The 90s was Depressing

That and Nutshell...holy fuck I love them but damn.
Black pretty much sums up how I've been feeling lately. Dropped and ditched.

LOL, all these years later and I'm still relating to and living that song.
 
Lets think about this for a second. There been alot of 90s thread latey and everybody talking bout how great they was and I am class of 96. But let look at it.

Music was ran by sad depressing shit like Nervana?, the cranberries, in the early and bitter sweet simphoknee, sublime, and other in the mid late 90s.

the ecomeny was ok but race crimes like King,OJ, Riots and dragging a dude til his head off was still going on.

Noe the late 90s starting to wash all that away with bright colors and pop groups, it still had this sad meanlingless feel to like this was the best its ever gonna it like the Matrix said.

The 90's we're maybe depressing for you cause you didn't learn how to spell properly or learn proper grammar.
 
Lets think about this for a second. There been alot of 90s thread latey and everybody talking bout how great they was and I am class of 96. But let look at it.

Music was ran by sad depressing shit like Nervana?, the cranberries, in the early and bitter sweet simphoknee, sublime, and other in the mid late 90s.

the ecomeny was ok but race crimes like King,OJ, Riots and dragging a dude til his head off was still going on.

Noe the late 90s starting to wash all that away with bright colors and pop groups, it still had this sad meanlingless feel to like this was the best its ever gonna it like the Matrix said.

I was a 90s kid. I have fond memories of the 90s. You can find depressing moments of any decade IMO. If anything, I'm somewhat jealous of people who graduated college/high school in the 90s because you enjoyed a booming U.S economy. You were able to establish a career if you wanted one. I remember the dot.com boom and everyone was majoring it IT/computers at the time. I remember it being an optimistic time.

I don't think the music was necessarily depressing on purpose with the likes of nirvana, the cranberries, gangsta rap, etc. I think these music artists were thinking on a deeper, self-reflecive level.

Think about it the people who took their career seriously in the 90s are the ones in charge of the work place now.
 
90s were the end of a lot of things.

video rental stores
arcades
MTV
record stores
last golden era of live music
last golden era of malls

Those things didn't really start dying until the 2000s. Don't blame that on the 90s.
 
Those things didn't really start dying until the 2000s. Don't blame that on the 90s.

I'm not blaming anything. I'm simply pointing out some things I used to like happen to go down hill after the 90's. For example the 90's were the last years were Arcades were a relevant place.
 
The 90s was a darker decade. The 80s were a bright decade..fashion, movies, hair, music, was all big and bright. The 90s was the antithesis of that....fashion was flannels and dark, music went from silly fun to darker downtuned rock and hard rap. Movies were violent. The late 90s had the proliferation of white dirtbag Fred Dirst wannabes. I remember lots of smoking and eyebrow rings, and I’ll fitting clothes on trashy white dudes.
 
The decade of your youth (15-25) will always be special to you.
For me, that would predominantly be in the early-mid 2000's. I'm not nearly as big of a fan of the music/television/film of that era as I am of the previous decade. In a way, I feel like I missed out being too young to realize what was going on culturally in the 90's.
 
Are you a fan of Metal or hard rock or any its of shoot?.

Your post made think of these.

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Yep, I partially chose 84-94 for hard rock and metal(side note I've seen both Dream Theater and Van Halen live but not that back then). All of my favorite albums, Megadeth Rust In Peace, Appetite for Destruction, Faith No More's Angel Dust. 94 was really the last year before things started taking a nose dive quick,

Seriously the rock music scene then was amazing. The atmosphere of concerts today are a shell of what it used to be even in the late 90's. Today it's people holding up cell phones paying retarded prices for these shitty festivals.

Even on a local level the idea of bar bands were huge. I was talking to a guy who ran a rock club for years and he said multiple cover bands used to draw 500-800 people a night. Lines around the block to get in the place. He mention everything dried up after 9/11 and the business never recovered and hip hop/dance took over from there.
 
It's definitely the worst decade in history
 
It was the last generation of people leading the trends, instead of the trends leading the people.
 
Yep, I partially chose 84-94 for hard rock and metal(side note I've seen both Dream Theater and Van Halen live but not that back then). All of my favorite albums, Megadeth Rust In Peace, Appetite for Destruction, Faith No More's Angel Dust. 94 was really the last year before things started taking a nose dive quick,

Seriously the rock music scene then was amazing. The atmosphere of concerts today are a shell of what it used to be even in the late 90's. Today it's people holding up cell phones paying retarded prices for these shitty festivals.

Even on a local level the idea of bar bands were huge. I was talking to a guy who ran a rock club for years and he said multiple cover bands used to draw 500-800 people a night. Lines around the block to get in the place. He mention everything dried up after 9/11 and the business never recovered and hip hop/dance took over from there.


Oh yeah tell me about it,

I was born in 1982, so I was a just a kid back in the late 80s when Metallica was still in their prime and Guns N'Roses still dominate the charts. I remember that because I grew up with my cousin as my mom will leave me at my aunts house and my cousin who is like 10 years older than will play Guns,Metallica all day either playing the cassette or he will be playing along with his guitar.

He got a stash of Maiden,Megadeth he also listens to hair Metal bands that has some good guitar solos in it. So even though I am not a kid of the 80s. I was exposed to that sort of Music and by the time I was in my early teens when I started to listen to the typpical mid 90s grunge and alt rock scene my cousin immediately indoctrinated to listen to the more technical 80s early 90s rock!

Fortunately there are a lot of guys in my school who are sort of 80s music fan as well back then we did not even realized we are already like straglers or hipsters as some will call it. It was already the late 90s Spicegirls and other shit music dominate the radio but since there is enough people who still listens to 80s stuff I did not feel alienated until I graduated High School in 1999 and realized how shitty pop culture has become.

When I was in college I am the weirdo because I still play Ride the lightning and listens to Slayer! As an aspiring Musician/Guitarist It was really depressing no body wants to play the 80s.

Coverbands you say? Wow I never knew that one can survive and make money as a cover band back then well I am not from the USA so we may have different experiences about the Music industry but damn during my time in College back in late 2003. People think I am a retard because I want to cover, Mr.Crowley and Crazy Train!


I never had the chance to see those great bands live like Guns,Metallica etc, luckily I was able to see Dream Theater last September! It was an experience its my first big Concert was able to meet the Band before the show they are great in person!
 
The decade of your youth (15-25) will always be special to you.

Man when I was 15 years old that was 1998 and frankly even though I kinda enjoy the other aspects of my youth back then like the video games, I am more of a metal head back then than a gamer I would gladly say 1988 - 1994 is a period I can enjoy more in terms of Music.

Sucked to be born in the wrong generation? Or Sucked to choose the wrong hobby!
 
90s were fine brah, and that's coming from an Eastern European kid who lived through a civil war, dictatorship and a hyperinflation so bad they ran out of space to print zeros on our bills. I loved them, and I miss them dearly tbh. Tomb Raider 1, Quake, porn loading so slow you made damn sure you download the pictures to your HD in an inconspicuously named folder for those times you run out of dial up for the month. Fucking Pantera. Not knowing what alcohol was. Skipping school to go play Sega Mega Drive rented by the hour w friends. PINBALL and arcades! X Files before it was cool. My dad was alive. Shit man now I'm depressed.

EDIT: VHS RENTALS!!!!!
 
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