Social Science Children of the 90s
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The ISIS beheadings were done much more delicately back then. They were just misunderstood.
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N64 turned me off video games for about ten years.... that funky controller with over a dozen buttons and gherkin joy stick... hated mario 64 being 3d and open world, I like open world games like gta, but not for mario.... mario 1, 3 on nes and smb on the snes are the only true mario games for me.... I know there have been some others on the later systems that have gone to a 2.5 visual look, but I already lost interest after m64.... and why did princess toadstool suddenly change her name to peach?
I think the best thing about the 1990s was that it was the only decade where a really good alternative song could be a hit on radio and there are hundreds of examples of this...the 80s also was a decade where alternative music popped into the mainstream, sometimes.
So music culture was very exciting in the mainstream thanks to 1991 and all those great albums to start the decade really set the trend for the rest of that decade..
Remember shows like Recovery and Alternative Nation on mtv. Really cool.
In 1996 I distinctly remember seeing the smashing pumpkins melloncollie album posters everywhere and then you had garbage and no doubt posters for tragic kingdom..but what I really mean is even nine inch nails with head like a hole was a hit in the early 90s, then you had lots of other great songs on the fringes of the mainstream that everyone knew about to some extent...
It was nerd culture and it became the mainstream which seemed to slowly morph back to corporate cheese after the mid 2000s to now.
I think it was a golden age for both sport and music in the mainstream..
But what added to the excitement was that it was the beginning of home PC technology the net, the beginning of video games in the mainstream...
Compare music back then to now in the mainstream. It was millions times better back then.
I'm not saying music was better then, I'm saying it was better in terms of mainstream exposure...
Take the year 2000 as an example. The strokes, queens of the Stone Age, the avalanches, radiohead, super furry animals, primal scream, Powderfinger...Y'Know, at least we had bands who were good at writing songs and getting some exposure...
These days we don't get that at all.
I have to say that television has gotten a lot better post 2000. I mean there are so many good shows over the last decade. A perfect example being curb your enthusiasm following up Seinfeld and it's a better show. That's just one example. Lots of great shows released that weren't played on free to air in Oz, but you can still watch them in Apple TV etc..
So music culture was very exciting in the mainstream thanks to 1991 and all those great albums to start the decade really set the trend for the rest of that decade..
Remember shows like Recovery and Alternative Nation on mtv. Really cool.
In 1996 I distinctly remember seeing the smashing pumpkins melloncollie album posters everywhere and then you had garbage and no doubt posters for tragic kingdom..but what I really mean is even nine inch nails with head like a hole was a hit in the early 90s, then you had lots of other great songs on the fringes of the mainstream that everyone knew about to some extent...
It was nerd culture and it became the mainstream which seemed to slowly morph back to corporate cheese after the mid 2000s to now.
I think it was a golden age for both sport and music in the mainstream..
But what added to the excitement was that it was the beginning of home PC technology the net, the beginning of video games in the mainstream...
Compare music back then to now in the mainstream. It was millions times better back then.
I'm not saying music was better then, I'm saying it was better in terms of mainstream exposure...
Take the year 2000 as an example. The strokes, queens of the Stone Age, the avalanches, radiohead, super furry animals, primal scream, Powderfinger...Y'Know, at least we had bands who were good at writing songs and getting some exposure...
These days we don't get that at all.
I have to say that television has gotten a lot better post 2000. I mean there are so many good shows over the last decade. A perfect example being curb your enthusiasm following up Seinfeld and it's a better show. That's just one example. Lots of great shows released that weren't played on free to air in Oz, but you can still watch them in Apple TV etc..
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When my parents were still together,
VCRs were the technological craze, some neighbors had them but we didnt, expensive i guess at the time, I remember being quite impressed when I visited my dad who had moved interstate for summer school holidays and saw he had a black shiny vcr and trips to the video store with him became a ritual during my stay. I reckon it was probably the first thing he bought at his new place along with his little tv
The kid would have been about 5 but talked like a 50 year old who likes to take his ute out to the great outdoors on the weekend, all that was missing was facial hair and a stubby in his hand, hilarious
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N64 was brilliant, so many great games.
Mario Party was the most dangerous of them all.
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N64 was the zenith of non gimmicky gaming from Nintendo.
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I still remember my grandmother going away to Greece (yes she had a video before us!!!) and we were able to borrow the video while she was away. Best month+ ever, think the first movie we watched was the Aussie film "The Big Steal".
Remember when people mainly kids were obsessed with laser pointers?
One campaigner kept pointing his at the screen during a showing of Godzilla (98) I went to. He stopped when he had enough verbal abuse thrown his way.
haha yep kids would always flash them at the screen in the cinema. I remember my mum would never let me get one because she said they were dangerous and could blind people
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One of the worst films I've ever seen, one of the few films I've contemplated walking out early but I was on a date so I had to sit through it until the end.
Soundtrack wasn't too bad though.
Puff daddy was the main so wasn't it?
Led zeppelin? yeah Im pretty sure it was
I see red as mostly pink these days thanks to some idiot blinding me with one 20 years ago.
Hah, yep. Had some Rage Against the Machine and Green Day so I didn't mind it as a teen.
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GoldenEye.
Golden*******Eye
Golden*******Eye
Still my favourite bond film!
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No. 3 for me behind You Only Live Twice and Goldfinger, but it is bloody good!
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