1970's Best Decade of the last century?

Mr. Presentable

Sorry if this was done before, but the more I think about it the better it seems.

1 The 70's was deffo rocks golden age. Mott the Hoople, Glam, Prog etc

2 Football was never better. Pele, Best, Maradonna

3 Style was great. Flairs, puffy shirts, Ray Ban Aviators

4 Sweets. LLC Gums, Macaroon bars, Peggys Legs.

5 Food was much better before we knew it was bad for us

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the Shades

Maradonna was the 80s

Mr. Presentable

the Shades wrote:

Maradonna was the 80s

In his pomp, yes, but he made his debut in 1976. I'm making a case here, so being slightly elastic with the facts, though not to the point of being untruthful.

Blisterman

Well, the music was great, but there was a recession and an oil crisis, which sucked.

arctic lemur

70's were nasty, awful music and fashion. Roll on the 1980's the best decade ever!!!

Kolodny

arctic lemur wrote:

70's were nasty, awful music and fashion. Roll on the 1980's the best decade ever!!!

Agreed! Big hair, brightly coloured make-up, New Romantics, synth pop, Global Hypercolor t-shirts, Brat pack movies, MTV, dodgy cop/detective shows, Madonna before she got all bendy....what's not to love about the 80s?

the Shades

what's not to love about the 80's?

eh... ripped jeans, patches on jeans, Bros, Bananarama, luminous coloured socks, leg warmers, Flashdance, the hard rock Mullet (see Bon Jovie, Europe et al.), perms, Brookside, Sinnita, Sabrina, Timothy Dalton as Bond, people emigrating after college, Charlie Haughy...

Flippers and fizzle sticks were pretty good on the sweet side of things though.

DublinWriter

Can't believe no one has championed the 60's - the decade that had everything, basically.

PaulOH

Nope to 80s - woeful decade altogether, started a long slow crawl back to half-decentness after about '88.

70s have that misty glow and you just have to look around at all the retro 70s reproduced stuff that's been knocking about since around since the mid-90s and which is showing no signs of going away. 70s seem to have longevity.

60s... wasn't here to experience them but believe they were great years and all that... from what I've seen and heard, they sound a bit 'basic' i.e. creature comforts we all take for granted like phones, colour telly, duvets, central heating, reasonable shop opening hours, cars that go comfortably over 50mph etc. weren't much around.

Maybe everyone was too busy being 'revolutionary' or reviling against it to notice?

Apart from everyone having mobiles, computers, much less excuse to do things slowly or have free time, what's does anyone think has made a real difference now to the average joe compared to the 70s??

Kolodny

the Shades wrote:

what's not to love about the 80's?

eh... ripped jeans, patches on jeans, Bros, Bananarama, luminous coloured socks, leg warmers, Flashdance, the hard rock Mullet (see Bon Jovie, Europe et al.), perms, Brookside, Sinnita, Sabrina, Timothy Dalton as Bond, people emigrating after college, Charlie Haughy...

Some fair points, however...

ripped jeans

Owned a pair

Bananarama

Loved them

luminous coloured socks

Wore them

leg warmers

Wore them, though not necessarily with the luminous coloured socks

perms

Got one in 1986, terrible idea in fairness

people emigrating after college

Did that

Sorry, I guess I'm just an unashamed 80s kid

Brian Capture

The 1970s was a fabulous time:

- Great music.

- Fantastic cop shows on television (Kojak, Mannix, Rockford Files, "CHiPs", Starsky And Hutch etc)

- Long hot summers (especially 1976)

- People generally had more disposable income than they do now.

- Very little violence in Northern Ireland. People tended to get on better with each other and there was less of the overt sectarianism that you see in places like Ardoyne and Ballymena nowadays.

DublinWriter

Brian Capture wrote:

The 1970s was a fabulous time:

- Great music.

- Fantastic cop shows on television (Kojak, Mannix, Rockford Files, "CHiPs", Starsky And Hutch etc)

- Long hot summers (especially 1976)

- People generally had more disposable income than they do now.

