When did American Culture peak?

[Kory]

As the sun comes up over The Who at Woodstock (1969)? Shaggy's Angel (2000)? Thriller (1982)? The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)? Purple Rain (1984)?

Doesn't have to be music.

 

[mako1331]

I mean my answer is obvious. I have a poster of it up in my classroom.

 

[OldGouldandBlack]

Steely Dan - Aja.

Actually, the making of Steely Dan - Aja, Classic Album series.

 

[Kory]

Steely Dan - Aja.

i can get behind this

 

[deacdiggler]

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

a pink floyd album??

 

[Kory]

just anticipating my owg audience mr juice

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

shooting from the hip, somewhere post-Civil Rights Act of 1964, pre-Nixon era Vietnam paranoia

tight window in there and the culture was still probably worse for non-white folks than now, but I can't pick anything in the last 50 years and I can't pick anything Jim Crow or before

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

just anticipating my owg audience mr juice

british people??

 

[BeachBumDeac]

Original Cast Album: “Company” - The Criterion Channel

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1970 • United States Starring Stephen Sondheim, Elaine Stritch, Donna McKechnie This legendary, long-unavailable documentary from Direct Cinema pioneer D. A. Pennebaker captures the behind-the-scenes drama that went into the making of a classic Broadway recording. ...

www.criterionchannel.com

the documentary about the recording of the original cast album of Company is the peak of American culture

 

[ConnorEl]

 

[ImTheCaptain]

of course a millennial would pick boomer shit as the peak of culture b/c that's what boomers have been telling us for fucking ever

 

[Kory]

british people??

lol an album recorded in one country can have a pretty substantial cultural impact in another man idk

 

[BarcaDeac]

lol an album recorded in one country can have a pretty substantial cultural impact in another man idk

to wit, The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show has to be in the conversation

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

lol an album recorded in one country can have a pretty substantial cultural impact in another man idk

but it cannot be the other country's cultural peak

 

[Kory]

i mean there's no such thing as a peak so it can really be whatever you want it to be tbh

 

[Kory]

i love cultural totalitarian juice tho

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

you could make a case for the mid-90s

music: wrapping up east coast/west hype and outkast and jay-z and nas were emerging and you had grunge and 3EB-type pop making waves and pop country was tolerable and the indie scene was strong

literature was pretty good

economy was humming

movies: sweet movies like Heat and Lion King and Shawshank and Tarrantino and David Fincher and Spike Lee and love jones

sports: Jordan Bulls and the Yankees and the cowboys and college basketball was sweet

kind of an emergence from the regan neoliberalism (culturally, in a way, i guess) and berlin wall was down and computers were exciting but not yet excessively intrusive

 

[TownieDeac]

I reject the question, though I think a strong, active counterculture is reflective of a thinking people.

Monoculture is an insidious, very real threat imo.

 

[deacdiggler]

if a lot of arguing reflects a peak i'd say we're there