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Wheat Loaf posted:Looking at the makeup of the band itself, it was New York and LA jazz guys on horns with the Stax rhythm section; the lead guitarist, Matt Murphy, was the only guy in the group I think was a bona fide bluesman; played with Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters in the 50s and 60s and James Cotton's band in the 70s. He brings that Chicago sound. Very underrated player. The movie is very clear that they are an R&B band. https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/88c4e791-a286-4139-ae1d-b71061222134
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Growing up, until I was like 12, we’re we’re only allowed to watch educational tv on weekdays. The only exception was The Simpsons. Thank god it was on 5 times a day. It really wasn’t bad, History and Discovery Channel were a lot better back then.
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wesleywillis posted:Was that the one where they also threw a bunch of worms in to the deep fryer? It absolutely was. Plus the health inspector's name was Buttwhisker. Beastie posted:Growing up, until I was like 12, we’re we’re only allowed to watch educational tv on weekdays. Since I didn't have cable until I was 13, I watched a lot of Disney Afternoon and Batman The Animated Series.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Looking at the makeup of the band itself, it was New York and LA jazz guys on horns with the Stax rhythm section; the lead guitarist, Matt Murphy, was the only guy in the group I think was a bona fide bluesman; played with Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters in the 50s and 60s and James Cotton's band in the 70s. He brings that Chicago sound. Very underrated player. I remember my family drove by the movie shoot for Blues Brothers 2000 on the way home from seeing Speed 2 in theatres. Peak horrible 90s sequels in one evening.
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burial posted:What’s up, fellow goon with strict parents? I wasn’t allowed to watch MTV at all. Or Simpsons. Or Married with Children. Or or or. I was allowed to have Killer Instinct for my N64 for a few hours, what pissed my mum off wasn't the violence but how the female characters were dressed... She made me exchange it and I ended up with Mission Impossible as my main game for like a year. She also forbid TMNT because violence and I discovered early downloading and realplayer just to watch the Simpson's.
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Man, you guys had some strict parents. Mine were generally cool about most things I watched and played, unless it gave me nightmares; as a kid, my parents were not fond of Resident Evil or Turok 2. I was about seven when I was playing those, and the blue skinned lady demons in the second level of Turok scared the poo poo out of me. Now that I think about it, my brother had borrowed Resident Evil from our uncle, and bought Turok 2 with his own money; he was nine years older than me, so I think that led to me being exposed to some things I probably shouldn't have seen. He had bought Parasite Eve when it came out, and we both were horrified at the rat transformation scene at the beginning. It was enough that my mom, who doesn't really remember video games past Wizards and Warriors, can remember that scene.
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It's weird because my parents weren't concerned with violence or anything, it was purely from an educational perspective that I couldn't watch various tv shows on weekdays. I remember my dad taking me to see T2, Face/Off, True Lies, and a few other R rated movies at the drive-in theater. Edit: For reference I was born in 87 so I would have been 10 when I saw Face/Off. Hell, I remember Something About Mary coming out and my mom renting and saying "You have to see this, it's so drat funny." I was 11 at the time. Beastie has a new favorite as of 16:08 on Jul 26, 2018 |
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Beastie posted:It's weird because my parents weren't concerned with violence or anything, it was purely from an educational perspective that I couldn't watch various tv shows on weekdays. Yeah, mine weren't really either, but for some reason Married with Children and MTV/B&BH were apparently the most corrupting things I could possibly get into. That and Stone Temple Pilots (their songs had X-Rated titles).
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As funny as Married with Children is it really has some pretty bad views on gender roles and such. It wasn't malicious or anything but it was very much husband vs wife. My girlfriend and I watched all the seasons of Friends this passed winter. It's one of her favorites and I had never seen it, because growing up I was your average adolescent male dickhead that assumed it was for chicks. It's actually pretty good, but it has some really dated 90's jokes and views. Whole bunch of gay and "dude looks like a lady" jokes that would not fly today. Friends ended in 2004 and Queer Eye debuted in 2003 so I credit Queer Eye for really bringing an end to the "that poo poo's gay, yo" thing of the 90's.
