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ToxicSlurpee posted:edit: No wait there is more ridiculous than that. I guess 1995 was peak crazy because, well, Primus. I appear to have found this thread several days after 90's music chat  I had an obsession with the popular alternative music that was played heavily on the radio circa 1995 until probably ~2001 for some drat reason. I suspect it was partially because that was when I transitioned from Middle School to High School, and all the wonderful things that went along with that. Of course it might also be because at the time it was gaining popularity and still a bit raw as a format (or at least seemed that way to my 14 year old brain). I'll have to work on compiling some kind of list when I get home. Also, I abhorred that wave of Ska that showed up in 1996 and I'm glad it was just a flash in the pan. Also Sublime has always sucked 
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Pope Guilty posted:The other thing with Napster is that my memories of high school in the 90's involved a lot of trading tapes around- CDs were great if you could afford them and find someplace that carried good music, but a lot of us were listening to 3rd and 4th generation cassette tapes of various punk and metal bands and the idea that paying for music was something you automatically did wouldn't have occurred to us, not least because actually finding ways to pay money in exchange for the music we wanted required going to some lengths. I had a tape that on one side was a 4th or 5th generation recording of Adam Sandler's first CD (without the songs for some reason). I had to crank my volume all the way up to hear it, and for some reason there were a couple spots in the middle that had a few seconds some random rear end oldies. Side B was some kind of Mixtape that had "Stonehenge" from Spinal Tap on it, those were the days 
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Wilford Cutlery posted:The only way to win this 'game' is to not play. What happens if you do? 
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Pastry of the Year posted:wierd al - what if god smoked canibus.mp3 I really wouldn't be surprised if that particular parody had several independent spawns, but there's oh, I'd say a good chance that it was Bob Rivers/Twisted Radio that did that. In the 90's Seattle Market there was a great radio station, 99.9 FM, KISW. They were an Album Oriented Rock station, with good management and they had a heavy metal skew in the afternoon and evenings. It really was a great mix for rock with out being purely classic or active which is how all the old AOR stations went. Anyway, Twisted Radio was the morning show, and it was hosted by Bob, Spike, and Joe, and they were a very cordial show with call ins, and interviews and whatnot without the painfulness of shock jocks. I was probably spoiled for radio hosts because of them as it was pretty much just like a bunch of friends hanging out and bullshitting in the morning while listening to music. Bob had a recording studio in his garage, and they would usually record a new parody song (referred to as "Twisted Tunes") there every week or so, many were topical to the Seattle area of the time. Also, when artists would come to town, he'd usually have them at his garage to record a couple songs "Live at Bob's Garage." Apparently it was officially relased on "Best of Twisted Tunes Volume 2" http://www.amazon.com/Best-Of-Twisted-Tunes-Vol/dp/B000002JE7/ref=ntt_mus_dp_dpt_7
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All the Doug chat makes me want to inform you that Doug is on Hulu, I like to put it on when I'm painting up my fantasy fightmans. I used to wait until my parents went to bed, and sneak upstairs to watch Beavis and Butthead as MTV was verboten in my house, and B&B was apparently worse to my parents. I knew exactly how to step down the hallway and avoid all the creaks, then walk on the edges of the stairs to watch TV (with headphones). I also watched Liquid Television come 1am, and it introduced me to Aeon Flux (it was still a bunch of shorts at the time) which was loving awesome. I seem to remember at the time MTV attempted to make another animated show, I don't remember what it was called, but it had something to do with some zombie brothers. It was really bad, and to compound it, they attempted to pad the episodes with videos like Beavis and Butthead, but since they only communicated in grunts, it consisted of them dancing and grunting over the videos. I suspect that it didn't even make a full season order. When it comes to cable scramblevision, the channel was a PPV channel called SPICE, and it was always glorious when you got those 3 seconds of clarity. Strangely enough, come, I think it was 1am on one night a week in the Seattle area, there was a free program that would come on SPICE. There was just some goober dude hanging out with women with blatantly fake tits, showing really bad softcore poo poo. I'm talking some topless lady riding around on a jet-ski, it was weird and kinda boring, but I was 15 and hey tits! We did get CBC in Seattle, but the few times I ever tried to watch movies for boobs, it was always some kind of artsy movie where you'd see one for like half a second getting out of a bath or something. I deemed it not worth my time.
