Do YOU miss tha 90's ? [Archive]

Pirate Utopian

24th July 2013, 21:08

Igor

24th July 2013, 21:11

it seems like some of the most fervent 90s nostalgists are the kind of people who are so young they really can't even remember 90s properly

like my age or even younger, i was born in 92 and don't remember enough for it to allow more than the most shallow and vague nostalgy

Comrade Jacob

24th July 2013, 21:12

The 90s won, but by your list "winning" doesn't mean much. :laugh:

The Garbage Disposal Unit

24th July 2013, 21:46

To be fair, 1D > BSB because 1D has way more homoerotic subtext.
I'd also say RVIVR > Latterman.

That said 90s Green Day > 00s Green Day.

Bostana

24th July 2013, 22:18

1. One-Belo VS. Very LiL Wayne
Fuck Rap

2. Jurassic5 VS. Far East Movement
Fuck Hip-Hop

3. Backstreet Boys VS. Jonas Brothers
Fuck Boy Bands

4. Lauryn Hill VS. Nik Minaji
Fuck Pop

5. Pete Rock VS. Kanye West
Fuck these dudes

90s won for every match up i thought of. How bout u ?
Fuck the 90s and 2000s

Il Medico

24th July 2013, 23:10

Like now everybody acts like they love the Backstreet Boys.
Who the fuck would pretend to love the Backstreet Boys? They're the poster child for terrible 90's boy band pop.

Musically speaking both the 90's and the 00's were pretty great and pretty awful depending on where you look.

RedBen

24th July 2013, 23:32

what i miss about the nineties was playing outside all summer, no internet, no cell phones. if i wanted connection, i went out with my siblings all day. i think more than anything, i miss being too young to pay attention to or care about politics or what's going on in the world. ignorance was bliss, b96 on the radio, open hydrants in the summer, my dad hadn't left yet(pre '94), the worst thing in the world was homework(aside from the regular ass whoopin). it had it ups and down, my family was homeless for a number of years too... maybe that had something to do with how i turned out:D

Pirate Utopian

24th July 2013, 23:41

Who the fuck would pretend to love the Backstreet Boys? They're the poster child for terrible 90's boy band pop.

Lots of people; see OP. I kinda like some of their songs tbh.

Ele'ill

25th July 2013, 00:07

slap bracelets

Eleutheromaniac

25th July 2013, 00:44

5. Pete Rock VS. Kanye West

Have you heard "The Joy?" They did a song remixed to "The Makings of You" by Curtis Mayfield. Pretty good song.

DudeImNeo

25th July 2013, 19:30

YEAH I'M A TOTAL 90S BABY BRING BACK FURBIES AND TAMAGOCHIS LIKE RITE NOW. DEAR GOD IF WE GIVE YOU JUSTIN BEIBER CAN WE GET KURT COBAIN AND TUPAC BACK? AMIRITE OR WHAT GUYS? LOLZ. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO NICKELODEON? HEY ARNOLD IS SOOO MUCH BETTER THAN REGULAR SHOW BECAUSE 90S. 90S BABY FOREVER.

Seriously, nothing's worse than people about my age waxing nostalgic. It's really depressing.
Like now everybody acts like they love the Backstreet Boys. Nothing wrong with a little BSB but they were pretty much the 1D of their day. It's just nostalgia goggles/vintage value/whatever the fuck you wanna call it.

