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...and that which extended well into the mid 90s music...I miss it.

I'm sitting at work listening to some CDs (because NPR won't come in and the only radio stations here are candyass top 40, country, slip slop, or ultra religious scary people) and I put in an "oldie" but goodie....The Breeders.  Of course, I gotta give Kim Deal some props not only because she's an awesome female guitarist (not of the lillith fair variety either) and she hails from my home area of Dayton Ohio! 

Man, I miss that era of music though - can't believe "Pod" came out in 1990.  I can't believe how much time has passed.  So, I've been looking over my collection and it brings back a lot of memories: The Breeders, Belly, Juliana Hatfield, Veruca Salt, God Lives Underwater, the Sundays, and much more.  Yeah yeah I know some of these bands started in the 80s and all, but they really hit the peak in the early 90s. 

Sure, maybe it's the nostalgia(sp?) factor, but I miss this kinda stuff, among other styles of the same era.  1993 was my coming of age era I guess - I was in my 2nd year of college, pretty hip at the time, hosting mega parties, basically destroying myself, but damn what a great time!  I'd do it all over again if I could, but I digress.

Like, it's hard to believe "Sit on Acid" from the Lords of Acid came out in what, 1992?!  That's like 15 years ago!  What's funny is that it doesn't seem as dated as you would think - much of LOA's music still sounds futuristic compared to what's popular nowadays (but then, I've often felt in the last six years we've stepped back in time rather than forward, but that's probably just my skewed perception ...or maybe not).

Ah...CD's over - time for "Last Splash"

I guess I'm not that familiar with most of the music your talking about, besides Veruca Salt. I recognize a few of the band names, but what I miss most about the early 90s stuff is grunge. I love Alice in Chains, for one.

Yeah I was into all that too, but it gets talked about much more often.  I didn't like Alice in Chains that much at the time (they were kinda overplayed in my area for awhile) but I began to appreciate them more as time went on.  Now, in retrospect, they were pretty damn good.  I've always been a fan of the grunge era, even pre-Nirvanna - bands like Mudhoney, Daisy Chainsaw, and even Nirvanna themselves.  Man, I miss Nirvanna.

Now I find myself digging into the 90s music much more often than any era -lately I've had a thing for PJ Harvy -man some of her lyrics from her early days are rather viscious - much harder (and her music rocks much more) than what was supposedly 'headbangin' music lol.

Kinda my time as well, I know most of the bands you mentioned, to various levels, some just name recognition. Grunge/alternative was my modern rock music till I got burned out on the really popular stuff, plus I was bouncing around in old stuff and other genres at the time. That time was probably rock's last gasp. Even the stuff I like now often seems like it's treading familiar ground.

Got to admit though God Lives Underwater had some song WKDF in Nashville used to play that was so annoying that even if I slept through my alarm clock hearing that song would get me out of bed.

Alice in Chains seems to get played more than the other bigger bands from that time on the rock stations I get here. Some of the classic rock stations have added 90s music and certain contemporary stuff to their formats to become "real rock" or "active rock" as the format seems to be called now. They were better than I remember them but overkill is getting to be a factor.


I agree mainstream music has gone backwards the past few years. Never a No Doubt fan, but I can't believe how popular Gwen Stafani's solo career is. It's all just 80s retreads with bits of odd stuff throw in, like Fiddler on the Roof in that 'Rich Girl" song.
 
Rap has been the mainstream for a while now, notice how even the pop stars incorporate it or work with rappers and rap producers. With the fragmenting of audiences, news technology, and the drop in CD sales. Maybe it's day is winding down. I guess nothing will be THE dominant thing next just a stew of different styles with their own audiences and some mixing of genres. Could be interesting or it could be as bland as "world music" often is.

I shut my radio off for that entire decade.

(No offense meant to you, guys, but I thought 90's music was generally awful, at least in terms of pop, and the pop subdivision that got called "alternative."

