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What was the shittiest year of the 1990s?

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violent casino
  01/28/26
1990 because of the recession
blue gaming laptop pistol
  01/28/26
get out of my thread you weird incel fag
violent casino
  01/28/26
hey i might be weird but i have sex with genetic women
blue gaming laptop pistol
  01/28/26
The 1997 chart-topper "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" ...
self-centered internal respiration
  01/28/26
But 1995-1997 would be years 1, 2, and 3 from the 90s.
Cyan Legal Warrant Liquid Oxygen
  01/28/26
those are all terrilbe years imo the invention of the boy ba...
self-centered internal respiration
  01/28/26
Counterpoint: Those WERE the worst things to occur.
Cyan Legal Warrant Liquid Oxygen
  01/28/26
1990 and 1991 were still part of the really shitty music per...
Wine thirsty indian lodge
  01/28/26
Very wrong and you were likely too young to get what was hap...
electric free-loading newt rigor
  01/28/26
Yes, I was there, and those are exactly some of the main rea...
Wine thirsty indian lodge
  01/28/26
1990 was a transitional year in music but still really great...
violent casino
  01/28/26
wrong. google the albums released in 1991. it is literally t...
Big Mauve Den
  01/28/26
1990 is wrong because the most dynamic geopolitical and cult...
electric free-loading newt rigor
  01/28/26
Men in Black would like a word
heady black office
  01/28/26
Men in Black is gay millennial-targeted slop like Space Jam....
electric free-loading newt rigor
  01/28/26
late late 90s weren't great that's when MTV truly died may...
Cracking theater striped hyena
  01/28/26
Null set
Cyan Legal Warrant Liquid Oxygen
  01/28/26
'94, Tonya Harding, OJ, Cobain, MLB strike, weird and shitty...
balding roast beef
  01/28/26
FF6, DKC, Super Metroid, Sonic 3, 32X
heady black office
  01/28/26
Nobody was playing those Games in america.
Geriatric federal sweet tailpipe
  01/28/26
Im horrible at explaining this but someone once made an epic...
heady black office
  01/28/26
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Hyperventilating locale
  01/28/26
It was the end of the Cold War, the death of 80s excess, and...
Cyan Legal Warrant Liquid Oxygen
  01/28/26
probably 1996
dull step-uncle's house ceo
  01/28/26


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Date: January 28th, 2026 9:26 AM
Author: violent casino



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Date: January 28th, 2026 9:41 AM
Author: blue gaming laptop pistol

1990 because of the recession

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Date: January 28th, 2026 9:43 AM
Author: violent casino

get out of my thread you weird incel fag

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:00 AM
Author: blue gaming laptop pistol

hey i might be weird but i have sex with genetic women

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Date: January 28th, 2026 9:46 AM
Author: self-centered internal respiration

The 1997 chart-topper "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" destroyed music forever and it's only fitting that 30 years later two goons would ruin xo by being derivative losers. One is even called MASE lol

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:55 AM
Author: Cyan Legal Warrant Liquid Oxygen

But 1995-1997 would be years 1, 2, and 3 from the 90s.

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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:00 AM
Author: self-centered internal respiration

those are all terrilbe years imo the invention of the boy bands, mase and diddy. this is just music. seinfeld was ending. friends was taking its place in the zeitgeist which was so depressing.

the clinton stuff was exhausting. porn images took hours to download

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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:33 PM
Author: Cyan Legal Warrant Liquid Oxygen

Counterpoint: Those WERE the worst things to occur.

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:15 AM
Author: Wine thirsty indian lodge

1990 and 1991 were still part of the really shitty music period that went from around 1988-1991, where "80s music" was finished culturally and "90s music" hadn't gotten going yet.

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:21 AM
Author: electric free-loading newt rigor

Very wrong and you were likely too young to get what was happening. Fall 91 is the grunge breakout, but even if you want to call that the cutoff of the prior period hip hop is in this weird place like MC Hammer is massive and Vanilla Ice comes out, but it’s understood in real time that these are corporate co-opts and the better shit is happening without any major label support like Ice Cube going solo. In pop you have massive generational releases like Mariah Carrey first shows up, Madonna drops Vogue and Boyz II Men basically invent the entire playbook for male pop artists in the next 15 years.

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:50 AM
Author: Wine thirsty indian lodge

Yes, I was there, and those are exactly some of the main reasons I didn't like the 88-91 transitional music period.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2Reputation#49626343)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:41 AM
Author: violent casino

1990 was a transitional year in music but still really great

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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:52 PM
Author: Big Mauve Den

wrong. google the albums released in 1991. it is literally the greatest time in music.

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:16 AM
Author: electric free-loading newt rigor

1990 is wrong because the most dynamic geopolitical and cultural changes are happening then ie people always want to point to 91 bc of grunge but if you expand it to 87/88 to 92 it’s a massive shift across every axis of the culture, politics, economy, intl relations etc etc. I recall there being a weird lull in the 97-98 range like handoffs had happened from cooler shit to gayer/dumber/lamer versions of the same shit and the first indications of how fucking terrible millennials’ taste was started to come through. EG LFO came along in that period and the boy bands are first starting and therefore at the lamest/most corporate/gayest. Or a band like Bush is a good example. They always kinda sucked but their second record that came out at the end of 96 was awful and you heard it on the radio all the time. TV was also in between waves as some of the core 90s stuff like Seinfeld ended but you didn’t yet have HBO at the golden age of TV level they reached by 99. Movies similarly were weirdly bad in that range after 94-96 being this huge indie breakout combined with awesome major studio movies and then 99 is obvs the goat.

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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:05 AM
Author: heady black office

Men in Black would like a word

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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:21 AM
Author: electric free-loading newt rigor

Men in Black is gay millennial-targeted slop like Space Jam. Independence Day shits in its mouth and then fucks it into a coma.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2Reputation#49626426)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:47 AM
Author: Cracking theater striped hyena

late late 90s weren't great that's when MTV truly died

maybe saved by the Internet which was still fun and exciting and like the Wild West

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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:52 AM
Author: Cyan Legal Warrant Liquid Oxygen

Null set

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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:03 AM
Author: balding roast beef

'94, Tonya Harding, OJ, Cobain, MLB strike, weird and shitty year

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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:04 AM
Author: heady black office

FF6, DKC, Super Metroid, Sonic 3, 32X

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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:09 AM
Author: Geriatric federal sweet tailpipe

Nobody was playing those Games in america.

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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:03 AM
Author: heady black office

Im horrible at explaining this but someone once made an epic post about weird early 90s aesthetic with no analogue before or since

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2Reputation#49626389)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:09 PM
Author: Hyperventilating locale



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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:50 PM
Author: Cyan Legal Warrant Liquid Oxygen

It was the end of the Cold War, the death of 80s excess, and embrace of irony above all else. It was when the mainstream culture and zeitgeist became truly post-modern.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827729&forum_id=2Reputation#49627102)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:43 PM
Author: dull step-uncle's house ceo

probably 1996

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