Same a different just better time.. it was way more creative, so many great art and artists came out of that time and now we live in a world where it’s lacking creativity
This was one hell of a year. Turned 21, we had a consequential presidential election, Lollapalooza 2, Metallica & Guns N Roses doing a stadium tour, had a professor in the Spring semester who was a tremendous teacher, esp on the subjects of civil rights and racism, did more happy hours and barhopping than I've ever done since.
I was there! 20 years, in 1992! Nirvana's Spear Head Underground alternative music, that is still going to day. MTV's genre that they HAD to cater too, like it or not. Then in 1996, Full year of New Rock alternative, the successor of Grunge era. By 1999 MTV got tired of us. Thus, TRL. Now you know.
Time's been a lot kinder to Paul's Boutique, thankfully. (I wonder how it would've fared if SoundScan were around.) The Rodney King thing gives me chills. So many people not feeling seen.
The whole Rodney King beating was staged. His bruises - Hollywood make-up job. When first interviewed, he was asked if the police yelled racial epithets toward him in which he replied "no." During the VH1 20th Anniversary special of the L.A. Riots, Rodney King said that the police repeatedly called him the N Word. He lied. People died. The L.A.P.D. and rap artists were just pawns in the Vatican's never-ending chess game.
The following summer I saw Arrested Development at Lollapalooza and they were GREAT. It was pretty damn hot that day but they still had us hopping in the pit. Fishbone were up right after them and they were great too - they continued to have us hopping the entire time. I must’ve drank two huge bottles after that.
19:05 Mike Concepcion responds to Koreans complaining about Black rioters destroying their own community. He says it's okay to burn it all down if someone else owns it.
I’m not even Gen X, my older sister is, I’m an old millennial (41) so I was still really young when this was going on, but by the mid nineties, my big sis started getting me into music and gave me my first cassette tapes. Among them were RHCP, Metallica, PJ, Soundgarden, Soul Asylum, etc. Ever since I maintain my position that the early 90s was the last real renaissance for rock and roll music. I despise everything my generation listened to (all of the nü metal and pop and stupid boy bands). Absolutely despise it all. To this day, the Seattle/grunge scene remains my favorite time for music and I still listen to it all religiously
@@TheGraduate702yep very much so. I have a coworker that is 27 and we have almost nothing in common from childhood. It’s very odd to me that I am considered the same generation as him. Evidently the cutoff year for Gen X is 1980, so I missed it by 2 years and 2 months. I have always felt far more connected to Gen X than millennials
What's interesting about watching this in 2024 is how all the music and cultural stuff seems so very different 30 years later but when they start talking politics, it's as if nothing has changed at all with politicians still making empty promises around the economy and unemployment and whipping people up over nothing. Thanks for the time capsule!
1992 was a whole lot shittier than I remember. Its amazing just how many of the issues of today really started, or at least came to light, back then. Watch the Year in Rock for 85 and compare it to this...wow the world had changed drastically.
I don’t think it’s rose colored glasses.most ppl know heavy stuff happened,it’s just such a stark comparison from then til now.nothing is affordable anymore..
I choose to see the year with rose color glasses. but make no mistake, I remember other sht too. '92 was also the year I stopped trusting cops if you know what I mean.
I went to see a bunch of 90’s artists a few years ago. Sometime during the show I got bored and wandered around . I ended up onstage with Sir Mix a lot singing Baby Got Back with him. (Yep. I got pics.) 🤘🏼
This is just about the time that our country began a more accelerated downward spiral which had originally commenced after the assassination of John F. Kennedy and was helped a long thanks to MTV. we’ll keep the music you can keep your politics. Ps - should have elected Ross Perot.
Love the lack of tracking because it seems more authentic and we don’t have authentic anymore. In today’s world we perfect imperfections and today we are desperately imperfect in so many ways. In 92 we elected a pervert and sent a war criminal packing. It’s a shame that we couldn’t see into the future at the time and send both him and his wife Hillary into obscurity. We didn’t realize that Kurt was not long for this world. All these songs are still bumping today and relevant. The only one that’s kind of obscure would be Ugly Kid Joe. Interesting fun fact!: I actually saw them in concert when they opened up for Def Leppard. Also, around this time maybe it was 93. I saw Metallica supporting the black album and the band suicidal tendencies opened for them.
Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Enough said… two bands that are still around today and touring and making music. I love Anthony and Eddie Vedder 🖤
@@deepsea83 I’ll be damned it is…that’s a big faux pas right there considering they didn’t like each other hahaha…had me fooled the way he was sitting and talking and the way his hair looked and considering it was the year of Nirvana I didn’t give that a hard look…just assumed Kurt would be everywhere. And considering the dark humor that came from the lyrics of “Come As You Are” my brain must’ve put all that together and went “must be Kurt!” Nahhh…definitely wasn’t…definitely was guy who left James Hetfield hanging in Montreal not wanna to get upstaged by a pyrotechnics accident!
lol. Dude, you would have never of made it through the 90’s. WAAAAAAHHHHHH! The quality is so bad!!!! They taped it off of tv onto a vcr tape. It’s actually in pretty good shape.