I totally understand that  -more often than not, my "alternative" was never really played much on the radio, or if it was, it was one song from a group who had several albums.  Case in point is Jane's Addiction, one of my favorites of all time -  they played "Been Caught Stealin'" over and over, which was on their 3rd release and was so not near the top of their best songs. 

I've gotten used to just not expecting my music to get any airplay, except maybe on college radio.  I think I started getting bored with what they considered "Alternative" at the time and seeked the alternative to that - started getting into Aphex Twin, Messiah, and other brainshredder techno and intellidance, but always kept some alt rock going on for awhile.

Yeah I can't relate to too much music today - I'm probably just getting old but nothing about any of it seems to have anything interesting at all.  Sure a hip hop track here and there isn't bad to hear in the background, but I've noticed much of it has a really really short shelf-life. 

I, for one, think there's still some good music out there:  Tool, Mudvayne, 10 Years, A Perfect Circle. But I also do listen to a lot of early 90s stuff still, like the aforementioned Alice in Chains, and early Foo Fighters stuff. And as far as No Doubt/Gwen Stefani go, she has done some really good stuff too.

And a Wildcards reader, too?    :wink:

I'm not sure what you mean about a Wildcards reader...

Guess I meant "Wild Cards."

Fortunato.  A character in a book series.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Cards

'fraid not. Actually, I'm a longtime Poe addict who converted to Lovcraftianism. Masque of the Red Death was my gateway drug into the world of horror fiction, so I'm representin' my homey from the Cask of Amontillado

I'm in Europe (well, England), so for me, the early 90s was very energetic and packed with great dance music. :) It was a good time.

OK that's it I'm officially old ... more than half I've never heard of and whats left I just gave that WTF look to.
 

Early 90's...where was I in the early 90's music wise...hmmm...(wavy flashback lines)

  I was at  a Judith Preist/Megadeth concert,drunk,getting arrested for trespassing...(which I was NOT...I had lost my ticket stub in the pit...)
  I saw Suicidal Tendencies/the Melvins/White Zombie at Wings stadium...
  I faintly remember seeing the Reverand Horton Heat opening for someone somewhere....
and then I started having kids. Fun over.

Hahaha that reminds me of my late 80s music - my thrash-metal/punk phase, which I still go back to every once in awhile.  Let's see, at the time of the late 80s during the Headbanger's Ball era (where they'd play mostly nerf metal and maybe 1-2 good songs during the 3rd hour): 

Bands of that time:
D.R.I.
Bad Brains
Suicidal as already mentioned
Sonic Youth
Danzig
Megadeth
Metallica (until "...And Justice for All" - that album p**sed me off - which makes me laugh today when people say they "sold out" when they got their hair cut lol
Anthrax, especially Among the Living
Slayer

 I STILL like alot of those bands from my Thrash/Punk  days...Bad Brains was also a big favorite of mine...BANNED in DC(or the ROIR yellow cassete,as it's called by me).
 Other favorites....
 from the early ninties...
 KYUSS (Green Machine was a KICK ASS song! Still is!)
 I MOTHER EARTH
 MONSTER MAGNET
 JANES ADDICTION (and not just Caught Stealing...)
 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (not in their post Under the bridge suckiness...)
 the MELVINS!!!!!!!!!!!
 the BUTTHOLE SURFERS
 MINISTRY

  ...and yes, I was a Headbangers ball freak too...(couldn't STAND the hair bands...still love REAL punk! A little too old for the pit thing nowadays...sigh... :bluesad:

One of my favorite bands were really hitting their stride by the early-90':

White Zombie

Probably the most non-dated music of 1992. Its just as unique now as it was back then.

Metallica were still tearing s**t up back in the day, too. Too bad they hit that slump in '96 with "Load" and "Re-Load".

White Zombie were EXCELLENT! I saw them at Wings Stadium,with openers the Reverand Horton Heat and the mighty Melvins back in the early days of thrash 90's...when metal really mattered.

I thought the 90s were pretty lousy for entertainment in general: TV, movies, music, even books to a smaller extent.

