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05-13-2022, 06:11 AM #76
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05-13-2022, 06:55 AM #77
My wife just texted me a meme that said Dazed & Confused was released in 93 and set in 76 so a comparable movie today would be about the class of 2005.
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05-13-2022, 07:12 AM #78
I remember parking on some road just outside of Lollapalooza at Great Woods (MA), along with a bunch of others, just so we could kind of hear Pearl Jam live.
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05-13-2022, 07:15 AM #79
Heh, I remember 96 Rock. There's a giant sticker for it on the counter at the pizza place down the street that I always notice.
Speaking of FM stations that had a HUGE impact in the 90s, look no farther than WMMS, The Buzzard 100.7 out of none other than Cleveland, Ohio. Perennially ranked the #1 rock station from the 70s on through the 90s, the source of so much good rock, wild concerts and incredible radio (their hosts went so far as to physically cut the cable that Howard's feed came into town on rival 98.5 WNCX to get Stern temporarily off the air in town).
My girlfriend and I went to their 1994 BuzzardFest in the Flats where Green Day was the headliner. The show was free. When they hit capacity, people started tearing down the fences around the outdoor arena to get in as Green Day took the stage. Riot police were called, the stands felt like they were starting to collapse and I saw so many bottles broken over people's heads. It was wild. We got out of there and The Buzzard brought Green Day back to nearby Blossom Music Center as an apology and made the tickets a whopping $5.
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Lollapalooza though was all-time. Went each year from 92-95, but 94 sticks out the most with Smashing Pumpkins and Beastie Boys bringing it home. That was the top of the mountain right there.I still call it The Jake.
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05-13-2022, 07:23 AM #80Not a skibum
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Have been going down the black hole of various 90s tunes. Was a teen through mid/late nineties and I can't hear My Name is Jonas without rolling through the rest of the Weezer Blue album, my favorite by far is The world has turned and left me here.
So many good mentioned from so many different genre's its ridiculous. Also no cell phones/social media was awesome, no FOMO and the pressures that come from that.
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05-13-2022, 07:27 AM #81
90's appreciation thrad
FNX in Boston was the shit for alternative rock.
I remember seeing Live live in like 91 at a small club in Boston, they fucking rocked.
While at Syracuse U, my friend and I, two hip hop loving white boys, went to all the shows that came through there and Ithaca. WuTang, BDP, Tribe, De La, GangStarr, Black Sheep, Public Enemy, Showbiz and AZ, and on and on…
The top of the mountain for me was awkwardly meeting KRS One at one show and Q-Tip at another.
We used to roll those Philly Blunts daily
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05-13-2022, 07:27 AM #82
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05-13-2022, 07:38 AM #83Registered User
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I went to Greenday @blossom
My town had a tree on the lawn there called
The Hudson tree
Once.it would.get dark we could sneak in and out with beers
My girlfriends older brother was high up in the Belkin Club so we could get into the first rows with stubs
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05-13-2022, 07:43 AM #84
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still have a thing for girls in combat boots I blame that on my upbringing
but this song fuck over and over the summer of 94 kids from high school would sublet rooms in college town every night started with a 22oz rolling rock after work on the porch then spiral out of control from there
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05-13-2022, 07:56 AM #86
Another Hudson native? Nice.
Blossom was, and still is, a fantastic venue. Situated in the National Park and extremely lax perimeter security back in the 90s. The summer before leaving for undergrad my buddies and I would routinely park our car down the road from the valley gate and sneak in through the fence back by the far corner of the lawn and have people buy us beers. We never even knew who would be playing. The time we snuck in and it was Lilith Fair was good for a laugh. Those ladies loved buying us kids beers though.I still call it The Jake.
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05-13-2022, 08:01 AM #87Not a skibum
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Ugh, I hated that song pretty quickly, but now and then comes on the radio and the nostalgia comes flooding back. Sadly think I know all the lyrics from hearing it so much. I was in HS in '94 and they even played it over the loudspeaker one day before first class bell. Know it's overplayed when that's happening.
