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the '70s

as a way of life: hairstyle, music, bell bottoms, mustaches, weed + psychedelics

@thesugarwoman

Jan 22, 2024

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It's psychoanalytic, human, cheap, powerful and beautiful. As a plus, I think the whole hippie-then-yuppie culture thing wore off as a cultural reference, basically because enough time has passed since the 60's or even 90's. So it's pretty much a fresh slate and while everybody is doing all sorts of newer drugs, or trying to be all natural, I think it's super important to come to terms with acid.

@danimarcel

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1977-84

I think I am on board with your assessment @ACTUALLYASLEEP Four reasons: * stylistic diversity: punk was born and commercialized at one end, hip hop at the other. We take this for granted today but at the time the jaggedness of going from the Clash to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the Treacherous Three, and ESG (all of whom they collaborated with at one point) was exhilarating. The sheer confluence of everything was unprecedented. * MTV as a cultural force: I mean, it was called Music Television 😉 and this was its finest hour. The assumption was that music mattered more than everything else, otherwise why would you watch it? * legacy icons: Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bruce, Bowie. I could go on. You may not like them all but you’ve gotta respect the bodies of work over decades. * the roots of indie culture were born then: bands like R.E.M., Husker Du, Replacements, the Smiths and a million others were blazing a trail (radio, live DIY tours, etc) that created “College Rock” and ultimately indie and here we are today staring in awe at what they made from scratch. The Reagan era sucked to live through but a lot of great music came out of the struggle. 💞

@coreydubrowa

Mar 14, 2025

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GRUNGE WAVE, GOLDEN AGE OF HIP HOP AND THE START OF THE EDM BOOM. I AM A HIP KID FROM THE 90S.

Most golden ages are not obvious at the time. I lucked out being in high school in a moment where grunge matured, hip hop got amazing and edm started to rise. Smells Like Teen Spirit exploded freshman year. The grunge wave got east soon after that. On the other end of the parking lot Wu Tang was played again and again as Biggie and Tupac battled. And the skaters were shifting from punk rock to this new vibe they heard at warehouse raves as techno was escaping from the lab in Dallas and NYC. The movie Kids catches this time really well. Words don’t quite do it justice.