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Subject: Your views on the past several Decades
Written By: ArcticFox on 09/06/15 at 11:28 pm
Here I want you guys to post how you view each decade. Let's put those English and Writing class skills to work! I want you to: Label the best year, quintessential year, and the culmination year. They do NOT mean the same thing! If you view the quintessential year as also the best, that's fine. Of course, the best year is subjective. But culmination means "the highest or climactic of something achieved after a long period of time." Basically, the year is about as (whatever the decade is) as it gets. So here is mine, now I want to see yours!
1950's
Best Year: 1956
Quintessential Year: 1958
Culmination Year: 1960
1960's
Best Year: Either 1966 or 1968
Quintessential Year: 1969
Culmination Year: 1969
1970's
Best Year: 1976 & 1977
Quintessential Year: 1977
Culmination Year: 1978
1980's
Best Year: Either 1981 or 1989
Quintessential Year: 1989
Culmination Year: 1990
1990's
Best Year: 1996
Quintessential Year: 1996
Culmination Year: 1998
2000's
Best Year: Unsure...
Quintessential Year: 2008
Culmination Year: 2008
Subject: Re: Your views on the past several Decades
Written By: #Infinity on 09/07/15 at 7:44 pm
1950's:
Best Year: 1959 (jazz renaissance, Twilight Zone)
Quintessential Year: 1957 (Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Buddy Holly, Sputnik, rock & roll and doo-wop fully established)
Culmination Year: 1959 (jazz renaissance, The Day the Music Died, Ben-Hur)
1960's:
Best Year: 1965 (killer releases by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Bob Dylan; great year for jazz with Song for My Father and A Love Supreme, Voting Rights Act)
Quintessential Year: 1967 (psychedelic explosion, The Graduate, Vietnam, Sgt. Pepper's, Star Trek, You Only Live Twice)
Culmination Year: 1969 (Moon Landing, Woodstock, Nixon becomes president, backlash against civil rights protests, beginning of hippie-era 27 club deaths)
1970's:
Best Year: 1978 (an excellent year for music)
Quintessential Year: 1977 (Star Wars, Saturday Nigh Fever, peak of disco, breakthrough of punk, release of Atari 2600, Jimmy Carter becomes president)
Culmination Year: 1979 (Malaise Speech, Iran Hostage Crisis, Russian Invasion of Afghanisatan, Disco Demolition Night, breakthrough year for new wave music)
1980's:
Best Year: 1984 (Prince's Purple Rain, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, Bryan Adams' Reckless, The Terminator, breakthrough year for hi-nrg music, Gremlins, Footloose + Sixteen Candles, economy improves)
Quintessential Year: 1987 (the only year during which Michael Jackson, Madonna, yuppies, teen comedies, macho action flicks, Journey, Kool & the Gang, hip hop as a mainstream force, ALF, Cheers, The Cosby Show, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, U2, new-jack swing, Atari, and Nintendo all coexisted with each other)
Culmination Year: 1989 (Fall of the Berlin Wall, Like a Prayer-era Madonna, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker, arguable peak of hair metal ballads)
1990's:
Best Year: 1996 (breakthrough of the 5th generation of gaming, peak of alternative/experimental rock and hip hop on the charts, Dexter's Laboratory begins Cartoon Networks ascension into its golden era)
Quintessential Year: 1994 (peak of grunge, breakthrough of post-grunge, pop punk, and britpop; The Lion King, Rwandan Genocide, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Year of Jim Carrey, The Shawshank Redemption, Ready to Die, CrazySexyCool, peak of Boyz II Men and All-4-One, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Warren G, premiere of Friends, full establishment of X-Files and Frasier, all first-wave Nicktoons airing new episodes, Donkey Kong Country, last year Sega Genesis is still truly popular)
Culmination Year: 1999 (Y2K, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, peak of teen pop, continued rise of the Internet, rap-rock and nu-metal, The Slim Shady LP, Sega Dreamcast, Columbine Massacre, acquittal of Bill Clinton's impeachment charges, peak of dot-com boom, American Pie, The Matrix)
2000's:
Best Year: 2002 (Jimmy Eat World, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, DDR Extreme AC, Avril Lavigne, Yu-Gi-Oh!, The Eminem Show, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man)
Quintessential Year: 2004 (Mean Girls, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Lil' Jon, Usher, MySpace starts to become popular, rise of emo, breakthrough of the iPod, transition to broadband, early 2000s-style pop punk still relevant, Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Spider-Man 2, The Incredibles, The Passion of the Christ, Arcade Fire's Funeral, Kanye West's The College Dropout)
Culmination Year: 2007 (full breakthrough of YouTube and Facebook, peak year of snap, economy begins to suffer, peak year for indie rock, last truly big year for guitar rock before it begins a gradual decline)
2010's:
Best Year: 2010 (best year for YouTube, Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon, Easy 'A', best year for electropop)
Quintessential Year: 2013 (Frozenmania, beginning of disco revival, final season of Breaking Bad, premieres of Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards, web video services are fully established, iPhones and tablets are everywhere, Marvel Cinematic Universe is fully established, sexual assault protests across college campuses, DOMA ruled unconstitutional, George Zimmerman found not guilty)
Culmunataion Year: Yet to occur.