- Very little violence in Northern Ireland. People tended to get on better with each other and there was less of the overt sectarianism that you see in places like Ardoyne and Ballymena nowadays.

Apart from the great music, I can't agree with you on any other of your points. How old are you can I ask?!

Brian Capture

DublinWriter wrote:

Apart from the great music, I can't agree with you on any other of your points. How old are you can I ask?!

30 this year.

DublinWriter

Brian Capture wrote:

30 this year.

Well, I'm 36. People didn't have a lot of disposable income in the 70's, it was the era of a lot of strikes, industrial unrest, high taxes and unemployment.

As far as a lack for 'very little violence in Northern Ireland' you're kidding, aren't you? Myself and another close family member nearly got blown up in the Dublin bombings of 1974 and N.I. was a complete war-zone.

Interestingly enough, in the early 60's the Wolfe Tones used to play RUC gigs and dances before the Civil Rights marches and the start of The Troubles in 1968. All sides got on a lot better up there in the period in the early/mid sixties.

PaulOH

Yeah - to be fair that's 100% about the violence. Grew up in Belfast and it was pretty hairy at times, no one knew what was going to happen next. Thankfully there was no one I knew caught up in it.

Let this be the last word on it otherwise we'll lose the meaning!

back to the 70s - I remember being dead jealous of the neighbour cos his dad got a Datsun (not Nissan!) 120Y coupe - the one with tiny glass area, big sloping back and jellymould hubcaps - this was and still is (those that haven't rusted away that is) one of the funkiest motors on the road. Never drove one but apparently it handles like a pig.

1976 was one of the best summers on record - it was like month after month of the weather we've had for the last week.

Am I mad or have curlywurlys and wagon wheels gotten smaller since the 70s?

Amazing to think also the first Star Wars film was in 1977 - that's nearly 30 years and they're sticking very true to the original appearance and style of the films. Must be one of the only series where the final chapters of the story are much more ancient than the earlier ones. Who else fought over who got to play Luke Skywalker in the playground?.. I plagued my ma to get me one of those toy lightsabres till I saw one for real and saw how small and pathetic looking it was... my imaginary one was magnificent tho so I stuck to it.:D

DublinWriter

PaulOH wrote:

back to the 70s - I remember being dead jealous of the neighbour cos his dad got a Datsun (not Nissan!) 120Y coupe - the one with tiny glass area, big sloping back and jellymould hubcaps - this was and still is (those that haven't rusted away that is) one of the funkiest motors on the road. Never drove one but apparently it handles like a pig.

That car set back the image of the Japanese motor industry about 20 light years and coined the phrase 'Jap Crap', which I still heard used until about the mid 1990's. My Uncle and several people on our road had them and their bodies literally rotted away with rust. Whole chunks would rot out of the quater panels.

PaulOH wrote:

Am I mad or have curlywurlys and wagon wheels gotten smaller since the 70s?

Nope, we've just gotten bigger.

PaulOH wrote:

I plagued my ma to get me one of those toy lightsabres till I saw one for real and saw how small and pathetic looking it was... my imaginary one was magnificent tho so I stuck to it.:D

Sure was, absolulely rubbish for bedroom-based Jedi combat. They used to smash apart and the big A-size batteries would come hurtling out at your oponent.

arctic lemur

Was born in 79 and my parents still have woodchip on the sittingroom plus nasty psychadelic carpet (green and pink to match the pink walls) THe stuff of nightmares. They even have a 70's AS record player they won in spot the ball (a 70's phenomenon showing a frame of football and you had to guess where the ball was- how original eh?).
Another thing about the 70's i hate ate those check blanket jackets (like the character in 'About a boy' wore).

