This is the thread where we reminisce about the years 1989-1991

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"Just the Ten of Us" a spin-off of the show "Growing Pains" began, then fizzled. It was my favorite show.

― Mandee, Friday, 11 April 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Stevie B's "Because I Love You" was a #1 hit in 1990. (What?!)

― Mandee, Friday, 11 April 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

In Living Color:Fly Girls

― cprek (cprek), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the Simpsons for the first time, and I still watch it every week.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Mandee, Friday, 11 April 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Mandee, Friday, 11 April 2003 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

these were horrible years for almost every facet of popular culture XCEPT for music, so no

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

*stares at feet*

― stripey, Friday, 11 April 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

89 through 91? Lemme see....I seem to remember: Lollapalooza, The Wonder Stuff, Soundgarden, Technotronic, shoegazer bands like Lush, Ride and the like, ummmm....Nirvana, Blur's Leisure, Cop Shoot Cop, Killing Joke's Extremities album...

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure I can manage to get nostalgic about those magical and special years from age 30-32.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

haha i mean GOOD music not the fag end of indie rock

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey you punk. No complaints about That One Album I Like.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, how could I forget Bizarro by the Wedding Present?....I played the bejesuit snots outta that one at the time.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

River Phoenix in still alive shockah!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

In which I'm getting tons of operations on my ear (leaving my bandaged head looking like a turnip), allowing muchos time to contemplate the glory of R.E.M.'s Green.

R=4! What does it mean?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 April 2003 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I was drunk an awful lot. Lived in Lake Louise. Graduated from high school and went to university. Lost my virginity. Made most of the friends that I still have now. Very good years. **sniff sniff**

― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I've had a look in the database. Some stuff I love from then: Massive Attack more than anyone, Wedding Present yes, a lot of African stuff (Diblo!), the fabulous Inner City, De La Soul and Public Enemy of course, Pet Shop Boys, Primal Scream, Prince obviously, Neil Young on one of his peaks, PM Dawn, Soul II Soul, plus 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald, Blade, Blaze, Bomb the Bass, Betty Boo, MC Buzz B (mm, The Last Tree), Coldcut, Julian Cope (Peggy Suicide), Dinosaur Jr, the Fall as ever, Gang Starr, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, Grynner (Get Out De Way!), Jungle Brothers, Killdozer, KMD, LL Cool J (tail end of his heyday), Robert Lloyd & the New Four Seasons, NWA, Third Bass, Tribe Called Quest, and all sorts of other dance and hip hop tunes (Strings Of Life!).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess says these years ruled for music, yet THIS song came out in 1991:

Boom boom acka-lacka lacka boom
Boom boom acka-lacka boom boom
Boom boom acka-lacka lacka boom
Boom boom acka-lacka boom boom

It was a night like this forty million years ago
I lit a cigarette, picked up a monkey skull to go
The sun was spitting fire, the sky was blue as ice
I felt a little tired, so I watched Miami Vice

I walked the dinosaur, I walked the dinosaur

Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur
Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur
Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur
Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur

I met you in a cave, you were painting buffalo
I said I'd be your slave, follow you wherever you go
That night we split a rattlesnake and danced beneath the stars
You fell asleep, I stayed awake and watched the passing cars

And walked the dinosaur, I walked the dinosaur.

― Mandee, Friday, 11 April 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I still remember how to do that dinosaur dance. Along with the Ana Ng dance, the Stand dance, the Pop Song '89 dance...I'm a dancing fool.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, that came out in 1988...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I just watched the video for Stand last night. Before I bought Green I thought those dancing people WERE R.E.M. Then when Pop Song '89 came out I realized R.E.M. was a long-haired guy and three women. J.M. Stipe and the bunch were very confusing.

There was some show on Nickoleodeon that had the whole audience Walking The Dinosaur back in the day. That shit was Fresh. I remember being all excited when I saw Was Not Was members in Bonnie Raitt's "Love Letter" video. I should note that at this time my mom didn't want me watching MTV because of Billy Idol-inspired nightmares in the early '80s so I had to settle for non-stop VH1.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 April 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to watch in living colour religiously and wanted to be a fly girl soooooo badly. i still don't have the body for it though. they should totally bring that show back!

i remember shoegazer bands, depeche mode (violator), technotronic (i think i still have a casette singe of pump up the jam somewhere) and the first inklings of TEENAGE ANGST. oh, and also high school gym class first thing each morning in a really cold gym.

i don't have too many good memories of that time (that i can remember right NOW anyway) apart from 1991 being the first time i heard the smiths.

― sand.y, Saturday, 12 April 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

89-91... ahh, some good years for me. Had left school, got job, moved out of home, partied non stop, and of course indiepop/shoegazer happened. And Nirvana. And Keith Floyd TV shows learnin' me how to cook. And going clubbing, and dancing ironically to shit like "Pump Up the Jams" at *coff*goth clubs*coff*.

