Sorry but the whole 1990s Music makes me cringe

I dunno what Graham will say, but here's a quick list of stuff I listened to in the 90s that I still listen to today. I'm sure I forgot some stuff. I think most of this still stands up. YMMV.

Shellac - At Action Park and the early singles
Mogwai - Come on Die Young
Tortoise - Millions Now Living
Sonic Youth - Goo & Dirty
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
GBV - Under the Bushes Under the Stars
Weezer - Weezer & Pinkerton
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On & Keep it Like a Secret
Radiohead - The Bends & OK Computer
Belle & Sebastien - If You're Feeling Sinister
Rodan - Rusty
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
The Jesus Lizard - Liar
Nirvana - In Utero
Slint - Spiderland
GZA - Liquid Swords
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley (I am actually listening to this as I type)
Queens of the Stone Age - S/T
Polvo - pretty much every album they put out in the 90s
Chavez - Ride the Fader
Autechre - Tri Repetae
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Melvins - Houdini & Lysol
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Helium - The Dirt of Luck
Catherine Wheel - Chrome
Ride - Nowhere
Helmet - Meantime
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Portishead - Dummy & s/t
Bjork - Debut
Stereolab - Transient Random Noise Bursts With Announcement
The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
Six Finger Satellite - Severe Exposure
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love & Rid of Me
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
Tool - Aenima
Rocket from the Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream!
Jessamine - The Long Arm of Coincidence
Labradford - E Luxo So
Low - The Curtain Hits the Cast

 

What is cool about a list like this, even though I really like a handful or so on your list, my list of best has a few dozen your list does not even hint at!!

There is a wealth of great 90s stuff indeed..

Bjork
Tori Amos
Liz Phair
Moby
Lush
Just to hint at a few I love

 

"Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?"

 

LOL, why pick on Green Day? - all of his 90s choices are dreadful!

 

This looks like the Stanford Tree.

 

I still listen to about 80% of these. Others who released great music in the 90s:

Ride
Lush
Swans
Sebadoh
Beta Band
Seefeel
Tortoise
Guided By Voices
Bedhead
PJ Harvey
Boo Radleys
Sleater-Kinney
Bikini Kill
Olivia Tremor Control
16 Horsepower
Codeine
Disco Inferno
Friends of Dean Martinez
Smog
Galaxie 500
Bongwater
Angels of Light
Arab Strap
Belle & Sebastian
Bark Psychosis
Spiritualized
Boards of Canada
Mazzy Star
Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Clean
Cat Power
Flaming Stars
Cranes
Bailter Space
Morphine
Fugazi
Lambchop
Hood
Pale Saints
Pram
Red House Painters
Slowdive
Slim Cessna's Auto Club
Swirlies
Songs: Ohia
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Tindersticks

 

It's the only one I could speak on with authority. I'm actually a huge Green Day fan.

 

COME ON DUDE I LISTED IT LEAST LIKE HALF OF THOSE.

Man, how could I forget Sebadoh? Did you get the Bakesale reissue on grey marbled vinyl? It sounds great. As does that Ride Nowhere reissue.

The crazy thing is, I remember bands like Olivia Tremor and GBV constantly having The Beatles brought up as a reference point from reviewers. I bet if a lot of people here gave those catalogs a whirl they'd be into them. Whatever.

Can you point me to a few more Brain Jonestown Massacre albums? I like the new one and Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request from their older stuff, but I'm not super familiar w/ that band and have never really been able to dive into them - but I have a feeling I'd really like it if I knew where to go. Danke.

Which reminds me, forgot Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. And Boss Hog. OH and that ****ed up Pain Teens Beast of Dreams LP that I like to annoy everyone at work with.

In conclusion: the 90s!

 

Not a dude

Just have the Sebadoh on CD. They are probably a Top 5 90s band for me.


Yes I started typing without scrolling the entire list.

As for BJM? I think the 96 albums are a good starting point.

Do you have Spotify? I've been working on playlists of my favorite songs from each decade from the 60s thru the 00s. Only about 1/3 done so each decade only has about 600 songs so far. Anyway can't figure out how to post the link on my phone. You might like my 90s playlist.

 

I do have Spotify, Im'ing you for username.

 

I think the 00's were worse.

At least the '90s brought great material from Oasis, U2, The Black Crowes, Alanis Morissette, Green Day and a bunch of others.

After American Idiot, Under Rug Swept, Costello Music, and All That You Can't Leave Behind, the 00's were pretty much a bust for me. I'll probably eat those words later...

