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Hmm I don't know. Wasn't grunge at its peak in 1994? Pearl Jam, STP, etc. I think Green Day was on the rise at this time too, though they may have been more around 1995. For some reason nothing sticks out about 1996. 1997 was Titanic, Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls (for better or worse), Smash Mouth, etc.
Oh wait, there was Space Jam in 1996 - lol.
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Reason: Edit: Spice Girls did break out in 1996. Not a fan myself, but a cultural phenomenon nonetheless.
Hmm I don't know. Wasn't grunge at its peak in 1994? Pearl Jam, STP, etc. I think Green Day was on the rise at this time too, though they may have been more around 1995. For some reason nothing sticks out about 1996. 1997 was Titanic, Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls (for better or worse), Smash Mouth, etc.
Oh wait, there was Space Jam in 1996 - lol.
'94 was stereotypical 90's at its finest. Everyone wore flannel in that year. My So Called Life was on ABC in the fall of that year. The mid-90's were just boring. I never liked the changes made to the culture of '87-'93. Did the edgy FOX Network really need stuff like "X-Files" and "Living Single"? Nickelodeon only needed three Nicktoons. Some stuff should have been dropped. Urkel just got to be too old. The mid-late 90's are totally forgettable. They were nothing like the decades before then. '94 was the year anything went. Not many people cared about pop culture anymore. From mid '93 to '96, people only payed attention to "pot" culture. There was nothing going on.
I'm starting to see some nostalgia from the early 90's like Flat Top haircuts(for African American men), Neon Colors, and some of the current pop music having an Early 90's type of feel(like Katy Perry's Roar). I'd give it a year until the mid 90's nostalgia would come full blast!
Hmm I don't know. Wasn't grunge at its peak in 1994? Pearl Jam, STP, etc. I think Green Day was on the rise at this time too, though they may have been more around 1995. For some reason nothing sticks out about 1996. 1997 was Titanic, Backstreet Boys, Spice Girls (for better or worse), Smash Mouth, etc.
Oh wait, there was Space Jam in 1996 - lol.
The grunge movement in its strongest form lasted roughly from 1992-1998. Its effects lingered beyond '98 and strongly influences rock music up to this day. It also depends how you define "grunge". Very few of the 90's rock bands you refer to as Grunge were actually grunge bands. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Bush, and STP were grunge. Green Day and most other bands swept up in the grunge movement were not grunge bands. Green Day was more punk.
90's Alternative Rock can be broken down into sub-categories. You had:
Grunge-
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Soundgarten
Bush
Stone Temple Pilots
Smashing Pumpkins
Lit
Alanis Morsette
Punk/Spa-
Green Day
Sublime
The Offspring
311
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sonic Youth
Industrial Rock-
Nine Inch Nails
Tool
Filter
Ministry
Heavy Metal-
Metallica
Korn
Pantera
Godsmack
Rap Rock-
Rage Against the Machine
Limp Bizkit
Miscellaneous-
Oasis
REM
Jewel
Primus
In the latter 90's, you had a pop-punk style emerge started by Blink 182 and followed by A New Found Glory. This style was popular from roughly '08-'01. You also had during that same period a hard rock form emerge. Bands like Disturbed, Saliva, System of a Down, Slipknot, and Mudvayne. These forms replaced grunge starting around '98 or so.
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I am a gen X'er and I know this is a millenials thread but I have a few things to say. Im not trying to disrespect anyone here but the 90's are seen by many to be the start of todays values and norms. When it comes to entertainment the 90s are the time when more racy and controversial things showed up on TV, tradional rock music died only to be replaced by hip hop culture and the grunge music. Our entertainment became garbage during the 90s. Our values and political worldview changed drastically as well. Political correctness was literally spawned in the 90s, terms like "multiculturalism and homophobe" were created to "educate" society on the new expectations of political thought. Traditional American values, and Christian values were denigrated and replaced with these new leftist/socialist principles. In 1992 we affirmed this by electing ex-hippie Bill Clinton as president. Since then we have entrusted government with more control over our economy, our healthcare and our safety. We now cannot smoke cigarettes in public, cannot drink to much coke in NYC, and must wear helmets to ride a bicycle. We need congressional approval to get on an airplane, cannot walk into our children's schools without a full background check, and we cannot visit Canada or Mexico unless we have a passport. We now have a nanny state, in the name of public welfare and safety we have surrendered our freedom. All of this started in the 90s. The technological age of today also had its birth in the 90s. The internet was born and cell phones became widespread. While primitive by todays standards, these new devices became normal in the 90s. Today they are the foundation of life for many people. Some young people (under 30) are so addicted to these things they would literally die if the technology all shut off today. Kids don't talk to people anymore, they text them. No one goes outside, sports are on the decline, hunting and fishing are on the decline, all this because young people prefer the technology of today over time tested pastimes. This gen Xer in his 40s does not see all this as a good thing. I think we don't look nostalgically to the 90s because to many of us its the beginning of a bad time for our nation. My generation was born in and raised up in the "old America". We now are living out our adulthoods in this "New America" I think this gives us a unique prespective on all of this. Im not blaming the millenials for this, in fact this all happened on the watches of both the baby boom generation and my generation. The young people just embraced it much more fully then has other age groups. I just think its sad what we have become.
Did the edgy FOX Network really need stuff like "X-Files" and "Living Single"?
I don't get the connection between "The X Files," one of the best TV series of it's time -- or any other time -- and "Licing Single." I remember the name of that show, but never watched it.
the rest of your post should be been preceeded by "Back in my day..." and went from there.
I guess what surprises me is the lack of nostalgia for the 90s from people born in the 70s. I mean the 2000s was dominated by people born in the 80s (and early 90s). Yet even people born in 1979, still pre-teens in the early 90s seem to miss only the 80s and lump the 90s in with the 00s and even the 10s.
I was born in 1970 which to me means I am a child of the 80s. It was when I grew up, became a teenager, discovered girls, saw the first "Miami Vice," watched videos on NBC on Friday night and all night on TBS (no MTV yet in my small town in South Carolina.) Acid washed jeans were very cool if the right girl wore them! Music was cool to me. I discovered my own bands, so to speak. Tesla was my band whereas Van Halen, though I loved them -- and still do -- were my sister's band.
But I love the 90s, too. Nirvana changed things. "Nevermind" sat my my CD case right alongside Warrant, Guns n Roses and Def leppard. "The X Files" came along and changed TV. Can't believe that was 20 years ago now. Not being a Republican, Bill Clinton came along and brought some excitement to the White House. I finally "got" Us with "Achtung, Baby." My sister, on the other hand, never got past "The Joshua Tree." Now, I love all of their stuff.
To me, the 80s and 90s stand alongside each other like siblings. They look a lot alike, but they were very different too.
1993-1999 sucked. The 80's & Very Early 90's ('90,'91, and '92) > 1993-2012. '92 was the last great year for pop culture. I cannot see anyone being nostalgic for the mid and late 1990's. They were too dull and depressing to return to.
I'm starting to see some nostalgia from the early 90's like Flat Top haircuts(for African American men), Neon Colors, and some of the current pop music having an Early 90's type of feel(like Katy Perry's Roar). I'd give it a year until the mid 90's nostalgia would come full blast!
Yikes, mid 90's nostalgia?!
The Arsenio Hall Show, hi-top fades, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are far more interesting to look at than anything that came out of the mid 90's.
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