The 90s

9/11 is so 90s.

Clothes-wise, far more embarassing than I thought possible.

Seriously - 26" leg openings on JNCOs, what the fuck were we thinking? And those were before the leg opening arms race got ridiculous and they started stitching dragon designs on the ass.

aww fond memories here too!

90% of the popular music from this decade is unlistenable. Rage Against The Machine holds up surprisingly well in comparison.

Liz Phair is really hot in her VH1 "I Love The '90s" spots

Remember how pissed off we all were at how far to the right Clinton went after '94? Oh, so naive.

90% of the popular music from this decade is unlistenable.

So patently false unless all you listened to was VH1.

I think after the end of the cold war and before 11/9, there was a certain sense of levity in popular culture, things weren't as "serious as your life". That would be my flawed, sweeping generalisation on the decade. ;)

sorry - popular rock music

I would sooner take an ice-pick to the ear than sit through a '90s Alt-Rock Nostalgia Hour

I don't detect much change from the mid-90s until today--yeah, obv. we have faster internet connections now and are fighting in Iraq rather than thinking about fighting in Bosnia--but the all-crisis-all-the-time-stuff stuff seems to begin with the 1st WTC bombing on to Waco and OJ and Rwanda and Haiti and Ruby Ridge and OK City and Newt and Rabin and Monica and Impeachment and Columbine and Elian Gonzales and Children of Thalidomide...

I once carried my math book to lunch in the back pocket of my JNCOs.

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd400/d474/d4748485418.jpg

90-95 and 96-99 are two very different eras tho, innit

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/FOOD/news/07/19/taco.bell.ap/story.taco.ap.jpg

omg xxpost

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/JostaBottles.gif

Clothes were way baggier, weren't they? I was really skinny until the age of about 19, so they were super-baggy on me. Even small T-shirts were loose, tight Ts were hard to find.

90-95 and 96-99 are two very different eras tho, innit

How so? Pre and Post DJ Shadow?

This cover:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/SassymagCover.jpg/200px-SassymagCover.jpg

I *took* that sex survey! And doubtless hadn't even made out yet.

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Q49PDQXQL._AA240_.jpg

I could never get my mom to buy me baggy clothes and so I looked like a total dork, this is in spite of me being half a foot shorter and twenty pounds lighter than all of my classmates.

iiiijjjj = hero

http://www.southparkstuff.com/images/stories/epiimgs/epi218/pics-218-4.jpg

90-95 and 96-99 are two very different eras tho, innit

How so? Pre and Post DJ Shadow?

-- mulla atari, Monday, 1 October 2007 04:39

I dunno, lots of "cool" things like house music and indie and IT and hip hop went from "quite big" to "the actual mainstream now".

That's the impression I got, anyway.

http://www.whataboutpj.com/wp-content/baby-sinclair.jpg

puberty

http://www.carsearch.com/photos/763104.jpeg

This book I have has many interestin photos taken in the 90s.

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/3695/getty90soa6.jpg

DINOSAURS = YOGA FLAME

I dunno, lots of "cool" things like house music and indie and IT and hip hop went from "quite big" to "the actual mainstream now".

House and indie were more mainstream in the early 90s than the late 90s.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Allthatfan.png

Girls in cargo pants + baby tees = worst EVER. I wore them all the time, of course.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3a/Allthatfan.png

http://img.snlarc.jt.org/arc/wu/94-97-1.jpg

"In Washington State, elementary school teacher Mary Kay LeTourneau pleaded guilty to having sex with a sixth-grade student.... LeTourneau has been branded a sex offender, or as the kids refer to her, 'the greatest teacher of all time!'"

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n6/n31977.jpg

"The FDA has approved a drug used for anti-depression to help people quit smoking. Though it should be noted, the drug is crack."

xpost holy fuck i would read all these animorphs in fact i did

http://www.pinball-machine.com/Lethal-weapon-3.jpg

the reverend = new hero

http://www.bravotv.com/blog/thedish/_blogImages/2007/04/gallery_reality01_320x240.jpg

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/030709/165215__06angie_l.jpg

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
YES

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Xwing_vs_tie_fighter_cover.jpg

guys this thread has made my night

I remember thinking back in the 90s that the clothes were a big improvement over the 80s. They seemed so basic and straightforward, timeless even. I thought that they would never look ugly or out-of-style.

