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Old 10-11-2012, 06:29 AM
 
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It's kind of interesting, I'm 22, almost 23 years old. I was born in 1990 and it actually seems like the people who miss the 90's the most are around my age, and were just kids during that decade. I'd say 90's nostalgia is mostly a mid 80's to early 90's born thing, which is kinda weird because it seems like everyone from about 29 to 59 years old (born from 1953-1983) is nostalgic for the 80's, there's a much wider appeal for 80's nostalgia for some reason.

Is there love for the 90's from the 70's born later Gen Xers? People from their mid 30s to early 40s? I mean if you were born in 1975, the 90s would have been ages 15-25 to you, I would think after 20 years most people would start to feel nostalgia for that time, no? I was talking to an acquaintance who is 15 years older than me, born in 1975 and he was telling me he felt 'too old' for the 90's which is kind of weird considering he was still just a kid in the early 90's. But then again I never liked the 2000's very much and felt kind of 'old' after about 2003 or so. So maybe some of us just grow old faster.

 
Old 10-11-2012, 07:05 AM
 
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I like some of the 90s music alot ... but I was born in 75, and to me the 80s was the perfect time to grow up. The economy was mostly booming, so there wasn't alot of stress, the cartoons and toys were the best ever, the music was sometimes goofy, but always fun ... I LOVED the 80s. I've actually thought about it before at times, how I really couldn't imagine a better time to grow up, I feel like I had it so much better than most other kids ...
 
Old 10-11-2012, 07:09 AM
 
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I like some of the 90s music alot ... but I was born in 75, and to me the 80s was the perfect time to grow up. The economy was mostly booming, so there wasn't alot of stress, the cartoons and toys were the best ever, the music was sometimes goofy, but always fun ... I LOVED the 80s. I've actually thought about it before at times, how I really couldn't imagine a better time to grow up, I feel like I had it so much better than most other kids ...
When did you feel like the bubbly 80's turned into the dark 90's? Right on 1990 or a bit later?
 
Old 10-11-2012, 12:32 PM
 
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When did you feel like the bubbly 80's turned into the dark 90's? Right on 1990 or a bit later?
I'd say 1992 was really the turning point.

Nirvana's Nevermind--along with a lot of the first big albums from the alternative bands that would blow up in the 90s came out in the fall of 1991--gained popularity and by the summer of 1992, alternative rock was really becoming the trend. All the harder bands that really would set the tone for the era were really just starting to sell a lot records outside of the underground. The Seattle bands were becoming the commercial face of grunge, you had the harder bands like Rage Against the Machine and Tool and Helmet releasing their first or breakthrough releases--Nine Inch Nails was still gaining popularity--and even Pantera was setting up the trends that would change heavy metal in the decade. There were a lot of sort of genre-defining albums released in 1992--everything from the lo-fi indie rock of Pavement and "Slanted and Enchanted" to the reggae-ska-punk hybrid of Sublime that 40 Oz to Freedom would inspire horrible clones of later in the decade to even bands like the Beastie Boys mixing punk and hip hop with funk music with Check Your Head.

On the other end of music, you had the gangster rap that NWA really pioneered with Straight Out of Compton in 1989 really taking over through 1991-92. Pop rap was fading out and the Afrocentric, progressive rap of De La Soul and the more political rap of Public Enemy was sort of influential to the decade but falling back towards the underground as well. By the end of the year you had Dr. Dre's The Chronic which would really influence the trend of smoother gangster rap becoming the popular rap style of the decade.

There were still plenty of cheesy pop hits around in 1992--but as music changed through the year by 1993 all the bands that had popular releases in 1990--stuff like pop-rap like MC Hammer or techno-pop like Depeche Mode or aging baby boomer rockers, were seen as jokes or relics in the youth culture of the day. Songs about drugs and violence became much more common--you didn't have fun poofy haired rock singers singing about girls anymore, you instead had the self-loathing and angst-filled dirge metal of Alice in Chains "Dirt".

It was really a few years later that music slowly moved towards more upbeat styles--I'd say that when punk or more specifically pop-punk started to gain mainstream popularity in 1994 and later on when the bands of the early 90s started to fade away around 1995-1996. By 1997 the culture had changed again--rap music was all shiny suits and champagne, rock music was either upbeat ska-punk or mainstream alternative pop, electronica and dance music was gaining popularity, and the first wave of pop boy bands and teen pop aimed at the Millenial generation was starting to take off. That's when the economy really was peaking with it's upward growth of the late Clinton era as well--crime was down from the early 90s as well--and cities like New York were seeing huge changes in murder rates--as well as the real beggining of the massive gentrification that would change the city in the next decade.
 
Old 10-11-2012, 12:46 PM
 
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I was born in 78. I like both the 80s and 90s. The 90s were more my time. 92 was the chane towards grunge and alt music scene. 92 was somewhat a change. The LA riots from the Rodney King verdict. A presidential candidate on MTV and late night TV playing the Saxophone. The economy was in a recession. In November Clinton was elected and the changes that defined 90s were made.
 
