By: zarq
The Onion AV Club: Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation: Part 1: 1990: Once upon a time, I could love you. "New feature! Music writer Steven Hyden takes a year-by-year look at the rise, triumph,...
View ArticleBy: mippy
I was born in 1982, but none of this means a thing to me. We didn't have MTV, and I was only dimly aware of Kurt Cobain by the time he went - Richey Edwards is more of a touchstone for people I know,...
View ArticleBy: Hoopo
a series of slippery slopes until we had Limp Bizkit and the fucking ska bands i think you've stumbled upon the answer here. The author is embarassed by the 90s because she was into 90s ska.
View ArticleBy: Ahab
Nah. This flannel doesn't fit. The few years I spent as a nineties teenager I spent printing t-shirts, restoring Lambrettas, traveling around Australia, surfing and sailing all the way, eventually...
View ArticleBy: FatherDagon
Yeah, I'll also pick the 90s as the real heyday of goth/industrial music and clubs - the wave (hairline) has definitely receded a bit on that scene in the modern era. Finding decent new music of that...
View ArticleBy: kittens for breakfast
I'm going to largely ignore this article, because it's terrible and stupid. Sorry. I'm glad I don't know the writer; she sounds like a bitter, annoying person who is sad she spent a chunk of her youth...
View ArticleBy: Decani
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...just like every other decade wherein people lost their virginity and tried drugs for the first time. posted by The Card Cheat at 3:56 AM on January...
View ArticleBy: The ____ of Justice
"But I mourne for those for whome Pump Up The Volume will have no meaning..." Yeah, well, the main problems of some of our lives back then weren't necessarily those of a white male growing up in...
View ArticleBy: Navelgazer
This article sounds like it was written from somebody who watched "Reality Bites" or "Pump Up the Volume" See, and this is what is weird to me, because the writer's viewpoint is so dissimilar from my...
View ArticleBy: Twang
Surprise, quite a remarkable piece of writing. Even though her 90s has chunks of 60s, 70, 80s and Breakfast Club stuck its teeth.
View ArticleBy: Mael Oui
Oh, and you can't be a decade. And, even if you could be a decade, if you weren't alive for all ten years (and old enough to remember the entire decade), where do you get off generalizing it?
View ArticleBy: Mael Oui
I, too, was a 90s teen. I remember all of the supposedly bad stuff that this writer moans about. Looking back, there were definitely highs and lows to the decade.. kind of like.. oh, I don't know.....
View ArticleBy: Afroblanco
This article sounds like it was written from somebody who watched "Reality Bites" or "Pump Up the Volume" You know, it's funny, but I found myself thinking about "Pump Up the Volume" just the other day...
View ArticleBy: heurtebise
"Which typefaces look horrendously dated," When I read through this essay, I kept hallucinating that it was set in Template Gothic, scourge of pretentious 1990s CD covers, books, and half the crap that...
View ArticleBy: The Card Cheat
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...just like every other decade wherein people lost their virginity and tried drugs for the first time.
View ArticleBy: dubitable
35 year old here. Damn, this thread is so much better than the original article. Anyways, here's my story: I was like 17 or something when Nevermind came out. I was in love with Nirvana, but the thing...
View ArticleBy: jonmc
I dunno, some people never went through a Smiths phase . posted by Pope Guilty at 8:27 PM on January 28 *raises hand* Also, I was broke as hell during the 90's but I had a good time. The music was far...
View ArticleBy: malapropist
As a 25 year old, I'm only a few years older than the author but was right on the other side of the threshold from her. I barely remember the early 90s, but many a listless day was spent in the late...
View ArticleBy: The ____ of Justice
This article sounds like it was written from somebody who watched "Reality Bites" or "Pump Up the Volume" repeatedly and took those movies way too seriously.
View ArticleBy: Hoopo
Neil Young & Crazy Horse prolly disagree I remember King Buzzo of the Melvins saying something similar when they tried to call him "the Godfather of Grunge." My impression was most of the people...
View ArticleBy: schmod
Autotune did not exist Wrong. It's plagued us since 1997. People started misusing it as early as 1998, although that died down for a decade or so, because comparisons to Cher are every hip-hop...
View ArticleBy: FatherDagon
It was 1991 and I was wearing a pair of Jams. The Jams were neon pink with green triangles scattered like confetti across the legs. The Jams were about 6 years too late to be cool. The Jams were also...
