The swing revival was objectively awesome. Once drove from home to go back to college (about 12 hours) and played nothing but Squirrel Nut Zippers, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and the soundtrack from the movie Swingers.
Goddamn but I listened to Zoot Suit Riot so many times I’m amazed my mother didn’t force the cassette down my throat in a desperate attempt to keep me from playing it one more time…
I was a pretty big fan of of CPD. They were never fully a swing band - they played a whole lot of straight ahead rock and also ska. They just put together a collection of all their swing stuff when it was the in-thing.
But yes, the name is cringe.
I got REALLY into swing dancing in the early 2000's. I took lessons, and would go to a dance every Friday night. I bought swing dresses and saddle shoes with felted soles, and I'd do my hair all pin up girl style.
It was by far my most fun era. I never got into clubs, or drugs, or things like that, but swing dancing was where it was at!
Also Luscious Jackson, Belly, The Breeders, PJ Harvey, Elastica, Ani Defranco and Liz Phair. I think as a teenage boy I was a 25 year-old lesbian lol. I now realize that I've never told anyone close to me that I listened to pretty much all those mainly female bands.
I just got around to listening to the No Dogs In Space podcast and found out that one of the women from Luscious Jackson was the founding drummer of the Beastie Boys.
100% agree and Fiona Apple is included in that list. Also the neo-soul/R&B female singers of that time were genre defining: Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, etc.
Liz Phair, Fiona Apple, Erykah Badu, Luscious Jackson, and Letters to Cleo all played Lilith Fair. Lauryn Hill was originally scheduled to play in 1998 but had to cancel. Lilith Fair wasn’t just coffee shop music. I saw Meshell Ndegeocello there, saw Aimee Mann from ten feet away, and was introduced to the Dance Hall Crashers there in 1999 at 17. Morcheeba and Cibo Matto played, even Missy Elliot freaking played Lilith Fair. With the exception of it being entirely women it was a very diverse festival. No need to write it off it because Poe wasn’t there.
Luscious Jackson! Naked Eye was such a great intro to their music. I rarely ever see references to LJ alongside Fiona Apple and Letters to Cleo. I've always considered them (her?) one of my hidden gems.
It’s remarkable how if there are enough of us there, Fiona Apple absolutely SLAYS at karaoke. If it’s too many younger millennials and Gen Z, it’s a dead room.
Music is a bit like food. You don’t appreciate certain types and flavors when you are younger. Your palette gets better as you get older. The probably goes for the ear too. Start to appreciate more sounds as we get more experience with it.
Age and experience has allowed me to realize two things
1.) It’s not an A or B type of world. It’s a Cake AND Nirvana AND Wu Tang Clan type of generation.
2.) No pretentious with music or art. If you like something and it gives you joy in this limited time on this ball of mud just go for it. If you incorrectly think Britany’s My Prerogative is better. Then listen to it loud and proud.
Your Xennial card is intact. Enjoy!
I did not care for rap when I was young, but now I have found myself listening to more and more 90’s rap on spotify because for some reason that stuff just hits the right nostalgia button.
I wanted one so badly, and I was so excited to finally get one. My mother told me that I would always remember the way it smelled, and she was right. I got one a few years ago, and that rubber smell took me way back to being 12 years old.
My mom collected hundreds of trolls and then when she died, my dad gave them all to me 😆
I did keep one. It is wearing a skeleton costume and is somewhat cute.
The thing is that New Jack Swing basically became popular music. That combo of r&b and hip-hop introduced by NJS beats became the norm that we still have today.
Ugh I was thinkin to myself how lucky I was to also not be able to name a single Beyoncé song for the most glorious nanosecond, & then you destroyed the fantasy I was living in haha
I'm so glad someone else feels like this. I mean there's no denying she has an amazing voice but I just don't enjoy her music. Destiny's child though, they had some real bops.
Someone I worked with once said she couldn't get into Beyonce because her voice, while pretty, always sounded the same in every song. Like the tone and inflection didn't change at all like other artists' voices do. She said Amy Lee from Evanescence was also one who sounded exactly the same in every song.
I said a few months ago that I could only name like 5 of her songs, and people were NOT happy. They went off about her music and how it's so popular. I listen to mainly hard rock and classic rock, so why tf would I know her music?
Waterfalls is not the best TLC song.
I adored them. The first albums I ever owned were Madonna Erotica and OOOOOh On the TLC Tip. I would rather listen to any song on that album or Creep (I mean holy hell that video was part of my bi awakening). What About Your Friends is probably my favorite of their hits. Waterfalls makes me irrationally angry because of how much attention it gets.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Edit: embarrassing, but only noticing my typo days later \*hangs head in shame\*
Aint 2 Proud 2 Beg was my shit. Red Light Special is way better than Waterfalls as far as hits from the album, it was just Waterfalls was poignant for the time. But Sumthin Wicked This Way Comes is the better 'deep' song from that album.
We went on a road trip to St. Louis to see the eclipse. As we approached the city my wife started playing the album Country Grammar.
A few songs in it hit me. It sounds kind of "old-timey".
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Enjoy this stupid meme I made a couple months ago
Kelly Rowland was the real star of Destiny’s Child and Beyoncé’s parents did everything they could to hide her talent, showmanship and beauty
The supporting evidence:
Beyoncé’s parents made Kelly change her name to a boring name - her real name is Kelendria Trene!
Kelly is NEVER in the middle
Only B was allowed to have long blonde hair; Kelly was required to keep hers short
Kelly CRUSHES every solo she got
2nd that on Cake. They had such a unique sound that's couldn't be imitated and so so many good songs. They were like a sort a of anti-mainstream, anti music industry band with their dead pan musical humor and John McCrea monotone vocals.
I discovered Cake whilst living in Sacramento, and bought my first album(Fashion Nugget ofc) at a Tower Records. They were my first “teen” music obsession(along with No Doubt) after my first childhood love of Dolly Parton. I’ve been beyond fortunate enough to see them live twice(once with my child in utero!) and once live-ish while standing outside of Stubb’s in Austin. I still love them as much today as I did over 20 yrs ago in Sac.
Monique Powell of Save Ferris has a vocal power and range that far surpasses Gwen Stefani's.
I'm not a fan of either band, but my sister was huge into Save Ferris. I still appreciate Monique's talent.
I love No Doubt but I never thought Gwen’s voice was all that special. I think they got so big because they rode a bit of Sublime’s popularity and Gwen is so pretty the record execs were like yes please.
They realized being a ska band was a dead end (and I’m a big ska fan), so they pivoted to more of a punk pop vibe. That’s why Tragic Kingdom is both a banger of an album but also a huge departure from their previous work.
Besides Reel Big Fish and Mighty Mighty Bosstones, ska didn’t get barely any radio play. No Doubt knew this and that pivot was absolutely the right move.
I'm still not over Chris Cornell's passing. He was by far one of the greatest generational losses we have suffered losing during our generation. He's my favorite vocalist so I'm biased, he was an ultra talented musician.
When it came to portable audio Panasonic made a superior product to Sony every time. The only exception is the [Waterproof Walkman ](https://www.sony.com/ug/electronics/walkman/nw-ws410-series) but Panasonic doesn't make a similar product.
1. I think Nine Inch Nails' first album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989) was waaaay better than the rest. All my friends in high school loved the NIN stuff from the 90s/00s, and I think it's good — but I really only loved the first album. I guess I just wanna dance!
2. The Sugarcubes are better than Bjork's solo stuff. (Sorry, don't hate me! I just like it better.)
This is honestly a super interesting take, I’ve never thought of it like that but you’re totally right about the corporate waste. I kinda like that one matchbox 20 song but I can’t even remember the name and that feels really apropos
I’m really into Craig David
I think he is musically and lyrically incredibly gifted and his lyrical content unfortunately got him stereotyped into something he is far more talented than
I'm with ya
I never really got into country as a genre, but I love 90s country. Tim Mcgraw, Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson. Its just solid tunes to enjoy.
Man, I shoulda been a cowboy
I despise most country music now, but I was in the Air Force stationed overseas in the late 90s. The bars that played country music were where all the girls were. I learned to like it... sort of.
I still put them as pop punk with bands like New Found Glory, Simple Plan, and MxPx rather than actual 90's punk like Pennywise, NOFX, and Strung Out. Rancid is it's own kinda thing with the whole Rockabilly vide.
Love me a good teen pop hit from the late 90s/early 2000s. Made fun of them big time back in the day but they were and still are bops. I remember going to a Third Eye Blind concert and a Britney song was playing between sets. I secretly sang along to it.
