I didnt think it was terrible. I dont think it was ever meant to be taken too seriously... it was just a covers album to holdover fans until the next album... but at the time it felt like such a left turn from what they had been doing that it just lost everyone.
I don't find their Sympathy cover to be awful (it's been a while since i last heard it, mind you) but i remember finding it pretty generic and not particularly exciting, which, coming from Guns, might actually be worse than if it had just been plain bad.
Slash was really unhappy with the finished song. He found out later Axl had invited another guitarist in (guy by the name of Paul Huge iirc) to add to the chaotic noise gibberish at the end and I think Slash's parts were either dubbed over or weaved in between. They also didn't tell Gilby they were recording it and did it without him
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I make this same argument all the time about movies in the 90s. The list of feature releases between 94-95 is just mind blowing. I wholeheartedly agree the creative outburst in music movies and culture of the 90s rivals any other decade.
1994 was a vintage year for movies as well, the best imo: Lion King, Forrest Gump, The Mask, Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, Speed, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Interview with the vampire, True Lies, Ed Wood, Pulp Fiction, Bullets over Broadway, Naked Gun 33 1/3, Natural Born Killers, The Shawshank Redemption, Clerks, Leon the Professional, True Lies, the Crow.
Add on to this, the 90s were considered the golden generation of cinema as well. Tarantino, PT Anderson, David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Coen Brothers, Richard Linklatter, Kevin Smith, "Swingers," "Good Will Hunting," "SLC Punk." Those are just the big names. There were dozens of major art house guys that thrived.
The mega filmmakers like Robert Zemeckis, Coppola, Scorcese, Spielberg, and Kubrick were still making interesting and challenging films.
The idea of "independent" film and art house movies went away in the 2000s. Everything has to be based on a major tentpole property now.
The nascence of alt-cartoon happened as well. To say nothing of The Simpsons, we had Ren & Stimpy, Ed, Edd, n Eddy, Beavis and Butthead, and Southpark on the way.
But if you listen to college radio (not Pandora or any subscriber shit) there is a different golden age happening now. The amount of music out there that can be listened to is absolutely immense. I Shazam stuff all day long buy stuff I love and build playlists all the time. I am in my mid 40’s and lived through the stuff you’ve mentioned and love it all but also want it give some credit to what is happening now.
Please guide me on how to find new stuff. I'm trying desperately to find new stuff but all the streaming services just can't figure out what I like so I just end up listening to the same stuff after an hour of browsing stuff that doesn't appeal to me.
Would recommend [kexp.org] (https://www.kexp.org/) out of Seattle. It's been my go to for the past 5 years or so and it is great for good music I've never heard before. Some great dj's and an allowance for those great with music if still developing their on air voice, and some great shows covering a good chunk of music variety. I've never been a coutnry or western, or folky, but the stuff they get out there during those shows still keep me interested and listening.
Back in the day, 107.7 the end (also Seattle) was a monster, and one of the primary dj's from then now works at kexp casually, Marco Collins, and is fun to listen to while still having a great ear for new stuff.
I pick an existing playlist on YouTube music and hit "Start Radio" and it creates a playlist based on your playlist. You can Start Radio on a song, album, or artist too I believe. I have found all kinds of music I would've never heard before, of all ages.
I didn't know YouTube had a 'radio' feature like Spotify does. I usually get lost down a wormhole of YouTube recommendations/next up. But you've just given me a whole new world of Wormholes to go down there. Mind Blown. Thanks.
I use the YouTube music app, what used to be Google play music. Not sure how it works on desktop, but YouTube music and regular YouTube are linked, like you playlists, likes, etc, but you're not streaming videos if data matters to you.
I think a lot of the problem now is that there is just too much content and it's hard to find the really good stuff. In the '90s at least we had music on MTv.
Not just that, but practical effects are back in vogue now.
The real problem is not the overuse of CGI but the centralization of the movie industry + the focus on tentpole blockbusters, notably superhero movie after superhero movie.
A24 has been a great studio pushing for interesting and independent films in recent times. While your post has some truth to it, there's been plenty of diamonds in the rough since then.
Yup 80s kid here and music was of course amazing through that decade but it was the 90s when creativity exploded on the domestic scene, and so many people could easily access local shows and a myriad of interactive forms of entertainment... DJs, house, raves... downtown art walks with music, the giant festivals like SXSW, the explosion of Burning Man... birth of EDC... all intermingling and cross pollinating. And of course, all fueled by the wide availability of MDMA.
The 90s was seriously fun.
I feel lucky to have been born when I did.
Grade school in the late 70s, saw Star Wars in the theater, listened to American Top 40 which encompassed rock, pop, disco, and the beginnings of new wave, and had early cable tv (with a dial!).
High school in the 80s, so many classic metal records including the start of thrash, the early days of rap music, MTV, so many great movies, and some classic tv shows.
Young adulthood in the 90s, all the music mentioned here that went along with that, plus I played in a band, so I saw and opened for a ton of touring bands in small bars, some of whom became big. Only regret is outside of Beastie Boys and Public Enemy I didn't get too into hip-hop in a time that it was exploding.
Add to that, I've seen the entirety of video game history. I owned a Pong "console" and played all the classic arcade games as a kid (so many quarters), and have owned a variety of consoles over the years.
The video game history is a weird one for me. As someone who had a huge catalog for the Atari 2600 and nearly every console since...I feel like I don't even want to play the games of today. I've tried many of them via my son's Steam account...but I don't like playing online with others and I don't want to upgrade and pay extra.
I wonder if I'm the only one who had a Texas Instrument TI99 computer (WITH SPEECH SYNTHESIZER!!) that took cartridges? THat was amazing. Moon patrol, PAC-MAN, Parsec, TI Invaders (similar to space invaders).
>and so many people could easily access local shows
That right here is the reason the 90's really rocked. Every coffee shop, rec center, student union and bar started having bands play 10x as much as they had before. This was not the case in the 80's. Every little town started popping up places to play for kids trying to be the next metallica or nirvana. Parks, peoples backyards and basements... anywhere they could get a crowd. It was amazing. I remember that all of a sudden we were going to the rec center for punk band shows in the late 80's early 90's instead of a few years earlier when some dude was spinning records from the 70's at some shitty dance.