Subject: Re: Your views on the past several Decades
Written By: Baltimoreian on 09/07/15 at 8:49 pm
1950s
Best & Quintessential Year: 1955 (The rise of the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks getting arrested for not sitting at the back of the bus 'Note: I'm not saying it's a good thing', Harold and The Purple Crayon being released and The Honeymooners premiering on television)
Culmination Year: 1963 (MLK Jr. giving his "I Have A Dream" speech and the civil rights movement being over)
1960s
Best Year: 1967 (Loving v. Virginia and the hippie era rising)
Quintessential Year: 1963 (The start of Beatlemania, JFK's assassination and Cleopatra being released)
Culmination Year: 1970 (Sesame Street and Scooby-Doo being popular, what else?)
1970s
Best & Quintessential Years: 1973 & 1975 (The rise of blaxplotation movies and disco era)
Culmination Year: 1981 (Slasher movies being popular and the release of MTV)
1980s
Best Year: 1985
Quintessential Year: 1984
Culmination Year: 1989
1990s
Best Year: 1999 (The rise of most things that are associated with the 2000s, I don't give a sheesh about this decade at all.)
Quintessential Years: 1992, 1995, 1996 and 1997 (AKA the rise and deaths of gangsta rap)
Culmination Year: 2001 (9/11, what else?)
2000s
Best Years: 2005, 2006 and 2007 (My favorite years of my childhood, in my opinion.)
Quintessential Year: 2004
Culmination Year: 2010
2010s
Best Year: 2010 (At least it had some aspects of 2000s culture.)
Quintessential Year: 2012 (Colorado Aurora "Dark Knight" movie theater shooting, George Zimmerman murdering an innocent black kid and the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. AKA three reasons on why I fudgeing hate the 2010s. This also includes the rise of crappy pop music and Justin Bieber still being on the rise of being a total douchebag and getting crap tons of little girls loving him)
Culmination Year: 2017 (The future winner of the 2016 presidential election would just end this goddamn decade politically. That's what I only care about for this decade.)
Subject: Re: Your views on the past several Decades
Written By: 80sfan on 09/07/15 at 9:24 pm
1950s
Best year: 1958
Quintessential year: 1956
Culmination year: 1960
1960s
Best year: 1964
Quintessential year: 1967
Culmination year: 1969
1970s
Best year: 1978
Quintessential year: 1977
Culmination year: 1978
1980s
Best year: 1987
Quintessential year: 1987
Culmination year: 1989
1990s
Best year: 1998
Quintessential year: 1993
Culmination year: 1999
2000s
Best year: 2004
Quintessential year: 2004
Culmination year: 2007
Subject: Re: Your views on the past several Decades
Written By: Eazy-EMAN1995 on 09/07/15 at 10:11 pm
ONLY the 50s to current
1950s
Best year: 1955
Quintessential year: 1956
Culmination year: 1958
1960s
Best year: 1969
Quintessential year: 1968
Culmination year: 1969
1970s
Best year: 1976
Quintessential year: 1977
Culmination year: 1979
1980s
Best year: 1984
Quintessential year: 1985
Culmination year: 1989
1990s
Best year: 1995(Biased) ;D
Quintessential year: 1996
Culmination year: 1999
2000s
Best year: 2003
Quintessential year: 2005
Culmination year: 2008
Subject: Re: Your views on the past several Decades
Written By: Baltimoreian on 09/08/15 at 1:08 pm
ONLY the 50s to current
1950s
Best year: 1955
Quintessential year: 1956
Culmination year: 1958
1960s
Best year: 1969
Quintessential year: 1968
Culmination year: 1969
1970s
Best year: 1976
Quintessential year: 1977
Culmination year: 1979
1980s
Best year: 1984
Quintessential year: 1985
Culmination year: 1989
1990s
Best year: 1995(Biased) ;D
Quintessential year: 1996
Culmination year: 1999
2000s
Best year: 2003
Quintessential year: 2005
Culmination year: 2008
Why is it biased to like 1995 as your favorite year of the 90s?
