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Re: The Key 'Rolling Stone' Covers of the Nineties
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/53622/227621/0
Madonna RS 606 (June 13th, 1991)
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Wayne's World
RS 626 (March 19th, 1992)
Axl Rose
RS 627 (April 2nd, 1992) 
Nirvana
RS 628 (April 16, 1992)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
RS 633 (June 25th, 1992)
Sinead O'Connor
RS 642 (October 29th, 1992)
Bono
RS 651 (March 4th, 1993)
James Hetfield
RS 654 (April 15th, 1993)
Beavis & Butthead
RS 663 (August 19th, 1993)
Janet Jackson
RS 665 (September 16th, 1993)
Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog
RS 666 (September 30th, 1993)
Pearl Jam
RS 668 (October 28th, 1993)
Kurt Cobain
RS 683 (June 2nd, 1994)
Trent Reznor
RS 690 (September 8th, 1994
Courtney Love
RS 697 (December 15th, 1994
Alanis Morissette
RS 720 (November 2nd, 1995)
Smashing Pumpkins
RS 721 (November 16th, 1995)
Green Day
RS 724/725 (December 28th, 1995-January 11th, 1996)
Gavin Rossdale
RS 732 (April 18th, 1996)
Tupac Shakur
RS 746 (October 31st, 1996)
Marilyn Manson
RS 752 (January 23rd, 1997)
The Spice Girls
RS 764/765 (July 10-24, 1997)
Beastie Boys
RS 792 (August 6th, 1998)
Britney Spears
RS 810 (April 15th, 1999)
Eminem
RS 811 (April 29th, 1999)
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- dr_love6977
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Re: The Key 'Rolling Stone' Covers of the Nineties
I think the cover with Ice-T dressed as a cop was a pretty key and controversial cover.
Re: The Key 'Rolling Stone' Covers of the Nineties
The 90-91 cover with Winona Ryder should have been included as well. It was pretty much the beginning of the Gen X actors getting massive exposure. I expected to see it on this list when opening the thread.
The 95 Alicia Silverstone cover a huge omission as well. So is the Fugees cover in 96. Surprised Soundgarden isn't included as they had the cover right before Superunknown exploded, but grunge is already represented on the list.
Re: The Key 'Rolling Stone' Covers of the Nineties
The three that I've seen the most over the years have been Britney Spears, Marilyn Manson, Bono and Janet Jackson.
The 95 Alicia Silverstone cover a huge omission as well.
I remember that cover perfectly. I had it on this inside of my locker door in highschool 
Fuck I loved her, she was the hottest thing ever back then.
Re: The Key 'Rolling Stone' Covers of the Nineties
Its definitely one of their best covers and was timed perfectly with her rise to fame. In hindsight she was the perfect snapshot of mid 90s culture. An unknown, rises to fame and fortune overnight and is a household name, then disappears just as quickly and most forget she even existed.
Amazing that someone with a spotlight of that magnitude on her was unable to capitalize on it and turn it into a Julia Roberts/Sandra Bullock type career.
Re: The Key 'Rolling Stone' Covers of the Nineties
Probably because she was an enormously awful actress.
That's a fair point but she was an icon for that generation. Another factor may have been bad timing on getting huge. Hard to maintain being a teen icon when you're about to hit your 20s, so it becomes difficult to maintain pumping out huge teen flicks. I realize teen flicks do have actors in their 20s, but Silverstone was just too high profile to pull it off.
Doing The Babysitter and some of that B movie crap one year after Clueless was a sign that the end was near. Batman & Robin nailed the coffin shut.
Regardless of her potential as an actress, the bad choice of roles was certainly a factor as well.
Re: The Key 'Rolling Stone' Covers of the Nineties
Well I think it's a shame, but I think another problem she had was controlling her weight. Sadly we have a very vain CONSUMER (media my ass), and when she started chubbin' up, even though she was enormously beautiful, alot of people pulled out of backing her.
She was even told she had to lose 20 pounds for Batgirl, or she would be fired. Her dad was furious at the time, because it was a huge break and his girl was basically starving herself for the role.
And just fyi, even though Batman & Robin turned out the way it did, it was a HUGE film for it's time, and wildely successful. Schwarzenegger made $25mil for Freeze, George Clooney still acknowledges it as the film that cemented him as a bonafide male lead for big Hollywood movies and his first big paycheck, and at the time everyone thought Chris O'Donnell & Alicia Silverstone were the next A-list male & female leads for their generation.
Obviously it didn't happen, but only in hind-sight. At the time nobody saw the future TV actors they would become.
- monkeychow
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Re: The Key 'Rolling Stone' Covers of the Nineties
Fuck the cover...i remember being more interested in this image