Oh, how wrong I was...

http://www.posters.cz/plakaty/plakaty-full-trainspotting-choose-life-2176.jpg

ALL THESE POCKETS ARE SO USEFUL xp

jokes that never get old, no sarcasm

http://z.about.com/d/altmusic/1/0/m/0/-/-/Pavement.jpg

wd adopt all these sweet li'l boys

people often (seriously) tell me that i look like mark ibold

in high school people told me i looked like billy corgan

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/3106EJFRW0L._SS500_.jpg

<3<3<3<3

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/3106EJFRW0L._SS500_.jpg

wd adopt all this female mark ibold

you know how older people are stuck in a certain time in music and cant tolerate anything released after it and you kind of wonder if it will happen to you and when/what will it be? for me natural bridge was it

you're a tower without the bells

i relistened to natural bridge a couple weeks ago and it still sounds amazing.

i'm glad berman is clean and sober and nonsuicidal these days, but i just can't get that into his "happy" albums.

"we saw bb king on general hospital"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/crow.jpg

And who could forget the classic soundtrack?

http://musicmedia.ign.com/music/image/article/893/893430/rage-against-the-machine-rock-band-2-wish-list-20080724001714696-000.jpg

Featuring these rocking bands:

http://image.listen.com/img/356x237/5/3/1/3/653135_356x237.jpg http://christiannewwave.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/violent-femmes.jpg http://theonlythingiknowforsure.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/rage_against_the_machine1.jpg http://cache.idolator.com/assets/resources/2007/01/JAMC.JPG http://www.atomicned.com/wp-content/images/2008/flnl_insidecover.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/bassomatic.jpg

(Great tune, btw!)

man, morello has way too much verbiage going on in that photo

And "geek" didn't even fit into his shirt, so he had to put it in his cap.

thats what im saying, its nuts

http://blog.adaptiveblue.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/becket-042508.png

http://talesofinterest.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/trapperkeeper.jpg

morello has way too much verbiage going on in that photo

i thought this was in reference to the PMRC photo upthread

vividly remember staring at this photo

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m3/jun2008/3/1/9C0C1CEC-01BD-427F-BE4FFD32E89A96FD.jpg

sitting on v v scratchy living room couch on belleville avenue, no AC, probably listening to tony toni tone

this picture represented something completely, completely other

Who's the person in the photo, Roxy? She looks kinda scary.

she's kate moss and she's scary as hell

<3 her

You love her because she's scary, or despite it?

cause

http://www.banned.com/store/media/more_images3/AW-SpecLarge1.jpg

this shit was cool to me in the 90s

does not look v cool to me now

not a single image of a 26 Red t-shirt on the Internet apparently

Shit Music, Shit Films but HYPERCOLOUR T-SHIRTS!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV8lOBYGaaE

This educational music video from 1991 by the Finnish Alcohol Company provides a wonderful example of early 90s cool.

The video warns teens not to have sex while drunk, btw, as they might forget to use a condom. The chorus: "sex is fun while you're sober / when you're drunk you do it the wrong way". If I'd personally followed this maxim, I'd probably had about 60% less sex in my life.

i'll see your 60% and raise you 39.5%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ9HG0nGe-g

http://img0.etsystatic.com/007/0/6878883/il_fullxfull.369288492_gb7o.jpg

this kind of top

The Most 90s Thing That Could Ever Exist

The zeitgeist summed perfectly in one technological artifact, which is a VHS promoting Windows 95 starring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry.

this feel like a definitive moment in 'Cool Britannia' awfulness, exemplary in the way it manages to take things that had been vibrant and charming in previous decades (The Avengers, Suggs) and transmute them into objectionable garbage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8BiAaC5qZo

just saw Paul Hendy on an old episode of Celebrity Squares

http://i4.gazettelive.co.uk/incoming/article6803904.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/90s-Banner.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T-P63_E-Ss

The 90s are significantly long ago now to look very strange indeed. Any LOL WTF 00s images, or is it too soon?

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/710S5J017CL.gif

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https://www.instagram.com/map_pointz/

lol courtesy of OP twitter! this is very much accurate to my experiences at the time.

oh no sorry didn't realise it was Max R that started the thread not the real max

The ’90s Are Old is a Longreads series by Rebecca Schuman, wherein she unpacks the cultural legacy of a decade that refuses to age gracefully.

this premise has promise

This looks rad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igfhy3Q5CeI

"Where Have All the Cowboys Gone" came on the jukebox last night. Don't think I'd heard it in maybe 15 years. Just here to say: holds up!

Weird! Had the exact same thought the other day.

https://my90stv.com/

That seems like a pretty dangerous thing to unleash at the start of a work day.

Today I have learned, by very random chance, about this artifact of the forgotten 90s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_Sty

Consider the episode titles. Consider these clips.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN0hBes7BmU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8xX045dpv4

And HOLY fuck consider an actual *1990s fan page* for the show that's STILL UP. The URL alone!

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aarong/from-andrew/upn/pigsty/about.html