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Jul 24







The 90s

Did someone ever flashy-thing you?
Well, you´ve had enough of the 90s when the following signs fit to you:
- You try to enter your password on the microwave.
- You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.
- Cleaning up the dining area means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
- Your idea of being organized is multiple colored post-it notes.
- You find you really need PowerPoint to explain what you do for a living.
- You normally eat out of vending machines and at the most expensive restaurant in town within the same week.
- The concept of using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase is foreign to you.
- You e-mail your son in his room to tell him that dinner is ready, and he emails you back “What’s for dinner?”
- You haven’t played solitaire with a real deck of cards in years.

The 90s were marked by rapid progression of globalization following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key forces shaping the decade were the recession of the ’80s, and the advent of PCs in middle-class homes, resulting in the rise to prominence of the internet. The Internet would go on to revolutionize modern culture, and has served as a major medium for the integration and the spread of popular culture in the entire world.

Youth culture in the 1990s was characterized by environmentalism and entrepreneurship. Fashions were often individualistic, tattoos and body piercing gained popularity, and “retro” styles inspired by fashions of the 1960s and 1970s were also prevalent. Some young people became increasingly involved in outdoor activities that combined embracing athletics with the appreciation of nature (such as kayaking, rock climbing and snowboarding).

In 1990, the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its list of diseases (!!!). US TV shows like Will and Grace, Friends, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Ellen featured gay characters. Movies like The Birdcage, In and Out and Kiss Me Guido saw mainstream success, and celebrities like k.d. lang, Rob Halford, Elton John, Melissa Etheridge, Amanda Bearse and George Michael all spoke openly about their sexuality. U.S. President Bill Clinton generally held a pro-gay rights viewpoint.

The Grunge trend exploded due to the success of grunge bands such as Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. It was characterized by wearing flannel shirts, torn jeans, Doc Martens, Converse high top sneakers and long, straight hair. The fashion hit an ironic point in 1993, when the flannel clothing these bands wore (because it was cheap and warm and most of these musicians were very poor) became high fashion accessories. Post Grunge bands would later gain widespread popularity by bands such as Foo Fighters and Creed.

A ban was lifted on anti apartheid parties and Nelson Mandela walked free after 27 years in prison.

Homer Simpson arrived on our TV sets, along with his wife and children and Supermodels refused to get out of bed for less than $10,000.

The UN stepped in to intervene when Iraq invaded Kuwait. The Gulf War was the first televised war and more than ever before was fought from a distance - using remote-controlled missiles as a part of a strategic bombing campaign.

The world was mystified by ‘crop circles’, which first appeared in Britain but were soon reported across the world. Explanations ranged from human hoaxers and freak weather conditions to messages from an alien intelligence.

Film star River Phoenix died, and John Wayne Bobbit gained a new acting career after his partner performed a little home surgery that left him needing stitches in a rather tender area.

American Football and movie star OJ Simpson was pursued live on TV by police trying to arrest him for the suspected murder of his wife. He was later acquitted on live TV.

A car accident in Paris killed Diana, Princess of Wales. Nineteen million viewers watched the funeral coverage on TV.

The birth of Dolly the sheep, the World’s first cloned mammal became the most memorable scientific event of 1997.

Tiger Woods became the youngest winner of the Masters Tournament, aged 21 and Tyson began biting off earlobes.

Bill Clinton became the centre of a sex scandal. His affair with Monica Lewinsky became public knowledge after a friend of Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, secretly recorded conversations in which Lewinsky spoke of sexual encounters in the White House.

Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, died at the age of 82 in 1998.

Viagra promised a cure for sexual impotence which affects one man in ten…

… and the first Harry Potter books were published. WOO!

