Which decade would you choose?

[Sacrosanct]

One more reason for the 80s: MTV played music videos.

 

[R_J_K75]

One more reason for the 80s: MTV played music videos.

Two words thatll make you rethink that...Billy Squier.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Two words thatll make you rethink that...Billy Squier.

Pffft. Peter Gabriel Sledge Hammer, Duran Duran Wild Boys, Michael Jackson Thriller, A-Ha take on me.
Point being, they at least players music videos and weren’t all reality TV

It was also a decade that didn’t rely on crappy CGI for an easy way out like so many 90s movies did (ahem Lawnmower man lol)

 

[ccs]

I'd do 1990s. That way I get to not live in this decade anymore, but not be so far back that there are huge wars going on or anything.

Well I guess that'd depend upon where you were living. There was plenty of awful naughty word going on in the 90's. Wanna sign up to live in Bosnia circa '92-'95? Indonesia? Assorted African countries?

 

[R_J_K75]

Pffft. Peter Gabriel Sledge Hammer, Duran Duran Wild Boys, Michael Jackson Thriller, A-Ha take on me.
Point being, they at least players music videos and weren’t all reality TV

It was also a decade that didn’t rely on crappy CGI for an easy way out like so many 90s movies did (ahem Lawnmower man lol)

Yeah but they changed their format even in the 90s, the Real World, Yo, MTV Raps, TRL, Spring Break. So by 1990 or so they were well on their way. I stopped watching the channel with any regularity by 93, I cant even remember the last time I watched it, even just flipping through channels.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Well I guess that'd depend upon where you were living. There was plenty of awful naughty word going on in the 90's. Wanna sign up to live in Bosnia circa '92-'95? Indonesia? Assorted African countries?

As someone who was in Bosnia in 96-97, yeah.
Also, Somalia....

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Actually, Yo, MTV Raps started in the late 1980s, as did Headbanger’s Ball and 120 Minutes Into the Future.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

If you had to be trapped in a decade from the 20th century, and live there, which would you choose? You don’t get to use your future knowledge to your advantage; you have to live the decade as it was but you’re your current age (you don’t get to be younger again!)

And - importantly - why?

1990. Every decade has generally been better than the last for the last several hundred years, outside of decades swallowed by war, and the Great Depression, by any “outside perspective” measure, like life expectancy, literacy, violence, etc.

I’d rather live right now that I’m the 90’s, but I wouldn’t willingly go back further than...2010.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Well I guess that'd depend upon where you were living. There was plenty of awful naughty word going on in the 90's. Wanna sign up to live in Bosnia circa '92-'95? Indonesia? Assorted African countries?

I assume the premise is that you’d be in the same general culture and region that you’re in, otherwise we can’t assume an informed choice.

 

[R_J_K75]

Actually, Yo, MTV Raps started in the late 1980s, as did Headbanger’s Ball and 120 Minutes Into the Future.

I was thinking that but wasnt sure. There was a documentary about MTV recently. It was interesting seeing how much influence they had in the 80s and they said that when they were bought out they made a conscious decision to change their format. The highlight was the Marc Googman David Bowie interview.