1990s – Gen X Playlist

Video Game Hall of Fame Inducts 4 Nostalgic Classics

Video Game hall of Fame Inducts 3 Nostalgic Classics

World Video Game Hall of Fame inducts 4 nostalgic classics: What do you think of their picks?

by AP
May 9, 2025

The World Video Game Hall of Fame on Thursday inducted four honorees, paying tribute to games that challenged players and changed the industry.

Making up the Class of 2025 are: Defender, the 1981 arcade game that raised the bar on difficulty; Tamagotchi, the digital pets that bridged toys and video games; GoldenEye 007, whose four-person mode influenced multiplayer games that followed; and Quake, which debuted in 1996 with a 3D engine that became the new standard for the industry. Atari Defender

The winners emerged from a field of 12 finalists that included Age of Empires, Angry Birds, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Frogger, Golden Tee, Harvest Moon, Mattel Football, and NBA 2K.

The Hall of Fame each year recognizes arcade, console, computer, handheld, and mobile games that have had staying power and influenced the video game industry or pop culture.

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Prince and Kylie Minogue’s Lost 1992 Collab ‘Baby Doll’ Leaks Online

Prince and Kylie Minogue’s Lost 1992 Collab ‘Baby Doll’ Leaks Online

Kylie Minogue and Prince’s lost song ‘Baby Doll’ leaks online 32 years after it was created

Minogue has spoken about the song in interviews for years and it has lyrics she confirmed were in the song in 2018

By Emma Wilkes
15th December 2024

Kylie Minogue and Prince‘s lost collaboration ‘Baby Doll’ has surfaced online 32 years after it was created. kyliePrince

The funk-laden version that has landed online features lyrics that Minogue confirmed were in the song in 2018: “Let me be your baby doll, sugar and spice and all things nice/ Let me be your paradise.”

… Minogue has spoken about the track’s existence in interviews for years and has mentioned that her record label wasn’t interested in the idea of him producing it all himself, so she never got to record it. She has also mentioned that the Prince Estate might also have a copy.

Prince and Kylie Minogue’s Lost 1992 Collab ‘Baby Doll’ Leaks Online

Originally recorded during Prince’s ‘Diamonds and Pearls’ tour, Minogue’s label reportedly prevented her from recording her own additions to the track.

By Tyler Jenke
12/15/2024

Thirty-two years after virtuosic rocker Prince and Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue teamed up for a collaboration, their-previously unheard efforts have now reportedly been leaked online.

The track, titled “Baby Doll”, has been discussed at length by fans of the Purple One, with its origins tracing back to the Australian leg of Prince’s Diamonds and Pearls tour in April and May of 1992. Recorded at Sydney’s Studios 301 during his visit to the country, Prince and Minogue reportedly connected during the former’s performance at London’s Earl’s Court in June of the same year.

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Unreleased Michael Jackson Tapes Discovered in Abandoned Storage Unit (2024)

Unreleased Michael Jackson Tapes Discovered in Abandoned Storage Unit (2024)

Unheard Michael Jackson music unearthed in abandoned storage unit

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The songs were recorded between 1989 and 1991 and will never be released to public, per his estate mj_Unreleased

Dec 18, 2024
By Surej Singh

A total of 12 tapes were uncovered, dating between 1989 and 1991. According to Musgrove’s inventory list, at total of 15 unheard songs were found on the tapes, some of which had previously been teased, or have had snippets leaked.

Some songs have been completely unheard of.

Among those unreleased songs is a collaboration with LL Cool J titled ‘Truth On Youth’ – earlier this year the rapper confirmed they had recorded music together but that the songs weren’t “good enough” to be released.

… According to The Hollywood Reporter, it appears that outside of Jackson’s estate, it seems Musgrove would be the only one to hear the tapes. Musgrove and his attorney approached Jackson’s estate with the tapes, but noted that the late King Of Pop’s estate declined to purchase the tapes.

Unreleased Michael Jackson Tapes Discovered in Abandoned Storage Unit

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by Nicole Fell
December 12, 2024

How one Ventura County stay-at-home dad came into possession of material recorded between 1989 and 1991 by the King of Pop.

When former California Highway Patrol officer turned stay-at-home dad Gregg Musgrove started “treasure hunting,” the 56-year-old certainly never imagined he’d end up with a king’s bounty — the King of Pop, that is.

A trove of cassette and DAT tapes containing unreleased Michael Jackson tracks were found in a storage unit deep in the San Fernando Valley. Musgrove’s journey to the tapes began when an associate contacted him about a storage unit he’d recently bought in Van Nuys. The unit once belonged to Bryan Loren, a music producer and singer (whose current whereabouts are unknown, according to Musgrove).

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Twenty Facts About Generation X by Jake Rossen

Twenty Facts About Generation by Jake Rossen

20 Facts About Generation X by Jake Rossen

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January 5, 2022
by Jake Rossen

After Baby Boomers but before Millennials is Generation X, the people born between the period of 1965 and 1980 and with an age range of 41 to 56 who were the first to get hip to the internet, wore parachute pants, and who may have worried Y2K was going to ruin the world.

But there’s more to this category of humans than ’90s references. Check out some things you may not have realized about the inarguably dopest social construct. genX_graphic

1. GENERATION X WAS NAMED AFTER A BOOK.
The Baby Boomers were the first named generation, after the kids who arrived—a literal baby boom—when their parents began to settle down after World War II. Generation X didn’t have a war that sparked it. Instead, it was words: author Douglas Coupland’s 1991 book Generation X: Tales for An Accelerated Culture. The novel about disenfranchised post-Boomers struck a nerve and the name stuck.

