's own  our house catalogue was grattons If I recall

Edited January 8, 2025 by GURNER

[Eddie]

2 hours ago, CanaBull said:

Haven’t thought about catalogues for yonks . The clickbait shopping (and more) of pre internet times!  My mum used to have the Empire Stores one regular. Traffords? Was that one them?

My Mum used to get two called Marshall Ward and Kays if I recall correctly. Straight to the swimsuit section

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Littlewoods was my catalogue of choice when I was a teenager if I remember rightly. "I don't know what is sticking those pages together, mum..." *cough*...

[graveyard johnny]

remember the favourite playground pastimes  (junior school) of the 70s been throwing football cards against a wall. playing army and walking linked up in a line singing "do you wanna join our gang? no girls allowed" by the time everyone had "joined the gang" it  was time to go in again!

[Moose]

11 hours ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Littlewoods was my catalogue of choice when I was a teenager if I remember rightly. "I don't know what is sticking those pages together, mum..." *cough*...

A mince pie maybe?

[The Hallucinating Goose]

1 hour ago, Moose said:

A mince pie maybe?

Which one was the best back in the 90s though??

[Sidi Fidi Gold]

1 hour ago, graveyard johnny said:

remember the favourite playground pastimes  (junior school) of the 70s been throwing football cards against a wall. playing army and walking linked up in a line singing "do you wanna join our gang? no girls allowed" by the time everyone had "joined the gang" it  was time to go in again!

My first school was from 5 years old till 9, in the playground a couple of boys or girls would put their arms round each others shoulders and chant "who's playing at(insert name of game), then some one else would join, then another till there was a long line of kids, by this time the bell would ring and there wouldn't be time to play anything.

I vividly remember watching The Italian Job one Sunday, the next day at school we acted out the scenes, everybody wanted to be a Mini, one boy, who was quite large, to politely put it, had to be the bus.

In 1977, when I was 8, we celebrated the Queens silver Jubilee, we put on all sorts of activities and it was an open day for parents, one girl dressed up as the Queen, one boy dressed up as Prince Phillip and the coronation was acted out, but their was all sorts going on, myself and about 9 other boys didn't volunteer for anything so one teacher lined us up and said " since your not volunteering, I'm going to volunteer you for something" she then pointed at me and 3 other boys and said "you, you, you and you, you're all in the choir, off you go" the rest of the boys cracked out laughing, the teacher then looked at these boys and said "the rest of you, you're Morris dancing"

I used to hate football, for PE, the teacher used to take us up to Purston Park to play football, on a full sized pitch with goal posts, I was about 7 at the time, it wasn't quite like the scene from Kes but you'd get kids standing on the goal line talking to the keeper, if you didn't appear to be trying the teacher would tell you off, because of this I tried to get involved early in the game, make a couple of tackles, kick the ball if it came near me, the teacher would leave you alone then, one game I tried to get involved early, we only been playing about a couple of couple of minutes, the ball came near me so I kicked it as hard as I could, what I didn't realise was, I was in the opposition penalty area, I can still hear the sound as the ball hit the inside of the post and went in goal, all my team mates jumped on me, it was the best feeling ever, from that moment I was hooked on football, my mam bought me some football boots, a football kit, I started watching Match of the Day, and started buying Shoot magazine.

Another teacher we had, used to smoke in class, she used a cigarette holder, she'd sit there, legs crossed ,head up, smoking away, she looked like some 1940s movie star, at break time, she'd send kids to the shop to buy her cigs "its ok, just tell the shop keeper I sent you" she'd say.

[Moose]

52 minutes ago, The Hallucinating Goose said:

Which one was the best back in the 90s though??

Obviously mi’ mam’s, no contest

[The Masked Poster]

4 hours ago, graveyard johnny said:

remember the favourite playground pastimes  (junior school) of the 70s been throwing football cards against a wall. playing army and walking linked up in a line singing "do you wanna join our gang? no girls allowed" by the time everyone had "joined the gang" it  was time to go in again!

The version we did was "all join on for no girls allowed" or "all join on for cowboys and Indians" (or whatever game you were trying to get started) 

It was great when the line you and another lad had started became really big.

[OriginalMrC]

I think the 1990s was the last great decade in terms of music, culture, TV and overall health and prosperity. It was before the emergence of social media and most people were very optimistic about the future. Then again most would probably say the same about their favourite decade. 

[The Masked Poster]

I'd say the 70's. I was growing up a bit and discovering 'things'. 

One thing that gets overlooked when people sneer at the 70's is that there was not the pressures of today to look cool and have the latest everything.

Of course, there *were* people trying to look cool but in whatever way it was they were trying to be cool, it invariably involved home made efforts. Whether this involved clothes or hair, it was usually a naff effort. Witness the audiences on old TOTP, they look usually gormless and awkward but thought they were the bees knees. I include myself in this by the way. 

And for all it's faults, we didn't have young girls filling themselves full of Botox or fillers and ruining their looks in later years or feeling worthless due to SM. Women were naturally beautiful (or not!) and didn't have Dallas style teeth or pneumatic boobs. 

Young men  doing more or less the same now too. 

And mental health problems are through the roof. 

NB I never disparage young people, they have their own world to navigate. I'm just talking about mine, which I think was the best.