Huh, it's weird I didn't encounter these guys in my pop punk days. Or maybe I did and forgot. I dig it.

1997 was the first year I heard Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, and Daft Punk. I was like "What is this 'electronica' business?! It's great! It sounds like the future!"

Say what you will about third wave ska, but Reel Big Fish was the most fun, least pretentious live show I've ever been to. Everyone was goofy and having a good time, which is an amazing accomplishment for my pretentious little hipster city.

Don't do pop punk dirty like that!

I find Our Lady Peace unlistenable now, but they were doing something interesting in the 90s, I think. A lot of Canadian alternarock from that time was decent, and I don't think it's solely the nostalgia goggles.

I still genuinely enjoy whatever Collective Soul songs come on the radio.

Something something theme song for Dawson's Creek? A show so lame even 14 year old me was like "ugh"?

It really takes the ass-kicking life gives you at 23 to start your path toward being a reasonable human. Or at least it did for me.

Facebook really demolished the "necessity" of them. My graduating class tried half-heartedly to do a 10 year reunion 12 years later, and it fizzled out.

I literally thought I was the only person who thought so. There are dozens of us!

'96/'97 was the time when I first heard non-Oasis Britpop. I devoured music by Elastica and Blur, so I always assumed it was a high point.

Spice is a pretty flawless 90s bubblegum pop album. I don't know if that's a genre that's truly 'best' anything, but in terms of its own parameters, it's a standout.

She sounds like the kind of person I definitely would have looked up to and/or tried to befriend.

I started junior high in the Fall of '97, so a lot of my memories of that time are wrapped up in brown lipstick, learning about Canadian prime ministers, shame, awkwardness, and platform sneakers.

A lot of my friends did the angsty teen girl shaved head thing, but I was always too girly for it. Still wore combat boots though, so it counts, right?

This is…an utterly perfect description. Kudos.

That's an interesting point; I feel like that really sets this movie squarely in the 90s, where there seemed to be a lot more broad cultural anxiety about selling out. It makes sense, there were fewer avenues of funding and cultural production. It's not like if it were set in the 2010s, where she could have started a…

I love Pretty in Pink, but that character's make-under was definitely its biggest crime.

At least he didn't miss his writing workshop with Kurt Vonnegut!

I want to believe: Holly Golightly and Paul Varjack; C.C. Baxter and Fran Kubelik.