Ah, 1993. Ugh...1993

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 1:24pm

Working at a video store.
Playing Moritz in SPRING'S AWAKENING (No, not the musical and no, I didn't get the title wrong)
Awesome vacation in Seattle.
Devastating crush on a hot straight guy named Tim.
Frequent spins of CLERKS on my VHS.
Blind Melon's "No Rain" sends me into an aching nostalgia hole for this year.
Here it is in all its topsy-turvy glory

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 1:27pm

Started right in the middle of my freshman year of high school -- also the first year I ever went to New York! I at least got to see a little of the old Times Square before it got all Giuliani-ized. My favorite was the porn theater showing "Horny Captain Butts" right by our hotel.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 1:32pm

I pretty much ignore the entire 1989-1997 period.

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 1:36pm

I also joined BMG music that year and ended up with pretty much every single one of those albums on the top 10 list because I forgot to send back the card.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 1:37pm

Working for Tower Records. Having to listen to endless discussions exactly like that column. Has Billy sold out? Will Urge sell out? Is it better to go major label and lose your soul or stay indie even if you have to work at Tower to pay the bills?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 2:07pm

Billy Corgan or Billy Ray Cyrus?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 2:09pm

Read it wrong!
Updated On: 8/31/11 at 02:09 PM

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 2:13pm

Did you know the Smashing Pumpkins are about to do another tour? Except Billy Corgan is the only person actually from the original band involved? And the Smashing Pumpkins as a band is a few years older than the guy currently serving as its drummer?

(still better than "The New Cars" however!) Updated On: 8/31/11 at 02:13 PM

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 2:29pm

Hey...I liked the Cars' single off their new album!


The Heads' "No Talking, Just Head" however was the very definition of "Ugh"...which I think was also released in 1993.

Updated On: 8/31/11 at 02:29 PM

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 2:29pm

Gasp! The year of my birth. I was a screaming, fat-thighed infant who never slept. Nothing ever changes.

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 2:36pm

You mean The Cars' latest single? Yes, I liked that. We saw them in concert, too. :) I'm talking about when they were touring around with Todd Rundgren and calling themselves "The New Cars." I saw them as well, but it was a corporate event with forced attendance.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 2:53pm

I have nightmares about the formation of "The New B-52s". It's such a horrific idea, it's bound to happen.

About all I can remember of 1993 is the introduction of Ace of Base. Make of that what you will.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/31/11 at 3:00pm

The Heads were 1996.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 9/1/11 at 12:04am

I was 3 and I believe around that time my music was whatever played on Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, and Barney. With that said, this list actually reflects how much of my current taste is almost making up for lost time.

Fugazi, Radiohead (even their now a little too clean-cut Pablo Honey), early Smashing Pumpkins (but once Jimmy left the group for good, I was not even considering investing money for Billy Corgan and co.), and Jawbreaker. Green Day (who are still picked on by jaded teens as sell-outs when they were getting called such things before those kids were ever born) was the first band of the 90s alternative rock scene I really listened to (between the time of Nimrod and Warning albums) and they were an excellent gateway drug to other, occasionally better, music.

Oh, and Clapton's Unplugged. Contains one of his best (and undoubtedly most heart-wrenching work) with "Tears of Heaven" and also his worst with the reworked "Layla". But nothing quite rued my adolescence than Kenny G aka the sleepy adult music. And I remember being scared of the Bat Out of Hell I and II album covers that my mom owned (and still does own) for years.

[AC126748]

Posted: 9/1/11 at 6:52am

Borstal, you may be remembering 1993 slightly wrong, considering that CLERKS wasn't released until October 1994.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 9/1/11 at 9:31am

Ah...I stand corrected.