Hahhaha obviously u have ur own preconceptions bout people who appreciate tha previous decade or two..im sorry if i fell into some seemingly vintage loving wagon hoppin semisentimental lOVER OF THA 90S OMG LIKE YEAH TOTALLAY!! but really, tha quality of music was better dude. Yeah, granted, i was all but 5 when my favorite artists ws bein played LIVE-but thank God for research and an older brother whos a dick but has excellent taste in music-i found my preference in sound n i noticed that certain vibe i ws lookn for happened to have DIED once tha millenium hit. NOW-its bout lasers and peewpeews all these synthetic noises, autotune lil wayne shit or sum ridiculous visuals to distract us from tha reality of tha situation. PRODUCTION may have got better-we got more bells n whistles now. I'm talkn bout makn nothin from sumn. thas wha i miss. none of this lady gag bullshit sum rihanna sticks n stones may break my bones buh chains n whips excite me ? cmannnnn But forsure man, i feel u, i js love 90's music cuhs it's become tha new thing these days, ykno ? got nothn ta do wit my own personal preference. oh yeah n my favorite movies are requiem for a dream, nightmare before christmas, a clockwork orange..i also hate obama but voted for him and i also drive a prius, tryna keep shit green. are u vegetarian too? Shit, am i falln into another stereotype again? Hahha anyways, i appreciate ur opinion, i like wen ppl get passionate. Js try not to let tha stupidity bother u..n remember not everybody is stupid.

Brandon's Impotent Rage

25th July 2013, 19:38

The 90s gave us Nirvana.

I fucking HATE Nirvana.

That being said, though, there are some things about the 90s that I miss. Video games were pretty awesome back then, even though they didn't have the cutting edge graphics of today. You had games like Earthbound, and Final Fantasy III, and John Romero was still considered a gaming genius.

DudeImNeo

25th July 2013, 19:47

sega genesis-sonic tha hedgehog
supernintendo-guts
netzero-tha cool sounds while ur internet connects Ha
Kazaa-find more sources

Oh and gangsters in OVERALLS. i still rock mine, how could u not

RedBen

25th July 2013, 19:50

The 90s gave us Nirvana.

I fucking HATE Nirvana.
Yup.

Brandon's Impotent Rage

25th July 2013, 20:16

Yup.

Yes, quite.

roy

25th July 2013, 21:16

Today's music is so much better than 90s music

RedAnarchist

25th July 2013, 21:26

The 1990s seem so long ago nowadays. I know it's been 13 years since they ended, but it feels a lot longer. Being born in 1986, some of my earliest memories are from the start of that decade, and I think if you showed a ten year old me things from 2013, he would be amazed. My Xbox 360 is a million times more powerful than the Commodore 64 we had. I remember our first family computer in late 1997 as well.

RedBen

25th July 2013, 21:41

Today's music is so much better than 90s music
personally i prefer oldies/dustys, 60's reggae/ska, 70's punk/hardcore, 80's punk/hardcore/rock. some of today's music is very catchy, but most seems to cannibalize music from the past. for me, myself, i do not consider someone "music" if they cannot sing, compose, write, play an instrument... but that's just me

Karlorax

26th July 2013, 00:31

yes. rave on.

Ele'ill

26th July 2013, 00:47

DasFapital

28th July 2013, 04:16

I was born in 91 so sadly most of my 90s memories are of korn and limp bizkit :(

Ace High

28th July 2013, 04:31

What in god's name are you people talking about?!?! Yes the 90's was basically god in a nutshell, but not for the terrible music you all are pointing out!

Umm let me show you some good bands such as, the foo fighters, stone temple pilots, alice in chains, red hot chili peppers (formed in the 80s but still), weezer, rage against the machine, pearl jam, bush, rem, smashing pumpkins, AND FUCKING NIRVANA.

There. You can thank me later. *defiantly storms off*

Igor

28th July 2013, 04:37

Ace High

28th July 2013, 04:39

grunge is by far the worst thing to happen during the 20th century

I can't say I didn't expect someone to say that.

But do enlighten me as to what music in the 90's was the best? Name some bands, yo :grin:

Zostrianos

28th July 2013, 04:50

Yes, for me the 90's were the apex of human achievement in terms of music. Although there's some modern music I do like, like Joey Badass, most of what I listen to is 90's (hiphop, triphop, and acid jazz mainly).

That being said, 90's music was not better than what we have today, and modern music is not better than what we had before. Because music is subjective. You can't say "music from decade A is better than decade B". What if I don't like music from decade A?

Saying an era of music is better than another, is like saying a kind of music is better than another, because you like that kind of music and want everyone else to feel the same. People unfortunately tend to treat music like clothes; they listen to it not because they like it, but because it's trendy. Everyone is listening to it, so they have follow the herd.

