Status Updates From 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

"The music you loved as a teenager is the sweetest music you'll ever hear. That music will be, in all likelihood, the greatest, wildest, purest love affair of your whole life. That's how music works. That's how being a teenager works."

“What I also know is that back then, paging through somebody’s CD book was the single most intimate activity you could engage in with another human being. It was like drinking beer out of someone else’s mouth. It was, like, 75 percent of the way to just making out with them. You might as well make out with them at that point. No modern equivalent.”