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Okay guys, we've been talking about TV shows and toys and music, but let's be serious here: I'm taking about Yeah! Woo!, the official drum break of the '90s. Sure, it may have started in the late '80s (specifically in 1988 with Roxanne Shant's 'Go On Girl' and 'It Takes Two' by Robb Base and DJ EZ Rock, shown below), but once you hear the sample, you know that it's been used in 91% of all songs recorded between 1990 and 1993. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IBRbzf3Fws Seriously though, this sample was everywhere in the early '90s, not only in hip-hop and New Jack Swing music, but in TV themes (you all know this one) and in video games, for chrissakes. Hell, you could even find it in 1997 on the continue screen of Street Fighter III: New Generation. I don't know about you, but I feel that Yeah! Woo! is in the core of early '90s pop culture.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I remember the Spider-Man theme. Spider-Man was cool, sure, but this... this... is the greatest thing put on screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBbnT-cIDVM drat that's great. 0:18. Amazing.
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May 30, 2012 16:51
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psydude posted:The Spin Doctors were the 90sest band of all time: I never really payed any attention whatsoever to the Spin Doctors when they were popular (because "Two Princes" was loving obnoxious even to adolescent me), but goddamn... that guy has the most punchable face I've seen in a long time.
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May 30, 2012 18:11
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SlothfulCobra posted:I remember the Spider-Man theme. SlothfulCobra posted:I remember the Spider-Man theme. SlothfulCobra posted:No, not the one from the 50s SlothfulCobra posted:the one from the 50s Spider-Man was not created until 1962. 
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May 30, 2012 18:35
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Sorry, that's what I get for not checking first. The 50s and 60s kind of blur together for me. Anyways, have some late nineties superheroes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ck3odFeNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx23F5mjlC0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z22seoMxgpI One of these things is not like the others.
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May 31, 2012 02:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPrPNpzLHIk Big Audio Dynamite - The Globe
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May 31, 2012 02:31
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Some of these are 80's, but the ones that are 90's, are pretty drat 90's. And also kinda trippy for a kids' network  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvYvqQuqhiI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZQLYV3lprg
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May 31, 2012 02:46
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Wandering Knitter posted:And it's not 90's, but let's take a moment to marvel at Gwen. If this is real, then this is amazing. My household suddenly started receiving the American Girls catalog when I was just old enough to understand that the prices for the dolls and their (admittedly fascinating) accessories were absurd but also already not be into dolls anymore. This was back when there were only three dolls available: Molly, Samantha, and Kirsten. It seems my mom thought my sister and I would love our own American Girl dolls for Christmas. That was an awkward Christmas. Anyway, I love the fact that Gwen exists because I remember we got the American Girls catalog for several years afterward and I got to watch their evolution over the years. In particular, I got to watch their attempts at diversity. These tended to be... the nicest way I can describe them is adorably inept. Their Native American girl is from the pre-Colonization era! Their ONE, to this day, African-American historical doll is a former slave from the end of the Civil War! They did as much damage control as they could with the "Girl of Today" line, but still, wow. Pseudonym posted:Pff, who doesn't remember In Living Color? Try House of Buggin', with John Leguizamo and Luis Guzmn. I'll see your "House of Buggin'" and raise you "She TV". (Which is something that the Internet appears to have entirely forgotten.)
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May 31, 2012 05:11
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Rahonavis posted:If this is real, then this is amazing. I thought it was real, but I can't find any proof that it got out of the planning phase and was actually sold. Shockingly enough people weren't happy at the idea of an expensive homeless doll. 
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May 31, 2012 05:23
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Snoop looks so young... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qkP8SvHvaU
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May 31, 2012 05:27
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Pseudonym posted:Okay guys, we've been talking about TV shows and toys and music, but let's be serious here: I'm taking about Yeah! Woo!, the official drum break of the '90s.