… 3. GENERATION X IS ALSO KNOWN AS “THE FORGOTTEN GENERATION.”
It’s because Baby Boomers and Millennials tend to get all the romanticized media attention, leaving Generation X comparatively ignored.

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After Surgery, Amy Grant is Celebrating Being ‘Alive and 60’ with ‘Heart in Motion’ Reissue, Tour

After Surgery, Amy Grant is Celebrating Being ‘Alive and 60’ with ‘Heart in Motion’ Reissue, Tour (June 2021)

Post Published October 2, 2021

Amy Grant Announces 30th Anniversary Edition Of ‘Heart In Motion’

June 3, 2021
by LB Cantrell

Six-time Grammy winner Amy Grant will release a special 30th anniversary edition of her iconic album Heart In Motion on July 9.

Originally released on March 5, 1991, the Grammy-nominated project sold over 5 million copies and garnered five Billboard Top 10 singles, including “Baby Baby,” “Every Heartbeat,” “That’s What Love Is For,” “I Will Remember You,” and “Good For Me.” Heart_In_Motion

The double disc 30th anniversary edition of Heart In Motion will include never before released tracks and updated remixes of the hit singles. Beginning July 30, for the first time since its original release, the album will also be remastered on vinyl.

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Madonna, Warner Music Strike Deal to Re-Issue Her Entire Catalog

Madonna, Warner Music Strike Deal to Re-Issue Her Entire Catalog

Birthday Girl Madonna Gets New Reissue Campaign, Italians Do It Better Covers Comp

August 16, 2021
by Ryan Leas

Madonna Album Covers ….[I]t was announced that Madonna has signed a new deal with Warner Music Group that encompasses her entire recorded music catalog.

Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of Madonna’s first single, and the new deal promises an extensive reissue campaign digging back into all her classic albums.

But today, there is also Italians Do It Better’s big Madonna tribute album.

The label put together a compilation of 20 covers [listen to samples here], recorded by 19 artists, representing 10 different countries. The whole thing was executive produced by Johnny Jewel.

Madonna announces reissue series on her birthday

By Charlotte Krol
16th August 2021

Madonna has announced that she will reissue many of her albums in deluxe editions, after signing a new publishing deal with Warner Music Group.

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Paula Abdul Recalls How ‘Straight Up’ Began in a Shower: ‘It Changed My Life’

Paula Abdul Recalls How ‘Straight Up’ Began in a Shower: ‘It Changed My Life’

“I was obsessed with the song. Obsessed,” Paula Abdul says on this week’s episode of the PEOPLE in the ’90s podcast of her breakout single “Straight Up” which she first recorded in a shower

By Glenn Garner
June 17, 2021

Paula Abdul was one of the biggest names in the pop music scene of the ’90s, but the musician came from humble beginnings.

The two-time Grammy Award winner, 58, appears on this week’s episode of the PEOPLE in the ’90s podcast, where she recounts how her hit 1988 single “Straight Up” was the song that “changed my life,” after she first recorded it in a shower.

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Animaniacs Cartoon Show to Be Rebooted (2020)

Animaniacs Cartoon Show to Be Rebooted (2020)

I used to watch Animaniacs in the 1990s, when I was a college student. I loved Pinky and the Brain – I think Pinky and the Brain were a spin off of that show?

At any rate, here are links about it:

Hulu’s Animaniacs Reboot Is Coming to Wreak Havoc This November

‘Animaniacs’, ‘Monsterland’ & Other Hulu Shows Set Premiere Dates

The new Animaniacs, from Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation and again exec produced by Steven Spielberg, will bow Friday, November 20 — some 22 years after the original wrapped its run.

Animaniacs Logo As announced yesterday by Amblin, the long-in-development Animaniacs reboot/revival slated for Hulu is finally on its way to the wider world.

The classic ‘90s animated show, featuring Warner Sibling, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, oddball parodies of classic animated mascots who refuse to do what anything tells them and generally cause chaos and enact timely pop-culture parodies wherever they go.

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Whitney Houston Earns First Hot 100 Debut in 10 Years With Kygo Collab ‘Higher Love’ – July 2019

Whitney Houston Earns First Hot 100 Debut in 10 Years With Kygo Collab ‘Higher Love’ – July 2019

If you are Gen X, you likely remember the 1980s song “Higher Love” first performed by Steve Winwood (I owned the cassette tape of Winwood’s album with that song on it back in the 1980s). If not, you can listen to the original version by Winwood on You Tube.

Well, Whitney Houston recorded a version of it years ago, and recently, it was remade by Kygo and released. Below, I will you to the Kygo-Whitney Houston version on You Tube, as well as the pre-Kygo Houston versions as well.

First, a few articles about the song:

Whitney Houston has a new song out: Listen to ‘Higher Love’

Whitney Houston’s New Song Is a Kygo Remix of Her Unreleased “Higher Love” Cover: Listen

The Steve Winwood classic was covered by Houston in the early ’90s, and now, it’s got a new remix

In the early ’90s, Whitney Houston covered Steve Winwood’s 1986 hit single “Higher Love.”

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Wang Chung – Music Suggestions

If you grew up during the 1980s, watched Mtv or listened to pop music on the radio, you probably heard Wang Chung’s “Dance Hall Days” (listen on You Tube, audio only) and “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” (listen on You Tube, audio only).

In 1997, Wang Chung released a song called “Space Junk,” (link to song on You Tube, audio only) which you may be familiar with if you watch the AMC zombie television show “The Walking Dead,” because it’s been used in scenes featuring the character Rick Grimes.

You can also listen to these songs in the embedded videos below; if the songs are ever removed (on the particular You Tube account(s)), please visit You Tube’s home page and search for the band’s / singer’s name and song title to perhaps find copies of them:

Watch / Listen to “Space Junk” by Wang Chung (audio only):

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