Old 10-11-2012, 01:01 PM
 
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I was born in 78. I like both the 80s and 90s. The 90s were more my time. 92 was the chane towards grunge and alt music scene. 92 was somewhat a change. The LA riots from the Rodney King verdict. A presidential candidate on MTV and late night TV playing the Saxophone. The economy was in a recession. In November Clinton was elected and the changes that defined 90s were made.
Yeah, Clinton was a big change from Bush and Reagan as well. I remember thinking that it wasn't the World War II-generation--my grandparent's generation--that was in charge anymore--it was the Baby Boomer generation of my parents that had the power.

The LA riots were a big wake up call as well---all the years of decline in the inner cities really exploded in that period.
 
Old 10-11-2012, 01:11 PM
 
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Yeah, Clinton was a big change from Bush and Reagan as well. I remember thinking that it wasn't the World War II-generation--my grandparent's generation--that was in charge anymore--it was the Baby Boomer generation of my parents that had the power.

The LA riots were a big wake up call as well---all the years of decline in the inner cities really exploded in that period.
When Regan was president they economy was doing really well. While the Regan presidency had its share of issues it was a good time in American History. The economy runs in cycles, so recessions are a needed part of the cycle. What hit Bush 1 hard was his timing in that economic cycle, the broken promise of "no new taxes" and a failure to address or acknowledge the recession.

Clinton and Regan are more alike than many give credit.
 
Old 10-11-2012, 01:16 PM
 
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The pivotal year was 1992. That was when the 80's ended and the 90's began. Specifically, it was when Nirvana's album Nevermind came out and when Dr. Dre's The Chronic came out around the same time. Music changed drastically. No more 80's hair bands or early 90's boy bands. The youth culture shifted that year and didn't look back. 80's styles faded and the new trend was baggy clothing. The golden years of alternative grunge music were from '92 to '97. After '97, things changed a bit and alternative lost some of its steam. Gangsta Rap got softer and by 2000 was almost non-existent. The new rap became Hip Hip where rappers rap about the club, bottles of champaign, and Rolls Royces. No more 187's on cops and locking down your block.
 
Old 10-11-2012, 01:34 PM
 
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I was born in 1974 and the 80's to me was just full of things that make it so easy to love and have an enormous amount of nostalgia for...

1st off - the music was incredible. the 80's gave us an explosion of different music mainly due to MTV. it allowed all cultures hear and form an appreciation for each others music.
By the time I was in High School my music library consisted of the love of motown infused by my parents to being able to see hip-hop grow from its infancy, and Pop music from Madonna to Depeche Mode.

2nd - technology had not yet stolen our youth. I played outside on a regular until I was in 9th grade at least. Yea we had Atari, but it was fun for about an hour - and unless it was raining or dark outside, I would have much rather been playing outside. TV shows were not a racy and a kid had to work pretty hard to see naked people. If your parents didn't have a porn tape or magazine hidden in their room - you only had the scriggly picture on the cable channels late at night with the sound turned down.

3rd - and this is something most may not have even considered. kids born in the 70's were the 1st generation to enjoy their youth free of segregation and the heavy burden of learning racism from your parents (or should have). That alone made for a much richer childhood.

Name to me any single event of the 90's or later that could compare or was as wide spread as taking turns keeping the channel on MTV until they played the Thriller video again...then all your friends ran into your den to watch it before going back out to rife your bike until the street lights came on.
 
Old 10-11-2012, 02:21 PM
 
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Name to me any single event of the 90's or later that could compare or was as wide spread as taking turns keeping the channel on MTV until they played the Thriller video again...then all your friends ran into your den to watch it before going back out to rife your bike until the street lights came on.
I can sort of relate to this--though I'm some years younger(born in 1979), so I was just a toddler when Thriller came out, though I remember that--and Star Wars and ET and Raiders of the Lost Ark and some of the pop music of the early 80s pretty well. But I really didn't start really being all that cognizant of pop culture until the late 80s--which is a period I have a lot of nostalgia for. But I can remember how big Michael Jackson was—little kids riding around the neighborhood on BMXs doing Thriller dance moves.

But in general I wonder if most people have a period in their childhood--say around 7-14 years of age, that everything seems really sort of exciting and fresh as you discover music and pop culture and come of age--that you'll later look back in a sort of sentimental and idealized fashion.

It's interesting to see all the 90s nostalgia threads started by kids who were born in 1990 on here. I can almost guarantee that the stuff that I'm nostalgic for in the early 90s when I was in junior high is nothing like the stuff that they'll remember as a child from the period--which tend to be things like Nickelodeon shows or the culture of the late 90s. Which makes sense, because if you're a kid born in 1990, by the time 1997 or 1998 comes around you're only 7-8 years old.

I look back at stuff from 1987-1990and I have a lot of very fond childhood memories from that period that leads to a lot of nostalgia for the films or TV of that era, corny as some of them might be--whereas the stuff in the 90s that I remember fondly is more stuff that I can still appreciate artistically in terms of music or film--but that's when I was an adolescent and later went away to college at the end of the decade. My look at the 90s and my memories of the period is just a lot more hard-edged then someone who was a small child in that period.
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