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Phanatic posted:The movie is very clear that they are an R&B band. Sure, it's like how on their first live album, the opening monologue goes on about "master bluesmen practising their craft" then on the second, Aykroyd welcomes the audience to "our blues, rhythm and blues and soul revue". That second Blues Brothers live album (Made In America) is a fascinating artefact because John Belushi was heavily dependent on various drugs by that point and barely speaks to the audience, so Aykroyd has to pick up the slack and turns in a very odd performance.
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Iron Crowned posted:Buttwhisker. We totally need a beavis and butthead smiley thing.
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Iron Crowned posted:Yeah, mine weren't really either, but for some reason Married with Children and MTV/B&BH were apparently the most corrupting things I could possibly get into. That and Stone Temple Pilots (their songs had X-Rated titles). With my folks, it was very much a “somebody at church told me this is against god in some vague way, so...” scenario. Some of the things that were banned made some semblance of sense to me. Others, not so much. It pretty much got to the point where I just obscured the content of any media I was worried might not pass the test which I’m sure just made me look even more suspicious, but hey. It worked to one degree or another!
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Zil posted:And after a few months were almost all a nasty mildewy mess. I grew up in Arizona and there they tended to fade and crack. Ended up looking like a dried out lake bed in Death Valley. 
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My parents were huge Letterman fans. Mike Judge always did well when he was a guest, and Dave had a cameo in the Beavis and Butt-Head movie Also this https://youtu.be/QAX_V8e2R3g Also we watched the simpsons together as a family
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Beastie posted:Friends ended in 2004 and Queer Eye debuted in 2003 so I credit Queer Eye for really bringing an end to the "that poo poo's gay, yo" thing of the 90's. I'm rewatching The Venture Brothers in anticipation of the new season and the first 3 seasons still have a lot of this, so it at least persisted up to like 2008-ish. Also, not really the 90s but lol, Venture Brothers has (technically) been on the air since the Bush administration.
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uli2000 posted:Don't forget Landau Roofs, which also pretty much ended in the 90's. It seemed like every Buick, Oldsmobile, and Lincoln had one of these in the 90's. One day I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole, and there are channels that are literally nothing but commercial breaks. Big blocks of commercial the commercial breaks from some Sunday afternoon football game in 1982, or the second night of a TV miniseries from 1976. I remember one commercial being for a car circa 1979, and they were not only advertising vinyl as a luxury finish, but it was on the landau roof 
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Dillbag posted:John Popper is also a crazy prepper that was busted with 13 firearms in hidden compartments in a vehicle that was equipped with sirens, emergency lights and a fuckin P.A. system (lol) because he didn't want to be "left behind". Dude is doing his best to behave like a real life Eric Cartman. When Blues Traveler was playing in the area a year or so ago he stayed at the hotel I worked at. After the show he went straight to his room with about 3 dozen wings. I base the count solely based on the number of stripped bones he left strewn around the hotel room. He tore the carpet up dragging the lounge chair over to the window so he could watch tv while eating and used the curtains as his napkin. The less said about the desecration the bathroom went through, the better.
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My parents were pretty permissive, they trusted me and my sister to not get out of control. The only thing they denied me was watching Robocop. Admittedly, that was the 80s, we were teens in the 90s and banning a 15 year old from watching The Simpsons is pretty silly.
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I was banned from watching The Simpsons for a few years because I watched one episode and straight afterwards told my mum to ‘eat my shorts’. 
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I'm trying to remember what the hell it was. In the early 90s, or it might have been the late 80s, there were always commercials on tv (in Canada, maybe elsewhere too) for some poo poo that you could send away for in Pueblo Colorado. They always had creative commercials. One of the commercials showed some dude dressed like a druid or some poo poo, putting something in a mail box and the voice over said "During the dark ages, the address for Pueblo Colorado was almost lost". I tried googling but nothing came up. Anyone remember that poo poo?
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Mysteries of the Unknown maybe? Sounds about right.
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wesleywillis posted:I'm trying to remember what the hell it was. Publications from the US Government. One of the main distribution centers, if not the main one, was in Pueblo. I live here and definitely remember those ads.
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rockinricky posted:Publications from the US Government. One of the main distribution centers, if not the main one, was in Pueblo. Yup, thats the poo poo. The zip code jogged the gently caress out of my memory.