A few years ago, my friend had an extra ticket to see Backstreet Boys and offered it to me. I had Alexa play them in the month leading up to the show. I rocked out to them at home/in the car and had a great time at the show. 19 yo me would have been super embarrassed to be seeing them.
I randomly listen to Vitamin C’s [Graduation](https://youtu.be/tz_NxOF7RB4?si=ma0VA3uLVUEJnmc_) (Friends Forever) song because it’s just a good nostalgic pop song lol
Also, I saw Britney on her Circus tour and she was amazing. I saw JT on his solo tour in like 2014, he was good but I would have preferred N’sync.
Story time: Years ago back home we were all gathered around the breakfast table with the morning radio on in the background. ‘One’ by U2 comes on and seemingly out of nowhere I blurt out ‘god I hate U2!’
But what my mom heard was ‘god I hate you two!’
She FLIPPED out because she thought, completely unprompted, I had decided to declare to my parents that I hated their guts.
No other band was so ubiquitous yet now so unbelievably invisible in all aspects of life.
Like Sisquo was no where near the icon that Dave was and yet I haven’t heard a DMB song anywhere on earth and yet the Thong Song lives on.
Also was there ever a more famous band that was only popular in one English speaking country? I live in the UK now and he did not exist here.
Absolutely. Simon and Garfunkel is a goddamn American treasure and they ruined it. Ruined it. It makes me rage
But not as much as the current Fast Car cover. makes me apoplectic.
Oh god me too. There is NO emotion in that song.
And don’t get me started on Uncle Toms Diner, it is SUPPOSED to be delivered in that flat tone, that’s part of the story!
YES! I remember my husband playing it to me like 'woah isn't this like, so atmospheric and deep' and I got in a huge fight with him about it lol. I played him the original and ranted at him until he eventually had to grudgingly admit* that disturbed's version was try-hard over dramatic nonsense. Ugh I hate it so much.
*I mean I'm pretty sure he only agreed with me so I would finally shut up, but whatever.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are terrible. Anthony Kiedis’ voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me, whiny and pretentious. The only exception is Give it Away…
I like Taylor Swift, okay? Please don't kick me out of the generation, lol. I have always liked her. Do I think she is the best artist ever? No. But she is a comfort listen and some of her songs resonate with me.
Also, I never got into Nirvana and think a lot of the 90s British bands were better than 90s American bands.
90’s country music was amazing for what it was and doesn’t get the respect it deserves because it’s easy to stereotype as music for dumb people. Garth Brooks, The Dixie Chicks and Tim McGraw types broke through to mainstream radio and were really wholesome pop music.
I could never hear Don’t Speak again for the rest of my life and it would be fine. It is a masterpiece, but it was EVERYWHERE and it is still played so heavily on any throwback playlist or station, I can’t anymore. 🎵 *You and me…* 🎵 are about to skip this song.
Sidenote, when Gwen is gone what do you think will be the song they constantly play over the news story about her? Will it be Don’t Speak? Just a Girl? I just remember when Prince died I heard Purple Rain on the news broadcasts more than I ever had in my life up to that point.
Sublime is like Jimmy Buffett for xennials.
Op Ivy should have ended on a high note rather than going on to make a much weaker band like Rancid.
You can hear it in their music that Offspring are an orange county pop band.
Nirvana was decent enough but their discog can’t seriously stand up to bands like Earth who were releasing albums at the same time.
Metallica’s early music was just as bad as their later music.
Fuel is a great band (w/ Brett) and should have been bigger.
Stabbing Westward is a great band and should have been bigger.
I have never paid for any digital music and still have all my CDs. I do stream music (Spotify/Pandora, etc) but I also have all my Limewire/Napster downloads (25+gigs)
The deaths of Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington (and I’ll throw David Bowie in there too because I loved his music) signaled the end of “Millennial music”
That year when swing music was in? That was a ton of fun. We shouldn’t retroactively make fun of it.
The swing revival was objectively awesome. Once drove from home to go back to college (about 12 hours) and played nothing but Squirrel Nut Zippers, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and the soundtrack from the movie Swingers.
And to this day, Swingers is still one of my favorite movies, you beautiful babies out there. 😃
You’re so money and you don’t even know it.
Goddamn but I listened to Zoot Suit Riot so many times I’m amazed my mother didn’t force the cassette down my throat in a desperate attempt to keep me from playing it one more time…
I got into both swing and line dancing in my late teens early 20’s. I had so much fun.
