Did we travel back to 1990 and I missed it?

Where'd my snap bracelet go?

 

Let's see ...

We've got a Bush in office ... we're at war with Iraq ... the Rangers got rid of Sosa a year ago ... the music on the radio is crap ...

Holy shit! It really IS 1990!

Cue the Londonbeat song!

 

He was performing at a casino up here a couple of weeks ago. Tickets were something like $40 a pop. Be curious to see who shelled out that kind of money.

I watched an episode of his VH1 show a while back. Very sad.

 

She's coming to my place of employment soon. I've seen her picture around (niiiiice!) but I had no idea who she was.

 

That is a great song. But I'm not sure it's 1990...it hit no. 1 in the spring of 1991, right before I graduated. Hi Stormy!

Perhaps "More Than Words Can Say" would be a better song for this thread.

 

Every year is Zack Morris' sophomore year in the theater in my head. It'll always be Zack and Kelly's prom.

 

And Carnie Wilson is getting fat again ...

 

1990 was also back when Metallica was still a "dangerous" (and consistently good) heavy metal band, and the music press hadn't yet popularized "alternative" as a catchall for everyone who played hard rock riffs but whose singer was angsty. Sam Kinison (sniff) was still alive . . . . . Cheers was in its prime, and of course, The Greatest Television Show Ever, Twin Peaks, had just started and was building its early momentum. Which of course was lost before 1991 really got underway.

In 1990, we were thinking "Hey, a new Godfather movie! Couldn't be TOO bad . . . "

I was a pretty big Dice fan in 1990, when I was 15. The day the Laughter Died is still one of the funniest albums I have ever heard, as he just effortlessly rips on the crowd for 90 minutes as some leave and one particular group of guys laughs at everything he says. His next two albums had some good moments too, as he appeared on Arsenio Hall a couple times (which I still have on tape; shoot me now).

But he lost it pretty quickly, as 1993's Day the Laughter Died Part Two indicates, and his 2000 comeback album is just not funny as he tries too hard.

I watched his VH1 show and saw a very sad story of a dude who genuinely thought he could come back enough to headline Giants Stadium, a place he never came close to playing when he was in his prime. His biggest crowd was opening for Guns 'n' Roes at the Guns/Metallica show at the Rose Bowl.

WHY would anyone want to have him on their talk shows at this point? And why in the hell did I miss it?

 

And a Noriega recently was ousted.

 

With the first pick in the 1990 NFL Draft the Indianapolis Colts select...Jeff George, quarterback, University of Illinois

EDIT: Just looked up the other drafts that year. The No. 1 picks were:

NBA: Derrick Coleman to the Nets
MLB: Chipper Jones to the Braves
NHL: Owen Nolan to the Nordiques (Jaromir Jagr was the No. 5 pick that year and wasn't even the first Czech taken. Petr Nedved was No. 2)

 

don't forget about the hubble telescope.

 

If I remember correctly, Jagr dropped to the No. 5 pick because teams weren't entirely sure when he would be available to play in the NHL. Maybe one of the hockey experts here remembers the deal. Jagr was clearly the top player in the draft on talent. Of course, it was resolved and he helped the Penguins win the first of two consecutive Stanley Cups that season.