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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: imapiratearg on 09 Jul 2007, 12:54
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Man, is it just me, or was pop rock music in the nineties actually good? Like, The Goo Goo Dolls, R.E.M., Jimmy Eat World, bands like that. I'm probably not mentioning quite a few that deserve so. But man, I had Pandora playing stuff that sounds like R.E.M. and all this nineties pop rock stuff is coming through.
A penny for your thoughts?
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yeah I like pseudo nostalgia too
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Definitely. Every time i see a commercial for that compilation Buzz Ballads i always think "damn, a lot of good music came out before i was even ten."
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When I think of R.E.M. I mostly think of the 1980s :x
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Bro, come on. EVERYONE thinks music was better in their day.
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Man, is it just me,
Yes.
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Man, is it just me,
Yes
zing.
As far as music goes, I don't think the 90's pop really contributed anything special. In your list you're also conveniently forgetting the Spice Girls, Britney Spears, NSync, and the rest of the Mickey Mouse club Spawn.
where it's really at is, like johnny said, the 60's, but also the 80's. The 80's was REAL pop.
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Subverting the young'ins apparently.
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Damnit, way to all have way too confusing and complicated names. I meant tommy.
gosh.
where it's really at is, like johnny said
huh
Hey, where is Johnny C anyhow?
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In your list you're also conveniently forgetting the Spice Girls, Britney Spears, NSync, and the rest of the Mickey Mouse club Spawn.
They're not relevant to the topic at hand, because the original post specified pop-rock, not straight-up pop.
There was a lot of good music in the 90s, but there's a lot of good music in any decade. Yes, even the 80s - in fact, I might go so far as to suggest especially the 80s. However, 90s music doesn't necessarily age that well: while there was a lot of music released in the 90s that sounds as fresh today as it did back then, music that is instantly recognisable as coming from the 90s can sound pretty crappy: the identifiable "90s sound" is pretty middle-of-the-road - and I grew up in that decade!
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I grew up in it as well, so hearing all these songs makes me go like "Wow, I remember being a wee little one, and hearing this song on TV or the radio." and I remember liking all of them. I still kind of do.
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Crowded House
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/features/wallpaper/images/640/crowded_house.jpg)
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They were really late 80's stuff, IMO.
90's pop rules!
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I have a really bad obsession with 90s music that most people would regret nowadays.
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They were really late 80's stuff, IMO.
90's pop rules!
true, they started from the ashes of Split Enz but were still going strong until they disbanded in '96 and played to packed arenas etc.
fact is, they're back together (new album and world tour and played Live Earth at the Sydney site) so it kinda makes them a current band, too.
NYAH! :laugh:
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This article about their first reunion gig is really depressing:
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/concert/coachella-rage-fans-didnt-like-crowded-house.html
I'm not really a big fan, but I do respect what they've done. Gave the new album a listen on a listening post at a record store, it's sounding alright. The drumming is quite different, which is probably appropriate, I think.
Regarding the overall topic, this made me laugh:
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2007/06/16/
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Remember when swing made a comeback? Seriously. I loved it.
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Not me. I think it was the 60s for sure.
Yes.
But 90s pop is good stuff, as long as you don't mean boy bands and whatnot.
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No, not the boy bands. Geeww...
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BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM
I WANT YOU IN MY ROOM
LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER
TOGETHER IN MY ROOM
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Lmfao.
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I just imagined Hnery Rollins reciting Vengaboys songs. I may have peed myself a little
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This article about their first reunion gig is really depressing:
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/concert/coachella-rage-fans-didnt-like-crowded-house.html
I'm not really a big fan, but I do respect what they've done. Gave the new album a listen on a listening post at a record store, it's sounding alright. The drumming is quite different, which is probably appropriate, I think.
the new one didn't grab me a first, but since then it's proven to be a grower.
did anyone really expect RATM fans to be into Crowded House?
i mean really, WTF were the Coachella organisers thinking??
i'll tell you EXACTLY what they were thinking:
(http://www.insolitology.com/images/btd3.jpg)
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I like RATM and crowded house, and split endz :?
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If we're talking about Antipodean bands then the Go-Betweens are surely my favourite.
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I like RATM and crowded house, and split endz :?
aye, me as well.
too bad RATM has so many asshat fans anymore.
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If we're talking about Antipodean bands then the Go-Betweens are surely my favourite.
Well they definitely weren't a 90s band!
I'm still cut up about Grant McLennan's death last year. More people need to discover the Go-Betweens.
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I really want to get the Go-Betweens covers album that came out a month or two ago, but I'm broke damnit.
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Remember when swing made a zoot suit riot? Throw back a bottle of beer, zoot suit riot, run a comb through your coal-black hair?
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Remember when swing made a zoot suit riot? Throw back a bottle of beer, zoot suit riot, run a comb through your coal-black hair?
ugh, that came out while i lived in NZ and there were adverts on TV for that album every 5 minutes!
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Anyone remember Ned's Atomic Dustbin? The grey cell's green only if the green cell's grey. Des-i-hii-ire.
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Man I remember when Jimmy Stiles and the Easy-Beats won triple Js Unearthed Competition, and for a few weeks wearing world war two American soldier outfits and carrying a trumpet everywhere you went was the single coolest thing.
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Anyone remember Ned's Atomic Dustbin? The grey cell's green only if the green cell's grey. Des-i-hii-ire.
Weirdly I was thinking about them yesterday for the first time in years. "One piece short of Legoland" had a great chorus, but otherwise I remember them being about as good as their name. ;)
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Pop music in the 90's was far more listenable than pop music now.
A lot of it was real good. You actually had to write a song in that period.
Pop music now is more about putting a bunch of hot asses in music videos and singing about how much you'd like to have sex with the opposite gender.
I was looking at the Ticketmaster listings and saw Collective Soul, Live, and Counting Crows in the same show. I tell you, ten years ago me was really excited. Current me, not so much.
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I'm surprised Ticketmaster doesn't charge you for just looking at shows and prices.
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Pop music now is more about putting a bunch of hot asses in music videos and singing about how much you'd like to have sex with the opposite gender.
(http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/2596/stunnedhl4.jpg)
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otherwise I remember them being about as good as their name. ;)
Incredible?
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The 1990s were a haven of genius band names. Gay Dad anyone?
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Pop music in the last couple years is...
-A bunch of poorly written looped dance pop that's only popular because the singers are hot women who probably aren't even the real singers.
-Rap music that's sung by a bunch of rich people pretending to be gangsters to exploit teenagers' need to conform to rebellion (That gets more popular by putting hot women in the videos).
-Bands like Linkin Park, rich people pretending to be angsty and depressed. (Basically rap-metal boy bands).
-Lame vanilla rock about guys who crush on women who do not reciprocate said affection. (Usually with hot women in the videos).
In the 90s there was at least some actual songwriting going on. Not just niche pandering.
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I never thought I'd see the day where people were nostalgic for 90s music.
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I never thought I'd see the day where people were nostalgic for 90s music.
You've clearly not been paying enough attention to me for the last six or seven years.