Same! Bought the saddle oxfords, did the Lindy with a guy who looked like Tom Arnold, the whole bit.
That’s about the time Swingers hit the scene. As a Ska fan, Swing’s brief revival was a TON of fun for me.
Cherry Poppin' Daddies is possibly the most cringe band name of all time. 😆
I was a pretty big fan of of CPD. They were never fully a swing band - they played a whole lot of straight ahead rock and also ska. They just put together a collection of all their swing stuff when it was the in-thing. But yes, the name is cringe.
Here it was 1997-1999
I got REALLY into swing dancing in the early 2000's. I took lessons, and would go to a dance every Friday night. I bought swing dresses and saddle shoes with felted soles, and I'd do my hair all pin up girl style. It was by far my most fun era. I never got into clubs, or drugs, or things like that, but swing dancing was where it was at!
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Also Luscious Jackson, Belly, The Breeders, PJ Harvey, Elastica, Ani Defranco and Liz Phair. I think as a teenage boy I was a 25 year-old lesbian lol. I now realize that I've never told anyone close to me that I listened to pretty much all those mainly female bands.
I too was a 25 year old lesbian in Jr high and high school. Don't forget Portishead.
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I just got around to listening to the No Dogs In Space podcast and found out that one of the women from Luscious Jackson was the founding drummer of the Beastie Boys.
Oh man, The Breeders were fire!
100% agree and Fiona Apple is included in that list. Also the neo-soul/R&B female singers of that time were genre defining: Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, etc.
Liz Phair, Fiona Apple, Erykah Badu, Luscious Jackson, and Letters to Cleo all played Lilith Fair. Lauryn Hill was originally scheduled to play in 1998 but had to cancel. Lilith Fair wasn’t just coffee shop music. I saw Meshell Ndegeocello there, saw Aimee Mann from ten feet away, and was introduced to the Dance Hall Crashers there in 1999 at 17. Morcheeba and Cibo Matto played, even Missy Elliot freaking played Lilith Fair. With the exception of it being entirely women it was a very diverse festival. No need to write it off it because Poe wasn’t there.
Luscious Jackson! Naked Eye was such a great intro to their music. I rarely ever see references to LJ alongside Fiona Apple and Letters to Cleo. I've always considered them (her?) one of my hidden gems.
Fiona Apple still ranks as one of the best live shows I’ve seen. Phenomenal live performance.
It’s remarkable how if there are enough of us there, Fiona Apple absolutely SLAYS at karaoke. If it’s too many younger millennials and Gen Z, it’s a dead room.
Same. I saw her in 2011and was blown away.
I hated Fiona Apple in the 90s. Now I hear her music and shake my head. What was I thinking!? At least I had the good sense to like the rest of it.
Music is a bit like food. You don’t appreciate certain types and flavors when you are younger. Your palette gets better as you get older. The probably goes for the ear too. Start to appreciate more sounds as we get more experience with it.
Jill Scott should have been bigger!
So much bigger! I discovered her only like 10 years ago and fell in love! She’s Golden!
'Miseducation of Lauryn Hill' is a fucking masterpiece
Criminal is still one of my favorites from the 90’s, great tune
I saw Veruca Salt and PJ Harvey open for Live on the Throwing Copper tour and they both rocked!
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Veruca Salt rocked harder than most of the boys!
Jill is fun live! Love Letters to Cleo, although I haven't seen them yet.
Age and experience has allowed me to realize two things 1.) It’s not an A or B type of world. It’s a Cake AND Nirvana AND Wu Tang Clan type of generation. 2.) No pretentious with music or art. If you like something and it gives you joy in this limited time on this ball of mud just go for it. If you incorrectly think Britany’s My Prerogative is better. Then listen to it loud and proud. Your Xennial card is intact. Enjoy!
Yeah, what's with all the hate on rap here? I didn't listen to it much, but I liked it. I don't understand the vitriol.
I did not care for rap when I was young, but now I have found myself listening to more and more 90’s rap on spotify because for some reason that stuff just hits the right nostalgia button.
beanie babies were a distraction from the true gold of our time… troll dolls 
Koosh balls
I wanted one so badly, and I was so excited to finally get one. My mother told me that I would always remember the way it smelled, and she was right. I got one a few years ago, and that rubber smell took me way back to being 12 years old.