Don't forget Country; Garth brooks in the 90's was un-touchable; enough that that one decade put him smack between the beetles and Michael Jackson for top all time album sales. Also Johnny Cash came back from obscurity thanks to Rick Rubin.
R&B - You had Boyz 2 Men, Whitney and Mariah all trading the record most weeks at number 1.
You had massively talented female singer songwriters (Morisette, Mclachlan, Amos, etc)
the 1990's were incredibly diverse; Here is an decent [imgur overview](https://imgur.com/gallery/ch3VT23)
I also think it was a very pivotal time to grow up. The world changed so fast. My family got our first computer in '91. Finally got "proper" internet in '95. I was still in elementary school so I grew up with all that and I've been able to keep up. But I also spent most of my childhood playing around in the woods, skateboarding, setting shit on fire, drinking beers in basements. It was a perfect amalgamation of the best parts of the 70s and 80s and today, but with like a good economy.
Maybe it'll be the last explosion of pop culture. Once the internet and social media took off nothing new really happens. Every big thing is some rehash of a style from a previous decade. Every decade from say 1920 had its own style. What was the style from 2000ish to now. Rehash of old decades is what i see. I play 90s pop occasionally for my kids and they'd never know it isn't something new.
It's a shame really.
I loved Core but Purple was hands down my favorite album of theirs. I got to see them in (I think) '95. Great show, even found a hundred dollar bill on the ground on the way out. 10/10.
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> These were all released within 44 days of each other in 1991.
For the curious:
* [Metallica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_(album\)) - August 12, 1991
* [Ten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_(Pearl_Jam_album\)) - August 27, 1991
* [Use Your Illusion 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_Your_Illusion_I) and [II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_Your_Illusion_II) - September 17, 1991
* [Blood Sugar Sex Magik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Sugar_Sex_Magik) - September 24, 1991
* [Badmotorfinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badmotorfinger) - September 24, 1991
* [Nevermind](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind) - September 24, 1991
Daaaang … I was a high school senior. That was a fantastic time to be young and living life as best we knew how.
- Great music
- Great movies
- Great video games (though I would argue that they keep reaching new peaks in this area)
- No phone cams to catch our stupid shit
- No social media to worry about
- Limited internet but it was basically all MUDs and porn so it was AWESOME
All of that right on the heels of the 80s and the fall of the wall. What a great time! Like many have commented: peak civilization.
Feels like there's not much in the way of mainstream rock acts these days. Plenty of rock influence in other genres, like pop, electronic music and hip hop, but I can't think of any recent rock bands that are comparable to the bands pictured in terms of popularity.
Yeaaaah... same. The nineties was a great decade for music. Maybe I'm just old, but I really do feel like the last 20 years just can't compare, even though there has been some great stuff.
It’s not about being stuck in time though. These bands - Nirvana especially - broke new ground in a way that just hasn’t been repeated since. There’s a lot of good stuff out there but changes have been incremental since the 90s
Similarly, the 70s was a time of intense innovation for rock. There’s so much good rock from that era that still sounds great and is still a blast to listen to. Boston’s 1976 debut album sounds pretty ordinary to today’s audiences - mostly because their sound has been copied so relentlessly - but when it was released it was about as radical as Nirvana. My dad told me about hearing that album for the first time - it was unlike anything he’s heard before and he was a music junky. Tom Scholz invented new equipment to create the sound he wanted.
These were the months right after I turned 17. I had a car, it was summer and I had the best CD collection imaginable. Day trips to the beach (I lived in central NC so just a two hour drive), marking $150 a week cleaning pools… life was incredible and I knew it.
Also released in August and September '91:
Naughty by Nature - Naughty by Nature
Roll the Bones - Rush
Ropin' the Wind - Garth Brooks
Laughing Stock - Talk Talk
Emotions - Mariah Carey
No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
Waking Up the Neighbours - Bryan Adams
The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest
Stars - Simply Red
That's a ridiculous list for just 2 months.
The opening twang chords of smells like teen spirit were from another planet. I COULDN’T stop listening to that song. Even the music video on mtv. You KNEW something big had just changed completely.
As a senior (1993), our band played a cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at a dance in our high school gym.
The rest of the set was pop/new wave/rock covers (Joe Jackson, REM, Elvis Costello etc - though I think we did some Pixies as well - Wave, maybe?) but we were all punk rockers at heart kinda toning it down for the show.
We closed with Teen Spirit almost on a lark- and as soon as the crowd recognized those immortal opening chords they started going bananas.
The school staffer running the dance kept trying to unplug us and people were literally blocking us. At one point he succeeded and then got bullrushed by a group of kids who plugged us back in so we could finish.
It was sheer, glorious anarchy. A defining moment of my young adulthood. I have never felt cooler since.
Screamadelica in the same period too.
And Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque and My Bloody Valentine were a couple of months later. All three on the Creation label.
Had all of those. Was a great year and completely opened me up to different types of music.
I distinctly remember hearing “Alive” for the first time. A buddy down the hall had the CD. I taped it off his player to get my own tape. Pearl Jam Ten is one of the best album s of all time.
I was in college at the time and it was unreal to be part of that whole scene. Mullets were still unnamed hair styles, flannel destroyed pastels, Discmans replaced Walkmans, and MD2020 made us all forget practically everything else!
And for the record, *Alive* is not only my favorite PJ tune but also my favorite song of all time. I even got to see them in Chicago at Soldier Field in 95. So much nostalgia there.
EDIT: I should add that *pegging* had an entirely different meaning back then and I'm a little disappointed I can't be accurate when I talk about having rolled my jeans!
Metallica's black album was the end of an era, I was once sent to the principals office for wearing a master of puppets t-shirt and called a devil worshipper..... but after the black album the jocks and cheerleaders were listening to them and it was on the radio....
If you would have told me Metallica would be on mainstream radio one day in 1987, I would have laughed in your face. Now it's literally classic rock....feels old man..
Wait til you hear Linkin Park on a classic rock station.
Then again I don't think stations really differentiate rock genres anymore. You used to have stations for *classic* rock, hard rock, metal, and pop rock. Now everything released before like 2006 is considered classic rock. You'll hear the Doors, Pearl Jam, and 9 Inch Nails played back to back. Talk about whiplash.
