I’m 25 and I would have loved to live in a P.G. Wodehouse-esque England in the 1940’s; people had manners and the world was a more innocent place.
I do recall some sort of weapon from the 1920’s that could be mentioned but, then again, no. :rolleyes:
You want to be an alleged Nazi collaborator in London during the Blitz?!
I turned 20 in 1978. I will always love the music from that era, even the disco! I still wear t-shirts and jeans, and flip-flops. I can’t wear the “new” bell bottoms, I prefer tapered. The new ones feel funny to me. I love long hair on a guy.
As a matter fo fact, I just went to see Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers this past Saturday. Incredible concert. I last saw Skynyrd in 1975, when I was 17.
I guess you can call me a throwback. I love the 70’s!
The era P.G.Wodehouse wrote about was more an idealized version of the 19-teens. It was an England untouched by the horrors of the First World War (when many young nobles just like Bertie were killed in action or lost their idealism) and before the Depression which meant the end of the care-free upper class. (many, many of the big, old estates were either lost to bankruptcy or fell into ruin due to lack of fuds for upkeep during the depression)
But it is a lovely place to visit in the books…
Musically, late '60s early '70s. However, much as I enjoyed the '60s at the time, looking at pictures of myself from then with very long hair is scary. So I’d have to go with 2030 or so.
Science Fiction is history to us weirdos. - Baby Gonzo in the Muppet Babies cartoon show. Some writer really got it.
I’m 20 now, and I like some of the more experimental current music. The '00s popular music is a bit better than the '90s stuff, but not very original. But my musical tastes are more defined by certain aesthetic currents with pretty diverse origins. I don’t really care about cars, but if I had to choose, I’d say the best-looking cars were made in the '50s and the preceding decades. Secret agent-type cars like Patrick McGoohan’s Lotus in The Prisoner are cool too.
As for fashion, I think the current ones are better than the horrid styles of the '90s (at least if we discount Paris Hilton and her ilk), but I hate being a follower so consequently I spend most of the time looking like a colorblind lunatic. I like all of the men’s fashions from the 18th century through the 1950s or so, and I really like a lot of '60s stuff but only the things that are more flamboyant versions of traditional notions of male spiff, rather than grungy tie-dye wear. I also like military garb (dress stuff as opposed to camouflage) and anything futuristic-looking. So I guess my clothing aesthetic is sort of a science fiction version of Pepperland? Unfortunately, it’s hard to live up to in reality, but I try. As for hairstyles, I’ve always liked hair that looks slept-on, and now it’s become trendy, except I like it taken to the extreme in an Einstein or Beethoven or Edward Scissorhands way rather than just looking schlumpy.
So yeah, I don’t really have much of a grounding in any specific decade. I prefer the remote past and future.
That’s exactly when I was in my early 20s. It was a truly wonderful time to come of age, compared with the decades since then. Especially the clothing. Getting dressed was actually **fun **back then.
My pop music taste pretty much ends with the late 60s, except for musicals. But I prefer the pop music of the 20s to 50s. And classical music from Baroque through early 20th Century, especially the Romantic period.
The art that I enjoy most would be Impressionism through Art Deco.
The movies I enjoy most are from the 30s through the 50s.
But I have to admit that the late 60s in general are always with me. And of all the millions and millions of people who claim to have been at Woodstock, I’m one of the people who was actually there. (I know, I know, if you remember the 60s…)
It can be fun now, if you don’t mind the quizzical looks!
I was in my 20s during the 80s and I like to think of the 80s as a terrible dream. I love almost everything involved with 70s.
“No! They are wrong. How could I most identify with the 80s?” she says, furtively ejecting her **Depeche Mode/Cure/Duran Duran/Berlin ** Mix CD.
Probably my ‘favorite decade’, if you will, would have been the 1960s, but I was only 12 in 1970. But I’ve always liked most of the music, and I love the visual aesthetics of the time. I like the way a show like Star Trek extrapolated the concurrent tastes in things like clothes and furniture into the the way things would look in the 23rd century. If you watch closely you can often see a lot of interior details that were typical of mid 1960’s modernistic architecture, such as bright colors and openwork dividers partitioning large rooms.
