90s Music

[Jibby]

And for all the MS-CL lovers out there, did you know that there was a soundtrack released in late '94/early '95? I still have it, though I haven't listened to it in ages; I might have to pull it out again and listen to it.

I saw that soundtrack in a thrift store the other day! I should have bought it. Was the Buffalo Tom song "Late at Night" on there? I LOVED that song, probably because of the scene it was played in on MSCL. I still listen to it every now and again.

[starskin]

I like the Friends soundtrack. It's got REM, The Pretenders, Lou Reed, kd lang, Toad the Wet Sproket, and other really good artists on it. I still feel kind of lame when people are looking through my CD collection and come across it, but I'm not going to get rid of it because it's good---Rembrants song be damned. Plus, it's so 90s!

[johnboysmole]

oooh, I just remembered an album I absolutely wore out. Sweet Relief! It was the benefit album for Victoria Williams and featured Eddie Vedder singing "Crazy Mary."

[kitt852]

I must respectfully disagree with those who find Nirvana dated. I still find their music enjoyable to listen to. Especially their unplugged album. I love 'All Apologies" and their version of "the Man who sold the World".

[Deleted]

Nirvana's unplugged album is one of the few CD's I own that I can listen to all the way through. I love their cover of 'Where did you sleep last night'. Nirvana will always be my last couple of high school years. Unfortunately they also mark the turning point when music became more business than art.

ETA: IMO music peaked in 1995. I could be wrong since I don't pay much attention now, but it's pretty much how I feel.

[gimmeshelter]

EvilMinion said:

<b> ETA: IMO music peaked in 1995. I could be wrong since I don't pay much attention now, but it's pretty much how I feel. </b>

I grew up hearing Radiohead, Portishead, PJ Harvey, and Bjork on the radio. They were overplayed during those years. But despite it, I still enjoyed the songs. They helped me fall in love with music. Today, I have a huge appreciation of them. Their music was worlds away from what is out now.

I wish the generation after had a chance to hear quality music that I did.

[Margo]

I agree with all of you on nostalgia, but I can't help but think of reading somewhere that people in general tend to like music that was popular when they were in their teens all their life. I like 90's music, too, but I am not sure whether it is because it was really better, or because of that nostalgic thing.

I liked Oasis in the 90's. And Spice Girls deserved their popularity - they weren't great singers, but their songs were catchy and fun. Cruel Intentions soundtrack was a great album.

Rockell's In A Dream is like a drug for me, I just can't let go of it. I also liked all the dance-y songs popular in the late 90's.

Another thing no one seems to have mentioned that I miss are the great trance albums. Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport is sublime. Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure is probably the album I would pick to take with me to a desert island if I could only take one.

Thankfully good albums like that are still being made today - for example, Paul Van Dyk's Politics of Dancing series. And in the 2000's the chill-out movement started - there are tons of songs there I simply love (Thievery Corporation's stuff, Zero7, Morcheeba).

I must say though, that if you take rock music and pop music as genres, all my favourites in those two come almost exclusively from the 90's.

So maybe each era is the high point of a particular genre of music, until another one is reached many decades later (or the genres change irrevocably).

[Ripley]

I agree with all of you on nostalgia, but I can't help but think of reading somewhere that people in general tend to like music that was popular when they were in their teens all their life.

Exactly. As far as I'm concerned, music peaked in 1989. As far as my mother is concerned, music peaked in 1969. In another ten years or so, we'll have the current teenagers saying, "Do you believe how bad music is now? Remember in the 00s when music was actually good?"

[nadia]

The thought of that makes me want to cry, Ripley.

[starskin]

I don't know, I was a teenager in the 1990s, and while I really like a lot of the stuff that came out then, my opinion is that music (at least alternative* music) was better in the early to mid 80s.
Sorry, I know I'm weird.

*I consider bands like Nirvana and The Smashing Pumpkins to be mainstream bands from the 1990s, because they were so culturally visible and prevalent, even though they were labelled under the genre 'alternative'. Mainstream in this case is not a pejorative term. Again, YMMV.