View ArticleBy: Decani
I dunno, some people never went through a Smiths phase . posted by Pope Guilty at 8:27 PM on January 28 I hate Mitch Benn with a passion, but I have to admit, that was pretty fucking funny.
View ArticleBy: TooFewShoes
I'm a child of the 90s. Graduated from High School in 1998. I understood most of what the author was saying, but I disagree with a lot. I cared. I cared about a lot of things and people and I hung out...
View ArticleBy: Eideteker
if you can remember the 90s, you werent doing it right or was that the 60s i can never remember
View ArticleBy: jtron
The 90s were about Public Enemy and Negativland, even though both did huge swathes of their best work in the 80s. They were prophetic.
View ArticleBy: kurumi
The economy was expanding, the Iron Curtain was coming down, there was talk of a "peace dividend", Autotune did not exist, and the most evil person in the world was a scoundrel named Bill Gates.
View ArticleBy: Hoopo
Not being a teenager in the 90s also meant missing Michael Jordan's career On the bright side, you probably never wore a Starter jacket or Zubaz pants
View ArticleBy: AceRock
I always wanted to be a teenager of/in the 90s. I just missed out on the Golden Age of hip-hop. Nas's first album, Common's second album, De La Soul and Tribe's best years. Sure, I discovered them, but...
View ArticleBy: Decani
The nineties were awesome.The nineties were awesome. (Okay, that was 1989 but come on, so were the Pixies. Speaking of which...) The nineties were awesome.The nineties were awesome.The nineties were...
View ArticleBy: everichon
The Nineties were about foodservice, drugs, sex, and the Melvins. And Tad. And ShellacAnd Trip Hop and drum-n-bass
View ArticleBy: Liquidwolf
I've been waiting for someone to tell me what the 1990s were all about. I still don't know, I got bored after 2 paragraphs.
View ArticleBy: cereselle
The "in Florida" bit above referred to a mini-rant I deleted, about how I couldn't be cool because the 80s was all about the tan, and I was (and am) pale pale pale. In the 90s, that became an asset.
View ArticleBy: cereselle
Fuck the flannel hate. I loved flannel. Let me tell you why. I graduated high school in 1990, in Florida. I was a fat girl who couldn't wear tight dresses, miniskirts, or leggings as pants, or anything...
View ArticleBy: Joe Beese
how to look dated and '90s in graphic design The cooler something looks at the time, the more embarrassing it will look later. Exhibit A
View ArticleBy: Iridic
Music, bah! The big question: which title in the Bruce Coville's Book of... series was the best? I'm partial to Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares: Tales to Make You Scream, though you could make a...
View ArticleBy: Hoopo
Ooo! Also Ninja Tune, Mo Wax, and the Massive Attack/Portishead trip hop invasion was in the 90s, and awesome. And industrial met dub with Kevin Martin and Justin Broadrick, and electronic music got...
View ArticleBy: klangklangston
"Which typefaces look horrendously dated," You know, somewhere around my parents' house, there are old copies of Mondo 2000, Raygun and RIP, which are, like, a typographical primer on how to look dated...
View ArticleBy: callmejay
Talking about 90s music without mentioning Tupac and Dr. Dre is ridiculous, and I liked Nirvana and Pearl Jam. I mean I went to a 100% Jewish suburban school and Tupac and Dre were bigger than Nirvana...
View ArticleBy: schmod
The fact that we're having arguments about which 1990s music was the best seems to suggest that there was enough good music to go around for everybody. Similarly, most of what was musically done in the...
View ArticleBy: LMGM
I feel like a lot has already been said that I would've said, so I'll just +1 the folks who don't recognize anything of their adolescence in this essay.
View ArticleBy: Iridic
Except the internet's rapid adolescence...it seemed to reach maturation all of a sudden, like a clear sharp crack dividing 1999 from 2000, stranding those in their late twenties and early thirties on...
View ArticleBy: everichon
Didn't the nineties give us the Wild Bunch-- Tricky, Massive Attack, and all of that? FUCK YEAH.
View ArticleBy: hippybear
Brocktoon: yes, I wasn't trying to diminish any of those other bands. The comment I was responding to was someone who said that all the hype came from a single album, but it was really those three that...
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