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I was trying to work out which band in my estimation best represents the 1990's. Can we establish a band that summises the best and worst of the decade that (i assume) most of us remember well...

... i came up with a mini provisional list.....

Blur

Beastie Boys

Orbital

Oasis

Prodigy

Primal Scream

Massive Attack

Manics

I based it on a couple of requirements of having a considerable level of singles, albums, videos,popularity, progression of sound through the decade etc etc....

How representative a list is this ?

Should the Spice Girls be on there?

If Cobain had lived a few years longer would this list (and debate) be rendered irrelevant?

Is this debate irrelevant (!)

Dave.

dave C, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, bands to sum up the 90s, hmm, any list i do, will be very brit specific, because i'm, like, british. i think this is actually a hard thing to do, because, i am starting to think that there were two 1990s, one sort of 88-93/4, and one, 94-98ish. this split between the two only seems to exist in retrospect, i certainly didn't notice it at the time. there are very few bands that seem to work across both eras.

the charlatans? (for better or worse - i do not like them personally, but they are ever present)
radiohead? (a difficult one, again, i'm not a fan, but perhaps they exemplified the way the 90s changed in many ways, but then again only relevant for the latter half of the 90s)
blur? ever present.

st etienne? (sum up many things about the 90s aesthetically

this is actually harder to do now than at the time because the relevancy of certain bands (manics, verve, massive attack) seems to be receding now, others, although very big (oasis, spice girls) did this in a shorter period of time and don't really encompass the entire decade, i am undure whether this should count against them or not (sex pistols very short time but sum one particular conception of the 70s) (conecptions of the 80s stop in about 85-6?)

an american version would be very different from my answer also

gareth, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my answer is also quite indie, is this because of the big role indie had to play in the middle of the 90s (does the centre of a decade automatically assume greater importance than its beginning or end because it doesn't have the same links to the preceding or arriving decade?)

gareth, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Take That and the Spice Girls.

Andrew Williams, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and then again, on a less popular note, there is a case to be made for Stereolab, because they seem ot have played quite a large role in shaping things around them (retro-futurism, lounge stuff, post rock, a widening of interest in different musics - easy to scoff now i know, but i wonder how many of the genres shelves we see in shops now is indirectly the result of gane and sadier?)

gareth, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Your'e on the money about the importance of context and nationalality in constructing this list... the Pistols do represent the 1970's to a vast amount of people....with ABBA possibly the other definitive 1970's band.... so does that mean that the its either Nirvana or Spice Girls for the most representative 1990's musical entity? Despite their relative paucity of time in the limelight...

The Charlatans..... an ever present sure, but despite one of the best songs of the decade - "Just When Youre Thinking Things Over" - they just don't make the grade in my book.... i think that they are very average in places... they had little cultural impact on the decade IMO - unlike the others on my list....

I forgot Radiohead... they should have been on that list , yep.

dave C, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In terms of chart-based pop - Take That's influence has been very pervasive , yes i agree..... but definitive 1990's band? Nope.

Stereolab.... hmmm..... i agree with that point toothey have truly pushed the gamut forward - in terms of innovation and influence - but their prescence was never really felt by the masses was it?

Although im not exactly looking for a seismic group that have been everywhere, Stereolab will never be associated with the 1990's the way the Smiths , The Jam or the Pixies will with the 1980s.

D.

dave C, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If Primal Scream had bridged the gap between Xtrmntr and Screamadelica they'd definitely be in contention. As much as I like Vanishing Point it didn't age well and I never listen to it anymore. Whereas Screamadelica is still great, I think I've gone through 3 copies of it now, which also tells you how I look after my cds.

Daft Punk should be considered too, in my opinion anyway. Also s

Ronan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dont know what happened there. I was going to say also there must be some major hiphop artist too.

