The most boring year of the 20th Century

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1909 is making the early running. I think 1902-1911 was generally a bit dull, then the world's greatest metaphor sank and everything got good.

― N., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1998.

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1987? I didn't really like it at the time and I still don't. It felt like a kind of hiatus between the 80s and 90s (the House upsurge of the following year representing the beginning of the 90s in a lot of ways).

― David Inglesfield, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The first 11 months of 1999.

― Graham, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but that's not a year. 1973 v 1925 FITE!

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1925 please. I refuse to have been born in the most boring year of the 20th century.

― Tom, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1973 may have been rubbish for rock music but it was excellent for reggae & soul and it had the oil crisis and Gravity's Rainbow and The Black Prince and Picasso dying and Britain joining the EEC and I WAS BORN.

― N., Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is why 1973 is a dark year in history, not a boring one. Nick's birth is a date we all mourn.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and ME!! in fact, the watergate trial started on the day I was born.

― chris, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"My Watergates are breaking"

― Jonnie, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jonnie, I salute you.

― chris, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and me! 1973 yay!

― misterjones, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1995 - DULLDULLDULLDULLDULL.

― Wyndham Earl, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

Hi,

I started documenting my music, movies and books by year. 1973 was an interesting one. Check it out at http://www.jahsonic.com/1973.html

Yours
Jan Geerinck
http://www.jahsonic.com

― Jan Geerinck, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder what Jan googled.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)

What's scary is it came up a YEAR TO THE DAY after the last post. Freaky.

My choice: 1985. Did anything besides LL, Rain Dogs, "Back to the Future" and Sega's "Hang-On" happen that year? (Yes I know popcult > geopolitics but I haven't taken civics in ages)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

'85 was Live Aid, man! yeah, you're right.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I second 1998. That was rubbish.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

1980 - what happened then? I was born, but not a lot happened that year.

― dog latin, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi,

I didn't google, I used the ILE search and searched on 1973.

Anyway, it is my conviction that in each year, there is quality, except for years of general upheaval, like the two world wars.

You know how every 5 years an energy goes to a different place in music? It doesn't mean that rock `n' roll isn't happening or it's not continually going on but there's a different focus. Sometimes it's in avant garde music, sometimes it's in jazz, sometimes it's in rock. Rhys Chatham

Yours
Jan
http://www.jahsonic.com/1985.html

― Jan Geerinck, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Um yeah, a sleazy ugly intern's story about fellating the president explodes, the president is impeached, first time in one hundred and forty some years? - '98, boring??? Surely a lot of bad things about that year can be said, but boring/uneventful isnt one of them

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

General upheaval = good thing.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi all,

Has anynone seen this feature in allmusic.com?

Best albums by year? http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=E1973

Yours
Jan

― Jan Geerinck, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

Computer identifies the most boring day in history

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 15:58 (fourteen years ago)

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