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Wanamingo posted:This is Cyberdillo. It was an FPS that came out on the 3DO and DOS in 1996, and it retailed for a full $60. Goddamn, that looks terrible. Although I always got poo poo for it because my family had Macs, and Doom wasn't available until 1996, I really am glad that Bungie existed to make a drat good although highly underappreciated game called Marathon. One of my favorite things to do was change around and jack up the monster respawn rates on multiplayer maps, and use the level skip cheat to just shoot the poo poo out of everything until I died, I wasted so many hours doing that while listening to the alternative rock radio station.        It wouldn't really fly today unfortunately, because you had to read everything. On the other hand it was the first FPS that used ammo clips, and had a cohesive story years before Half-Life got all the credit. I really do recommend downloading it and giving it a go for seeing what my gaming experience was like in 1994. It's free and open source here: https://alephone.lhowon.org/ The original interface looked like this (the open source version is a re-skinned version of the Marathon 2 interface) :   Also it came in a box that looked like this (except blue) : 
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:That reminds me of when I watched one of my friends play Duke 3D. Whenever he was just about to get into a fight he'd empty his current clip, then complain that he didn't have enough ammo for the rest of the level. Marathon went quite a bit more toward realism, as you were protecting the colony from alien slavers rather than the you're on mars and demons appear plot from Doom. It could be pretty beneficial to fire off the last two bullets rather than have to wait for the reload animations to play in the middle of a fire fight. Not to mention the concept of the reload key hadn't been invented yet.
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Smoking Crow posted:Marathon Infinity is one of my favorite games. To me, the Marathon games are the best told stories in video gaming. The story page still exists and it looks exactly the same. Some of my theories are up there Oh, it definitely is. The problem with Marathon is that it was always an "oddball." It was developed and released on a platform that was underused, and it was ahead of it's time in many aspects. I remember getting so excited that Doom finally got ported to the Mac, and then being so disappointed at how boring and rudimentary it was. I also remember Doom players trying to play Marathon and just not comprehending a Y-axis. In a way Doom is much like a platformer in a 3D environment. Not much thought required, you just have to survive your journey from the entrance to the exit. Marathon required you to actually read and comprehend things, and complete tasks on top of that. Of course by the time that proliferated to the mainstream, it was much easier to imbed audio into games, as well as have a seamless world, so no levels to complete for the most part. Sadly, I don't think there's ever really been an analogue to what Marathon Infinity brought to the table. A branching storyline that could take you to different levels depending on how you completed a task, or even sending you back to levels you've already been to. Plus certain levels and branches that couldn't be reached unless you completed levels in a certain way via co-op play. Unfortunately today, you can't get away with telling a story via text 2 minutes down the hallway, you have to have a holographic titty girl show up and verbally explain how you complete a task as you're doing it. Mu Zeta posted:19? I think the worst part of being a Mac owner is that you always had to wait on ports from other platforms. I played a shitload of Sierra On-Line games because of that. I certainly spent too many hours playing the original Leisure Suit Larry, well before I should have, as I didn't really understand what was going on a lot of the time. I always liked the Space Quests, and Red Barron (even if I was really bad at it, and spent most of my time crashing). twistedmentat posted:Them and Soundgarden I remember being out just before Nirvana broke. But yea, it was a weird time because it was a huge sea change that came almost over night. I think my experience was a little different during the grunge changeover because I grew up in Seattle and liked listening to the AOR station in the mornings, so I had some Queensryche, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden exposure beforehand, and was familiar with their metal days. I do remember "grunge" suddenly going into heavy rotation everywhere around 1993/1994, with 1995 being the golden year for all alternative music. I still insist that Nirvana was the only true grunge band. AIC had always been that weird not quite metal, not quite anything else. Soundgarden while not quite conforming to the tropes of metal at the time, was essentially following the same path most 80's metal bands had followed in mellowing out a bit. Pearl Jam was more Arena Rock, but most of the subject matter of their songs on Ten and Vs, it was perceived as more teen angsty, so they got lumped into grunge due to being from Seattle. twistedmentat posted:That reminds me how in the late 90s it looked like the next big thing was going to be techno/edm/electronic/whatever you want to call it, Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Crystal Method, Prodigy, Moby, and others all where huge hits, dominating the charts. But it lasted less than a year, because then Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears came out and bam, it was Boy Bands and poptarts suddenly. This is not really a counter-point, but I remember reading something a few years back about trends in popular music. A lot of what's popular can be seen as a reflection of the times they were released. The end of glam metal and pop music and the rise of "grunge" and