The 90s were the decade in which I turned 18 - wearing a wonderbra and drinking alco-pops. I so wished someone would find a possiblility to transfer some fat from my behind to my boobs =)
So I tried to dance my a$ of in the discos:

Coffee2go´s Top 50 Songs of the 90s:

  1. Losing My Religion ~ REM
  2. Every You Every Me ~ Placebo
  3. When I Come Around ~ Green Day
  4. One of Us ~ Joan Osborne
  5. You Ought to Know ~ Alanis Morrisette
  6. Iris ~ Goo Goo Dolls
  7. Self Esteem ~ Offspring
  8. Black Hole Sun ~ Soundgarden
  9. More Than Words ~ Extreme
  10. 1979 ~ Smashing Pumpkins
  11. Groove Is In The Heart ~ Dee Lite
  12. Vogue ~ Madonna
  13. Tom’s Diner ~ Suzanne Vega feat D.N.A.
  14. I Can’t Make You Love Me ~ Bonnie Raitt
  15. Lithium ~ Nirvana
  16. One ~ U2
  17. Jeremy ~ Pearl Jam
  18. Rockafeller Skank ~ Fatboy Slim
  19. Mr. Wendal ~ Arrested Developement
  20. Wonder Wall ~ Oasis
  21. Song 2 ~ Blur
  22. Janie’s Got A Gun ~ Aerosmith
  23. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You ~ Bryan Adams
  24. Tears in Heaven ~ Eric Clapton
  25. Give It Away ~ Red Hot Chili Peppers
  26. Ironic ~ Alanis Morrisette
  27. Sexy M.F. ~ Prince & The New Power Generation
  28. Killing Me Softly ~ Fugees
  29. I Wanna Sex You Up ~ Color Me Badd
  30. Hear The Drummer Get Wicked ~ Chad Jackson
  31. Under The Bridge ~ Red Hot Chili Peppers
  32. Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) ~ US3
  33. It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over ~ Lenny Kravitz
  34. Jump Around ~ House Of Pain
  35. No Rain ~ Blind Melon
  36. Wicked Game ~ Chris Isaak
  37. Can’t Help Falling In Love ~ UB40
  38. Into The Great Wide Open v Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  39. Don’t Speak ~ No Doubt
  40. Missing You ~ Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
  41. Canned Heat ~ Jamiroquai
  42. Buddy Holly ~ Weezer
  43. Nookie ~ Limp Bizkit
  44. Why Don’t You Get A Job? ~ The Offspring
  45. Insane In The Brain ~ Cypress Hill
  46. Cowboy ~ Kid Rock
  47. Firestarter ~ Prodigy
  48. Bed of Roses ~ Bon Jovi
  49. Bitter Sweet Symphony ~ The Verve
  50. Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover ~ Sophie B. Hawkins

Please cast your vote and let me know which is your favorie 90s “invention”!

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Bonus: Eureka - ages later I found the answer:
This one´s for Chrissie =) NIEPI!

Have a great day - stay away from that baby-blue unless you´re 1 out of 10 =)

See ya’all soon!!!
~xoXOxo~

Sanni

And now…
… our moment of Homer J.:

Duff book of records: Springfield is now the fattest city in the U.S.
Homer: Woo Hoo. In your face Milwaukee.





Jul 17







The 80s

What were the 80s? …Bueller? …Bueller? …Anyone?
Well, you are truly a child of the 80s if any of the following statements is true for you:
- You know what leg warmers are
- You know who Mr. T is
- You remember when Atari was a state of the art video game system
- You used to be able to breakdance (or wished you could)
- The phrases “bright light” and “phone home” actually mean something to you
- You had a BMX bike.
- You need a shopping cart to carry your personal stereo with you.
- You heard that drinking soda and eating Pop Rocks would make your
stomach explode
- Your first Walkman weighed 10 pounds and was the size of a brick.

The 80s were a decade where young folk wore fluorescent, neon clothing and business folk wore double-breasted suits with shoulder pads and believed “Greed Is Good” . . . and when Prince sang about partying “Like it’s 1999″ it seemed sooooooo far away!

Dallas and Dynasty ruled the airwaves, leggings under a short skirt was considered a stylish look, Michael Jackson was still black and people drank Diet Coke because Max Headroom told them so.

AIDS was introduced to the public as a sexually transmitted disease of potentially plague proportions that would put paid to the trendy permissiveness of the 60s and 70s.

Meanwhile at home and in the playground, people were struggling to master “Rubik’s Cube” - the biggest craze of the early part of the decade: a block of movable coloured squares, named after its Hungarian inventor: Erno Rubik.

Video games were the hottest new innovation as video arcade game machines began to replace pinball machines in amusement arcades across the Western world with “Pac Man” and “Space Invaders” leading the pack.

