5. 90's - What a weird decade of music, what was going on. It gave us strange songs like I'm Too Sexy, that Barbie song, wasn't there a song all about being blue. It had Can't Touch This and Ice Ice Baby as hit songs. Remember this, this song took over the world and I can't stand it. This decade had a lot of music that sounded like this, "I only want to be with you" (I'm such a baby cause the Dolphins make me cry), "Slide", and "Barely Breathing". I loved the early 90's dance music, here is a vid with a bunch of them. Ace of Base had a ton of hits using the exact same beat over and over again. Grunge started, I hate grunge. I hate what rock became in this decade, yuck.
It was a great decade for love songs, divas, and songs for women. I don't care for much of them but i can't deny they are good. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Alanis Morissette, all were huge this decade. If I were a middle aged woman I would love the 90s.
There were excellent songs but as a whole it was a strange mix
of weirdness.4. 00's - I bet all of you will disagree here but I like the hip-hop decade. This was the decade where rap, hip-hop and R&B completely took over. Great songs from Eminem (he won an Oscar!), Ludacris, Nelly, Outcast, Usher, Akon, Sean Paul. Remember when Lil Jon was in every single song. We saw Briney Spears go from super hot to crazy psycho woman. Justin Timberlake went from boy band kid to legitimate star, he also brought sexy back, lol. I don't know what to call this kind of rock but it was all over the place, stuff from Three Doors Down, Nickelback, Lifehouse and all the bands like them. Go ahead and kill me, I will take that over loud dude screaming for 5 minutes and shaking his head up and down. I liked the decade.
3. 70s - Disco. My parents loved Disco, a lot of what I heard growing up was disco, so I like disco. Great music. It had great rock songs from bands like Aerosmith, Boston, Led Zeppelin, Kiss, a bunch others, you guys know a lot more about it than me. Some more great Motown songs, like "What's Going On". Elton John had like a billion hits. There were a bunch of great songs, great era.
2. 80's - I love 80's music, every weekend there is a station that plays nothing but 80's all weekend long and that is all I have on in my car. I have heard the songs a ton of times but they never get old. Rock was totally awesome in this time as well with AC/DC, Van Halen, Guns and Roses, Heart (yes Heart FU if you dont like them) and a ton more, you know the songs no need to post them. But my love is the synthesized pop music that took over the decade. And now a list of my favorites, "Everybody wants to rule the world", "Hey Now", "Out of Touch", "Tainted Love", "Melt with you", "I ran", "Come on eileen", "Land down under", "Der Kommissar", "One thing leads to another", "Pure Energy" and a million more. Oh and there was someone by the name of Michael Jackson, he had a few hits and made the greatest music video of all time. He also happens to be my favorite artist. RIP.
1. 60's - I would say it is the most important decade in the history of music. The fact that so many of these songs are still loved 50 years later, that they crossed over so many generations shows how timeless this era is. To me they are the oldies, its what my parents grew up on and what they listened to in the car most of the time. So naturally I grew up listening to this too and I love it. This decade includes every single song by the greatest band of all time, The Beatles. At GS we have a thread about music in the 60s which has a great sampling of the songs of the era.
90s>2000s for rap btw.
(I'm too lazy to do this, so I'll just complain.)
Actually it's not too surprising you don't have any films listed from the 60's. Most of that decade was kind of a dark period for film in that not a whole lot of really great movies were being made. Viewership in theaters was plummeting in the 50's due to the introduction of television and the lack of creativity that was going on in Hollywood. There was just a lot of formulaic stuff going with John Wayne and all the big stars were on their decline. So there was a transition going on in the way the studios were organized and making films that took up most of the first half of the decade.
So when people look back at classic 60's films they usually end up listing a lot of foreign films by directors like Kurosawa and Antonioni. Plus there was a ton of stuff going on in England that was well received in America. Movies like Blow Up for instance. And probably most importantly the James Bond franchise.
By the end of the 60's though a new group of American directors started emerging and the last few years of the 60's saw some excellent movies. Easy Rider was huge and that actually helped to create the independent film movement in America. Plus, the horror genre went into a very dark and adult direction thanks to Rosemary's Baby, which would help other dark movies like the Exorcist and the Omen during the 70's.
The f****** 80s rocked for movies.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeees.
