Lovers of 60s/70s Music - Your Favourite Acts Post 1990.

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  1. Lucidae

    Lucidae AAD

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    Australia
    Not a boomer myself but I mostly listen to older music. Of the few post 1990 artists I like, here's my favorites...

    Rumer
    Alison Krauss & Union Station
    Joanne Shaw Taylor
    The Head and the Heart
    Of Monsters and Men
    Pink Martini
    Late Night Alumni
    The Civil Wars
    Fleet Foxes
    Joss Stone
    Zero 7
    Norah Jones
    Savoir Adore
    Lady Antebellum
    Tedeschi Trucks Band
     
  2. CBS CLASH 3

    CBS CLASH 3 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Boston
    The National
    Wilco
    Yo La Tengo
    Elliott Smith
    Radiohead
    Superchunk
    Neutral Milk Hotel
    The White Stripes
    Pavement
    Fugazi
     
  3. kendo

    kendo Forum Resident

    This, from last year by Eat Lights Become Lights -

     
  4. socorro

    socorro Forum Resident

    Location:
    pennsylvania
    Most of my picks are from rock's False Spring circa 1991-96. I agree that rock music went through a really thin period from around 1983 to 1991. Then there was a revival that I thought was a return to normal. Unfortunately, the 1983-1991 period was closer to the new normal. By 1996 or so rock had once again receded into the shadows. It still exists, obviously, but it has much less cultural resonance than it did.

    Some False Spring Faves:

    Nirvana
    Cracker
    Matthew Sweet
    Beastie Boys (whose peak was in the 80s)
    Social Distortion
    Lenny Kravitz
     
  5. GodShifter

    GodShifter Forum Member

    Location:
    Dallas, TX, USA
    Wow, that'd be a lot of acts for me to post.

    Post 90 is when the stoner rock thing boomed and I love a lot of those bands (Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Monster Magnet; those are the 'big three', but I am way into a bunch of the other stuff, too). The post rock/metal movement is post 90's and I love a ton of those bands, too (Isis, Neurosis, etc). Then there's the Denver alt. country music scene I adore (16 Horsepower, Wovenhand, Slim Cessna's Auto Club) and a lot of "alt. rock" in particular (grunge, metalcore, ambient stuff, black metal, etc). Just too much to mention (Failure, Hum, National Skyline, Poster Children, blah blah blah).

    As much as I love the 70's (probably my favorite period, overall, for music), I'd say I've kept fairly contemporary in terms of my preferences. In other words, as much as I love Jethro Tull, Zeppelin, and tons of obscure hard rock from that decade, I like tons of newer stuff that either hits on that vein or, sometimes, is altogether different. I am not stuck in a certain decade in terms of a music 'headspace'.

    I'm 48, by the way, so my roots start in the 70's for music - just to give some reference to point to where I began.

    The end.
     
  6. Licorice pizza

    Licorice pizza Livin’ On The Fault Line

    I know many who would say the 1970s were the decade that taste forgot...disco, washable suits and gargantuan lapels, bell bottoms, David Casssidy, etc... I remember it well. After Saturday Night Fever, all taste went out the window.
     
  7. Classicrock

    Classicrock Senior Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    South West, UK.
    Except alongside disco there was punk, reggae and post punk / new wave. While the pop singles charts had glam and MOR album sales sustained the popularity of progressive, acoustic, folk and heavy rock music. Some embarrassing fashion in both decades.
     
  8. pbuzby

    pbuzby Senior Member

    Location:
    Chicago, IL, US
    I was a big fan of the band Lush. Also liked Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville.
     
  9. Senor Muddy

    Senor Muddy Forum Resident

    Location:
    Colorado Springs
    Off the top of my head

    Pearl Jam
    Wilco
    Tedeschi Trucks
    Black Crowes
    CRB
    Govt Mule
    Ryan Adams
    Gary Clark Jr.
     
