is it the early 90s again?

[larry emdur is my hero!]

heh, that's what i thought when i first heard the Zwan album. First impressions was "this is the best thing since Siamese Dream".
see Billy is even smiling now.

[Tiberius]

Ahh, the early 90s. I remember you well. And I don't mean 1994 and 1995, I mean the early 90s. I'm talking 1990, 1991, and 1992.

It was a time when music was good, when I cared little about the genre of music and liked a song because I liked the song. It was a time when we were leaving the synth pop of the 80s behind and a new era of music was coming in brought in by bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. It was also a time when all music didn't have to be serious to be good. Vanilla Ice, Young MC, and MC Hammer might not have made the most 'serious' or intellectual music but I could listen to it without wanting to swallow nails and it was fun. And 'pop' didn't mean 'only boybands and teen queens' back then. Britney hadn't gone through puberty and Michael Jackson and others were making great 'pop' music that was actually good. It was also a time when the word 'techno' didn't necessarily equate with 'crap'. For example, remember KLF? They were fantastic. The way they turned a dance song into a mythological epic was brilliant. Who here can't relate to the song 3 AM eternal? *happy sigh*

Most of all, it was a time when I could watch Video Hits and not say to myself "this is crap" over and over. I can't do that anymore. I mean, The Tomato Song? wtf? I'm afraid it was all downhill when The Vengaboys entered the music industry.

[dirtgirl]

I sorta remember the early nineties. I think I was suddenly in fashion then!

[TheAstronaut]

I was watching channel V this morning and saw a few 80's video clips and came to the conclusion they were nuts. With computers being powerful then, they had all these flying.....things in almost every video clip. Egads, everything known to man just somehow flew across the screen in near every 80's vid!

[hawaiianrobot]

early nineties for me would be 1993-1996

- Red Hot Chili Peppers were my older cousins fav band. They used to make me and my other cousin Roger draw the asterix on chalkboard.
- Silverchair in 1994....how many 4th graders new all the words to pure massacre? That was thanks to one of my friends older brothers.
- New kids on the block Chewing gum.
- Saturday morning cartoons were good...they weren't generic disney crap.
- My mum used to make me wear stretch pants and scrunch socks. EWWW.
- "Heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are...people dying if ya care enough to the living, make a better place for you and for me"

I was sad then, I am sad now ;D

[Tiberius]

Hawaiian said:

early nineties for me would be 1993-1996

- Saturday morning cartoons were good...they weren't generic disney crap.

Ahh, now if we're talking cartoons, then the 80s was where cartoons were at their best. Transformers, Thundercats, Machine Men, M.A.S.K., Ghostbusters, He-Man and She-Ra, that dodgy french cartoon about the boy and his two dogs exploring the French Alps, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Roger Ramjet, etc etc.

Although, admittedly the 90s did have a couple of good cartoons like The Legend of Zelda and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Not all Disney cartoons were bad either. Duck Tales went off.

Um, yes.

Hawaiian said:

- "Heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are...people dying if ya care enough to the living, make a better place for you and for me"

Not to be pedantic (who me?) but that album (Dangerous) came out before '93. It came out in '91.

Hawaiian said:

I was sad then, I am sad now ;D

Says who? If it makes you happy...

[singingcirclesaway]

astro boy! *puts on astro boy shirt*
nkotb! (new kids on the block for you uninformed)
technicolour shirts! (i always wanted one, but my dad wouldn't get it for me...)

*wipes away tears*

[dirtgirl]

early nineties: ...having a reason to be legitametly (sp) miserable...and make heaps of money at the same time. No spell checker back then either...

[fathershark]

heartspark said:

technicolour shirts! (i always wanted one, but my dad wouldn't get it for me...)quote]

You mean HYPERcolour, right? I had one of those - they only had to be washed 3 or 4 times and then they wouldn't work anymore. The most sullying extension of the brand was the Hypercolour undies - like you want other people to know where you are emitting heat........

My most fond memory of the nineties is hearing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" for the first time. I have never, ever been taken in by a song hook like I was then - although years later I can't stand listening to it.

[singingcirclesaway]

hyper, techni, same difference.

but yeah, mum refused to get me one. i was so upset. stupid parents.

[Kristy]

My mum wouldn't buy me one either, so i had to make do touching everyone elses. I wanted one sooooo bad too. I was also desperate for a Kuta Line or whatever they were called, but that was more 90's.

[Tiberius]

I had a hypercolour jumper. It changed from green to brown or vice versa. It's since died a horrible death.

[caelestis]

i had a hypercolour hat. it was purple and went blue.
i was so impressed.
although my mum only let me have it because it was $3.

it died.

[Sonic Death Monkey]

the very early 90's sucked in many ways, does anyone remember Bill Ray Cyrus and freakin Achy Breaky Heart. Man i hated that guy, even to this day if i met him in person i'd sock him one just for good measure. What right does he have to release a piece of godawful suckiness like that on the world.

[loux2]

yeah, i had a hypercolour t-shirt that went from purple to pink and back

oh, and for girls (and boys?): slap bands, which i've noticed are coming back in fashion...not as toys but as jewelry...hmm
i also heard slapbands were bannned because some dude slit her rist and died from using one?? sounds a bit far fetched...