Why was everything in the 1970's so hideous and awful?

[Meat Target]

Seriously, why was everything from that decade so fugly?

• Color schemes of orange, brown, yellow, and puke green
• Bell bottoms
• Nuthugger shorts
• Afros
• Coke bottle glasses
• Paisley
• Leisure suits
• Disco
• Shag carpet
• Those greasy, poofy pompadours men styled their hair into (think Jim Jones)

Was kitsch somehow mandated by law?

 

[L50LasPak]

I dunno man you can't tell me the decade that gave us Dirty Harry was all bad.

 

[Slappy McGherkin]

I wouldn't say 70's aesthetics were bad, they were just different as they've been every decade. Judging them by today's standards obviously makes them stand out. Trends change. Class of 1974 here. It was a great time to be alive. And you could boogie-woogie on down at the disco. People dressed up to go out. I never see any clubs with dancing these days or anybody even dressing up to go out on a Friday or Saturday night. Sports bars replaced discos and "fern bars" and meat markets. Man, I used to pull some tail at those places.

Oh, and don't forget mom's avocado, aqua or harvest gold kitchen and appliances.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Don't you dare shit talk wood grain.

 

[HullDown]

I couldn’t give a fuck how ugly anything was in the 1970s. If I could swap the current day cuntfuck hellhole dystopian nightmare, and instead live in the 1970s, then I’d gladly take ugly shag carpets. Hell, the carpets could be made from human shit for all I care.

The 1970s were the decade where people knew that Led Zeppelin were fucking underage groupies and excusing them as "they're a rock band, they are transgressive". Or Scorpions putting a naked 10 year old girl in a sexually suggestive pose as the cover of the "Virgin Killer" album. Or Bowie having sex with underage girls with the Rolling Stones. The time of Lori Mattix and Sable Starr.

Just saying, if you consider the 1970s the height of morality, you might want to have a seat over here.

 

[Idiot Doom Spiral]

The 1970s were the decade where people knew that Led Zeppelin were fucking underage groupies and excusing them as "they're a rock band, they are transgressive". Or Scorpions putting a naked 10 year old girl in a sexually suggestive pose as the cover of the "Virgin Killer" album. Or Bowie having sex with underage girls with the Rolling Stones. The time of Lori Mattix and Sable Starr.

Just saying, if you consider the 1970s the height of morality, you might want to have a seat over here.

I never suggested whatsoever that the 1970s were more ‘moral’ than current day. I think you need to read my post again.

I said I would much prefer experiencing life in that era than I would this. And a few supposed paedo-rockers have zero influence (or relevance) to my opinion.

 

[Dysnomia]

I read once that a lot of the ugly shades of brown, orange and green were a response to the more colorful decor of the 60s. They were trying to differentiate themselves via more earth tones. The ones they picked are just ugly by today's standards. In fact, they were ugly by the 80s. Which is why you saw so many hideous 70s pieces at thrift stores in the 80s. People couldn't wait to get rid of it.

We shopped a lot at the Salvation Army a lot when I was a kid and there were just so many 70s clothes thrown in the back. Had I been a little older and was psychic I could have bought that stuff and made a mint on it once the internet arrived.

The 1970s were the decade where people knew that Led Zeppelin were fucking underage groupies and excusing them as "they're a rock band, they are transgressive". Or Scorpions putting a naked 10 year old girl in a sexually suggestive pose as the cover of the "Virgin Killer" album. Or Bowie having sex with underage girls with the Rolling Stones. The time of Lori Mattix and Sable Starr.

Just saying, if you consider the 1970s the height of morality, you might want to have a seat over here.

To be fair we still have those now. Like Ian Watkins. A literal baby fucker.

But it seems like a simpler time compared to now in a lot of ways. But even the 90s do. Thanks Current Year.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I think the library at Arizona State University was built in the 1970s, and it can show with the odd architecture.

Also the animated series and the first movie of Star Trek were kind of wat.