Anybody who thinks of the 90s as a time “when people were happy with themselves” and “punks were the cool kids” is either suffering from severe head trauma or a delusional, angtsy Euro– in this case I am betting on the second option based on the lulzy spelling, punctuation and rambling cadence.
Here’s what I remember of the 90s: everybody wore mom jeans and had huge bush, they played Candlebox, The Offspring and Montel Jordan on the radio, and because you couldn’t listen to stuff on the internet, I wasted a lot of money buying records that looked cool but ended up being shitty. The 90s were all about belly tops (see Empire Records, Clueless, etc), and as far as the actual DIY punk/hardcore scene, don’t even get me started on what a fucking No Fun Club shitshow that was (but you can read more here if you want to).
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I bet the punks in the 90s said similar things about the 80s. I
Hindsight’s always 20/20, I bet this kid waas bought up listening to older bros and sisters that thought the nineties was awesome,
When the hell were punks the cool kids?
In the 90s. That’s when the punks were the cool kids.
up until the mid 90′s it was OK for me to fingerbang a 16 year old though, they did have that going for them
I miss the days when the punk kids were the kids I beat up.
tell the truth, that never happened
I miss Kenan and Kel. The radio’s always sucked anyway.
Yeah I don’t even know where to start with this so I’ll just say I doubt this kid would have been any cooler 15 years ago. Pants shitting notwithstanding.
Yeah. I don’t remember these 90s. I remember:
There was like an 8 second window where you were cool for having a flannel shirt. 91-94
If you wanted to hang out with people that were happy with themselves you were not hanging out with punks. You were enduring a lot of stuff like the Clarks, Barenaked Ladies and Reel Big Fish. 95-99
I also remember everyone who liked music then was a huge dork who took everything way too seriously, myself included. People arguing about shit like whether Stone Temple Pilots were really “alternative” or not…
Green Day and Blink were good before they put out their “WE R SERIOUS MUSICIANS!!!” records, respectively.
lolololol christ… I forgot about that
Blink put a serious record? I never liked them. I saw them last summer at the Virgin Free fest, and they were awful. All other punk bands became irrelevant the day I found the Descendants. I was never that big into punk though, so I don’t how relevant this is.
the self-titled Blink record was pretty “srs”, and also their worst.
Descendents are great, but don’t make the mistake of thinking the people stopped making good pop punk after “I Don’t Want To Grow Up”
wait werent punks cool in the 90s? i mean not like PUNX punks but like the sum 41/blink 182 type of punks? pretty sure those dudes held the door open for all the scene music 2000-2008? maybe they werent cool but they helped make scene cool (I THINK)
i still listen to punk music albeit only liek, 90s pop punk and 80s american hardcore, and a little oi!/uk77 shit but i got kinda fed up with everyone being more punk than everyone else so i threw my spiked jacket in the corner of my room and decided im gonna listen to punk and shop at zumiez. fuck conformity/anti-conformity.
also i could never get into crust. it’s so boring. i thought punk was just about fun and then all these political vegan straight edge straight-gay alliance assholes made me feel like a jerk for ngaf. fuck them.
I miss the 90′s, that’s when Green Day and Blink were still legit punk bands.
i agree with you, but nobody thought of them as legit punk bands at the time, at least by 94 or so (Green Day played Gilman and stuff in the early 90s, but that credibility quickly went out the window in the eyes of elitists as soon as they got on MTV).
^ i hate to be so genre-conscious, but i think the ‘punk’ youre referring to in the 90s was known as ‘skate punk’ which was all the fat wreck chords bands and all the bands influenced by them at the time (1996-1999ish?). then mainstream pop punk got big shortly after, like simple plan, sum 41, etc (1999-2002ish?) and then emo came in and blah blah blah.
id say skate punk was definitely the best thing to come out of the 90s, and nowadays, it might sound generic, but at the time the mix of fast drum beats and melodies was fresh and exciting (as opposed to just fast drum beats and well.. noise of the hardcore punk of the 80s). im 22 now but i definitely think it wouldve been sick to have been a teenager in the 90s to experience the ‘skate punk’ era, when i started going to shows that shit had pretty much died out.
you are 100% correct, and it is worth noting that “real punks” and most hardcore kids hated all the fat/epitaph bands, called them sellouts, etc in much the same way as Bridge 9 types would look at All Time Low or FTSK today.
I hated that fat and epitaph shit. everyone who seemed to like it were jocks in my high school who thought it was edgy.
My point exactly. Personally, I was the same then as I am now: I liked a little of everything- mostly listened to mosh hardcore, grind/death metal, and Fat/Lookout/Epitaph bands.
oh… and im so glad belly tops died along time ago! sooo bad.
Wait when did kids not care about sex?
1990-99, from what this European teenager tells me
I miss 1999, when I turned 8, had a GameBoy Pocket with Pokémon Blue, didn’t care at all about either music or girls, and was basically just a happy (if somewhat nerdy) kid in beautiful Sudbury, Ontario. Then 2000 rolled around, we moved to Toronto, and I endured the 2 shittiest years of my life. I’m sure the 1990s sucked for teenagers, but for anyone under 10 they were pretty awesome.
This person’s an idiot, though. In 2021 young people will miss the aughts, and we’ll laugh at them.
I was born in late 1994, so I don’t remember a whole lot except the FUCKING AWESOME cartoons. Oh, and the N64 which I still have and play regularly because it is FUCKING AWESOME. And my stuffed animals and my smelly Jewish preschool and all that.
“I am betting on the second option based on the lulzy spelling, punctuation and rambling cadence.”
