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90's Equivalents of the 80's


Some fan groups put their thoughts together for this list...

"Eminem" = "Vanilla Ice"
White rappers! eminem is way better and hotter though.

"Marilyn Manson" = "Boy George"
Both are gender-bender singers, popular in their heyday.

"American Pie" = "Fast Times At Ridgemont High"
Sex driven teen comedy!

"Portable CD players" = "Walkmans"
Walkmans were the 80's cassete players, with headphones, to the 90's portable CD players, with smaller headphones!

"Green Day" = "The Cure"
Green Day caught on the most in the 00s, but the songs from "American Idiot" wouldn't really be out of place on a Cure record.

"flat irons" = "crimpers"
It was wild and crazy like the girl from The Goonies. Now its nice and straight, though some people overdo it.

" Furby" = "Monchichi"
Both cute, cuddly and a little scary.

"Jennifer Love Hewitt" = "Alyssa Milano"
Both girls would pass for sisters!

"Christina Aguilera's Soda/Shoe deals" = "Paula Abdul's Soft Drink and Shoe endorsements"
Although their musical stylings are quite different, their endorsement deals are not. Paula had a soft drink deal and performed with Frank Sinatra in her soda ad. Christina had a deal with Coke. Paula was the frontwomen for a shoe company(Reebok I think?), much like Christina hawks Sketcher's today.
"Britney Spears's Curious perfume" = "Debbie Gibson's Electric Youth perfume"
Both were teenage pop music princesses. Each of these ladies were the top young female performers of their day, and each made loads of young kids smell good.

"DVD" = "VHS"
You can watch movies, but with more tecnology.

"Ashton Kutcher" = "Tom Cruise"
Both started dating older women, don't be surprised if our beloved Kelso starts dating Apple (Gwinneth Paltrow's baby) in few years!

"Spice girls" = "The Go GO's"
Sucessful female groups. Not exactly the best comparison!

"Jay and Silent Bob" = "Bill and Ted"
"No Doubt" = "Blondie"
"Viagra" = "Lotion and a Porno"

"Jennifer Lopez" = "Paula Abdul"
Both so-so singers, great dancers, danced in Janet Jackson's videos, who knows some years from now J.Lo maybe hosting a reality TV show.

"Scream" = "Friday The 13th "
"Powerpuff Girls" = "Cabbage Patch Kids"

"Britney Spears" = "Debbie Gibson"

"PlayStation" = "Nintendo Entertainment System"
Final Fantasy started on the NES/Famicom and continues on the PlayStation.

"SUVs and Minivans" = "Stationwagons"
"Coldplay" = "The Cure"
Yay for depressing British bands!!!!!

"American/Canadian idol" = "Star Search"
"Living Single" = "A Different World"
"Gargoyles" = "Thundercats"
Mortal Kombat= Double dragon
"Chris Tucker" = "Eddie "
"50 Cent" = "Midnight Star"
"Busta Rymes" = "Sho Nuff"
"Nirvana" = "Guns N Roses"
"Website addresses" = "800 numbers"

"Pay-Per-View" = "Closed-circuit TV"
Although Pay-Per-View started in the mid-80s, closed-circuit TV was what dominated special events programming in the first half of the 80s.

"Dave Matthews Band" = "REM"

"Dell PCs" = "IBM PCs"
"Internet Dating Sites" = "Personal Ads in Newspapers"
"The Taco Bell Chihuahua" = "Spuds McKenzie"

"DirecTV" = "Large Satellite Dish"
Some advantages of DirecTV over the large satellite dish, such as the Houston Tracker: 1. DirecTV dish is small enough to mount on the roof of your house. 2. You can surf DirecTV without having to rotate the dish and switching satellites. 3. DirecTV is a lot less likely to be struck by lightning than a large dish.
"Gummi Candies" = "Jelly Belly Beans"

"Minivan" = "Station Wagon"
As far as I can remember, the minivan was introduced sometime in the 80s. However, into at least the early 80s, the station wagon was still what it was all about in regards to family travel.

"The Hooters Girls" = "The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders"
The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders remain without a doubt the most popular group of young ladies in the world. And although the Hooters Restaurant chain started in 1983, the Hooters Girls didn't become famous until the 90s. In fact, the Hooters Girls would probably come in a close second to the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders in popularity, above all those other famous cheerleading squads.

"Windows" = "MS DOS"
"Voice Mail" = "Answering Machine"
"Answering Service" = "Operator"
"Rugrats " = "Muppet babies"
"Bill Clinton " = "Ronald Reagan"
"Dr Dre" = "Run DMC"
"A Payphone Call is .25" = "A Payphone Call is .10"
"Cell Phones" = "Hand Radios "
"Gotees" = "Stubble"
"Equal" = "Sweet 'n' Low"
"CD Roms" = "5- Inch Floppies"
"Friends" = "Cheers"
"Wayne and Garth" = "Bill and Ted"
"NYPD Blue" = "Hill Street Blues"
"Boyz II Men" = "New Edition"
"Ab roller" = "Thigh Master"
"Humvee" = "monster truck"


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Green Day = The Cure...BAH!!!hmm

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JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

Green Day = The Cure...BAH!!!hmm



Hahaha! i thought that was an odd comparison myself.



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