Ronan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well from an american perspective this list seems really like a sliver of music, but that's in part because 'britpop' is a genre over here (sorry!).

what about - for better or worse mind you - limp bizkit, for the obvious 'newsworthy' reasons - the pay to play idea that got their cover of 'faith' on the radio, mook nation, etc. also there are tapes of fred d. throwing it down ice-stylee in the early '90s - the evolution of the white rapping dude in pop?

jane's addiction can be included because their 'evolution' showed how post-boomers could also grow up and be embarrassing in a 'they're still trying to flog it, christ how embarrassing' sort of way.

dr dre

pearl jam, who went on the opposite career trajectory of limp b but who still get a shitload of airplay on american radio

beck (who i am tempted to say 'bleh' to, although he is very good live)

maura, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Of all the musicians proposed here I guess Beck would be the most serious candidate (thanks Maura).
He has released high quality albums all over the nineties. He represents eclecticism the best which was dominant in the nineties as no single style really reigned the decade. He is very versatile and created something new (innovative was the word I was looking for) by mixing many styles. He released at least four substantial albums. First his indie-slacker-freestyle statement "Mellow Gold". Then his blues-roots-diy album "One Foot in the Grave". Then "Odelay" with its phantastic style-crossing variety. And finally his songwriter masterpiece "Mutations" which I prefer to most Dylan albums.

alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dave C i'd go with your first guess. Blur. You can't sum up everything with one band, there's too mcuh ground. their different regenerations, plus a couple of corking choonz they cover a lot of pop: Girls and Boys at one end (pref covered by Pet shop Boys = ace) to Song 2 at the other end. their pretension and various other annoyances can stand in place for all the horrid bits of 90s.

Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe it's just me, but the critical goalposts (in general, not necessarily on these boards) seem to be moving from the "80s were crap, let's move straight from 79-91" viewpoint to "well the '90s were crap, no futurism, all recycling of old sounds, thank God for the 21st century - Air, Avalanches, Daft Punk pushing the envelope but respectful of Trevor Horn, ELO" - so there's a slight but significant move from, say, 83-98 as a wasteland. Such convenient arguments do of course ignore yer RZAs/Dres/Timbalands/dareisayitRadioheads/Bristol in general - but is that what everyone'll be saying in six months' time: the '90s were a wasteland for music just like the '80s were up to about a year ago?

Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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but is that what everyone'll be saying in six months' time

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My God, you're right. Thanks for the warning.

How about Tricky though, he used to be very 90s, sort of Beck but good.

Omar, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, Tricky. I thought for a moment he was going to be the Ornette Coleman of hip-hop but now he gets Alanis Morrissette and Cyndi Lauper to sing unironically on his (now very Beck-like) records. Big shame.

Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

brilliant point Marcello....i too am shocked at how the once severely maligned 1980's are now the apex of _now_

...though im deffo in the "the 1990's were ACE!" camp.... in fact - i think the decade was just a tad off the 1960's for overall brilliance and fun.

As regards Blur and Beck.... yeah i kinda see where yee are coming from... though with blur, they went halfway up their own arses when people started critiscizing the "chimney sweepesque" nature of some of the parklife stuff.... if they had never discovered pavement we could have had our definitive band...

Beck - ? the guy is a 1990's stalwart... but the wwwweally wwwweally goodstuff was more dust brothers than beck... (debra for example)

dave C, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the '90s were a wasteland for music just like the '80s were up to about a year ago?
It's the opposite Marcello. Here I am on Pinefox's side. Today is the wasteland and even the nineties were already quite a wasteland. Especially the second half. Do you really think Daft Punk, Air and the Avalanches are bands anyone will remember in ten years time? Their kind of music will be made by anyone with a computer and the right audio equipment. Their music is not original as Velvet Underground's or The Smith's was for example. Their music is derived and irrelevant. This must sound very conservative, stubborn and close- minded but I really can't see the point of all this electronic remixing stuff. If that is the future of rock music then rock music was my past.

alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But I don't think anyone is saying the 90s were shit. On the contrary people are going through the roof saying "we may not have had a defined movement, but boy were we eclectic". 90s are over-rated, never underrated.