gangster rap was in the early 90's as the perceived glamor of the Regan era was wearing off into the era of Bush I. You saw all that Boy band stuff coming to rise during the end of the Clinton era when things were looking up for America again. It falls apart in the Bush II era as how music was disseminated changed majorly, and the genres fractured into a million little niches leaving pop radio to do the best it can to staunch the hemorrhaging. There still seems to still be a thread to it, it's just harder to quantify, although since things seem to be similar to the end of the Clinton days, it seems that it's a pretty positive review of the how well the Obama administration has been perceived. Choco1980 posted:(every decade takes a few years to really find its "identity") I don't really think any decade gains it's "identity" until it's 5th year. '$0, '$1, and '$2 are typically indistinguishable from the previous decade. Around '$3 you'll start seeing certain things begin to trend that will eventually become part of the "identity," and '$5-'$7 are the peak identity years. whiteyfats posted:Was the early 90s the last gasp of Adult Contemporary? Ya know, Rod Stewart (who I like I get the feeling that "Adult Contemporary" is just the label that got attached to the genre that is producing new music to appeal to people in their mid-30's to 40's at around 1990. It's new, quasi-similar to what they were listening to in high-school, and a bit mellower as they're having families and settling into houses, and careers. It will always be there, just under different names. EDIT: Wheat Loaf posted:It's that and country - the most influential producers in Nashville in the past 20 years were Mutt Lange (who was famous for producing Def Leppard albums) and Dann Huff (who was previously the lead singer and guitarist in a hair metal band called Giant). I think it's because the onset of the 1990s saw a combination of grunge and the increasing influence of production techniques which percolated across from hip-hop meant there wasn't really much use for the whole network of producers and session musicians (a.k.a. Toto This is exactly why country has been so popular lately, it's the new "Adult Contemporary" Iron Crowned has a new favorite as of 16:24 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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RC and Moon Pie posted:I remember that Fox did a Smell-o-Vision one night. I'm pretty sure I still have those Fox-O-Rama "3D" glasses somewhere. The interesting thing about them was that the colored cellophane they used made just about any TV look 3D.
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sinking belle posted:The Nickelodeon ones (I think it was Nickelodeon) were the same! I always wondered how they worked. Or whether they worked at all. I suspect that what's happening is the dark lens tricks your brain into interpreting a deeper shadow and the illusion of a 3D object.
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Jaguars! posted:The style was popularized by Patrick Nagel, who mainly drew women in a minimalist style, most famously the cover for the Duran Duran Album Rio. According to Wikipedia, he was considered Art Deco although since it's not a train or an anime, I don't know how trustworthy that assessment is. This site is a probably a little bit more reliable and agrees though, It's an interesting read. I've always wondered about that style, this particular one adorned the marquee outside a strip club until they replaced it with a digital one: 
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Wheat Loaf posted:I remember I had this demo disc (I think it might have come with the first Spyro game) called "Winter Releases '98" which had Tekken 3 on it (you could play as Xiaoyu and fight Lei; I think that was it) plus the first levels of MediEvil (loved that game) and the Ghost In the Shell game where you played as this kind of walking tank shaped like a red beetle. I would love to have a new MedEvil game
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Inzombiac posted:Yeah well I owned the Powerman 5000 album. I had the Static-X album
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whiteyfats posted:A shitload. Having recently dusted off that  for some reason, I made an amateur analysis on 90's Alternative music.In the beginning of the 90's the airwaves were still haunted by the remnants of the 80's, and were fairly set on trucking along in that manner. Then the success of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit happened. After that, the record companies scrambled to put out more of that to varying success. The Peak of "new" alternative on the radio was about 1995, (1994, and 1996 are second and third respectively) with a heavy drop in 1997. Most of the 90's alternative being put out during that time were small bands that didn't quite fit anywhere, they were distorted to metal levels, mostly simple tunes, but more skilled than punk, and often influenced by album oriented rock. Vocals ranged from harsh to melodic, basically these were your average garage bands with a minor record contract. The bands that had put out a couple of albums (most of them had at least one album prior to 1993), and would have called it a milestone to be the first opening act on a local leg of a large band's tour. Around 1997-1998, the initial wave was fairly mined out by the airwaves, and were starting to release follow-up albums. The problem is, with the record companies were putting a lot more production onto these albums, and they almost unanimously were lackluster compared to the previous ones, for that very reason. 90's alternative was best when it was relatively unpolished, and those that did survive either became nu-metal, or pop-punk. I think that this was also why the record companies attempted to push ska onto us. They mined out all the "new" alternative, and needed more to fill that gap, of course no one really liked ska.
