The Big Fat Mine Field Thread of 90s Nostalgia

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Most people know him from his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujiah", but Jeff Buckley was so much more than that. Son of the 70s multi-genre musician Tim Buckley (who died at 28 of a drug overdose), Jeff inherited all of his father's musicianship, plus Robert Plant's voice. He rose to stardom in 1994 with his debut album Grace, and three years later died in an accidental drowning at age 30, before he could complete his second album. (What was releasable came out the next year as My Sweetheart the Drunk).

There's a DVD of a live concert in Chicago in 1995 that I highly recommend. I still get sad at the thought of how incredibly too soon he left us...

 

[Mirah]

One thing I remember from the 90's is desert storm and how some of my friends from school went to war in the 90's. I also recall having a surgery in a military hospital and the chaplain brought me a Bible that had dessert storm motif on the outside of it.

 

[CaptainWacky]

South Park started in 1997 (okay, it didn't make it to the UK unil 1998 but it is a product of 1997 so I'm including it for my 1997 entry) and I became obsessed with it right away. Things were getting more edgy and EXTREME as the nineties went on, and South Park's NAUGHTINESS definitely appealed to 16 year old me...but ultimately I just liked it so much because it was so funny.



Howdy ho.

 

[Volpone]

Eff it, I'm not waiting until Nov 30 to post this:

 

[Dr Dave]

One thing I remember from the 90's is desert storm and how some of my friends from school went to war in the 90's. I also recall having a surgery in a military hospital and the chaplain brought me a Bible that had dessert storm motif on the outside of it.

I remember when I was in middle school they announced the OJ verdict in an assembly at school one day.

I remember watching some of the desert storm coverage on tv.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

How about this abomination?

 

[Dr Dave]

I remember they tried to bring it back a couple years ago. It was unpleasant.

 

[Loktar]

How about this abomination?

Their slogan should have been "If you ever wondered what chugging gasoline tastes like....try Crystal Pepsi!"

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Their slogan should have been "If you ever wondered what chugging gasoline tastes like....try Crystal Pepsi!"

Unsure if gasoline or Windex. Pepsi always tasted like Windex with sweetener to me, regardless of the incarnation of Pepsi.

 

[Volpone]

Crystal Pepsi and Van Haggar. A fitting '90s pairing.

 

[Volpone]

The '90s was the decade of Tom Hanks. "Forest Gump." "Apollo 13." "Saving Private Ryan." "Cast Away" was 2000 but we'll count it.

 

[Dr Dave]

 

[Dr Dave]

 

[CaptainWacky]

I loved the first few season or whatever of Sliders but it got so dumb and axed so much of the cast that I never watched it all. I remember reading a big webpage about the behind the scenes drama and how the new showrunner hated one of the actresses so left her character in a rape camp or something.

I can't find the right page but this covers some of it: https://www.alternatehistory.com/wiki/doku.php?id=alternate_history:sliders

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Sliders lost me around the time they killed off Pavarotti. Probably before that, actually.