After watching this, it became apparent to me what a shitty decade the '90s was. All kinds of musical horrors--MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice, Michael Bolton, Snoop Dog, Boys 2 Men, Salt N' Pepa, TLC, Ace Of Base, Oasis, Hootie And The Blowfish, The Spice Girls, Hanson, Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Ricky Martin...gah, just reading that list makes me want to vomit uncontrollably. And people complain about how bad the '80s were and how cheesy a decade that was. I would have much rather grown up then. Even Culture Club and Bon Jovi are preferable to what passed for mainstream music in the latter half of my decade.

Of course, there was also the Seattle "grunge" explosion in '91 with Pearl Jam's Ten, Nirvana's Nevermind, and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger all coming out that year. That was pretty cool, but the whole thing went pear-shaped when crappy imitators like Bush and Silverchair started making records.

Some of the movies weren't too bad though...Terminator 2, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Austin Powers, Sling Blade, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club (bonus points for reintroducing The Pixies to the public ear)....of course then comes teary-eyed swill like Forrest Gump and Titanic. Ick.

Then there was the usual round of pop culture detritus--the Tamagachi (Pet Rock circa '97), the Furby, Barney, Teletubbies, Power Rangers, Pokemon, Tickle Me Elmo etc. etc. etc. TV for the adults: 90210/Melrose Place/Dawson's Creek (suckage), Party Of Five (depressing), Seinfield (I hated it then, still hate it now), In Living Color (funny), Martin (meh), NYPD Blue (meh), Frasier (actually pretty funny), and the worst of them all, Ally McBeal and Friends. Then The Sopranos came out in '99. That might have been the highlight of '90s TV.

Don't even get me started on Clinton and the definition of the word "is"...

Of course, for these commentaries they always have to pick a slew of smarmy, ironic hipsters that make me want to punch the goddamn TV. Michael Ian Black was particularly annoying. Why the hell was this scrub getting all the screen time?

Two commentators managed to please me, though...Dee Snider and Scott Ian (of Anthrax). Figures that it would be the two metal guys and '80s holdovers that would be the most entertaining. Scott on the movie Twister: "The most powerful force on earth, and they survive this thing by hanging on to a metal pipe? Fuck, that movie sucked." Had a pretty good chuckle also when Dee was describing how he lost his kids to "that mindfuck of a show." (Power Rangers)

In regard to that sorry decade, Cobain said it best: "Oh well, whatever, nevermind."