Wow. Fall On Me is my number one (according to Michael Stipe on MTV Unplugged, his too, at least at the time). Half a World Away is another favorite, also Stand. (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville, and I Believe complete my top 5.
Let’s make it top 20, and add, in alphabetical order: Can’t Get There From Here, Driver 8, Electrolite, Everybody H…
Wow. Fall On Me is my number one (according to Michael Stipe on MTV Unplugged, his too, at least at the time). Half a World Away is another favorite, also Stand. (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville, and I Believe complete my top 5.
Let’s make it top 20, and add, in alphabetical order: Can’t Get There From Here, Driver 8, Electrolite, Everybody Hurts, Find the River, Losing My Religion, Man on the Moon, Near Wild Heaven, Nightswimming, of course, The One I Love, Radio Free Europe, Radio Song, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight, Star 69, What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
I’d call Automatic for the People, Life’s Rich Pageant, and Out of Time their best albums. So many good tracks.
I fully admit that not only did I watch 90210, and Melrose Place — we all did, they were hugely popular — but I can reveal that my fellow R.E.M. CD-buying friend, Luis, and I, a couple of young republicans, had hairstyles that were very similar to those of Brandon and Dylan. With as much gel as I put in my hair, I’m lucky that I still have so much of it. Hair, not gel.
Luke Perry’s hair reminded me of Chris Isaak’s. I had no idea 90210 ended in 2000! Once I turned 16, my TV viewing was limited, and the only shows I prioritized were Seinfeld and SNL. I did see Jason Priestly at JFK in ‘95. He was with his girlfriend, and didn’t seem to garner any attention. I’m assuming he had left 90210 by then.
R.E.M. had so many good songs. Also, Indigo Girls’ Kid Fears ft. Stipe is 🔥
My coif was most like Luke Perry’s, another lanky guy with a prominent forehead. It had significant height and sheen. Hard to believe Perry is dead, gone to the Peach Pit in the sky. Only 52 years old. Weird to even think of him at that age. Of course, he was, like, 30 playing a teenager on 90210.
2000? Whew! Then there was the CW reboot that started in the mid-aughts, if memory serves. Then the meta revival a few years ago...
No one who watched the original series can discuss it without hearing in their head, and usually repeating, the opening chords of the theme song: da-na-na-na! da-na-na-na! chh! chh!
I met Brian Austin Green (David Silver) once, post-90210, at the NH Film Festival, of all places, where he was showing his directorial debut. My girlfriend at the time was a reporter covering the event, and we sat with him and his cast for the screening. Not a good movie but a nice guy.
I lived in the sticks. Guys were more likely to lean into Billy Ray Cyrus mullet than gelled coif. Luke Perry had the brooding James Dean look down. Wasn’t Green the only cast member who was actually a teenager?
I bought Billy Ray Cyrus’s debut album because I thought a girl working at the record store. It wasn’t Strawberries, but she was a strawberry blonde, and it turned out that she’d been playing the album ironically. Nonetheless, she was charmed enough that she asked me out, and soon we were both head over heels. My first libertarian. We had great political arguments. If she could see me now. Melinda, you were right about everything!
Wow. Fall On Me is my number one (according to Michael Stipe on MTV Unplugged, his too, at least at the time). Half a World Away is another favorite, also Stand. (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville, and I Believe complete my top 5.
Let’s make it top 20, and add, in alphabetical order: Can’t Get There From Here, Driver 8, Electrolite, Everybody Hurts, Find the River, Losing My Religion, Man on the Moon, Near Wild Heaven, Nightswimming, of course, The One I Love, Radio Free Europe, Radio Song, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight, Star 69, What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
I’d call Automatic for the People, Life’s Rich Pageant, and Out of Time their best albums. So many good tracks.
I fully admit that not only did I watch 90210, and Melrose Place — we all did, they were hugely popular — but I can reveal that my fellow R.E.M. CD-buying friend, Luis, and I, a couple of young republicans, had hairstyles that were very similar to those of Brandon and Dylan. With as much gel as I put in my hair, I’m lucky that I still have so much of it. Hair, not gel.
Luke Perry’s hair reminded me of Chris Isaak’s. I had no idea 90210 ended in 2000! Once I turned 16, my TV viewing was limited, and the only shows I prioritized were Seinfeld and SNL. I did see Jason Priestly at JFK in ‘95. He was with his girlfriend, and didn’t seem to garner any attention. I’m assuming he had left 90210 by then.
R.E.M. had so many good songs. Also, Indigo Girls’ Kid Fears ft. Stipe is 🔥
My coif was most like Luke Perry’s, another lanky guy with a prominent forehead. It had significant height and sheen. Hard to believe Perry is dead, gone to the Peach Pit in the sky. Only 52 years old. Weird to even think of him at that age. Of course, he was, like, 30 playing a teenager on 90210.
2000? Whew! Then there was the CW reboot that started in the mid-aughts, if memory serves. Then the meta revival a few years ago...
No one who watched the original series can discuss it without hearing in their head, and usually repeating, the opening chords of the theme song: da-na-na-na! da-na-na-na! chh! chh!
https://youtu.be/4Ng1IAtrbok?feature=shared
I met Brian Austin Green (David Silver) once, post-90210, at the NH Film Festival, of all places, where he was showing his directorial debut. My girlfriend at the time was a reporter covering the event, and we sat with him and his cast for the screening. Not a good movie but a nice guy.
I lived in the sticks. Guys were more likely to lean into Billy Ray Cyrus mullet than gelled coif. Luke Perry had the brooding James Dean look down. Wasn’t Green the only cast member who was actually a teenager?
Looks like a few of them were in their (late) teens when the show started:
https://screenrant.com/beverly-hills-90210-main-cast-ages-season-1/
Perry was 24. I overestimated. Ian Ziering, 28!
I bought Billy Ray Cyrus’s debut album because I thought a girl working at the record store. It wasn’t Strawberries, but she was a strawberry blonde, and it turned out that she’d been playing the album ironically. Nonetheless, she was charmed enough that she asked me out, and soon we were both head over heels. My first libertarian. We had great political arguments. If she could see me now. Melinda, you were right about everything!
Now that makes me think of High Fidelity!
https://youtu.be/-ECyX8A3iP0?si=JJahNOqyoc1HmgO5
A shame I can’t watch that without thinking about the real-life political posturing of Cusack and Black. The former is downright unhinged.
Cusak is completely unhinged which is why he is able to play a miserable SOB so perfectly
*thought a girl working at the record store liked it, and I liked her, I meant to write.