I listen to what I like, I don't care what anyone thinks.

Brandon's Impotent Rage

28th July 2013, 05:10

grunge is by far the worst thing to happen during the 20th century

Well, there was the Macarena...and the Spice Girls.....and Boy Bands.....and rap core..... but otherwise I agree.

Igor

28th July 2013, 05:16

Well, there was the Macarena...and the Spice Girls.....and Boy Bands.....and rap core..... but otherwise I agree.

spice girls were great ok

and the thing is that these are universally accepted to be terrible things but grunge is something a lot of people still think is good music and they like to talk about it

Brandon's Impotent Rage

28th July 2013, 05:24

spice girls were great ok

and the thing is that these are universally accepted to be terrible things but grunge is something a lot of people still think is good music and they like to talk about it

Oh, I agree. What's worse is that there is no real genre called 'grunge'. The only thing those 'grunge' bands had in common was that they all played in Seattle and apparently avoided showers.

Seriously. Nirvana were a post-punk band, Soundgarden were a heavy metal band, Pearl Jam was a college rock band a la Sonic Youth or The Pixies, and Alice in Chains were salvaged by their manager from the remains of a failed Hair Metal band.

Out of all of these, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam are the only bands with any real talent who managed to survive the grunge crash unscathed.

blake 3:17

28th July 2013, 05:45

Hole were fucking amazing. Live Through This and Celebrity Skin are two of my favourite records.

There was lots of great and awful stuff.

Wu Tang, Nas, Jay Z, Fugees, Portishead, Tricky, My Bloody Valentine, Huggy Bear all broke.

Other than local indie shows, the best concerts I saw were Fugazi, Pavement, Patti Smith, and Marianne Faithfull.

Ace High

28th July 2013, 05:46

Hey, it's fine to bash grunge, everyone has their own taste. But I have yet to see Brandon or Igor offer what they think is good music from the 90's. I'm waiting :rolleyes:

blake 3:17

28th July 2013, 06:06

hater moment: Pearl Jam suck

Brandon's Impotent Rage

28th July 2013, 06:29

Hey, it's fine to bash grunge, everyone has their own taste. But I have yet to see Brandon or Igor offer what they think is good music from the 90's. I'm waiting :rolleyes:

Rage Against the Machine, Cannibal Corpse, Stratovarius, Obituary, Bolt Thrower, Smashing Pumpkins, Digital Underground, Wu-Tang clan, Arrested Development, Cathedral, Chumbawamba, KMFDM...

Not to mention that Alice Cooper released one of his best albums in the 90s, The Last Temptation.

I could go on.

Ace High

28th July 2013, 06:31

Rage Against the Machine, Cannibal Corpse, Stratovarius, Obituary, Bolt Thrower, Smashing Pumpkins, Digital Underground, Wu-Tang clan, Arrested Development, Cathedral, Chumbawamba, KMFDM...

Not to mention that Alice Cooper released one of his best albums in the 90s, The Last Temptation.

I could go on.

Ahh ok, well at least you have some taste :lol:

Rage, Alice, Smashing Pumpkins, and Wu Tang are pretty solid. I must say, I'm not very familiar with the others. Well except Chumbawamba and Cannibal Corpse, lol.

blake 3:17

28th July 2013, 06:40

Chumbawamba were really an 80s band, but whatevs. Already bragged on here about drinking beer with them and some Teamsters on the 4th of July at Michigan State Fair.

There best album, Shhh, came out in 92, so I guess they still count...

And nobody has mentioned Bikini Kill or Bjork once! WTF?????????

Ele'ill

28th July 2013, 18:55

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Ele'ill

28th July 2013, 18:59

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this song from it

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Ele'ill

28th July 2013, 20:08

and some radio stuff that is 90's

oh come on how could u not

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and

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The Breeders
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Ele'ill

28th July 2013, 21:14

Also, late 90's don't count. As 90's, you were either conscious and participating in the 90's or you weren't it's all or nothing, you didn't experience the build up to the end of the 90's and liking a rerun tv show or song from the 90's that was rerun in 2008 doesn't mean you experienced the 90's.