Sophisticated equipment for leisure and pleasure became increasingly affordable as incredible advances in technology continued, and the Eighties soon also became the decade of gadgets - From digital watches to cappuccino machines to cellular phones to computers… even though a Commodore C64 was the pinnacle of computing excellence ;)

Yuppies appeared on the scene - they became synonymous with upward mobility, greed, and selfishness. But then the 80s were the decade of “self”… self-improvement, self motivation, self-help manuals.

Mikhail Gorbachev introduced two new words to the Western languages - glasnost (openness) and perestroika (reconstruction). The West fell in love with him - the first cuddly, user-friendly Soviet leader, who talked of East and West becoming good neighbours… which we finally did as the decade ended with Europe’s biggest ever street party as the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 and East met West for the first time since 1961.

The 80s were a brutal decade in which high unemployment created ever-widening social divisions, but the barriers to freedom
- sexual, economic and political - came crashing down, most poignantly with the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
Not in secret as it had been constructed, but before the eyes of the entire world on live television. The Cold War was over.

Reliving my teen years by listening to…

Coffee2go´s Top 50 Songs of the 80s:

  1. Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) ~ A Flock of Seagulls
  2. Sweet Child Of Mine ~ Guns N Roses
  3. Fade To Grey ~ Visage
  4. If I Was ~ Migde Ure
  5. Every Breathe You Take ~ Police
  6. Tainted Love ~ Softcell
  7. True Faith ~ New Order
  8. Pride (In The Name Of Love) ~ U2
  9. White Wedding ~ Billy Idol
  10. Such A Shame ~ Talk Talk
  11. Like A Prayer ~ Madonna
  12. Running Up That Hill ~ Kate Bush
  13. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me ~ Culture Club
  14. Woman ~ John Lennon
  15. Too Shy ~ Kajagoogoo feat. Limahl
  16. Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) ~ Phil Collins
  17. No Doubt About It ~ Hot Chocolate
  18. Somebody ~ Depeche Mode
  19. (Don’t You) Forget About Me ~ Simple Minds
  20. If You Leave ~ O.M.D.
  21. Ebony and Ivory ~ Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
  22. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) – Dead Or Alive
  23. Blasphemous Rumours ~ Depeche Mode
  24. Down Under ~ Men At Work
  25. Don’t Leave Me This Way ~ Communards
  26. The Tide Is High ~ Blondie
  27. Say, Say, Say ~ Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
  28. Wishing Well ~ Terence Trent D´Arby
  29. The Longest Time ~ Billy Joel
  30. Easy Lover ~ Phil Collins & Phillip Bailey
  31. The Longest Time ~ Billy Joel
  32. Dancing With Tears In My Eyes ~ Ultravox
  33. Girls Just Want to Have Fun ~ Cyndi Lauper
  34. A Good Heart ~ Feargal Sharkey
  35. Total Eclipse of the Heart ~ Bonnie Tyler
  36. Axel F ~ Harold Faltermeyer
  37. Walk This Way ~ Run D.M.C./Aerosmith
  38. When Doves Cry ~ Prince
  39. Under Pressure ~ Queen and David Bowie
  40. Come On Eileen ~ Dexy’s Midnight Runners
  41. Take On Me ~ A-Ha
  42. (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life - Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes
  43. We Are The World ~ USA for Africa
  44. Faith ~ George Michael
  45. You Can Call Me Al ~ Paul Simon
  46. Red Red Wine ~ UB40
  47. I Won´t Let The Sun Go Down On Me ~ Nik Kershaw
  48. Eyes Without A Face ~ Billy Idol
  49. Purple Rain ~ Prince
  50. I Engineer ~ Animotion

Please cast your vote and let me know which is your favorie 80s movie song!

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80s bonus for somebody special =)

Now let´s all meet in a place “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”See ya’all soon!!!
~xoXOxo~Sanni

And now…
… our moment of Homer J.:

Duff book of records: Springfield is now the fattest city in the U.S.
Homer: Woo Hoo. In your face Milwaukee.





