question about each decade

[freepcrusher]

was it frontloaded or backloaded?

I wasn't alive then but I think the 70s were frontloaded. The 70s started firing on all cylinders and then petered out. Like look at Led Zeppelin releasing a solid album almost every year and then after Presence ... nothing for three years and then followed up by the weak "In through the out door". Same thing with the eagles. A new album every year and then a three year hiatus before "The Long Run" which basically has no remnants of the sound that made them popular (the Take It Easy, Lying Eyes sound).

The 60s on the other hand or what people think of the 60s were probably more backloaded.

80s were probably evenly distributed but I see the most stereotypical 80s stuff in the late 80s (the obnoxious hairstyles, crack cocaine, the worst music etc).

90s were probably slightly frontloaded with grunge being the most popular from 91 to about 94.

50s were definitely backloaded - the Buddy Holly, Elvis, drive-in culture probably didn't take hold until about 1955 or 1956. The early part of the decade was more like the 40s with Perry Como and that type of music.

[dead0man]

It's all determined by what your personal tastes are.  Punk and disco were big in the late 70s.  Nothing good came out of the 80s.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Cultural decades are completely artificial.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

If you load them politically the 2 last one been loaded quite in time.

Ben Laden started the 2000s, and Tunisia the 2010s.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I would argue that the early 60s were basically a continuation of the 50s--most of what we think of as "the 60s" (hippies, counterculture, hard rock, etc.) didn't start until the second half of the decade.  To be sure, the seeds were planted much earlier, but the results didn't come around until that time.

[Ban my account ffs!]

The 2000s?  Bi-Polar with Sept. 11th and then the Great Recession

1990s:  Early loaded.  Gulf War, Soviet Union collapse, Bosnian war

1980s:  I'd say they were more early loaded with the Iranian hostage crisis, Reagan's election, stagflation

1970s:  Definitely late loaded... Big changes early on behind the scenes boiled onto the surface later.  It seems 1973 was an extremely pivotal year and kinda marked a change in eras for the U.S.

1960s:  Kinda bipolar with the Cuban Missile Crisis and then Vietnam later on.. but like the 00s it had a big focal shock early, then a more drawn out and ultimately bigger one later on.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

1980s:  I'd say they were more early loaded with the Iranian hostage crisis Revolution

[/sorry for not being American centered]

[Ban my account ffs!]

1980s:  I'd say they were more early loaded with the Iranian hostage crisis Revolution

[/sorry for not being American centered]

Says the guy who thinks Tunisia was the defining event of the 2010s.

[/sorry for not being Francocentric]

As for the Iranian Revolution...it was the hostage crisis that had an outsized impact on the American outlook on the revolution and also impacted our presidential election greatly.  Besides...the revolution was a 70s event.  The hostage crisis had an outsized impact at the beginning of the 80s.

[RINO Tom]

It's all determined by what your personal tastes are.  Punk and disco were big in the late 70s.  Nothing good came out of the 80s.

What a ridiculous statement.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

1930s- Frontloaded with the Great Depression.
1940s- Frontloaded with WWII.
1950s- Somewhat backloaded; the original post describes it well.
1960s- Definitely backloaded; see my previous post.
1970s- Somewhat backloaded, unless you include the counterculture as part of both the 60s and 70s, in which case it would be even.  In general, I'd say it was about even.

1980s- About even.  Again, see original post.
1990s- About even
2000s- About even, but maybe somewhat backloaded if you go by music and fashion.
2010s- Frontloaded, definitely; the fashion and music of the decade so far has basically been a continuation of the late 2000s.