Honestly, that sounds like most of the stupid pseudo-hipsters in my school. The post is pretty much exactly something they would write.
I was born in 1992 but I had an older sister who was a teenager so I have a lot of fun memories of playing n64, watching cartoons, and listening 2 bands like sublime, the offspring, 311, blink 182, old green day, nirvana, mxpx, and limp bizkit. It seems like the 90s hardcore scene and their attitudes were a precursor to this lame hipstercore scene we have today. But I tip my hat to bands like Biohazard, hatebreed, fury of five, unbroken, and buried alive who’ve helped shaped all the awesome non hipster hardcore bands we have today
I do not miss walkmen or discmen, nor do I miss my first brick of a cell phone that was only for emergencies, and I dont miss the baggy cargo pants and puffy skate shoes that if you didn’t have you weren’t cool. I do miss the ska though haha. The aquabats/voodoo glow skulls/save ferris ftw.
Ska was awesome.
Same people that call themselves 90s kids cause they played pokemon : pokemon = 99 or 98 maybe
What I remember about the 90s:
a) being a fat pre-teen, (feelsbadman)
b) Nu-metal, and thinking that Linkin Park was the shit (this blog probably needs a post about how awesome Hybrid Theory is)
c) Monica Lewinsky scandal
yeah dude, first 2 Linkin Park records are sweet! srs
I like Minutes to Midnight too if I ignore the not-warranted-pretentious-as-fuck lyrics.
Meteora gets appreesh. The Jay-Z mashup too.
Let’s see, no Netflix, shitty overrated cartoons people liked because they were 5 at the time, no deathcore, no Parkway Drive, ugly fashion, no Xbox 360, and no internet memes. Fuck the 90′s and anything that isn’t now. I wouldn’t want to live in any other time period except for the wild west(1850′s), but even that would suck(see above).
+1 zillion
“no Netflix”
In my experience people with Netflix are tools who watch the same shit as everyone else even though they have more choices than cable tv
“shitty overrated cartoons people liked because they were 5 at the time”
Spongebob, Phineas and Ferb, “bronies”. Enough said. 90′s cartoons seem shitty and overrated now that the new shitty cartoons have driven people into a state of nostalgia and overstating how good those old cartoons were.
“no Xbox 360″
360 fucking ruined gaming by taking it from something only nerds did to something nerds hesitate to admit doing because they don’t want to be associated with guidos and their tangerine skinned girlfriends
“no internet memes”
Those are mostly fake and unfunny as of late anyway
nothing about the dramatic style and attitude shift? from loose baggy, i really dont give a fuck if im arrested…to tight ass jeans etc, i guess ill do just enough not to get in real trouble with mommy daddy?
To be fair to this, there was a time (1994-2001-ish) where pop-punk/punk was really popular: The Offspring, Green Day, blink-182, Rancid, etc. So… I don’t think he was talking about the “No Fun Club,” he was talking about how in the 90′s punk influenced rock was popular, and he was right.
I didnt read any of this shit other than the “I MISS THE 90S, WHEN THE PUNKS WERE THE COOL KIDS” Nigga, when i was 19 (in 1999) i was NOT cool. i had to TALK bitches into my apartment in hopes they would get a chance of looking at my Terveet Kadet – Aareton Joulu E.P. Google that shit you faggot. Also, i had acne. Hense the mad obscure record collection @ 19. Any way. Being punk in the 90′s was FUCKED. I had shitty hair, an awful apartment, and NO pussy. I digress tho playboyz (and girlz) the 90′s, that shit was formative. But i was at a Crucial Crisis ™ (new band name) I decided graffiti offered me me more travel and herpes. So i did that. Foreves. (if you even moderately liked hardcore or punk in 95 you wrote graffiti, if you didnt you were not not my friend.) Any how, the 90′s sucked. i bought too many records, went to jail in multiple state, got the clap 10 + times and listened to Grade and modertae likvadation on a yellow walkman while painting the EL @ O’Hara while yall were cutting your teeth on Fugazi.
Fuck. Im really high on coke.
What was my point?
KillUntillKilled
KILLING UGLY KRUSTIES
you know the deal
my version of the 90s was all about US, BTM, AOD and Plutocracy, Capitalist Casualties and Phobia
We have mutal friends if you still know 90′s BTM’s AOD’s US kids..
im a scene whore from that era. Plutoloco’s new drummer is my doggy. Also, those dudes wear tall T’s and know more about 11-5 than any thug dude in west oakland. plus they own authenticated mac dre mug shots, Romper Room era #holllllla #pow.
I don’t really know him, but I talked to Abhor a few times back in like 99/00. Seemed like a cool guy. I know Ego from AOD really well. As far as US, I was never super tight with any of them but just hung out/bullshitted with a few of those dudes over the years via SF/Seattle hardcore shows.
“Google that shit you faggot”
stopped reading there
you gay
green day played here in my little german hometown 1995, I couldn’t believe it when I saw the poster in our youth center.
oh! my point was i saw the Get Up Kids by myself last month and that Fight Fair album is whats popping.
Fight Fair = Orinda legends. You may have even seen their singer Alex at a recent Capitalist Casualties show haha
The 90s? Smash Mouth (urgh) Hootie and The Blowfish, Nu Metal (lol, incubus), Ska and the death of Grunge. And only the good punk bands get into playstation game soundtracks. I’m looking at you, SSX and Tony Hawk series.
No internet, but we have zines tho
I miss the nintees when “bloggers”- were the nerds who been harrassed after school by the jocks.
i like 90s when MTV’s cool back then. Now they play justin be-gay!!