Which decade do you identify with?

[runzwithsizorz]

The sixties were the best - free love, hippies, civil rights for all, great music. The seventies did have that brief period where sex could give you nothing that time and penicillin couldn't cure, but disco is simply inexcusable. Bad decade, BAD![/QUOTE

You and I are on the same page/age. you still had some of the fifties style music still being played, but then you had this new music explosion Which covered almost every genre. Some, was a blend of the old with the new, Ventures, etc. Heck, there was one song that was a top hit for 3 different artists in 3 different decades,( hint, choo,choo). Folk now became mainstream, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, etc. Surf music, and movies, Beach Boys, and How to stuff a wild bikini, etc. Some bands with brass, Blood Sweat, and Tears, Chicago, etc. Others using full orchestras, Berry White, Mason Williams, etc. "Soul" music, The 5th Dimension, Temptations, etc. The British invasion, The Beatles, Herman's Hermits, etc. Hard rock, Cream, Iron Butterfly, etc. The undefinable, Frank Zappa, etc, There was some stuff that was totally out there, the Doors turn out the lights comes to mind here. Then there was the invention of the Moog, and Psychedelic music, Tommy James, cellophane symphony etc. Rules, and norms were being exposed, and broken, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, etc. If you were caught smoking a joint it was like a $25 traffic ticket. Top name band concert tickets were around $10, and sometimes free, with open seating, and less than 4000 in the arena, there was no such thing as an assigned nose bleed seat, or a big screen to allow you to see the concert you're at. You could bring anything into a baseball, football game, Bucket of KFC, and 2 gallons of vodka in an igloo, no problem. Midweek afternoon baseball game ticket price? about 4 or 5 bucks. There was no this is our music, and that is your music, it was all good. There was a whole bunch of variety shows on tv, some old, Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton, Ed Sullivan, some newer, Carol Burnett, Andy Williams, Laugh In. I remember when girls were still wearing stockings, and garters at school, but then pantyhose came along and ruined that visual in the classroom. But thankfully a few years later, bra's were nearly band. Unlike today when a tank top is 1 of 3 garments being worn. When a minimum wage was livable. You didn't need reservations, a pass, or fight crowds to go visit Yosemite, Yellowstone etc. The sixties was an awakening era, the likes of which we will never see again. I feel sorry for our youth, you will never experience the things I have seen, and done. There's nothing new coming your way, all you have left is the Kardashians, and the inevitable destruction of America, and life as you know it. Good luck!
Alas, I still have my memories, but you know what memories can bring ?
Here's a couple of old gray haired ladies from my era to tell you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-aMI8m5VEk

 

[jman19]

90s, I think.

 

[Linflas]

The 1960's.

 

[zinfamous]

I don't know about the 99 channel thing. When I was growing up we did have cable and there could have very well been upwards of 99 channels. Anyone remember David The Nome, Little Bits, or You Can't Do This On Television? Rocko's Modern Life was cool. Then shit went down hill.

Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1NKoMNy5bY

satellite, maybe, but not cable.

Cable stations didn't hit more than 40 or 50 channels until the mid 90s, IIRC?

The first full cable service we got, which included HBO because it was just a regular part of cable, (c. 1984), was 13 channels, I think.

 

[Painman]

The 80s...

I was 12 when Reagan was inaugurated, and 20 when he left. The entirety of my teen years were Reagan years.

Those years made me very, very liberal, but that attitude isn't so useful here in 2016