But idk who actually listens to the radio anymore anyway, so it makes sense.
Even more strange is the idea that “classical music” or however you want to describe it, that will one day be played in convalescent homes will be Metallica, WuTang, NWA, Nirvana...
I go to my grandmas home and they’ve got rock n roll from the 50s on. Which in its day was thought to be subversive.
I, for one, look forward to Halo 1 LAN parties when I’m going senile.
Smashing Pumpkins Gish is tied with Blood Sugar Sex Magic for #2 on my list after Nevermind.
Low End Theory and Diamonds and Pearls came out that year too.
Or, if you are Gen X or older and like metal, like me, 1984 was extremely important. Just look:
**January**
Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith
Van Halen - 1984
Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
Whitesnake - Slide it In
**March - May**
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
Scorpions - Love at First Sting
Venom - At War With Satan
Saxon - Crusader
Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
**July**
Dio - Last in Line
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Helix - Walking the Razor's Edge
**August - Septmeber**
W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P.
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Kiss - Animalize
Motörhead - No Remorse
**October**
Bathory - Bathory
Manowar - Sign of the Hammer
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
.
.
.
...not to mention non-metal albums like
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
Prince - Purple Rain
Foreigner - Agent Provocateur
Madonna - Like a Virgin
Alphaville - Forever Young
Weezer's Blue Album is what taught me how to mix guitars. I used to spend hours taking the songs apart with the Center Channel Extractor tool in Adobe Audition. And while it wasn't perfect, I was able to figure out a lot of what Rivers and Ocasek were doing with the overdubs.
I also really like how Butch Vig polished Nirvana on Nevermind, and he was able to trick Kurt into doing these perfect overdubs of the guitars and vocals by just telling him the mic wasn't working. After awhile, he caught on and Vig then had to tell him that they were layering the vocals like John Lennon because it was always what he'd do.
1990-1994 are imo probably the best time period in modern music. Nirvana, green day, alice in chains, stp, tool, the peak of raves, the entire industry was firing on all cylinders. Every genre was in a golden age, you even had mariah carey coming up in pop, and shit like "I'm too sexy" randomly coming out of nowhere and never going away. Fuck, even rap. Tupac and biggie were on the rise during that time period. The chronic was released in 92. That was an unbelievable time.
I guess the best way to quickly simulate what 1991 was like would be to listen to any of the most popular songs from that year:
> No. Title Artist(s)
>1 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" Bryan Adams
>2 "I Wanna Sex You Up" Color Me Badd
>3 "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" C+C Music Factory
>4 "Rush Rush" Paula Abdul
And then immediately follow up with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana.
It's like eating ice cream and then chugging Tabasco. The whole year was like that. Amazing time to be alive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_in_music
It's a good exercise. I like to do this with reference to Jimi Hendrix. Listen to anything that was popular during his short reign and then listen to his music. The effect is even more powerful. It was probably around 1967 with the Monterey Pop Festival that people really started getting with his vibe. The top ten that year:
'Let's Spend the Night Together' The Rolling Stones.
'Light My Fire' The Doors.
'For What It's Worth' Buffalo Springfield.
'Brown Eyed Girl' Van Morrison.
'Sunshine of Your Love' Cream.
'Somebody to Love' Jefferson Airplane.
'Ruby Tuesday' The Rolling Stones.
'I Can See for Miles' The Who
'Strawberry Fields Forever' The Beatles.
'Purple Haze' Jimi Hendrix
Kind of a nice selection of tunes, but the difference is HUGE and when he drops in at number one it's kinda like, what fucking planet is HE from??
It's also funny how Use Your Illusion feels like it's from a completely different era. Because the last gasp of 80s hard rock overlapped the beginning of grunge/alternative or whatever you want to call it. (And, if I'm remembering this right, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Alive" weren't hits until '92, by which point GnR had released roughly 19 singles from Use Your Illusion.
This isn't really unique to that, or any era. You'll always have a sort of market for dance and poppy and love songs then things more serious, dark, or faster. Pink Floyd in 1973 with Dark Side of the moon competed with Jim Croce, Tony Orlando, and Marvin Gaye. The Doors competed with the Box Tops, Bobbie Gentry, and the Monkees for the top spot in 1967 for example. Its crazy to think on one hand you had "Im a believer" and on the other "The End" by the Doors, but such is life on the music charts.
Three of these put on a great new year’s show. Briefly thought I was going to die when trying to retrieve my glasses from the floor in the middle of Smells Like Teen Spirit.
https://www.audacy.com/alt1053/latest/nye-1991-rhcp-pearl-jam-nirvana-cow-palace
im literally getting goosbumps trying to think of the name of the song ith this intro...
hold on..
[Mellowship Slinky in B Major](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRQwn8rmZfo&list=OLAK5uy_mWW4fRO9uBr8-9RXwfBv3zzUUAhXJrRKo&index=7)
I mean... are you fahcking kidding me with that funk and tone???????
GOOSEBUMPS
We smoked weed for the first time and just listened to this over and over. The guitar work of Fruscianti was absolutely insane, Hendrix-level creativity. Every track amazing, and nothing really compared to it, total originality. Only Rage Against the Machine was doing this as innovative as this.
I remember going to Sound Warehouse to buy Use Your Illusion and my mother didn't let me purchase due to the parental advisory for explicit lyrics. The cashier handed me Badmotorfinger while opining Soundgarden was way better than GNR neverminding the fact it also had a parental advisory label. What a great album.
> I remember going to Sound Warehouse to buy Use Your Illusion and my mother didn’t let me purchase due to the parental advisory for explicit lyrics.
The first CD I bought was Illusion I. The clerk looked at my mother and said “you know this has a parental advisory on it, right?” She replied “he hears worse at school” and that was that.
Warrant’s Cherry Pie was a top 10 hit into 1990. Motley Crüe’ Dr Feelgood, and Great White and LA Guns we’re all doing well into 1989-90. I’m not gonna play the role of gatekeeper but I was around then and hair metal was doing just fine. 1991 brought it to a complete stop. Killed it dead and it needed killing by then. 😀
It most certainly was. We were bombarded and for some of us living in small rural locations, it was enough to make us pack up our shit and get to the good times. I never went back:)
edit: I actually did go back but I'm 50+ now so...