Then you had a lot of visual ideas that were more counterculture, and for the most part stayed there. Eyebending concert posters with their ‘groovy’ lettering and graphics have always been a favorite of mine. Sometimes elements of these posters were taken from a time long before, but appropriated for contemporary use, and it’s interesting to me how well that worked. Sometimes the lettering, for example, would be an Art Nouveau style, and the picture would be from a music hall poster from the Old West. There’s one I have in mind right now, though I can’t recall what concert it was for, where the picture was of a nude woman who IRL lived in the 1880s and later became Wyatt Earp’s wife. In spite of the fact that the real woman lived so long ago, she has long dark hair and seems a perfect example of a “hippie chick”.
Nah, I disagree. I was in high school and college throughout most of the 1970s, and remember liking a lot of the music then, but now I almost can’t listen to much of it. I’m referring mainly to rock and roll music here: it seems the bands were so anxious not to sound ‘affected’, or intentionally psychedelic–since that would have been passe, that they mostly ended up sounding just boring. Foreigner, Bad Company, Foghat, etc. I’m looking at you…
Josephine Marcus, who was a free-spirited (and Jewish!) traveling actress–if the movies Tombstone and Wyatt Earp were the least bit accurate.
Except for the sticker covered car, I’m pretty much the same way, even down to the clothes on the floor. I’d be perfectly content to be living in 1994 right now instead of 2004 if I could somehow take the internet with me.
When I get dressed on a day off, I still have to remind myself, “No, Pod, flannel shirts are not cool anymore. Podkayne! I mean it! Back away from the flannel!”
But, yet, it’s so comfy. And I had grown adept at coordinating it with all my cool T-shirts.
sigh One of these days I’m going to cut up all my old flannel shirts and make a quilt.
For me, the most excellent era of all is definitely Minoan Crete, c. 2000-1500 B.C. If I could choose any time and place to visit, I would love to check out Knossos when it was still in its prime before the Mycenean invasion, before the eruption of Thera.
auntie em, did you mean to mix metaphors in your OP?
“Rocks your world” — Makes you delighted, makes you thrilled, makes you ecstatic.
“Floats your boat” — Works for you, gets you off, satisfies you.
“Rocks the boat” — Disturbs the balance or routine of a situation.
I turned 20 in the 80s. As to my favourite era, not a difficult choice for me at all, and it’s not the 80s. My esthetic sensibilities are strongly Art Deco inclined.
Though I can still sing along to most pop songs from the 80s. You spin me right round baby, right round…
I turned 20 in 1979, but by that time, music had already started to suck. (With a few exceptions.) Musically, my favorite era was and still is the high flowering of Progressive Rock, 1971-1977. My high school years fell entirely within this period. I agree with tremorviolet that it’s your high school and college years that inspire great nostalgia in you, and not your 20s. The Psychology Today article is full of it.
I was always a great John Lennon fan, had all of his albums. But John Lennon himself was permanently bound by nostalgic affection to 1950s rock-‘n’-roll. His teenage years. I, personally, never got what was so attractive about '50s rock-‘n’-roll. But I understand Lennon couldn’t help liking '50s music because it took him back to his teenage years. Classic Yes does the same for me.
When it comes to art, my favorite is Art Nouveau (1890-1910). I like some of Scott Joplin’s progressive ragtime that has an Art Nouveau feel, which is why I started the thread “Art Nouveau Music” in Café Society.
Another fan of the late 60s and early 70s. 18 in 68. Music has just not been as good since.
I’m all over the map on this. I like the music of my teen years (70’s) and I love the late 60’s muscle cars. But I also love art deco and I’ve discovered my musical roots in the blues (which is the part of Rock that I really enjoyed). I also like the big band sound of my parent’s youth.
Car designs of late keep switching between crisp edge lines and smooth curves. I like the curves. I prefer the mid 90’s Mustangs to the newer style although the 4.6L is a great motor to work with. I’m currently working on an 88 TurboCoupe because I like the lines of the car.
As far as TV is concerned, most show’s of this century are criminally poor in every measurable way I can think to rate them. I hope there is a special hell for TV executives.