All the decades are restless again, clamouring to earn top spot in my affections. I say all, but in truth the Seventies are too busy sorting tank tops and corduroy trousers into piles to get too involved (actually, in truth the decade of my infancy has no place in the cut throat world of decade ranking, but I don't want it getting a complex)
What to do, what to do? The random list could be of assistance here, indeed several random lists - the top 5 films, songs, tv shows and gadgets of each decade in direct combat. Once I see the evidence in front of me, then surely the answer will come.
Films
80s - Some Kind of Wonderful, The Breakfast Club, Airplane 2! The Sequel, Back to the Future, Amadeus
90s - Four Weddings and a Funeral, Silence of the Lambs, American Beauty, Dogma, Trainspotting
00s - Lord of the Rings trilogy, No Country for Old Men, Vantage Point, Coyote Ugly, Juno
Songs
80s - Personal Jesus, Killing Moon, Life In A Northern Town, Walls Come Tumbling Down, Open Your Heart
90s - Common People, Paranoid Android, On Your Own, Saturday Night, I am the Resurrection
00s - Music RIP 1997 - nothing worth listening to in the 00s (slightly pejorative)
TV
80s - Yes Minister, Edge of Darkness, Boys From the Black Stuff, Naked Video, Not the Nine O'Clock News
90s - Twin Peaks, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Red Dwarf, Our Friends In The North, This Life
00s - Heroes, West Wing, The Office, Family Guy, 24
Top 3 Gadgets
80s - Soda Stream, ZX Spectrum, Walkman
90s - Playstation, widespread Mobile Phone coverage, Cappucino maker
00s - IPod, Netbook, IPhone
So, there we have it, the noughties clearly kick ass on gadgetry but the 80s clean up on music, film and TV with the 90s nowhere on anything and trail in a poor third. Noughties take the silver despite failing to provide any music WHATSOEVER! The clear and indisputable top decade is, of course, the 80s!!
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