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I was listening to a google play 90s electronic/edm channel earlier and this came on, and honestly, its like the worst of all the excess of it Porn Kings - Up To No Good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVOVWwQlCNw
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Holy poo poo that 1999? Looks like 1991.
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Oh poo poo, I'm all over that MST3K episode! It was sort of satisfying to see the bar for the next time scroll up and bump the old one away. I saw it glitch out once and it was nothing but the bar for the time. One after the other. Bump bump bump.
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I like how the first thing is porn. We had at first channel 13 which showed, I think current events news in text format. and the audio was CBC News Wire. Just straight facts. I do remember the audio having a story about star trek slash fiction. That was weird. "a bomb went off in central Latvaria, killing 5, no Canadians were involved and Latvarian officials are investigating, but they will no rule out separatists at this time" and such. Then later on it turned into basically this, but kept the news service audio, eventually it just turned into ads for local businesses and promos for shows on local networks. I know its not an 90s thing, but I remember my dad going "stop flipping the channels, look at the guide channel and pick something" to which me and my sister would reply "but its too slooooooow". What do dads have against channel flipping? I can understand the thermostat thing, that makes 100% sense, but flicking channels does not use up more power.
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rockinricky posted:Publications from the US Government. One of the main distribution centers, if not the main one, was in Pueblo. That's correct, Stuart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAGov I like you.
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This contest was basically infiltrated by organized crime: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millions (That very commercial is even linked to in the article).
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Phanatic posted:That's correct, Stuart. I feel like The Dead Milkmen were one of those 80/90s bands that came out at just the wrong time. Like, had their career shifted just a few years to grab a more internetty crowd they'd've been almost mainstream.
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Phanatic posted:This contest was basically infiltrated by organized crime: That's where I got the link  I'd heard it was rigged before and some of the details, but the full deep dive on that is amazing.
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Neito posted:I feel like The Dead Milkmen were one of those 80/90s bands that came out at just the wrong time. Like, had their career shifted just a few years to grab a more internetty crowd they'd've been almost mainstream. You know what Stuart? I think I still remember all the words to this song. I used to do it as a monologue when I was in college. I would do it for people and change the name to whomever I was speaking to so that it would appear ad lib at first. I would monkey with the lyrics so that it would seem that I was speaking to them about real world things. I would let let it slowly devolve into the rapture of insanity that is the song. It was always fun. Most people wouldn't get it, but some would catch that it was a bit. Most would have never heard of "The Dead Milkmen" except for "Punk Rock Girl". Bleach Boys for life! Here at the trailer park...
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the only thing i was really forbidden was playing MtG and D&D because of my rear end in a top hat pastor cousin scaring my mother like it was still the loving 80's. my mom also pushed that pro wrestling was dumb and i shouldn't watch it but i really could have if i wanted to
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mostlygray posted:You know what Stuart? I think I still remember all the words to this song. I used to do it as a monologue when I was in college. I would do it for people and change the name to whomever I was speaking to so that it would appear ad lib at first. I would monkey with the lyrics so that it would seem that I was speaking to them about real world things. I would let let it slowly devolve into the rapture of insanity that is the song. It was always fun. Most people wouldn't get it, but some would catch that it was a bit. Most would have never heard of "The Dead Milkmen" except for "Punk Rock Girl". I used to do this as well. Also used to do it (more often) with Norm MacDonald's turtle bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYgktWhcCCM (the video improves after a bit--it's not shakey the whole way through) e: clarity
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twistedmentat posted:"a bomb went off in central Latvaria, killing 5, no Canadians were involved and Latvarian officials are investigating, but they will no rule out separatists at this time" and such. I don't remember Dr. Doom being at war with Canada
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Elfgames posted:the only thing i was really forbidden was playing MtG and D&D because of my rear end in a top hat pastor cousin scaring my mother like it was still the loving 80's. my mom also pushed that pro wrestling was dumb and i shouldn't watch it but i really could have if i wanted to My dad said I was banned from playing D&D but I did anyways because that's stupid. Then one time my dad took my friend and me to go see the dungeons & dragons movie, and afterwards we were arguing about the details in the movie, and my dad asked "How do you know?" and my friend was like "because we play!" and I was so terrified he was going to ground me for life or something, but he didn't respond whatsoever. Lol.
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If only more people saw that Dan Harmon DnD sketch in the 90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zng5kRle4FA
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