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https://dinosaurdracula.com/blog/deadsites-hot-topic-1998/
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Feb 13, 2019 23:06
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It's hilarious how Hot Topic went from "that 'scary' store in the mall for freaks" to basically almost indistinguishable from ThinkGeek's physical stores.
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Feb 14, 2019 00:53
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Yeh that's more about the mainstreaming or co-opting of niche and alternate cultures. Like remember when Goths were a thing? Or when nerds were outcasts because they played vidja games or read comics or wouldn't shut the gently caress up about star wars? It's all so quaint now.
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Feb 14, 2019 01:03
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That whole Elastica album is great, too bad about the plagiarism.
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Feb 14, 2019 04:01
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I'm just glad chokers are back
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Feb 14, 2019 04:05
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JnnyThndrs posted:That whole Elastica album is great, too bad about the plagiarism. You need to post your avatar in the 70s thread. Wish I had saved some of the images from that thread. That was one hell of a 70s home improvement/fashion catalogue.
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Feb 14, 2019 04:57
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:It's hilarious how Hot Topic went from "that 'scary' store in the mall for freaks"
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Feb 14, 2019 05:36
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Did anyone ever try and recreate the "Mozarts Ghost" website from the movie The Net? When I first got online in like 1996 or 1997 I remember looking furiously for something like that and it seems no one ever did. I always though it would be a cool idea. Maybe I'm the only one.
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Feb 14, 2019 06:00
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Vanagoon posted:Did anyone ever try and recreate the "Mozarts Ghost" website from the movie The Net? There was a lot of dubious computer fuckery in Copycat too. Although recreating that would be a kind of gross.
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Feb 14, 2019 07:03
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Fatty Crabcakes posted:Lol if you ever seriously thought that I didn't, but that was the perception among parents
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Feb 14, 2019 10:09
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Vanagoon posted:Did anyone ever try and recreate the "Mozarts Ghost" website from the movie The Net? As a teenager I worked for a website development company. I made goddamn sure access to the admin portal was a via a tiny pi symbol in the bottom right corner. ... I did end up getting questioned about this, so I explained the reference and the two owners of the company smiled and nodded because they were now in on the joke. Apparently the secret to doing stupid pointless poo poo is to tell people you're doing it.
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Feb 14, 2019 11:05
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aardwolf posted:As a teenager I worked for a website development company. I made goddamn sure access to the admin portal was a via a tiny pi symbol in the bottom right corner.
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Feb 14, 2019 12:28
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FilthyImp posted:Turns out there's less red tape to just take 150 feet od LEDs/screens and plaster them on the side of a condo complex or whatevers. Gonna go post this in the Capitalism.jpg thread too.
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Feb 15, 2019 08:45
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Vanagoon posted:Did anyone ever try and recreate the "Mozarts Ghost" website from the movie The Net? I used to wonder that too and looked around but never found anything. Someone could probably write a tool to search the web for random-appearing (as in unconnected to anything else) pi symbols on a page, right?
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Feb 16, 2019 15:53
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZrAYxWPN6c
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Feb 19, 2019 13:13
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If nobody has mentioned something similar in the millions of posts in this thread already: I'd like to declare that the 1990s band LIVE is the most CHAD band ever. Not only do they write songs with deep lyrics, you know, about love being like water, beaten and abused or whatever, and how pain lies on the river side, that totally make all girls, especially the Stacies of the world totally wet as gently caress, but they've also got not one, but TWO members named Chad in the band itself. Rumour is that their next album is going to be called "come at me bro".
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Feb 24, 2019 05:58
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I was born in 1980, and of all the 90s bands, LIVE was the one that converted me from country music to rock. Specifically, it was their performance of "I Alone" on SNL. I quickly learned about better bands, but 1994 was an awkward year.
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Feb 24, 2019 06:04
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Throwing Copper is a drat good album. Way more hits than misses to me for an essentially one hit wonder. Plus it has this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs7LaACDWD8
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Feb 24, 2019 07:59
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Live is totally 90s. Started out as a Christian band, made it big, Ed was in Fight Club, they all ended up suing each other, and they're still a staple of 90s alternative nostalgia radio.
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Feb 24, 2019 08:53
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Lighting Crashes is the only song I know that mentions a placenta.