When Nirvana came along and the music industry started pumping out clones like no tomorrow, (and the "boy bands" later on, shudder) I just gave up on music until ... hmm.  It's only in the last couple of years I've bothered listening to any newer acts.

(Nope, I didn't like Nirvana.  They had one song that I thought was decent, I think.  Korn was even worse, maybe my #1 Worst Big-Time Band of All Time.  Seems like all I heard during the 90s were bands trying desperately to be Nirvana or Korn.  Maybe it was just me.)

There were a few shining spots.  I remember I did like what I heard of White Zombie but I haven't heard them in years, at least nothing I could identify as being theirs.  And the Spice Girls were a diamond in the rough.  Yep, I liked the Spice Girls.  I had all of their albums, until my ex-fiancee decided to keep them when we broke up.

The 90s where rough when it came to alot of different genres of music. Punk became big and every band was playing pop-punk which was rough times. rap-metal was a big thing and bastardized Hardcore like Limp Biscut.

Personal I loved Nirvana and have a patch on my vest to provie it. Thier first album Bleach is great stuff and their other are solid if anything.

 I enjoyed (and still do) Anthrax alot,(after they dumped Joey Belladonna). GWAR were fun! I think the late 80's/early ninties music scene was fairly important...or at least useful,for elbowing out tired hair bands,though the overflow of Metallica (who I never really liked after Master of Puppets) wanna be's and Punk posers kinda smothered the actual GOOD music (Kyuss,Tool,I Mother Earth),IMHO.

NEVER!  Hair Metal was the greatest musical movement of all time!  I never quite got over its passing.

   WHA...?!?! AHHH!!! Sorry...you scared me!!! That's a terrifying statement!!! (Kidding...I kid...) :tongueout:

10 of my favorite 90s songs are:

Wonderwall by Oasis
Nutshell by Alice in Chains
Over Now by Alice in Chains
46 and 2 by Tool
Generator by Foo Fighters
Everlong by Foo Fighters
Simple Kind of Life by No Doubt
Nothing Else Matters by Metallica
Freak on a Leash by Korn
Name by Goo Goo Dolls

Naked by the Goo Goo Dolls was pretty decent. I give them credit for lasting as long as they have, even if they just ride the waves of genres and are harmless in all of them. One of the few radio-friendly groups I can listen to on a regular basis without wanting to beat up the DJ.

I was a fan of critic's darling Chris Whitley, who was on the way up in the early 90s, poor guy died a couple of yeras ago. Deserved to be a bigger name than he was. I even got a few people into his music and made fans out of them. His first album is an underrated classic, check it out.

For me the early '90s was the beginning of the end for music.  I vaguely remember the bands you mentioned and thought they were listenable but not my thing.  Our local hard rock station started playing alternative stuff, and I'd always listen to it while driving to work.  After about a month or so I realized the stuff was making me depressed.    I just never embraced the rock stuff of the '90s, it wasn't for me.  My friends would talk about those bands and I wouldn't have a clue what they were going on about.

I remember all throughout the '80s I'd get my issue of Guitar For The Practicing Musician each month, anxiously dig into the songs they transcribed, it was the highlight of my month.  Then the '90s came and I dropped my subscription.  After 8 years.  They sent me a card asking me why and I said "No good music any more".

I haven't owned a radio since 1996.  I didn't like where "alternative" music was heading.  It was a great ride up until that point though.  You know, just the other day I calculated that I have about 8.4 hours of Butthole Surfers music!  :drink:  I miss the playful experimentation and noise (and the fact record companies couldn't mass produce that style, at least right away).  Favorites in my collection include Meat Puppets, Jesus Lizard, Ministry, L7...  Ah, memories!  Even the rap music back then was great:  remember good Cypress Hill and Gravediggaz?  Haha.


I used to see the Melvins several times a year when I lived in Chicago, usually touring with whatever happened to be Mike Patton's current project (Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Tomahawk, etc).  Then I moved to sunny-cheery northern California and good music all but vanished.  GWAR never set foot in that state.  It was sad, sad times.  But I saved quite a bit of money without decent shows to go to (and nobody to see them with).

