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re: Is the 90's the best decade for music?
Posted on 5/14/14 at 3:47 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 5/14/14 at 3:47 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I like the 80's, but really the early 80's is where it's at. The late 80's was kind of bland with hair bands ruling the roost. I love all the New Wave stuff from the early 80's, but it seemed to hit a wall midway through the decade, and the only thing that replaced it was Poison, Cinderella, Warrant, etc. I loved all that stuff at the time, but other than for nostalgia it is absolutely unlistenable now. Guns N Roses kind of changed the landscape right at the end of the decade(wasn't Appetite released in 89?) and kind of set the stage for the grunge scene.
This post was edited on 5/14/14 at 3:48 pm
Posted on 5/14/14 at 3:59 pm to LSUcjb318
considering almost all the genres had superstars?
Rock (many forms)
Nirvana
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Green Day
Pearl Jam
Sublime
Metal (and forms of)
Metallica
NiN
Zombie
Pop/R&B
Mariah Carey
Whitney Huston (before the crack)
Michael Jackson
Madonna
Boy bands
Janet Jackson
TLC
Rap
Dre/Snoop
Biggie
2-Pac
Fugees
OutKast
Wu-Tang
Country
George Strait
Garth Brooks
Alan Jackson
Tracey Lawrence
Travis Tritt
Tim McGraw
Honestly, if your going by this, each decade had it's fair share of superstars in each genre. Any of us can easily insert the same amount, if not more, superstar artists in each of your categories. And some decades didn't have any superstars in certain genres because the genre didn't exist.
Furthermore, a good number of the artists you listed had as good as if not bigger hits in the 80s. And a good number of them started in the 80s. Same can be said about a good number of 80s artists starting in the 70s, and so on.
IMO: I liked 90s music, but the whole "woe is me" sound started to get old by the mid 90s. There's a reason country had a huge success in the 90s with probably more fans than ever before.......
Rock (many forms)
Nirvana
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Green Day
Pearl Jam
Sublime
Metal (and forms of)
Metallica
NiN
Zombie
Pop/R&B
Mariah Carey
Whitney Huston (before the crack)
Michael Jackson
Madonna
Boy bands
Janet Jackson
TLC
Rap
Dre/Snoop
Biggie
2-Pac
Fugees
OutKast
Wu-Tang
Country
George Strait
Garth Brooks
Alan Jackson
Tracey Lawrence
Travis Tritt
Tim McGraw
Honestly, if your going by this, each decade had it's fair share of superstars in each genre. Any of us can easily insert the same amount, if not more, superstar artists in each of your categories. And some decades didn't have any superstars in certain genres because the genre didn't exist.
Furthermore, a good number of the artists you listed had as good as if not bigger hits in the 80s. And a good number of them started in the 80s. Same can be said about a good number of 80s artists starting in the 70s, and so on.
IMO: I liked 90s music, but the whole "woe is me" sound started to get old by the mid 90s. There's a reason country had a huge success in the 90s with probably more fans than ever before.......
Posted on 5/14/14 at 4:21 pm to Brosef Stalin
quote:
I liked GnR because they had a darker, more gritty vibe than any of the hair bands.
Same here. I caught on to the Cult and Queensryche during the late 80's. I got really tired of hair metal party music.
Posted on 5/14/14 at 4:35 pm to The Spleen
quote:
I like the 80's, but really the early 80's is where it's at. The late 80's was kind of bland with hair bands ruling the roost.
And I didn't to those bands in the 80s either. They sucked then, and they suck now. But they only comprised of a small sliver of the music of the 80s. that's like rejecting the 90s because all of the nu metal stuff like Limp Bizkit sucks.
The 80s were fasicnating because there were some many wildly divergent strands. The only people who were bored were mainstream rock fans.
Posted on 5/14/14 at 4:39 pm to SaintlyTiger88
quote:
I do like some grunge, Alice in Chains in particular.
Timing and locality are really the biggest reasons why AIC were considered grunge. Their music was strongly rooted in heavy metal. The same goes for Soundgarden, too.
I think the deluge of post-grunge bands that hit the scene around '95-'96 really kind of ended that scene. For every solid band like Silverchair or Candlebox, you had a dozen middling bands riding the popularity to a pseudo-hit or two.
Posted on 5/15/14 at 1:00 pm to Baloo
Very well said. The bad hair metal in the late 80s was a tiny low point in an incredibly good, diverse decade of music. The stretch from about 1964 to 1975 is the greatest period of modern music IMHO but the "video music era" from 1981 to 1992 is a close second.
Posted on 6/14/14 at 10:45 am to goatmilker
I think the 90s had the best quality of diverse music. it was the height of hip hop and rap. also, the EDM music(yes i enjoy it) of today really got its start in the 90s. I know the original roots of EDM trace all the way back to the 70s, but the style of music now is very similar to the trance music of the 90s.
Posted on 6/14/14 at 4:38 pm to 632627
I can't say for sure which decade, but the most influential 10 year period on our era of music would have to be 1966 to 1976
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