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 [emoji23]

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You shut your whore mouth. August and Everything After is a goddamn masterpiece of an album. Fight me.

That said, the 90's were amazing on all fronts for music. Record stores (remember those places?) were always jumping, and everyone would cruise there and listen to their new CD's in the parking lot. I wasn't cool enough for the 6-disc changer, but I had the detachable face stereo, and a '73 VW bug with dual glass packs and a 250w amp in it. Pioneer 3-way 6x9's and a 10" sub in a box I built and put behind the rear seat. Hell of a lot of sound for a tiny car.

Some notable 90's music that hasn't been hit on yet:

Peak Guns n Roses

Just past absolute peak Metallica

Nine Inch Nails shows up and starts melting faces

Marlyin Manson is blamed for terrorizing/brainwashing the youth from their good christian teachings

RAGE AGAINST THE FUCKING MACHINE

Garth Brooks reinvented country and that brought a new era of Country/Western

Willie was singing to the taxman and Johnny Cash still had a bit more in the tank

Jerry Garcia was still on tour

Dre, Snoop, Tupac, Wu-Tang, Cypress Hill and so many more perfected gangsta rap

Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, grunge in general

A girl that was slightly interested in you + DMB = 2nd base minimum. Hell yeah I was a fan

Techno kind of became a thing with Daft Punk, The Prodigy, The Crystal Method, Aphex Twin, The
Chemical Brothers, and Underworld, among others

Even ska made a run at it with Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Less Than Jake, and No Doubt (before Gwen fired the horns)

Punk had a moment in the sun with Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Pennywise and Dropkick Murphys

Some older bands still held relevance and were throwing down like R.E.M. (hit their mainstream peak), U2, Aerosmith, Rolling Stones, Tom Petty made a comeback, even fucking Meatloaf showed up out of nowhere.

I was too young to know what got the milfs and cougars going, but I'd imagine Kenny G and Yanni might have helped.

And the 90's went out with the emergence of Napster 1.0. Pirate all the music you can while you can because we're breaking the mold tomorrow.

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Bibles of truth right here.

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The world has turned and left me here.

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Best song on their best album.

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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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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No. Just no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc

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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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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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If you want to get really old, I think Jax and I posted on ttips maybe back in the 90's. I think so. I actually know that. Still haven't met her.

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Ttips started in 1998, so yeah. I think I first tele’d & drank with Mitch in ‘95. To keep this post relevant, Mitch had good taste in music.

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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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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rec.music.phish was a creation of mine

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That was an awesome community

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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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No iPhone in 2005 and we were a few years into a bullshit war, so 2005-present could be considered a comparable cultural shift to '76-'93.

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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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Nerd!

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And yes a Graphix bong.

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Oh man, plastic bongs. I remember.

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Oh man, plastic bongs. I remember.

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Graffix bong sing along with the cry...

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Nerd!

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100%! Good times.

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Hamms.. That's for people who can't afford "beer". It's so nasty it says "hey PBR, hold my beer".. But it is fitting because it's as bad as the Phish music is.

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We were down in Denver last week and I noticed that the Campus Lounge was hawking the nostalgia train pretty hard with a Hamm's truck. I guess it's cool now??

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In around 1998 I fell into a Black Hole called Fighter Ace. Played that fucking game for hours until it was discontinuedAttachment 416200. RIP.

And you all can hate on DMB all you want, and despite multiple concerts I still don't know why it has the effect on chicks that it does, BUT I at least could recognize that and it was shooting fish in a freaking barrel. Them and Radiohead for whatever reason.

I was only an hour from UT, so you guys can keep your stinky, hairy jam band chicks from your Dead and Phish shows. I liked the hordes of perfect 10 college girls that always went to the DMB concerts. ;)

DMB aside though, there was SO much great music floating through Austin back then.

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Austin? A local music scene?

Well duh..... ;)

I always wonder what people did during the work day before the internet. Did they read books or do crossword puzzles? Maybe spend all day at the water cooler?

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Austin? A local music scene?

Well duh..... ;)

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Here’s a flyer for the show. DJ Dust is gonna be there. You’re standing on my Jncos.

How many bands didn’t sound like SRV? Well, there was Cadillac Voodoo Choir.

Time for SOUND CHECK!!! Cadillac Voodoo is playing at steamboat.

Good times.

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I always wonder what people did during the work day before the internet. Did they read books or do crossword puzzles? Maybe spend all day at the water cooler?

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yes. exactly that.

Sunday mornings my girl and I would take the Sunday paper down to Melocream donuts, pick up a couple giant apple fritters and large coffees and sit on the lifeguard stand for a couple hours.

