February 1990 Pop Culture: Lenny Kravitz, Rap & Norwegian Skateboarders

The February 1990 What Now claims to be a "Low-Venom Edition," then lashes out at Combos and Child's Play for no good reason on the very same page, so we're not sure what to believe. (We aren't going to "bail" on it, though we now know that's a slang term we could use if we did!) After we learn about Alyssa Milano's Japanese pop album, illicit Norwegian skateboard imports, and so much more, it's on to Watch It, where Courage Mountain (a Heidi take with Charlie Sheen, of all people) and The War Of The Roses get surprisingly good reviews, and Steel Magnolias gets one that's surprisingly mid?! Neill renews his Australian passport with a rave about Max Q, the self-titled Michael Hutchence side project début; we play you some so that you know Neill is wrong, as usual. One To Watch notches another one for the W column, and then Mike makes up a person who hates rap, gets mad at them, and tries to get them on board by profiling four positive artists. Which one sideswipes Public Enemy? The answer may surprise you! Listen and enjoy!

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is February 1990

🎧 What Now

🎧 Watch It

🎧 Listen Up

🎧 One To Watch

🎧 Feature: Why You Should Listen To Rap

🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

🦶 Big Foot gas station sign

🎸 Bullet LaVolta on Wikipedia

💯 C-Hundred PSAs

🤔 C-Hundred PSA featuring Jane Pratt

🎧 Michael Stipe and Jim McKay discuss C-Hundred on Talkhouse Podcast

🎬 Jim McKay on IMDb

🏘️ Girls Town on YouTube

🇺🇸 The American Dream Contest review at The A.V. Club

🗽 The American Dream Contest host Michael Landon talks about it on Entertainment Tonight, on YouTube

🔎 Beyond The James on YouTube

💭 The Dream Come True on YouTube

🤐 I Was Speechless on YouTube

🫡 Declaration Of Independence on YouTube

🇯🇵 “The Japanese Pop Album Alyssa Milano Made As A Teenager” at The Awl

🦴 Joey Carbone on Wikipedia

😚 Tamara Browder Hageage on CoachesChoice.com

🏔️ Courage Mountain on Tubi

🥀 The War Of The Roses on HBO Max

🌸 Steel Magnolias on MGM+

🔮 Back To The Future Part II on Peacock

🧣 Lenny Kravitz in his gigantic scarf

🦤 Vulture post on Kravitz discussing the scarf meme on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon

📚 Kravitz's 2020 memoir Let Love Rule on ThriftBooks

🧂 Salt-N-Pepa on Twitter

🎙️ KRS-One on Instagram

🍑 "Wild Thing" by Peaches + Tone Lōc, on YouTube

🏖️ MTV Spring Break 1989 on YouTube

📻 NewsRadio S02.E06: "Friends" on Prime Video

📷 Special Ed on Instagram

🗣️ Tara's Jeff Hiller interview at Cracked