wasitgood4u said:

I loved The Breeders! I play Last Splash at least once a month -ahhh my college days. Remember Lush. That band ruled! Cool Thing, Dirty Boots Yeah! Also, Blur was just great Britpop. Gotta pull out my 90s CD's now.

the ODB remix of Fantasy must've cheered you up a bit then Cinnie

Strangely in the 90's I didn't listen to Pop music (madonna and other shit!). I was a fanatic for these acts:

The Cranberries
Garbage
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
The Smashing Pumpkins
Alanis Morissette
Marilyn Manson

Then I went to college and I became a pop music whore!

Damm...I was a hipster in the 90's...now I'm a Joke!

Excellent observations and very true.

Yeah, but we're gay though and gay people have been throwing down harder than straight people for decades. I was also loving the hell out of the house music scene in the early 1990s with groups like Black Box, M People, 2 In A Room, Robin S., Crystal Waters, Cartouche, The 49ers, Cajmere, etc.

Like disco a decade earlier, straight people had also gotten into house music a little bit in the early 1990s and abandoned it. We continued with it even after they abandoned it and were having a hell of a good time. The problem started when a lot of black people abandoned house music. Black people are the ones that make things funky and when they left house music, then it started sounding all techno, acid, trance or whatever the hell it's called.

Gay people usually grow up listening to what's in the mainstream because they are too young to go out and experience the underground gay scene. My generation grew up on disco and funk so house music was right up our alley because it was uptempo and funky just like what we had grown up on. However, the younger black gay generation had grown up on mainstream midtempo shit hop and when they got old enough to go out to gay clubs, the midtempo shit hop eventually came along with them and ruined the scene of the whole club. Nowadays, the black gay people my age go to the white gay club because acid techno trance is a lot more tolerable than midtempo shit hop.

vainandy said:

PREACH ON BRUTHA!!!

I cannot stand acid - trance - it's thin and sounds like someone's experiment that lasts 10 minutes...how can anyone even tell the difference between songs sometimes?

The songs are too repetitive. You could catch a song in progess and not know if you are listening to the beginning, middle, or end of the song because it sounds the same from beginning to end. Most of the songs are so fast that you would have to be high on drugs to dance to it. Most people on the dance floor look like hopping rabbits. Every now and then, a song might have a nice beat but the fact that it sounds the same from beginning to end which makes it get boring real quick.
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Cinnie said:

Yeah that's right! Nick Rhodes started toning down his makeup around that time. I miss the crazy, outlandish, uniqueness of the 80's.

PricelessHo said:

Totally!

YOOO NEWWWW

YORK! IN THE HAAAAAHSE

Sorry Cin, I love ya and everything, but I can't get with this at all.

The 90's were heaven for me. The 00's depress me.

ummm...there were a few 90's releases that i enjoy




























and not to mention

Betty Boo
Deee~Lite
CeCe Peniston
the Shamen
etc....

and all the bangin' club tunes!!

GangstaFam said:

We still like you...

Maybe it was all the hell I went through in that decade but the 90s is by far my favorite musical decade. BY FAR.

well what about the late 90's
you have the spice girls
you have Britney spears, backstreet boys, nsync, aqua, hanson, hooty and the blow fish, sugar ray, even old christina aguilera, destiny's child, jlo, TLC fanmail, Janet Velvet rope, ...

I LOVED the late 90's it was the best from 1997-2000... was awesome

i don't really know to much about the 90s cause i wasn't really allowed to watch tv, nor listen to radio.... and i was a kid.. and i was outside in the woods, at the park, creek, pond, rollerblading, looking for animals, just outside all day.. so i didn't really know about music nor rap until like 1998.. but i do remember a few puff daddy songs.. he even had good music.. actually the best rap music back then

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I wonder why?

vainandy said:

YES Im glad some1 said it. I felt bad for dissing that type of music..BUT NOT NOW.




Yeah really I think Cinne is focusing on more the 1991-1996 period.

96 saw the light of Backstreet and N*Sync. Things started picking up from there..and gangsta rap was going out the door when Missy and Puffy came about.

i guess i don't find politically or socially conscious music to be depressing. its far more invigorating to me than any of the upbeat disposable nonsense making the rounds during the same time (and now).

and bono hardly had to adjust to being an anti-star. quite the opposite, in fact. he took on his "the fly" persona and embraced celebrity all the while mocking it. bono had been writing serious (or depressing, as it's being called here) music since the creation of u2.

vainandy said:

I think people were high on drugs then. At that time though, they were really into ecstasy and waving glow sticks all over the dance floor. And as for the Kylie fan, I know she was still huge in Euroland and down under, but here in America, she was for all intents and purposes MIA and presumed dead until she released "Can't Get You Out Of My Head".

I guess my musical tastes were eclectic in the 90's, because I was into Mariah, grunge, gangsta rap, and house music all at the same time. However, while I appreciate the artistry of Dave Matthews and John Popper of Blues Traveler, I really couldn't get into the whole jam band scene which blew up in the mid-1990's. To me it seemed like a pale replacement for all of the Deadheads after Jerry Garcia died, and there were way too many upper middle class frat boy types that got into these bands. And speaking of dark music, after grunge blew away all of those cheesy 80's hair metal bands, what remained of metal got extremely dark, especially with the likes of Slayer, Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Cannibal Corpse and Deicide. A lot of that music was downright evil, and almost all of them sang like Cookie Monster getting a rusty pipe shove up his ass.

sassybritches said:

Is that what you consider The Chronic?

Cinnie said:

not the chronic, lol! nirvana, pearl jam, radiohead...

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Here Here!!

Fantastic thread.

GangstaFam said:

1995 was probably the worst worst year to me.

Moonbeam said:

hater

GangstaFam said:

Oh come on. You're forgetting all that fucking horrible big-hair corporate misogynistic homophobic asshole rock that was being promoted before Nirvana energised the whole industry with something honest, creative, powerful, sincere that did not give a fuck about anything. Yes Cobain destroyed himself because he was becoming the exact thing he hated and after that there was a vacuum that was left behind, so the industry switched to it's default setting of 'pop'.

Grunge reflected the time, 80s excess hangover, a shit economy, the emergence of prozac/anti-depressants...I was in love with that era, the late nineties boy band/Spice Girl thing is what made me want to slit my wrists.

mynameisnotsusan said:

precisely!

mynameisnotsusan said:

Give me hair metal over grunge any day.

Moonbeam said: