Music of The Lost Decade: A Guide to Japanese Pop In The 90s (FanimeCon 2023) Panel Slides

This panel was originally written a week before ALA 2023 in the hopes of maybe getting a last minute panel slot to debut it at. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately depending how you look at it, that didn't happen. It was previewed at the end of that cons' "More Than City Pop" panel, and since it was a long time to FanimeCon (which turned out to be the next con we were going to), it saw a TOTAL rewrite. This means that while this version of "Music of The Lost Decade" wasn't the "real" first version ever created, it was definitely better for it as all those first-version kinks were ironed out without even having to host it anywhere! Now that isn't to say that there isn't room for improvement in future versions, but this is definitely the most polished debut panel we've ever had at A-to-J. Also, because the 80s panel went a little long at Fanime the day before, some cuts were made to this panel the day of. It turned out we probably DID have time for this version, but as it stands there are some slides here that no one outside of A-to-J has seen. So, enjoy the slides, add some of the songs to your playlists, and catch it at live one day a con near you! Oh, and if you're wondering about that first version, it doesn't technically exist as this second one was just written on top of the old one's files. RIP

Lastly, the songs from the opening montage can be found below:

• Jounetsu no Bara - THE BLUE HEARTS (1990 #7)
• Donna Toki mo. - Noriyuki Makihara (1991 #4)
• Sore ga Daiji - Daiji MAN Brothers Band (1992 #3)
• Manatsu no Yoru no Yume - Yumi Matsutoya (1993 #8)
• BOY MEETS GIRL - TRF (1994 #9)
• Robinson - Spitz (1995 #9)
• LA LA LA LOVE SONG - Toshinobu Kubota with Naomi Campbell (1996 #3)
• YOU ARE THE ONE - TK PRESENTS Konetto (1997 #7)
• Timing - Black Biscuits (1998 #4)
• Addicted To You - Hikaru Utada (1999 #6)