90s music?

[Falls City Beer]

Originally Posted by Johnny Footstool

Fudge Tunnel, Alice Donut, Silkworm, Daddy Longhead...

Alice Donut, good lord.

[Hoosier Red]

Originally Posted by Falls City Beer

I think the mid-90s get an unfair rap as a bad music era. I've always felt that. Some pretty glorious and still very unsung music during that period.

Aside from the bigger names like Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Sebadoh, you had great music from bands like Rodan (who absolutely blew me away in concert), Silver Jews (Dave Berman's probably the best songwriter of the last 20 years), Unwound and Polvo (the Mathletes crowd--but still eminently rockin), Guided by Voices (the greatest pop group in the last 20 years--screw you, Of Montreal), the Grifters (maybe THE most underappreciated rock band ever).

I actually think the early-mid-90s were something of a musical heyday--akin to the era of the bands that erupted in the wake of the early 80s West coast punk scene.

I loved Guided by Voices and got major street cred at my college radio station for knowing them. Our station was one of those that specialized in music played by people even we didn't know.
We tried to get GBV to play at our music festival, but they refused due to their need to have pitchers of beer supplied for them on stage. (STUPID DRY CAMPUS)

[justincredible]

Assponies and Butt Trumpets? Man, I'm glad I almost exclusively listen to country music.

[pedro]

Originally Posted by Johnny Footstool

Fudge Tunnel, Alice Donut, Silkworm, Daddy Longhead...

I saw Alice Donut in 1987 in Nelson cafeteria at OU.

[pedro]

Originally Posted by Falls City Beer

I think the mid-90s get an unfair rap as a bad music era. I've always felt that. Some pretty glorious and still very unsung music during that period.

Aside from the bigger names like Pavement, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Sebadoh, you had great music from bands like Rodan (who absolutely blew me away in concert), Silver Jews (Dave Berman's probably the best songwriter of the last 20 years), Unwound and Polvo (the Mathletes crowd--but still eminently rockin), Guided by Voices (the greatest pop group in the last 20 years--screw you, Of Montreal), the Grifters (maybe THE most underappreciated rock band ever).

I actually think the early-mid-90s were something of a musical heyday--akin to the era of the bands that erupted in the wake of the early 80s West coast punk scene.

Good stuff.

[vaticanplum]

Britpop. Radiohead, Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Supergrass (one of the most underrated bands ever) all came about in the 90s. And those are just the superfamous ones. It was a great decade for unabashedly British music. And on our side of the pond, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Beck, Fiona Apple, my beloved Rufus Wainwright, they all came about in the 90s, and again, these are just some of the famous ones.

The 90s were my musical coming of age and there are some really seminal albums from the decade -- Ok Computer, Automatic for the People, Loveless, Screamadelica, Vitalogy, Three Feet High and Rising, that's all just off the top of my head and I know I could come up with about 20 more pretty easily. I've always thought the 80s were the underappreciated decade, really; the good stuff seemed to get more buried behind radio tripe that decade.

[Matt700wlw]

Originally Posted by TeamSelig

you probably are



I'll agree though it is weird to think that I was just 10 years old in 1997.

I thought I was kind of young on here....

I was 17!

[pedro]

Originally Posted by vaticanplum

Britpop. Radiohead, Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Supergrass (one of the most underrated bands ever) all came about in the 90s. And those are just the superfamous ones. It was a great decade for unabashedly British music. And on our side of the pond, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Beck, Fiona Apple, my beloved Rufus Wainwright, they all came about in the 90s, and again, these are just some of the famous ones.

The 90s were my musical coming of age and there are some really seminal albums from the decade -- Ok Computer, Automatic for the People, Loveless, Screamadelica, Vitalogy, Three Feet High and Rising, that's all just off the top of my head and I know I could come up with about 20 more pretty easily. I've always thought the 80s were the underappreciated decade, really; the good stuff seemed to get more buried behind radio tripe that decade.

College rock in the eighties ruled.

The Cure
Dinosaur Jr.
Pixies
Meat Puppets
Camper Van Beethoven
The Replacements
Afghan Whigs
Superchunk
Sonic Youth
firehose
XTC
Jane's Addiction
REM
The Smiths

It was a great time to be music fan if you looked hard enough.

[Yachtzee]

Originally Posted by Red Leader

I was in college as well, and I, like Johnny, bought tons of CD's from that era. Most of it, I don't listen to anymore. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice In Chains are the ones that stuck. I still listen to their stuff from time to time.

The day Kurt Cobain died we were having a pig roast at our fraternity house. I was drunk by 10am. I took a nap at 2pm and woke up by 4 and started drinking again....ahhh, those were the days...

What house were you in?

I was working at Europe Gyro that day. IIRC, we had just gotten our liquor license and everyone was excited about beer delivery.

[wolfboy]

Originally Posted by pedro

College rock in the eighties ruled.

The Cure
Dinosaur Jr.
Pixies
Meat Puppets
Camper Van Beethoven
The Replacements
Afghan Whigs
Superchunk
Sonic Youth
firehose
XTC
Jane's Addiction
REM


It was a great time to be music fan if you looked hard enough.

well said. many of the bands that got famous in the 90's owe a great deal to these bands that flew under the radar in the 80's.

[jmcclain19]

I remember when my friend gave me a mix tape with Fugazi Repeater on one side and Nirvana Bleach on the other - that was like a musical awakening for me. That was shortly before the Nevermind/Pear Jam-Ten/Alice in Chains-Dirt explosion. Great times. Some unreal bands that came out of that - I'm still a big fan. My Ipod is loaded with them - Screaming Trees, Dinosaur Jr, L7, Faith No More, Suicidal Tendencies - all great bands I enjoyed immensely.

Good memories.

[Johnny Footstool]

Originally Posted by jmcclain19

I remember when my friend gave me a mix tape with Fugazi Repeater on one side and Nirvana Bleach on the other...

Oh, man, double-length cassette tapes. How awesome were those?

[jmcclain19]

Originally Posted by Johnny Footstool

Oh, man, double-length cassette tapes. How awesome were those?

I used to remember spending a little extra and getting those 120 minute tapes - coolest invention known to man.

[RedsMan3203]

Ahhh - Nirvana. One of the best bands ever..... Wish they were around.

Collective Soul anyone?

[Dracodave]

I've rebought a mp3 player, after my first ipod was stolen, when I looked through my list of songs, I had forgotten I had alot them on there.

Bands like Suicidal Tendencies, Danzig, Gwar, Guttermouth, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, and my others populate the airwaves from my mp3 player. Mix in some Dio, Sabbath, assorted goth/deathmetal (whichever you perfer to call it) and you have the foundation of the 2,000 songs currently on my mp3 player.