Is there a hidden "mini-decade" between the 80s and 90s?
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« on: August 28, 2014, 09:02:46 PM »

I think Boris has pointed out before that there exists a period of time that's roughly equivalent to George HW Bush's term in office that includes the turn of the decade but doesn't properly fit in either one. This is also pretty highly regarded in pop culture by most people once you bring it up. I tend to agree.
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« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2014, 09:06:40 PM »

You could argue the same of the 67-72 period.  Neither the Sixties of the Andy Griffith show and the Civil Rights battles nor the gas-guzzling, polyester-wearing Seventies represent well the cult of flower children and war protesters in the summers of love.
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« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2014, 09:19:09 PM »

The late 80s/early 90s had an atrocious pop culture. Super sappy shows like Full House. Enormous hair full of hairspray and mousse. Acid washed jeans.
As for music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1W6-ErrHls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4gsveUHgw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=149jGeIlx3I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbIEwIwYz-c
Most of things we think of today as stereotypical 80s are really from this period.
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« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2014, 09:22:36 PM »

There was a cultural period, perhaps best encapsulated through MC Hammer's trousers, which fits with what you are talking about, from around 87-93. Likewise what we know perceive as the "60s" is essentially the period Angus describes, before that it was what one might call, for a lack of a better term, the "Mad Men era".

But the loud track suit comes to mind when thinking of that perioid.
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« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2014, 11:13:14 PM »

For the record, I also think this is the case for the late 2000s and early Teens.
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« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2014, 07:45:51 AM »

Yes. I know exactly what you're talking about because it was when I had my first memories.

The "Major Dad" era, I call it. (Major Dad aired on CBS from 1989-1993, the exact time-frame George H.W. Bush was President)
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« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2014, 08:51:44 AM »

Eras aren't decades and cultural markers don't fit within parameters like decades.

... I wasn't aware this was news.
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« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2014, 12:12:49 PM »

The late 80s/early 90s had an atrocious pop culture. Super sappy shows like Full House. Enormous hair full of hairspray and mousse. Acid washed jeans.
As for music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1W6-ErrHls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4gsveUHgw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=149jGeIlx3I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbIEwIwYz-c
Most of things we think of today as stereotypical 80s are really from this period.

It's interesting since I think of the 80's in terms of the first half of the decade. The double dip international recession, Reaganism and Thatcherism, the Beirut bombing and Grenada invasion were the big international drivers. Culturally it was the birth of the PC, Mac and music videos, with the New Wave as the dominant music sound, and Star Wars sequels and Indiana Jones redefining blockbuster movies and their spinoffs.
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« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2014, 02:28:58 PM »

Eras aren't decades and cultural markers don't fit within parameters like decades.

... I wasn't aware this was news.

Polnut is the only person here talking sense.
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