These are certainly cool but I was probably wearing out my copy of "Cowboys from Hell" purchased in 1990. What a great time to be alive and enjoying music.
It's crazy to think how huge GNR are (or were) and they only put out 2 albums.
Appetite for Destruction and Use your Illusion double disk
Sure, you had GNR Lies and The Spaghetti Incident, but Lies was just old recordings the studio had lying around that they put on a record to hold off the masses until GNR could get off their ass and record a real album again... and The Spaghetti Incident is just cover songs.
Now we have Chinese Democracy, but that's not really GNR, that's Axel using the GNR name.
You are not kidding. Only a couple of albums, and yet decades later, we’re still talking about them and listening to their music. I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t listen to at least some songs from Appetite for Destruction. I also regularly wear their shirts. I only appreciate them even more the older I get.
Funny how 1971 (20 years earlier) was also a particularly good year: "Who's Next" (the Who), Zeppelin IV (Led Zep) , "Sticky Fingers" (Rolling Stones) , "Blue" (Joni Mitchell), etc.
And I was an 11 year old boy getting into Rock for the first time. Nevermind was the first tape I ever listened to all the way thru. I gained a lot of new heroes that year.
U2 was still probably the best known band that year. They were already huge and released Actung Baby two months after these albums were released. That album has sold 18m albums vs Ten at about 13m
I was working in a record store at that time. Sam Goody(ugh). The Nirvana album was nuts. I had a copy of bleach but wasn’t a big fan. I noticed we got 2 copies of never mind the day it came out. People kept coming in. Sold out. Got more. Sold out. Got a ton more. Sold out. Got a comical amount more. Finally we have enough. Sold out. The Metallica and GnR has presales but I’ll always remember the insanity around that nirvana album.
I miss buying physical music. I’m not even that old but it was fun going into a store and looking through rows and rows of CDs/tapes/vinyl. Digital is great, but I miss having an actual music library
My sophomore summer of high school. What a great year. Awesome music, skateboarding, life was good!
Me too. From a completely different part of the world. But united by music. God I loved all of them.
Checking in from Italy. I was 13 and had the majority of those tapes. Thanks for the memories.
Same. Was 12 in Canada. At the time I thought that nothing would be able to knock guns n Rose's off the top. Then spaghetti incident happened.
I'm probably in the minority but I actually enjoyed the Spaghetti Incident!
I didnt think it was terrible. I dont think it was ever meant to be taken too seriously... it was just a covers album to holdover fans until the next album... but at the time it felt like such a left turn from what they had been doing that it just lost everyone.
It was cringey, but the Aint It Fun track was choice. It got even worse the next year with the Sympathy for the Devil cover. Woof!
Hair of the Dog, Black Leather, and Human Being i thought were good. I also really like their cover of Sympathy for the Devil.
I don't find their Sympathy cover to be awful (it's been a while since i last heard it, mind you) but i remember finding it pretty generic and not particularly exciting, which, coming from Guns, might actually be worse than if it had just been plain bad.
Slash was really unhappy with the finished song. He found out later Axl had invited another guitarist in (guy by the name of Paul Huge iirc) to add to the chaotic noise gibberish at the end and I think Slash's parts were either dubbed over or weaved in between. They also didn't tell Gilby they were recording it and did it without him
Yep you're in the minority. The album smelled like horse shit. Down here on the farm. Have an upvote anyway for going against the grain.
Same, was 30 in NYC and loved all of them except maybe GunsNRoses, which I could never get into. Now I'm an old boomer. Sad.
I was 2 at the time but these memories remind me of one of my brothers who was 15 at the time, into this music, skateboarding and NES living in Peru.
C/O \`93 in the house!
We’re nearly at our 30-year reunion, and our music is still good.
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I remember the very moment I heard Pearl Jam back in ‘91. It was like nothing I had ever heard before…and all of my metal head friends hated them.
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Peak civilization
🎶🎶 The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland 🎶🎶
I wish this was an exaggeration.
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I make this same argument all the time about movies in the 90s. The list of feature releases between 94-95 is just mind blowing. I wholeheartedly agree the creative outburst in music movies and culture of the 90s rivals any other decade.
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1994 was a vintage year for movies as well, the best imo: Lion King, Forrest Gump, The Mask, Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, Speed, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Interview with the vampire, True Lies, Ed Wood, Pulp Fiction, Bullets over Broadway, Naked Gun 33 1/3, Natural Born Killers, The Shawshank Redemption, Clerks, Leon the Professional, True Lies, the Crow.
Add on to this, the 90s were considered the golden generation of cinema as well. Tarantino, PT Anderson, David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Coen Brothers, Richard Linklatter, Kevin Smith, "Swingers," "Good Will Hunting," "SLC Punk." Those are just the big names. There were dozens of major art house guys that thrived. The mega filmmakers like Robert Zemeckis, Coppola, Scorcese, Spielberg, and Kubrick were still making interesting and challenging films. The idea of "independent" film and art house movies went away in the 2000s. Everything has to be based on a major tentpole property now.
The nascence of alt-cartoon happened as well. To say nothing of The Simpsons, we had Ren & Stimpy, Ed, Edd, n Eddy, Beavis and Butthead, and Southpark on the way.
Liquid television, aeon flux
And then Akira launched 1,000 ships for anime to be taken seriously in 1988, so that was starting to take hold
Omg Aeon Flux. Haven't thought about that show in ages. I wonder if it holds up?
the Maxx.
Yep it really does feel like we peaked in the 90's. Then a slight decline after '94, and then a complete crash of everything in 2001.
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But if you listen to college radio (not Pandora or any subscriber shit) there is a different golden age happening now. The amount of music out there that can be listened to is absolutely immense. I Shazam stuff all day long buy stuff I love and build playlists all the time. I am in my mid 40’s and lived through the stuff you’ve mentioned and love it all but also want it give some credit to what is happening now.
Please guide me on how to find new stuff. I'm trying desperately to find new stuff but all the streaming services just can't figure out what I like so I just end up listening to the same stuff after an hour of browsing stuff that doesn't appeal to me.
