Question 4 out of a 5-part series.

With grundge starting to explode and hair metal dead, the 80's was dead and 90's culture entered!

1990. That is the year the 90's officially started anyways.
I do know what you mean though.

I can't decide between 1991 and 1993, but I went with '91 not just because of grunge, but so many things were changing in the world then. Even like technology and cars, when they started to get that rounded look.

I can't decide between 1991 and 1993, but I went with '91 not just because of grunge, but so many things were changing in the world then. Even like technology and cars, when they started to get that rounded look.


  I remember around this time police departments were changing their fleets to the newly designed Crown Vics, making the streets look a little less like an average seventies cops and robbers show...

   I remember around this time police departments were changing their fleets to the newly designed Crown Vics, making the streets look a little less like an average seventies cops and robbers show...


Yeah, I used to watch some of those cop shows in the early-mid 90s (like Real Stories of the Highway Patrol), I have some on tape, and they still had a few of those boxy cruisers even then. I'm guessing departments probably don't keep cars any more than 5 years or so.

Yeah, I used to watch some of those cop shows in the early-mid 90s (like Real Stories of the Highway Patrol), I have some on tape, and they still had a few of those boxy cruisers even then. I'm guessing departments probably don't keep cars any more than 5 years or so.


  I thought that was a pretty good obesrvation about the rounded 'cars of the future'.  Among two things that make me recall the early '90s are weird, rounded (read: aerodynamic) vehicles and XTC.  But I have no idea why XTC... ???

  A quick search gave me "1991 Crown Vic police special" and noted the old boxers still roaming the hood.  Must've been 1992 when the switch began in earnest.  I was a private security guard for, yup you guessed it - Ford Predelivery Service Corp in the early '90s and the factory fresh Crowns filled a lot the size of a football field.  The "stickers" on the cars included the destination - This PD, That PD, CHP, Podunk Idaho PD, &etc...

I believe that it started in 1991 because that's when I started high school.  1990 was still had some 80s influence, and I was 13 in 1990.

1991...1990 was transitioning period from the 80s.  1991 was when I moved into a new house and remember just...all this culture sheesh around.  It was just AMAZING, I can't explain it.  There was a time in the early 90s where stuff was a little more "trippy."..1992 with like Divine Thing by Soup Dragons and stuff like that or Finally by CeCe Peniston.  I can't explain it, but those were amazing times.

1991. 1990 was very 80s and looks very old today. 1992 is very 90s and looks quite similar to 2009 aesthetically in some ways.

I think the 90's officially began when Nirvanna hit the radio for the first time

I'm apparently in one of the minorities right now. I voted for 1992 because I think 1991 still had too much of an '80s feel to it. Not as much as 1990, but still enough to keep it separate from 1992. A lot of things that would pave the way for the '90s seemed to have started in 1992.

I would say 91/92 - thats when "alternative" music was actually "alternative" music.  In 92/93, style started to become defined as 90s IMO.

With grundge starting to explode and hair metal dead, the 80's was dead and 90's culture entered!


Agreed. Also when people stopped dressing like Madonna and David Bowie and started dressing like Kurt Cobain (males and females)