Pictured at left is Adam Durvitz, from one of MY favorite 90's artists, the COUNTING CROWS.
Admittedly, at the time, I felt like the 90's (particularly for pop and rock) were a freaking wasteland, devoid of much worth remembering. However, compared to the music happening NOW, the 90's were a golden age! And in retrospect, there was alot more great stuff out there than I realized at the time.
So...what about it? Set the wayback machine to 199? and give me a list of your favorite 90's muzak.
And make it good, cause this is our last music list for awhile!
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Donald loves Counting Crowes too!
Don't even know if I can come up with a list but when I think of the '90s, I can't help but think of Pearl Jam right away. It's more of a song era for me vs. artists in particular. Loved Blind Melon's "No Rain", and the Singles soundtrack. Oh yeah, and one of my favorites...Smashing Pumpkins.
Good point, Mel. It WAS sorta like the 70's in that there were alot of 1 hit wonders. (BLIND MELON is a good example)
I think everyone I know likes the SINGLES soundtrack! It is one of the finest collections of the grunge era. And my boy PAUL WESTERBERG is representing with two fine songs on it! (REPLACEMENTS in the house!)
There was music in the 1990s?
Nirvana baby!!!!
Nine Inch Nails (Head Like a Hole)
Tom Waits (Mule Variations and Bone Machine)
Beck (Loser)(Midnight Vultures)
Beastie Boys (What You Want)
Morphine (Cure For Pain)
The Verve (Urban Hymns)
So, there was some good music out there, however some of this never made the airwaves of "radio".
Some of the stuff from the 90's I dug:
PEARL JAM(1st two albums- classics! After those, not so much...)
TOOL- I have the wife to thank for this! They are a great live band, and they have some really hard driving, compelling tunes.
Counting Crows (as mentioned on front page) 1st three albums are fantastic- after that, not so much...
Better than Ezra- Great New Orleans 3 piece that never got their due.
Sass Jordan- the GREATEST female vocalist you've probably never heard of (unless you live in Canada, where shes now a judge on CANADIAN IDOL- and PLEASE, no Paula Abdul jokes! This chick is the real deal!
Foo FIghters!- Actually like them MUCH better than the band from whence they sprang...and hey, they're out there every day FIGHTIN FOO for America!
I'll let the wife have INCUBUS in her post, but I dig them too!
Honorable Mention
Smashing Pumpkins
Damn Yankees
Vallejo
Alice in Chains
Nirvana
Dan Baird
Soundgarden
Sorry I have been absent a while here, friends.
Had surgery...moving back to Lex...sooo busy, yes.
I'm sorry I missed the previous posts..they were good'uns.
90's music?
Early 90's found me listening to the radio a lot...so I sang just about everything that came on...which was kinda sad really..."Free ya miiiind and the rest will follow..." "Let's talk about sex, baby..."
but
Tori Amos's first big breakthrough album was in my CD player alot at this time..WINTER, CRUCIFY, HAPPY PHANTOM..all of it.
Nine Inch Nails were pretty interesting
The Cranberries were too
I started enjoy Natalie Merchant here
and Sarah Mclachlan...
I think I prefered a little gloom and doom rather than bubble gum...but I was also listening to jazz and some big band alot during the 90's
Wait..you're moving back to Lex?
Do tell...
good to hear from your Laurie...how is everything?... moving back?
pearl jam, soundgarden, well hell, anything from seattle... Petty's "wildflowers" album. Arc Angels, saw them with sass jordan once. I must agree with Laurie, I do miss the Cranberries, and also the Sundays. That singer's voice was smokin'. will have to think...Actually, the Madhatters and Self from the 'boro.
Yep, the ARC ANGELS were great. I envy you seeing that show.
I seem to remember another little 'boro band in the 90's being pretty good too...what WAS their name?
uhhh...Janie Grey?:)
The 90s....full of nuggets found among steaming heaping piles of....
The Sundays- Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic
Kate Bush- The Sensual World (i think her best album to date)
Sting- Ten Summoners Tales
Yo Yo Ma- Bach, the Cello Suites
Madonna- Ray of Light (when her having a child made her music worth listening to again)
Of course the Counting Crows, Vallejo (best live band in the late 90s), Incubus (before they blew up), Tool, Beastie Boys (check your head), Arrested Development
Black Star- Mos dEf & Talib Kweli
Yes...I am back essentially. I had surgery on June 13th...here in Lex. That's over, I am healing like lightning...but I still can't lift anything over 10 pounds...but I feel fine...really.
So, yeah, I'm here in Lex now.
Matt's flying back to FL on the 6th and packing up the truck...
but I am staying here. My Dad has taken a bad turn and I am actully leaving to go up (to IN tomorrow Tues.) and assess the situation and figure this hospice/dying thing out. And try to keep my sanity.
Sorry about all the trouble,L.
Our thoughts and prayers are with ya...
Laurie, I have a sister that is with Hospice if you would like to talk to her..
Laurie, I'm so sorry about your father. I'm thinking of you.
Well, shit. I've been missing music lists? Oh, well. Life called and I turned off call waiting to deal with it.