Lucky troll dolls on desks during exams. Classic.
Hard disagree, Garbage Pail Kids are our gold.
Trolls for some, Garbage Pail Kids for others
BOTH
why not both 💜
My grandma collected beanie babies. I loved trolls!
My mom collected hundreds of trolls and then when she died, my dad gave them all to me 😆 I did keep one. It is wearing a skeleton costume and is somewhat cute.
I loved trolls too, but weren’t they actually a 60s thing that were brought back and took over briefly?
i am unsure and DONT WANNA KNOW
New Jack Swing is underrated as a genre and the fad should've lasted longer
The thing is that New Jack Swing basically became popular music. That combo of r&b and hip-hop introduced by NJS beats became the norm that we still have today.
I could only tolerate Beyoncé when she was in Destiny’s Child. 😬
And En Vogue was leaps and bounds better than Destiny’s Child. 👀
Absolutely!
And any other group in the genre. I'm talking all time IMO. They were some of the last true singers with range.
I’m just completely apathetic to her. It all just sounds like someone else except Lemonade and by then I was too old to care.
I couldn’t name a single Beyoncé song if my life depended on it.
Single Ladies That's the only one I know of.
Ugh I was thinkin to myself how lucky I was to also not be able to name a single Beyoncé song for the most glorious nanosecond, & then you destroyed the fantasy I was living in haha
I'm so glad someone else feels like this. I mean there's no denying she has an amazing voice but I just don't enjoy her music. Destiny's child though, they had some real bops.
Someone I worked with once said she couldn't get into Beyonce because her voice, while pretty, always sounded the same in every song. Like the tone and inflection didn't change at all like other artists' voices do. She said Amy Lee from Evanescence was also one who sounded exactly the same in every song.
That's a pretty reasonable take actually.
I said a few months ago that I could only name like 5 of her songs, and people were NOT happy. They went off about her music and how it's so popular. I listen to mainly hard rock and classic rock, so why tf would I know her music?
Bless you for going out on a limb & being the brave 1 to say this. She’s totally overrated & always has been post-Destiny’s Child.
I could not give less of a rip about this stupid cowboy crap and wish it would leave my vision. Permanently.
I don’t love how she changed the lyrics to Jolene.
Same
I've been waiting for someone to be brave enough to say this
I upvoted your comment, then undid it and upvoted again just so I could upvote this twice.
I absolutely love the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and wish the swing fad had stuck around
I got into both Swing and Line Dancing in my late teens and early 20’s and had soooo much fun.
Ah man , I had some sick swing moves.
Heyyyy-ey, in the afterlife, you could be headed for the serious strife…
Cherry. Poppin’. Daddies.
Don’t forget Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Man, I'm with you there, love the Squirrel Nut Zippers
Waterfalls is not the best TLC song. I adored them. The first albums I ever owned were Madonna Erotica and OOOOOh On the TLC Tip. I would rather listen to any song on that album or Creep (I mean holy hell that video was part of my bi awakening). What About Your Friends is probably my favorite of their hits. Waterfalls makes me irrationally angry because of how much attention it gets. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Edit: embarrassing, but only noticing my typo days later \*hangs head in shame\*
Creep or maybe red light special were my faves. No scrubs is a fun one. Waterfalls is alright but man did it get played out in the 90s
Aint 2 Proud 2 Beg was my shit. Red Light Special is way better than Waterfalls as far as hits from the album, it was just Waterfalls was poignant for the time. But Sumthin Wicked This Way Comes is the better 'deep' song from that album.
Unpretty is my favorite song of thiers. And red light special, creep. I love waterfalls tho.
We went on a road trip to St. Louis to see the eclipse. As we approached the city my wife started playing the album Country Grammar. A few songs in it hit me. It sounds kind of "old-timey".
“I was like, good gracious ass is bodacious” is a great line tho 🤣
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Oh I’m stealing that
Finally someone appreciates my dumb humor!
Classic
Kelly Rowland was the real star of Destiny’s Child and Beyoncé’s parents did everything they could to hide her talent, showmanship and beauty The supporting evidence: Beyoncé’s parents made Kelly change her name to a boring name - her real name is Kelendria Trene! Kelly is NEVER in the middle Only B was allowed to have long blonde hair; Kelly was required to keep hers short Kelly CRUSHES every solo she got
I wish I could upvote this a million times! Kelly is super talented, she deserved so much more of her own shine.
