Sheesh. Couple more amends- let’s be honest, I always have and always will love 'em , but the M’s have (almost) always been open for mocking. Also electronica was the wrong term, I suppose techno would be more apt, you know where every song is the same song? Ravers still remain- candy necklaces, pacifiers, that weird hand “dance”, ecstasy, and all.
Sorry for the triple post, but I just had to add this to the thread…
Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
It’s Hammer Time
DVD vs Laserdisc
Radiohead
Blur vs Oasis
Fleece jackets
Skateboards
Cargo pants
The Pulp Fiction effect
Generation X
Swing music revival
Garth Brooks
Ice, Ice, Baby
Everything being EXTREME!
Rodney King riots
(ooh! ooh!) Magic Eye images
Do they remain?! I haven’t even heard of a rave party in a long time. And there used to be a lot of rave clubs in Tampa.
The thing about 90s cell phones is they were HUGE.
As a fan, I agree that grunge (and most 90s music) is eminently parodiable.
OJ trial?
Electric Daisy Carnival drew 50,000+ last year. It’s so big, it’s now 2 days. Together As One had 35,000 people watching Armin Van Buuren’s “Armin Only” in L.A. on New Years Eve. Tiësto fills arenas. Daft Punk too. It’s bigger than ever.
I agree with you that it’s horribly underrated. I find that movie funnier than it has any right to be.
Nah, I’d say that was the 80s. The 80s had poltically correct rap, the 90s had gangster rap. Every 80s cartoon ended in a PSA. Every 80s sitcom had some kind of message, the 90s moved sitcoms into the bullshit category. It seems like looking back also, the 80s made a big push for diversity in everything.
New Jack Swing - That brief period of rap / hip hop / r&b that took place right before gangsta rap became popular. Characterized by a bunch of guys (white or black) with fade haircuts, baggy jeans, gold medalions and turtlenecks, girls with big hoop earings, giant permed hair, equally baggy jeans and tight tops doing the Running Man in a basement somewhere to Bell Biv Davoe.
Parodied by Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg hereand here.
And the winner is…Coldplay.
My HS friends and I used to go to a club that had “alternative night” whenever I was home from college. Around 92-95. One side of the club was mostly grunge and alt rock music but the other side was all techno and industrial. The first time we went we were like “what the fuck are all these dudes in Dr Seuss hats blowing whistles and waving glow sticks?”.
And could you go into a club in the late 90s without hearing this? It seemed like there was this brief period from 1998 to 2001 where everyone was into all this Euro trance rave Run Lola Run Go! Trainspotting scene.
Oh that I don’t know, I meant they remain on the list ripe for parody.
OTOH, the '95 Mariners and Avs/Redwings playoff series, while significant highlights of the 90’s, they were just too awesome to justify being on there.
How about the Buffalo Bills losing three (or was it four) straight Superbowls in a row?
“Boys 2 Men, ABC, BBD…mmm hmm…the East Coast Family…” Thanks, now I’m going to be walking around all day going with that looped in my head.
I still love all that old school R&B. It was followed by another big wave of R&B in the late 90’s/early 2K’s with groups like Dru Hill, Next, 112, etc.
Don’t forget the paisley and silk button up shirts(I was even rocking those in 4th/5th grade!(yikes, ive said too much)) and the crazy technicolor suits. JT’s and AS’s were perfect, I wonder if that had to call up Keenen Ivory Wayans and have him pull those out of storage to get them? Samberg is spot on with his 90’s hiphop parody, look for his ‘Blizzard Man’ skits too.
Then there was MC Hammer and parachute pants; I think that’s what they were called, we always just called them ‘hammer pants’. Of course, Kris Kross and the “totally krossed out” backwards pants and jerseys.
Oh look, a sailboat! *Mallrats * is another movie that captured the 90’s perfectly.
Oh yeah, and you can thank Puff Daddy and Master P for leading the way into the “bling-bling” era of rap music.
Makes me say ugh.
Thirded. I feel the same way about Josie and the Pussycats. Which, come to think of it, isn’t a bad parody of the pop consumerism of late 90s culture.
I don’t know. I respect your oppinion, but to me it seemed like a lot of the movie was just gross for the sake of being gross. I wouldn’t have a problem with it if I found it funny. Poop and incest alone don’t do it for me. There were some good parodies though. Lucas and Varsity Blues, (with the kid getting all the concussions), were great.
Oh, AND what about;
The X-Files.
too bad the series got embarrassingly bad.