Q: Did 90's Music Kickass? A: YES.

**82erkle** · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 7727 Location: UW-Eau Claire

I don't know if this is just me because I grew up in this decade, but it seemed like the 90's really had some real gems on the radio during the time. It seemed like more stuff on the radio at the time was more artistic. Songs on the radio now days is either cheesy stories about love or about hoes and stacks (sarcastically speaking). I just feel like there's no differentiation from the pop music today. I personally think that there was something in the 90's that appealed to everyone. Grunge, rap, hip-hop, pop-rock, metal, the list goes on and on. I don't know what you guys think about this, but more than half of the music I have on my iPod is from the 90's.
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**GIRLintheFIRE** · Joined: 26 Dec 2009 Posts: 139

[edit] oops I forgot that that was 00's

I don't know. I've always considered mainstream to be pretty bland. It's been the same thing pretty much since the 80s.
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**GuardianDemon** · Joined: 11 Apr 2008 Posts: 1792 Location: Ireland

Now, back then i didnt like rock/metal ect music, i liked dance, techno, when i was a kid (23/10/91) and there really were some nice songs. 1 that i still like is Robert Miles - One And One. Sort of a depressing song, but still nice lyrics.

**Xtresso** · Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 1575 Location: Toronto, Canada

Well, the 90s and early 00s were definitely the only good time for rap music. The shit they put out today is just meaningless pop garbage, 90s gangsta rap was imo the only good rap. That and early jay-z, immortal technique (early 00s), etc.
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**Fugitive** · Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 3035

I don't think that any time-frame in particular produced better music than another. I listen to music ranging anywhere from the 50s to today (and some classical that was composed hundreds of years ago). Like GIRLintheFIRE said, radio music has, TO ME, always appeared very bland and similar. I wouldn't say the 90s were a stand out time for radio music.

In fact, I would venture a guess that most music on my iPod is from the 00s, and I forsee more music from this decade being on there, when it's through, than the 90s. I even think I have more from the 80s than 90s. But I digress.

Don't get me wrong. If you're into grunge, then this is the time for you. Or if this is your generation for hip hop and rap, then that's fine too. I'm not saying the music is worse. I'm just saying I don't really find classifying music by time frame particularly useful or qualifying for the music itself. I'd rather just judge the music on the music, rather than the time it came out. So I don't particularly care to even find out when songs/albums came out a lot of the time.

**MetalheadNorm** · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 1041 Location: Michigan

I dunno about on the radio, but the 90's was a great decade for music indeed!
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**cobainage1994** · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 2020 Location: Whitewater , WI

The 90s had great fuckin music, even on the radio.

Earlier Smash Mouth
The Spin Doctors
Third Eye Blind
The Counting Crowes
The Black Crowes

And of course the unforgettable one hit wonders

No Rain
Closing Time
Flagpole sitta

Pretty much the whole grunge era.

And to this day I still say Will Smith is the greatest rapper ever god damnit! (I hate the genre as a whole though)

**Boomsars** · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 1273 Location: Arkansas

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Crash_McLarson/10090ssongs

I Nostalgia'd hard. And downloaded quite a few of these songs.
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**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

It's disturbing to me that '90s are starting to become "classic" and "nostalgic."

Makes me feel old, or something.

As expected several people in this thread despise the radio hits of any era. Fair enough, you can hate the mainstream til the cows come home, but I think some of us still love to remember the hits of the '90s because that was most of our "coming of age." That music really hits home for us, even if we were to listen to it now and might dislike it. When I was a kid I loved Britney Spears and Ricky Martin and Nsync and that whole thing, and now I can't stand most of that music. But listening to it is still fun and nostalgic, so don't rain on our parade dammit.

Not to mention that lot of radio music is good "entry-level" material for even more stuff. For example, I didn't like many of the "hit" songs by any given band after listening to the rest of their album, because the rest of their stuff was so much better. But I still have to thank the radio for getting me to buy the album in the first place.

To say that any decade was better than another is entirely subjective, of course, but the OP isn't saying the 90s > all, he's saying the 90s were awesome, which I whole-heartedly agree with.

I remember one of the few CDs I owned (and played to death) in middle school was none other than NOW 5. Yes, it was technically released in 2000, but I think we can all agree that most decade trends carry over a year or two into the next decade (plus the recording was done in 98-99). I think this CD encompasses my memories of the 90s pretty well.
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**joekickass1234** · Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 1436 Location: Cherry Hill NJ

It was the grunge era. This happens to be my favourite style music. Alice in Chains, Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana. Even Metallica got into grunge with their Load and ReLoad albums. It also was the period of the punk rock revival. Band like Rancid, the Offspring, and a whole lot more that I'm forgetting about. It was a splendid time for music indeed.
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**Eastwinn** · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:16 am Post subject:

The invention of Emo was in the 90s also.

As much as a love my 90s bands (I like to call Pearl Jam my second favorite band), I have to give it more credit for setting America up for the post-hardcore movement. Thank you 90s.
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**JohnnyGrey** · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 2:30 am Post subject:

I was actually thinking of making a thread like this, as I recently had been finding some old gems that I'd forgotten about. I feel as though people mistake this as when music started getting "bad" and a lot of the music gets overshadowed by the likes of the Spice Girls, Nsync, and Hanson

Savage Garden - I want you, Break and shake me, Crash 'n' burn
Fastball - The way,
Sister Hazel - All for you
Del Amitri - Roll to me
Blues Traveler - Run Around
Eiffel 65 - The entire europop CD. More specifically Living in a bubble
Aladdin, The Lion King and the Goofy movie soundtracks were all made during the 90's I'm pretty sure xD, and I love them all

So yea, the 90s had some pretty great music
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**MetalheadNorm** · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 1041 Location: Michigan

Since everyone is gettin specific around here:

Unquestionable Presence, Effigy of the Forgotten, Arise, Testimony of Ancients, Human, Blessed are the Sick, Necroticism, and Horrorscope, and that's just 1991!!!
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**GIRLintheFIRE** · Joined: 26 Dec 2009 Posts: 139