It seems to me that, with Grunge having a lot in common with late 60s/early 70s rock and with films like Dazed & Confused there was a great level of nostalgia for the 60s-70s in the 1990s, just as there has been big time nostalgia for the 80s and 90s now.

I was wondering, beyond the musical influences of psychedelia and Led Zeppelin on Grunge and Dazed & Confused, what would be some other examples of 60s and 70s nostalgia in the 90s in film or TV?

Indeed.  The "Oldies" radio stations that took off in the 80's were still going strong in the early 90's - these stations concentrated on 1960's hits.  Then during the mid 90's there was a slight wave of 1970's radio stations and radio shows popping up.  Happy me!  By this time, 1970's music no longer seemed old and tired.  Music wasn't the only thing - some 1970's fashions started to pop up as well.  That was the first time I'd seen platform shoes since the 1970's  :o

Indeed.  The "Oldies" radio stations that took off in the 80's were still going strong in the early 90's - these stations concentrated on 1960's hits.  Then during the mid 90's there was a slight wave of 1970's radio stations and radio shows popping up.  Happy me!  By this time, 1970's music no longer seemed old and tired.  Music wasn't the only thing - some 1970's fashions started to pop up as well.  That was the first time I'd seen platform shoes since the 1970's  :o


The oldies stations you speak of - did they play Doo Wop a lot in the earlier 90s? I ask because in the background of one of my home movies from 1991 you can hear "Blue Moon" by the Marcels playing on the radio and that song was from 1961. You'd never hear that on ANY radio station today, not a relatively obscure Doo Wop song anyway.

The oldies stations you speak of - did they play Doo Wop a lot in the earlier 90s? I ask because in the background of one of my home movies from 1991 you can hear "Blue Moon" by the Marcels playing on the radio and that song was from 1961. You'd never hear that on ANY radio station today, not a relatively obscure Doo Wop song anyway.


I think my radio station WCBS-FM which used to play Doo-Wop almost all the time but now sticks to a different format of some 80's and now a bit of early 1990's to cater to the younger crowd.

I think my radio station WCBS-FM which used to play Doo-Wop almost all the time but now sticks to a different format of some 80's and now a bit of early 1990's to cater to the younger crowd.


I'd say the '60s dominated the HW Bush years, while once Clinton got elected, complete with Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop' campaign song, the '70s became in. Still, the '60s were residually popular through the decade as that cohort of Baby Boomers were mid-career (the oldest were 53 in 1999) and hot lots of money to fund their youth. Oldies stations like WCBS, KRTH, WLS, WOGL, and WOMC would be heavy on the British Invasion and Motown throughout the decade on their playlists, with an increasing amount of '70s content being added as the decade was rolling on so that by 1999, it was around an equal '60s-'70s mix with the pre-Beatles stuff dwindling, though '80s wouldn't start to be added until the early 2000s, and it was slow at first and didn't really start to be a major component of their playlist until around 2007 or so. But a sure sign of the stations shift is that on WCBS, you're more likely to hear Whitney Houston's I'm Every Woman from 1993 instead of Chaka Khan's. Keep in mind though that these formats are a moving target, looking generally at the 30-54 demographic, meaning that today's 60-year olds were were in high school will have a hard time finding their hits, which mean as of this posting songs like "You Ain't See Nothing Yet", "Hooked On A Feeling", "Annie's Song", and "I Can See Clearly Now" don't fit the mold of today's 30-40 somethings since that is seen as their parent's music, not theirs.

That said, Burger King had a series of commercials in the late '90s featuring a lot of '60s/'70s oldies in their commercials, and those still oldies but goodies, unless if something terrible happens, will still be accessible as long as we live. 

Star Wars was back in the cinema, albiet in an edited "Special Edition" (I refuse to believe Greedo shot first.)

In the 80s it was all about the 50s, and yes the 90s were all about the 60s and 70s nostalgia. Apart from music like Cher's "Shoop Shoop" and Kylie's "Step Back In Time"... here are a few movies from the 90s set in the 60s/70s:-

JFK (1991)
Malcolm X (1992)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Austin Powers 1 and 2 (1997/99)
Apollo 13 (1995)
The Doors (1991)
My Girl (1991)

In the 80s it was all about the 50s, and yes the 90s were all about the 60s and 70s nostalgia. Apart from music like Cher's "Shoop Shoop" and Kylie's "Step Back In Time"... here are a few movies from the 90s set in the 60s/70s:-

JFK (1991)
Malcolm X (1992)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Austin Powers 1 and 2 (1997/99)
Apollo 13 (1995)
The Doors (1991)
My Girl (1991)


Drugstore Cowboy came out alate 1989 (close enough) and takes place in early '70s Portland. Also as far as '70s, don't forget 1997's Boogie Nights, 1998's 54 after the famous studio, and The Brady Bunch movies in the mid-90s. Of course late in the decade thanks to The Wedding Singer and the Inspector Gadget movie, the '80s were already starting to come back in (much like how the '00s already are with Lady Bird).

*That '70s Show started in 1998.
*Some music videos in the '90s were either set in the '70s or '70s themed like Every Morning by Sugar Ray.
*Some of the '90s fashion was '70s inspired.
*Many '70s cars were still on the road in the '90s.

There was also 1994's The Flintstones, but I didn't see it because we weren't big on Flintstones. (At least Jetsons was kinda cool to look at.) The New Adventures of Speed Racer was a revival of the 60s anime... produced in America. MTV re-ran the original around the same time, so I got to see it both ways.

In my 30 something years of experience, no decade has been more nostalgic for another decade than the 10s has been for the 80s but I'll admit the 90s had a nostalgia for the 60s/70s but what's more interesting is the KIND of nostalgia. The 90s had a different feel and attitude than the 00s and 10s and therefore had a different kind of nostalgia towards the 60s/70s.

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