Quintessential 90s Song

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MardelMare@reddit

Just watching that video made me smile. Going for rides with your friends in someone’s car handed down by their grandma. Butt cuts, blonde tips, and butterfly clips. Running around outside climbing on stuff. Real facial expressions, not filtered insta duckfaces. Normal life without clout chasing wannabe influencer veneer over every interaction.

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Fine_Violinist5802@reddit

"1979 is peak 90s" perfectly sums up being a xennial.

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protozoon101@reddit

The song is about growing up in the late 70's / early 80s though.

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No-Dig-4408@reddit

"Shakedown, two-thousand and five."
-Upcoming Gen Z/younger millenial cover

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WeenisPeiner@reddit

"Cool kids on their phones all the time."

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Thirty-Three sums up being an adult Xennial

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Fair_Blood3176@reddit

One of my favorites.

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Oubastet@reddit

Exactly. Most of my music in the 90s was either classic rock or bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Presidents of the United States of America, etc. Mostly 70s music though.

It's like my musical taste skipped the 80s. It's still like that except I've added electronic music (EDM and trance mostly) that I discovered using Napster and turned my friends onto.

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gutens@reddit

I rediscovered the 80s when I got wise to the Talking Heads!

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poop-money@reddit

Punk/punk adjacent music aside, my tastes definitely skipped the 80's.

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WhyteBeard@reddit

I definitely agree

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AdditionalMustard@reddit

For me, In the Meantime by Spacehog is that type of song.

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Josef_Kant_Deal@reddit

1979 is a great song. But the quintessential 90s song will always be Hey Jealousy IMO.

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DearBurt@reddit

I’d vote for “Under the Bridge.”

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MiserableMood5158@reddit (OP)

2 great calls! Hey Jealousy was the first rock song I can remember liking.

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kinetic_cheese@reddit

This song is so damn nostalgic to me. I got my driver's license in spring of 96 just as this song was released and I have so many memories of driving around with my friends while this song was playing.

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Fair_Blood3176@reddit

I wish it was on YouTube but there's a 1979 remix by false profit (at least that's what my mp3 says) and it's fantastic. Not that the original isn't great. I always line up the remix after the original.

Something tells me the mp3 is mislabeled. A relic of Napster / limewire / kazaa maybe.

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mrwynd@reddit

Don't ever lose that file!

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Fair_Blood3176@reddit

Yes I feel so special after I couldn't find it online! I got a lot of my music from private ftps (way back in the day) and private torrent sites.

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mrwynd@reddit

Yeah I used to run a private FTP and hang out in IRC channels but sadly I didn't do a good job of backing up and lost it all years ago.

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Fair_Blood3176@reddit

Honestly if I ever lost it all it would definitely be a kind of life is over type of event. A definite turning point at least. I have so much and I've lost virtually nothing dating back to 99.

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hyzerKite@reddit

Give It Away-RHCP

Early 90s. Seems like a lot of mid and late references because of the 80s babies in this sub. The late 70s babies hit the goldmine of the great rock-and-roll shift. My early 70s born people get offended at the take over of “alternative rock”.. but, 1/100 of those have a Skid Row tattoo, and not Nirvana’s original namesake, the hair band.

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small___potatoes@reddit

Who would have thought we’d be so nostalgic about a 90s song that reflects on late 70’s nostalgia.

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_gonesurfing_@reddit

I’d argue 1979 felt closer to the 90’s than the 90’s compared to today. Yes we had Nintendo and cassettes/compact disks but IMO those are tiny differences compared to the changes post internet.

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Sumeriandawn@reddit

16 years vs 31 years.

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Tzunamitom@reddit

Why do you have to go and ruin my morning like that?

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small___potatoes@reddit

Yeah, you’re right. Billy Corgan was only 27/28 when he wrote that and now we’re old as dirt

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Apprehensive_Check19@reddit

the math checks out.

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drc500free@reddit

If released today, this song would be about 2010.

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villentretenmerth88@reddit

When this song was new, my cousin Brandon looked identical to Billy Corgan. Back then, we used to do stupid stuff around town like the kids in this video, too. He was an epileptic, but he still had to drive to work anyway. 20+ years ago, he had a seizure and drove his truck off a bridge, and died. Whenever I see this video it reminds me of him.

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Octaver@reddit

MCIS is an amazing album. 28 songs and about 20 of them are killer.

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Officialfish_hole@reddit

I think think they're all killer

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ManbadFerrara@reddit

It's the album that got me into music, but I've gotta admit there's some filler. I can't imagine many angsty teens were sitting around listening to We Only Come Out at Night.

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Officialfish_hole@reddit

I agree but I've always felt MCIS is more White Album than The Wall and We Only Come Out at Night and Lily are songs like Honey Pie or Piggies

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General_Departure583@reddit

To this day I think 1979 is the feeling of the 90s, along with All I want by Toad the Wet Sprocket.

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins

Homer Simpson, smiling politely

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Ozzdo@reddit

Personally, Disarm is the Pumpkins song that defines the 90's to me. I hear that song and I'm immediately back in high school.

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FestivusRestOfUs@reddit

Oh the feels… oof

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Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit

This song was HUGE here in 🇨🇦 in 1990 but then MC Hammer dropped his single and everyone forgot about it

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Same_Bug5069@reddit

Today was a straight Pumpkins listening day for me.

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Crabcakefrosti@reddit

The Mellon collie 30 year release had a lot of good content. Even live versions of songs in other albums.

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No-Dig-4408@reddit

Would you say Today was... the greatest?

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Same_Bug5069@reddit

Day I've ever known

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geoduckSF@reddit

Being a teen before smart phones and social media fucking ruled.

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absentlyric@reddit

Idk, once Yahoo Messenger and AIM and Myspace came out, my social bubble exploded and I met a lot of new people and dates that I never could've before all of that.

But rose colored glasses and all that.

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AndrewInMN@reddit

Man, I tried so hard to like this song and the Pumpkin in general. A couple of my best friends were huge fans and I felt left out sometimes when they’re bond over the band. No shade to anyone that’s a fan, I’d rather like them than not. I’m not a hater just for the sake of it.

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_gonesurfing_@reddit

I felt that way about Dave Matthews. Never got super into him even though I do like his first two albums.

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iwasnotarobot@reddit

What was a band that you took to?

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prosequare@reddit

The greatest 1979 video no one asked for:

https://youtu.be/azhgpelu0vY?si=DZIQ4nZqs6ENJonc

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Cisru711@reddit

That song got my sister (a '79 baby) into the Pumpkins, which was annoying because she was already knee deep in every other part of my life. Took the same classes, joined the same activities, came to work for the same restaurant, narced on me about anything.

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