The 90's - a decade of crap music or what?

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The 90's - a decade of crap music or what?

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The 90's, when it all went wrong. Pop was eating itself and the established artists were regurgitating their old material in a 'modern' sauce and mostly producing their worst work ever. What happened?

Glimmers of original brilliance did come from:
Underworld
Faithless
Massive Attack
Enigma
and we mustn't forget Radiohead.

Anybody out there have a favourite 90's band/album?

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Re: The 90's - a decade of crap music or what?

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AQUA???? Vengaboys???? S Club 7???? :lol:

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I agree with you but music had to evolve, theres some good stuff out there now if you look for it. I spend alot of time searching Spotify, so if it wasn't for the crap of the 90s then we probably wouldnt have what we got now. Is that a good thing??? :think:

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AshM750. wrote:AQUA???? Vengaboys???? S Club 7???? :lol:
See what I mean ? :mrgreen:

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Couldn't disagree more. The early 90s were a time when all the tribes began to come together for a brief period. Rock fans would go to raves and vice versa. People could enjoy oasis or the chemical brothers. Hip hop crossed the Atlantic and became chill out/trip hop. Jazz fans went to rap shows, hair metal went grunge. Warehouse parties were run by crusties in new model army shirts.

I remember going to drum and bass nights around 95 and seeing Bjork there. I knew local remixers who were doing techno for Bowie. The later 90s were a bit crap ill admit but for a spell it was a hugely creative and I think time will show it as a period of musical crossover like never before or since.

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Here's 100 goodies to start you off.
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/90s-rock-albums/

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Every decade had it's fair share of crap, and most people have a favourite decade which they look at through rose tinted granny glasses...man
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I love the rave scene which I joined in 2002, I kinda missed out on the 90s raves but I do remember all the crap, cheesy pop. As for 90s Rock (OASIS ect) I was never a fan.

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brit-pop wrote:Couldn't disagree more. The early 90s were a time when all the tribes began to come together for a brief period. Rock fans would go to raves and vice versa. People could enjoy oasis or the chemical brothers. Hip hop crossed the Atlantic and became chill out/trip hop. Jazz fans went to rap shows, hair metal went grunge. Warehouse parties were run by crusties in new model army shirts.

I remember going to drum and bass nights around 95 and seeing Bjork there. I knew local remixers who were doing techno for Bowie. The later 90s were a bit crap ill admit but for a spell it was a hugely creative and I think time will show it as a period of musical crossover like never before or since.
Good point - Brit, but looking back it appears a messy and somewhat directionless period. Perhaps it was a necessary 'shuffle' that led on to the following trends.

Agreed Bjork did interesting things ('Homogenic' is a killer) and Bowie's Drum n' Bass album 'Earthling' is a bit odd. But grunge didn't do much for me, seemed like a recycling of the 80's SST bands (Husker Du, Black Flag, etc.).

Was thinking that it was because folks had run out of ideas - your viewpoint tells me that there might have been too many ideas floating around at the same time. Interesting. :grin:

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Just had a run through Slinger's top 100 90's albums to see what I had from the list:

Queensryche
Neil Young (3)
Metallica (2)
Rush (3)
U2
Black Crowes
Peter Gabriel
Roger Waters
REM (2)
Pink Floyd
Led Zep / Plant & Page (2)
Beatles / McCartney (2)
Fleetwood Mac
Jimi Hendrix

22 discs in all out of 100 and mostly from artists who started recording in the late 60's - early 70's. Three of the albums here are old BBC archive radio sessions (Hendrix, Beatles, Led Zep).

I have just spotted another top 100 of alt-rock albums where things like the utterly wonderful 'Soft Bulletin' by The Flaming Lips appear.
http://diffuser.fm/top-100-alternative- ... allery-1=1

Maybe the 90's weren't all that bad (Oasis?) - perhaps you just had to be there ...

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Re: The 90's - a decade of crap music or what?

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90s were indeed a bit naff....... :doh:
At lest we got. Faith no More & Metallica. :dance:

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