You know why? After the 80s movie companies learned that by reducing the rating they could appeal to a wider audience and movies became all mainstream and sanitised.
Also, the 80s gave us this:
Dvader said:The Music
1. 60's - I would say it is the most important decade in the history of music. The fact that so many of these songs are still loved 50 years later, that they crossed over so many generations shows how timeless this era is. To me they are the oldies, its what my parents grew up on and what they listened to in the car most of the time. So naturally I grew up listening to this too and I love it. This decade includes every single song by the greatest band of all time, The Beatles. At GS we have a thread about music in the 60s which has a great sampling of the songs of the era.
I don't know what decades they span but whatever decade spawned the Great American Songbook. Songs from Cole Porter, Irving Berlin Rogers and Hammerstein etc. That was and is the best era of music that has stood the test of time.
gamingeek said:Dvader said:The Music
1. 60's - I would say it is the most important decade in the history of music. The fact that so many of these songs are still loved 50 years later, that they crossed over so many generations shows how timeless this era is. To me they are the oldies, its what my parents grew up on and what they listened to in the car most of the time. So naturally I grew up listening to this too and I love it. This decade includes every single song by the greatest band of all time, The Beatles. At GS we have a thread about music in the 60s which has a great sampling of the songs of the era.I don't know what decades they span but whatever decade spawned the Great American Songbook. Songs from Cole Porter, Irving Berlin Rogers and Hammerstein etc. That was and is the best era of music that has stood the test of time.
Rodgers & Hart >> Rodgers & Hammerstein
but i agree with you on the greatness of the great american songbook
btw it span many decades maybe from like the 1920s or 1930s to the 1950s or early 1960s
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Foolz said:Films and music didn't start in the '60s.
90s>2000s for rap btw.
(I'm too lazy to do this, so I'll just complain.)
I know that, I just dont feel like going any further than the 60s. I am not 70 years old.
As for 90's rap, yeah I understand what you are saying. It was better, some of it had meaning, it was important stuff. Now its more about club music and getting drunk with some bitches but I like that kind of catchy dance music.
robio said:Actually it's not too surprising you don't have any films listed from the 60's. Most of that decade was kind of a dark period for film in that not a whole lot of really great movies were being made. Viewership in theaters was plummeting in the 50's due to the introduction of television and the lack of creativity that was going on in Hollywood. There was just a lot of formulaic stuff going with John Wayne and all the big stars were on their decline. So there was a transition going on in the way the studios were organized and making films that took up most of the first half of the decade.
So when people look back at classic 60's films they usually end up listing a lot of foreign films by directors like Kurosawa and Antonioni. Plus there was a ton of stuff going on in England that was well received in America. Movies like Blow Up for instance. And probably most importantly the James Bond franchise.
By the end of the 60's though a new group of American directors started emerging and the last few years of the 60's saw some excellent movies. Easy Rider was huge and that actually helped to create the independent film movement in America. Plus, the horror genre went into a very dark and adult direction thanks to Rosemary's Baby, which would help other dark movies like the Exorcist and the Omen during the 70's.
Good to know, thanks. I was thinking and I seriously couldn't think of anything during the 60s. Was that the Heston years (Ben-Hur, Ten Commandments) or was that the 50's?
gamingeek said:The f****** 80s rocked for movies.
You know why? After the 80s movie companies learned that by reducing the rating they could appeal to a wider audience and movies became all mainstream and sanitised.
Also, the 80s gave us this:
That movie is so bad. There is one property that would benefit from this era when adaptations are being done correctly, well some of them. If they did Masters of the Universe now it would be on whatever planet He-Man is from and be like a LOTR movie.
I cannot stress how important the practical special effects of the 80s are to those movies. Sure some of it looks cheesy and fake but you know it was real. The blood was an actual liquid, all makeup was done with prosthetics, creatures were puppets. The movies had this real feel to them that so many movies don't anymore. I am not saying that computer effects suck, they should be used for the right reasons, problem is many movies used them for every single effect, it becomes a cartoon. Lord of the Rings did it correctly, that is the balance of computer to practical effects movies should use.
Dvader said:I know that, I just dont feel like going any further than the 60s. I am not 70 years old.
As for 90's rap, yeah I understand what you are saying. It was better, some of it had meaning, it was important stuff. Now its more about club music and getting drunk with some bitches but I like that kind of catchy dance music.
