with everyone so high on the 80's, the early part of the 90's were an amazing time. musically it was just phenomenal, nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, techno, U2 reinventing themselves. all of the excesses of the 80's were stripped away and only the core was exposed. computers became cheaper and people were doing amazing things that years earlier were not even possible. i still have a few club fliers from that era and the creativity is just amazing with the limited technology. music is and always will be the barometer of eras and generations. i love the 80's, but the 90's have a very special place in my heart as well. people are always focusing on kurt cobain's death in 1994, but they fail to see the incredible amount of great music from 1990 thru 1997, acid house to grunge to brit pop. the 90's was also the decade that people embraced technology on a social level and the birth of the internet as a communications medium and a money-maker. cellphones were now in the hands of the masses. let's face it, the 90's were the bridge from the analog to the digital world we live in now.