20 Years Since Many Great 90's Music Debuts
Cross post here just b/c M/B/M doesn't seem to get traction for discussion.
http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/s...e-And-Dreaming
Thread being said, despite what I originally thought was a bad music era at the time turned out to be one of the best. To steal a quote from one of the articles at the link, the music at the time inlcuded:
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To date, there haven’t been inklings of reissues, remixes, box sets or new vinyl pressings. (In a way, this is refreshing.) The Dave Matthews Band’s red-letter day is certainly nothing like what Oasis, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Weezer, Outkast, Green Day, Wu-Tang Clan and others have been lauded with regarding their noteworthy album vicennials in recent months/years.
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Upon UTTAD’s release, American music was as varied on radio as it had ever been, really. Alt-rock stations were popping up by the week, and hip-hop was coming into its own as well. Kurt Cobain had been dead for almost six months. Notorious B.I.G., whose Ready to Die was released two weeks prior to UTTAD, was about to usher in 1990s rap zeitgeist. Beastie Boys were in their prime. Boyz II Men, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Ace of Base were dominating the pop charts, while Beck, Counting Crows, Green Day, R.E.M. and Cranberries were finding the most success on Modern Rock Radio. Even weird things, like the Friends theme song, became something people sought to listen to.
And, yes, UTTAD’s debut essentially falls in line with Friends going on the air. We are so old.
And yes, I understand many of the mags will fear to be outed as not solely limited to Zappa fans. (see link for my complete disclaimer)
What do you remember about 90s music 20 years on?
20 Years Since Many Great 90's Music Debuts
There was something "alternative" going on in late 80s early 90s that was pretty exciting and raw. Coincided with when I left my country home to live in the slums of Isla Vista surrounded by coed trim and drugs and new friends who were "art majors" and liked to drink wine and psychedelics and talk all night in houses lit only with candles and blacklights. Janes Addiction, NIN are two bands that stand out from that time.
The days were filled with sounds of Sublime and grunge like Nirvana and Pearl Jam blaring from balconies overlooking the ocean, me rolling down the sonic landscape of Del Playa lubricated by natty ice or worst.
Funny how the music of the time provides the soundtrack for your life. I am amazed at times I made it through that stage in my life. I know some who did not.
20 Years Since Many Great 90's Music Debuts
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Originally Posted by
PlayItLeo
^^^ 2Pac, Snoop and Dre made the best hip hop albums of alltime!
As a high schooler in The Bay Area in the early/mid 90's, hip hop was the soundtrack of life. No matter if you were a hippie kid, a grunge kid, a Madonna fan, or whatever, everyone listened to The Dawg Pound, Too Short, Rappin 4Tay, the Grouch and Eligh, Death Row Records, Outkast, Silkk the Shocker, C-Murda, Mac Dre, Eminem, Kurupt, Biggie, etc... Definitely the golden age of hip hop.
Saw this piece about hip hop in '94 on FB a while back and it brought back memories
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prosp...greatest-year/
On the opposite end of the musical spectrum, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Jello (kidding, but I rocked it), definitely second Silver Chair's Frogstomp album, NIN, Sublime, Alice In Chains, Blind Melon, and of course, Garbage.
FIFY.....
