Here are three things about the 90's I still don't care about-

[Starry Messenger]

Pearl Jam

Babydoll dresses

Monica Lewinsky

[bravenak]

1. The goth fad.

Heroin Chic.

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4. Thermals under shorts.

Chain wallets.

[bravenak]

7. Super sagging jeans.

Cherry tatoos.
Drawn on eyebrows.
The Macarena.
Two way pagers.

[Starry Messenger]

13. The Macarena-you win!

I had burned that out of my memory banks.

[bravenak]

14. I hated it.

Jr high school. My teachers made it this thing we all had to do together in the multi purpose room, between the electric slide and the boot scooting boogy. Hey Macarena!

[Starry Messenger]

17. The horror.

My generation had The Hustle, but it's an instrumental so it's less of an earworm.

[Blue_Tires]

37. Who the hell wore thermals under shorts?

I remember nothing in the 90s like that...(high school class of '95)

[Starry Messenger]

45. We did in college in the 90's

http://www.skooldays.com/categories/fashion/fa1588.htm

Thermals under everything were a grunge thing. It probably made sense in Seattle, it was a little warm for CA.

I had plaid polyester grandpa pants I cut off and wore over thermals. Army pant cut offs or cargo shorts were more typical. Some women wore them under dresses or skirts.

[Blue_Tires]

47. ok; i get it now

Grunge wasn't my scene at that time

[m-lekktor]

8. goth started in the 80's. nt

[bravenak]

12. I was born in 81.

Barely remember the 80's except for judo. Loved judo. Can still flip a 300 pound man on his back.

I guess i hated the goth resurgence? Safety pins through lips, white makeup, running around looking like wednesday adams, cutting to be seen as an emo. I hated that. Some of my friends went over the edge.

[1000words]

2. Two out of three aint bad

It's unfortunate you dismiss Pearl Jam. Vedder's legacy is already significant.

[Starry Messenger]

6. My taste in music fossilized in 1989

This pretty much sums up my feelings about 90's rock:

[1000words]

16. LOL ... that's well done.

While I'm not a great fan of their music, it was Pearl Jam's (Vedder's) social consciousness and commitment to many progressive issues we hold dear as liberals, that makes their effort so important. Their boycott of TicketMaster (for ripping off all music fans with redundant fees) was courageous and showed who was walking the talk.

[Jenoch]

23. Pearl Jam took on Ticketmaster and I admire them for that.

Their music never did anything for me.

The funny thing is, my dad is good buddies with Jeff Ament's dad, bass player and co-founder of Pearl Jam.

[Violet_Crumble]

28. Ditto, except I think I might have mentioned at DU once or twice I'm a huge PJ fan...

Here's some stuff on Pearl Jam taking on Ticketmaster from Twenty...

[1000words]

30. A little known result of Pearl Jam's Ticketmaster boycott: Coachella Valley Music Festival

"The festival's origins trace back to a 1993 concert that Pearl Jam performed at the Empire Polo Club while boycotting venues controlled by Ticketmaster. The show validated the site's viability for hosting large events, leading to the inaugural Coachella Festival being held in October 1999 over two days."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coachella_Valley_Music_and_Arts_Festival


Thanks for posting the vid, Violet.

[Starry Messenger]

25. My early political music experience happened a bit earlier

The Sun City boycotts to oppose apartheid in South Africa. Those early experiences are very formative though, I get it.

[1000words]

26. Detecting a slight age gap between us ...

Not much. Regardless, from the little I know, I think you and I generally share similar tastes.

[Hippo_Tron]

18. I have a love hate relationship with 90's music

There's a lot of things I like about alternative rock. The thing I don't like, is that after Nirvana ALL rock became alternative rock.

[Starry Messenger]

22. I was saddened by how quickly it all became a commodity

There were interesting early bands like Dinosaur Jr. that got lost in the heavy promotion of a few big acts.

But I was already wedded to my old punk records, and only now have a tardy appreciation for some 90's acts I wish I'd paid more attention to.

[1000words]

24. Mascis did finally get paid ...

but your point is certainly valid.

[awoke_in_2003]

32. Before he became a douche

http://m.

[1000words]

39. Just what I was thinking when I wrote it ...

Know the album well.

[awoke_in_2003]

40. I am reminded of Rocky Horror Picture Show

http://m.

I cannot say how many times I have seen this. At least 100 times in my teenage years.

[Starry Messenger]

46. I was in a cast senior year.

I was a Transylvanian for a year. Teaching the Time Warp was my first teaching gig.

[awoke_in_2003]

41. I'll get you a satanic mechanic

http://m.

[Daniel537]

3. OJ

[awoke_in_2003]

34. I proposed to my wife

on the day OJ did his white Bronco chase. Like most of America, she was glued to the TV. I just wanted to propose.