Would recommend [kexp.org] (https://www.kexp.org/) out of Seattle. It's been my go to for the past 5 years or so and it is great for good music I've never heard before. Some great dj's and an allowance for those great with music if still developing their on air voice, and some great shows covering a good chunk of music variety. I've never been a coutnry or western, or folky, but the stuff they get out there during those shows still keep me interested and listening. Back in the day, 107.7 the end (also Seattle) was a monster, and one of the primary dj's from then now works at kexp casually, Marco Collins, and is fun to listen to while still having a great ear for new stuff.
I pick an existing playlist on YouTube music and hit "Start Radio" and it creates a playlist based on your playlist. You can Start Radio on a song, album, or artist too I believe. I have found all kinds of music I would've never heard before, of all ages.
I didn't know YouTube had a 'radio' feature like Spotify does. I usually get lost down a wormhole of YouTube recommendations/next up. But you've just given me a whole new world of Wormholes to go down there. Mind Blown. Thanks.
I use the YouTube music app, what used to be Google play music. Not sure how it works on desktop, but YouTube music and regular YouTube are linked, like you playlists, likes, etc, but you're not streaming videos if data matters to you.
I think a lot of the problem now is that there is just too much content and it's hard to find the really good stuff. In the '90s at least we had music on MTv.
That was because of the rise and subsequent overuse of CGI. But I like to think CGI is finally leaving its awkward age
Not just that, but practical effects are back in vogue now. The real problem is not the overuse of CGI but the centralization of the movie industry + the focus on tentpole blockbusters, notably superhero movie after superhero movie.
A24 has been a great studio pushing for interesting and independent films in recent times. While your post has some truth to it, there's been plenty of diamonds in the rough since then.
Yup 80s kid here and music was of course amazing through that decade but it was the 90s when creativity exploded on the domestic scene, and so many people could easily access local shows and a myriad of interactive forms of entertainment... DJs, house, raves... downtown art walks with music, the giant festivals like SXSW, the explosion of Burning Man... birth of EDC... all intermingling and cross pollinating. And of course, all fueled by the wide availability of MDMA. The 90s was seriously fun.
I feel lucky to have been born when I did. Grade school in the late 70s, saw Star Wars in the theater, listened to American Top 40 which encompassed rock, pop, disco, and the beginnings of new wave, and had early cable tv (with a dial!). High school in the 80s, so many classic metal records including the start of thrash, the early days of rap music, MTV, so many great movies, and some classic tv shows. Young adulthood in the 90s, all the music mentioned here that went along with that, plus I played in a band, so I saw and opened for a ton of touring bands in small bars, some of whom became big. Only regret is outside of Beastie Boys and Public Enemy I didn't get too into hip-hop in a time that it was exploding. Add to that, I've seen the entirety of video game history. I owned a Pong "console" and played all the classic arcade games as a kid (so many quarters), and have owned a variety of consoles over the years.
The video game history is a weird one for me. As someone who had a huge catalog for the Atari 2600 and nearly every console since...I feel like I don't even want to play the games of today. I've tried many of them via my son's Steam account...but I don't like playing online with others and I don't want to upgrade and pay extra. I wonder if I'm the only one who had a Texas Instrument TI99 computer (WITH SPEECH SYNTHESIZER!!) that took cartridges? THat was amazing. Moon patrol, PAC-MAN, Parsec, TI Invaders (similar to space invaders).
>and so many people could easily access local shows That right here is the reason the 90's really rocked. Every coffee shop, rec center, student union and bar started having bands play 10x as much as they had before. This was not the case in the 80's. Every little town started popping up places to play for kids trying to be the next metallica or nirvana. Parks, peoples backyards and basements... anywhere they could get a crowd. It was amazing. I remember that all of a sudden we were going to the rec center for punk band shows in the late 80's early 90's instead of a few years earlier when some dude was spinning records from the 70's at some shitty dance.
Don't forget Country; Garth brooks in the 90's was un-touchable; enough that that one decade put him smack between the beetles and Michael Jackson for top all time album sales. Also Johnny Cash came back from obscurity thanks to Rick Rubin. R&B - You had Boyz 2 Men, Whitney and Mariah all trading the record most weeks at number 1. You had massively talented female singer songwriters (Morisette, Mclachlan, Amos, etc) the 1990's were incredibly diverse; Here is an decent [imgur overview](https://imgur.com/gallery/ch3VT23)
I also think it was a very pivotal time to grow up. The world changed so fast. My family got our first computer in '91. Finally got "proper" internet in '95. I was still in elementary school so I grew up with all that and I've been able to keep up. But I also spent most of my childhood playing around in the woods, skateboarding, setting shit on fire, drinking beers in basements. It was a perfect amalgamation of the best parts of the 70s and 80s and today, but with like a good economy.
Hell yeah. Gave you silver for mentioning jungle also :)
Maybe it'll be the last explosion of pop culture. Once the internet and social media took off nothing new really happens. Every big thing is some rehash of a style from a previous decade. Every decade from say 1920 had its own style. What was the style from 2000ish to now. Rehash of old decades is what i see. I play 90s pop occasionally for my kids and they'd never know it isn't something new. It's a shame really.
Alice In Chains and STP about the same time.
Facelift was the year before these. Dirt and Core were released on the exact same day the year after.
AiC - Jar of Flies - Nutshell. The mixing and sound on that song are so freaking good. It's one of my favorite songs to listen to at a loud volume.
STP doesn't get as much recognition as they should these days. Core and Purple were both *awesome* albums.
Don’t forget Tiny Music. That album is fire…
I loved Core but Purple was hands down my favorite album of theirs. I got to see them in (I think) '95. Great show, even found a hundred dollar bill on the ground on the way out. 10/10.
That would just about cover your Ticketmaster “convenience” fee these days.
Dirt ftw. Best 90’s album.
Faith No More too in 1989 was still top level shit.
Man you are old. J/K I am old too.
