The Decade With No Name

[Moonliner]

It's interesting to me that most recent decades carry with them an immediate mental image, the 50's greaser, 70's Disco, Roaring 20's etc...

But when I think of the last 0's - 1900 to 1910 - Not much comes to mind. Perhaps being dull for the first decade or two is the norm for a new century.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

And I think most of the other things on CP's list were 80's as well. Or reeked of them, at any rate.

Hmm, I'm intrigued.

Again, I was 13 in 1990, so for me, the 90's were very specific pop-culturally, very different from the 80's. Grunge was a real deal for me, the same way disco was for people in the 70's or even, dare I say it, the Beatles were for that generation. I saw Pearl Jam on SNL and fell in love, buying Ten the very next day. I went to thrift stores and bought flannel shirts, tore my jeans, wrote bad poetry. I watched MTV daily then.

If you want to say that the 3rd wave of ska reeked of the 80's, then you're ignoring how much more mainstream the 3rd wave was (in America, at least, the 2nd was more hyped in the UK). Save Ferris, Dance Hall Crashers, Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, almost-made-its like Mealticket and Skankin' Pickle...it was everywhere, and of course the bigger, more mainstream names of Sublime and No Doubt broke through into standard 90's fare.

Slacker culture was a real thing, and the ripples continue today. Before then the concept of living in your parents basement and working retail for years into your 20's was nowhere near as average and accepted. (Maybe it just appears this way, but appearances are what we're talking about here.) Clerks and Reality Bites are the obvious examples.

Originally Posted by flippyshark

So, if the 90s brought us grunge, emo, house, electronica, chill, and other categories I still haven't caught up with, can anyone name a musical style or trend that emerged here in the "naughty aughties?" I hope it isn't just "Disney-tween-pop" that will define this dwindling decade!

I think I'm officially too old now to help you with that one. Ask someone who was 13 in 2000...

Originally Posted by Moonliner

It's interesting to me that most recent decades carry with them an immediate mental image, the 50's greaser, 70's Disco, Roaring 20's etc...

But when I think of the last 0's - 1900 to 1910 - Not much comes to mind. Perhaps being dull for the first decade or two is the norm for a new century.

I think of the guy on the huge bike.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I think of the guy on the huge bike.

Off by about 20-30 years. The penny-farthing was at peak popularity in the 1870s, early 1880s.