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Post by SharksFan99 on May 20, 2020 17:04:08 GMT 10
I don't think the period of time spanning from about 1988/89-1992 has ever really been a unique era in its own right. There's cultural similarities between the years (e.g new-jack-swing, TMNT, Bush '41), but 1988 and 1992 were two very different years. I would just be inclined to refer to 1987-1989 as the cultural Late '80s and 1990-1993 as the cultural Early '90s.
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Post by John Titor on May 21, 2020 2:41:24 GMT 10
I don't think the period of time spanning from about 1988/89-1992 has ever really been a unique era in its own right. There's cultural similarities between the years (e.g new-jack-swing, TMNT, Bush '41), but 1988 and 1992 were two very different years. I would just be inclined to refer to 1987-1989 as the cultural Late '80s and 1990-1993 as the cultural Early '90s. Having been a kid at the time watching it with my own eyes it was fun to witness, everybody and their dog loved TMNT. But........the shows I have to say were kind of cheesey. Tim Burton really blew up during this era as well as the Darker Batman which became the Batman we know and love today. There were some things like The Simpsons that came out in the late 80s (The Tracy Ullman show on Fox debuted The Simpsons as bumpers) (1987) that got even bigger in the early 90s. Married With Children was a power house in the late 80s as well as early and mid 90s. I enjoyed living in this time period.....but it's not my fav, it came off super over the top
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Post by slashpop on May 22, 2020 21:41:32 GMT 10
I think that the era had so many powerful fads defined our childhoods/pre-teen years. To me, the entire period had this really high standard and exciting adult, teen and childhood culture both within the mainstream and outside of it. I wish something would be like that again. Nothing has ever come close since. Yeah the cheesy parts and stuff that can be seen as lame and boring still doesn't take away from it for me. There is something pure and powerful about nearly all the trends from that era, everything was at it's peak at once almost.
I think 1988 to 1992 makes sense when you talk about summer/fall of 1988 until spring/summer 1992.
The first part of 1988 had a lot of heavy mid 80s influences or trends that weren't dated yet, you can see it in music videos, fashion and movies, it seems hard to lump it with the entirety of 1992.
Late 1987 was already kind of a break from mid 80s, with late 80s identity and incoming 90s style starting to become more clear.
Mid to late 1988 is when a lot of fashion, tech, music and film style etc associated with the purer late 80s was solidified and kind of where a lot of culture of early 90s derives from.
The first part of 1992 felt like an extension of mid to late 1991. It wasn't until the autumn or fall that the mid 90s influences starting creeping in, even though it was still the early 1990s. Late 1992 has more in common with 1995 than late 1988.
So thats why late 1988 to early or mid 1992 gets mentioned a lot, imo.
Even though I think I would prefer late 1989, since a lot of core 80s elements were gone or dying and it was closer in many many cases identical or like an early start or prequel to the 90s (it can even be seen as culturally 90s depending where you lived and how you see it).
PS - If you want to stretch out the influence of the surrounding era you could say mid to late 1986 to mid 1994 or mid 1995.
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Post by ItsMichael on May 28, 2020 7:29:45 GMT 10
Kind of difficult to process since 1988 and 1992 are different years in terms of popular culture. In '88, the whole 80s trend was still going strong with hair metal, neon-filled colors and overall just a energetic mood. With '92, you had some 80s influences going around, but by that point all of their extreme hair and the very glam look that was the 80s was gone. Just like how the early 2000s had some 90s influences but the major standouts were dead. In short, I have honestly no clue.
Now in terms of music, this era would definitely be the grunge era with 1991 being the absolute peak with Nirvana's Nevermind and Pearl Jam's Ten. Grunge only became a thing when the late 80s rolled around in which you had Bleach by Nirvana becoming a breakthrough point for the genre, but the early 90s was the main focal point and didn't die until 1994 when Kurt committed suicide, which really changed not only the grunge movement, but the face of rock music in general as he was a pioneer in that specific genre.
Even though I wasn't alive let alone conceived in the late 80s/early 90s, I could guess that the movies and animated TV shows were similar in terms of the quality of them. When I was younger, I thought that Home Alone was made in '87 when it was made in '90. The same goes with songs too.
I'm sure there are some similarities and differences between the late 80s and early 90s, but it just depends on whom you ask.
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Post by John Titor on May 28, 2020 8:29:10 GMT 10
Kind of difficult to process since 1988 and 1992 are different years in terms of popular culture. In '88, the whole 80s trend was still going strong with hair metal, neon-filled colors and overall just a energetic mood. With '92, you had some 80s influences going around, but by that point all of their extreme hair and the very glam look that was the 80s was gone. Just like how the early 2000s had some 90s influences but the major standouts were dead. In short, I have honestly no clue. Now in terms of music, this era would definitely be the grunge era with 1991 being the absolute peak with Nirvana's Nevermind and Pearl Jam's Ten. Grunge only became a thing when the late 80s rolled around in which you had Bleach by Nirvana becoming a breakthrough point for the genre, but the early 90s was the main focal point and didn't die until 1994 when Kurt committed suicide, which really changed not only the grunge movement, but the face of rock music in general as he was a pioneer in that specific genre. Even though I wasn't alive let alone conceived in the late 80s/early 90s, I could guess that the movies and animated TV shows were similar in terms of the quality of them. When I was younger, I thought that Home Alone was made in '87 when it was made in '90. The same goes with songs too. I'm sure there are some similarities and differences between the late 80s and early 90s, but it just depends on whom you ask. Ill chime in for a moment, I was born in the late 80s and the grunge vibe (fashion/sarcastic depressed mood) lasted way into 1995 and 1996. You had all these fake post grunge bands popping up left and right. Id say the HomerPoolza Smashing Pumpkins episode that aired in 96 (it was a parody on Gen X grunge culture) is when Grunge became something you are embarrassed to talk about. I noticed around Summer 96 things started looking more brighter in mood and atmosphere with the anticipation of Nintendo 64 on the way. It was by no means y2k yet but I did notice a little slight mood adjustment.
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