Let's Make Our Own I Love the 90's

Cafe Society
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So VH-1 has all these specials and are going backwards by decade. Let’s try to compile events, fads, music, TV shows, and movies for every year in the 1990’s.

1990 -
Music: Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation, Madonna’s Immaculate Collection, Cher’s version of “It’s in His Kiss”
Movies: Home Alone, Godfather Part III, Dick Tracy, Goodfellas, Ghost, Edward Scissorhands,
Fads: Slam books, Hyper color shirts
TV: A Different World, Head of the Class, Growing Pains, Family Matters, Elmo on Sesame Street, Tiny Toons
Events: U.S. recession and Nelson Mandela is freed

1991 -
Music: Kylie Minogue’s “Locomotion”, Celine Dion invades America
Movies: Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear, Hook
Fads: stupid flammable hippie skirts
TV:
Events: Gulf War I, coup against Gorbachev

1991 -
Music:
Movies: Silence of the Lambs
Fads:
Events:

1992-
Music:
Movies: A Few Good Men, Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Fads:
TV: end of The Cosby Show
Events: Bill Clinton becomes U.S. president, L.A. riots

I’ll come back with more . Feel free to add on or fill in the blanks!

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Additions for 1992 movies: Malcolm X and music: I Will Always Love You

1993 -
Music: Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s “Under the Bridge”
Movies: Philadelphia, Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List (fun year)
Fads:
TV: X Files and Deep Space Nine first air. Cheers ends.
Events: WTC bombing and Waco

1994 -
Music: Blind Melon, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana
Movies: Reality Bites, Lion King, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump, and Four Weddings and a Funeral
Fads: “Life is like a box of chocolates.”
TV: ER & Friends first air
Events: LA earthquake and O.J. becomes a murderer

1995 -
Music: Dave Matthews and Alanis Morrisette hit the mainstream
Movies: Batman Forever and Toy Story
Fads: overalls
TV: Newsradio first airs
Events: Oklahoma City bombing and O.J. verdict

1996 -
Music:
Movies: Evita
Fads: overalls
TV:
Events: Clinton re-elected and mad cow disease first crops up

1997 -
Music: My Heart Will Go On
Movies: Titanic, As Good As it Gets, and Good Will Hunting
Fads: glitter
TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer first airs
Events: Princess Diana dies and a sheep is cloned (no connection)

1998 -
Music:
Movies: Saving Private Ryan, City of Angels, Life is Beautiful and Shakespeare in Love
Fads:
TV:
Events: email and internet popularity rises, beginning of dot com boom and Clinton impeached

1999 -
Music:
Movies: The Matrix, Austin Powers, and The Phantom Menace
Fads: Jar Jar Binks bashing and stocking your Milennium bunker
TV:
Events: Columbine and Milennium paranoia

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Damn, I can’t even remember anything from the 90’s

Whoa.

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From the UK, mid 90’s there was the whole Britpop explosion thing.
Oasis/Blur.

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This took a lot of IMDB research and google history timeline research. And I forgot to list my favorite movie from when I was in high school (1991 - 1995). Last of the Mohicans in 1992!

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What about crash dummies (1992), power rangers (1994), pogs (1995), magic cards(1996), star wars toys(1997), beanie babies(1997), and yoyos (1998) for fads?

And for music, the Spice Girls (1997) and Hanson (1998).

Also, Independence Day (1996), and the Sixth Sense (1999) are worth mentioning for movies, i think.

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Can’t forget the tamagotchi and Fight Club for 1999. (Although I can’t remember when the tamagotchi craze was, exactly, but I think it was in 1999.)

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Well, in no particular order, I’d say a retrospective on the 90s would have to include comments on:

-Grunge rock
-Lollapalooza
-the O.J. Simpson trial
-Carson’s retirement & the Leno/Letterman “war”
-the deaths & attendent hysterical mourning of Kurt Cobain, Jerry Garcia, Princess Diana & Superman
-the Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon “synchronicity”
-Y2K & the Millenium
-Seinfeld
-Frasier
-Pulp Fiction
-Tanya Harding getting bashed in the knee
-the Menendez Brothers
-Milli Vanilli (or was that the 1980s? I can’t remember when that happened)
-Raves
-the Celestine Prophecy
-Bridget Jones’s Diary
-the Internet “revolution”
-Retro
-Lewinskygate
-the standoff at Waco
-the Oklahoma City bombing
-Columbine
-Titanic
-Beverly Hills 90210 & Melrose Place
-Buffy the Vampire Slayer
-Fargo
-Spice Girls
-Ricky Martin
-Cher’s (unfortunate) comeback
-Virtual Reality
-the Buffalo Bills losing four Super-Bowls in a row
-pokemon
-the Simpsons
-South Park
-the Macarea, Disco & Swing-dancing
-tattoos & piercings
-colored hair
-the mainstreaming of gay culture
-Lilith Fair
-Hansen
-Jane Roe becoming a born again christian
-what else???