Ronan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

personally i loved the 90s, my favourite music comes from that decade

gareth, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Me too. cos I grew up in the 90's probably but so be it.

Ronan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Me too. And 1991 = my favourite year in music evah.

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Do you really think Daft Punk, Air and the Avalanches are bands anyone will remember in ten years time? Their kind of music will be made by anyone with a computer and the right audio equipment.

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YAWN!

Omar, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

yes computers and audio equipment. anyone can make daft punks music, thats why noones doing it. computers are just tools not like guitars which are sonic dream realisers.

Ronan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I for one will remember (and continue to listen to) Air & Daft Punk...

Moon Safari and Discovery are both very listenable records....

Maybe its a European thing? Like the way some US based folks might consider "Hootie"/"Matchbox 20"/"Dave Mathews" (three HUGE sellers in the states, but pretty quiet over here) as being important 1990s bands... whereas i wouldnt go see 'em if they were gigging in the next room....

d.

dave C, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sum up the 90s in song

N., Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This probably says more about me than it does about the 90's, but the 90's was the first decade in which I was overhwelmingly more focused on discovering things from the past more than I was on listening to music being made in present, the first decade in which I generally chose the old over the new (though it was frequently an old that was new to me). None of the bands mentioned on this thread leave me feeling that I made a mistake by doing this.

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Electronic music: I listened to a lot of pre-rave electronic music from 1979 to about 1989, and progressively lost interest in most of it. There are still exceptions, but I don't hear electronic music per se as particularly new (though relatively speaking, yes).

DeRayMi, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd say Radiohead, since they kicked both Blur and Oasis' asses. Best thing to come out of Britain in the '90s.

Alacran, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

alex, your whole post was brilliant self-satire, right?

marek, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

alex, your whole post was brilliant self-satire, right?

You'd be surprised.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

alex, your whole post was brilliant self-satire, right?
Thanks for the compliment Marek. First time a post of mine is called "brilliant". And I always wanted to make fun of myself and laugh about myself. Thanks again that you think I succeeded. But you know. I am much less funnier than I seem to be.

alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thinking of Daft Punk. Neil Young made an album in the 1983 called "Trans" where he distorted his voice with a vocoder. It is his worst album but not worse than what Daft Punk does today. And he did more or less the same almost twenty years ago.
The band name is really terrible. Trying to be clever is always a bad thing. Daft punk is just daft punk fullstop

alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Every decade hates the decade before (in the 80s the 70s were "the decade that taste forgot") cuz pop is a more useful way to annoy your older brothers/cousins than it is to annoy your parents. Whats interesting is the way in which this dislike is expressed - in the 80s the lack of 'taste' was frowned upon, in the 90s the greed and inauthenticity was disliked, in the 00s it seems to be irony which has been picked up on as the thing to despise about the 1990s.

Personally my singles of the 90s list was already full of god-what-a- ghastly-decade asides and rants against irony and I've enjoyed 99-01 way more. But I think my opposition was a little misplaced.

Tom, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Trans" is Neil Young's best album (= the one I most enjoy, before the anti-contrarians leap on me) but thanks Alex because I'd never thought of it as a comparison point for DP before but actually it does the robot-emotion thing too - if not half as well (the NY album suffers a bit from having to carry the metaphor of NY's son's disability, though respect to Young for having the guts and imagination to make it).

Tom, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I keep forgetting though that I do like a lot of hip-hop (including some from he 90's), musically speaking, but the content just gets in the way for me. It was primarily the lyrical content that turned me off to the genre in around 1992/1993. I just downloaded Tupac's "How Long Will They Mourn Me." I kind of want to say this is great, but at the same time, I just can't listen to it. Also, hip-hop has become too associated with an anti-social swagger I see all around me, which makes the world an uglier place. Well, maybe it just make the world ugly in a different way than it already was.