The 90s were a cornucopia of bad music and none of you did listen to it?

I only read here about Metal and alternative music. What about the huge mass of Eurodance, the rise of the boy-bands or everything else. I dare you to out yourselves you fans of Ace of Base and Roxette, those who danced to 2 Unlimited and Haddaway. Did nobody own anything by the New Kids on the Block? And never ever forget MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice. Hammer was a god to me untill somebody pointed me to Rick James. Nonetheless sometimes i still feel like it is ...

HAMMERTIME!

actually few metal bands have been mentioned.  I loved both the grunge and metal scence at the time.  Pantera was getting big then, Megadeth put out their best album with Rust in Peace.  Guns'n Roses was still touring.  As for Grunge music, I'm one of those who thinks bands like Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains aren't Nirvana Clones.

Early 90's I was living in Chapel Hill, NC (89-93) and was mostly into older metal like Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, etc as far as music I owned goes.  I listened to campus radio (WXYC) at work a lot (especially when I worked nights when no one else was around - when they were, it was mostly NPR) which played everything from 40's jazz/swing to folks banging on a pipe for five minutes and a lot what I would call alternative stuff.  The most requested song on XYC, almost to the point of being a cliche, was "Bela Lugosi's Dead."

I was really into the local band scene in Chapel Hill, though, and spent a fair amount of time at a club called Cat's Cradle and few others.  Local bands I saw some of you may have heard of include Nikki Meets the Hibachi, Orange Driver, Flat Duo Jets, What Peggy Wants (aka Teasing the Korean) and Southern Culture on the Skids.

Flat Duo Jets later appeared on David Letterman.  The night I saw them at the Cradle, it was Dexter Romweber's birthday, and they decided to play all night long, despite the local law that bars had to close at 2 am.  Man, what a great show, until an amp or something blew at about 5 am.

I saw the "Fairwell Final Show" for Nikki Meets the Hibachi.  The last song they played was a totally improv of "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison (one of my most favorite all time songs) with a bunch of friends on the stage with them (they were not a cover band, this was just a special goodbye song for them).  It was incredibly moving.  What a great band they were, too, and also nationally known at the time.

Saw SCOTS a BUNCH of times, at the Cradle and another place called La Terazza (sp??).  They put on a very fun show.

Orange Driver was a very hard, almost speed metal band and a number of the band members worked at the best pizza shop in town.

I also saw What Peggy Wants in that guise as well as the Teasing The Korean guise numerous times, also in 'special' extended shows.

Some other local bands of note:

Mike Edwards and the Banned: a classic rock cover band that were incredible.  I saw them many times, but two notable ones were the first time they played "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd and it sounded like almost like a recording from start to finish and the time the bass player let me play his Rickenbacker bass some after the show and I got some girls interested with my INCREDIBLE (haha) bass riffs on that awesome sounding guitar.

Chris and the Cornflakes (aka Brainiac Fingers): Now this band was very interesting, and I saw them a number of times, also.  They were a group of guys that get together occasionally to play shows and they just go at it.  It's all improv, basically, they don't even rehearse together.  At the time, they were doing such shows, a few a year, all over the eastern US, but mostly near the NC beaches.  The bass player would start playing a bass line from a 'familiar' rock song, and everyone else would just fill right in.  I recall at one time they were playing at least three distinctly different songs simultaneously and it was GREAT - it fit seamlessly.

I knew bands like Nirvana and Alice in Chains.  i listened to a little Metallica, too, and Megadeth (saw them in Raleigh at an Oz-Fest).  But give me local music in a place like Chapel Hill any time.   :smile: :smile: 

I still love grunge.  Laugh if you will, but a lot of my favorite bands are from this era (Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, even non-grunge bands/artists like God Lives Underwater, Jeff Buckley, and Faith No More).  For those reasons alone I'd consider the 90s a sentimental favorite.

The best early 90's band and one of the greatest rock n roll bands of all time:  Teengenerate