As a kid I really thought my life would be fabulous in the 90s. I'd be a teenager, I'd have a car, a boyfriend, I'd be popular, a cheerleader, etc. Wow, what a let down that entire decade was. Here's my top five reasons to dislike the 90s.
1. It ended the 80s. 2. Whiney music. 3. The rebirth of boy bands. 4. MTV started to suck. 5. The grunge look. It's okay to bathe.
Posted by Eddie Wilson (Member # 169) on :
I enjoyed grunge bands like Pearl Jam and Candlebox, but it really sucks that grunge took over good music like Bon Jovi and Def Leppard. It kind of makes me mad when people look back at the 80s and say it was all hair metal glam Bull****. so what! it was good music. I also miss the art of guitar shredding. Darn these turntables!
Posted by McFly (Member # 354) on :
I've had this convo with so many people I have it memorized:
1990: The Gulf War (oh, the irony, huh?) 1991: Jeffery Dahmer 1992: The L.A. Riots 1993: The first World Trade Center Bombing 1995: Oklahoma City 1996: Olympic Park Bombing 1997: Princess Diana
Truly miserable in terms of humanity.
Posted by fog-80 (Member # 1254) on :
The fact that Princess Diana was still alive? Or that she died?
Why does everyone love her so much??????????
Posted by Ali_with_an_i (Member # 27) on :
I agree with almost everything you guys said... The Jeffery dahmer thing was particularly scary for me since I still live about 20 minutes away from where he lived(thank God the tore down his building). To know that a serial killer was that close for all those yeras still sends shivers down my spine. I as very saddened when Princess Diana passed on. With everything harsh going on in her life, she still found a way to make people happy. She was a classy lady. She also showed her human side that most celebrities and such never really let us see(unless they're promoting something). She did so much for charities around the world and loved what she was doing. To me, she did a whole lot more than what her royal duties asked of her. Last but not least, she was a princess! Don't all little girls at one time or another want to be a princess?
Posted by paulshrimpton (Member # 1022) on :
Not if the price is sleeping with Prince Charles...
For me, worst thing about the nineties was that everything was so packaged and processed. It's like the music was really defined - boy-bands and the like, even many grunge acts were simply boybands that didn't wash. The songs themselves were just repackaged music from previous decades.The movies became stereotypes of each other, remakes of great movies from before. The emphasis was on the packaging, the frills, and never on the content. Some originality would have been nice.
So unlike the eighties, where yes there was an image thing, but it was all original, all new, and all good. Nineties image was like looking through a lens into a re-branded sixties.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
quote:Originally posted by McFly: I've had this convo with so many people I have it memorized:
1990: The Gulf War (oh, the irony, huh?) 1991: Jeffery Dahmer 1992: The L.A. Riots 1993: The first World Trade Center Bombing 1995: Oklahoma City 1996: Olympic Park Bombing 1997: Princess Diana
Truly miserable in terms of humanity.
McFly, you could also have added:
In 1992...FBI siege at a private home (some have it called it a premeditated murder) on a family in Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
Also in 1993...the bloody standoff at the Branch Davidian "church" (more like a cult) compound against FBI agents in Waco, TX. The incident was a 51-day siege that ended up in the compound being torched in a blaze which killed 83 people.
Also in 1996...in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 students and one teacher are shot to death while 10 others were wounded.
Also add the years: 1994: The O.J. Simpson arrest and trial. Also, in Rwanda, 800,000 tribesmen were slaughtered in an ethnic clash.
1998: U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed. That same year, Ted Kaczyinski, the suspected Unabomber is captured and put on trial. Meanwhile, Matthew Shepard, a gay student in Wyoming, is beaten to death on a barbed-wire fencepost, which gives more focus to hate-crime legislation.
1999: War erupts in Kosovo. In the U.S., the Columbine High School shooting massacre, resulting in the deaths of 15 people and wounding 23 others.
A recommended movie which came out last year if you can handle it would be Michael Moore's documentary, "Bowling For Columbine".
The 90's...I can't think of a more bloodied decade in the 20th century, except for the 1940's.
Posted by McFly (Member # 354) on :
Good points, Steven. So much nastiness it's hard to keep track of it all.
That would make every year having some sort of tragedy. I don't really remember that in the 80s. You had John Lennon, Prez got shot, stock market in '87....but aside from that.
And, Fog, why would I be glad she died. I wasn't a fan of hers, but the outpouring of sympathy for all that she did made it a tragedy.
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