90's Music. Anyone else remember how good some of it was?

bodhrandude

I always remember the 90s for the emergence of trip hop from the Bristol scene, Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky and leftfield, then other amazing electronic stuff like Aphex Twin, BOC. Sort of progressive rock meets the dance scene, ambient music reinvented, the emergence of jungle, d n b etc.

Allyall

gurramok wrote: »

The birth of Oasis & Blur?

Arrrghh.. sorry... But only mentioning this because you said "Birth"

Blur formed in 1986, reformed in '87 and the Blur we know, formed in '89..

That said, Most of the acts mentioned so far, began in the 80's.. But i think the OP's point was, the music that was released/re-released/"large"/popular/unpopular/originated in the 90's

Happy Mondays formed in 1980 :eek:


You'll have to excuse me.. i had a few.

I love the memories the 90's music brings me. Even songs i didn't like when they were released/popular back then, listening to them now, has memories flooding in..
I HAYTE the fact that it seems less then a couple of years ago to me, but isn't.. :mad::):rolleyes::mad:

Is it possible to go back there? and if so how?

Can i hack/patch my laptop or Desktop, to bring me back? Oh, and have sex loads more times then i did, (i think i was possible for me to have it more back then, but i (in my mind) never fully availed of those opportunities, and some of the songs bitterly remind me of that.. :rolleyes:)

But all in all, a great decade for music, but mostly from 90 - 95 (Not including the S/A/W stuff...

gurramok

Enigma were good though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08

bodhrandude

gurramok wrote: »

Thats very well that they still play but are they any good?!

Ok, what hits did Massive Attack have other than teardops?

I have never liked LeftField, Orbital,underworld, Sneaker Pimps, Air, Fatboy & fun Lovin Crims(apart from one hit wonder) as they all sounded the same from dance\house 90s style.

Yes Pulp were good as well as early Oasis\Blur. You see, we're struggling at what's good with 90's music.

Unfinished Sympathy, Safe From Harm, Protection among others.

billybudd

bodhrandude wrote: »

Unfinished Sympathy, Safe From Harm, Protection among others.

and many many more

gurramok

Allyall wrote: »

Arrrghh.. sorry... But only mentioning this because you said "Birth"

Blur formed in 1986, reformed in '87 and the Blur we know, formed in '89..

That said, Most of the acts mentioned so far, began in the 80's.. But i think the OP's point was, the music that was released/re-released/"large"/popular/unpopular/originated in the 90's

Happy Mondays formed in 1980 :eek:


You'll have to excuse me.. i had a few.

I love the memories the 90's music brings me. Even songs i didn't like when they were released/popular back then, listening to them now, has memories flooding in..
I HAYTE the fact that it seems less then a couple of years ago to me, but isn't.. :mad::):rolleyes::mad:

Is it possible to go back there? and if so how?

Can i hack/patch my laptop or Desktop, to bring me back? Oh, and have sex loads more times then i did, (i think i was possible for me to have it more back then, but i (in my mind) never fully availed of those opportunities, and some of the songs bitterly remind me of that.. :rolleyes:)

But all in all, a great decade for music, but mostly from 90 - 95 (Not including the S/A/W stuff...

You know what I meant by birth, they became well known in the 90's, not just from the date of when the bands were formed.

Yes, we've all had a few But you say it was a great decade of music, seriously though? Creativity was suppressed back then by the labels hence the trouble we are in today.

So what was memorable then? One hit wonders do not suffice and don't mention relaunched U2

Dotrel

Smashing Pumpkins. A definite 90's band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmUZ6nCFNoU

Still around today (in name at least) but it's just not the same anymore.

billybudd

Barenaked ladies, Gordon, pure pop genius.

leggo

It was the decade of the cheesy one-hit wonders, waaaaaayy too many random boybands, the Spice Girls, Blur/Oasis and when 2Pac/Biggie got killed. People are dead right when they point out it's when the tabloids and suits began to take over the music industry. Artists realised that headlines sold records and perhaps worked harder on the former than the latter. But back then, because it was new, it was a novelty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTpnnuYi9os

All of the actual good, credible music that stands up today would override what I'd consider '90s' music...they're just good tracks.

