Things you miss about the 90s..

[TheAdvocate]

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I miss the alternative rock movement. I've been collecting a wide range of the music I loved when I was in college and so much of it is amazingly dissimilar. When I turn on the current day rock stations it just seems like the same sound from song to song. Maybe I just don't get it anymore but that's how I feel at least.

Stop listening to ClearChannel, which has gobbled up all the radio stations in the country and is in cahoots with MTV and the big record labels to force feed you disposable teen pop and American Idol quality crap.

The successor bands to what you remember are all on indie labels and are blasted all day long on satellite and internet radio. Try Sirius channel 26. It'll take a couple of weeks to get up to speed, but the music is just as strong as ever, possibly even better. And very diverse.

 

[uallas5]

I miss the 4 or so years I spent backpacking round Europe. Lots of meeting great people in great setting, drinking lots and hooking up, having everything I owned fit into my backpack.

 

[UNCjigga]

79 cent gas.

 

[BoberFett]

I joined the army and then got married (for the first time) in the early 90s, so I missed out on most of the fun stuff from that decade.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Originally posted by: TheAdvocate

Originally posted by: Fingolfin269
I miss the alternative rock movement. I've been collecting a wide range of the music I loved when I was in college and so much of it is amazingly dissimilar. When I turn on the current day rock stations it just seems like the same sound from song to song. Maybe I just don't get it anymore but that's how I feel at least.

Stop listening to ClearChannel, which has gobbled up all the radio stations in the country and is in cahoots with MTV and the big record labels to force feed you disposable teen pop and American Idol quality crap.

The successor bands to what you remember are all on indie labels and are blasted all day long on satellite and internet radio. Try Sirius channel 26. It'll take a couple of weeks to get up to speed, but the music is just as strong as ever, possibly even better. And very diverse.

Hey thanks for the tip man. I have a car equipped with XM (surely a similar station is available?) on the way and one thing I've found from listening to my friends is that even if you can't find good current day music you can at least find some nice genre specific channels.

I'm definitely on the look out for NEW stuff however so I will definitely be scouring the indy channels.

 

[sonoma1993]

i miss the good ol tv show from the 90's ... All That, Are you afraid of the dark, wild n crazy kids, hey dude, hang time, City Guys, pete and pete. and many other shows. Lot of today show are ok but most of them just plain suck. nothing like the 90's show that had quality to them.

I wish Nickelodeon would come out with a channel that would have all 80's and 90's classic nickelodeon shows on it. The good ol snick days, gotta miss it.

 

[pradeep1]

End of high school, college, starting work life. Little responsibility, no cares.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Happiness

 

[zmaster]

Power rangers and frasier!

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: zmaster
Power rangers and frasier!

Interesting contrast.

 

[OrByte]

the Sundays

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: zmaster
Power rangers and frasier!

Green ranger was the sh!t!!! Leet flute.

 

[Rubycon]

BTW 80's > 90's

 

[txrandom]

Now that I think of it, pretty much everything on TV was awesome. Now we have cartoons that suck and reality shows.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I also miss Magic: the Gathering before they realized they had to keep adding new cards, and therefore new rules, in order to keep making money.

yeap! god i spent so much money on that crap. i had full sets of those cards. then they came out with like 5 expansions at once and said fuck it.



I miss cheap gas (man $.75/gallon rocked), no bills or mortgages, college life, etc.

oh and good comic books. they got lame in the late 90's

 

[HeXploiT]

Industrial & Electronic music.

 

[ComputerWizKid]

I miss the TV Shows, the music and my child hood

 

[jamesbond007]

Not in any particular order:

Lack of responsibility (I was younger)
Boy Scouts
Bill Clinton
Napster
Experiencing broadband (256kbps DSL) for the first time
Sleep-overs playing Goldeneye and 1080 Snowboarding on the N64
Trying to download the Internet...with my 3.2GB Fujitsu HDD (which still works!)

 

[Doctor Nyse]

I miss Bowl Cuts mostly

 

[vidguru83]

"Emo"-less retards

Oh, and no myspace.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

up

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Ren and Stimpy
Beavis and Butthead
Early 90's hair that just looked as bad as 80's hair.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Jenny, sweetest love i've ever known.

 

[Triumph]

Zubaz. These pants need to make a comeback.

 

[TBone48]

My abs.