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Cool....nice to something from my favorite era made it past 1990.
Cosby Show also went to 1992 and that was another long running 80's show starting in 1984.
I agree with what you said up above though about the era ending pretty much when the decade ended. I guess you could say even the early 90's had it's own flavor, many things that were popular and in the early 90's changed considerably by the mid 90's. The whole decade to me though was very different from the 80's.
Cosby Show also went to 1992 and that was another long running 80's show starting in 1984.
I agree with what you said up above though about the era ending pretty much when the decade ended. I guess you could say even the early 90's had it's own flavor, many things that were popular and in the early 90's changed considerably by the mid 90's. The whole decade to me though was very different from the 80's.
At the beginning of the 80's shows like A-Team and Dukes of Hazzard which then were out by the mid 80's as shows like Miami Vice and Moonlighting came on and at the end of the 80's shows like Hunter and 21 Jump Street had come onto the scene.
Even Glam rock of the early 80's like Twisted Sister and Quite Riot were out by the late 80's as of groups like Metallica and Slaughter had replaced them then.
Though the early 90s had its own flavor, the real true break from the 80s came in 1993. That year saw the end of the Reagan/Bush years, the beginning of the clintons, the rise of the internet, Seinfeld, Alternative Rock and everything else that we associate with the 90s
So the eighties began to end in 1990, but the 90's truly began in 1993. Just my two cents
Alot of things we associate with the 90s began happening in 91 or 92. The music and style changed. The economic prosperity of the 80s was over. The Soviet Union was done. Clinton was on his way into office.
I guess it varies a little for everyone.
True. I'd say of the 1990s years, only 1990 itself is pretty un-90s. Musically in 1991 you had TLC, Boys II Men and Mariah Carey was already well-established, though as it was totally pre-Internet and technology it was 80s in that sense.
1993. 1990-1992 were just an extension of the '80s in my opinion. Even the music was mostly the same style, except you did start to have some "euro dance" creep on the scene in 1992 and rap was starting to emerge, which was pretty much absent from the mainstream in the 1980s. In 1993, Bill Clinton took office and there was a dramatic cultural shift from the conservative 1980s to the liberal 1990s. You saw it everywhere, from music, to TV shows, to movies.
Not to parakeet, but I suppose 93 could make a good case for the being the year the 90's really broke away from the 80's. However, many subcultures had already progressed moreless before that. But in general, yea 93 is good.
I agree that the 80's really started with the launch of MTV in 1981 as Music Television really transformed the ''Stoned 70's'' decade to the ''Party Time 80's'' decade as this really gave the 80's their Music and Cultural idenity. Although i do believe you could go back a tad further into the late 70's as some of the earliest 80's New Wave before MTV was groups like Blondie, The B-52's and Gary Numan. Even Country Western music changed from it's 60's/70's Honky Tonk style to a more 80's hip feel to it with the movie Urban Cowboy launching it in 1980.
Also the 70's icons like Pinball Machines were replaced by the new electronic Video Games in 1980 like Pac Man, Space Invaders and Asteroids etc..and the 70's toy ''The Slinky'' was replaced by the 80's toy the ''Rubiks Cube''.
Interesting that the 1980's and the 1920's although 60 years apart were very simular to each other.
Also the 70's icons like Pinball Machines were replaced by the new electronic Video Games in 1980 like Pac Man, Space Invaders and Asteroids etc..
And then in 1988 we saw the introduction of Nintendo, which was "one small step for man".
I'd also like to add that the cars changed dramatically in the 80's as well, they went from the rear drive carburated tanks of the 70's to front drive smaller cars with computers and fuel injection. I remember many cars in the 80's had digital gauges, back then that was like space age. LOL
It's ridiculous to lump things together this way. The truth is that change is linear, and major trends tend to overlap one another with little regard for the arbitrary ten year periods we assign. Sure, sometimes there are major changes that hapen quickly (i.e. the 1960s) followed by periods of stagnation. But these periods rarely line up evenly with our arbitrary decade structure.
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