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Mystery Science Theater 3000

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Remembered some more:

-the Halle-Boppe comet (& the self-castrating, suicidal UFO cult)
-race riots in L.A.
-Terminator 2
-Wayne’s World
-ER
-Law & Order
-Darryl Strawberry getting arrested again, and again, and again…
-Courtney Love crashing a Madonna interview on MTV
-Madonna’s “Sex” book
-S&M sex goes mainstream
-Ecstasy
-Richard Gere’s narcissistic “free Tibet” rant at the Oscars
-“Soy Bomb” crashing a Bob Dylan set
-Susan Lucci winning an emmy after 20-odd years of trying
-Hilary Clinton’s health insurance fiasco
-Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
-MTV Unplugged performances
-Rent

Okay, okay, I’ll shut up.

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For 1994, I think the pop-punk thing is worth mentioning.
Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid, you know you love it…

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Whoa! You got it wrong there; it was actually Tanya Harding who hired a thug to bash her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, on the shins.

Just wanted to nitpick that vital 90s event. :smiley:

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Cheers went off the air (1993)

Woodstock 1994 and 1999

The Cosby Show ends (1992)

30th Anniversary of the Summer of Love (1997)

Beatles Anthology, Beatles reunion (1995-96)

Freddie Mercury dies (1991)

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'96-'97 fashions were a return of the 60’s, with the platform shoes and bright flowers all over. Oh, and bell-bottoms. I was in 6th grade then, just starting to get into fashion, and I had these adorable bell-bottom jeans with a rose on the hip. That lasted well into '99, 'cause I was riding my bike to high school and I’d rip my bell-bottoms on the chain.

I had a Tamogotchi in 8th grade, so that was '98.

When did Pogs come out? I remember that everyone in elementry school was playing them, until they got banned.

Did anyone mention Tickle Me Elmo yet?

TV would have to include Clarissa Explains it All, and other Nick shows. I so wanted to be Clarissa.

Didn’t rap and hip-hop move into mainstrean druing the 90’s? I really wasn’t paying attention to that.

I’m sure I could sit here all night thinking stuff up.

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Rage Against the Machine pave the way for every rap-metal band around today.

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Yeah, I had Pogs in second/third grade, that would make it 1995/1995 or so.

Yeah, Clarissa Explains it All and Pete and Pete.

Another show yould have to be Daria.

Then there are the Addams Family and The Brady Bunch movies.

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Uhh, Beavis and Butthead, anyone?

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Whoops! Actually that slip was due to bad editing. I started to write “Tanya Harding getting thugs to bash Nancy Kerrigan in the knee”, then was goiing to shorten it to “Nancy Kerrigan getting bashed in the knee”, and then everything went awry!

Any way, more 90s trivial moments:

-Jolt cola
-‘George’ magazine
-Phil Hartman getting shot
-River Phoenix overdosing
-the “indie film” phenom
-Goodfellas
-Al Franken’s “Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot”
-Michael Jordan playing baseball
-Beanie Babies
-email (although maybe ‘internet revolution’ covers that?)

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There’s the whole violence in video games thing that really picks up in 1993 with Mortal Kombat and repeats itself post-Columbine.

Playstation comes out in 1995, starting the mainstream-ification of video games.

Everyone in 1999 was wearing tech vests, those brightly colored vests with black lining from Old Navy.

Power Rangers in 1993, Pokemon in 1998/9.

Definitely Pogs for 1995 and yoyos (which gets my vote for stupidest fad ever conceived by man) for 1996/7.

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Early 90s ‘Alternate Music’ (OK, most of these bands came up during the 80s but had decent albums in the early 90s - many are still around) seems to have been forgotten
I thinking like Charlatans UK, The Shaman, Jesus Jones, Concrete Blonde, Inspiral Carpets, (KLF? nahhh) and many others that preceded Grunge and Brit Pop…