It kind of seems like it doesn't it? The 70s seemed to have a lot more gorey movies and porn, and more songs with profanity and dark subject matter, than the 80s did. Am i wrong?

Am i wrong?


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It kind of seems like it doesn't it? The 70s seemed to have a lot more gorey movies and porn, and more songs with profanity and dark subject matter, than the 80s did. Am i wrong?


I'd agree with your thoughts on this subject.

It kind of seems like it doesn't it? The 70s seemed to have a lot more gorey movies and porn, and more songs with profanity and dark subject matter, than the 80s did. Am i wrong?
Every decade has is moments of "gorey movies and porn".

Subject closed!

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wtf is decadeology? is that even a word? what's the difference between decadeology and a 'normal' decade-related topic?

wtf is decadeology? is that even a word? what's the difference between decadeology and a 'normal' decade-related topic?


one has the same stuff recycled over and over and over and over again the other is just well disguised decadeology. 

wtf is decadeology? is that even a word? what's the difference between decadeology and a 'normal' decade-related topic?


A few years ago, we had an issue with a dude who came in and started a lot of threads about this sorta thing.  (I mean, a lot of threads.  The guy started so many threads that the board's still kinda touchy - maybe too touchy for its own good - about it, but eventually we'll get over it.)

The problem is that it's hard to talk about pop culture in one era and never compare it with pop culture in another era.  It might not be old hat to you, even if it's old hat to some of us.  Put it in some sort of perspective, and make us think of something new.  My guideline is to pay less attention to the decades and more attention to what the differences were.  For instance, were the 70s the "Decade That Taste Forgot?"  Maybe, but what if it had nothing to do with decades, but was simply the fact that it was the Age of Disco, and when the hippies switched from pot to coke, standards in taste and conduct tended to lapse, and it wasn't until the survivors went full Yuppie (and their kids went full Preppie) that the pendulum began to swing in the other direction.

The older you get, the more you realize every generation's worse than the last.  Hippies laughed at squares, the coke-fueled Studio 54 crowd laughed at lingering hippie burnouts, Muffy and Buffy laughed at people who still dressed like Herb Tarlek, the grunge generation laughed at the prepsters, somehow Goth got turned into Emo, and everybody laughed at that while listening to ringtone rap.  Lady Gaga finally kicked ringtone rap to the curb, and by 2020, 6-time Grammy winner Rebecca Black will have us wondering why we ever paid attention to Gaga.

(I may have made that last bit up myself.  Or I may own a time machine.  Where we're going, we don't need the recording industry.)

A few years ago, we had an issue with a dude who came in and started a lot of threads about this sorta thing.  (I mean, a lot of threads.  The guy started so many threads that the board's still kinda touchy - maybe too touchy for its own good - about it, but eventually we'll get over it.)

The problem is that it's hard to talk about pop culture in one era and never compare it with pop culture in another era.  It might not be old hat to you, even if it's old hat to some of us.  Put it in some sort of perspective, and make us think of something new.  My guideline is to pay less attention to the decades and more attention to what the differences were.  For instance, were the 70s the "Decade That Taste Forgot?"  Maybe, but what if it had nothing to do with decades, but was simply the fact that it was the Age of Disco, and when the hippies switched from pot to coke, standards in taste and conduct tended to lapse, and it wasn't until the survivors went full Yuppie (and their kids went full Preppie) that the pendulum began to swing in the other direction.

The older you get, the more you realize every generation's worse than the last.  Hippies laughed at squares, the coke-fueled Studio 54 crowd laughed at lingering hippie burnouts, Muffy and Buffy laughed at people who still dressed like Herb Tarlek, the grunge generation laughed at the prepsters, somehow Goth got turned into Emo, and everybody laughed at that while listening to ringtone rap.  Lady Gaga finally kicked ringtone rap to the curb, and by 2020, 6-time Grammy winner Rebecca Black will have us wondering why we ever paid attention to Gaga.

(I may have made that last bit up myself.  Or I may own a time machine.  Where we're going, we don't need the recording industry.)



right. i didn't realize it had a historical root on the forum. you're right, it's difficult to talk about pop culture from a certain decade and not compare it to other decades.

  ^Money shot, Foo.  That was simply beautiful...

   ^Money shot, Foo.  That was simply beautiful...


Thanks... I think.  Pardon me while I wipe my eye :)

I'll go one step further out on the limb and suggest the board needs new blood.  Maybe IHBT and IHL, but if we keep scarin' off the new users, sooner or later there ain't gonna be nobody left here but old farts talking about the history of the Chevy 350 small block.  Iinstead of using the neuroimplanted ehancements available to any civilized person, we'll still be using physical keyboards to send queries to something as old as Google to figure out what's going on out there, and we'll still think we're cool because we used Google instead of AOL.

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right. i didn't realize it had a historical root on the forum. you're right, it's difficult to talk about pop culture from a certain decade and not compare it to other decades.


Here's my issue. You've been a member for only about a week. You've started twice that many topics yet you have no real opinion or depth in your initial posts. If you actually made an attempt to say something (rather than posting for the sake of posting) I would be less skeptical.

Take some time and look at more than the first two pages in a board. See if we've discussed. Or if the topic has been started more than once.

It doesnt help that there are several people who are doing the same thing. It gets tiresome.

 

Thanks... I think.  Pardon me while I wipe my eye :)

I'll go one step further out on the limb and suggest the board needs new blood.  Maybe IHBT and IHL, but if we keep scarin' off the new users, sooner or later there ain't gonna be nobody left here but old farts talking about the history of the Chevy 350 small block.  Iinstead of using the neuroimplanted ehancements available to any civilized person, we'll still be using physical keyboards to send queries to something as old as Google to figure out what's going on out there, and we'll still think we're cool because we used Google instead of AOL.


I can see the need for new blood but it's the same whiny crap about the 90s no one is saying anything worthndiscussing. Or- like I just told younger Derek.... Try having an actual opinion. Start a dialogue.  Don't just post a vague statement and leave.  

I cab see the need for new blood but it's the same whiny crap about the 90s no one is saying anything worthndiscussing. Or- like I just told younger Derek.... Try having an actual opinion. Start a dialogue.  Don't just post a vague statement and leave. 


i am sorry, next time i will try to reply to at least a few opinions given.

i am sorry, next time i will try to reply to at least a few opinions given.


That would be a good start

That would be a good start
still haven't seen much...  ::)

still haven't seen much...  ::)


Me either.

Me either.
*yawn*

To actually answer your question, there may be some credence to that hypothesis, considering the 70s were the decade of the so-called sexual revolution following the free love revolution.  For reference, the movie Deep Throat, the first wide-release porno.