OK so I also had my worst/most abusive relationship in that 3 year period, but time and distance smudge up the yucky bits quite nicely.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 12 April 2003 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

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― felicity (felicity), Saturday, 12 April 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

My nan died. I disfigured my nose. Stock, Aitken and Waterman everywhere. Poll tax demonstrations. Thatcher out. Freddie Mercury died. Gulf war. I smoked too many spliffs.

Bollocks, really.

Except the Thatcher bit. Hold on, John Major replaced her. Oh. That was bollocks too, then.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Saturday, 12 April 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 12 April 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaah- watching Beverly Hills 90210 at my friend's house when we got home from school.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 12 April 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, look man, we didn't start the fire.

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 12 April 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Hammer time!

― rob h, Saturday, 12 April 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

pinefox to thread!

― the pinefox, Saturday, 12 April 2003 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i had lots of friends. i met my to-be wife (i fell in love). i lived in a warehouse in the heart of gaye olde sydney (Taylor Sq) with 5 women for very little money. i was working only 3 days a week. i had yet to acquire a cd player.

― gaz (gaz), Saturday, 12 April 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Desert Shield
Desert Storm
Kuwati Oil Fires

― lucas (lucas), Saturday, 12 April 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm listening to Ned's Atomic Dustbin right now thanks to this thread.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 12 April 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG they were the best fucking years of my life. I was so unbelievably fucked up - it was fantastic.

Like, it was the happiest I've ever been at the same time as being the totally, desperately unhappiest. I was completely out of control.

It's like, 1989 to 1991 were the only years I've had where life felt real because I was fully living on the edge but now when I look back it's all a strange sort of haze in a lot of ways.

1990 was the year I saw two sausage dogs running in the park on the 31st of December and I cried because it was the best thing that had happened to me all year.

If I had to choose a period in my life to be stuck in forever they would be it. I'm hoping to improve on that shortly though.

― toraneko (toraneko), Saturday, 12 April 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Those years are pretty hazy to me, too. I imagine the amount of chemicals being consumed has something to do with it.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Saturday, 12 April 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I started preschool

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 12 April 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

3 of the worst years ever, and 3 of the worst years just generally! The best years for music were 1986 and 1988.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 12 April 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

It occurs to me that this was when I was getting Trident Comics going, putting comics together with all sorts of fine people, including Grant Morrison, Eddie Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Mark Millar and many others. That was fun, despite an arsehole managing director.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 12 April 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin, did any of the Trident comics make it over to this side of the pond?

I remember these years somewhat fondly, as i was just figuring out school (just in time to be leaving). Then i landed my first office job. Bleah.

Twin Peaks, even if it began to suck mightily in the second season, was a cultural high point. As was my trip to Australia with some friends from University (9000 km in 2.5 weeks!)

I've wanted to do a Year Sounds Like thread for a long time. Perhaps this'll give me a decent kick in the pants. Keep eyes peeled on ILM for more. Maybe.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Saturday, 12 April 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

NATE PATRIN IS OTM TWINS TWINS TWINS TWINS TWINS TWINS TWINS TWINS!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 12 April 2003 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Matt: yes, all of the ones I'm referring to sold more in the US than the UK. We had another, very different line which was repackaging Dark Horse movie tie-in material into mags for the UK newsstand market - Aliens, Terminator, Indiana Jones, that kind of thing. But all the original material was sold in the US. They weren't big sellers, so how easily you'd find Grant Morrison's St Swithin's Day (our biggest seller - the colour collected edition (it was originally in our B&W anthology title) sold about 11,000 - and probably our best comic) now, I've no idea.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 12 April 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

at the moment i'm listening loads to teenage fanclub's " a catholic education" and feeling strangely nostalgic for the days when (for a male singer) to sing even remotely in tune was indie anathema...the days before thom yorke set the template for all that would come after. see also ride, felt, etc.... ahhhhhh! those were quite lovely, innocent days!

― jeanne picot (jeanne picot), Sunday, 13 April 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

martin i reread st swithins day a couple of months ago (rereading cos i can't afford new comics). i liked it. morrison in pretty straight mode. thumbs up to trident, thanks.

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 13 April 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you Gaz. I deserve no credit for it other than hiring two talented creators and having the sense to sit back and let them get on with it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 13 April 2003 10:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, TWINS. The banners for the Twins' world series run royally pissed off one Alan Rudolph, in Minneapolis filming Equinox. Friends who lived by Loring Park kept getting hassle for being in shot. Also I remember the Twins' ticker-tape parade down Hennepin Avenue - my uncle the cop drove the guide car (he got all the cool jobs).

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

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