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The Big Fat Mine Field Thread of 90s Nostalgia

Most people know him from his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujiah", but Jeff Buckley was so much more than that. Son of the 70s multi-genre musician Tim Buckley (who died at 28 of a drug overdose), Jeff inherited all of his father's musicianship, plus Robert Plant's voice. He rose to stardom in 1994 with his debut album Grace, and three years later died in an accidental drowning at age 30, before he could complete his second album. (What was releasable came out the next year as My Sweetheart the Drunk).

There's a DVD of a live concert in Chicago in 1995 that I highly recommend. I still get sad at the thought of how incredibly too soon he left us...



 
One thing I remember from the 90's is desert storm and how some of my friends from school went to war in the 90's. I also recall having a surgery in a military hospital and the chaplain brought me a Bible that had dessert storm motif on the outside of it.
 
South Park started in 1997 (okay, it didn't make it to the UK unil 1998 but it is a product of 1997 so I'm including it for my 1997 entry) and I became obsessed with it right away. Things were getting more edgy and EXTREME as the nineties went on, and South Park's NAUGHTINESS definitely appealed to 16 year old me...but ultimately I just liked it so much because it was so funny.



Howdy ho.
 
Eff it, I'm not waiting until Nov 30 to post this:
 
Mirah said:
One thing I remember from the 90's is desert storm and how some of my friends from school went to war in the 90's. I also recall having a surgery in a military hospital and the chaplain brought me a Bible that had dessert storm motif on the outside of it.
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I remember when I was in middle school they announced the OJ verdict in an assembly at school one day.

I remember watching some of the desert storm coverage on tv.
 
How about this abomination?

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I remember they tried to bring it back a couple years ago. It was unpleasant.
 
Colonel Kira's Left Tit said:
How about this abomination?

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Their slogan should have been "If you ever wondered what chugging gasoline tastes like....try Crystal Pepsi!"
 
Loktar said:
Their slogan should have been "If you ever wondered what chugging gasoline tastes like....try Crystal Pepsi!"
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Unsure if gasoline or Windex. Pepsi always tasted like Windex with sweetener to me, regardless of the incarnation of Pepsi.
 
Crystal Pepsi and Van Haggar. A fitting '90s pairing.
 
The '90s was the decade of Tom Hanks. "Forest Gump." "Apollo 13." "Saving Private Ryan." "Cast Away" was 2000 but we'll count it.
 
 
 
I loved the first few season or whatever of Sliders but it got so dumb and axed so much of the cast that I never watched it all. I remember reading a big webpage about the behind the scenes drama and how the new showrunner hated one of the actresses so left her character in a rape camp or something.

I can't find the right page but this covers some of it: https://www.alternatehistory.com/wiki/doku.php?id=alternate_history:sliders
 
Sliders lost me around the time they killed off Pavarotti. Probably before that, actually.
 
The thing this thread has made me think about is how much more sophisticated marketing and advertising have gotten. The "Space Jam" webpage. That Crystal Pepsi commercial. I remember that being a relatively cool commercial, all things considered, so watching it after all these years it was surprising how unpolished and clunky it looked. You'd expect better from a kid in a junior college. Trailers are another thing. Going past the 90s on that, but a movie like ST II:TWoK still holds up surprisingly well. But I bet the trailer is clunky as hell by modern standards. Late Nite talk shows. Granted, it's been about a decade since I watched a Late Nite talk show, but I pulled up one of Conan's "In the Year 2000" clips, planning to put it here and it's just...odd. Slow and rudimentary. Shit, going back further...Late Nite talk shows. Today you introduce the guest, you say what they're up to, you make a little banter, then you get to whatever they're hawking, show the clip, and go to commercial. Old Johnny Carson reruns were on one of the digital broadcast channels a decade back and they'd have, say, Buddy Ebsen on and just talk about whatever. His time in WWII. Whatever. For multiple segments. And he wasn't promoting anything, they just got him on to talk to.
 
Well Johnny would do that because he was Johnny Fucking Carson with no competition (until Arsenio) and he called the shots. He would have friends on, and talk about whatever was on his mind. He would also let an interview go sideways if he could smell some unexpected laughs he could wring from the guest or what they're saying.

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...got me thinking about Sarah Jessica Parker. In all the time Sex And The CIty was on the air (and in the movies), she was the only one of the cast who never went nude or even exposed a Left Tit. The most human thing she let her character do was accidentally fart once in front of Big... (from a season 1 episode in 1998)

 




Peaches is playing in my head on a regular rotation. I definitely listened to this crazy shit in the 90s.
 
The '90s was around the end of music being allowed to be silly. Flaming Lips, Barenaked Ladies. They Might Be Giants.
 
 
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