Heck yes, although I listen to plenty of 80's and 00's too. In fact, I'm listening to Alice in Chains RIGHT NOW.
@MooseyMcMan said:
" All the time. I cannot get enough Soundgarden (although they had a lot of 80s stuff too), Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots...Okay, pretty much just grunge, but grunge was totally a 90s thing. "
You and I need to start a gang.
Also:
God what a travesty. A glorious, glorious travesty.
This song is forever linked to Mr. Bogus, and I DON'T KNOW WHY! I think it might have played after episodes sometimes...
The 90's had some awesome music. This decade has some awesome music too, you can't just go by what's on mainstream radio, that's usually bad no matter what decade you're living in. I will say the quality of what most kids were listening to when I was in high school in the 90's was a hell of a lot better then what kids are listening to in high school now. So in that respect, yeah things were a lot better then.
I love just as many songs from the 90's as I do from the 70's or 2000's. Pretty much the only decade I have yet to find alot of music I like from is the 80's. (With the exception of Laibach's Let It Be and Nine Inch Nail's first album.)
I'm listening to Cube's Death Certificate now so yeah. While there was a lot of crap in the 90s (Looking at you 90s rock) there was a lot of solid tracks released in the decade.
Dude, 90's music was the shit. It was the hey-day of Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, The MIghty Mighty BossTones, Catch-22, 3 Doors Down. Fuck. Nostalgia!
" Why not? If you like a song you like it. Why does what year it was made matter? "
Pretty much what I came in here to post. It's all fair game with my music playlist! Got stuff going back as to the 30s in there; each decade had its bright spots, and some do hold well better than others, but there's plenty of music from every era to enjoy.
Sure, I listen to a number of 90's songs, but I feel the 90's lose out to every other decade of popular music. Well, maybe not the 50's, but there just wasn't enough music then to begin with, and the handful of great musicians were some of the best ever.
Music, even popular music, has been awesome again for a few years now. At some point, someone's going to have to come up with the List Of Albums You Show To Your Jaded Friends Who Say "Music Was Better Twenty Years Ago" for the 00's, as there's LOTS of good. Plus 90's pop music is almost more embarrassing than the start of Katy Perry's career. ALMOST. (She got better.)
" I've noticed that people on this forum take absolutely every opportunity given to them to whine about music today and claim x decade was so much better.
We get it. You hate progress. Shut the fuck up.
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We get it. You like the crap that plays on the mainstream radio like Lil' Wayne and Nickelback (both of them are ruining their genres). Shut the fuck up.
" I've noticed that people on this forum take absolutely every opportunity given to them to whine about music today and claim x decade was so much better.
We get it. You hate progress. Shut the fuck up.
"
We get it. You like the crap that plays on the mainstream radio like Lil' Wayne and Nickelback (both of them are ruining their genres). Shut the fuck up. "
Oho, I see I've struck a chord. I like Lil Wayne, yeah, and I like Nickelback from the 90s and early 00s. But I realize that many "purists" don't. So lemme throw a few songs at you.
How about a little Black Milk?
Maybe a little Nas?
Some Q-Tip?
And this is guy I personally really enjoy. A little Rock. It serves the dual purpose of killing sick beats, and shitting on all those mainstream rappers that "purists" don't like.
The genre still looks pretty alive to me. Looks like Lil Wayne isn't the bane of good rap, you just have to find it.
MY MAN INF LEFT A TECH AND A NINE AT MY CRIB TURNED HIMSELF IN HE HAD TO DO A BID A 1-3 HE'LL BE HOME THE END OF '93 I'M READY TO GET THIS PAPUH G, YA WITH ME!? MUTHAFUCKIN RIGHT, MY POCKETS LOOKIN KINDA TIGHT AND I'M STRESSED YO BIGGIE LEMME GET THE VEST! NO NEED FOR THAT, GRAB THE FUCKIN' GAT THE FIRST POCKET THAT'S FAT, THE TECH IS TO HIS BACK!
I've recently started listening to all the old 90's songs I used to listen to as a little kid, and it makes realize how sucky todays music is. i already know everyone says that, but it really is true. i remember listening on the radio today and some pitbull song was playing with some moron autotuned voice and it sounds so stupid compared to the songs back then.
The crazy thing about this post is that everyone from a generation before yours thinks music peeked in the 80's and started going down hill in the 90's, was ruined in the 00's and has now started dying in the 10's.
When I listen to 90's music like the song you posted, here is what I think:
The music grows on you, but's it's really just a weird / retarded sounding song.
It has a nice hook I guess.
The dude can't sing, is that primitive autotune I hear?
The song repeats OVER and OVER, it's not really a song as much as it is some weird little anthem.
It's a hell of a stretch to call this a "song".
This is what I would consider to be a REAL song. Nobody makes Songs any more, they just make "music", if you can call it that.
I think at least one person has said that every decade of music is better than every other decade of music. It is so common that every time I see someone say something along the lines of "decade x's music is so much better than modern music" that I can't take those posts, articles, comments or whatever seriously anymore.
The 90s had a lot of good music and a lot of bad music just like every other decade.
@HaltIamReptar: I think it's still rather early to tell. I also think the GaGa persona has changed drastically from the first album, which was about fashion, to the second album, which started as a "pro-gays" persona and into the "monster" persona, which was at full-blast for the Born This Way video. She's identifying what her stage personality really would be.
At the same time, though, would Ozzy Osbourne's Sabbath era, or David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era, have been any worse off without those personas? I doubt it myself. She's actually mostly without a persona in concert, and comes across as a lot less sincere on any video recordings she does "for her fans" than anywhere else. If the concert personality is a persona, then she'd be less popular, but that persona also encourages you to feel comfortable no matter who you are (in my case, a straight male) so there's nothing wrong with that. If we're talking about the persona that led her to make the Alejandro and Born This Way videos, I'd almost say she'd be better off without the persona, as she consistently gets bashed more and more every time she makes a really out-there video, with the popularity vs. bashing peaking on her end at Bad Romance and starting to tumble with Telephone.
However, I can't recommend anything more for her than adopting the ever-famous Jack Frost persona.
@Little_Socrates: It's funny you mention David Bowie and the Ziggy Stardust stuff. I knew nothing of all that when I started listening to him and I love him. When I ask of how the persona influences popularity, I'm not thinking of long-term musical acceptance, I'm thinking of current zeitgeist.
@HaltIamReptar: Currently, it's probably hurting more than helping in the short-term. However, it'll lead to a longer memory of her. (And yet, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars is still probably Bowie's most famous album.)
I certainly do. I was cleaning the other day and found all my cd's in some boxes. After going through them I found that the oldest one is from 94 when I was 15.
So all I've been listening to the last couple of weeks is 90's dance which was my choice of music back then.
Heck yeah. Listening to Green Day, Bush, and Beastie Boys etc. as I browse the forums right now. My iPod music collection is probably over 60% 90s music, especially grunge.
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