The Clash were a 70s band and you're missing The Cure

tbh this is more 80s kids than 90s

This is an 80s kids movie. And 80s kids bands. Or more specifically, 80s teens stuff.

I was born in the 80s, and I think I watched this movie once but it was definitely less a part of my cultural upbringing than OG power rangers and Ace of Base, lol.

Why do zoomers keep confusing the 90s with the 80s and 70s? We weren't THAT primitive. We had internet and cell phones too. Modern clothing styles basically began in the late 90s. We had dropped the neon, spandex, and big hair by the early 90s. A dude wearing what that dude in blue is wearing woulda got his ass kicked in school.

The 90s were the transition point from the "old world" pre-internet to the modern era. By the 2000s, everyone I knew was online.

This is kind of like asking my mother how accurate a picture of the great depression is. It's 20 years before her time.

Ian Curtis died in 1980 The Clash broke up in 1986 The Smiths broke up in 1987

... Not very accurate

My 5 from the '90s was:

The Pixies Pavement Radiohead Elliot Smith Smashing Pumpkins

90s? I was born in 1990, I don't consider any of those bands of my era.

This is all 80s stuff.

Nirvana, Backstreet Boys, Bif Naked, Britney Spears, D.J. Tiesto

I’d go with: Motley Cru, Bruce Springsteen, the Cure, Duran Duran, the Smiths

Bro we're old now, but not THAT old.

Not accurate at all. You're a decade early.

I have a friend who’s from 73 and this movie impacted him. I think you have to be born in the early 70s or late 60s for this to be part of your pop cultural wave.

If you're going off of the characters matching the bands, it isn't a bad lineup, I guess. The smiths wouldn't fit, but the rest are mostly on target from what I remember of the movie. Could switch out duran for Springsteen, and joy division for maybe depeche mode or the cure, but that's nitpicking.

But the smiths weren't exactly a well known band everywhere at that time. Kinda hit or miss in that regard.