For some reason I really enjoy the culture of the late 60's early 70's. I mean the attitude that people had back then (or of what I"ve heard and read) and the music. Mainly the music. My favorite bands is like CSNY and Jefferson Airplane. Everyone else my age seems to not really care about that stuff. I mean when I listen to that music, it gives me a sense of relaxation. Everything seems to have went a lot slower and easier (other than vietnam) back then. I'm not really sure if girls are attracted to this, probably not, but I really don't care. I'm not addicted to drugs. I'm not really interested in drugs, I just like the culture. Is this strange for my age?
I feel like I should have been born 40 yrs ago
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You're probably just watching too much of The 70's Show...
No matter when you are born another generations culture always looks far more interesting and appealing. You know what they say...the grass is always greener.
You probably wouldn't actually like the culture as much as you think you would. They music is really good, though... Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, etc, etc. My kids like a lot of the 70's and 80's music...they are teenagers.
No matter when you are born another generations culture always looks far more interesting and appealing. You know what they say...the grass is always greener.
You probably wouldn't actually like the culture as much as you think you would. They music is really good, though... Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, etc, etc. My kids like a lot of the 70's and 80's music...they are teenagers.
Scrumtulescence
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Sure the grass is always greener, but sh1t, being a teenager or 20something in the mid-late 60s must've been f*ckin awesome.
You are just talking about good things about those decades. If you were a teenager, most likely your parents wouldn't even let you out at nights. Parents were a lot stricter back then... Most guys who fùcked around and enjoyed life had been sent the fùck away from home when they were like 16.
You didn't have AIDS, but herpes and other STD's were already really common, expecially in the "guys who enjoy life" scene. And I don't care if it's AIDS or another STD, I'd wear a condom, because I don't like both.
The music was good yes, but MTV wasn't there and you couldn't download it. You either had to buy the disc or to wait until it was played on some radio (not a lot, since censorship was stricter than now).
You didn't have AIDS, but herpes and other STD's were already really common, expecially in the "guys who enjoy life" scene. And I don't care if it's AIDS or another STD, I'd wear a condom, because I don't like both.
The music was good yes, but MTV wasn't there and you couldn't download it. You either had to buy the disc or to wait until it was played on some radio (not a lot, since censorship was stricter than now).
insanity
Master Don Juan
i loved growing up in the 80s.
Rollo Tomassi
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All I can say is,...
Wow, was that WYLDFIRE?
Wow, was that WYLDFIRE?
Yotsuya-san
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Those decades were OK only for some of us. Just like Victorian England was also an ideal era (if you were gentry).
Today, it's a lot more color blind compared to back in the 50s or 60s. If you were a racial minority, you had it tough back then.
All things considered, I'm glad I missed those couple of decades, but I still think I was born before my time. Maybe if I had been born in the 23rd or 24th century.
Today, it's a lot more color blind compared to back in the 50s or 60s. If you were a racial minority, you had it tough back then.
All things considered, I'm glad I missed those couple of decades, but I still think I was born before my time. Maybe if I had been born in the 23rd or 24th century.
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I used to feel the way you do, but now I really despise the stereotypical 60s attitude. The music was fantastic however.
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Yotsuya-san
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I never judge a decade by the popular music of that decade. It is probably why a lot of people have overly romanticized images of eras that they are way too young to remember. They don't really know what those decades were all about for those who grew up in it.
You can talk all you want about Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Hendrix, Woodstock, ect...But there was also the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, Cuban Missile Crisis, The Moon Landings, The Kennedy Assasination, Watergate....
A lot of these twentysomethings say they are nostalgic about the 80s. But their knowledge of the 80s is mostly Prince and Madonna. I am actually a child of the 80s and never did care about those two. There was of course music I did love from the 80s, but that wasn't all the 80s were about for me.
You can talk all you want about Dylan, Jefferson Airplane, Hendrix, Woodstock, ect...But there was also the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, Cuban Missile Crisis, The Moon Landings, The Kennedy Assasination, Watergate....
A lot of these twentysomethings say they are nostalgic about the 80s. But their knowledge of the 80s is mostly Prince and Madonna. I am actually a child of the 80s and never did care about those two. There was of course music I did love from the 80s, but that wasn't all the 80s were about for me.
I agree with Yotsuya-san about how it wasn't all about the music. I'm aware of all the things that went on during that time from school. But like the moon landings, it was new and I mentioned above of how everything was new to people. But back to the music, I can 't link music of today with music from then. The lyrics and the way that it was sang is totally different. I think that today the lyrics and meanings of songs are concrete, meaning anyone can understand the point trying to be made by the artist. Then, someone like Grace Slick singing "White Rabbit" or "Greasy Heart" tends to make the listener use their imagination more. I think that people nowadays areen't using there imagination as much and that to me anyways seems to be not a relaxing state of mind. I mean if we could use our imagination and make our own worlds, then we can enjoy life better. I'm not saying block our reality, cause thats stupid I mean I'm in college and have to face reality everyday. I'm just saying to ME music from the late 60's is more enjoyable to listen to. By the way I am aware that White Rabbit and lot of Jefferson Airplane's songs are based upon LSD trips and thats why to some people it may seem stupid and doesn't make any sense. But I can relate to the lyrics without doing drugs. Course I also have a strange romantic like imagination.
PeterNorthisawesome
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Ya if I was to be reborn I would loved to be born as a Roman during the height of the Roman Empire. I would gladly join the Army and die for my country since there was honor and glory back in those days! and there were only men back then not any AFC and all that BS. Or I would have loved to be a cowboy and be a bounty hunter cuz everyone knows COWBOYS ARE THE SH*T!