Jul 9







Things were simple in the 70s - even politics. This wonderful synthetic decade brought us Glam Rock, Pet Rocks and Punk Rock. Even bank clerks wore purple flared suits, had their hair permed, grew a Zapata moustache and had group sex in a hot tub with the accounts department. The seventies were definitely about excess. More was very definitely more - more hair, more height, more glitter, more guitars, more drugs, more More (long, thin, black cigarettes favoured by Telly Savalas in Kojak. Moderation had ceased to exist. The key to the Seventies was ‘freedom’, and some of its bizarre crazes were the first real manifestations of the advancements made courtesy of the social revolution of the 60s. The ideas and philosophy of the previous decade became mainstream in the 70s -
sexual freedom, the end of the draft, legalization of abortion, gay liberation, breakthroughs in women’s rights… you name it.
And all accompanied by caftan-clad ladies and canned pineapple, cheese and cocktail onions on skewers shoved into a foil-covered potato at wife swapping parties.
As the decade progressed our focus turned at various times to Space Hoppers, ABBA, Mood Rings, roller skates, custom vans with airbrushed murals, Star Wars, Disco, Jaws, Iron-on T shirt transfers, Happy Days, Kung Fu, and Punk… *Phew*

Good taste and fashion may not have made great bedfellows, but it was a fun decade to grow up in. Do you already hear the music???

Coffee2go´s Top 50 Songs of the 70s:

  1. Let It Be ~ Beatles
  2. Imagine ~ John Lennon
  3. Stairway to Heaven ~ Led Zeppelin
  4. Walk This Way ~ Aerosmith
  5. Let’s Get It On ~ Marvin Gaye
  6. Nights In White Satin ~ Moody Blues
  7. All Right Now ~ Free
  8. Message in a Bottle ~ Police
  9. Bridge Over Troubled Water ~ Simon & Garfunkel
  10. Diamonds Are Forever ~ Shirley Bassey
  11. Wild World ~ Cat Stevens
  12. What’s Going On ~ Marvin Gaye
  13. Should I Stay or Should I Go ~ Clash
  14. Roxanne ~ Police
  15. A Horse With No Name ~ America
  16. I Was Made For Loving You ~ Kiss
  17. Smoke on the Water ~ Deep Purple
  18. We Are the Champions ~ Queen
  19. Papa Was A Rolling Stone ~ Temptations
  20. Mama Told Me Not To Come ~ Three Dog Night
  21. Theme From Shaft ~ Isaac Hayes
  22. One Way Or Another ~ Blondie
  23. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life ~ Stevie Wonder
  24. Dancing In The Moonlight ~ King Harvest
  25. Stuck In The Middle With You ~ Stealer’s Wheel
  26. Walk On The Wild Side ~ Lou Reed
  27. Sweet Home Alabama ~ Lynyrd Skynrd
  28. Kung Fu Fighting ~ Carl Douglas
  29. Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing ~ Stevie Wonder
  30. Ring My Bell ~ Anita Ward
  31. Bennie and the Jets ~ Elton John
  32. Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me ~ Elton John
  33. Workin’ At The Car Wash Blues ~ Jim Croce
  34. You’re The First, The Last, My Everything ~ Barry White
  35. Why Can’t We Be Friends? ~ War
  36. Play That Funky Music ~ Wild Cherry
  37. Shake Your Booty ~ KC and The Sunshine Band
  38. You Sexy Thing ~ Hot Chocolate
  39. Bohemian Rhapsody ~ Queen
  40. Love Hurts ~ Nazareth
  41. Wonderful Tonight ~ Eric Clapton
  42. Le Freak ~ Chick
  43. You Really Got Me ~ Van Halen
  44. Take A Chance On Me ~ ABBA
  45. Fantasy ~ Earth Wind and Fire
  46. Y.M.C.A. ~ Village People
  47. My Sharona ~ The Knack
  48. I Will Survive ~ Gloria Gaynor
  49. Knock On Wood ~ Amii Stewart
  50. Black Magic Woman ~ Santana

Please cast your vote and let me know how you feel about the 70s!

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Remember: Never combine eating Pop Rocks and drinking Coke!

See ya’all soon!!!
~xoXOxo~

Sanni

And now…
… our moment of Homer J.:

Duff book of records: Springfield is now the fattest city in the U.S.
Homer: Woo Hoo. In your face Milwaukee.





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