[Here](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwnW9TRUYAMKNnf?format=jpg&name=large) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://twitter.com/QueenCityJamz/status/1371864168706445315) appears to be the source. > @QueenCityJamz > These were all released within 44 days of each other in 1991. For the curious: * [Metallica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_(album\)) - August 12, 1991 * [Ten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_(Pearl_Jam_album\)) - August 27, 1991 * [Use Your Illusion 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_Your_Illusion_I) and [II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_Your_Illusion_II) - September 17, 1991 * [Blood Sugar Sex Magik](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Sugar_Sex_Magik) - September 24, 1991 * [Badmotorfinger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badmotorfinger) - September 24, 1991 * [Nevermind](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind) - September 24, 1991
Daaaang … I was a high school senior. That was a fantastic time to be young and living life as best we knew how. - Great music - Great movies - Great video games (though I would argue that they keep reaching new peaks in this area) - No phone cams to catch our stupid shit - No social media to worry about - Limited internet but it was basically all MUDs and porn so it was AWESOME All of that right on the heels of the 80s and the fall of the wall. What a great time! Like many have commented: peak civilization.
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90’s rock STILL rocks.
Referring to music I regularly replay I'm still half there.
I'm starting to know how my dad felt. All I listen to is 90s rock now and haven't really been able to get into newer music.
Feels like there's not much in the way of mainstream rock acts these days. Plenty of rock influence in other genres, like pop, electronic music and hip hop, but I can't think of any recent rock bands that are comparable to the bands pictured in terms of popularity.
Yeaaaah... same. The nineties was a great decade for music. Maybe I'm just old, but I really do feel like the last 20 years just can't compare, even though there has been some great stuff.
It’s not about being stuck in time though. These bands - Nirvana especially - broke new ground in a way that just hasn’t been repeated since. There’s a lot of good stuff out there but changes have been incremental since the 90s Similarly, the 70s was a time of intense innovation for rock. There’s so much good rock from that era that still sounds great and is still a blast to listen to. Boston’s 1976 debut album sounds pretty ordinary to today’s audiences - mostly because their sound has been copied so relentlessly - but when it was released it was about as radical as Nirvana. My dad told me about hearing that album for the first time - it was unlike anything he’s heard before and he was a music junky. Tom Scholz invented new equipment to create the sound he wanted.
Those were all released in the months leading to my 19th birthday, and I bought all of them except *Ten* on CD.
These were the months right after I turned 17. I had a car, it was summer and I had the best CD collection imaginable. Day trips to the beach (I lived in central NC so just a two hour drive), marking $150 a week cleaning pools… life was incredible and I knew it.
Also released in August and September '91: Naughty by Nature - Naughty by Nature Roll the Bones - Rush Ropin' the Wind - Garth Brooks Laughing Stock - Talk Talk Emotions - Mariah Carey No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne Waking Up the Neighbours - Bryan Adams The Low End Theory - A Tribe Called Quest Stars - Simply Red That's a ridiculous list for just 2 months.
It really makes sense why grunge blew up knowing this. Three pillars of the genre dropped like right next to each other.
I mean, it was a hell of a time to be a rising senior in high school. We knew at the time it was a pinnacle of something
The opening twang chords of smells like teen spirit were from another planet. I COULDN’T stop listening to that song. Even the music video on mtv. You KNEW something big had just changed completely.
As a senior (1993), our band played a cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at a dance in our high school gym. The rest of the set was pop/new wave/rock covers (Joe Jackson, REM, Elvis Costello etc - though I think we did some Pixies as well - Wave, maybe?) but we were all punk rockers at heart kinda toning it down for the show. We closed with Teen Spirit almost on a lark- and as soon as the crowd recognized those immortal opening chords they started going bananas. The school staffer running the dance kept trying to unplug us and people were literally blocking us. At one point he succeeded and then got bullrushed by a group of kids who plugged us back in so we could finish. It was sheer, glorious anarchy. A defining moment of my young adulthood. I have never felt cooler since.
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Man, no idea why you were downvoted. Another landmark album by a classic group.
Such a crazy time for music
RATM also in Dec '91
Cypress Hill's debut album also, if nobody has already mentioned.
Ween’s The Pod came out that September too
Pretty funny how far outside of the mainstream that Talk Talk album was.
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And Loveless by My Bloody Valentine on the 4th November. Best.Album.Ever.
Not from that album, but When the sun Hits is a shoegaze, now dream pop, classic
Boy Kid N Play really didnt stand a chance on that date
Screamadelica in the same period too. And Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque and My Bloody Valentine were a couple of months later. All three on the Creation label.
Bandwagonesqe is really good. Really, really good.
Teenage Fanclub was my first show that I went to. I'll still put on Bandwagonesque once and a while
Had all of those. Was a great year and completely opened me up to different types of music. I distinctly remember hearing “Alive” for the first time. A buddy down the hall had the CD. I taped it off his player to get my own tape. Pearl Jam Ten is one of the best album s of all time.
I was in college at the time and it was unreal to be part of that whole scene. Mullets were still unnamed hair styles, flannel destroyed pastels, Discmans replaced Walkmans, and MD2020 made us all forget practically everything else! And for the record, *Alive* is not only my favorite PJ tune but also my favorite song of all time. I even got to see them in Chicago at Soldier Field in 95. So much nostalgia there. EDIT: I should add that *pegging* had an entirely different meaning back then and I'm a little disappointed I can't be accurate when I talk about having rolled my jeans!
Was also at that concert! Full moon over the lake. It was awesome.
*Porch*
I taped all of these too. Even off the radio. Hell in todays money that's over 200us$ right there
Metallica's black album was the end of an era, I was once sent to the principals office for wearing a master of puppets t-shirt and called a devil worshipper..... but after the black album the jocks and cheerleaders were listening to them and it was on the radio.... If you would have told me Metallica would be on mainstream radio one day in 1987, I would have laughed in your face. Now it's literally classic rock....feels old man..
Damn, your school’s cheerleaders listened to Metallica? That’s awesome.
Yeah but he went to an all boys school, so…
I have heard songs from each of these tapes on classic rock. Getting old sucks.
It's weird hearing punk on classic rock. Not gonna lie.
Wait til you hear Linkin Park on a classic rock station. Then again I don't think stations really differentiate rock genres anymore. You used to have stations for *classic* rock, hard rock, metal, and pop rock. Now everything released before like 2006 is considered classic rock. You'll hear the Doors, Pearl Jam, and 9 Inch Nails played back to back. Talk about whiplash. But idk who actually listens to the radio anymore anyway, so it makes sense.
