90s artists that aren't going to have a revive moment in your opinion

just brushed into the trash and forgotten forever

counting crows

Jesus Jones

man there is nothing that I would bet against because we live in a world where pre-teens like Steely Dan

Yeah, otm. Also as an Old I know whatever I think is most unrevivable will be what the kids end up loving, I did the same to my elders after all.

yeah, all it takes is one TikTok meme. I know the Counting Crows doc from last year didn't make a ripple (I didn't see it) but I could definitely see them getting rediscovered by young people, it's very feelings-heavy music.

Anal Cunt

I have a dificult time imagining a revival of the last gasp of non-sophisto adult-contempo older-guy charting soft pop before Gen X dethroned the Boomers at the turn of the decade (Marc Cohn, Michael Bolton, post-Cetera Chicago, the execrable Grayson Hugh), but maybe it's more of a "there can only be one remaining" situation, and Bily Joel already rules that kingdom.

I don't consider Elton John or Paul Simon to be in that category, but I'm open to arguments on the contrary

Anal Cunt

they were never “vived” in the first place

Offspring

offspring already have a place on gen x geared satellite radio stations i am sad to report.

that's not a revive though.

anecdata: I recently saw someone who I took to be in their early to mid 20s wearing an Offspring shirt. Disheartening.

part of this question i feel like is who are the former artists who are so burned out / out of it / burdened by baggage and/or legal woes / or just plain uninterested in hiring a publicist and aiming for a cash grab that it's just not going to happen. or maybe they're partnered and living a boring but stable life in a bungalow in greater phoenix or whatever.

xp the kids aren't alright amirite

I'm having a very hard time seeing any of the swing revival bands getting a revive, maybe because they shot to fame on a revival to begin with. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cherry Poppin' Daddies (ick), Squirrel Nut Zippers, etc.

oo good one

anecdata: I recently saw someone who I took to be in their early to mid 20s wearing an Offspring shirt. Disheartening.

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, April 6, 2026 1:36 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

anecdata: my 22-year-old son listens to Offspring a LOT. Disheartening.

I'm so sorry

Ok despite my earlier pronouncements I gotta admit the swing revival bands are a good shout.

Most I could imagine is kids getting into The Mask memes ("did you know Dr Robotnick used to be a leading man??") and that giving whichever one is in that one some streams.

R. Kelly sends his regards

are there kids listening to third-wave ska? Zoomers skanking to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish?

The Squirrel Nut Zippers are still out there playing music. I don’t know if that means that if they come back, it’s a revival or not.

they were the kind of ok one

I’d look at whose music isn’t streaming anywhere (even on YouTube) and for that reason suggest Michelle Shocked.

And Garth Brooks.

I've been waiting for "Battle Flag" by the Lo-Fidelity Allstars to come back for the last 20 years, don't think it's gonna happen

thought someone on another thread said he’s big with young people? If so, I find it hard to believe but nothing would surprise me anymore

he meaning Garth

re the steely dan comment above, those guys never went away at any point, i suspect they were only briefly unhip with a small minority, and it was with a very specific contingent of music fans. the barbs they took didn't stick because the reality didn't match what everyone was saying about them.

Cetera-era Chicago is a pretty good call...I think pretty much all of Chicago and other bands along those lines, like Blood Sweat and Tears, those are hard to revive. There's just nothing to hold onto there imo. and they're just not much fun to listen to.

That's the thing: even 'prime' Chicago is as fun as a late '60s Julie Andrews musical, like Darling Lili

Chicago/BST aren't 90s bands tho?

Michelle Shocked is an interesting one, good call.