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L.A.P.

28th July 2013, 21:28

Grunge wasn't as bad itself as much as the legacy it left on pop music. now, post-grunge and other related forms of alternative rock were about the worst thing to happen to music in the 20th / early 21st century.

also, am I the only one who thinks Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, and Stone Temple Pilots suck?

Ele'ill

28th July 2013, 21:40

also, am I the only one who thinks Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, and Stone Temple Pilots suck?

always really disliked them

Hegemonicretribution

28th July 2013, 22:26

Why look to the future when the past is better than anything we can hope to build?

If you didn't own poppers you were either too young or too old to appreciate the 90s.

Brandon's Impotent Rage

29th July 2013, 02:04

The 90s also had some of my favorite cartoons on TV. Animaniacs, Road Rovers, Gargoyles, Swat Kats, Pinky and The Brain, the Disney after-school cartoons (Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, etc)...

.....and the saturday morning Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon that was far, far more epic than the video games could ever be.

blake 3:17

29th July 2013, 02:15

The Stone Temple Pilots,
They're elegant bachelors
They're foxy to me
Are they foxy to you?
I will agree
There isn't absolutely nothing
Nothing more than me
Dreamin' dream dream dream

Pavement, Range Life

Ele'ill

29th July 2013, 07:00

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Sentinel

30th July 2013, 01:01

Ah, memories from my teen years. :)

This kind of stuff:

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More of the same:

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Astral Projection - Mahadeva

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Astral Projection - People Can Fly

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Ele'ill

30th July 2013, 01:09

oh yeah i totally forgot about 90's trance

kasama-rl

30th July 2013, 03:54

hmmmmm. Well, obviously any decade of music has terrible stuff, and amazing things.

I loved Rage against the Machine, Wu Tang, Chili Peppers (but not their politics), Nirvana.

Smells like teen spirit is a song that might stand for a long time.

I'm not sure why some people are hating on radical bands from the 90s (how can you not like Nirvana and what they did to music, which was a wasteland waiting for them?)

And RATM just lit up the sky.... even if these attempts at radical music were relatively lonely without a larger radical youth culture.

diagrammatic

30th July 2013, 06:08

Screaming Trees were a '90s Seattle band who had the sound, yet managed to evade most of the hype, and to this day I can still listen to them and not sense the sort of cloying stench of repulsion that seems to haunt, say, Nevermind or Ten. Mark Lanegan, in general, still strikes me as authentic - warts and all.

But what did I know, then? I was young; I was all about Salt 'N Pepa, Ace of Base. As I grew older, I found techno and emo ("screamo" gradually became acceptable as a descriptive term for bands like, say, Orchid - late in the decade). And Shostakovich. Listened to a ton of Shostakovich in the '90s.

Do I miss the '90s...? Hard to say, I guess. If I could, I'd separate the music, which I regard favorably, from the pop-culture crap, which I find remarkably vacuous. But among USA-people that's indeed a tall order: the '90s did, after all, also give us "guerrilla marketing" and other such overinflated parlance for trending fashions, which transduced individuals and the milieu to a degree then unforeseen.

IOW, I'd endorse the notion of an "all-or-nothing" participation in the '90s. Gosh, that sucks.

The Garbage Disposal Unit

30th July 2013, 16:10

My first political memories are of the United Task Force intervention in Somalia, in 1993. I remember asking my mum who the "bad guys" were, and if "we were winning" . . . I remember her trying to explain to me (age 7) that it wasn't a war between good guys and bad guys, and that nobody was winning. Thanks liberal mum.

