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FilthyImp posted:Street Fighter 2's competitiveness, and later the crazyness of Mortal Kombat / the Capcom fighters, kept thing going. Having to put up with console games vastly inferior to the arcade was a pretty 90s experience. The early to mid 90s was a time where the console /arcade gap was biggest. It's hard to convey how spectacular games like Virtua Fighter and Daytona USA looked in motion in an arcade after playing low colour, pixelated sprite games at home. For a time, home consoles couldn't even do 3D, let alone fully texture mapped 3D at high res and 60fps.
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Here's the most 90s thing I could find today: the liner notes of Nirvana's 'Incesticide', which was a sort of cash grab attempt at getting something else out quickly to capitalize on the massive unexpected success of 'Nevermind'. Despite being a mercenary product, it's quite good. Better than most bands' real albums. Kurt Cobain posted:
I basically owe my early music tastes to Kurt's compulsive name dropping, growing up in Oklahoma years before the internet. Every thing he wrote like this or interview he gave was like a shopping list for me.
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# ? Nov 26, 2018 04:15 |
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I find Kurt being happy about bringing Shonen Knife to the UK really sweet. I remember A LOT of nerds in the 90s being super into Shonen Knife, probably for creepy reasons.
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twistedmentat posted:God that second album is terrible. I've never had so many people try to return an album because it was terrible before. I was really happy to find out that in the Tenacious D movie, Dave Grohl played Satan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9GT9YgDfKU
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# ? Nov 26, 2018 15:20 |
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There was a Tenacious D tv show on HBO in the 90s. HBO used to be super weird before they got into The Sopranos.
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# ? Nov 26, 2018 15:36 |
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Mu Zeta posted:There was a Tenacious D tv show on HBO in the 90s. HBO used to be super weird before they got into The Sopranos. Cable TV wasn't as ubiquitous in the 90's as it is now, so there wasn't much budget or demand for original content. I mean most of the standard cable packages were just sitcom reruns with some movies splashed in. HBO's theme was literally just new releases so you didn't have to drive to the video store.
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# ? Nov 26, 2018 15:52 |
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Mu Zeta posted:There was a Tenacious D tv show on HBO in the 90s. HBO used to be super weird before they got into The Sopranos. Remember when they'd just show episodes of Mr. Bean randomly?
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chitoryu12 posted:I was really happy to find out that in the Tenacious D movie, Dave Grohl played Satan. He was also Satan in their video for Tribute, which is basically just that scene. I don't think non premium cable channels would ever show premium cable channel stuff. You'd hear about say Dream On but it might as well of been on Mars, as you'll never see it. In the late 90s I think Real Sex used to pop up on late night tv around that time on Canadian Showcase or Bravo cable channels. A very disappointing show, like how many segments can you do on bondage and spanking?
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# ? Nov 26, 2018 19:06 |
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twistedmentat posted:He was also Satan in their video for Tribute, which is basically just that scene. Dream On was edited and aired on Fox as well
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# ? Nov 26, 2018 19:09 |
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Sunday night sex show in Canada with Sue Johannsen. It was on TV and radio.
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# ? Nov 26, 2018 22:53 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpnG7MVjJI4
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# ? Nov 27, 2018 20:11 |
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Grassy Knowles posted:Dream On was edited and aired on Fox as well Oh yea, I remember that, I watched Dream On enough that I always think of Wendie Malick as "the ex wife from Dream on". wesleywillis posted:Sunday night sex show in Canada with Sue Johannsen. That went on for a long time. It was funny because it was so clinical and educational, it could get away with being really hard core. I remember going to see her live the first year of University as she was a speaker during frosh week.
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# ? Nov 27, 2018 20:20 |
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apologies if I've posted this before, but every six months or so I have what feels like an absolutely fresh epiphany that this was an idea someone had and it got made and Alan Arkin is in it and everything I've never seen it, and I actually really liked The Jerky Boys as a dirtbag teenager
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# ? Nov 27, 2018 20:30 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:
Green Day, Collective Soul, L7 and TOM JONES???? That's a 90s as gently caress soundtrack. It was funny that Tom Jones became a thing again in pop culture in the 90s again. I guess he kind of did that in the 80s with his Prince Cover. I think it was pretty much because of Fresh Prince that younger people discovered him as more than just something their parents were into. This video is pretty 90s as hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqDEn7uUhFc
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# ? Nov 27, 2018 21:40 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp7DhQNhDRI
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# ? Nov 27, 2018 22:44 |
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twistedmentat posted:Green Day, Collective Soul, L7 and TOM JONES???? That's a 90s as gently caress soundtrack. I've only ever seen that video on Beavis and Butt-head. The singles off this album were inescapable in 1999:
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# ? Nov 27, 2018 22:52 |
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Pastry of the Year posted:I've only ever seen that video on Beavis and Butt-head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYuldgIOelY
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# ? Nov 28, 2018 06:06 |
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The best mid-90s as gently caress soundtrack I had was for the Kids In The Hall film Brain Candy. The film was an absolute mess though I remember liking it a lot, but the soundtrack is a serious indie time capsule. Included Matthew Sweet, Pavement, Liz Phair, Tragically Hip, Yo La Tengo, Cibo Matto, Stereolab, They Might Be Giants, Pizzicato Five, and Guided By Voices. Good stuff. I'd probably be still listening to it if I were still regularly listening to music.
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Howard Beale posted:The best mid-90s as gently caress soundtrack I had was for the Kids In The Hall film Brain Candy. The film was an absolute mess though I remember liking it a lot, but the soundtrack is a serious indie time capsule. I mean the movie is a bunch of sketches slapped together with a framing device based around the drug that makes you happy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCieAb-55fU But yea that Soundtrack is pretty fantastic. Its sort of amazing how me and my friends were obessed with Matthew Sweet in the 90s. One saturday night they played a concert of his on CBC so we sat in my friends car listening to it while eating Timbits. I was listening to Liz Phair's Supernova the other night and i never realized one of the lyrics is "your lips are like the cherry red rear end of a cherub". That really made me laugh.