No internet was good.

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Sunday mornings my girl and I would take the Sunday paper down to Melocream donuts, pick up a couple giant apple fritters and large coffees and sit on the lifeguard stand for a couple hours.

No internet was good.

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We also didn't know how homophilic and racist some people in our circle of family and friends actually were..

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yes. exactly that.

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Worked in IT helpdesk for a consulting/software dev company as an intern in my teens, so we definitely had early internet access. Lots of the above, but we also found quite a bit of blatant porn use on work computers (desktops). Not sure it was well known how accessible that was to IT Admin types by the masses back then. One guy did end up getting fired for having kiddie porn on his work computer. Again desktop so not like there was any claim it was accessed after-hours/at-home etc. So that was quite a bit of water cooler talk back then.

Also should note I spent a decent amount of time hitting on (and striking out) women in their late 20s early 30s in an office environment as a 16/17 y/o. We didn't have HR training for sexual harassments back then I don't think.

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I always wonder what people did during the work day before the internet. Did they read books or do crossword puzzles? Maybe spend all day at the water cooler?

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I think they call it sexual harassment now
plus lots of drinking at lunch time

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No iPhone in 2005 and we were a few years into a bullshit war, so 2005-present could be considered a comparable cultural shift to '76-'93.

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How old are you?

Beepers before mobile phones were affordable and didn't require a fucking backpack to carry around..

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And it wasn't just beep beep beep with a callback number. Folks had a whole different alphanumeric 9 digit language while using them.. Like if it was your wife and important it just said 911 911 911 or something like that..

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We were down in Denver last week and I noticed that the Campus Lounge was hawking the nostalgia train pretty hard with a Hamm's truck. I guess it's cool now??

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Dayumm. She’s refreshing. I thought Hamms died a long time ago. With Schlitz and Pabst.

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I always wonder what people did during the work day before the internet. Did they read books or do crossword puzzles? Maybe spend all day at the water cooler?

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They worked. Seriously. Shit got done before the internet

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And you all can hate on DMB all you want, and despite multiple concerts I still don't know why it has the effect on chicks that it does, BUT I at least could recognize that and it was shooting fish in a freaking barrel. Them and Radiohead for whatever reason.

I was only an hour from UT, so you guys can keep your stinky, hairy jam band chicks from your Dead and Phish shows. I liked the hordes of perfect 10 college girls that always went to the DMB concerts. ;)

DMB aside though, there was SO much great music floating through Austin back then.

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Some good stuff outta Austin in the 90s. Bad Livers. I do like the Slamgrass. Bass with a fucking tuba! Mark Rubin FTW. Wish I'd made it there to see them. They came to me instead.

Has it been discussed yet whether "thrad" in the title was intentional or not?

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If you want to get really old, I think Jax and I posted on ttips maybe back in the 90's. I think so. I actually know that. Still haven't met her.

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This is fact.

Ah yes, Rage and Radiohead- two other bands that are in my top ten to play at my wake, no doubt. OK Computer immediately harkens back to simpler times. Kinda. Bought and sold all my CD's at Twisted Shout. I guess the dude retired/sold a few months back.
Someone else mentioned removable face cd player, hellz yeah drove a Civic Hatchback with Pioneer upgrade and two Rockford Fosgate kickers in the back. Good times. I got an 8 track and spare tire in the back seat but that's flat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmXZOI7cM0M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8de2W3rtZsA

You know, to the subject matter, this show was fuggin awesome. Gotta credit Ms MT for finding this back in the day, and we were sooooo pumped for the 2nd season :-( still worth the effort to watch the only season they ever made. Doc martins anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPYoQQMm7XU

https://youtu.be/skGqpC0WYSk
https://youtu.be/4IED3Q5VLeg
https://youtu.be/Log7DfzLLjY
https://youtu.be/x3TRh1qRpGc

If you snowboard and have ties to 1990's SLC this 5 part series is amazing:

https://youtu.be/u56EW2solPM

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pink floyd three rivers stadium spring of 94

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Was there. On 2 tabs of the best acid I’ve ever had in my life. Incredible show. There was a van full of us long haired punks with a few dozen joints we rolled in the van heading up from MoTown. I just remember joints being passed right and left the whole fucking show.
And I was in a video game.

Anybody else listen to these guys? Two of the most underrated rock bands and albums of the 90s. Grant Lee Phillips still putting out solo music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsNBfA4Z_k


And Rob Dickenson, nephew to Bruce of Iron Maiden. Haunting voice and so much guitar. Has put out a lot of solo music since then too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a93CdqA72I8