 

I have to say , I have found the whole response to this thread very amusing. I was only giving a personal opinion about a period I lived through, watched a lot bands , bought a lot of records by & it has seemed to hit a raw nerve with a lot of you , particularly the Radiohead comments . I think if I said the Osmonds, Bieber , Hanson, Prog Rock etc I now deemed cringeworthy no one would have cared but because I listed the " fountain of your youth" a lot of 40 something's are really upset. The 90s are over & even the Strokes are a bunch of old men . Let's see if this decade shapes up . Five years to go.

 

I discovered an immense amount of great bands through the 90's...

Melvins
Cows
ETNICA
Green Nuns of the Revolution
Transwave
Oblivians
DVOA
Hallucinogen
Jesus Lizard
Eat Static
Bongwater
Alice Donut
Aphex Twin
μ-Ziq
Six Finger Satellite
Blues Explosion

...and that's just off the top of my head, I know I'm missing tons- I used to buy one or two CD a day for a couple of years during the 90's... back when I could afford frivolities.

 

No, people are upset because you said all music from a whole decade "STINKS". The work of hundreds of thousands, or millions, music makers just "STINKS". I don't think that too many people would have been upset if you'd only said: "I don't like the stuff I listened to in the '90s anymore" or "I didn't like the music I heard back then and I hate it now".

 

It says more about you than the decades. It says you only like music that is spoonfed to you. To you if the music being spoonfed isn't to your taste then there is something wrong with the industry and music and decade. I am proud to say everything I listen to, from today's music to centuries ago, I discovered on my own. I was not spoonfed them. My music taste would be extremely limiting if I let the radio, TV, etc shape my music taste. I don't understand why you don't get how limiting it is. You act as if music you like is supposed to be spoonfed. Really?

The problem isn't the music. It's you two. This misguided elitist attitude that anything after the 80s is bad music and anything during the 60s and 70s is the music of the Gods is saying more about the two of you than it does the music. Not only do you two feel as if what you like must be spoonfed to you, but you two proudly put yourselves on a pedestal to proclaim what you like is best and the rest is bad. I get the impression you two don't even want to try. The half-hearted attempts I've read speak volumes. You guys are so used to being spoonfed that any amount of effort is too much. Much easier to dismiss as bad.

 

Lord knows, you'd never pull a move like that, right Spaceman? I agree with some of what your saying about the "music died after 1980" crowd, but are you honestly (and very proudly) claiming that "everything I listen to. . . I discovered on my own"? Sorry, but everyone discovers music directly or indirectly through some form of media, whether it's the radio, magazines, internet, whatever.

 

Wow another rare fan of Chavez on this forum! They were one of my favorite bands of the 90's.

 

Sorry, but they were the best I could come up with.

 

Where did I say "crowning achievement"? There were no "crowning achievements" in the past 30 years.

 

When you keep repeating a word it starts to sound weird. Spoonfed.

 

Well you asked people if they agreed, disagreed or if you needed your head tested and that's pretty much what you got!

I think you need to accept that if you dismiss an entire decade of music you're going to get kick back and not just on this forum. Regardless of the subject matter, if you make a similar declaration elsewhere you're likely going to get kick back as well.

Blaming the kick back on 40 somethings upset with your opinion is rather lazy and typical of people who start blanket threads like these. It would be fairly easy for me to use the same logic and declare your dislike for the music of this era is because your band weren't as successful as other bands except for that one time that you blew Kula Shaker off the stage?? But is that really the case? Probably not.

I'm 40-something and don't like many of the bands you don't like from the 90's but I also like many of the bands you don't like. The fact that I disagree with your opinion isn't down to my age. I just don't believe the entire decade can be written off based on some mediocre bands because there were many great bands from that era.

 

thats completely idiotic, and the stoopidest thing I've read on this entire thread.

I have mentioned several times on here that I have done all kinds of searching and listening.

You chose ONE comment to cherry pick and then decided I have a problem.

Adios.

 

He really just wanted to use the word "spoonfed" 50 times in the same post.

 

This site would have a Chernobyl-like meltdown if someone had posted "The Whole 1960s Music Makes Me Cringe." Yet this thread continues for 32 pages.....hmm.

 

The funny (odd I guess) thing, is, given a different demographic, the replies or best decades and genres of music are all different again.

Ask a predominantly younger or female or African American cross section what they think, and you wind up with totally different results.

I remember most all adults when I was a kid, ( back in the early 70's) that laughed at most all rock music of the time, as juvenile noise junk.

The same stuff many of us cherish so much in here. It is all highly subjective, based on age/race/sex a LOT,etc.

A few of those people that are still alive, that I keep in contact with still insist that the 50's and early 60's was by far the best music. Doowop and rock and roll were where things peaked.

It all went downhill with Hippies, drugs, long hair, electric guitars with fuzzy sound etc.