What was your favorite decade to be alive in? Let's have a blast from the past!  

I loved the years 1956-1960"sthose were the days ...I loved all the music back then and still listen to that music..I liked Chuck Berry(Big bopper) Little richard,Staggerlee,Brown eyed handsome man,I love the oldies.....I also named my first daughter "Rhonda" not because of the song but i do believe it was a popular name back then...I remember the big hair,all teased up,bobbie socks and jeans rolled up...I just love to reminise about the good old days..Also Tv was better back then...Oh and the gathered shirts with the petty coats all starched and man I could go on and on....I have gotta give you a BIG PLUS on this discussion,I have really enjoyed this.Thanks so much for bringing back a few old memories( Remember SPLISH SPLASH I WAS TAKING A BATH?????

I also am a Gen X'er being born in 1954. Loved all the 50's & 60's music. Now as far as the decade I most liked. It has to be the 70's. For many great reasons & many bad ones as well. I used to love all the great CHEAP outdoor concerts. I had seen so many top rockers. Hendrix The Stones Joplin many many others. I loved the hippie tyupe of life. To this day I'm still kinda hiipie. I finally cut my hair though. Now my 29 yr old daughter says I need to grow it back. I loved the carefree worryfree attitude of the 70's. I loved the drugs of that era. This is where the bad reasons come in. DOHHH!!! I had been to Haite/Ashbury a lot. Lots of windowpane etc. LSD was the other reason. Ive been sober almost 16 yrs now Thank God. Anyhow the 70s were awesome for me.
many many other things to type & no time right now. AWESOME discussion. Thanks again.
Happy postings from Grandpa Bob

Well by your account it seems you have really had good years in life. As far as I am concerned I am 42 years of age, and feel that is better is yet to come but when I go back then I feel my best years also started after my divorce that was in 1992. From 1992 to 2000 was the best time , I became independent and made good friends and enjoyed a lot.

Oh Misty, you must love those time-life infomercials for the music...like the Malt shop one...music from the 50's and 60's. I was up last night flipping channels looking for thise infomercials.

In fact today, I went on ebay to see how much those CDs were going for...excuse me, they are going for the same pices as ordering them new...what is up with that?

I love the big band music...if you ever get down to the Hudson Valley, check out west point, on Sunday night, they have free concerts...the Jazz nights are totally awesome.
Watch the free concert schedules for concerts in the park by you..I know they travel a lot.

Disco Duck is making a comeback and I guess is very popular at kids birthday parties today, so if you get a chance to go to a kids party, u might hear disco duck.

I think music went down hill in the 80's and still has not recovered. Some of it is pretty good..but nothing like the 50's and 60's.

I'm 57 and just watched a show on the second world war.

I'm just as glad I was born after it and not during it. They were pretty unsettled times and I think our generation was really lucky. Think about it. We avoided the second world war, Korea, Vietnam and the war going on right now.

I think we were born at the best possible time.

I'm 5 years behind you misty but i could've written your post. remember flouro socks and surfies and bodgies and widgies? Was it op-art or pop-art?...those B I G plastic, brightly coloured earings and plastic platform shoes. I loved the tie dyed clothes and vests and beads and jc sandals. I was stunned when I got the ok to buy a pair of jeans...I headed straight to the men's dept...they weren't in the women's fashions, then tried to hide the fly from my 'olds' every time I wore them. I had a bikini too which a good christian girl shouldn't wear. Nothing was ever said even tho my 2 pce would be washed and hanging on the line on Sundays after my trip to the beach where Mum and Dad could see it when they were coming home from their day of tennis.
I was so deceitful...lol
I had the White Album and Cream and Petula Clarke and Dusty Springfield. I was not allowed to listen to the B
Beatles. It was a great time for me ...shame my olds spoiled it so much.

In my case, the best decade that I want to live in is the seventies. This is because of the time when I had my childhood. I really had so much fun during the seventies. The music of the motown was my favorites, as well as the Jackson Five and the Beatles. This was also the decade when the anime cartoons became a hit among us kids. The seventies was very simple but a very exciting time also.

you have the same age with my mother.
my mother got married at the age of 18, and have me when she was 19.
she told me that she had a hard time being a mother.
but she had fun when she was a single.

i woul dprefer to grow up in the 80's. they were wonderful years in which most things were clear, leser pollution, little modernisation and simplicity was not so uncommon, people were jsut so nice. i was a kid then and i wish i could be aliving in those years...

im 45 now and for me the best decade was the 1970's. It was still a decade of inocence, with some great music. However, it was also the decade of my teenage years and i think this had a lot to do with my memmories. I was 15 in the summer of 1976, in the UK this was the hottest summer for over 50 years. I can still feel the joy of having six weeks off school in the hottest summer that anyone could remember
truely a magical time, blessed be