It's time for the '90s revival!
Posted by Jason Carter on 18 April 2008 - 7:17am.
Following the mixed success of the recent 1980s revival (jumpsuits back in fashion, indeed) it's time we started planning the 1990s revival, probably due to kick in about five years time or so.
What do you think the key items that the kids of 2013 will be picking from that decade to sum it up?
Pagers - the more retro kids will be sporting devices that tell you to find a payphone and call a number
The X Files - David Duchovny is 'The Hoff' of the '10s
The Easy Listening revival - to revived as part of the revival
Select Magazine - 'No, seriously, my dad bought the one with Suede on the cover when it came out!'
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At the time
I thought about when this moment would come. The problem is with the vogue for nostalgia in the 90s, largely down to huge chunks of Britpop and the Abba revival. How can we be nostalgic twice, or genuinely pine for hollow fakery?
I don't mean to write off the whole decade. There were of course a couple of good moments.
Loaded
Nuts
Nuts started in 2004!
Nuts started in 2004!
Really?!
Bloody hell! I thought it had been going for years!
The New Wave of New Wave of New Wave?
What with the new Portishead album imminent and a Massive Attack album in the works (I assume), I guess we could be on for a TripHop/Bristol-scene revival. Expect journalists to claim it as a truer representation of ‘90's Britain and use the term ‘hideously white' when describing BritPop.
Select magazine was great…
Hear, Hear
Loved Select Magazine too
I fell out of love with Select...
When it did a rather fawning interview with EMF, a lot of which was taken up by a description of the guitarist's 'party piece', which seemed to involve stuffing items of fruit inside his, er, (and there's no polite way of saying this) foreskin. For what purpose I could not discern.
It was at this point I felt I was falling outside of the magazine's demographic.
So, 'The Word', if you want to retain my custom, you know where the boundary lies.
And if one of you Select alumni were responsible for the EMF piece, well, catch yourselves on.
I fell out of love with Select...
When it did a rather fawning interview with EMF, a lot of which was taken up by a description of the guitarist's 'party piece', which seemed to involve stuffing items of fruit inside his, er, (and there's no polite way of saying this) foreskin. For what purpose I could not discern.
It was at this point I felt I was falling outside of the magazine's demographic.
So, 'The Word', if you want to retain my custom, you know where the boundary lies.
And if one of you Select alumni were responsible for the EMF piece, well, catch yourselves on.
If anyone wants to rescue them (it's your hernia),
I have a complete run of Select mag in the garage loft, complete with freebie cassettes and the cardboard cereal box issues. I ate the free sweeties, I'm afraid, but there's still a dinky can of Fanta somewhere.
There's even a blow up balloon of Liam, which I have had hanging from the garage rafters for 10 years, carefully positioned over the cat's favourite bed so that Liam is forced to watch her cleaning her own arse after a nice poo.
Here's a sad thing
- I don't have a complete run of Select magazines (I think the first one I bought had *cough* Jesus Jones on the cover), but I've always thought that, one day, I'd track down the issues I don't have.
I rescued my copies from my parents loft the other month and they now live in my cellar. Step two is to retrieve the copies of 2000AD and the NME, the combined weight of which are slowly pushing my mum and dads house into the bowls of the earth.
Issue 1
has a Prince look-alike on the front cover. Ho Ho, fooled us. Not. The covers for the rest of the run got progressively tackier.
Good mag at first though.
Sadly, for my joists anyway, I also have a complete run of Vox, and Q up to around 200 or so, when I finally gave up, on the basis that all I was doing was acquiring biomass; I never read the damn thing any more.
giving it all away
I am just about to offload my entire collection of Q, Mojo and Empire [ some 10 years worth ] having finally realised that I am never EVER going to look at them again. I may even get around to cancelling the subscriptions too.
I just can't bring myself...
... to throw them all away. I wish I could, but part of me thinks that they'll come in handy one day. For instance, I spent a pleasurable few afternoons re-reading Select when I was off work sick before Christmas, and there are a couple of framed 2000AD covers adorning my hallway wall.
However, I think I need to face-up the fact that I'm never going to do anything with the hundreds of NME's accumulated, other than build an impressive indie rock-coloured bonfire one day.
wrong balloon
I sort out the much cooler balloon Jarvis ! ;)
The Early Nineties Dance Mania
Surely the most erased part of the decade is pre-Britpop. Once again we can look forward to 'the death of guitar music', Paul Oakenfold coming along and 'remixing' slighly past-it rock acts for the dancefloor, 'Superstar DJs'being paid stupid money to play two records at the same tempo back to back, any old chancer scoring a chart hit with a dodgy cover set to the soul 2 soul backbeat, clubs with queues so long you had to start queuing that night for the next weekend...ah happy days.
The X Files - David Duchovny is 'The Hoff' of the '10s
Don't think the Hoff could do anything as brilliant as CALIFORNICATION.Duchovny is the man in this series