  10. Licorice pizza

    Licorice pizza Livin’ On The Fault Line

    Yep, lotsa embarrassing fashion! The thing that really stood out for me from the 1970s was stereo equipment. There were stores on every block, if you can believe that. Gorgeous turntables, receivers and speakers displayed everywhere on top of their boxes. And stuff was pretty affordable, Pioneer, Marantz, Technics, etc... My school buddies and I would cut class and go peek through the windows of some of our audio stores, just like kids today peek at the latest iphone or xbox or whatever is trendy at the moment. "It was a glorious time..." to quote Goodfellas.
     
  11. yohalfprice

    yohalfprice Forum Resident

    Location:
    Salt Lake City
    There are no bad decades for music. I'm a late boomer with older brothers and sisters, so I grew up with 60's and 70's music playing in the house. I've got plenty of music from that era but I'm in no way stuck there.

    Here's what you missed in the 80's
    T-Bone Burnett
    Bruce Cockburn
    Joan Armatrading
    Neville Brothers
    Burning Spear
    X
    Laurie Anderson
    Los Lobos
    Joe Ely
    Peter Gabriel
    Dire Straits
    Tom Waits
    Leonard Cohen
    Elvis Costello
    Steve Tibbetts
    U2
    UB40
    John Mellencamp
    Kate Bush
    Sinead O'Connor
    Tangerine Dream
    Nanci Griffith
    Stevie Ray Vaughan
    Fabulous Thunderbirds
    Buckwheat Zydeco
    Nick Cave
    Lucinda Williams
    Little Feet
    BoDeans
    Michelle Shocked
    Steve Earle
    David Lindley
    Cowboy Junkies
    Warren Zevon
    etc etc etc

    80's really sucked.
     
  12. longaway

    longaway Senior Member

    Location:
    Charlotte, NC, USA
    I'm not a Boomer, either, but my tastes definitely lean heavily towards 60/70's.

    Here are my favorites, post 1990:

    Collective Soul
    Terrorvision
    The Wildhearts
    KMFDM (I know they started in the 80's, but come on...)
    Rob Zombie
    Robbie Williams
    Kid Rock
    P!nk
    White Stripes/Jack White
    Muse
    Big & Rich
     
  13. Humbuster

    Humbuster Staff Emeritus

    Great post.

    Oasis
    Sadies
    Drive by Truckers
    Jason Isbell
    Lucinda Williams
    John Doe
    Great American Taxi
    Smithereens
    Robbie McIntosh
     
  14. Classicrock

    Classicrock Senior Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    South West, UK.
    I didn't miss any of this. Most of those acts either started pre 80s or are not typical of general trends in 80s music. In fact I have practically everything some of those artists listed put out. Doesn't alter my view that mainstream music was either bad or 'of its time' in relation to before and after decades. Anyway this thread is not about the 80s but later music mostly by new acts that appeal to boomers.
     
  15. Revolver

    Revolver Forum Resident

    Location:
    Canada
    Beck
    Sloan
    Supergrass
     
  16. 99% of what I listen is pre-1985, and it's not for lack of trying, but...
    In the post-1990 artists, I can mention:

    Dr. Dre for his own albums Chronic and 2001, as well as for his productions in particular Snoop's debut album
    Bitty McLean, bad bad Reggae singer
    Luciano, who put the roots and rasta back into Reggae music
    Puff Daddy whose productions were super hot in the second half of the 90's
    I loved Sly & Robbie-produced Chaka Demus & Plier's two album for Taxi / Island
    Buju Banton 3rd and 4th albums were excellent, then he scr4wed up

    I hated Nirvana, now I think some of their songs were pretty good. But I wouldn't buy anything by them yet!
     
  17. ronm

    ronm audiofreak

    Location:
    southern colo.
    Smashing Pumpkins and Beck are probably the only post 90 music in my collection.
     
  18. EasterEverywhere

    EasterEverywhere Forum Resident

    Location:
    Albuquerque
    I got Beatles '65 when it was brand new for Christmas when I was four years old.There was enough great new stuff to keep me interested up through the turn of the millennium,then it kind of ran out of steam for me.