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May 31, 2012 13:57
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My favorite Yeah!Woo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVqkGOYWDEQ That whole soundtrack is awesome 90's.
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May 31, 2012 15:15
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Rahonavis posted:If this is real, then this is amazing. Actually no, there's ANOTHER BLACK DOLL OMG! Her name is Cecile and she's a rich Creole girl in New Orleans. I literally just found that out... there's an American Girl Wiki. I'm sad that I know that now. I checked the demographics of the characters. Combining the Historical and Today dolls, we have a total of 29 dolls that the company has released. Out of those 29 dolls we have 11 minorities: 2 black, 2 Asian (one of whom is mixed-race Irish and Japanese), 2 Mexican, 2 Jewish, 1 Pacific Islander, 1 Native American, and 1 Indian. There are also 2 white European immigrants, and 1 European refugee, as well as Gwen, the homeless character. I do like that they've extended their reach in showing more minorities, but I'm sad that they're kind of just sticking to what's safe. Both Hispanic characters are Mexican, one Asian character is Japanese, the other Chinese. The Indian character doesn't really get into anything cultural, it's just sort of mentioned offhand that she's Indian. There are no disabled characters, though you CAN buy a little doll wheelchair, last I looked. poo poo, I still remember when it was a big loving deal that they were releasing dolls with hazel eyes, freckles, curly or wavy hair, and the ability to wear earrings! One of my friends went right out and bought the "curly blonde shoulder-length hair, hazel eyes, freckles, pierced ears" dolls like the day it came out. This isn't counting the "Girls of Many Lands" line, which I had completely forgotten existed, which had smaller dolls, longer books and were aimed towards older girls. They were English, French, Irish, Indian, Ethiopian, Chinese, Turkish, and Inuit, and all of their stories took place in wars or other times of conflict in their respective countries. I have no clue if these are even still available. Wandering Knitter posted:I thought it was real, but I can't find any proof that it got out of the planning phase and was actually sold. Shockingly enough people weren't happy at the idea of an expensive homeless doll. Gwen was sold in 2009 as a limited edition run. VERY limited edition, because of the outcry against a homeless character living in a car who's doll cost $95. I guess the whole belt-headband thing was totally bizarre and never explained. She originally came wearing the headband as a headband, but then the company changed her hairstyle and started using the headband as a belt. She also comes with a scrunchie!  I collect dolls, by the way, so I don't just randomly know all this poo poo off the top of my head for no reason. Lolitas Alright! has a new favorite as of 19:10 on May 31, 2012 |
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May 31, 2012 18:59
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Before Google...
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Jun 1, 2012 03:57
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ExplodingSquidx2 posted:Before Google... 
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Jun 1, 2012 04:05
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Look at these scrubs not using Dogpile. Don't know it uses multiple web browsers at once? 
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Jun 1, 2012 04:56
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For me, one of my memories of the 90s that was as campy as all get-go were the Art Institute commercials that used to play on MTV all the time. They made quite a few different ones, but this was one of the few I could find on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyT9gT0fs3Q MTV used to be so great with it's little station ID stuff in the 90s, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3YvftF8jpI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3otUnK3O2g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6Nfp56NOY http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=jzBbZkJPS5g Tabitha Soren's blouse in that clip is woven from the purest strands of 90s. Just watching the first few minutes of this reminded me of how MTV used to be with their relatively well-produced and informative Week in Rock up until the end of the 90s. (Wow. Young Lars Ulrich looks like Dr. Rick Daglass.) On the subject of Tabitha Soren: She's a firecracker when you interrupt her interview to tell her no more questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or8l1tpDy1k drat, Mariah is just sitting there like a deer in headlights, not knowing what the heck to do. edit: Seeing Kurt Loder again reminded me of how awesome he was as the MTV news guy. There were a few times in reports that you could tell he didn't really care about the antics of the celebrity. JediTalentAgent has a new favorite as of 09:16 on Jun 1, 2012 |
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Jun 1, 2012 09:12
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Phunk Junkeez - Me N Yer Girl http://youtu.be/esxI0My2wog 90s as hell but I unironically love this song. This album, actually.
