OT: Favourite decade of your life?

And why? Literally just curious, no special reason whatsoever

90s for me just for the innocence of childhood.

 

1980's, days of Glavin...

 

Blooming eck. Looks like tha’s only 3 to pick from. Some on us have 7+. Agree with Mr Peachy re-football. But 70’s for me. Glam rock. Punk Rock. Heavy Rock. Motown. Soul. Pop. Great era on the music scene. Also in my early teens. At the start of the decade. Working at 15. (1972) And going int pub. First born. 1979. Hectic to say the least.

 

Born back end of 80s, 90s i was a kid, 00s i grew up with teens and early adulthood, 10s im a man. Loved the 90s but as a kid that is ruled out, so 00s for me.

 

The 90's were quality. Barnsley in the Premier League, and an insane decade for music. Starting with Nirvana and REM at their peak, moving on to Britpop. Trainspotting was seminal, a cultural watershed marking the end of the misery of Thatcherism and the start of something more optimistic. The soundtrack marked the start of where the lines became blurred between indie and electronic music. EMF were probably the first group to do this successfully a few years previously, but in matching Underworld and Bedrock seamlessly with Blur and Pulp, Danny Boyle achieved something special. Rather aptly, from 1998 onwards, we got the second coming of rave, which lasted well into the early 2000's. The whole atmosphere in the country seemed to be one of freedom, progress, tolerance, and unbounded positivity, especially after the 1997 general election. What a time to be at school and university. The only downside was, it didn't exactly do my studies any favours.

 

90s for me. Teenage years so lots of firsts shall we say plus uni, great music etc etc

 

Liked the 90's as well, but I was getting into my 30's then. I went back to uni & ran a record shop in those days & of course saw Barnsley in the Prem.

80's i was lucky enough to see all manor of bands from the Clash, Pixies. Black Flag, Husker Du, Pere Ubu, R.E.M., Ramones, Smiths, even u2 at the Limit Club in Sheffield & the best team in my lifetime, the first Hunter one. Didn't enjoy my job at Yorkshire Bank very much & my marriage in '86 was a disaster, so the 90's were in some ways more care free.

 

My job at Norwich Union after I finished Uni was well and truly ****. But there were plenty of other young graduates there who didn't really know what they wanted to do with their lives so it was a good crowd, as and long as I had enough money to buy vinyl and keep on partying every weekend, I was generally pretty happy!

 

80s for football, for being young, for discovering what life was about.
The current decade for travelling the world, for moving to one of the most beautiful places in the world, meeting someone amazing and being able to take the time to enjoy life.

 

Mid 90a the only time to me that felt completely positive. We were, or at least appeared to be, a forward looking though proud of our past country, and the music was great and the football was great.

 

I’m sure those weekends at Crasher helped your revision...

 

2000s - shag fest. Made up for Barnsley blowing the only chance they’ll ever have in my lifetime of winning a major trophy.

 

90s. Just for TFI Friday every week.

 

I'm with you Hooky with almost all the same reasons. Left school at 15. United won its first cup, the league cup in 79. Had my first sexual experience. Went to my first gig, David Bowie in 72. Got my first car, mk1 cortina. Great days and memories.

 

not a bad first gig!

 

It's the 80's for me
The Hacienda, indie music, and the rave scene.
I'll have an E please Bob.

 

Ditto all the musical references above

 

All the above posters are too young to remember the fabulous 60’s. You missed out on the best decade ever. The music the lifestyle the fashion life was so good. Just a pity B.F.C. we’re sh*te.

 

1990s for most of the reasons Merde Tete eloquently posted above- I'm the same age as him.

The 1990s were the last time that there was a feeling of optimism and that things were going to get better ( sorry for the Blair/ D:Ream reference!). Growing up in the 80s I was obsessed with space, and there was still a sense that we were progressing in exciting ways with the shuttles and stuff like that, although not on the same level as the 60s and 70s.

Barnsley in the late 1990s was phenomenal. The town was rammed and I worked in the Ticket Office pubs and the Theatre for a while. Wellington Street was like the Wild West! A huge wave of people moving across town and mad sights everywhere. It's hard to imagine now.

I was in Leeds at the end of the decade, the last or almost last intake to get a student grant. 9/11 in 2001 and the narrative on terror changed the positive outlook in a very clear and stark way , coupled with the mixed blessing of the intrusion of smartphones, privatisation and rising inequality, then the 2008 market crash and a decade of austerity, the rise of demagogues, the realisation of how bad the environment is getting polluted / global warming... It's been pretty ***** since then and I really feel sorry that my children probably won't grow up into a world that is better than the one I grew up into. I think that's tragic.

If I were to pick a decade to grow up from any decade of recent times, I'd probably go for the late 60s into the 70s for the music, culture, the educational climate ( as I'm a teacher) being able to afford a house and having a good pension and early retirement age. Also talking to people like my parents that lived through it it sounds pretty great.

 

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