If punk were born today, presumably I wouldn't like it for similar reasons.

DeRayMi, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but irony came pretty late in the 90s didn't it? and how much was there really?

gareth, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Finally, someone's mentioned Tupac, who I think must represent hip-hop in any epitomizing-the-90s contest. Assigning that role to Dre strikes me as something only someone who didn't really follow hip- hop would do (and I say that as someone who didn't really follow hip- hop for most of the previous decade).

Nitsuh, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

in the 90s the greed and inauthenticity was disliked, in the 00s it seems to be irony which has been picked up on as the thing to despise about the 1990s.

'91 and '01 feel similar, maybe this is just what the second year of a decade feels like. Like Tom says above, the preceding era is being characterized as decadent and insincere (greedy for 80's/ironic for 90's), replaced by an earnest "this time we're going to get things right" attitude. There's a resurgence of press interest in guitar bands after an orgy of "rock is dead"-ism, both triumphant and morbid. Not to mention a Bush in the White House & a war in the east.

fritz, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, Trans is the best NY album. But still dire.

Dr. C, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom, you really surprise me with your background knowledge on music. I didn't know that Trans was about Neil Young's disabled son. But Digital Love is not so bad actually. I just listen to an mp3 for the third time in a row. Before I listened to Homework DP's first album. The first track Daftendirekt is so awful. But they seem to have changed for the better. Is DL really your favourite single of last year?

alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Second favourite!

Tom, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I seriously think Nine Inch Nails should be on the list.

jel, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Artists that sum up the 90s for me:

The Prodigy
Acen
Prince
Portishead
Tricky
PJ Harvey
2Pac
Snoop Dogg
Smashing Pumpkins
Orbital
Underworld
A Tribe Called Quest
Deftones
Walt Mink
Sheep On Drugs
Panacea
Roni Size
Tori Amos
Bjork
Janet Jackson

It says something that the closest I can get to listing a group I dislike is Underworld.

Dan Perry, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom now you made me curious. Who is #1 then?

alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Daft Punk = a great great name. I loved them already before I heard them (ie they already had a lot to live up to — and have done). I love Trans also (but i prob. like "real" Neil Young more than Tom or Dr C).

mark s, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

imo, the smashing pumpkins are representative of the 90s -starting out small and indie, reaching a crescendo then becoming a massive blaoted artifice that shatters into mp3 transfers, small farewell shows and guest appearences on elctro-dance outfits. it's the 90s writ large

Geoff, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bikini Kill, Manics, PJ Harvey, Nirvana, Radiohead, Oasis, Spice Girls, Ice-T, Sleater-Kinney, Primal Scream, and maybe the Geto Boys.

Justyn Dillingham, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No band put out more good music in the nineties than The Loud Family.

dan, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

some 90's artists that defined electronic music:

Aphex Twin Autechre Jeff Mills Carl Craig Basic Channel

how many trends did these guys set over and over???

mike taylor, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also, what about Unrest?

They seem very 90's to me, I quite liked them back in the day.

Michael Taylor, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Geoff is so OTM it hurts.

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I remember a very chaotic Geto Boys video from the early nineties which included a shot of a car driving into a burning cross. It was pretty good. But as a group that was representative of the 90's, I don't think so.

DeRayMi, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Geoff is so OTM it hurts.

Hooking up with Courtney Love is also so 90s.

nickn, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i vote for ARRESTED DEVELOPMETNT!@!£@!$@£$^@£!!!!

ambrose, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You scare me, Ambrose.

I guess I already made my list to an extent, but I wouldn't call it representative. Indeed, the whole idea of trying to sum up the decade defeats me.

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I actually do own some 'real' Neil Young. Decades or Decade or whatever it's called has survived all my record culls to date for no good reason other than I find 'After the Gold Rush' either quite pleasant in a mad sort of way or unintentionally funny depending on mood. Not that I play it more than once a 'Decade' (hee, hee).

