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It seems like I think a whole lot of things were better when I was younger. I'm 22, so I grew up in the late 80s and the 90s. I fear I may be clinging too tightly to the pop culture of those times.
Music? Prime U2, Depeche Mode, old-school Metallica, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Bends-OKC era Radiohead, Automatic/Out Of Time era REM, BSSM/OHM/Californication era RHCP, Alanis Morissette, Fumbling/Surfacing era Sarah McLachlan, even lesser bands like Third Eye Blind, Smashmouth, Goo Goo Dolls(think Dizzy Up The Girl), Fastball, Everclear, even early Matchbox 20, all of this stuff from the 90s, they all just do it for me more than anything 'new' of the past few years.
Video games? I'm a huge video game fan, but none of the recent new consoles(PS3/Wii/Gamecube/XBox/XBox360/etc) are getting me excited. I don't like what's happening to the video game industry. I remember when video games were an underground thing aimed towards geeks. Now everybody and their mother plays them, and the games themselves aren't what they used to be. Originality is lacking. I prefered old-school games where they didn't rely so heavily on graphics. Tetris, Mario Bros. 1/2/3, Zelda 1/2, Donkey Kong, Super Mario World, Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, F-Zero, Pilotwings, Donkey Kong Country, Mario Kart, Zelda 3, NBA Jam, Sonic 1/2/3, Altered Beast, Columns, even N64/Playstation1 stuff from the late 90s...Goldeneye, Mario 64, Zelda Ocarina Of Time, Turok, Blast Corps, Starfox, Final Fantasy VII, Diablo, Warcraft II, Tomb Raider, Soviet Strike, Twisted Metal...on and on and on.
Saturday Night Live? I think it sucks today. But in the 90s? Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Phil Hartman, Rob Schnieder, Kevin Nealon, David Spade, and later Will Ferrell, Norm McDonald, Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon. Great stuff back in the day.
To a lesser extent movies and television. In this category I'm not totally stuck in the past. There are certainly still great films out there, many of them, no question, though I still get a huge nostalgia kick from Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, BTTF trilogy, Die Hard trilogy, Indiana Jones films, and the like. As for television...comedy was better back then(Seinfeld, Friends, Mad About You, Frasier, Cheers[DAMN NBC was POWERHOUSE back then!], old-school Simpsons, South Park when it was new and fresh and a phenomenon, The Wonder Years...), but drama is better now...this is the one area where I can honestly say it's better now than it was then...there was no television drama as good as 24 or The West Wing or Studio 60 or the like(except for maybe old-school ER).
And I'm an NBA fan. I still love to watch, but no way does the NBA of Kobe, LeBron, Wade, etc excite me as much as the NBA of the 80s and 90s with Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy Larry Bird, Julius Erving, Isiah Thomas, Clyde Drexler, Dennis Rodman, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Chris Mullin, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Reggie Miller, Alonzo Mourning, Scottie Pippen, Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, Grant Hill, Penny Hardaway, younger Shaq, (speaking of when all of these guys were in their prime, of course). Basically the 80s era of Magic/Bird/Dr.J and the 90s 'Dream Team' era.
I feel abnormal, like there's some kind of psychological reason for not wanting to let go of the past. Why do I prefer so much from the past and so much less from the present?
Sorry for taking up space/time that could've been used for people with real problems.
Music? Prime U2, Depeche Mode, old-school Metallica, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Bends-OKC era Radiohead, Automatic/Out Of Time era REM, BSSM/OHM/Californication era RHCP, Alanis Morissette, Fumbling/Surfacing era Sarah McLachlan, even lesser bands like Third Eye Blind, Smashmouth, Goo Goo Dolls(think Dizzy Up The Girl), Fastball, Everclear, even early Matchbox 20, all of this stuff from the 90s, they all just do it for me more than anything 'new' of the past few years.
Video games? I'm a huge video game fan, but none of the recent new consoles(PS3/Wii/Gamecube/XBox/XBox360/etc) are getting me excited. I don't like what's happening to the video game industry. I remember when video games were an underground thing aimed towards geeks. Now everybody and their mother plays them, and the games themselves aren't what they used to be. Originality is lacking. I prefered old-school games where they didn't rely so heavily on graphics. Tetris, Mario Bros. 1/2/3, Zelda 1/2, Donkey Kong, Super Mario World, Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, Killer Instinct, F-Zero, Pilotwings, Donkey Kong Country, Mario Kart, Zelda 3, NBA Jam, Sonic 1/2/3, Altered Beast, Columns, even N64/Playstation1 stuff from the late 90s...Goldeneye, Mario 64, Zelda Ocarina Of Time, Turok, Blast Corps, Starfox, Final Fantasy VII, Diablo, Warcraft II, Tomb Raider, Soviet Strike, Twisted Metal...on and on and on.
Saturday Night Live? I think it sucks today. But in the 90s? Dana Carvey, Chris Farley, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Phil Hartman, Rob Schnieder, Kevin Nealon, David Spade, and later Will Ferrell, Norm McDonald, Cheri Oteri, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon. Great stuff back in the day.
To a lesser extent movies and television. In this category I'm not totally stuck in the past. There are certainly still great films out there, many of them, no question, though I still get a huge nostalgia kick from Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump, BTTF trilogy, Die Hard trilogy, Indiana Jones films, and the like. As for television...comedy was better back then(Seinfeld, Friends, Mad About You, Frasier, Cheers[DAMN NBC was POWERHOUSE back then!], old-school Simpsons, South Park when it was new and fresh and a phenomenon, The Wonder Years...), but drama is better now...this is the one area where I can honestly say it's better now than it was then...there was no television drama as good as 24 or The West Wing or Studio 60 or the like(except for maybe old-school ER).
And I'm an NBA fan. I still love to watch, but no way does the NBA of Kobe, LeBron, Wade, etc excite me as much as the NBA of the 80s and 90s with Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy Larry Bird, Julius Erving, Isiah Thomas, Clyde Drexler, Dennis Rodman, Charles Barkley, Hakeem Olajuwon, Chris Mullin, Karl Malone, John Stockton, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Reggie Miller, Alonzo Mourning, Scottie Pippen, Gary Payton, Shawn Kemp, Grant Hill, Penny Hardaway, younger Shaq, (speaking of when all of these guys were in their prime, of course). Basically the 80s era of Magic/Bird/Dr.J and the 90s 'Dream Team' era.
I feel abnormal, like there's some kind of psychological reason for not wanting to let go of the past. Why do I prefer so much from the past and so much less from the present?
Sorry for taking up space/time that could've been used for people with real problems.
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If we are talking 18-25 years of age, then I get all the music including when U2 began, and so much more. Days BEFORE CDs. New cars that were under $10,000 and weren't deathtraps, ...
