Haha classic rock station here is always playing guns and roses and I'm dayum.if I have to feel the pain every time Alice In Chains is played after a Boston song, so do you.
Haha classic rock station here is always playing guns and roses and I'm dayum.if I have to feel the pain every time Alice In Chains is played after a Boston song, so do you.
Here's the thing: It its original context, it was alternative rock. That was when shitty hair metal bands dominated the charts. REM and The Pixies were an alternative to Def Leppard or Bon Jovi. The name just stuck.
Ten years later, smaller rock bands signed to independent labels were termed "indie" bands. Then in the '00s, as bands like The White Stripes and The Strokes blew up as an alternative to shitty nu metal and butt rock bands, the indie name stuck even as some became global superstars.
Too bad Billy Corgan is not great.
I'm in a similar boat. Bands like Massive Attack and Belle and Sebastian were completely off my radar until the mid-'00s, when I caught them on internet radio. Unfinished Sympathy blew my mind the first time I heard it.That applies to every single decade starting with the 60s, though. But yeah, the 90s were pretty great, I had a blast with music back in those days but surprisingly I find that the stuff I really, REALLY loved back then wasn't really anywhere near the best of what was being done at the time (I too was a massive Bush fan but they're something I mostly roll my eyes at these days, Razorblade Suitcase especially...) but for some reason as a teen I was completely unaware of stuff like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Pavement, Stone Roses Modest Mouse so I suppose "You could hear these song by just waking on the streets, going to the mall. These songs were all over MTV and the radios. It was glorious." isn't really surprising when one considers the stuff getting heavy airplay was mostly B tier single oriented stuff and as such not much has changed since then.
It may not be true, but my favorite story I heard from back then is how some guy from a famous hair metal band saw the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit and basically said "Whelp, that's the end of us."
Anyone hear this story/know if it is actually true?
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This seems...reductive.We are actually seeing in real time people reach the age and becoming nostalgic for content that was just OK. I really hope Era is around in the 2040s so I can see the threads about classic 2010's music.
We are actually seeing in real time people reach the age and becoming nostalgic for content that was just OK. I really hope Era is around in the 2040s so I can see the threads about classic 2010's music.
I listen to Triple J sometimes, and yes, there are good Aussie bands that pickup on that alternative vibe. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever kinda fits with that too.The 90's were amazing for rock in general. Actually they were just amazing for music full stop.
I'm very greatful that here in Australia the spirit of the 90s is alive and well with many great local rock bands like King Gizzard, The Chats, Courtney Barnett etc. Rock is still popular here.
I listen to Triple J sometimes, and yes, there are good Aussie bands that pickup on that alternative vibe. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever kinda fits with that too.
There's a bit of a revival here in Canada, too. A couple of local bands come to mind.
Epic Rap Battles the thread.We are actually seeing in real time people reach the age and becoming nostalgic for content that was just OK. I really hope Era is around in the 2040s so I can see the threads about classic 2010's music.
I'm in Canada listening over the net. It's all digital. ;)If you are listening to digital radio you should actually hit up Double J. They play a lot more rock than JJJ and less... Autotuned indie dream pop? Fucks me what the genre is but it's not inspiring.
Love Gin Blossoms. They are still out there touring and occasionally putting out new albums, although not with their original guitarist, obviously.
That's crazy, I kind of miss local radio. Spotify is just another way of making the world smaller :/i remember when my local rock station was celebrating the new millennium, they did the top 1,077 songs of all time lol
Tool is progressive metal. I loved Tool as well.I grew up with it, it was a great time for music, no doubt. Though I can't really take some of those bands like Collective Soul. I don't really know where Tool fits in genres, I'm not sure anyone does but they were my favorite band from that era. They were almost a heavier grunge sound with the Opiate and Undertow but became more of a progressive rock outfit later. I like what Rick Beato has to say about the era, it was a return of rock music to its blues roots and that's generally when rock music has been at its best and he thinks part of the reason rock music lost its popularity was because again in the 2000s there were a lot of generic bands, emo was on the rise it had lost its origin so to speak.
born in 83 really "discovered" music in the early 90's. I still listen to more 90's stuff than anything else. I remember in MS we would make mixtapes (cassette tapes kids not CD's) by listening to the radio and hitting record before songs came on. We would do this for hours at a time to get a great tape.