Tag: 1990s

Seattle – Mid 1990’s

I think these are from March 95. Taken on film, with a Pentax K1000. They are a bit faded.

Fun fact – While in Seattle I got a free espresso for knowing the answer to this:
Q: What was the real first name of Lolita, from the book Lolita?
A: Dolores

From the book:
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”

Top 10 Singles of 1991 – Village Voice Pazz and Jop

Top 10 Singles of 1991
1. Nirvana: “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
2. R.E.M.: “Losing My Religion”
3. Naughty by Nature: “O.P.P.”
4. Geto Boys: “Mind Playing Tricks on Me”
5. Metallica: “Enter Sandman”
6. (Tie) P.M. Dawn: “Set Adrift on Memory Bliss”
Crystal Waters: “Gypsy Woman (She’s Homeless)”
8. (Tie) Public Enemy: “Can’t Truss It”
Seal: “Crazy”
10. EMF: “Unbelievable”

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Lollapalooza Lineup – 1995

North America

Dates: July 4, 1995 – August 18, 1995

Main Stage: Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, Pavement, Sinéad O’Connor (first few shows; bowed out due to pregnancy), Elastica (replaced O’Connor, as did Moby for a few shows), Beck, The Jesus Lizard, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Side Stage: Coolio, Doo Rag, Possum Dixon, Poster Children, Yo La Tengo, Brainiac, The Coctails, Geraldine Fibbers, The Dambuilders, Laika, The Pharcyde, Tuscadero, Built to Spill, Helium, Redman, St. Johnny, Dirty Three, Mike Watt, Versus, Hum, Blonde Redhead, The Roots, Blowhole, The Zeros, Pork Queen, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Sabalon Glitz, Psychotica, Patti Smith, Overpass, Moby, Superchunk, Beck (acoustic, generally), Spring Heel Jack U.S.A., Ariel, Incredibly Strange Wrestling, Gary Young’s Hospital, Dandelion

“Lab Stage”: Shallow, Lucifer Wong, Clod Hopper 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lollapalooza_lineups_by_year#1995

Today – The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins (or Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band from Chicago. Formed in 1988 by frontman Billy Corgan (lead vocals, guitar), D’arcy Wretzky (bass), James Iha (guitar), and Jimmy Chamberlin (drums), the band has undergone many line-up changes. The current lineup features Corgan, Chamberlin, Iha and guitarist Jeff Schroeder.

Disavowing the punk rock roots of many of their alt-rock contemporaries, they have a diverse, densely layered, and guitar-heavy sound, containing elements of gothic rock, heavy metal, dream pop, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, shoegazing, and electronica in later recordings. Corgan is the group’s primary songwriter; his musical ambitions and cathartic lyrics have shaped the band’s albums and songs, which have been described as “anguished, bruised reports from Billy Corgan’s nightmare-land”.

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I always knew them as Smashing Pumpkins, not The Smashing Pumpkins. Subtle difference but it seems like a real one, somehow. Also, I guess it’s smashing as adjective, as in – ‘That show was positively smashing.’

Nissan.com

NissanDotCom

Ddddccccddd14.6k points1 day ago
Www.nissan.com is still owned by some mom n pop computer repair guy from the 90’s. I remember stumbling across this by accident when I was looking for my first car in 2000. He’s been fighting Nissan auto for decades and won’t give up his domain.

 
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AOL Late 90’s

January 1999
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via the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/19990125084628/http://aol.com/

The late ’90s, according to Schober, was when chat rooms hit their peak. Just how powerful was America Online during this time? Reggie Fairchild, product manager for AOL 4.0, shared this little story on Quora:
“When we launched AOL 4.0 in 1998, AOL used ALL of the world-wide CD production for several weeks. Think of that. Not a single music CD or Microsoft CD was produced during those weeks.”
It worked. People signed up in droves.

via CNN