You're a 90's kid if: You can finish this [ice ice _ _ _ _ ] You remember watching: -Doug -Ren & Stimpy -Pinky and the Brain -AAAAAAAH Real Monsters! -Rockos modern Life. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!" You just cant resist finishing this . . . "Iiiiiiin west philidelphia born and raised . . ." You remember: -TGIF -Step by Step -Family Matters -Dinosaurs -Boy Meets World. You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons. You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school. You remember reading "Goosebumps" You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence . . . not when everyhting was settled by: -rock paper scissors or -bubble gum bubble gum in a dish or -daddy had a donkey inky binky bonky. when cops and robbers was a daily activity. when we played Hide and go seek until our legs grew numb. when we used to obey our parents You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your FAVORITE song of ALL time. "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" was both a game and a TV game show. Captain Planet. He's a Hero. You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the white ranger, were meant to be together. You remember when Super Nintendos and Sega Genisis became popular. You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . . but never taped anything funny. You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3 . . . and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders" You remember watching: -The Magic School Bus -Wishbone -Reading Rainbow on PBS. You remember when Yo-Yos were cool. You remember those Where's Waldo books. You remember eating Warheads. You remember watching: -the 1st Batman -Aladdin -Ninja Turtles -3 Ninjas movies. You remember Ring Pops. You remember drinking Surge, and Tang. Oh, oh, oh! and JOSTA!!! If you remember when every thing was "da BOMB!" When they made the new lunchables so that you could make pizza AND tacos. You remember boom boxes vs. cd players. Making those little paper fortune cookie things, and then predicting your life with them. You played and/or collected "Pogs" You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet, or Nano and brought it everywhere. . . . Furbies (yes, we hated them THEN, too). You haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet. And Windows 95 was the best. You watched the original cartoons of Rugrats, Power Rangers, and Ninja Turtles. Michael Jordan was a king. YIKES pencils and erasers were the stuff! All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand. You remember when the new Beanie Babies and Talking Elmo were always sold out. You collected those Beanie Babies. Carebears Gak was the coolest stuff invented. Lambchop's song never ended. The old dollar bills. Silver dollars, which were cool to have. You remember a time before the WB. You collected all the Troll dolls If you even know what an original walkman is. You remember wanting to sit on the orange Nickelodeon couch. You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" You know the Macarena by heart. "Talk to the hand" . . . enough said You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!" You went to McDonald's to play in the playplace. You remember playing on merry go rounds at the playground. Before the MySpace frenzy . . . Before the Internet & text messaging . . . Before Sidekicks & iPods . . . Before MIKE JONES . . . Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . . Before Spongebob . . . Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night. When light up sneakers were cool. When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs. When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing. When we recorded stuff on VCRs. When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkman. When checking out drawing books and that one book about the rainbow fish from the library was THE cool thing to do. You had slap bracelets!
Good news to you 90's music fans. Pumpkins are officially (like for real/sort of) back together and if you happen to be in Paris on May 22nd, you can see them live. Didn't think this was worth starting a new thread for since it's been rumored for quite a while now. Haven't seen any word about crackhead D'arcy or James Iha though. http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=dfa8632e-65eb-48d4-959f-6ea9abe0b030 To get you in the mood... <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TtOi_5Hob-Q"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TtOi_5Hob-Q" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
Urge Overkill was a bit of a gimmicky band, but I got hooked on the Saturation album for a while anyway. Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball is a great album, and it’s not country either. It was a collaboration between her and Daniel Lanois and it’s one of my all time favourites. There is a lot of good stuff from the 90s, but you have to get off the beaten path a bit and get into the indie world. Sloan’s One Chord to Another is a good example of a very good 90s indie album.
Famicom, that was awesome. I smiled a related to every single detail. Thanks a lot for bringing back some great memories. BTW I freakin LOVED JOSTA!!!
imo the defining pop song of the 90's was "better off alone" by alice deejay. retrospectively the most interesting sounds were felix da housecat, the emerging electro-clash genre, and the prodigy. personally i enjoyed the re-release of the galaxie 500 albums on cd. in a way spiritualized were just a boring version of spacemen 3, ie without sonic boom doing his thing. stereolab weren't that different to pizzicato five a decade earlier.
Randomly going through YouTube and this video came on been a minute since I heard it I think they came to TAMU once . . . Rocket River
Anyone like Self? The buzz hardly played them and my parents got pissed that I would use long distance rates to request Cannon, so I could tape it? That is a pretty 90s sentence right there.
I disagree. There was a ton of mainstream stuff that was decent to great. Much better than today, 80's, or 2000's. Mainstream hip hop was better than the 80's and before the crap came out from no limit and master P. The Seattle stuff was good. They were all talented. I forget where I heard the comparison about those guys versus California bands. California teenagers were outside surfing or skateboarding while the guys from the northwest were inside practicing while it rained. It was also before MTV went the way they did and music still mattered. After that it didn't anymore and it was all about looks and pop music. By that point the vast majority of anything worth listening to was underground or indie as you said.
Reading this list is a bit of a mind****. Not because of the nostalgia and memories of the 90's, but because how antiquated it has become in just a decade. This references things we feel are so old as new. Ps2 vs Xbox Dvd's iPods MySpace Now it's: PS4 vs Xboxone Blurays are basically dying and it's 4K iPhones vs androids Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat Crazy how fast time moves. I remember being a kid in the mid 90's and thinking the 70's were so long ago. Turns out they were only 20 years earlier. Now the 90's are basically further away than the 70's were for me back then. It feels really weird. Also, I saw the other day CNN was releasing one of those decade specials. And it was about the 90's. Super crazy. I remember being a pre-teen and teenager when watching the ones about the 70's and 80's. And now they're on the 90's. Early 00's are coming up soon. It'll be 20 years since the new millennium soon. Again, it feels really weird.
Haha, cracks me up this thread. 90's music but no rap. That's the greatest music that came out of the decade yet it was stricken. I wonder if Cypress Hill counts as rap?
I did not go through the whole thread again but yea. . .not HipHop is weird IT nearly defined the decade Rocket River
legendary 90s music. this is what music geeks were jammin. The very beginning of math rock. So far ahead of it's time it's ridiculous. This came out in 1995 the guitar layers, weird rythyms, and creative textures, all set the bar for what math rock is. EDIT: also the best rock drummer of the 90s in my opinion. damon che is a legend. He is the band leader. not ian williams the guitarist. Ian Williams later formed Battles. Damon Che is one of the best drummers in rock history. his drumming is wow