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Feb 24, 2019 09:56
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ryonguy posted:Throwing Copper is a drat good album. Way more hits than misses to me for an essentially one hit wonder. Two hit wonder, you mean. I Alone and Lightning Crashes both still get played
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Feb 24, 2019 11:01
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Uh, The Distance to Here was also a great album.
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Feb 24, 2019 13:09
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Dammit I’d completed erased Live and their placenta song from my brain and now it’s back...thanks 90’s thread.
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Feb 24, 2019 13:38
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Randaconda posted:Two hit wonder, you mean. I Alone and Lightning Crashes both still get played
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Feb 24, 2019 14:37
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pangstrom posted:I heard Selling The Drama coming out of passing car the other day (and it was a minor hit I think). For sure, there were like 4, maybe 5 songs of theirs that were in rotation on my local alternative station back in the day.
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Feb 24, 2019 14:49
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pangstrom posted:I heard Selling The Drama coming out of passing car the other day (and it was a minor hit I think). Yeah, I forgot about that one. They had a nice few years.
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But LIVE gave us Creed via the "pseudo-Christian band figures out it can make All the Money by just being slightly less specific and being on a mainstream label instead of in the contemporary Christian ghetto". Jars of Clay tried it first, of course, to much less success. I think I remember reading an interview with LIVE's guitar player sometime around their third-album where he was talking about how, previously, he was completely self-taught, and the only songs he knew how to play were their songs. After 'Throwing Copper', he actually learned how to properly play, and I remember somehow it made them sound worse. Like if The Edge from U2 started playing like other guitarists or something. Imagined has a new favorite as of 14:59 on Feb 24, 2019 |
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Feb 24, 2019 14:56
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Imagined posted:But LIVE gave us Creed via the "pseudo-Christian band figures out it can make All the Money by just being slightly less specific and being on a mainstream label instead of in the contemporary Christian ghetto". Jars of Clay tried it first, of course, to much less success. Basically how James Hetfield was awesome in Metallica, then he took voice lessons, and gave us a load of Load
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Randaconda posted:Two hit wonder, you mean. I Alone and Lightning Crashes both still get played THE WAY YOU'RE BATHED IN LIGHT / REMINDS ME OF THAT NIGHT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBHmcORu4og I always thought he used to say "Lolita's alright, lolita she will lead us."
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Feb 24, 2019 19:31
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If you're a certain kind of 90s kid, this music should give you goosebumps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShBy6mouUoo
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Imagined posted:I was born in 1980, and of all the 90s bands, LIVE was the one that converted me from country music to rock. Specifically, it was their performance of "I Alone" on SNL. I quickly learned about better bands, but 1994 was an awkward year. Throwing Copper Sixteen Stone Superunknown Dookie The Downward Spiral The Blue Album Smash Those albums were released in 1994. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO I feel very old all of a sudden.
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Thanks to this thread I listened to an entire album all the way through again. It was Live and yes I listened to the poo poo out of the whole album back in the day. Criminally underrated band. The song from Zach and Miri is one of their best.
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ryonguy posted:Throwing Copper is a drat good album. Way more hits than misses to me for an essentially one hit wonder. Mental Jewelry was 10x better than Throwing Copper.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:If you're a certain kind of 90s kid, this music should give you goosebumps: Hell yes, I love poo poo like this. In a similar vein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwarhzl76D8
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Mar 7, 2019 17:55
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Lester Shy posted:Hell yes, I love poo poo like this. In a similar vein: Yes, I remember these in elementary school! I've always been trying to find them again.
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The most 90s thing I can think of at the moment was waking up earlyass on the morning of Dec 31 so I could watch CNN in the background all day to see the world celebrate the millennium, wondering if the computers would poo poo themselves all at once or in stages as people around the world ushered in a new age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2R--yH3OwY I didn't "get" how lucky and random it was that I was alive to witness the changeover until later that night, as I went to bed with all this crazy optimism and hope about the ways the world would change and how everything would be future better. I woke up to CNN covering a murder after a botched robbery before being disgusted that we couldnt just be good people for a day, then flipping to the Rose Parade.
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PhotoKirk posted:Mental Jewelry was 10x better than Throwing Copper. It's an earlier album that didn't get huge radio play so I am pretty sure you are correct without even having heard anything from it.
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Lester Shy posted:Hell yes, I love poo poo like this. In a similar vein: We gotta have the “Nature” theme in here too. Guess which versions are from the ‘90s! https://youtu.be/MeibDeCgppI
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