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Were the late 90's/early 2000's the worst era for music?
Posted on 10/18/17 at 9:02 am
Posted on 10/18/17 at 9:02 am
After Kurt died things just kind of sputtered about for a few years, slowly declining until Hole put out Celebrity Skin in 1997.
1998 saw the rise of Korn, Limp Bizkit, which eventually begat Kid Rock, Disturbed, and other even shittier bands like Methods of Mayhem.
Meanwhile the boy bands were in full effect, along with the worst of Britney and Xtina being pushed to the moon. Radio and the record labels still had control of what most of us heard on a regular basis.
Metallica was too busy fighting Napster to make any decent music
Biggie and Tupac were dead, Nas had fallen off, and garbage like Juvenile & co, were the only rap you heard other than Eminem, who I have always thought was overrated and also just annoying as a human being.
NIN, Marilyn Manson, Tool, and Deftones were the "good" music of the time, most of which doesn't really hold up today relatively speaking.
Kid A and RATM were the only real shining lights.
These were the dark ages as far as I'm concerned. It wasn't until 2003 or so that we came out of it. I remember seeing the video for Maps crack the top 5 on MTV and finally feeling some hope.
1998 saw the rise of Korn, Limp Bizkit, which eventually begat Kid Rock, Disturbed, and other even shittier bands like Methods of Mayhem.
Meanwhile the boy bands were in full effect, along with the worst of Britney and Xtina being pushed to the moon. Radio and the record labels still had control of what most of us heard on a regular basis.
Metallica was too busy fighting Napster to make any decent music
Biggie and Tupac were dead, Nas had fallen off, and garbage like Juvenile & co, were the only rap you heard other than Eminem, who I have always thought was overrated and also just annoying as a human being.
NIN, Marilyn Manson, Tool, and Deftones were the "good" music of the time, most of which doesn't really hold up today relatively speaking.
Kid A and RATM were the only real shining lights.
These were the dark ages as far as I'm concerned. It wasn't until 2003 or so that we came out of it. I remember seeing the video for Maps crack the top 5 on MTV and finally feeling some hope.
This post was edited on 10/18/17 at 9:06 am
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Posted on 10/18/17 at 9:09 am to Draconian Sanctions
Mid 2000s - present is the worst
Posted on 10/18/17 at 9:10 am to Marciano1
quote:
Mid 2000s - present is the worst
nah there's tons of great music out there now, albeit you have to go looking for it.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 9:15 am to Draconian Sanctions
Maybe for popular music, but a lot of my favorite albums of all-time came out in that period:
Perfect From Now On
Keep it Like a Secret
Emergency and I
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Lonesome Crowded West
The Moon and Antarctica
OK Computer
Kid A
The Soft Bulletin
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Perfect From Now On
Keep it Like a Secret
Emergency and I
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Lonesome Crowded West
The Moon and Antarctica
OK Computer
Kid A
The Soft Bulletin
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
This post was edited on 10/18/17 at 9:21 am
Posted on 10/18/17 at 9:15 am to Marciano1
I mean, if your exposure to music is FM radio, I could see how it would seem to suck, but there was a ton of fantastic music put out in that timeframe.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 9:34 am to Jester
No..
late 80's were pretty horrid sans like 5 alternative albums that played on college radio stations with 500 watts.
late 80's were pretty horrid sans like 5 alternative albums that played on college radio stations with 500 watts.
This post was edited on 10/18/17 at 9:36 am
Posted on 10/18/17 at 9:44 am to Draconian Sanctions
quote:
nah there's tons of great music out there now, albeit you have to go looking for it.
same argument for the era you mentioned.. it was a glorious time..
Posted on 10/18/17 at 9:44 am to Draconian Sanctions
Limp Bizkit>>>lolNirvana
It was a great era for jam bands
It was a great era for jam bands
Posted on 10/18/17 at 9:55 am to Keep Stirring
quote:
late 80's were pretty horrid
thanks hair metal!
Posted on 10/18/17 at 9:59 am to Cdawg
Why weren't your listening to Panic and Phish??
Posted on 10/18/17 at 10:01 am to AUGDawg
Exactly.
The jamband / Americana scene was pretty amazing then.
Phish
Panic
real Mule
MMW
Garaj mahal
best era of Galactic
the best era of Wilco
Son Volt
The jamband / Americana scene was pretty amazing then.
Phish
Panic
real Mule
MMW
Garaj mahal
best era of Galactic
the best era of Wilco
Son Volt
Posted on 10/18/17 at 10:03 am to Prosecuted Collins
Exactly.
The jamband / Americana scene was pretty amazing then.
best era of Galactic
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This. Galactic was on complete fire in the late 90's through Katrina. It was an amazing thing to watch.
The jamband / Americana scene was pretty amazing then.
best era of Galactic
___________________________________________________
This. Galactic was on complete fire in the late 90's through Katrina. It was an amazing thing to watch.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 10:13 am to Draconian Sanctions
quote:
1998 saw the rise of Korn, Limp Bizkit, which eventually begat Kid Rock, Disturbed, and other even shittier bands like Methods of Mayhem.
Meanwhile the boy bands were in full effect, along with the worst of Britney and Xtina being pushed to the moon. Radio and the record labels still had control of what most of us heard on a regular basis.
i do agree with the OP that there was a ton of bad music that was very popular, most of which is referenced above.
for myself, the very early 2000s is when i discovered all the great mid to late 90s rock music that i previously ignored (because i was only listening to rap/hip hop during the mid to late 90s).
This post was edited on 10/18/17 at 10:23 am
Posted on 10/18/17 at 10:15 am to 632627
Anyone have some good obscure rock bands out there for me to check out? The main ones I've discovered are Rival Sons, Crobot, Black Water Rising.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 10:32 am to Marciano1
The Record Company
The Hellacopters
October Rage
The Hellacopters
October Rage
Posted on 10/18/17 at 10:50 am to Draconian Sanctions
The popular rock bands at that time were pretty bad but you had bands like Slipknot, SOAD, LOG, KSE, and Mastodon all starting to make names for themselves in the late 90s. Slipknot and SOAD both blew up fairly quick, then you had LOG, KSE, etc all get big around 2003. That pretty much killed off nu metal.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 11:23 am to The Seaward
quote:
Perfect From Now On
Keep it Like a Secret
Emergency and I
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Lonesome Crowded West
The Moon and Antarctica
OK Computer
Kid A
The Soft Bulletin
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
This +
interpol
spoon
white stripes
the avalanches
the strokes
moby - play
massive attack
air
belle and sebastian
IMHO, music just has improved since 1990. While you have better years than others, it consisently has been on an upslope.
Posted on 10/18/17 at 11:59 am to TFTC
quote:
same argument for the era you mentioned.. it was a glorious time..
Easier to find now though as the internet is much more developed
This post was edited on 10/18/17 at 11:59 am
Posted on 10/18/17 at 12:00 pm to bobby_3_sticks
A lot of those bands are what came around in late 2002 early 2003 that started pulling us out
Posted on 10/18/17 at 12:42 pm to Draconian Sanctions
quote:
Easier to find now though as the internet is much more developed
but it still wasn't hard... maybe if you were a kid..
because of the internet, I find you have to go through so much more crap to find really good bands...
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