Nice to know it wasn't just me. Or my radio station. It's just not one of those songs people bring up when they bring up 90's stuff.
Not like, say, this:
I was born in 1990, so birth to third grade was the 90's for me. However, I don't have nostalgia like everyone else does. I have good memories of it because it was a happy childhood and and more innocent world and a time of prosperity, all of which I guess I could feel in the sense that there wasn't anything bad going on that I was aware of.
But as I say quite a lot, I have virtually no pop culture nostalgia. I was an avid reader and not much else. My dad only listened to classic rock, my mom didn't listen to any music at all, and neither did my friends, I guess, so that's out. I didn't watch TV at all, so there goes a huge component. I was obsessed with the Pokemon card game, but the first video game system of any sort I obtained was a Gameboy Color, for the express purpose of playing Pokemon Blue, which I never finished. I never owned a console until around the peak of the Gamecube's popularity, and that was just for multiplayer value.
It helps that I'm an only child. Which also explained why I stayed innocent about sex, drugs, and profanity for so long, maybe.
Sorry to rain on everyone's parade, but that's my 90's view.
edited 18th Oct '10 1:22:34 PM by frog753
Flora Segunda | World Made By Hand | Monster Blood Tattoo ^You should read these series.Pokémon's not pop culture enough for you? I wanna be the very best, like no-one ever was. To catch them is my real test. To train them is my cause...
I also saw Digimon and Dragon Ball Z, but I have a feeling that they didn't reach the UK until sometime in 2000.
edited 18th Oct '10 1:31:58 PM by OldManHoOh
Well, it is, but it's just one thing. And the vast majority of people had abandoned it within a year. I know that sounds weird now, but I basically mean: Everyone was involved with it in second grade. Most people were saying it was out of style by third grade.
And now that I know so much more about media, about anime and video games in general, I still have conflicting feelings about Pokemon and how I viewed it then.
Mostly the point of my post is that a lot of people the same age as me get nostalgic over music and TV, and that means essentially nothing to me. Also, I'm still have trouble getting used to seeing, on the internet and from the older students at college, nostalgia by people who were in middle school, high school, or even college in the 90s. They were just so...aware!
edited 18th Oct '10 1:34:20 PM by frog753
Flora Segunda | World Made By Hand | Monster Blood Tattoo ^You should read these series.Oddly, I don't remember all that much from between about 1987 (when we moved to the house in the country we never had a chance to fix up) and, oh, 1991 (when things finally started to improve). That's when the 1990s really started for me.
As for when they ended? Dunno. 9/11 was one thing, but I'd say 2002 because of, well, rejections.
online since 1993 | huge retrocomputing and TV nerd | lee4hmz.info (under construction) | heapershangout.comDepends on the person, I guess. I dropped the TV show relatively early (Orange Islands or so), but the last game I played was Fire Red, five or six years after I picked up the franchise.
The weird thing is, maybe it's a new generation or whatever, but the games still sell despite it not really being on the pop culture radar any more.
edited 18th Oct '10 1:43:12 PM by OldManHoOh
The '90s had some really good shit in them, and were pretty much the best decade for electronic music.
But the world didn't end when they ended. Although the 00s were a pretty mediocre decade in terms of music and culture, things took a turn for the epic near the end and this decade looks like it's going to be balls-out awesome in terms of pop culture.
The 90s had a passable movie with a passable Doctor plus a couple non-canon charity specials. The 2000s had 59 episodes of Doctor Who with Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, many of them brilliant, and a couple of canon charity specials. And Murray Gold scoring.
That said, I still likes some 90s stuff.
edited 18th Oct '10 4:44:40 PM by OldManHoOh
The '90s were when hip-hop moved from "cheesy party jams" to "legitimate form of music", and for that they are okay.
You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!@Central: ...Yes. Yes I do.
This thread is going to make me spend a bunch of money on iTunes, I swear.
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It alternated between interesting (most of the work by Emigre) and shit (the numerous "distressed" faces).
I was born in the 80's, but most music that makes me nostalgic is from the 90's because that is around the time I started listening to things other than my parents' records. Basically 1990 up to 1993 I was chiefly into pop and the most mainstream of mainstream rap (fun fact: first album I ever bought with my own money was Totally Krossed Out by Kris Kross). Then 1994 came around, Weezer, Green Day and Beck started crossing over enough to get top 40 radio play, and I decided this "alternative rock" thing sounded interesting, and that dominated my listening habits in some form or other through 1999.

Banjo-Kazooie was released. I swear that thing (and its early 2000s sequel) got better with age.
It probably wasn't in the Top 40, but...
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edited 18th Oct '10 12:34:40 PM by OldManHoOh