    The 80s were almost as good as the 70s,once you dug a little deeper,beyond what was played on the radio,and MTV,too much to go into here,but limiting my list just to rock from the 90s,my favorites would be

    blur/Gorillaz
    Ride
    The Makers
    Southern Culture On The Skids
    Outrageous Cherry
    Green Day
    The Offspring

    Nirvana took years to grow on me.
    Ride's early records are some of the greatest guitar based psychedelia you could ever hear.
     
    Last edited: Nov 25, 2014
  19. yohalfprice

    yohalfprice Forum Resident

    Location:
    Salt Lake City
    Well, don't hold me responsible for how bad your radio station was, ;).
     
  20. bhazen

    bhazen ANNOYING BEATLES FAN

    Location:
    Deepest suburbia
    I'm a Boomer, don't tell anyone. :D

    Some artists of the last quarter-century that have gotten to me in a '60s/'70s kind of way: World Party, Crowded House/Neil and Tim Finn, Cotton Mather, Spoon, Joe 90, Sam Phillips, Aimee Mann, Michæl Penn, the Honeydogs.

    Tonnes of good pop music!
     
  21. Culpa

    Culpa Forum Resident

    Location:
    Philadelphia, PA
    Plenty of great one-offs since 1990 but these I think are among the best and most consistent:

    Uncle Tupelo
    The first few Wilco albums
    The first few Jayhawks albums
    Whiskeytown
    Gillian Welch/David Rawlings
    Old Crow Medicine Show
    Buddy (and Julie) Miller
    Iris Dement
     
  22. hifisoup

    hifisoup @hearmoremusic on Instagram

    Location:
    USA
    Born '56 so I qualify.

    Over The Rhine- discovered them early when I discovered Cowboy Junkies)
    Cowboy Junkies
    Kathleen Edwards
    LeAnn Rimes
    Grace Potter
    Amy Grant
    Herb Alpert (rediscovered his Tijuana Brass LPs...what fun!)
    Derek Trucks
    Warren Haynes ant Gov't Mule
    Susan Tedeschi
     
  23. skisdlimit

    skisdlimit Forum Resident

    Location:
    Bellevue, WA
    I'm not a boomer, but I'll take the plunge (here's 50 in no particular order):

    1. Nirvana (technically pre-1990 for "Bleach" but will probably always be considered a 90's act, as are others here who started in the 80's)
    2. Alice in Chains
    3. The Black Crowes
    4. P.J. Harvey
    5. Porcupine Tree
    6. Mazzy Star
    7. Spiritualized
    8. Beck
    9. Blind Melon
    10. Weezer
    11. Radiohead
    12. The Verve
    13. Alanis Morissette
    14. Collective Soul
    15. Flying Saucer Attack
    16. Wilco
    17. Garbage
    18. Kyuss / Queens of the Stone Age
    19. Erykah Badu
    20. Macy Gray
    21. Pink
    22. Green Day
    23. The New Pornographers / Neko Case
    24. The White Stripes
    25. Arcade Fire
    26. Sufjan Stevens
    27. Doves
    28. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    29. Moon Safari
    30. Massive Attack
    31. Eels
    32. Eva Cassidy
    33. Evanescence
    34. Goldfrapp
    35. Nightwish
    36. Mercury Rev
    37. Sigur Rós
    38. Coldplay
    39. Muse
    40. Spoon
    41. Elbow
    42. Fatboy Slim
    43. Aimee Mann
    44. The Strokes
    45. The Decemberists
    46. Fleet Foxes
    47. Iron and Wine
    48. Amy Winehouse
    49. Adele
    50. Lorde
     
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  24. noyoucmon

    noyoucmon Forum Resident

    Location:
    Chicago
    I love '60s and '70s music but the notion that the '80s was a decade to forget is a non-starter for me. There are hundreds of excellent albums that I love from that, and every other, decade since the hallowed '60s and '70s.

    A broad brushstroke about how the '80s are dismissable due to production values is so short-sighted that I can't even answer to it.
     
  25. fuse999

    fuse999 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Texas
    Porcupine Tree, that's about it, mostly fusion jazz.
     
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