I Hate the 90's

"I Hate the 90's"
Single by Rodney & the Tube Tops
B-side	"Tube Tops Forever"/"Cellphone Madness"
Released	1997 (1997)
Format	7" vinyl
Recorded	1996 (1996) Tarantula Ranch Hollywood, California, United States
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	3:42
Label	Sympathy for the Record Industry
Songwriter(s)	Eric Erlandson, Thurston Moore, Pat Fear Dave Markey, Rodney Bingenheimer, Cameron Jamie
Producer(s)	Cameron Jamie

"I Hate the 90's" is a song by short-lived American alternative rock band, Rodney & the Tube Tops. The song was released as the band's debut single in 1997 on the indie label Sympathy for the Record Industry. As the band was more of a side project for members of Hole, Sonic Youth and White Flag, "I Hate the 90's" was the only release by the band.

The song was recorded at Tarantula Ranch Hollywood, California at some point in 1996 along with the songs "Tube Tops Forever" and "Cellphone Madness," which were later featured as the single's b-sides. Cameron Jamie, who co-wrote the song's lyrics with frontman Rodney Bingenheimer, produced and Dave Travis engineered the recording session. A minute-long collection of clips from the recording session was released by drummer Dave Markey in 2008.

The song's lyrics, written by Bingenheimer and Jamie, primarily satirize aspects of alternative culture in the early 1990s and relates them to the former culture of punk rock. IGN Music stated that "I Hate the 90's" was a song "in which Bingenheimer extols his love of every thing before the '90s and judiciously uses his catch phrase 'Godhead.'" The lyrics make a number of references to several celebrities including Marcia Brady from The Brady Bunch, Brian Wilson, Janis Joplin and Kate Moss, trends such as fashion, body piercings, tattoos, the Internet, recreational drug use and contemporary topics and events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, last-call return and the rise of BDSM. The final lyrics feature Bingenheimer shouting "get me to the year 2000 at once!"

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