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05-13-2022, 08:03 AM #88
Damn, started a new thread and didn't see this one existed already. Guess mine got deleted and not merged.
Nobody had cell phones, and nobody had digital cameras. The odd time you'd see a developed photo someone took of you somewhere, and it was so cool thinking back to that event which would have likely been 6 months ago. Having to meet up with friends at a predetermined location and time, people were late sometimes, so you'd end up hanging with others doing the same shit. Things seemed to move quickly back then but in hindsight were still quite slow. The internet comes out, and it was such a cool, wild-west kind of place, with all the chat rooms and weird websites and personal pages and stuff. Think like your favourite ski resort before Vail came along and wrecked it.
And the cars - the 90's had power windows, mirrors, fancy new ABS brakes, airbags, and if you ever got in one with a car phone and 6-CD changer in the trunk you knew you were riding with someone important.
The 1990's fucking rocked. Seinfeld, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and the greatest Hip Hop era of all. Get on an airplane easily, and they'd even toss you a (sometimes shitty) meal. Chicks wearing bellbottoms and tight shirts, Jurassic Park blew our minds, Sharon Stone showed us her pussy, and things were just generally less crowded. Mortal Kombat changed video games forever.
If I had a time machine I'd go back.
Back then, they made actual music videos:
My dad HATED this shizznit!
Remember Windows 95? Man this was exciting for a computer nerd like me. Windows 98 was even better. Do kids from today even know what that picture is on the "Save" icon?
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Many hours spent in these. Sometimes it could take a few visits before your desired selection was "in."
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05-13-2022, 08:09 AM #89Not a skibum
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High Fidelity captures a ton about this era (even though it was released in 2000), a frequent meeting spot was often around one of the chain record stores. Unfortunately didn't have any truly local like High Fidelity and think the 90s was really the beginning proliferation of the corporate retail growth at least in my area I grew up.
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05-13-2022, 08:19 AM #90
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05-13-2022, 08:23 AM #91
One of my favorite things about the 90s was the tech side of things. It was seriously fun to be into computers from the 80s forward, but the proliferation of the young internet was truly a blast. PC gaming was just getting going as Doom came out, then Quake (with Trent Reznor doing the track). Peak ID Software and Blizzard Entertainment before they became too big and corporate for their own good.
Caught the tail end of the whole phreaking scene before the phone systems got digitized. Was SSOOOOOO much fun making long distance prank calls from the school payphone. (Anyone else remember Blue Boxes?) The Warez and hacking scenes were hudge, and although I was a bit young to understand how or what to do, it was fun as hell to watch that whole scene do its thing.
Also being a techie was FUN and exciting back then before it became just another corporate wage slave endeavor where now you're just the modern equivalent of a factory worker. Many a software and hardware company came and went, more failing than going on to massive success, but it was still an exciting time.
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05-13-2022, 08:28 AM #92Registered User
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pink floyd three rivers stadium spring of 94
late to the show because we were driving all over back woods rural kentucky earlier in the day trying to buy mushrooms
found the mushrooms ate them got stuck in traffic and had to do everything to keep sue from parking the car and start walking to the stadium her parents put her in rehab so she missed the dark side of the moon tour and was not going to miss this one
later on we had floor seats couldn't find my roomate the three of us took turns throwing up and then had a great time
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05-13-2022, 08:43 AM #93Registered User
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05-13-2022, 08:46 AM #94
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05-13-2022, 08:59 AM #96
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05-13-2022, 09:04 AM #97
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05-13-2022, 09:15 AM #98
100%! Good times.
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05-13-2022, 09:20 AM #99
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05-13-2022, 09:23 AM #100
In around 1998 I fell into a Black Hole called Fighter Ace. Played that fucking game for hours until it was discontinued. RIP.
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