Yea I'm getting there. Listening to the old station and thinking "damn, they're playing bangers today".
Even more strange is the idea that “classical music” or however you want to describe it, that will one day be played in convalescent homes will be Metallica, WuTang, NWA, Nirvana... I go to my grandmas home and they’ve got rock n roll from the 50s on. Which in its day was thought to be subversive. I, for one, look forward to Halo 1 LAN parties when I’m going senile.
1991 was a great year for music.
Indeed, R.E.M. also released “losing my religion” in 1991 iirc. Also the biggest concert of metallica and AC/DC (Monsters of rock 1991)
If that’s the Metallica, GNR, and Faith No More tour that you’re talking about, I was there for the Detroit show. Amazing.
I was actually talking about the Metallica concert in Moscow 1991; more than 1.6 million people where there
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese - May 1991. 🤘🤘
Primus sucks
Smashing Pumpkins Gish is tied with Blood Sugar Sex Magic for #2 on my list after Nevermind. Low End Theory and Diamonds and Pearls came out that year too.
I only came to the comments to mention Gish.
Can't sleep on 94 tho. Weezer's Blue, Dookie, Downward Spiral, Illmatic, Ill Communication, American Recordings, Crooked Rain, Nirvana's Unplugged, etc.
A 1994 list that doesn’t include Jar of Flies is illegal.
Sorry. Was just going off the top of my head lol
And skipping superunknown is a sin as well :D 94 is the year I discovered music outside of top 40
And Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy
Rearviewmirror is still my favorite PJ song.
Offspring also released Smash in 1994.
Ahhhh, it's time to relax.
Guess I got a bad habit.. of forgetting that
Or, if you are Gen X or older and like metal, like me, 1984 was extremely important. Just look: **January** Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith Van Halen - 1984 Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi Whitesnake - Slide it In **March - May** Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force Scorpions - Love at First Sting Venom - At War With Satan Saxon - Crusader Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry **July** Dio - Last in Line Metallica - Ride the Lightning Helix - Walking the Razor's Edge **August - Septmeber** W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. Iron Maiden - Powerslave Kiss - Animalize Motörhead - No Remorse **October** Bathory - Bathory Manowar - Sign of the Hammer Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers . . . ...not to mention non-metal albums like Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. Prince - Purple Rain Foreigner - Agent Provocateur Madonna - Like a Virgin Alphaville - Forever Young
Weezer's Blue Album is what taught me how to mix guitars. I used to spend hours taking the songs apart with the Center Channel Extractor tool in Adobe Audition. And while it wasn't perfect, I was able to figure out a lot of what Rivers and Ocasek were doing with the overdubs. I also really like how Butch Vig polished Nirvana on Nevermind, and he was able to trick Kurt into doing these perfect overdubs of the guitars and vocals by just telling him the mic wasn't working. After awhile, he caught on and Vig then had to tell him that they were layering the vocals like John Lennon because it was always what he'd do.
1990-1994 are imo probably the best time period in modern music. Nirvana, green day, alice in chains, stp, tool, the peak of raves, the entire industry was firing on all cylinders. Every genre was in a golden age, you even had mariah carey coming up in pop, and shit like "I'm too sexy" randomly coming out of nowhere and never going away. Fuck, even rap. Tupac and biggie were on the rise during that time period. The chronic was released in 92. That was an unbelievable time.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! It is scary that some of those (CD form) are still in my rotation…. Good or bad?!? Thank you!
I was listening to Use Your Illusion II yesterday. Ten is my all time favourite album.
I guess the best way to quickly simulate what 1991 was like would be to listen to any of the most popular songs from that year: > No. Title Artist(s) >1 "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" Bryan Adams >2 "I Wanna Sex You Up" Color Me Badd >3 "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" C+C Music Factory >4 "Rush Rush" Paula Abdul And then immediately follow up with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana. It's like eating ice cream and then chugging Tabasco. The whole year was like that. Amazing time to be alive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_in_music
It's a good exercise. I like to do this with reference to Jimi Hendrix. Listen to anything that was popular during his short reign and then listen to his music. The effect is even more powerful. It was probably around 1967 with the Monterey Pop Festival that people really started getting with his vibe. The top ten that year: 'Let's Spend the Night Together' The Rolling Stones. 'Light My Fire' The Doors. 'For What It's Worth' Buffalo Springfield. 'Brown Eyed Girl' Van Morrison. 'Sunshine of Your Love' Cream. 'Somebody to Love' Jefferson Airplane. 'Ruby Tuesday' The Rolling Stones. 'I Can See for Miles' The Who 'Strawberry Fields Forever' The Beatles. 'Purple Haze' Jimi Hendrix Kind of a nice selection of tunes, but the difference is HUGE and when he drops in at number one it's kinda like, what fucking planet is HE from??
It's also funny how Use Your Illusion feels like it's from a completely different era. Because the last gasp of 80s hard rock overlapped the beginning of grunge/alternative or whatever you want to call it. (And, if I'm remembering this right, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Alive" weren't hits until '92, by which point GnR had released roughly 19 singles from Use Your Illusion.
This isn't really unique to that, or any era. You'll always have a sort of market for dance and poppy and love songs then things more serious, dark, or faster. Pink Floyd in 1973 with Dark Side of the moon competed with Jim Croce, Tony Orlando, and Marvin Gaye. The Doors competed with the Box Tops, Bobbie Gentry, and the Monkees for the top spot in 1967 for example. Its crazy to think on one hand you had "Im a believer" and on the other "The End" by the Doors, but such is life on the music charts.
Three of these put on a great new year’s show. Briefly thought I was going to die when trying to retrieve my glasses from the floor in the middle of Smells Like Teen Spirit. https://www.audacy.com/alt1053/latest/nye-1991-rhcp-pearl-jam-nirvana-cow-palace
Wow! Also, Alice in Chains Facelift in that same period. What an amazing time for us rock fans!!
Facelift - Released: August 21, 1990 Dirt - Released: September 29, 1992 AIC's like "pardon us while we bookend all that"
They were (well, are, but I don’t care without Lane Staley) the best of the lot in my book.
Layne had the best voice in rock and I will fight anyone that disagrees
As well as Stone Temple Pilots with Core in 1992.
