The 60's: a decade of war, violent protest, love, rebellion, technological advancement, community. I suppose in essence every decade carries those traits with them - some more expressed than others - but the 60's just don't feel all that dated to me.
Their rock stars are still performing (sort of, damn Covid).
Their clothes are still on the shelves of every major retailer.
They're still making movies about the politics, scandals and music of the decade.
From time to time, when I listen to FM radio, I put on an old staple: KRTH 101.1. Growing up, this is where I went to hear "classic rock". Most recently when I've turned on that station, I hear Nirvana, Chili Peppers, and other 90s bands...... At first, this made me upset, "I want my golden oldies, where the hell is my "oldies" music?" I say out loud in my car to myself. It was only when I realized the fact that the 90s are to today, what the 60's were to the 90's, that I understand the change in their playlist. IT'S STILL THE OLDIES STATION, BUT THERE'S A NEW OLDIES IN TOWN!!
I remember years back, maybe 2006, my parents and I were moving my brother into his college apartment in a very college-centric town. While working together to pull a couch out of the bed of his pickup truck, the familiar sound of Jim Morrison's deep voice and Manzarek's organ flooded out from an open window of another apartment in the complex. It tripped (there's that 60's word again) my dad out as he recalled playing Doors albums regularly at his very own college apartment in the late 60s! "How is it possible that the very songs I listened to as a college kid, my own kid is now listening to in college?!?" He propounded.
Now here's another interesting comparison: The 1960s are to today, what the 1930's were to the 1990's. I may have only been a kid, but I don't remember a whole lot of 1930's culture playing a role in my childhood or even being referenced outside of a school lesson. I suppose they're The Lost Generation for a reason - a time filled with strife, struggle, desperation, and war; nothing too positive to sell to people as pop culture.
Now here's another interesting comparison: The 1960s are to today, what the 1930's were to the 1990's. I may have only been a kid, but I don't remember a whole lot of 1930's culture playing a role in my childhood or even being referenced outside of a school lesson. I suppose they're The Lost Generation for a reason - a time filled with strife, struggle, desperation, and war; nothing too positive to sell to people as pop culture.
