Was the 90´s the best decade in pop culture?
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shareThere was no Kim Kardashian, so yes.
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In terms of music, yes, yes and yes. Not so much the rest of pop culture. I think previous decades deserve that honor, because they had a lot more fun and memorable trends and fads, and the fashions were better.
shareWhat about TV?
shareSeinfeld was single handedly responsible for many a good pop culture reference from the 90s!
shareSeinfeld, Friends, Simpsons in its prime. 3 of the greatest sitcoms right there.
shareYeah, ‘cause, y’know, fuck Cheers.
shareWell Cheers is an 80´s show even though it finished in the 90´s.
shareAnd The Simpsons wasn’t?
That aside, Cheers was EASILY the best-written show of the NBC Must-Flee TV Thursday Night lineup, with Wings being the second-best. ‘WAY beyond Cosby, The Single Guy, A Different World, Seinfeld.The Cheers writers are on record as stating that they wrote as if for radio. The humor was in the words, not in the situation (sitcom). It’s a completely different level of humor. Alas, it requires PAYING ATTENTION to appreciate.
Seinfeld and The Simpsons both debuted in 1989 but the majority of their episodes are from the 90´s. Both shows hit their peaks in the 1990´s. That´s why the Simpsons will always be considered a 90´s show even though its still going today. I know Cheers is considered one of the GOAT sitcoms but most of its run took place in the 1980´s and its peak in popularity was in the 80´s. Therefore its an 80´s show.
shareAnd The Simpsons wasn’t?
That aside, Cheers was EASILY the best-written show of the NBC Must-Flee TV Thursday Night lineup, with Wings being the second-best. ‘WAY beyond Cosby, The Single Guy, A Different World, Seinfeld.The Cheers writers are on record as stating that they wrote as if for radio. The humor was in the words, not in the situation (sitcom). It’s a completely different level of humor. Alas, it requires PAYING ATTENTION to appreciate.
So you know, the plural of a decade does not require an apostrophe. It is the decade of the 80s, and so on, not the decade of the ‘80’s or the 80’s. Refer to The Chicago Manual of style, by Kate Turabian.
Pop culture need not be illiterate.
And you do realize that history does not neatly divide into 10-year parcels, right? There are no iron gates that slam CLOSED and OPENED every 10 years. History is more fluid than that.
So you know, Billy, I recognize you as an expert on nothing. Keep your pontifications to yourself.
Cheers was a great show (one of my favorites) that I watched religiously from 88 or so until it finished. But when it comes to the realm of pop culture it doesn't touch the likes of Seinfeld and The Simpsons. These are items that go beyond the television and enter day to day life. Whether it's asking if someone is master of their domain or telling them to not have a cow man, I simply don't remember Cheers, as great as it was, crossing over into a pop culture phenomenon.
shareThe 90s are neck and neck with the 60s as my favourite decade for movies.
For me the 90s were formative (spanning ages 16 to 26), so I will always have a fondness for everything about them. Except perhaps the fashion, although boy could I rock a pair of white jeans and a waistcoat... :P
i wouldn't say so. i'm too tired to do an immediate deep dive into this, but my gut level response is to say that i think the nineties might have had the fewest truly great movies of any decade.
and as far as music goes, i think it's the decade where experimentation and innovation really started to dry up. not to say there weren't daring, original records from that era, but off the top of my head, it's hard to pin down really innovative sounds that come out of that time, with a few specific exceptions - my bloody valentine certainly made an iconic album that really left a mark on the sound of rock music. and massive attack, portishead really made something different in the mid-nineties. and there were some great electronic acts. the aphex twin, of course. plastikman's musik is a masterpiece too in my books. but overall i feel like there's less imagination and colour than the decades that came before, and i think that's a trend that's increased over the years.
Absolutely not true about the 1990s in terms of music. Not even close, and that's coming from someone who grew up thinking that nothing was going to top the 1980s.
The 1990s was actually the most eclectic and innovative decade since the 1960s. Here are all the genres that came out during this period:
Grunge (Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, etc.)
Alternative Rock (Radiohead, Blind Melon, etc.)
Industrial (Nine Inch Nails)
Female Singer-Songwriter (Tori Amos, Alanis Morisette, Melissa Etheridge)
Drums and Bass
Garage
Turntablist (Beck)
Neo-Punk (Green Day)
Neo-Ska (Goldfinger, No Doubt)
Eurodance (Everything But the Girl, Ace of Bass, etc.)
Bubble Gum (Aqua)
Trip Hop (Portishead, Morcheeba, etc.)
Chillout/Lounge/Ambient (Dimitri from Paris, Air, Pizzicato Five, etc.)
Breakbeat/Electronica (The Wiseguys, The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, etc.)
Adult Contemporary (Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band)
R and B (Anita Baker, Toni Braxton, En Vogue, etc.)
I’m a breakbeat, techno, euro, drum and bass, trance, house, freestyle, industrial, electronic, hardcore maniac and in my opinion, that underground dance scene peaked around 1995.
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Yes.
sharemusic has gone downhill since.
shareNo, not even close. Music experts agree that the best modern decade for popular music was the 40s, with the music of George Gershwin and Cole Porter, the vocal stylings of Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald and Judy Garland, and the Big Bands of Count Basey, Les Brown and The Dorsey Brothers. The second-best pop decade is the 60s, with the composing of Lennon/McCartney, the excitement of The British Invasion (of the US musical market) and James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix.
shareI don't know if it was the BEST, but it was great for six reasons
Highlander The Series
WCW Monday Nitro
Seinfeld
The Simpsons
Walker, Texas Ranger
Baywatch
Didn't care much for the music or the movies in the 90s, but it was a great decade in Television.
I thought the 90s had a ton of great movies! Have you seen
Three Kings
Rounders
Boogie Nights
LA Confidential
JFK
Sling Blade
A Simple Plan
The Rock
Con Air
Face/Off
Point Break
The Fugitive
The Siege
The Big Lebowski
Crimson Tide
True Romance
Kalifornia
Thelma and Louise
Pulp Fiction
heat
seven
silence of the lambs
saving private ryan
the thin red line
being john Malkovich
the game
a few good men
out of sight
go
scream
dead man walking
leaving las vegas
reservoir dogs
in the line of fire
Rounders is one of my favourite movies of all time. But yeah, I thought the 90´s had some decent movies but TV and Music were the best.
shareSling Blade is one of greatest of all time.
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