PopTodd Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 First Yuck and now these guys.I'm starting to feel like my parents. Damn. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vacant Horizon Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 i can't believe the 90s are over, much less the first of the oughts. we really do get older! 90s weren't bad for music. def better than 80s. however, i'm finding some good 80s. that sound is quaint now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wild Frank Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 i can't believe the 90s are over, much less the first of the oughts. we really do get older! 90s weren't bad for music. def better than 80s. however, i'm finding some good 80s. that sound is quaint now.The nineties were great for music in the UK. Ignoring the 'Brit-pop' stuff bands like Massive Attack and Portishead were producing really exciting music. Tricky and the whole Bristol scene. Great stuff. Drum and Bass, with Goldie and Roni size, was also really exciting. We also had Bjork exploding on the scene. Ahhh great days. As far at the US of A goes the nineties for me represents the trio of Wilco, Jayhawks and the mighty Grant Lee Buffalo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kim Bodnia Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 They were the best of times. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 They were the best of times.Yep.Me too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IRememberDBoon Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 a show a week at least for me usually. trying to get back to a show a month now :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 We've been in a period of '90s nostalgie for at least five years. You haven't noticed? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LouieB Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 I think of the last 20 years as the same era. Same music, same hipster, indie rock attitude, etc. Only difference is that I am now alot older....and alot less interested in trying to keep up. LouieB Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 I think of the last 20 years as the same era. Same music, same hipster, indie rock attitude, etc. Only difference is that I am now alot older....and alot less interested in trying to keep up. LouieBAgreed.Which is why, I suppose, the whole nostalgia for the 90's has kinda taken me by surprise.Seems unnecessary. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vacant Horizon Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 i concur with the sentiments above. i was quite a bit more optimistic in the 90s. was also anxious and excited. now, i cool with what i like and that's enough. it's impossible to keep up. as for the 90s trio, mine was jayhawks, wilco and son volt :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bleedorange Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Looking over the decades collectively...I would probably take the '80s over the '90s. But I think the '90s had more highs. More lows too, though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wild Frank Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Looking over the decades collectively...I would probably take the '80s over the '90s. But I think the '90s had more highs. More lows too, though.The 80s look better in retrospect. There were plenty of great bands around. Unfortunately I was very young so spent my time listening to Duran Duran and Aha instead of the Replacements!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kim Bodnia Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Sometimes I think it'll take just Clinton (and Stephanopoulos) in the White House, Greenspan in the Central Bank, and Martha Stewart in prime time television, plus Seinfeld, and there you go, the nineties are resurrected. But then I think, with these people already too old, and Boris Yeltsin brought back from the afterlife, it'll be like roaming in a nation of zombies Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ghost of Electricity Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 90s all the way. and i see a pretty distinct difference between then and now, but that's probably because of where i was then. In addition to what's been stated (Son Volt, Jayhawks, Wilco) i'd add late UT (duh), Luna, tail end Feelies, Buffalo Tom, Pavement, the one good G Love record, Portishead, Freakwater, Teenage Fanclub, Johnny Cash American recordings, Rage Against the Machine, Abbey Road, and all the drugs I took. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vacant Horizon Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I absolutely LOVED Siamese Dream. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kim Bodnia Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Mellon Collie, The Wallflowers and New Adventures in Hi Fi. Suzanne Vega was ubiquitous. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
welch79 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 the 90s. wow. very formative for me. i grew from age 10 to 20. my musical taste expanded from pop/hip hop (mc hammer, bbd, abc, vanilla ice, aerosmith...my first concert, '93) to more indie/grunge (of course): nirvana, pearl jam, stp...then to classic rock where i "found" the stones and led zeppelin, then ended the decade with red hot chilli peppers, third eye blind, counting crows (big time!) and a dabbling into country... what a meandering path! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dagwave Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 the 80'sthe90's all seem to blend together at my stage on the mapcan't we just call it the hunnerdseventies? (shout out to 80/90 crossdecadegender bands!) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vacant Horizon Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 bands that maintained a career over the 70s 80s and 90s fascinate me as the production values of each decade were vastly different. Tom Petty comes to mind. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IRememberDBoon Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 woodstock 94 was fun Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spongebob Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 The nineties took me from 13 to 23, so it covered a ridiculous amount of discovery. I started with top 40 and ended with John Zorn and Bill Frissel. It was a sprint agianst the mainstream fueled by working in a tiny music store where I could open and listen to anything. It was a dream. Now everyone grows up like that with itunes; only since it takes much less effort, people seem to not search as hard. I stopped searching so hard. I spent the last decade returning to center and being cool with all music. I don't need to be the hipest guy in the room anymore (I never really was). Every song has a perfect moment to play it....except Katy Perry songs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vacant Horizon Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 nice post sponge. however, i have rocked out to a katy perry song before Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IRememberDBoon Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 saw bill frisell at village vanguard a few years back. waited in line on sat night and were the last 2 to get in. a few minutes later they let some other couple in and squezzed them in behind us in the back back corner. elvis costello and diana krall Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spongebob Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 nice post sponge. however, i have rocked out to a katy perry song before I was just poking fun at my daughter with the Katy comment. Continue rocking! saw bill frisell at village vanguard a few years back. waited in line on sat night and were the last 2 to get in. a few minutes later they let some other couple in and squezzed them in behind us in the back back corner. elvis costello and diana krall Wow. Elvis and Diana....very cool. Michael Stipe once accedently hit me in the back of the head at a 1997 Pavement show at the 40 Watt. Closest I've come to running into other artists at shows. To his credit, he was kind and bought me a beer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 I was just poking fun at my daughter with the Katy comment. Continue rocking! Wow. Elvis and Diana....very cool. Michael Stipe once accedently hit me in the back of the head at a 1997 Pavement show at the 40 Watt. Closest I've come to running into other artists at shows. To his credit, he was kind and bought me a beer. That story needs to be told?! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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