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Jun 1, 2012 19:47
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I was way into Power rangers and power Rangers ripoffs like: Big Bad Beetleborgs  VR Troopers  Which reminds me, nothing was more 90's than "virtual reality". It was everywhere from movies like Lawnmower Man, to games like Nintendo's Virtual Boy.
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Jun 1, 2012 20:59
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 Sega Channel. My older brother hogged it most of the time, but I got to play a lot of good games on it as well. Too bad I can't remember any of the game titles or I might've gone looking for them. They would rotate the games out every  This stuff, right here, the ambrosia of the 16-bit gods. My parents took my older brother and I on a picnic once and bought it for us because of how much we loved Mario. I cracked one open (Luigi berry flavor IIRC) and, I am not kidding, it was the best thing my developing taste buds had EVER tasted up to that point. Mondo? Squeezits? Even grape soda, my favorite at the time, weren't poo poo compared Shasta's Mario soda. What did it taste like? Have you ever been watching a cartoon or animated movie as a kid and there's that bit where the characters mix up something/come upon something to eat even if it's not food? And the way it's animated makes it look sooo tasty that it would send your child brain on a creative torrent of non-existent, delicious flavors? Yeah, Luigi berry soda tasted like that. It was incredible. I commanded my mom to buy as many Shasta Mario sodas as she could the next time she went shopping. A day or two later when she went shopping not a single can could be found. I guess I got on at the tail end of that promotion.  Late in the afternoon, when only about half an hour of class remained, my third grade teacher Mrs. Juran would read this aloud for our class. I thought it was going to suck. "just look at that cheesy cover art. An alien with green skin and red eyes? What is this, the 50's?" I was so wrong. This book made me realize why grown-ups were always going on and on about books and reading. I loved that book, and apparently it was the first installment of a series of books. I never read any of the other ones. 
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Brick Frog posted:
Don't bother. Like so many other books of the era it fell in the same trap of it becoming super preachy. All I remember about the last book was everyone standing around going "Wait...War is BAD?  "
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Jun 1, 2012 21:56
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qB6XdAkkAo They don't make them like they used to.
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Jun 2, 2012 02:19
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BiscuitErsedRenton posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qB6XdAkkAo Oh my god I have not heard this band in forever. Hey Jealousy was their best song though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah5gAkna3jI&feature=relmfu
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RadioactiveKid posted:Stuff about the Gin Blossoms. On a completely different note, your avatar reminded me of something that could have only happened in the 1990's: MC Skat Kat! Wait, somebody already posted that video? You say everyone remembers that? Okay, fair enough. But here's something you might not remember: MC Skat Kat had an entire album to himself. This actually happened. The link goes to the one song they planned on releasing as a single. And speaking of 90's CDs lurking in the used CD bin, which is like a parade of things you had forgotten were things:  (And of COURSE both of these came home with me. In part because I had to know. Mostly because when someone too young to remember the 1990's asks me to describe the era to them, all I'll have to do is show them "Chant". "Monks had a hit record," I'll say. "That could have only happened in the 1990's.")
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Rahonavis posted:(And of COURSE both of these came home with me. In part because I had to know. Mostly because when someone too young to remember the 1990's asks me to describe the era to them, all I'll have to do is show them "Chant". "Monks had a hit record," I'll say. "That could have only happened in the 1990's.") Unless you're talking about nuns in the 1960s.
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Brick Frog posted:
THIS SODA.   I had completely forgotten about it but as soon as I saw the Peach Cherry, the flavor all but came rushing back to my brain. Oh my goodness. All four flavors kicked rear end, but I only ever got them at my friend's house. My mom didn't know where to find it  . I will confirm that it is one of the best sodas I ever remember having. Thank you for reminding me of this stuff. Now I need to find a case online somewhere.