[rppper]

49. They cut away from the Houston Rockets...

....winning an NBA championship to cover Al an OJ's run....I have never forgiven the network or OJ for that....that's sarcasm mixed with some truth btw....

[awoke_in_2003]

50. I hear ya. nt

[LeftyMom]

5. Making floral print maternity shirts fashionable for the masses was some pretty epic trolling.

I often wonder if the people who design stuff like that laugh themselves sick.

[bravenak]

10. +1

That was some scandalous stuff.

[Starry Messenger]

11. They must.

I can't wear anything high-waisted, so I pretty much lived in shorts, thermals and flannel for the 90's.

[LadyHawkAZ]

9. I agree with only the last one.

But it's the important one.

[Starry Messenger]

15. I had forgotten how much the Monica scandal sucked all of the oxygen out of the political discourse.

I've been having flashbacks about it for two days.

[LadyHawkAZ]

19. I was 25 at the time

I remember there being a huge generational split on the issue, with the older folks I knew being ScaNdAliZeD!!! by the idea and the younger generations (<35) basically saying "meh".

And then the big, expensive impeachment mess.

What a mess.

[Starry Messenger]

21. I was 28.

By the end of it all, I was embittered by what time-wasting fucks the Republicans are, after years of political apathy, so there's that, I guess.

[awoke_in_2003]

35. The Contact For America...

that Newt brought up played a part.

[NYC_SKP]

20. "First Black President", NAFTA, Outsourcing.... (nt)

[Luminous Animal]

27. You don't care about NAFTA? Because what you don"t care about is the point of the OP.

[AverageJoe90]

29. Pokemon for me.

C'mon, I'm a '90s kid myself but that whole franchise has really worn itself out, and jumped the shark a decade ago. Sadly, even Sonic has suffered a similar fate, it seems(though at least the newest Pkmn games are still decent at least).

[Jamaal510]

31. I'm a 13-year Poke veteran,

but I agree that it gets tired sometimes, particularly when it comes to the game's formula. It is the 6th generation now, and they still are having players start using one of the same 3 types (fire, grass, and water). They still put the electric rodents in the games (Pikachu, Plusle, Minun, Pachirisu, Emolga, Dedenne), the generic rodents (Rattata, Zigzagoon, Sentret, Bidoof, etc.), more annoying bats and rock-type Pokemon appearing in caves, more weak bugs at the beginning (Caterpie, Weedle, Ledyba, Wurmple, Scatterbug), more early birds (Pidgey, Taillow, Hoothoot, Starly, etc.), the standard 8-badge quest, and a champion at the end that always includes some pseudo-legendary on their team (e.g. Dragonite, Metagross, Garchomp, etc.).
Another one of my main criticisms has to do with mega-evolutions. GameFreak only gave them to a handful of Pokemon--none of which are from the latest generation. And they basically gave them to a bunch of Pokemon that already had pretty high stats to begin with, such as Mewtwo and Tyranitar. I can think of a ton of Pokemon that have been in DIRE need of evolutions or stat boosts, but have seemingly been neglected. I would argue that GF played a bit of favoritism regarding which Pokemon get mega-evos, and gave them to many of the ones that are most popular with the fans. Even Charizard got 2 mega-evos, while Blastoise and Venusaur only got 1 each. And Mewtwo got 2, while Mew didn't get one at all.

[Starry Messenger]

44. The enduring love for Pokemon exists in my classroom

Kids make the characters in ceramics. I've taught since 1997, and Spongebob and Pokemon are still favorites.

[valerief]

33. 24/7 coverage of OJ Simpson. nt

[Populist_Prole]

36. You win. I totally forgot about that one.

I know the purpose of the "all OJ all the time" dynamic was that of a self-made media bonanza/gravy train; but why did everybody take the bait and keep the talk of it going? I just couldn't understand why so many people wanted to talk about nothing else. It was just pop-culture ""everybody's talking about it, so I guess I have to" bullshit.

I think back now and wonder just how many an otherwise decent person I knew or met was written of by me as a narrow, shallow dolt due to their attempts at making friendly conversation/small-talk by bringing up the OJ thing.

[valerief]

38. I know. I have a good friend who's otherwise intelligent. She got sucked up into

the 24/7 coverage. To this day, I still don't understand it. I understand the media's reason for covering it. They were under directives to NOT provide actual news. OJ was non-news du jour. But for non-media people who have more than one working neuron, I don't get the appeal. But then, I don't understand the appeal of mob sports either.

[Freddie]

42. OJ killed the soap operas

Soaps were huge in the 80s (Luke and Laura, etc) despite more women working; you could now tape it on your VCR! But the endless OJ trial pre-emptied the soaps for months on end and people got out of the habit of watching them, and they never recovered.

[valerief]

48. OJ killed news. As soon as the trial ended, Fox News started. No News America became a reality. nt

[Starry Messenger]

43. I'm glad social media wasn't around for that phenomenon

I couldn't believe the 24/7 coverage either.