Subject: Re: Your views on the past several Decades
Written By: #Infinity on 09/08/15 at 4:43 pm
Why is it biased to like 1995 as your favorite year of the 90s?
I'm guessing it's because he was born that year?
Subject: Re: Your views on the past several Decades
Written By: Eazy-EMAN1995 on 09/09/15 at 12:11 pm
I'm guessing it's because he was born that year?
Bingo!!! ;)
Subject: Re: Your views on the past several Decades
Written By: bchris02 on 09/18/15 at 5:23 pm
I am leaving out "best year" of decades I didn't live through.
1950s
Quintessential Year: 1957
Culmination Year: 1960
1960's
Quintessential Year: 1968
Culmination Year: 1969
1970s
Quintessential Year: 1977
Culmination Year: 1979
1980s
Best Year: Either 1989
Quintessential Year: 1989
Culmination Year: 1990
1990s
Best Year: 1997
Quintessential Year: 1996
Culmination Year: 1999
2000s
Best Year: 2003
Quintessential Year: 2007
Culmination Year: 2008
Subject: Re: Your views on the past several Decades
Written By: ocarinafan96 on 09/22/15 at 9:48 am
1980's to Present
80's
Best Year 1984
Quintessential Year 1985
Culmination Year 1989
90's
Best Year 1996
Quintessential Year 1995
Culmination Year 1998
00's
Best Year 2004
Quintessential Year 2006
Culmination Year 2008
10's
Best Year 2013 (for me personally)
Quintessential Year 2014 (so far)
Subject: Re: Your views on the past several Decades
Written By: mqg96 on 09/22/15 at 12:07 pm
1970's
Best Year: 1976
Quintessential Year: 1977
Culmination Year: 1979
1980's
Best Year: 1985
Quintessential Year: 1988
Culmination Year: 1989
1990's
Best Year: 1994
Quintessential Year: 1996
Culmination Year: 1998
2000's
Best Year: 2003 (2002 & 2004 as honorable mentions)
Quintessential Year: 2006
Culmination Year: 2008
2010's
Best Year: 2010
Quintessential Year: 2013
Culmination Year: not there yet
1994 (even though it's before I was born, I think this would have been a great year to experience as a teenager)
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2003 (after much thought, I have to choose 2003 for many reasons, not the best for my personal life, but for the pop culture, it has a special place in my heart, seeing movies like Pirates of the Caribbean, Elf, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Finding Nemo, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hulk, etc. Being 7 years old at the time that was probably the most epic movies I saw in one year at that point in my life. Shows like That's So Raven, All Grown Up, and Teen Titans premiered. Cartoon Network was still in its golden age as well as Toon Disney, Kids WB, and Nickelodeon for its nicktoons. This year was like a perfect balance of dominant early 2000's culture and mid 2000's culture slowly creeping in later that year. The last gasp of any late 90's influences. All the lego toys I built and the hot wheels cars/games online I collected/played with. It was crazy.)
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2010 (best year of the decade so far, back when the electropop era of music peaked on all levels including so much variety of hip-hop music being so good, ALL I DO IS WIN WIN WIN NO MATTER WHAT! First full year my favorite app game of all time, Angry Birds was around. Also some great movies as well. Add my age from my favorite year of the 2000's, then you'll get my age during this year! ;D )
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