I meant the post-Cetera era, when Chicago were still charting in 1990 with songs like "What Kind of Man Would I Be?" that were total sonic hangovers from their mid-'80s horn-free balladry that I once read was mastered to pop from clock radio speakers

Probably we won't see a revival of "earnest" Arrested Development-style rap?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379613/

xpost, idk man I could see it swinging back. People are giving PM Dawn their flowers and ?uesto still rides for Arrested Development. Me Phi Me reappreciation imminent?

i don't think we're going to see a revival of Snow, no deluxe reissues for 12 Inches of Snow are forthcoming, ever.

green jellö

Snow is always fresh in Toronto

Probably we won't see a revival of "earnest" Arrested Development-style rap?

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 6 April 2026 19:56 (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is definitely due a revival

_anecdata: I recently saw someone who I took to be in their early to mid 20s wearing an Offspring shirt. Disheartening.

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, April 6, 2026 1:36 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink_

anecdata: my 22-year-old son listens to Offspring a LOT. Disheartening.

hopefully same guy

Of the Britpop bands, I cannot imagine a revival for Whiteout, Cast, Heavy Stereo, Northern Uproar or Gene.

I feel like there's no way to explain the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion to young people. (And call it wishful thinking, but I really hope we as a society are done with Beck.)

That's a bummer that the kids are revisiting Offspring, but completely in line with my inability to understand with what has legs with gen z. What about the 90s shock rock stuff like Marylin Manson/Rob Zombie? I can't really see white dudes with colored contact lenses and vampire collars as signifying anything threatening in this day and age. Are we due for another satanic panic?

Manson and Zombie have done co-headlining tours in the US the last few years, and Zombie just released a new album with the band that was on his earliest solo records, so he's kind of attempting a comeback/closing the loop. I don't know who goes to see him live these days, but the new record is OK.

P.O.D.

What about the 90s shock rock stuff like Marylin Manson/Rob Zombie? I can't really see white dudes with colored contact lenses and vampire collars as signifying anything threatening in this day and age

It was bewildering that anyone saw it as threatening first time round too, decades after Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper et al. I would guess the demographic that felt shocked in the 90's still exists, but doubt their edgelord kids would go for this stuff.

Jimmy Ray

did not expect Bush to be playing a minimum 2,500 capacity (up to 6,000) venue this week

Blessid Union of Souls

right now the industry is producing both the best vinyl ever manufactured and the worst vinyl ever manufactured

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:08 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i very very rarely buy and thus play any new music on vinyl but just from a packaging perspective, my sense/experience is that new vinyl is usually barely worth the cardboard it's packaged in. very little effort put into art direction, any booklet or insert beyond a front and back piece of paper etc -- maybe there's artists like tyler, taylor etc for whom this isn't true (i wouldn't know) but i don't think the juice is worth the squeeze w/ most of those purchases and it wouldn't surprise me if consumers have internalized this fact years deep into the resurgence of vinyl

hard agree, speaking as a vinyl fiend

just gimme FLACS tyvm

Jon Spencer has just announced a new album. I have no idea who his audience is

"Bellbottoms" somehow has 65 million streams on Spotify.

there are labels which do a really nice job generally speaking, just picked up Talk To the Sea by Gigi Masin (on Music From Memory) and it's beautiful, gimme that matte gatefold shit all day. but yeah a lot of it feels really cheap and flimsy, even beyond the records.

xpost That's more than any Pavement song other than "Harness Your Hopes."

The last new album I bought on vinyl was Arctic Monkeys' The Car -- it sounded like ass.

i don't know what kind of vinyl y'all are buying but i totally don't give a shit how the sleeve looks as long as the vinyl is ok. feel like there have been lots of issues with vinyl for a long time tho and depending on where you buy it from you can always ask for another copy--i did that with a merge major release well over ten years ago and they sent me a new copy no questions asked

i'm really picky about buying any new releases these days for this reason. Was happy with the last dinner party packaging and pressing quality, which is probably the most widely-pressed new release I picked up in recent memory.

one of the nice things about the vinyl resurgence is shit is in print and easy to get in places. you never used to see fela kuti records in stores 25 30 years ago and now they're everywhere and they sound great!

i bought the Neil box set w/Harvest Moon thru Mirror Ball and unfortunately there's some non-fill on Sleeps with Angels (albeit only twice on Western Hero). I didn't get around to that record til the return window closes but it's pretty annoying, especially considering NY is typically pretty good as far as vinyl releases.