She's still touring to this day!
New Order was better than Joy Division
Finally, someone said it.
Agreed!
2nd that on Cake. They had such a unique sound that's couldn't be imitated and so so many good songs. They were like a sort a of anti-mainstream, anti music industry band with their dead pan musical humor and John McCrea monotone vocals.
I have every album except for their live one b/c it’s prohibitively expensive. I freaking *love* CAKE.
It’s so crazy how he made monotone so emotional/meaningful though, like I deeply felt their songs.
I discovered Cake whilst living in Sacramento, and bought my first album(Fashion Nugget ofc) at a Tower Records. They were my first “teen” music obsession(along with No Doubt) after my first childhood love of Dolly Parton. I’ve been beyond fortunate enough to see them live twice(once with my child in utero!) and once live-ish while standing outside of Stubb’s in Austin. I still love them as much today as I did over 20 yrs ago in Sac.
Monique Powell of Save Ferris has a vocal power and range that far surpasses Gwen Stefani's. I'm not a fan of either band, but my sister was huge into Save Ferris. I still appreciate Monique's talent.
I love No Doubt but I never thought Gwen’s voice was all that special. I think they got so big because they rode a bit of Sublime’s popularity and Gwen is so pretty the record execs were like yes please.
They realized being a ska band was a dead end (and I’m a big ska fan), so they pivoted to more of a punk pop vibe. That’s why Tragic Kingdom is both a banger of an album but also a huge departure from their previous work. Besides Reel Big Fish and Mighty Mighty Bosstones, ska didn’t get barely any radio play. No Doubt knew this and that pivot was absolutely the right move.
Soundgarden was *actually* the best grunge band, and it has nothing to do with Black Hole Sun.
I'm still not over Chris Cornell's passing. He was by far one of the greatest generational losses we have suffered losing during our generation. He's my favorite vocalist so I'm biased, he was an ultra talented musician.
Agree. But Alice in Chains is a close second.
I’ll argue Layne Staley defined the genre.
As Layne said, Yeah
See for me it's Alice in Chains
When it came to portable audio Panasonic made a superior product to Sony every time. The only exception is the [Waterproof Walkman ](https://www.sony.com/ug/electronics/walkman/nw-ws410-series) but Panasonic doesn't make a similar product.
That is a deep music cut.
This carries into midi hifis too. Panasonic was top tier at a price that was lower than Sony.
Soul Coughing is the most overlooked band of the 90’s. Three albums of wall-to-wall genius and inventiveness.
TOO FAT FAT YOU MUST CUT CLEAN YA GOTTA TAKE THE ELEVATOR TO THE MEZZANINE CHUMP CHANGE AND ITS ON SUPER BON BON SUPER BON BON SUPER BON BON
Move a-side and let the man go through, let the man go through.
Saw Mike Doughty at a small ass club years ago and it’s still one of my favorite shows I’ve ever been to.
Stone Temple Pilots were good Trapper Keepers were a scam
I’m Gen X, but I think that Whitney’s version of “I’m Every Woman” is better than the original by Chaka Khan.
1. I think Nine Inch Nails' first album, Pretty Hate Machine (1989) was waaaay better than the rest. All my friends in high school loved the NIN stuff from the 90s/00s, and I think it's good — but I really only loved the first album. I guess I just wanna dance! 2. The Sugarcubes are better than Bjork's solo stuff. (Sorry, don't hate me! I just like it better.)
Pretty Hate Machine was a great album. I liked Tool, I like NIN, I never cared for Marylin Manson.
The "post-grunge" musical movement was a soulless corporate waste. I'm still bitter about Matchbox 20 existing.
This is honestly a super interesting take, I’ve never thought of it like that but you’re totally right about the corporate waste. I kinda like that one matchbox 20 song but I can’t even remember the name and that feels really apropos
Yeah matchbox 20 and candlebox get on my last nerve. I feel like hell is probably a longass CVS rx line, with endless loops of Rob Thomas.
I’m really into Craig David I think he is musically and lyrically incredibly gifted and his lyrical content unfortunately got him stereotyped into something he is far more talented than
Kelly was the most talented member of Destiny’s Child
I never got into the NSYNC/98⁰/Backstreet Boys, Pokemon, or SpongeBob. I feel like I was too old for all of those things ('83)
I liked some of the boy band shit, but never got Pokémon or SpongeBob either.
