Music in the 1990's

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As I was growing up in the 90's, I was seeing many videos from Fastball, Chumbawamba, Sugar Ray, etc. How can I compare it to today's music?

You can't, because today's music is s**t.

The 90's were an AMAZING time for me in my life, where the world was carefree and and the music was just everything.

I am not certain that it is appropriate to compare one decade's music with another's. I think of different genres and time periods in music like I think of human skin color...different but not better or worse.

For instance, hip-hop from the mid-to-late 90s is perhaps better for dancing whereas techno/trance from the 2000s is better for running. This is analogous to feeling like it would be better to be hispanic or black when I get sunburned but that it is better to be white or asian when I get new tattoos...hope this makes sense without being offensive.

90's music was pretty good-gave us a genre of music called grunge pioneered by Nirvana.

Christopher, with all due respect for the musicologists, I think the only valid comparison is between music we like and that which we don't like. Aesthetics are almost completely subjective, and we're all experts on our own opinions and preferences.

I wouldn't say the 90's were the best decade for music.
Some 90's alternative bands like Nirvana were not that great and way overrated.

The best artists that came out of 90's were far less mainstream.
Elliot smith,Modest Mouse,Whiskeytown,Neutral Milk Hotel,Wilco,Bright Eyes,Rancid ,Rage against the machine,P.J. Harvey,Mark Lanegan,the Afghan Whigs ,Grant-lee Buffalo,Jeff Buckley.

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These were the artists that got me through that miserable decade.

I love alternative music from the 90s. For me it's just that style of music was so popular then that it was easy to find bands that I loved. Now I have to search more. I do enjoy many genres though.

A little known fact.
Chumbawamba was actually an 80's band that played anarchist political protest songs. They were a combination of folk and punk
Then in the 90's they sold out and converted to mainstream. Very tragic story.

I enjoyed 90s alternative at the time, grunge, and whatever stuff like Stone Temple Pilots and Verve Pipe and Alice In Chains and Smashing Pumpkins was.

When I listen to it now though, the lyrics sound whiny and overly dramatic and I can't get into them. Still some really catchy tunes, though.. if only I could somehow ignore the lyrics

When I remember the 90s, I think of all the eurodance that was all over the radio stations back then. 2Unlimited, Snap, Venga Boys, Mr. President, Captain Jack, Technotronic...

AND, of course boy bands and girl bands. I remember older people saying how much 90s music sucks when compared to the 60s and 70s.

You'd have bands and artists that would get a lot of critical acclaim, but not a lot of airplay. Maybe in a one-hour slot every week on MTV/TMF, if they were lucky.

As for the previous decade (2000-2009), plenty of crap, but also some artists on the charts I genuinely enjoyed: M.I.A., Arctic Monkeys, Adèle, Lupe Fiasco, Kings Of Leon, Gossip...

90s was pretty much the same style as the 00s, just perhaps, slightly less commercial and more feminist. But kind of the same dominant tropes, hip hop, and alt rock, and teen pop. I think since 2008 though, we've kind of entered a different age.

Some kind of good "early" of electronic music comes from 90s. When the genre was relatively new the "best" things were produced, still I don't know much good ambient-chill-dub electronic music from the last few years. There is The Orb, label "FAX" and "Ambient Cookbook" collections, Sabres Of Paradise, Aphex Twin, Apollo 440 and many more (these are before and after 1990s too). (There are still good tracks produced later but in other style,) I have many favorite tracks of pop music too from 1990s but not from 2000s. Of course there is many garbage music from 1990s too.

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I think there were other bands, idk.

Boy bands.

I remember my sister & I listened to boy bands all the time.

90s boy bands had some really, really good tunes.

I love 90s music, from early dance music to 2-step Garage in the late 90s/early 00s, as well as RnB.

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