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90s music flashback. Who remembers...

Aragorn

Aragorn

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90s music doesn't quite stand out and definite its era like 80s music, but if your youth was in the 90s it may have more resonance with you.


Firehouse -- "Don't Treat Me Bad"

Nelson -- "(Can't Live Without Your) Love and Affection"

Mr. Big -- "To Be With You"

Jesus Jones -- "Right Here, Right Now"

Enigma -- "Return to Innocence"

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch -- "Good Vibrations"

Crash Test Dummies -- "Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm"

Sophie B. Hawkins -- "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover"

Right Said Fred -- "I'm Too Sexy"

Kris Kross -- "Jump"

Tag Team -- "Whoomp! (There It Is)"

EMF -- "Unbelievable"

Technotronic -- "Move This"

Arrested Development -- "Tennessee"

Snow -- "Informer"

Vanilla Ice -- "Ice Ice Baby"

Bell Biv DeVoe -- "Poison"

Boyz II Men -- "Motownphilly"

Naughty By Nature -- "O.P.P."

Seal -- "Crazy"

Maxi Priest -- "Close To You"

Deee Lite -- "Groove Is In The Heart"

Sinead O'Conner -- "Nothing Compares 2 U"

Suzanne Vega -- "Tom's Diner"

Hootie and the Blowfish -- "Hold My Hand"
 
Haha, good stuff. :lol: I was seven years old when the '90s started, so I grew up with a lot of these songs. I love '90s music. :D
 
The 90s, the decade when they cracked the human genome, and boy bands roamed the earth.
 
Aragorn said:
90s music doesn't quite stand out and definite its era like 80s music
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I think that's because a lot of the really big bands that defined the 90s are still very popular now, whereas a lot of the really big bands that defined the 80s were out of style and generally considered embarrassingly bad before the decade had even ended.
 
Pingfah said:
Aragorn said:
90s music doesn't quite stand out and definite its era like 80s music
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I think that's because a lot of the really big bands that defined the 90s are still very popular now, whereas a lot of the really big bands that defined the 80s were out of style and generally considered embarrassingly bad before the decade had even ended.
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Is that why Pryor, Oklahoma hosts Rocklahoma, an event that has been growing every year since its inception? And by growing, I mean both the number of days it lasts as well as the number of concert-goers who attend.
 
John Picard said:
Pingfah said:
Aragorn said:
90s music doesn't quite stand out and definite its era like 80s music
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I think that's because a lot of the really big bands that defined the 90s are still very popular now, whereas a lot of the really big bands that defined the 80s were out of style and generally considered embarrassingly bad before the decade had even ended.
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Is that why Pryor, Oklahoma hosts Rocklahoma, an event that has been growing every year since its inception? And by growing, I mean both the number of days it lasts as well as the number of concert-goers who attend.
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Meh, Nostalgia is big business.

Poison and bands like that can pull a crowd still but they can't sell albums in anything like the numbers the big 90's acts like Pumpkins, Pearl Jam etc still can. They were good cheese, but of their time.

The reason a few bands like Bon Jovi survived into the 90s and beyond is because they were always a cut above their contemporaries, and they at least tried to move with the times. Bands like Poison, Warrant, RATT, LA Guns etc, the bands traditionally considered to be the big boys of 80s hair rock were shit, still are shit, and always will be shit. And that's coming from somebody who still listens to and enjoys those bands.

I was listening to Flesh & blood just the other day in fact, great fun, but what a load of superficial shit :lol:
 
My musical prime was in the second half of the 90s. I was definitely into "alternative" music back then. Then alternative meant bands like Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, No Doubt, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Everclear, Fuel, Fastball, etc. I could go on forever. I'm not sure what alternative music is now.

I still listen to these CDs often. In fact I'd say it's pretty much the only music I listen to, besides 50s music and The Beatles, who transcend time.
 
Nirvana. They changed the landscape. Then they unplugged and created what I consider the best album of the decade. And I am NOT a child of the nineties, being a bit too old to qualify. The list the OP put up is great-but it needs Nirvana.
 
I tend to split the 90s music into three phases, because they each feel different to me.

1990-1992 -- mostly a fresh feeling to music from this era, as compared to the late 80s. Music feels sometimes controversial, and pushing the boundaries of societal norms. Generally feels scene-like... be it, the rave-scenes... the homo-friendly-scenes... the depressed-kids-scenes... the drug-popularity-scenes...

1993-1997 -- this is quite a comfortable phase for 90s music. The fresh and controversial feelings have gone now, and most popular music from this time feels very innocent and light hearted.

1998-2000 -- build up to the millennium. The music from this phase feels quite optimistic, and there is more dance/celebration type music. Synthetic and computer generated music feels quite advanced now. The distinct sounds of sample keyboards from earlier years have now been completely replaced with computer generated sounds, which are much more complexly arranged. The innocence and light hearted feel is now gone. Music now feels more serious and constructed, or at least, it feels like it has been created more mindfully and impersonally, unlike the music in earlier years.
 
Pingfah said:
John Picard said:
Pingfah said:
I think that's because a lot of the really big bands that defined the 90s are still very popular now, whereas a lot of the really big bands that defined the 80s were out of style and generally considered embarrassingly bad before the decade had even ended.
Click to expand...

Is that why Pryor, Oklahoma hosts Rocklahoma, an event that has been growing every year since its inception? And by growing, I mean both the number of days it lasts as well as the number of concert-goers who attend.
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Meh, Nostalgia is big business.

Poison and bands like that can pull a crowd still but they can't sell albums in anything like the numbers the big 90's acts like Pumpkins, Pearl Jam etc still can. They were good cheese, but of their time.

The reason a few bands like Bon Jovi survived into the 90s and beyond is because they were always a cut above their contemporaries, and they at least tried to move with the times. Bands like Poison, Warrant, RATT, LA Guns etc, the bands traditionally considered to be the big boys of 80s hair rock were shit, still are shit, and always will be shit. And that's coming from somebody who still listens to and enjoys those bands.

I was listening to Flesh & blood just the other day in fact, great fun, but what a load of superficial shit :lol:
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Wow. You put it so much better than I ever could have.

My knowledge of popular 90s music begins in 1997 when it all started going wrong unfortunately. I'm very much in the alternative camp as far as that decade's concerned, but man is it good alternative.
 
^I was just about to name the 500 Miles song. And I loved Tubthumping...still do I guess.

Sometimes you will hear a good 90s song on the radio and it's like a pleasant surprise. I don't mind some modern music, but it just doesn't captivate me the way that the older music did. It's catchy and fun to sing along to (example: Love Song by Sara Bareilles), but it doesn't grab my emotions or incite any strong feeling in me. Maybe that's because I am no longer a teenager, or maybe it's the actual music quality, I'm not sure.
 
I was in college until the mid-90's, so yeah, I remember most of that stuff. Groove is in the Heart was popular with the crowd I hung out with...
 
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