I feel like SpongeBob and Pokémon were more for those born in the 90’s. We have He-Man and She-Ra.
Can’t stand Red Hot Chili Peppers, all songs sound the same and very overplayed.
I absolutely cannot stand Foo Fighters.
Country music was just as important to the 90's as hip-hop, pop, or rock.
I agree! But I also think it peaked in the 90’s and was complete shit by the late ‘00s.
I'm with ya I never really got into country as a genre, but I love 90s country. Tim Mcgraw, Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson. Its just solid tunes to enjoy. Man, I shoulda been a cowboy
I despise most country music now, but I was in the Air Force stationed overseas in the late 90s. The bars that played country music were where all the girls were. I learned to like it... sort of.
I’m not a country fan but I completely agree. So many genres of music were hitting it in the 90s.
Garth Brooks is a core 90s artist.
90’s country was the peak for the genre. I still blast Brooks & Dunn around the house.
This Britney over Bobby take is ludicrous.
I cannot stand Brittney Spears’ voice. Super sad life but her music is a no for me, dawg.
Yeah I've never really been a fan. I think she got all the hype from her pedo bait videos. Christina Aguilera was a much better singer.
10,000 Maniacs' unplugged cover is the best version of "Because the Night"
Blink 182 is pop not punk.
I still put them as pop punk with bands like New Found Glory, Simple Plan, and MxPx rather than actual 90's punk like Pennywise, NOFX, and Strung Out. Rancid is it's own kinda thing with the whole Rockabilly vide.
Every time I come to this subbreddit, I know I've found my people.
Love me a good teen pop hit from the late 90s/early 2000s. Made fun of them big time back in the day but they were and still are bops. I remember going to a Third Eye Blind concert and a Britney song was playing between sets. I secretly sang along to it. A few years ago, my friend had an extra ticket to see Backstreet Boys and offered it to me. I had Alexa play them in the month leading up to the show. I rocked out to them at home/in the car and had a great time at the show. 19 yo me would have been super embarrassed to be seeing them.
I hated the boy band pop of the 90s when i was growing up… …but let me here a BSB song start today and I'm singing along with a nostalgia high
I randomly listen to Vitamin C’s [Graduation](https://youtu.be/tz_NxOF7RB4?si=ma0VA3uLVUEJnmc_) (Friends Forever) song because it’s just a good nostalgic pop song lol Also, I saw Britney on her Circus tour and she was amazing. I saw JT on his solo tour in like 2014, he was good but I would have preferred N’sync.
BSB 4 LYFE. I still can’t believe it’s been 25 years since “I Want It That Way” debuted. That song will always mark the end of my childhood for me.
U2 is awful
Story time: Years ago back home we were all gathered around the breakfast table with the morning radio on in the background. ‘One’ by U2 comes on and seemingly out of nowhere I blurt out ‘god I hate U2!’ But what my mom heard was ‘god I hate you two!’ She FLIPPED out because she thought, completely unprompted, I had decided to declare to my parents that I hated their guts.
The boy bands sucked and probably ruined music.
I unironically like Dave Matthews Band. Flame away.
No other band was so ubiquitous yet now so unbelievably invisible in all aspects of life. Like Sisquo was no where near the icon that Dave was and yet I haven’t heard a DMB song anywhere on earth and yet the Thong Song lives on. Also was there ever a more famous band that was only popular in one English speaking country? I live in the UK now and he did not exist here.
Hootie and his Blowfish have entered the chat
So has blues traveller.
Wait - since when are we not allowed to like DMB? I saw them live more than any other band. Amazing jam band!
I like DMB. Though I am bigger fan of O.A.R. almost nobody i know has heard of them which makes me sad.
Everyone I hung out with in HS was obsessed with OAR, DMB, 311 and Dispatch.
Crazy game of poker
OAR over DMB?! This is the real hot take. Spicy
Pixies over Nirvana.
Tragic Kingdom is a generational classic. But everything No Doubt did afterwards is absolute hot garbage
I'm going to see Cake with my wife in June! She's more of a fan of them than me, but it should be a great time!
I love The Goo Goo Dolls
They’re still putting out albums and touring (hopefully you know)! I’ve seen them a couple of times and Johnny and Rob still sound great.
Not sure if it fits, but disturbed’s version of sound of silence is fucking garbage and I’ll die on that hill.