All-in-all, the 90's won't ever be remembered as a great musical decade by anyone who isn't seriously pissed. It was a transitional period: for better or worse depends on your personal taste and won't be properly judged for another 50 years. But man it was fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBe0VCso0qs

Biggins

leggo wrote: »

...Biggie got killed.

Not really. I'm in hiding. Elvis lives next door!
Now if I can just get him to stop jumping over my broken fence with Shergar!

Fighting Irish

90s was defo up there

Kojak

Best song of all time, never mind the 90's.....

skinny90

mad into the chillis,oasis,faithless,feeder,radiohead,bon jovi, aerosmith

Snowie

Kojak wrote: »

Best song of all time, never mind the 90's.....

What kinda person likes watching a crazy old man sit in a room with chldren..

Biggins

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

What kinda person likes watching a crazy old man sit in a room with chldren..

God watching the Christian Brothers at work?

Dotrel

The 90's was where I got my musical education so it'll always seem like a good decade for music for me. Pirate radio gave me the "college rock" experience I'd read about (or at least the Irish equivalent) and you won't believe this kids but back then MTV used to actually play music videos. We'd have it on pretty much 24/7 for the more mainstream stuff. The "pop" act were taken far less seriously back they seemed to get far less media attention, you didn't have this suffocating looming x-factor industry to contend with either pushing content into your face everywhere you anyway.

Very different world pre-www. Now there's no particular focal point and everyone's interest have become more divergent and much more specific (not just in music). I don't even know what is popular with the cool kids these days or if music and fandom of particular bands even exists to the same extent anymore. I can't imagine it is as important to people today generally as it was then. Price you pay for living in a world with unlimited access to media I suppose.

ascanbe

Some 90's genius that still sounds better than pretty much anything you'd hear today.
Not that anything great shouldn't; timeless music is timeless.

Snowie

Biggins wrote: »

God watching the Christian Brothers at work?

You could be a little more pc about some ones bound to get offended :pac::P

Tho we could just take them out and shoot them in front of there families :cool:

OPENROAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jFtzVa80A

gurramok

Well I'm struggling so help me

First that comes to mind is The Killers numerous hits, so help a 30 something bloke here to educate me on what musical talent was there in the 00's?

Biggins

1900's ?

...Aye yesss... I remember it well! :pac:


On topic: I tend to think of individual songs rather than groups in the later decades.
Maybe its just me.

Feelgood

When I think 90s I think Pearl Jam and the 5 unreal albums that they put out over those 10 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoC82RuAxqw

OPENROAD

K-9

The 80's had Stock, Aitken and Waterman, but it still had some great music.

THe 90's had crap but some gems. Blur, the Charlatan's, Stone Roses etc. Even REM, U2 and deelite had some good tunes!

rossie1977

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

massive attack you don't call them a one hit wonder there one of the most influatual sounds ever to come out of england...

i would consider that to be stuff like the beatles, stones, zeppelin, sabbath, priest, queen, the whole punk rock movement....but hey thats just me

Saila

these threads are always a cluster fcuk, its not like saying it in a pub with people of like mind YOU@RE BROADCASTING TO THE NATION IN AH and everyones opinion of good music is well.....different

take everything

Nineties was a great decade for music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKjSTugOAAA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XucegAHZojc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrvk1bmTayg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHhox4_SeHQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gfvPKjKPMw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9lEd5bIbbQ

DEFTLEFTHAND

Who's going ride your wild horses, Actung!!!!!!!.....baby

Jimoslimos

gurramok wrote: »

Half of them have no musical affection with me. Prodigy had that famous one hit wonder with your man in the tunnel starting fires:D.

Firestarter, tbh one of their weaker efforts. Most of the better stuff was earlier before they really made it big.