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Out of Band II posted:toadies: possum kingdom Not that that's a bad short playlist, but I think Toadies is the only one on that list that has stood the test of time in the public simply because it's the only one I've heard in the wild in the last 10 years. You're more likely to hear Alice in Chains: Rooster, or Cake: The Distance.
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ChocNitty posted:Yes, and some of their rare shirts, like one they made using a photo of john lennon and yoko ono naked, sold for around 7 grand. I love that font they use, it'll forever remind me of Beavis and Butthead
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Neito posted:I think it was just the era; that show ended right before off-network syndication became a viable way for shows to make extra money, so I think it ended up doing a couple of circuits of Lifetime and TNT and ended up in the DVD bargain bin. In the 80's and first half of the 90's I remember cable as a luxury. I was stuck with an antenna in the house until 1994 when we got cable for what my mom described as "a good deal." Getting TV over the air back then was different, I remember watching shows like The Addam's Family, Giligan's Island, and The Brady Bunch all the time when I was off from school. Saturday and Sunday afternoons there was usually a decent movie on (I saw John Carpenter's The Thing so many times). It's definitely a far cry now where it's mostly infomercials from 10 am until 3 pm. I think what happened is that in 1994, DirecTV went live and gave your cable providers a run for their money as now they all had competition that didn't require buying a massive dish. Which in turn made it much more lucrative for syndication to go to stations that were not OTA. I remember stations like TBS advertising hours of shows (I think Mad About You was one) every morning and evening. Hell, in the early 2000's I would watch Law and Order episodes all night on TNT (or was it A&E?). I currently use only an antenna for my TV viewing, so I get all those wonderful little sub-channels where I can watch all those old shows, as far as I know it's the only way I can watch Night Court, Roseanne, or The Drew Carey Show. Hell, Buzzer is a fun one where I can catch an episode of Family Feud from 1980.
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My Twitter Account posted:That's actually kind of interesting, how we seem to simultaneously remember the 90s as this neon-colored world of buzz clips and x-treme sports, and also as bland, inoffensive, and boring. It depends on where in the 90's you look. '87 to about '92 were the neon-90's. '93 to about '98 were the "Grunge" 90's, and about '99 on is where the 2000's happened.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:During that era, Fox had the afternoon kids block, which lasted from 3-5. There was so much that aired during a 10-year period - Super Mario Brothers Super Show, Bonkers, The Tick, Tiny Toon Adventures, DuckTales (I think), Goof Troop, Darkwing Duck, Eek, Animaniacs and Batman The Animated Series. Something I hadn't thought about was that Saturday morning and weekday afternoon cartoons no longer exist on broadcast TV, which is weird. RC and Moon Pie posted:TBS used to be a different animal in the 1980s. I was going through some old tapes and found a variety of nature documentaries with the TBS logo in the corner. That does remind me, in the 90's TBS's schedule was shifted by 5 minutes.
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OutOfPrint posted:Holy poo poo, I had this on VHS when I was a kid! It looks flat now, but at the time, that poo poo was mindblowing. Kids are dumb as hell
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Frankston posted:I watched the 1998 Godzilla film the other day because it was on TV, and kid me loved the poo poo out of the film. 17 year old me was working my first job, it was a theater, and they set aside 4 out of 11 screens to strictly show that on opening weekend. It flopped so hard it was down to one screen by Wednesday. Blockbusters in general have gone the way of the dodo since the 90's. I remember that there was almost always some kind of film opening with a lot of hype nearly every weekend from May until October, and there would be lines around the buildings. The last true blockbuster I remember existing was that last Matrix movie. I suspect that was the first major blow, as there were two major letdowns from that franchise in the same year, and most people were willing to overlook the second one if there was a good payoff. Followed closely by streaming, and the profitability of infinite (mostly Marvel) sequels has killed that.
