I remember a lot of them, I was in grade 10. I agree it was getting too oversaturated with the disney artists and boybands though.

The songs I really remember loving are Do Wop(That Thing), Believe, Heartbreak Hotel, Love Like This, Nobody's Supposed to Be Here

SoulAlive said:

+ 11111000009001101

TotalAlisa said:

OK and thats your opinion that a "majority" of people LOVE those songs, please, take a poll of people that LIVED through other decades and dont just base their opinions on the 90's, and when i say lived through, i mean you actually listened to the music of that day, not 20 years later on a compilation cd or some stupid VHq reality show. As you get further from that decade there is less and less that is even relevant and defining, and very few artists that began in that decade made it through.

As for RB lovers, i mean real RB, they will tell you that the 90's were what killed it, the bull crap mixes of Hip Hop and RB and Rap destroyed the genre. To blame for this, Puffy, Mary J, Mariah and countless other boy band RB groups like 112, Next, Men of Vizion, and the list goes on and on.

And for ROCK lovers, i mean when Rock N Roll was fun, this decade killed the fun with depression and played it off with the excuse of "getting back to basics" which was utter bullshit pinned behind commercial gain.
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lastdecember, your favorites from 2008 in your signature leave no surprise that you weren't enjoying 90s music either

Cinnie said:

Overall it was a bad decade, sorry, but it was. Even more seasoned artists like Paul McCartney had some shitty albums early on in the decade but pulled it together in the latter part. a-Ha my favorite had their only weak album, which was 1992's "memorial beach" which thanks to "shitty" Prince producer David Z he tried to turn them into a "harder rock" band with a dance edge, only a few songs of that record are even mentioned by the members anymore, they have said their time at "paisley park" was more of looking at cool artwork, but there wasnt much going on their "musically" within the walls.

Pearl Jam to me would be the strongest artist of that decade, because they GET IT. They werent a grunge band though lumped into it, they were able to shake off the FAKE FANS of their first record and gro, kind of like PRINCE shaking off the Purple Rain only fans.

After that the decade is very hit or miss with me and many that have listened to other decades and lived other decades.

My strongest albums from that decade.


Rem- Automatic for the People
RadioHead- OK computer
Star Turtle- Harry Connick JR
Flaming Pie- Paul McCartney
Photograph Smile- Julian Lennon
Sound of Lies - The Jayhawks
III sides to every story- Extreme
Karma- Rick Springfield


Just to name a few of the top of my head

that list makes a damn good 4 CD compilation!

Cinnie said:

EXACTLY!!!!!

alphastreet said:

honestly i didn't mind the music being oversaturated. It was my first time really getting to listen to music and find out what i liked, because as a child i didn't grow up with music, with the except of michael.

So for me ANY kind of music was new music. So i would enjoy anything that came out just because it was music Now im much more picky.

newpower99 said:

I remember most of the songs on this list, but my favorites are Joe and Case's "Faded Pictures", Jesse Powell's "You" and Monica's "Angel of Mine." As a matter of fact, I have these on my MP3. I think this was the beginning of the end for good R&B music.

lastdecember said:

Flaming Pie has some of Paul's best songs EVER. Including the Beatles songs.
But I like Off The Ground too. I think it went downhill after Tug Of War, and then he began to take off (the ground) in 1992 with Off The Ground (Hope Of Deliverance was HUUUUGE in Germany, his only #1 there).

Cinnie said:

Why because they have talent and careers still?

In my music calendar 1999 was the beginning of the end.

One good thing about 1999: it was the year that I became a Jamiroquai fan In the summer of that year,they released their 'Synchronized' CD and it became a favorite of mine.

lastdecember said:

I don't deny they do, I just think sometimes you might be missing other talent and careers that didn't start to shine in the 1980s.

Your list wasn't bad either, that's not what I was trying to say.

At least you mentioned Pearl Jam.

Cinnie said:

hells yeah!

Cinnie said:

the thing is with me, you gotta stick around. I mean i look at the things that the 90's brought, and things like Mariah, well i love her, but i dislike most of her albums on the whole, and i rarely go back and listen to any of her work, unless its a NON single, and from early on , like Vanishing or Until the End of time, basically when she still had the "chops" and not just the hot body. Pearl Jam for me were the "best of the new" with the exception of maybe the band Wilco and the Jayhawks, but even the Jayhawks cut their first ep in the later 80's. But to me the 90's are alot of these "hip hop remixes" which as an old school rb lover, is ANTI all that work. The 90's were the end of RB bands because of the "boy bands" that you got in RB, but the thing is RB never came back when the decade ended, at least in other genres, the bands crawled back in or at least maintained themselves through this decade, RB bands died out all together.

This is also the "Soundscan Era" which is the real end of the Music and the beginning of Big Business and Consolidation, and why we all bitch about shit on here, this is where it began. The 90's were all about debuting at Number One, did you go platnum yet, do 19 tracks and 80 minute cds, bullshit skits on your albums, etc... there was very little that left a mark that has been carried on as an influence, i mean no one is going, gotta bring back "Grunge". So the stronger albums were still again by the proven acts, the U2's, the Durans, depeche, REM, etc.. As for the POP movement at the latter part of the decade, i mean, it was like the New Kids on The Block movement of the later 80's except wider spread, it was the MAX MARTIN movement, he was the one that did it all, it was Britney and Justin and Xtina, it was MAX MARTIN, without him these kids would be Mickey Mouse club burnouts. And im not a fan of "sounds" i never was a fan of "stock aiken waterman" sound that took over the later 80's because it was all about EVERYONE sounding the same, i dont mind a movement when everyone is different, but everyone sounding the same, is what the last 20 years has been. Sound the same, cash in on it. Thats why i will always stick with the loyal artists who i know are doing it for the sake of doing it, and not the check.

FOr me PRINCE did the Best and Worst thing in the decade. BEST thing was changing his name and going underground. Worst thing, changing it back to PRINCE and becoming a label guy at times.

Also i never shut any artist out, because it was my job to listen to everyone, and all the advances and promos that came through, so the more i heard artists and their FULL albums the less appealing they were, but as always there were a few that popped through, but looking back on it, not one artist stands out as coming from the 90's with the exceptions of Pearl Jam and Mariah and maybe Lenny K (though he was late 80's) and being able to still be relevant or at least still have the desire to record and grow. Believe it or not i have found many more from this decade that began in this decade that are way more interesting than the 90's.
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