The 90s are back? Has it happened? The decade that I grew up in, that, for that reason I never knew, is back? I always retreated...
The 90s are back? Has it happened? The decade that I grew up in, that, for that reason I never knew, is back? I always retreated to the 80s: Joy Division at one pole, Interpol at the other. But, has it happened? The 90s are back? Does this mean we have to deal with, like, Blind Melon again? I would put up with it if we got another Curve, which, like, with Boy Harsher, we might. But really, it's back, the bad dream is over, we can breathe again?
Yeah Joy Division was kind of in the background of the ‘90s, the prominent “alternative” genre/subculture claimed it as a forerunner, you’d see the Unknown Pleasures shirt even then. And the prominent “mall goth” style with raccoon-eye eyeshadow was aware it was in a lineage that ran through, like, Sandman and Beetlejuice to Robert Smith and Siouxie Sioux at least
Actually there were a lot of classic rock t-shirts back then, you saw kids wearing Led Zeppelin and Dark Side of the Moon shirts when they were born contemporary with, like, Coda and The Final Cut
I think there were just a lot of t-shirts then, I’ve talked about how Hot Topic’s original killer app was just selling band t-shirts to suburban kids who didn’t make it out to concerts or to independent record stores or anywhere you’d find a mail order catalog. They were behind a lot of the mallgoth stuff, too.