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Neito posted:Well, and now the Marvel CU, and an assured Star War every year, pretty much kills the idea that you can compete on terms of "Mega blockbusters". Yeah, and this summer being the worst since I think 1992, is probably due to that. Movies as a whole have been paint by numbers since the Marvel CU, I suspect that one of the hidden factors in the alchemy has been the switch to digital. I remember in the 90's you'd get all kinds of trickles of information about the production of movies for over a year before release creating all kinds of hype. Then, you'd start getting the trailers, some as early as January for the summer releases. By the time it opened, you had to catch it in theaters, because otherwise you'd have to wait at least 9 months to rent it at Blockbuster. All that time everything was done in analog and required a lot of time, and time costs money. Now that most movies are done entirely in digital, sent to theaters in digital, and pushed out to home release in digital, you can accomplish all that in under a year's time. Going to the movies has become more of an on a whim type thing for me, because if I miss one I wanted to see in June, I can get the Blu-Ray by September. I suspect part of the success of the infinite sequel model is you don't have the year+ hype machine to convince someone who's got a boring Saturday afternoon to see the newest Iron Man.
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I don't blame Marvel at all. Marvel was just the ones that happened to create the right kind of movies for the modern movie market.
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chitoryu12 posted:They definitely wanted to do it, but they kept Iron Man contained to itself and went so far as to keep the stinger a secret until release. Not to mention Iron Man had a sequel by the time Thor and Captain America got their "origin" films. Iron Man was pretty much a backdoor pilot for the rest of the MCU. I think part of the reason it worked is Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America all had minor name recognition, but most people wouldn't know much else. DC's big disadvantage is that their characters are too well known, and most people have some kind of personal attachment to them. Yes, I have met people that hate the MCU because of their attachment to certain characters, but they were all B or C Team, so the majority of people could form something new.
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RagnarokAngel posted:This was because they really tripped up with Hulk so rather than go into Thor immediately (a hero with some recongition but not an A-lister) they used Iron Man 2 to retreat and build up some good will again. It worked, too. Hulk was tripped up from the start with how terrible the previous Hulk movie had been.
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Benny Harvey posted:-Beavis and butt-head Beavis and Butthead were a great mirror to what life was like in the 90's
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Titus Sardonicus posted:Wow. I have a bunch of Desert Storm trading cards at my mom and dad's place, I thought that was pretty lame. This is a whole new level. https://www.topps.com/blog/horsin-around-test-cards-found-tucked-away-in-topps-archives/
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Roosevelt posted:I probably still have this thing in a box somewhere I have a Jurassic Park slammer somewhere. Pogs are somehow the most 90's of fads. I remember for that short time in 93/94 there was an actual store in my local mall that was dedicated to nothing but pogs.
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I have a can still frozen, sadly in the last couple years it's ruptured and is slowly leaking.  The Last OK Soda
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I don't think it's OK anymore 20 years is pretty good for being frozen in a block of ice
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Huh, Pepsi Fire had existed before. I had a bottle of it at some point this year but apparently it was a limited time only. I liked it because I like cinnamon.
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Neito posted:Nah, man. I was all about the Jolt Cola. Twice the caffeine, all the sugar. Definitely, buying a Jolt felt like we were getting away with buying beer, when in reality no one gave a poo poo.
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Otto Von Jizzmark posted:Speaking of ok soda I Rember it tasting like when you mixed all the different fountain pops together. Some kids claimed that's what it actually was. OK Soda had some innovative marketing techniques, so I don't discount that. Around me a plastic "sock" with 4 cans of OK, coupons, stickers, and a "viewer" would show up on your front door knob. The "viewer" was a piece of black double thick paper with a hole in it that said something along the lines of "Drink OK Soda and look through here to see that everything is going to be OK."
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Randaconda posted:lol holy poo poo Killer Legends owns, but Cropsy is better IMHO
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Randaconda posted:What? It's not a legend, that happened. Killer Legends and Cropsy are both documentaries about the truth behind urban legends. I know, that was one of the urban legends that was featured in "Killer Legends." I think both of them are still up on both Hulu and Netflix.
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