favorite decades - aesthetically, musically, politically, etc.

[courts]

definite top tiers:
1930s
1990s
1980s

honorable mentions:
1920s

more interesting commentary and nostalgic whinging later

[TNF]

1910s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s

Honorable mention: 1920s

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

10s, 30s, 40s, 60s, 70s

[Lief 🗽]

The 80s are the best, of course. The 70s are a runner-up in the "so bad it's good" sense.

[TNF]

The 80s are the best, of course. The 70s are a runner-up in the "so bad it's good" sense.

Yeah, I voted for the 70s specifically because of how trashy the decade as a whole was. Long live beards and everything colored brown or mustard yellow!

[Del Tachi]

20s, 50s, 60s, 80s, 90s

[Flake]

30's,  40's, 60's,  10's,  and 20's.

[Cranberry]

50ies, 60ies, 80ies, 90ies

I can't vote for anything pre-WWII, just because of Austria's situation at the time.

[Hifly]

1930s  obviously

[H. Ross Peron]

1900s, 1910s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s with a shout-out to 1990s and 2010s

[Del Tachi]

So far, the 2010s is shaping up to be an infinitely better decade (aesthetically speaking) than the 2000s.  I think this decade will only continue to get better the more removed we become from the 00s.

[MATTROSE94]

40's, 50's, 60's, 80's, 90's.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

1920s, '50s, '60s, '90s.

[politicallefty]

Of those, I'd most like to experience the '60s (particularly the second half, provided I had no chance of being drafted). After that, I'd say '80s, '90s, and '70s.

[Meursault]

1920s, 1930s, 1980s, 1990s.

[Cassius]

1900's, 1950's, 1970's, 1980's and 1990's.

[Kushahontas]

2010s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, 1980s

[Hamster]

00's, 60's, 70's, 90's, the future?

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Easily the 1950s.

[traininthedistance]

20s, 30s, 60s, 90s, 00s

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I chose the 1950s-80s (which would be my choice for music), but I can't figure out a fifth one.  Probably the 1920s or 1990s. 

Politically speaking, probably the 70s or 80s.

[TDAS04]

20s, 30s, 60s, 70s, 90s.

[old timey villain]

The 2000s will always have a special place in my heart because it was the decade I grew up, but damn it sucked in every way mentioned.

Aesthetically the fashion was really bad. It was like trashy chic- low rise jeans with the crack hanging out, trucker hats, dumpy looking outfits from A&F and Hollister, tube tops, cargo shorts, bleached blond flat meth head hair- I could go on. It's like we forgot how to dress.

Musically it was pretty bad. It sounded fun at the time and there are a few classic songs that came out of it but generally you either had the choice of trashy glam hip hop or crunk, faux punk stuff like Avril Lavigne or Nickelback. The music didn't seem to have any substance

Politically it was Bush, 9/11, terrorism, war, recession and all that fun stuff. It felt like the country was being sucked into a black hole.

My favorite past decade would have to be the 90s, but I think the 2010s is shaping up to be a really good period. The fashion has improved dramatically- clothes are much more tailored and clean looking, but still experimental and fun. The music I think has improved a lot, pop music is getting back to its roots, with the autotune/electro fad finally behind us. This decade has given us so many great artists with amazing talent and television is infinitely better. Amazing scripted TV is back after a long absence and the cable channels and netflix do it way better than network TV ever could. And of course politically, things aint perfect but it feels like we're in a new progressive era which I like

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

20s, 60s, 70s. The 80s were a great time for politics but outside of that, they were awful. My dad built our house in the early 1990s and it looked like a set from Miami Vice until my parents replaced the tile and redid the kitchen in 2010.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

50s, 60s and 70s