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# ? Nov 28, 2018 08:54 |
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Godzilla soundtrack ftw
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# ? Nov 28, 2018 08:56 |
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I feel like there's a big gap between 90s kids and 90s teenagers. I'm the former and can't read like 75% of this thread.
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# ? Nov 28, 2018 09:41 |
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ICHIBAHN posted:Godzilla soundtrack ftw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXCFYrnD_a0 I have no idea how that song ended up on the soundtrack, but it was pretty great. The best song on the Godzilla OST was Air by Ben Folds Five, though. DMorbid has a new favorite as of 10:01 on Nov 28, 2018 |
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magikid posted:I feel like there's a big gap between 90s kids and 90s teenagers. I'm the former and can't read like 75% of this thread. I'm also the former (90s kid, 00s teenager) and this thread is fine.
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# ? Nov 28, 2018 10:41 |
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The Foos song and Diddy song were the best
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# ? Nov 28, 2018 11:10 |
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twistedmentat posted:It was funny that Tom Jones became a thing again in pop culture in the 90s again. I guess he kind of did that in the 80s with his Prince Cover. I think it was pretty much because of Fresh Prince that younger people discovered him as more than just something their parents were into. I feel like a few leading men of the 70s got this weird second wind in the 90s, where they were up alongside new guys like Mel Gibson and Will Smith for a while before settling into the "will do any work that pays" phase in the 00s; Al Pacino, Gene Hackman, Robert De Niro, Sean Connery, Nick Nolte, Dustin Hoffman etc.
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ICHIBAHN posted:The Foos song and Diddy song were the best I'm a big fan of the "remix" of Green Day's Brain Stew. Which is exactly the same except they added Godzilla roaring over it.
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# ? Nov 28, 2018 13:34 |
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twistedmentat posted:I mean the movie is a bunch of sketches slapped together with a framing device based around the drug that makes you happy. It's worth noting that when Brain Candy was made, the Kids were kind of at a creative and internal nadir. It really shows (with the exception of "I'm Gay!" of course). Very 90s (and 80s) is the new official Kids In The Hall biography, "One Dumb Guy". Pick it up, it's good.
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# ? Nov 28, 2018 16:24 |
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When you watch "Brain Candy" with the knowledge that Dave Foley wanted nothing to do with it, it's very noticeable how little screen time he has compared to the others. Still, it's worth a watch, for things like McKinney's Lorne Michaels impression.
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# ? Nov 28, 2018 19:05 |
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That and the MST3k movie were always huge wtfs for me. Like, I was happy the talent and their writers were getting noticed and having their payday, but both were widely against the spirit of being a movie. Then they greenlit those SNL films (Supastar, Night at the Roxbury to a lesser extent) and I saw how much worse it could be.
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# ? Nov 29, 2018 06:52 |
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FilthyImp posted:That and the MST3k movie were always huge wtfs for me. What was the problem with the MST movie? It was basically just a really good episode with slightly nicer sets for the in between bits.
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# ? Nov 29, 2018 07:21 |
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:basically just a really good episode Or the tact that the show just radiated an aura of sitting back and chilling. Watching it in a big theatre wasn't the same.
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# ? Nov 29, 2018 07:27 |
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I just remembered I had this plush Tails toy when I was a kid and carried it around everywhere with me like a security blanket. I remember my mom having to sew parts of it back together It's much uglier than I remembered
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# ? Nov 29, 2018 07:31 |
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FilthyImp posted:That and the MST3k movie were always huge wtfs for me. The studio could've given a nice big budget to either MST3K or Barb Wire. They opted for the one with Pamela Anderson.
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Grraarrgghh posted:It's worth noting that when Brain Candy was made, the Kids were kind of at a creative and internal nadir. It really shows (with the exception of "I'm Gay!" of course). A friend of mine had it but I never asked to borrow it. Sadly he passed a few years ago and I doubt his wife still has it. Dixville posted:I just remembered I had this plush Tails toy when I was a kid and carried it around everywhere with me like a security blanket. I remember my mom having to sew parts of it back together I bet you could sell that for soooo much money. If you want your childhood humped by some sonic fan.
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# ? Nov 29, 2018 08:40 |
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FilthyImp posted:That and the MST3k movie were always huge wtfs for me. Night at the Roxbury was good, though, as were the og SNL films, Wayne's World 1 and 2.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The studio could've given a nice big budget to either MST3K or Barb Wire. My friends and I drove a hundred and fifty miles to see the MST3K movie when it came out. We were the only ones in the theater for the first showing, but we weren't disappointed cause we made a day of it. It was just like hanging out watching an episode of MST3K, only the sets were movie quality and at one point Tom Servo said "poo poo".
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# ? Nov 29, 2018 12:23 |
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The studio chose right
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# ? Nov 29, 2018 12:25 |
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Randaconda posted:Night at the Roxbury was good, though, as were the og SNL films, Wayne's World 1 and 2. We don't talk about It's Pat for a reason.
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twistedmentat posted:A friend of mine had it but I never asked to borrow it. Sadly he passed a few years ago and I doubt his wife still has it. I do not, also I actually am not sure what happened to it, it may still be at my parents house but I'm not sure! I was kinda obsessed with sonic games and comics when I was young and I actually remember finding sonic fanfics on the internet some time in the late 90 and being really creeped out by it. They killed my childhood
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Iron Crowned posted:We don't talk about It's Pat for a reason. Why did you remind me of that?
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