Re: Red Ben / 80s Hardcore
You seriously need to check out some of the current crop of throw-back-y hardcore bands. They politically blow the classics away, and musically are at least on par. Current faves: Nervous Condition, In School

Zanthorus

30th July 2013, 18:48

Well, the 1790's was the decade that gave us Haydn's London Symphonies, Mozart's Requiem and Die Zauberflote and the early Beethoven piano sonata's. But most of that was the fruit of the high classical period which had flowered with much greater strength in the previous decade. And as great as Beethoven's early sonata's are they still don't really compare with the late period works like the Appassionata and the Hammerklavier. I can understand being nostalgic about Haydn's later symphonic output to some extent, but time marches on you know. The strict classical form was predicated on a relative clarity of tonal relationships anyway, bringing the kind of tonal relationships characteristic of Brahms or Mahler into a strict Haydn-derived framework would have made nonsense of the whole procedure. You're just going to have to learn to accept change, TS.

Tenka

30th July 2013, 19:11

Popular music was as bad in the 90s as it is today. TV, on the other hand, actually was slightly less stupid in the 90s (https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDinosau rs_(TV_series)&ei=hAH4UdOXKoXGqgH8l4DYDQ&usg=AFQjCNFj61j22vnpfJc3A4lLMTYRTIDYyQ&sig2=U35QIpGTtDPHgMcUn4mV7A&bvm=bv.49967636,d.aWM)....

LovingEmbrace

3rd August 2013, 19:31

do I miss the music of the 90s? the 90s were a heaven for the ears. it was the culmination of 6 billion years of development of music! I especially love the commercial mainstream electronic music during the 90s, daddy dj, aqua, vengaboys, smile.dk and all the other lovable shit.

daddy dj, plz take me to the partyyy...

LovingEmbrace

3rd August 2013, 19:53

oh, how can you not LOVE the sense of feeling tentacles probe inside your brain when you read these lyrics... everything is so wrong about them that everything is right.

Oie oie oie oie oie oie yae
Deep in the jungle,
In the land of adventure, lives tarzan
Oie oie oie oie oie oie yae
I am Jane and I love to ride an elephant

Ahhhhhhhh ughh!

My name is Tarzan, I am Jungle-Man
The tree-top swinger from Jungle-land
Come, Baby come, I'll take you for a swing
Lets go hunny, I'm Tingling

Tarzan is handsome, Tarzan Is strong
He's really cute and his hair is long
Tarzan is handsome, Tarzan is strong
So listen to the Jungle Song

Oie oie oie oie oie oie yae
I am Tarzan from Jungle, you can be my friend
Oie oie oie oie oie oie yae
I am Jane and I love to ride an elephant

Ahhhhhhhh ughh!

When you touch me, I feel funny
I feel it too when you're touching me
Come to my tree-house, to my party
Yes I'll go if you carry me

Tarzan is handsome, full of surprise
He's really cute and his hair is nice
Tarzan is handsome, Tarzan is strong
So listen to the jungle song

Oie oie oie oie oie oie yae
I am Tarzan from jungle you can be my friend
Oie oie oie oie oie oie yae
I am Jane and I love to ride an elephant

Yeah!

Go cheetah, Get Banana
Hey Monkey, Get Funky
Swing along Tarzan
Go cheetah, Get Banana
Hey Monkey, Get Funky

When I am dancing, I feel funky
Why do you keep ignoring me?
Tarzan is here, come kiss me baby
oochie coochie, kiss me tenderly

Yeah!

Tarzan is handsome, Tarzan is strong
Me tarzan!
hes really cute and his hair is long
Long hair!
Tarzan is handsome, Tarzan is strong
So listen to the jungle song

Ahhhhhhhhh!

Oie oie oie oie oie oie yae
I am Tarzan from jungle you can be my friend
Oie oie oie oie oie oie yae
I am Jane and I love to ride an elephant

Oie oie oie oie oie oie yae, here we go!

Go cheetah, Get Banana
Hey Monkey, Get Funky
Oie oie oie oie oie oie yae
I am Jane and I love to ride an elephant

And so they got funky, but will tarzan have Jane?
Stay tuned!

the 90s were a wonderful, insane, inane, brutal, intense, boring, cynical and idealistic experience.

i am born 1979.