Some people act like it's such a dark age in music but I think it has some of the greatest songs ever.

I don't know if the late '70s are underrated but 1976-1979 is my favorite part of the 1970s. 1976-1979 was great, to me, because of the fashion, music, movies and non-cartoon TV shows. Yes, in the US, the politics of 1976-1979 sucked a lot but it wasn't as bad as the Watergate era of 1972-1974.

I'd say the late 80's/bush '41 era (1988-1991) was more underrated. Most people feel as though the pop culture of the previous years defined the 80's much more and pay less attention to this part of the decade.

I'd say the late 80's/bush '41 era (1988-1991) was more underrated. Most people feel as though the pop culture of the previous years defined the 80's much more and pay less attention to this part of the decade.

The late '80s and early '90s (1987-1993) is personally my favorite time period. Those years are definitely underrated.

If you really want to know what the late 70s were like, listen to the "Some Girls" album by the Rolling Stones, released in 1978. Somehow they managed too capture the entire zeitgeist of the era...disco, punk, the glittery decay and decadence of late 70s New York, in one glorious, cohesive masterpiece of an album. I don't know how they did it but they did. It OOZES the late 70s. Mind you, by today's rigidly politically correct standards some of the lyrics may be considered offensive to some. The album is not for the easily offended or the thin skinned. But neither were the late 70s. 

Do you mean 1987-1989 as the literal late 80s, or do you think that is culturally the late 80's?

I meant just like I said....the late 1980s (1987-1989) AND early 1990s (1990-1993)....so you combine those together and get 1987-1993. I especially like the core Bush 41 years of 1989-1991.

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I believe that the late 70's gets a bad rap. People just look at it like 'the disco era'. But there was more to it than that!

I believe that the late 70's gets a bad rap. People just look at it like 'the disco era'. But there was more to it than that!


You bet there was more to it than that. As someone who was there, I can tell you there was kind of an openness, an intangible feeling of freedom, a fresh wind blowing, but in many ways it was also a time of great apathy. Everyone was so battle fatigued from the Vietnam War which staggered to it's final conclusion in 1975 (I consider 1975 it's own era, neither part of the cultural early or late 70s). It's as if many of the ideals and dreams fought for in the 60s indeed came true for a very short while but everyone was too busy numbing themselves in discos (or with disco music or apathy) to even notice. Then the cultural 80s swooped in in the blink of an eye in early 1981 and the pendulum swung to conservative mode immediately and suddenly it was like being back in the 50s. Even "new wave" fashions were a 50s throwback. Skinny ties, etc.

They called it the "malaise era" for a reason.  :-\\

You bet there was more to it than that. As someone who was there, I can tell you there was kind of an openness, an intangible feeling of freedom, a fresh wind blowing, but in many ways it was also a time of great apathy. Everyone was so battle fatigued from the Vietnam War which staggered to it's final conclusion in 1975 (I consider 1975 it's own era, neither part of the cultural early or late 70s). It's as if many of the ideals and dreams fought for in the 60s indeed came true for a very short while but everyone was too busy numbing themselves in discos (or with disco music or apathy) to even notice. Then the cultural 80s swooped in in the blink of an eye in early 1981 and the pendulum swung to conservative mode immediately and suddenly it was like being back in the 50s. Even "new wave" fashions were a 50s throwback. Skinny ties, etc.


Explains why from 1981 to 1992, we tipped towards the Right a little bit more.

If you really want to know what the late 70s were like, listen to the "Some Girls" album by the Rolling Stones, released in 1978. Somehow they managed too capture the entire zeitgeist of the era...disco, punk, the glittery decay and decadence of late 70s New York, in one glorious, cohesive masterpiece of an album. I don't know how they did it but they did. It OOZES the late 70s. Mind you, by today's rigidly politically correct standards some of the lyrics may be considered offensive to some. The album is not for the easily offended or the thin skinned. But neither were the late 70s.


I'm especially thinking of that song Shattered, they're singing about New York City and it's danger, crime and griminess.