Face It, The 90s Ruled

[Yavin4]

Fantastic economy, the emergence of independent films and filmmakers, great music, great clothes, making headway against AIDs, the end of the crack epidemic, and Clinton was president.

[Guava Jelly]

1. I'll second that

I loved 90's alternative music! still do.
Sublime nirvana Tons of other great music

[miss_american_pie]

2. The clothes?

Doc's and flannels are not great clothes.

[GirlinContempt]

10. Don't forget snap pants

mini-backpacks, and the blossom hat

[Droopy]

3. Yeah, I guess that was a pretty good decade

Unfortunately, my head was orbiting earth the whole time so I didn't really notice.

[xmas74]

4. Class of '93.

I think you forgot about the growth of meth use in the 90's, along w/ the resurgence of heroin. Hep C started to get some decent attention and Britney Spears released her first single.

There is something crappy about every decade or did you forget.

[Deja Q]

5. NAFTA, DOMA, DMCA, 1996 telecom act, COPA.......

But he did balance the budget and seemed genuine about trying to accomplish world peace. :D

[Benfea]

6. And best of all: very little hippy music on the radio!

Unless you count the "classic rock" stations. Meh.

[GirlinContempt]

7. Oh yeah, Positive K, Bryan Adams, Boyz II Men, Kris Kross,

Hootie and the Blowfish.... Need I go on....

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Oh man, Hootie and the Blowfish kicked ass!

[GirlinContempt]

13. And, who could forget The Rembrandts

[ghostsofgiants]

14. They're still there for me.

[GirlinContempt]

16. Everybody hurts.....

sometime

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. Bryan Adams?

I was an 80s child (82-90 for high school and college) and I thought he was my decade.

[GirlinContempt]

17. Yeah, watch Robin Hood again

[Pacifist Patriot]

18. I'll be damned. That was '91???

[GirlinContempt]

19. Oh boy was it ever

:scared:

[xmas74]

23. The 80's was when he had some self respect.

You forgot about Robin Hood in the 90's. He lost it there.

[Left Is Write]

25. Yes, but that was during his good music years.

Before he turned into Michael Bolton.

[Pacifist Patriot]

37. *shudder*

[xmas74]

22. You beat me to that one.

I focused on the growing meth craze instead.

[no name no slogan]

31. ROFL!!!

GREAT musicians all! :rofl:
Yeah those 90s ROCKED.

Oh shit, almost forgot: the 90s gave us "Nu Metal". Which is basically like the old shitty metal, but a couple keys lower, and without any songs about shagging (only decapitated elves).

[elshiva]

8. Neil Young's Ragged Glory was from the 90s right?

Great album.

[nutsnberries]

40. you never know when&where Neil will turn up.

:)

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

9. I miss the 90's

for all the reasons you listed in the OP. :cry:


LOVED the grunge music scene!!!

[Ariana Celeste]

38. Same here

I got choked up today looking at pictures of Layne Staley and Shannon Hoon. :cry:

:hi: If you were/are into Blind Melon, I found a great fan site for them today with a shit ton of pics and all their lyrics. Let me know if you're interested. :)

[TK421]

11. Of that list, Clinton being president was the most positive to me...

But I thought the rest of it was shit....especially the music. EVERY band on the radio sounded like Hootie and the Blowfish ( complete with whiny lead vocalist ) plus, I was nearing the end of high school...the most miserable time of my life. But it did have some high points ( such as experimentation with just about every drug except heroin ) along with my brother.

[Goblinmonger]

20. Think you have a typo

It's spelled D-R-O-O-L-E-D

Clinton was good.

[tuvor]

21. You forgot The Bodyguard soundtrack

And Vanilla Ice, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, New Kids on the Block, Color Me Badd, Dino, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, Celine Dion...

[xmas74]

24. New Kids was more 80's.

I graduated in '93.

I'll diss the 90's as much as the next person but we must leave NKOTB to the 80's.

[tuvor]

28. Their first couple albums was in the 80s. The rest in the 90s

And the 90s was when they were the hugest.

You may have graduated in '93, but I sold TONS of that shit to little girls at HMV. In the 90s.

Sorry, man, they're YOURS. :evilgrin:

[xmas74]

30. You can keep them.

I took my kid brother to their concert in 1989-not by choice.

By 1990 nearly everyone I knew wore "New Kids Suck" tshirts.

And little girls don't count. They don't know what the fuck to buy in the first place!

[Left Is Write]

32. They were hugest in the 80s, if you go by chart hits.

They had seven Top 10 Billboard hits in the 80s, including two #1 hits and a #2.

They had four Top 10 Billboard hits in the 90s, with one #1 and no others peaking higher than #7.

[tuvor]

34. Maybe it's a Canadian thing.

They just weren't huge here until 1989 at the earliest. Too busy fixatin' on Milli Vanilli, I guess.

[Left Is Write]

41. Oh, that could be.

I don't have any info on their Canadian successes.

[no name no slogan]

35. I didn't much care for that Marky Mark (grabbing his dinger like that)

but that Funky Bunch-- hot damn!

[GirlinContempt]

36. !!!!!!!!!

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[no name no slogan]

26. The 90s blew goats

The economy was GREAT-- if you were already rich or middle-class. The gap between the rich and poor grew more during the 90s than it did during the 80s.

Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we'd had since Eisenhower. He brought us welfare "reform", the Defense of Marriage Act, and tried to corporatize ALL health care in the nation. Not to mention the bombing of civilian targets in Serbia, the bombing of a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, and the use of Depleted Uranium in the Balkans. And he couldn't keep his dick in his pants long enough to avoid the microscopic detail of the GOP smear machine.

Compared to Dubya, he may be inspired-- but compared to other Democrats, he's lacking.

90s music and clothers were utter shite. A sorry retread of everything that came before it. The 70s and 80s may have been the "me" decade, but the 90s were the "re" decade.

The 90s ate ass. :P

[GirlinContempt]

27. Wanna come home with me?

You can bring her along too!

[no name no slogan]

29. oooooo, we'd BOTH like that!

With any luck, we'll be way up in northern MN this summer-- up by Red Lake, where those school shootings were last year (my dad's family are from around there). IIRC Winnipeg is probably closer than Minneapolis is from there-- who knows, maybe we can swing up that way! :hi:

[GirlinContempt]

33. oooooo! Please do!

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

42. Oh snap!

[LSdemocrat]

39. I was 10-19 years old in the 1990's and I thought the music sucked

There was grunge, 100% commercial boy bands, not a single good pop artist emerged (I mean Jewel, Alanis Morissette, Will Smith, etc. were "stars", and don't get me started on the lousy one-hit wonders), the emergence of gangsta rap, and by the end of the decade there was this sort of amorphous lite/soft rock alternative crap music (think Third Eye Blind) that developed. If all of that crap disappeared I really don't think society would be any worse off.