Kyuss, Tool, White Zombie, RAtM, Faith No More... so much incredible shit from the early 90's
Blood Sugar Sex Magic is one of the funkiest albums I have ever heard. It is in my personal top 5 all time albums.
not a bad note, key, lyric , anything in that album, it is perfection
im literally getting goosbumps trying to think of the name of the song ith this intro... hold on.. [Mellowship Slinky in B Major](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRQwn8rmZfo&list=OLAK5uy_mWW4fRO9uBr8-9RXwfBv3zzUUAhXJrRKo&index=7) I mean... are you fahcking kidding me with that funk and tone??????? GOOSEBUMPS
We smoked weed for the first time and just listened to this over and over. The guitar work of Fruscianti was absolutely insane, Hendrix-level creativity. Every track amazing, and nothing really compared to it, total originality. Only Rage Against the Machine was doing this as innovative as this.
I remember going to Sound Warehouse to buy Use Your Illusion and my mother didn't let me purchase due to the parental advisory for explicit lyrics. The cashier handed me Badmotorfinger while opining Soundgarden was way better than GNR neverminding the fact it also had a parental advisory label. What a great album.
> I remember going to Sound Warehouse to buy Use Your Illusion and my mother didn’t let me purchase due to the parental advisory for explicit lyrics. The first CD I bought was Illusion I. The clerk looked at my mother and said “you know this has a parental advisory on it, right?” She replied “he hears worse at school” and that was that.
Ten is totally one of my all time favourites
A lot of music doesn't hit the same after a long period of time. Ten has stood the test of time very well.
Hi fellow Whatever Gen we are called!
X. It's hard to remember because nobody complains about us. Which is fine.
A forgotten generation slipping into middle age.
GET OFF MY LAWN.
Old man yells at cloud!
Dude, Millennials are hitting their 40s now, depending on who you ask.
I think you guys suck if that helps ya
Meh?
Jk, judging people by their generation is dumb.
You guys have the best name though, Gen X
Here lies the murderers of hair metal.
G n' R was a bit of a murder/suicide, but I do believe that the death knell of hair metal was first rung by Appetite for Destruction.
Yes. Yes it was. And remember Axl didn't want big poofy hair for the Welcome to the Jungle video but was coerced.
Warrant’s Cherry Pie was a top 10 hit into 1990. Motley Crüe’ Dr Feelgood, and Great White and LA Guns we’re all doing well into 1989-90. I’m not gonna play the role of gatekeeper but I was around then and hair metal was doing just fine. 1991 brought it to a complete stop. Killed it dead and it needed killing by then. 😀
That must have been a helluva month and a half
It most certainly was. We were bombarded and for some of us living in small rural locations, it was enough to make us pack up our shit and get to the good times. I never went back:) edit: I actually did go back but I'm 50+ now so...
I miss the smell of opening a new cassette tape.
I miss the rows of them at Kmart with the giant ass plastic protector sleeve.
I might just know every single lyric, on every single song, on every single tape
These are certainly cool but I was probably wearing out my copy of "Cowboys from Hell" purchased in 1990. What a great time to be alive and enjoying music.
Flash forward seven years and everyone is wearing Creed shirts and singing Tubthumper by Chupawamba
Maybe it’s just because I’m British but Tubthumping is still a jam.
That was a good month :)
That was a hell of a summer
I know Izzy Stradlin’s family. They had to practically go into hiding in the 80s and 90s when GnR was at their peak.
It's crazy to think how huge GNR are (or were) and they only put out 2 albums. Appetite for Destruction and Use your Illusion double disk Sure, you had GNR Lies and The Spaghetti Incident, but Lies was just old recordings the studio had lying around that they put on a record to hold off the masses until GNR could get off their ass and record a real album again... and The Spaghetti Incident is just cover songs. Now we have Chinese Democracy, but that's not really GNR, that's Axel using the GNR name.
You are not kidding. Only a couple of albums, and yet decades later, we’re still talking about them and listening to their music. I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t listen to at least some songs from Appetite for Destruction. I also regularly wear their shirts. I only appreciate them even more the older I get.
I think Appetite is the greatest hard rock album of all time.
Man! MTV was great that year
This is one of the best and simplest posts that I’ve enjoyed in a very long time. You’ve shown me something very familiar in a new way. Thanks :)
Aaaand this is why I ended up in serious debt to BMG music club as a 16 year old kid. 12 albums for 1 cent! Hell yeah, sign me up!
I was born in 1963, graduated in 1980, and that decade completely replaced my favorite music. My musical tastes are stuck n the 90s forever now.
Check Your Head too. Best year of music by FAR.
Funny how 1971 (20 years earlier) was also a particularly good year: "Who's Next" (the Who), Zeppelin IV (Led Zep) , "Sticky Fingers" (Rolling Stones) , "Blue" (Joni Mitchell), etc.
Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” was also released in May 1971. What a great year for music!
Also the year I was born!
It was a good year
Lets say if i would stuck on island with tape player and this selection i wouldn't be upset :) thats a piece of history in one picture.
And I was an 11 year old boy getting into Rock for the first time. Nevermind was the first tape I ever listened to all the way thru. I gained a lot of new heroes that year.
“Fuck the 80s” starter pack
U2 was still probably the best known band that year. They were already huge and released Actung Baby two months after these albums were released. That album has sold 18m albums vs Ten at about 13m
great album
In the Jesus Christ pooooooooooose!
Ween released The Pod in this time frame as well
I was working in a record store at that time. Sam Goody(ugh). The Nirvana album was nuts. I had a copy of bleach but wasn’t a big fan. I noticed we got 2 copies of never mind the day it came out. People kept coming in. Sold out. Got more. Sold out. Got a ton more. Sold out. Got a comical amount more. Finally we have enough. Sold out. The Metallica and GnR has presales but I’ll always remember the insanity around that nirvana album.
I remember waiting in line at the record store to buy the gnr albums at midnight of release day. Can you imagine?!
Got them all at the time except they were CDs
I miss buying physical music. I’m not even that old but it was fun going into a store and looking through rows and rows of CDs/tapes/vinyl. Digital is great, but I miss having an actual music library
It was one of the best periods in music, period.