You've been playing too much Ballad of Gay Tony.
Dvader said:
I cannot stress how important the practical special effects of the 80s are to those movies. Sure some of it looks cheesy and fake but you know it was real. The blood was an actual liquid, all makeup was done with prosthetics, creatures were puppets. The movies had this real feel to them that so many movies don't anymore. I am not saying that computer effects suck, they should be used for the right reasons, problem is many movies used them for every single effect, it becomes a cartoon. Lord of the Rings did it correctly, that is the balance of computer to practical effects movies should use.
I like CGI but when its used it can't be obvious and so often it is.
gamingeek said:You've been playing too much Ballad of Gay Tony.
My music listening habits are scary. I sing along to Lady Gaga.
Dvader said:My music listening habits are scary. I sing along to Lady Gaga.
I was referring to this:
Dvader said:Now its more about club music and getting drunk with some bitches.
No one can deny the greatness of 80s movies.
This movie is legendary, me and my bro watched it 20 times or more.
I dare anyone to dispute this!
It's Willow! I dare you to deny the greatness of this little man.
This movie... as a young guy growing up..... yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah.
Ahhhh Mannequin. A film about a mannequin that comes to life. The 80s....
The truffle shuffle? This still evokes memories. People you know what I'm saying.
gamingeek said:No one can deny the greatness of 80s movies.
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Never seen these.
Dvader said:Never seen these.
Wha.......what the ****?!
How about these classics?
Or these:
Need I go on or shall I introduce you to my little friend?
*Shut it Leo!*
Dvader said:Never seen these.
Movies:
5. 60's - Honestly I don't know what came out in the 60s, so for that reason its last. I am sure there are some classics that I have seen, nothing comes to mind though.
4. 70's - Easily one of the best decades of movies, sadly I wasn't around for it so it doesn't have the same impact on me. Lets see which movie of the 70's is the most important of my life... of course Saturday Night Fever. No thats not it. Godfather 1 and 2, two of the very best movies ever... nope not that.
Was it the greatest horror movie of all time, The Exorsist. No, not horror. That's right, Rocky, love that movie. But no thats not it. Ah yes Jaws, an all time great.
Wait, it's a sci-fi movie, I got it now, Close Encounters. No. Alien, love the sequel more. Crap what the hell was it? Whatever movie it was, it came out in the 70s and it was really really really important...
3. 90's - There were some excellent movies, but a bunch of ones I did not care for at all. There were a lot of thrillers and dramas, movies like Silence of the Lambs, Seven, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, and more.
There are some all time classics there, but it was not a sci-fi heavy decade, though it did have some standouts like The Matrix, Terminator 2, and Independence Day.
For a kid it had the very best Disney movies but nothing cool, I guess the live action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and some Batman sequels that got progressively worse. A special mention to Steven Spielberg who did some of his very best work this decade, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.
2. 00's - This was the geek decade, everything I ever wanted to see as a kid came to life in this decade. It started off with the second greatest trilogy in the history of movies, the only other movie series that has moved me the way Star Wars did, Lord of the Rings.
It also ended the new Star Wars trilogy and I don't care what people say I loved both movies. In was superhero movie mania with the very best comic book movies of all time being made like Spider-Man 1 and 2, X-Men 2, Batman Begins, Iron Man, Sin City and the greatest of all The Dark Knight.
So many of my favorite movies ever come from the last decade, it was like the movies were made for me. I think drama's suffered a bit, I don't know if snobby critics will find many drama movie gems, but that is not for me. I like my summer movies, I love sci-fi, I love action and this decade delivered.
1. 80's - The most awesome decade of movies ever. Seriously, think of the insanely cool, groundbreaking stuff they were doing with special effects. So many movies oozed with cool. So many all time great action stars, the very best action movies of all time, the best sci-fi films, the best teen comedies, the best horror movies, it had it all. Look at this:
Look at those pictures and tell me you can't instantly hum the theme song to all of them. The music was at it's best as well. It was the decade of the action star and none was bigger and better than the legend, ARNOLD.
Of course Stallone, Willis, Russel, Gibson.
Will there ever be a movie as freaking crazy and awesome as Big Trouble in Little China
No, cause the 80's was magical and it will never be recreated. So many more movies
I will do music next...