BeefyS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY6KJpqDSP4

take everything

A few more 90's anthems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqovGKdgAXY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNc45FTenhg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDVsIvvFtcs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV2Tq--hf14

Azureus

Going to OCS in a couple of weeks, so love a bit of 90s tuneage!

Doc Ruby

The 90s were when heavy metal really started to mature and come into its own. I was never a fan of brit pop or grunge, but soundgarden, machine head, the golden age of metallica, there has never been so much awesome.

Freddie59

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CSJM7SdOWw

W.Shakes-Beer

80's were better but I suppose the 90's had Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam

Kerrigooney

I`m enjoying this thread but shouldn`t it be in the music forum??

HovaBaby

TBH there was good music in the 1990's, of course the Spice Girls were the most heavily promoted. I don't believe the 80's was better, some of the early 80's brit/euro pop was pretty crap TBH.

Skulldigger

90's for me and it's not even close.

Hip hop music really developed in the nineties and most of the classic albums come from that era.

Cheesy hair metal rubbish was replaced with grunge and Brit pop.

Funky rock/hip hop in the likes of the Chillis and RATM were born.

Electronic music came to fruition. Big Beat, Breaks, Jungle, Drum and Bass, Rave, Downtempo, Acid Jazz, Trip Hop etc.

Great artists and bands from previous decades went to shíte in the 80's imo. Jefferson Airplane went from psychedelic visionaries of the 60's to "We Built This City on Rock and Roll". *puke*

It's all a matter of taste, but for me the 80's was the worst decade from 1960-2000.

Doc Ruby

Skulldigger wrote: »

Cheesy hair metal rubbish was replaced with grunge and Brit pop with heavier and more awesome metal.

fyp

filthymcnasty

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

Don't forget these boys who are still join strong.. :cool:

Great to see a few mentions for Supergrass, one of the most underrated bands to come out of the 90's.... but I think have split up now

Alpish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbWJVult-9M

Five were the sh*t :P

Mindkiller

PseudoFamous wrote: »

I listened to OK Computer and was exceedingly underwhelmed. I get the impression that it's music for musical elitists who like to scoff at lesser bands and their fans, and act outraged when anyone tells them that their music is a load of bollocks.

Elitists? Ok Computer is as accessible as they come. It doesn't top hundreds of popularity polls for nothing

Allyall

Not necessarily any of the better songs of the 90's (Maybe the LA's), but definitely a huge reminder of what a large part of the 90's was like (For me anyway)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waacof2saZw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmQ7PSjoy4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGSHIidlesQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX9TDQcCyVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVGf3ePIO04

Logical Fallacy

"There She Goes" by the La's was indeed a classic.

The Princess Bride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMPM1q_Uyxc

For me,the 90s had a few great songs,but overall, no particular groups or individuals who set the world on fire.
Put it like this,I have no plans on changing my username to msthe90s-anytime soon.

Crann na Beatha

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RonMexico

1993 - Last concert of the Original Guns 'N Roses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcVWDncxWnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHX0SKnVbsc

MetzgerMeister

gurramok wrote: »

Half of them have no musical affection with me. Prodigy had that famous one hit wonder with your man in the tunnel starting fires:D

Massive attack had that one hit wonder too which was well received, the rest were either Brit pop or were heading towards house\dance music. Well, are they remembered now? Don't think so for the majority listed.

Followed swiftly by another No. 1 about breathing the pressure in a run-down house with cockroaches and alligators

chakotha

Awesome decade for music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3wAtWywrP4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc4SE7o9Zts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4CRkpBGQzU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5WSNceUgNU

Logical Fallacy

rossie1977 wrote: »

i would consider that to be stuff like the beatles, stones, zeppelin, sabbath, priest, queen, the whole punk rock movement....but hey thats just me

Definitely just you. The impact that British Electronica bands such as Massive Attack, The Prodigy, Leftfield etc have had on music is massive. I can understand how you wouldn't appreciate it if it is not the kind of music you listen to.