PaulOH

my parents still have woodchip on the sittingroom plus nasty psychadelic carpet (green and pink to match the pink walls) THe stuff of nightmares. They even have a 70's AS record player they won in spot the ball

Sensational! It's a bad-taste museum piece!! Take pictures of it to preserve the sheer eye-watering impact of it all in case they 'update' it and it ends up looking like the worst 'Laura Ashley' pastel affair from the early 80s.
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pork99

The 70s was the decade I went from mixed infants to inter cert (I think that's junior cert nowadays? - used to be able to say you were studying the "inter-course" in a subject - that was hilarious in second year anyway:rolleyes: ).

I think that the 70s was really the decade that the 60s came to Ireland giving the decade a second-hand feel - a bit like an evening suit that has been worn by a very sweaty overweight man who chain smoked and then inadaquately dry-cleaned. The 1970s in Ireland was like wearing that suit.

It didn't bother me too much, I hated school but was happy enough otherwise. The 80s though - just horrible.

solskjaer20

80's ftw.

elivsvonchiaing

Has to be a tie between the '60's when I was born and the '80's.

I was really there in '60's 'coz I don't remeber it. (I was 2 when the '70's happened) - but I still did coke before then :rolleyes:.

I was feeling like an adult (not a kid) in the '80's and the music was better than the 70's (exception some of 60's artists later stuff + T-Rex + Punk (it was the only good music genre to come out of the '70s - think reggae really began in '60's scuz any ignorance here...). Ska is okay - but it is just reggae just marginalized and whitened or something...)

The '80's well before music disappeared up its own arse were: Madonna, U2 etc. (the decade where they established themselves).

'60's also 'coz of invention of internet and mouse.

'80's also 'coz of phasing out of leaded petrol, VCR, sattelite TV, birth of my girlfriend :eek: (was before 1989 I assure you :cool: )

Dudess

My parents moved to Cork in '75 and decked out the house in a brown and yellow swirly carpet for the landing and their bedroom, a brown carpet with red, yellow, orange and black squiggles in one bedroom; brown and cream flowery wallpaper in the hall, multicoloured puke green, yellow, orange linoleum in the kitchen and the kitchen wall painted orange. Then a puke-green living room suite and few more puke-green/brown carpets and curtains. All in all, a classy affair.
The idea of the 70s doesn't hold a whole lot of appeal for me to be honest (I was born in '78) - although in the early part of the decade you had Bowie, T-Rex and Roxy Music. But Ireland must have been bloody grim then. Nah, eighties ftw (yeah I know, Ireland was even more grim in the 80s but I associated it with being a kid so it was cool for me!)

tj-music.com

arctic lemur wrote:

70's were nasty, awful music and fashion. Roll on the 1980's the best decade ever!!!

Bang on correct! The 80s!!!

Slutmonkey57b

The 70's was total sh!t all the way through. Disco? Prog? FLARES? Cords? Bummed out hippies with no clue what to do next? The only great thing about the 70's was punk, and that existed as lashback against how TOTALLY SH!T the 70's was. The 80's was also sh!t but at least the music was supposed to be a joke.

90's was the best decade of the 20th century.

Pigman II

nipplenuts wrote:

In his pomp, yes, but he made his debut in 1976. I'm making a case here, so being slightly elastic with the facts, though not to the point of being untruthful.

Don't forget Zidane was born in the 70's! Spooky!

Dude111

Mr. Presentable wrote:

1 The 70's was deffo rocks golden age. Mott the Hoople, Glam, Prog etc

Couldnt agree more!!!!!!

I HAVE MORE RECORDS FROM THE 70s THAT ARE INSANELY GOOD THAN ANY OTHER TIME!!!

Deep Purple,Black Sabbath,Boston,ahhhhhhhhhhhh!! -- I LOVE 70s MUSIC!!!!! (Especially in analogue)


The 70s were amazingly pure and good! (Stuff started to go DOWNHILL IN THE 80s with this digital crap ruining things,etc)


+1 for the 70s!!!!!!!!!!!

Aethan Dor

Absolutely, if only as I was (just about) born in the 70's so that obviously makes them better than the 80's !

Tough luck 80's, you just missed out