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Oh crap, I have one of the sequels to that chant album. Listening to monks droning on in Latin is super relaxing.
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RadioactiveKid posted:Oh my god I have not heard this band in forever. Hey Jealousy was their best song though. The backstory to the group is pretty depressing if you read the Wiki on the guy who wrote those songs... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hopkins
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Jun 2, 2012 05:54
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The Odyssey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mf1Pzo9mWE The Secret World of Alex Mack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBxoSU_4xCU
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Jun 2, 2012 06:21
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Zeether posted:In a Sega racing game from the late 90s there's a variation that goes "Woo! Uh!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp51Uhf0GOU
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Jun 2, 2012 10:19
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Complimenting the yeah woo rap beats was at least one rapper saying this in every song "Throw your hands in the air, and wave 'em like you just don't care" I remember expecting this even as an 11 year old watching In Living Color.
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Jun 2, 2012 10:28
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Brick Frog posted:
I loved Bruce Coville's books! I liked his magic shop books, like "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher". And "Jennifer Murdley's Toad".
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:THIS SODA. The flavors they use are in Flathead Lake soda. I've had only the apple and cherry versions and they taste exactly the same. The is a Luigi berry Equivelent but it's not colored blue, it's colored red.
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bean_shadow posted:I loved Bruce Coville's books! I liked his magic shop books, like "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher". And "Jennifer Murdley's Toad". Was the toad one the book where the villian constantly spewed rats and bugs while she talked, so to eat around it she simply ate the vermin before they could leave her mouth? You don't get kids books like that anymore.
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Dr. Ohnoman posted:Cruis'n USA isn't a Sega game so I'm not sure if you meant that, but it definitely is a 90s racing game and the soundtrack has a lot of "Woo! Uh!" going on, so it was the first thing I thought of when I read this post. The "USA" in a racing game reminded me of another terrible musical atrocity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx7nRk6IDqE Daytona USA. Let's go away... from this part of the arcade because this track loops on a giant rear end sit-down set up with a huge monitor and speakers and just blares DAYTONA LET'S GO AWAY over and over and... Just listen to it.
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Wandering Knitter posted:I remember when these first came out and there was a store in the mall selling large prints of them for hundreds of dollars. I remember getting a ton of these and being frustrated that they never worked because I was told you had to "hold them to your eye and move your head backwards very slowly". I have a lazy eye. I can very easily see "double" if I want, which means I didn't have to do that trick in order to see this, I just had to will my eyes to see double. Realizing that was how this worked was probably the biggest "holy poo poo" moment of my childhood.
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Technically this is 2000 but it's so 90's it's ridiculous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UculXjdcSYs
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bean_shadow posted:I loved Bruce Coville's books! I liked his magic shop books, like "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher". And "Jennifer Murdley's Toad". I also liked his collections of short stories. If it was a Bruce Coville book in the 90's, I read it. You know what's gonna make me a millionaire in the future?  This guy right here. Better buy 3 copies of it and make sure to store them safely so in 30 years I can sell them for hundreds of thousands of dollars!!! While cleaning out the spare room last year my mom found my old comics. She asked if I wanted to ebay them, I told her that she'd get maybe 5 bucks for the whole crate and recycling them would be the best options. But hot drat, in the 90's I bought every limited edition foil crossover comic I could get my grubby little hands on because that poo poo was like printing money!
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JustFrakkingDoIt posted:The "USA" in a racing game reminded me of another terrible musical atrocity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrltm5LfUrQ  Rolling STAAAAAAAAAAAAAARTTo be honest, I seem to recall that my local arcade had the sound on the Daytona USA cabinet turned really low and you couldn't hear any of the music very well.
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Pseudonym posted:Okay guys, we've been talking about TV shows and toys and music, but let's be serious here: I'm taking about Yeah! Woo!, the official drum break of the '90s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTdOcumz0wY&t=80s (Which is from 1972  )
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