how do you remember the nineties? - Reality Bites (1994) Discussion

[–] spartanboi412 14 years ago

Ninties: best decade EVER!

Generation X came into its own... we now have a name for ourselves!

Grunge

Actual music videos on... MTV, what a concept!

Alterna-teen style: chicks wore alot better clothes that looked cute (think
Angela in My So Called Life, Juliana Hatfield was pretty cute too)

The Soviet Union collapsed! Don't need to worry about being incinerated by thermo-nukes anymore!

Good Flicks! Heathers out on VHS and on TV, Pump Up the Volume, Jawbreaker...
Commodore 64!

Fiona Apple!

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[–] PussyCrusher_Principal 14 years ago

you mentioned Juliana Hatfield...just saw RB, and heard "Spin the Bottle" playing while Leilana was filming Janeane Garafalo in the Gap...which brings me to my point: 90s was the single best time for quality music that I can remember. When "Cannonball" was a RADIO SONG! Soul Asylum was popular (Dave Pirner was Winona's BF of 1994, and in film), and although there was better music, it wasn't a bad thing to hear "Black Gold" on the radio. Nirvana. Pearl Jam. Good, quality music actually being played on the radio. Belly. Hole. Soundgarden. "It's a Shaaame...About Ray" (sing it while reading it, like I did writing it).I could go on and on. I miss it...

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[–] ccr1633 14 years ago

90s popular music certainly was an improvement on the 80s (at least between 1982-1989). It stands at the moment as the last gasp of rock n roll. Rap laid a giant turd on it, which stinks up the airwaves to this day, kind of like a prolonged disco effect.

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[–] Bree_33 14 years ago

It kinda sucked (except for the TV shows)

I am not under any orders to make the world a better place.

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[–] euro4569 14 years ago

Shelby High School
Working at Camelot Music
Everyone freaking out about the new 1994 Boston comeback
Isothermal Community College
Starting Greensboro College
Grunge
The ALternative Scene (not the emo scene)
No Chavs
Daria
The Media Play hype
The Macarena

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[–] leeconferido 14 years ago

GenX

Worse time in fashion. Waif was in. Kate Moss ruled. Grunge fashion. Ugghhh! It made women look frumpy. Untucked shirts. But at least men looked like real men.

Hairstyles popularized by Britpop.

Music was great, except for Celine Dion, Spice Girls and several Boybands. Indie or alternative music ruled. Pulp and AiC were my faves but never saw them live (wth I was too young).

When I became a teen, I was only allowed to see Hanson. They were the 90's Beiber.

Fave movies: American Pie, Trainspotting, Schindler's List, Something about Mary, Romy and Michelle, Dumb and Dumber, Wayne's World 1 and 2 (schwingg!!!), Reality Bites, Pulp Fiction, Toy Story and Lion King. Like I saw each a hundred times. Although I only appreciated Pulp Fiction and Reality Bites when I was much, much older.

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[–] amandabom 14 years ago

I lived in Miami too when I was 19-20 !! great times 1995.

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[–] monique79-1 14 years ago

I graduated from HS in 1998, I guess I'm part of the Gen X group as I was born in '79. I really didn't care for the 90's, was never a fan of grunge or the dirty guy look. I think my favorite decade has been the 80's, it's of my first memories, good tv, and cheesy awesome 80's music.

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[–] sarbear82 14 years ago

"no war in iraq, no terrorism, no stupid president...no problems!
well, maybe there were a few problems but we lived in a bubble and ignorance is bliss.
i want the 90's back!!!!"

If you aren't joking, then I have to believe you were in diapers in the 90's because 1. We had the Gulf War in 91 against Iraq but fought in Kuwait. 2. We had a lot of terrorism. World Trade Center bombing in 93 and Oklhoma City in 95 were the biggest. 3. Who do you think raised that "idiot" president? Because George Bush was president and then Bill (loves a good cigar) Clinton, so...
Truthfully nothing much has changed exept for the cloths, and that is a vast improvement.

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[–] jname96 14 years ago

I was a teenager in the 90s.. graduated high school in 2000.

I LOVED the 90s: such a cool, hip, edgy decade--it was the antithesis of the extravagant 1980s. It was dark, alternative, grungy, ironic, sarcastic.. totally me. In the 90s, it became cool to be cynical and jaded, lol.

I agree, this was the last decade of good music--or at least, ORIGINAL music. Cuz we all know the dirty little secret of the 00s: rehashing the effin' 80s. So stupid. I hate the 00's, and it even was my funnest decade too--cuz I was an adult and could do my own things. I'm just saying--culturally, the 00s sucked with bad music and reality shows.

Strangely, because it's not as "flashy" as past decades, I think the 90s gets no love. But compared to the sh*tstorm of the 00s, it's definitely redeemed haha..

the 90s:
Sinead O'Connor
Wilson Phillips
Twin Peaks
Roseanne
Northern Exposure
Bill Clinton
Nirvana
Alternative/Grunge
Beavis and Butthead
Alanis Morissette
Gangsta Rap

--I agree, the late 90s was the precursor to the 00s, so it doesn't count, haha..

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[–] jmbug-1 13 years ago

Grunge - Flannel shirts, ripped jeans, Doc Martens, babydoll dresses, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains.
A total and complete obession with the 60's culture, experimenting with weed.
I graduated High School in 1993 so the nineties for me were very liberating. I had a blast!

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