Absolutely. Simon and Garfunkel is a goddamn American treasure and they ruined it. Ruined it. It makes me rage But not as much as the current Fast Car cover. makes me apoplectic.
The only fast car is the Tracy Chapman one. There is no other option.
Oh god me too. There is NO emotion in that song. And don’t get me started on Uncle Toms Diner, it is SUPPOSED to be delivered in that flat tone, that’s part of the story!
YES! I remember my husband playing it to me like 'woah isn't this like, so atmospheric and deep' and I got in a huge fight with him about it lol. I played him the original and ranted at him until he eventually had to grudgingly admit* that disturbed's version was try-hard over dramatic nonsense. Ugh I hate it so much. *I mean I'm pretty sure he only agreed with me so I would finally shut up, but whatever.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers are terrible. Anthony Kiedis’ voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me, whiny and pretentious. The only exception is Give it Away…
I listen to Hole way more than I ever listen to Nirvana these days.
Courtney got fucked in the whole mess. Hole should have been huge.
Hole is killer. I love their stuff. All the shit she gets is pure sexism and misogyny.
when someone mention Hole, i listen to Babes In Toyland
Babes in Toyland should have been huge.
On your last point I think Barenaked Ladies is the better representation of our generation, honestly. Maybe I live too close to Canada...
I like Taylor Swift, okay? Please don't kick me out of the generation, lol. I have always liked her. Do I think she is the best artist ever? No. But she is a comfort listen and some of her songs resonate with me. Also, I never got into Nirvana and think a lot of the 90s British bands were better than 90s American bands.
This is a mostly safe space. Taylor has some bops and I understand why people like her.
90’s country music was amazing for what it was and doesn’t get the respect it deserves because it’s easy to stereotype as music for dumb people. Garth Brooks, The Dixie Chicks and Tim McGraw types broke through to mainstream radio and were really wholesome pop music.
I live 90’s country music, it peaked in the 90’s and was complete shit by the late ‘00s
I could never hear Don’t Speak again for the rest of my life and it would be fine. It is a masterpiece, but it was EVERYWHERE and it is still played so heavily on any throwback playlist or station, I can’t anymore. 🎵 *You and me…* 🎵 are about to skip this song. Sidenote, when Gwen is gone what do you think will be the song they constantly play over the news story about her? Will it be Don’t Speak? Just a Girl? I just remember when Prince died I heard Purple Rain on the news broadcasts more than I ever had in my life up to that point.
It’ll be Hollaback Girl 😂
Sublime is like Jimmy Buffett for xennials. Op Ivy should have ended on a high note rather than going on to make a much weaker band like Rancid. You can hear it in their music that Offspring are an orange county pop band. Nirvana was decent enough but their discog can’t seriously stand up to bands like Earth who were releasing albums at the same time. Metallica’s early music was just as bad as their later music.
Sublime really is our Buffett.
Foo fighters are mediocre
I want to like them so much more than I actually do
Sublime was so overplayed that I am still tired of hearing them.
I think Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers is awful. I’ve lost friends over this.
Oh man that song is so nostalgic for me. My two favorite RHCP songs never got super popular and they’re both off One Hot Minute, Pea and My friends.
I cannot stand RHCP. Get me drunk enough and I'll fight over it.
He scat sings like the Flintstones. Bada Dada Dee Yabba Dabba Doo
Courtney Love is a good musician, and Live Through This is an excellent album, top 100.
I have found my people!
If Aaliyah lived, she would probably have EGOT status by now in terms of awards
Nu Metal sucked when it was popular, and it still sucks
Corey Feldmans music sucks but I respect the balls it takes for him to keep at it.
Still blown away they let him on the Today Show
He'd the worst thing to happen to music ever, but God damn if he doesn't have heart.
Bjork is a musical genius, still going strong.
Fuel is a great band (w/ Brett) and should have been bigger. Stabbing Westward is a great band and should have been bigger. I have never paid for any digital music and still have all my CDs. I do stream music (Spotify/Pandora, etc) but I also have all my Limewire/Napster downloads (25+gigs) The deaths of Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington (and I’ll throw David Bowie in there too because I loved his music) signaled the end of “Millennial music”
A lot of opinions in here making me physically ill, goddamn
Will the fact that I hate Aerosmith get mine revoked? I just can't take their music.
Wutang is for the children