90's music. To be honest I am just now discovering some of the best music from the 90's (Replacements, Pumpkins, etc). I kinda tuned out for a while there. Hated Top 40 radio and such. In my iTunes-building project the past several months, I have catalogued a lot of music designated as "90's" (indexed by year, of course). When I select that era and put it on shuffle, I am mostly disappointed. But, some standouts do include (albums specified):
*Pearl Jam - Ten
*Metallica - Black Album
*U2 - Achtung Baby
*Joan Osborne - Relish
*Green Day - Dookie
*Offspring - Smash
*Rage Against The Machine - self-titled
*NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
*Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
*Ani Difranco - (pick one)
*Counting Crows - August...
*Nirvana - Nevermind
*Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
*Garbage - self-titled
*Susan Tedeschi - Just Won't Burn
*Eric Clapton - From the Cradle
*Pat Benatar - True Love
The '90s are a fairly vivid decade for me musically, since I spent a couple of years in the mid-'90s working at Spy Records. Consequently, that was the time I was most "up" on the new music. So here are some of my favorite albums which ended up in heavy rotation during my record-store shifts and after:
Matthew Sweet, "Girlfriend" -- An awesome power-pop break-up album. Frankly, I loved most of his work from this decade.
Urge Overkill, "Saturation" -- Power trio with kitschy overtones and fueled by smack.
Suede, "Suede" -- These guys (known in this country as The London Suede for legal reasons) get forgotten in the BritPop pantheon of Blur, Oasis, and Pulp. Suede was definitely BritPop and yet the antithesis of Oasis -- think fop vs. soccer hooligan.
Nirvana, "Nevermind" and Pearl Jam, "Ten"-- Sorry, it's cliched as hell to go with these choices, but I just have to. For better or worse, they gave us a new genre.
Sugar, "Copper Blue" and "File Under: Easy Listening" -- Another power trio, this one formed by ex-Husker Du guitarist Bob Mould.
Liz Phair, "whitechocolatespaceegg" -- Goofy title, but this is her most polished and smart album before she entered her commercial phase.
Marillion, "Afraid of Sunlight" -- Haha! Finally got some Marillion in here. (I missed the '80s lists, where I would have put "Misplaced Childhood" and "Clutching at Straws".) This is just a gorgeous, big, airy album. It's mildly concept-oriented on the price of fame, but don't let that scare you.
Other artists were making great stuff at this time as well: Neil Young, Tom Petty, Paul Weller, Uncle Tupelo. Paradoxically, this was the decade I discovered some great '80s music as well, such as The Smiths, Joe Jackson, and New Order. It seems that in the '80s I was too busy catching up on classic '70s rock (thank you, WEBN!) to pay much attention to new music. But I must confess that I did have every Duran Duran album, and I watched MTV all the time. I can quote a lot of '80s singles, but not albums.
Uh, ignore that Replacements comment. Brain fart.
SUGAR and Matthew Sweet are excellent choices, Nat. I liked them both very much. Wish Bob M would've done more SUGAR...
Marillion!!! Hot damn. Heart of Lothian and Kayleigh!!! Go Fish!! Welcome back Tuttle. the Colour and the Shape was my "divorce album." great release, but it drudges up terrible memories. Nobody has mentioned "Temple of the Dog." Also, Radiohead anyone?
You can keep Radiohead for my money. I never really liked em, BUT I do respect their importance to this era...I love THE COLOR AND THE SHAPE and their next album (can't remember the title) and I think BEST OF YOU from IN YOUR HONOR is the best song they ever made!
Yea, Nat's a big MARILLION fan! She even cruises around in the "Battlestar Marillion" on a daily basis. Right Nat?
Hey, Fletch! I didn't know you're a freak too! Yes, I confess to a love of Marillion that started with Misplaced Childhood back in the day -- there's a long, romantic story associated with that. I've seen them live a few times with the second lead singer (Steve Hogarth, excellent in his own right), but regrettably I never saw them with Fish. But I have also seen Fish twice solo. All those concerts were just awesome.
The "Battlestar Marillion" is so named because of a big sticker in my back window. Hey -- I'm happy to let my freak flag fly!
X, as for Sugar -- I, too, wish Mould had done more with them. Aside from those 2 albums I mentioned, there was the Beaster EP (which is really odd) and a B-sides collection. But I also really enjoyed most of Mould's solo work. "Workbook" and "Black Sheets of Rain" are quite good.
Natalie, well, you're luckier than I am. Marillion, to my knowledge, has never played in Nashville. I kinda lost track of them after the album after "Misplaced Childhood," but I had a friend named Steve who was a huge fan. He even had some bootlegs. I actually got to hear one of the childhood shows once. I guess the problam was my income tax bracket. I could never afford to get the later albums at import prices, esp. after they were dropped from their american label. I would really like to hear some of their newer stuff. maybe you could hook me up?
btw- Happy Fourth everyone!!!!Let's hope the war ends soon!!!!
Butthole Surfers--Independent Worm Saloon
Pavement-Slanted and Enchanted
Chili Peppers-Blood Sugar Sex Majik
Alice in Chains--Dirt
Uncle Tupelo--No Depression
Fat Boy Slim--Better Living Through Chemistry
Frank Black--Frank Black
Reverend Horton Heat--Custom Gospel Sounds of......
Superchunk--On The Mouth
Fugazi--Repeater
Pegboy--Three Chord Monte
Primus--Frizzle Fry
Firehose--Flyin' The Flannel
Samiam--Clumsy
Bad Religion--Against The Grain
3rd Bass-Derelicts of
......Dialect.
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