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Blue Waffle wrote: 80's New Romance, Punk, Maggie Thatcher.
Punk was 70s.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Punk was mid 70's through to the early 80's but let's not get into a date fight.
I think by the 90's there were so many left over genres that people started picking their own culture and the days of a single hegemonic youth culture is done.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Punk was mid 70's through to the early 80's but let's not get into a date fight.
I would say that by the time they 1980s came around punk was long dead but many other genres that had spawned from it had a good few years left in them.
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Indeed, apparently the 80s punk groups are now referred to as "post-punk". 
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Not in my head it wasn't.
I distinctly remember being a Toddler in the early 80's and there was a girl with spikey hair at the Bus Stop. My Mother was telling me not to point and laugh. That was the punk era for me.
Seriously though, I know they say Punk was 70's but that was only for a few 'very hip' people in London. By the time it was mainstream in the rest of the Country it was early 80's (I'm talking hairstyles, Sex Pistols etc)
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Blue Waffle wrote: By the time it was mainstream in the rest of the Country it was early 80's (I'm talking hairstyles, Sex Pistols etc)
Sex Pistols had split up, and Sid was dead, before the 80s arrived.
I'm much too young to remember the 70s, but a mate of mine who isn't has been heavily into punk since the 70s, his reasoning all that other tedious shite around like ABBA and bloody Led Zeppelin. I think he makes a good point.
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chriselst wrote: Sex Pistols had split up, and Sid was dead, before the 80s arrived.
Really. OK my positioning of it is a bit off then. I thought I remebered the Grundy incident on TV in the early 80's but after a bit of googling it turns out I wasn't even alive then.
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I think you can add Eminem to the Naughties. From the perspective of a middle class white boy in the Midlands he seemed to be everywhere then.
I think part of the problem is that you (and we) have simply grown up and there is so much of everything everywhere now.
My parents listened to music from the 60s, I was born in the 70s, I went to school in the 80s, I started going to gigs and went to university in the 90s, I started working in 2000.
I don't listen to music radio, if I want to get hold of music then I seek out other stuff by people I already like, I don't have friends or do anything to meet people who will introduce me to new stuff like when I was at school or university.
New music ended when I started working.
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chriselst wrote: My parents listened to music from the 60s, I was born in the 70s, I went to school in the 80s, I started going to gigs and went to university in the 90s, I started working in 2000.
How old are you ? We must be about the same age (35), and I thought you were older than that ?!
~RaGE();
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Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Apparently I am 39, which seems ridiculous to me.
The started working in 2000 might throw people off a bit, I went straight to uni from school, got thrown out asked not to go back after a year, bummed around with various jobs for a couple of years, went back to university and completed a 4 year course, graduating in June 2000.
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chriselst wrote: which seems ridiculous to me
 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Blue Waffle wrote: 90's Oasis, Blur, Geri and the UJ Dress, Rave culture.
Add the Dropkick Murphys to that list.
Blue Waffle wrote: 00's ???, ???, x-factor?
The Gaslight Anthem, Chuck Ragan, Jenny Owen Youngs, Barack Osama, CodeProject and Open Source becoming popular [even though some of them are not known to a big public, yet]
The scariest moment is always just before the Start - Stephen King
Die Frauen warten auf die Liebe, und die Männer warten auf die Frauen - Wolf Wondratschek
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Marco Bertschi wrote: Add the Dropkick Murphys to that list
No. The Dropdead Murphys never have and never will be on that list.
Marco Bertschi wrote: The Gaslight Anthem, Chuck Ragan, Jenny Owen Youngs,
No these are more Americans and these do not define an era.
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For the 00's, how about manufactured music and reality TV?
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Exactly. Not exactly great though is it.
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Member 10112720 wrote: For the 00's, how about manufactured music and reality TV?
Biggest selling songs of the 00s in the UK;
Will Young - Reality TV
Gareth Gates - Reality TV
Tony Christie and Peter Kay - Comedian
Shaggy - Proper Artist (albeit with something of a novelty single)
Alexandra Burke - Reality TV
Band Aid 20 - Charity Ensemble
Kylie Minogue - Singing Midget
Shayne Ward - Reality TV
Hear'Say - Reality TV
Bob The Builder - Kids Cartoon Character
Leona Lewis - Reality TV
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The Naughties was the FarceBook era, and the Tennies looks like the Twatter decade.
Neither of them encourage excellence, in favour of wide-band mediocracy.
No real surprise that other valid cultural elements decline when it's easier to just change your status to "it's complicated" instead of pen an angst-filled teen anthem because she dumped you... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I was not best friend with Twitter at the beginning, but I reckon some people have very good one-liners (Anna Kendrick, Olivia Wild, Ellen Degeneres, ...).
I am big imgur.com fan, not much for the pictures, but for the top comments, which are often excellent puns or one-liners.
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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00' Daft Punk, Trance,
10' Obama, Selfie
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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These things require a bit of a gap to allow the signal to emerge from the noise. If you actually look at the charts from the 60s there was an awful lot of chaff.
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Culture moved mediums. It's a massive and fundamental shift.
00's - Facebook, Twitter.
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Chris Maunder wrote: 00's - MySpace, Facebook, Twitter.
FTFY
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00's - Debt Economy Blues, Credit Default Swap Collapse, Facebook, Twitter, Arab Spring
10's - Sovereign Debt Meltdowns, Socialism (Obamacare), Alternative Currencies / Economies, Crowdfunding, Arab Fall
Marc
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Well if history repeats itself July 28th will be a very interesting day.
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I don't think it will be. Our current problem is a revanchist totalitarian state; a parallel to the sequel.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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