The Golden Age
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- monospaced0
_niko, it makes you sound really old and stubborn to hear you say this. As a product of the eighties I would say that overall, the nineties signified some creative downfalls. Rock went through a huge shift during that era diving its ranks into new young genres vs the old. Superficial attitudes left over from the 80s (in the US) gave creatives little to work with, in my opinion.
I wouldn't call the nineties a creative "renaissance" exactly, but maybe more accurately a peak for a few great things. The fact of the matter is that there is always some great music and "creative" being made at any given time, you just need to know where to look.
- of course, maybe it was in relation to what went on in the 80's or happened since but that era was special for many things_niko
- ukit0
It's official:
The greatest period of human creative achievement was 92 -94, on the basis of Illmatic, The Chronic and Calvin & Hobbes.
GFY, Picasso.
- hahahamonospaced
- you forgot Arsenio_niko
- Don't forget "Life in Hell."boobs
- TheBlueOne0
Golden Ages are myths. The only Golden Age ever is Here. Now. To think otherwise is to fall into the gap between intention and action and build sand castles there.
- francoisfido0
always related more to the 60s...
counterculture
UK underground
haight/ashbury
the beatles/stones dialectic
french new wave film
situationist international
may 68
conceptual art
et al.
- neue75_bold0
hmmm...
- nb0
Hahahaha. Seinfeld? X-Files?
- GeorgesII0
really you think .....
- boobs0
The early 90s were a bad time for fucking, because of all the AIDS hysteria.
- _niko0
some movies:
Goodfellas, Reservoir dogs, Pulp fiction, usual suspects, Seven,
- honest0
there is no golden age, we're all growing old and complaining at the foolishness of the next generation
- vaxorcist0
The golden age is/was whenever you're in your 20's.... and most people's taste in music gets less exploratory at age 27-30 or so....
- blaw0
When people start waxing poetic about the early 90s it's time to get a drink.
- CyBrain0
acid house, grunge, I would just disagree about SNL. Belushi and Akroyd were the best era.
- shitehawke0
Hang on, notorious big? get to fuck, the fat cunt could barely motivate himself to breathe let alone put together a decent rhyme.
- shitehawke0
The 90's also gave us Take That, the Spice Girls, Boyzone, Westlife, East 17, Scooter,
Mrs. Doubtfire, Legends Of The Fall, Devil's Advocate, Varsity Blues.
I mean, there were some good things, but also a lot of horse shit.
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.boobs
- _niko0
a renaissance is a re-birth, and i think there was a creative re-birth during that era. not to say that it was the greatest era ever or that it compares to other eras of creativity, but it was definitely the best we had since the mid-sixties to the mid seventies.