Trish Babbles: What Were We Listening To and Playing in 1993?

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

What Were We Listening To and Playing in 1993?

TV Guide's Summer 1993 Parent's Guide to Children's Entertainment Issue had some... interesting recommendations as far as what kids would be jamming out to in the summer of 1993. Speaking for myself, I'm pretty sure I was still wearing out "Rhythm Nation" and my New Kids on the Block tapes back then. I didn't really start geeking out on music until a year or two later, then became disillusioned with current popular music shortly after graduating college.

That's when I really started liking the mentioned bands I grew up with like Van Halen and Duran Duran but they just weren't on my preteen girl radar back in '93 (even though this article is weirdly insistent that we dug those bands because they were cute, to which I can only say "Euw, they're so old!") Of course now, I really want to track down that Coverdale/Page record. I also wonder what happened to all these kid-led bands...

You know what entertainment writers really had a hard time writing about back in the day was video games. This article emphasizes the potential educational value of games, which is fine; parents really did need to be assured that this new media that they did not understand and that their children were obsessed with wouldn't rot their brains. It also suggests that the big hit games of the summer would be "Bubsy" and "Mario Is Missing". Um...