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I will argue that 311 best defines the 1990s more than Nirvana and grunge music
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:11 pm
Nirvana will forever be credited for changing music and they somewhat deserve that acknowledgement.
However, if someone were to ask me to identify a single 1990s band to represent the 1990s, I'd hands down choose 311.
I think 311 fun and funky sound represent the tone of the 1990s better than any grunge or alternative band. If you were a college student any time from around 1993 - 1999, you were probably either obsessed with 311 or hearing 311 at parties FAR more than any grunge or alternative band.
311 defines the 1990s.
However, if someone were to ask me to identify a single 1990s band to represent the 1990s, I'd hands down choose 311.
I think 311 fun and funky sound represent the tone of the 1990s better than any grunge or alternative band. If you were a college student any time from around 1993 - 1999, you were probably either obsessed with 311 or hearing 311 at parties FAR more than any grunge or alternative band.
311 defines the 1990s.
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Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:26 pm to mizzoukills
311's only good album was From Chaos.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:29 pm to FourThreeForty
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311's only good album was From Chaos.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:33 pm to mizzoukills
If it's not Nirvana, it's REM.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:38 pm to FourThreeForty
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311's only good album was From Chaos.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:40 pm to Freauxzen
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If it's not Nirvana, it's REM.
REM is a carry over from the '80s. No way they define the 1990s.
Don't get me wrong...I love REM!
But I can tell you that most parties in the 1990s weren't blaring REM...they were either blaring 311 or electronic music.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:42 pm to mizzoukills
311 is fricking horrible
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:45 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
Undone the Sweater Song
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:47 pm to DirklasDaDirk
Phish is by far the most important and greatest band of the 90s
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:49 pm to mizzoukills
I went to college in the 90s. I hated 311 then, and I hate them now. I knew one guy who was obsessed with 311, but other than that, not a whole lot. I didn't even own their album. At least Alanis Morrisette seemed to appear in everyone's CD collection.
Honestly, I'd say Pearl Jam. They were beyond huge. I remember the midnight sale of Versus, right when it went on sale.
Honestly, I'd say Pearl Jam. They were beyond huge. I remember the midnight sale of Versus, right when it went on sale.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:49 pm to mizzoukills
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hearing 311 at parties FAR more than any grunge or alternative band.
It seemed like Sublime was played just as much if not more than 311.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:53 pm to Baloo
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Alanis Morrisette seemed to appear in everyone's CD collection.
Thanks to sorostitutes everywhere, Alanis and Big Head Todd had a career.
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I remember the midnight sale of Versus
Believe it or not, they even had a midnight release party for this one in Starkville at the record shop.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:55 pm to Baloo
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I remember the midnight sale of Versus, right when it went on sale.
More people bought Backstreet Boys third album it's first week than Versus.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:56 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
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Phish is by far the most important and greatest band of the 90s
Posted on 10/6/15 at 12:57 pm to CAD703X
ICP was more important to the 90's than Phish.. because magnets, how did they work?
Posted on 10/6/15 at 1:04 pm to DirklasDaDirk
Phish had the biggest concert in the world on 12.31.99 (100,000 at Big Cypress,FL).
Phish has sold out Madison Square Garden 35 times beginning in 1994.
Phish's festivals that they developed in the 1990s were the biggest influence on today's festival blueprint.
Phish pioneered the current model of bands making more on the road than on album sales.
Phish has sold out Madison Square Garden 35 times beginning in 1994.
Phish's festivals that they developed in the 1990s were the biggest influence on today's festival blueprint.
Phish pioneered the current model of bands making more on the road than on album sales.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 1:08 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
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Phish had the biggest concert in the world on 12.31.99 (100,000 at Big Cypress,FL).
That wouldn't even make Top 20 attendence records of the 90's lol.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 1:09 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
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Phish had the biggest concert in the world on 12.31.99 (100,000 at Big Cypress,FL).
Phish has sold out Madison Square Garden 35 times beginning in 1994.
Phish's festivals that they developed in the 1990s were the biggest influence on today's festival blueprint.
Phish pioneered the current model of bands making more on the road than on album sales.
and for the reasons you listed above you believe that Phish defined the 1990s?
You're cute.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 1:10 pm to mizzoukills
I wouldn't say it but I do not think you are totally off with this. I know where I grew up that 311 was a big deal... hell it still is to many people.
I was more of a late 90s kid than an early 90s kid... I think if you graduated high school 90-94 then you would say bands like PJ or Nirvana... if you were in high school in the later 90s into the 2000s then 311 MIGHT be the band you say.
They are certainly in the conversation
I was more of a late 90s kid than an early 90s kid... I think if you graduated high school 90-94 then you would say bands like PJ or Nirvana... if you were in high school in the later 90s into the 2000s then 311 MIGHT be the band you say.
They are certainly in the conversation
Posted on 10/6/15 at 1:19 pm to JohnZeroQ
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I was more of a late 90s kid than an early 90s kid... I think if you graduated high school 90-94 then you would say bands like PJ or Nirvana... if you were in high school in the later 90s into the 2000s then 311 MIGHT be the band you say.
I went to high school in the early 90s and college in the mid to late 90s. I was a fan of Nirvana and grunge, but Cobain killed himself and, welp, that pretty much ended Nirvana. By the mid-1990s, young people were itching for a new sound that defined what we believed was a rather fun party loving generation and 311 blasted onto the scene and delivered.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still a huge of bands like Alice n Chains, STP, Live, PJ, and occasionally Nirvana...but I don't think their musical tone reflects my 1990s experience.
311 certainly reflects my late high school and college years.
This post was edited on 10/6/15 at 1:21 pm
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