If you’re on Amazon and it’s in print, order another copy from them, switch out bum discs and return it.

i don't know what kind of vinyl y'all are buying but i totally don't give a shit how the sleeve looks as long as the vinyl is ok.

if you are buying vinyl in 2026 strictly for audio reasons and don't really care what the packaging looks like, you're in the extreme minority. a major part of the appeal even if you want to play the vinyl a lot is to have something tactile in a world where physical media is disappearing, and if you pay $25 for vinyl that appears to not have much effort or care put into the tactile aspect then that is a meaningful gap between intention of your purchase and its reality

"Bellbottoms" somehow has 65 million streams on Spotify.

Baby Driver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzWAe1M42-M

depending on where you buy it from you can always ask for another copy--i did that with a merge major release well over ten years ago and they sent me a new copy no questions asked

― a (waterface), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 3:43 PM (eight minutes ago)

i've posted this before in a similar thread but my bf bought a cassette of the new cure album and it was completely garbled and unplayable, so he emailed the cure store and they happily sent him another cassette, which also turned out to be useless junk, at which point we gave up. that's kinda the territory we're in right now (with every consumer good in the world, to be fair)

ha funny. that merge story I posted? I had to send back my record twice before i got a good one. but that's ok because i love physical media and how stuff sounds ;)

ok now what if instead of having to receive three vinyl records to get one that is unlistenable, they were instead simply listenable?

one of the nice things about the vinyl resurgence is shit is in print and easy to get in places. you never used to see fela kuti records in stores 25 30 years ago and now they're everywhere and they sound great!

My local Borders in suburban Connecticut had the imported Barclay/Universal France Fela CD two-fer reissues in 1997/8

it didn't bother me on an emotional or physical level to return the record--it's not merge's fault, they were sweet about it, and manufacturing stuff like records at a consistent lvel is challenging. entire runs of books get misprinted too.

and yet, life goes on.

My local Borders in suburban Connecticut had the imported Barclay/Universal France Fela CD two-fer reissues in 1997/8

cool! I meant records. but yeah i saw those around too

i found a $1 copy of Hats by The Blue Nile in a discount bin a few years ago, and it was in incredible shape, sounds better than a lot of pressings right out of the shrinkwrap.

but there's no reason why that should be the case. QC is frequently just the last consideration of these labels.

This is another reason why I stuck with CD's - vinyl is just too much of a hassle, I just want to buy it and play it, not deal with all these manufacturing issues. I've never had to return a brand-new CD because of a manufacturing defect that actually impacted the sound. I've returned two because they were visibly marred in some way - in one case it looked like a tiny hair dropped into it when it was being pressed - but in all honesty they probably would've played fine and this is like two CD's out of god knows how many.

I returned a CD once because part of a bar code had been inadvertently printed on the playing side, but that's obv rare

!!

That Baby Driver Jon Spencer sequence was so cool

right now the industry is producing both the best vinyl ever manufactured and the worst vinyl ever manufactured

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:08 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i very very rarely buy and thus play any new music on vinyl but just from a packaging perspective, my sense/experience is that new vinyl is usually barely worth the cardboard it's packaged in. very little effort put into art direction, any booklet or insert beyond a front and back piece of paper etc -- maybe there's artists like tyler, taylor etc for whom this isn't true (i wouldn't know) but i don't think the juice is worth the squeeze w/ most of those purchases and it wouldn't surprise me if consumers have internalized this fact years deep into the resurgence of vinyl

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:31 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm talking more about reissue stuff, like for example if you can find it onsale, the Blue Note Tone Poet series will absolutely blow you away (as good as the Mobile Fidelity stuff imo), as will the Rhino Hi-Fi stuff....also certain labels like Light in the Attic...Matador used to be really good esp if it had the Pressed at RTI label, but I haven't bought anything from them lately.

