Naming decades

[garote]

I was pondering the sudden lionization of Ronald Reagan that happened a couple years ago, and that got me thinking about the 80's in general. I remember how in the 90's, MTV spun up a video show where they played music videos produced exclusively in the 80's, and they called it "The Big 80's". The single adjective - "big" - seemed to fit very well, I thought. It was a decade of big hair, big shoulder pads, big business, global superpowers brandishing big weapons, and big servings of soda. The cultural zeitgeist was about making it big, in the corporate world or the entertainment world.

So then I thought: Why not come up with some other single-word descriptions for the other decades? Here's my rough list:

• The roaring 20's
• The dirty 30's
• The fightin' 40's
• The phony 50's
• The trippy 60's
• The sparkly 70's
• The big 80's
• The electric 90's
• The nerdy 00's
• The tricky 10's

Thoughts? Alternates?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I like the Nerdy Naughts, what with the Age of the Internet arriving and all.

It may be too early to tag the current decade. There's so much of it left and the
end of a decade tends to color it more than the the beginning.

For instance, people always think of the 60's as "trippy', but that was almost entirely in the second half.

[garote]

Yeah, I had a hard time with that one actually. I couldn't think of a single word that simultaneously captured the whole "youth in revolt" angle - which was aggressive just as often as laid back - and the general feeling of experimentation I get when reading about what went on, which covers political and technical experimentation as well as drug experimentation.

Perhaps a better one would be the "searching 60's". Or just the "experimental 60's".

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Further grist for the "Big '80s":

[garote]

OH HELL YA

[matrixmann]

Electric 90's - well, that's suitable.

For this decade currently I'd suggest a different name (in case no great change still is going to happen): The glittery 10's.
Just because this decade everyone in popular culture tries to be glittering. Everyone tries to be loud, strident and turn himself into a parrot in order to make someone look at him. Everyone's obsessed in presenting himself in glossy high definition while he literally does something trivial or tries to produce art but in fact he produces soulless goods for the masses of which nothing remains after the hype is over.