I Love the 90s: 1996

30 years since 1996... what are your best memories of this year?

I Love the 90s: 1996

I Love the 90s Part Deux: 1996

I Love the 90s: 1995

Can it really have been 30 years?! 😩 What are your memories of 1995? Feel free to share in the comments below!

I Love the 90s: 1995

I Love the 90s Part Deux: 1995

Accuradio: This Is Music, 1995

Iheart Radio: Class of 1995

"No One Left To Come Looking For You"

Manhattan’s East Village, 1993. Dive bars, DIY music venues, shady weirdos, and hard drugs are plentiful. Crime is high but rent is low, luring hopeful, creative kids from sleepy suburbs around the country.

One of these is Jack S., a young New Jersey rock musician. Just a few days before his band’s biggest gig, their lead singer goes missing with Jack’s prized bass, presumably to hock it to feed his junk habit. Jack’s search for his buddy uncovers a sinister entanglement of crimes tied to local real estate barons looking to remake New York City—and who might also be connected to the recent death of Jack’s punk rock mentor. Along the way, Jack encounters a cast of colorful characters, including a bewitching, quick-witted scenester who favors dressing in a nurse’s outfit, a monstrous hired killer with a devotion to both figure skating and edged weapons, a deranged if prophetic postwar novelist, and a tough-talking cop who fancies himself a retro-cool icon of the homicide squad but is harboring a surprising secret.

No One Left to Come Looking for You is a page-turning suspense novel that also serves as a love letter to a bygone era of New York City where young artists could still afford to chase their dreams.

I Love the 90s: 1994

How can it already be 30 years?!

I Love the 90s

I Love the 90s Part Deux

AccuRadio: This Is Music: 1994

iHeartRadio: Class of 1994

American Girl does the 90s

Meet Isabel and Nicki Hoffman! While I'm a bit disgruntled with AG placing the story in December, 1999 in order to be able to capitalize on the 90s trend, I find the line cute, and I, as usual, enjoy the nostalgia...you can find the complete line here and dig more into 1999 on this post.

I Love the 90s, 1993

30 years since 1993?! Yes, it's true, so it's time to spotlight that great era...(I also became a big sister this year as well 😊)

I Love 1993

1993 Part Deux 

Class of 1993 playlist

This Is Music 1993

I Love the 90s: 1992

Hard to believe, but here's to 30 years of 1992!

I Love the 90s, 1992

I Love the 90s, Part Deux: 1992

Class of 92 playlist

This Is Music 1992

I Love the 90s: 1991

Unbelievable as it sounds, it's now been 30 years...happy anniversary 1991!

I Love the 90s: 1991

I Love the 90s, Part Deux: 1991

Class of 91 playlist

This Is Music 1991

I Love the 90s: 1990

And 30 years since 1990...*cries "I feel ancient" tears*

I Love the 90s: 1990

I Love the 90s, Part Deux: 1990

Class of 90 playlist

This Is Music 1990

I Love the 90s: 1999

What were you up to 20 years ago?

I Love 1999

Part Deux

This Is Music: 1999

Class of 99 playlist

I Love the 90s: 1998

The nostalgia continues! Here's a fun look at what was going on 20 years ago:

I Love the 90s: 1998

I Love the 90s, Part Deux: 1998

Class of 98 playlist

This Is Music 1998

The 1990s

As Janet Jackson once said, "that's the end?" The answer, yes! We've reached the end of the 20th century this week with the last in our decade spotlights: the 1990s! This one has got to be one of the harder ones for me to write about because I remember more about this decade than any other as this was the period of my adolescence...I stared the decade at eight going on nine, and ended it at 18, and there's so much I remember. A sort of double edged sword so to speak. The whole President Clinton scandal, the divorce of Prince Charles and Lady Di as well as her tragic death, the O J trial, and the internet becoming a major force in our lives near decade's end. Musically, I remember the great pop hits and grunge from early in the decade, alternative hits in the middle and end, and the rise of  rap and hip-hop. Cell phones becoming popular for the first time, and, of course, the TV shows...ah, Friends, Party of Five, Blossom, Boy Meets World, Buffy, ect. How we loved you. Oh, and the cloning of Dolly the sheep. And how can we forget the Oklahoma City bombings? A huge event of the '90s for me? The birth of my half sister who turned 18 this past January.

Totally Hair Barbie

And that's it folks! Hope you enjoyed this nine part trip down memory lane as much as I did!

Music Links

AccuRadio.com: '90s channels

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