My main point is that - on the high end - they have the capability with modern mastering and manufacturing to press just incredible vinyl.

the real future (hopefully) is Green Vinyl out of the Netherlands, the last Shellac record (To All Trains) was pressed on that. It's not vinyl, rather recycled plastics like pop bottles etc, also it's not pressed but injection molded...the injection molding I think is the real key, I can't say I've ever heard a record pressed with less background noise than the Shellac album.

https://rockandrollglobe.com/rock/shellac-reveal-first-new-album-in-a-decade/

also I know I'm cruising for a bruising posting audiophile stuff on ILM but with vinyl the equipment just matters more - the turntable, cartridge, and phono pre - far more than it does with any digital source. it's a mechanical medium and the difference can be pretty striking.

yeah stuff will still sound bad on a fake Crossley bought from QVC

cool to learn about the green vinyl thing

the real future (hopefully) is Green Vinyl out of the Netherlands, the last Shellac record (To All Trains) was pressed on that. It's not vinyl, rather recycled plastics like pop bottles etc, also it's not pressed but injection molded...the injection molding I think is the real key, I can't say I've ever heard a record pressed with less background noise than the Shellac album.

I remember Albini talking about this before he died and was curious about it. It doesn't get talked about often, but vinyl manufacturing is really toxic - there just hasn't been a real alternative of at least equal quality. But Albini said he did quite a few tests and was extremely pleased with the results, so if that's the case then hopefully it catches on.

Green vinyl needs a better name not to be mistaken for shitty coloured vinyl.

India has started doing vinyl reissues as of late and the quality of the three I have is surprisingly high. its really cool to hear this stuff in high fidelity when all you had previously was badly encoded MP3s from 2001

bring back longboxes i used to cut the covers off those and hang them in my room in high school

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:11 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Recently I actually saw both a new Boldy James CD and I think a reissue of The Chronic that were both in longboxes. They were slightly wider than the old style ones.

Of the Britpop bands, I cannot imagine a revival for Whiteout, Cast, Heavy Stereo, Northern Uproar or Gene.

also I know I'm cruising for a bruising posting audiophile stuff on ILM but with vinyl the equipment just matters more - the turntable, cartridge, and phono pre - far more than it does with any digital source. it's a mechanical medium and the difference can be pretty striking.

yah, this

Ha! I got excited, having read "are going to have a revival," but thought how could there possibly be 200 answers.

I'd like to see a new generation of elephant 6 minded freaks playing around with some tascam tape recorders.

I keep thinking that art is going to do a hard pivot to things that are handmade and funky.

Cast supported oasis on their UK dates recently and just had a new lp out, some kids will be into that. Gene about to do second run of reunion shows as I guess not enough of their fanbase heard about lead singers private life to put them off.

The other three mentioned probably confined to just doing Shine On Weekender every year?

reunion nostalgia tours do not count as revive moments, so I do not count any of these. OTOH can report that there are loads of gen z and gen alpha Pulp fans in the community, feels like they outnumber us oldies now

A lot of the young folk I know who went to see Oasis have now become Cast fans.

> elephant 6 minded freaks playing around with some tascam tape recorders.

Immaterial Possession includes at least one member who is Elephant 6 offspring, carrying the psychedelic vapors forward, with a dose of 1920s dada.

https://immaterialpossession.bandcamp.com/album/immaterial-possession

xp 18-word horror story

I was in a hipster coffee shop and everyone there was talking about Cast.

I guess not enough of their fanbase heard about lead singers private life to put them off.

uh oh what did he do

oh ok i googled

He got married to the comedian who did the Go Bayside! podcast?

if you haven't seen it

https://medium.com/@xzxzxz/on-coercive-control-4bb6feb69bce