I can't decide whether the prospect of NY trudging on year after year is pitiful or utterly loathsome.

Dr. C, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No band that people actually heard put out more good music in the ninenties than Pulp. I'm going by strictly quality of songs, but it works if you look at albums, or progression of sound. Separations, His 'n'Hers, Different Class, This Is Hardcore. Why haven't they been mentioned? Are they not in the same league as The Charlatans? Blur? Primal Scream? Please help me to understand.

dan, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pulp are not in the same league as those bands. They are considerably better. I mean, The Charlatans? Puh-lease.

electric sound of jim, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Primal Scream wipe the floor with any of those in terms of ambition, originality and everything else.

Ronan, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned -- so boldly -- has Menswear at

Ned also likes to complain about the hard wrap. I meant to say:

Ned -- so boldly -- has Menswear at #36 of the 90s!!!

But how does this square with his stated disinterest in the Strokes???

Nitsuh, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Band of the 90's - Massive Attack. Has to be - which other band has influenced so many successive artists right the way across the contemporary music scene? You can detect elements of their music in even the most conservative of records these days. Likewise, they epitomise the whole genre-mangling outlook that was so prominent throughout the decade - although it's a shame Beck seems to take much of the credit for this.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Primal Scream >>> originality >>> my head just fell off

mark s, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom, I think you're right that every decade hates the previous one. And I think that's a healthy thing. It keeps people looking in new directions (or at least reprising old ones in new and interesting ways) and making different and interesting music. Note that some of the shittiest music being made now is by people who see themselves (or at least can accurately be tagged by the media as such) as torch- carriers for the "guitar-revival" started by grunge or something.

Clarke B., Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fritz is right a '01 being comparable to '91. It feels like '81, people wanting something new.

To me PJ Harvey's career [indieangstauthenticitysingersongwriter/grungenoise/sampling/tribute band] sums up the shifts many people I know tried during the nineties.

I've lost interest in areas of music that just rely on production gimmicks and I'm looking for tunes again. also sick of loops.

gimme chiming guitars over pulsing synth and shifting drums and i'm a happy bunny

, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On PJ Harvey - thankfully (in my opinion) she's said she's unhappy with "Stories..." and wants to return to her darker side as explored on "Is This Desire?" A *good thing* in my book.

Tim, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They are original though, Primal Scream. Er except that mid 90s business, rolling stones anyone, but xtrmntr sounds like nothing on earth. except one song sounding like the stooges a bit.

Ronan, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Assigning that role to Dre strikes me as something only someone who didn't really follow hip- hop would do (and I say that as someone who didn't really follow hip- hop for most of the previous decade).

but why? didn't he help break snoop and eminem, two quite-prominent figures in hip-pop, into the mainstream—and he achieved this after 'efil4zaggin' was the first album to be #1 on the soundscan chart, way back in 1991? if anything, that achievement alone should say something about the way music was measured in the 1990s—the introduction of soundscan did shake up the album charts in a very big way, especially wrt the higher sales rates of hip-hop.

maura, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But how does this square with his stated disinterest in the Strokes???

Because I very much like the one and think the other has a good song or two at most. Also, Menswe@r dress a hell of a lot better than the Strokes (at the very least, Johnny Dean could take Julian Casablancas on a catwalk).

Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

xtrmntr sounds like nothing on earth. except one song sounding like the stooges a bit. except: my bloody valentine
miles davis circa jsck johnson
bad grand royal-style whiteboy indie/rap (as opposed to undie rap. bobby g. + rapping = where's my gun?)
the mc5 circa "sun/starship"
middle period p.i.l.
early 90s acid + late 90s trance
u2
late 80s/early 90s adrian sherwood/on-u-sound records
themselves
the chemicals
the pop group & mark stewart solo records

jess, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It doesn't sound like My Bloody Valentine really. Don't really see the U2 thing either, but that could be due to my hatred of them. Having said that you may be right about the rest but at no point does it sound completely like all of them or any one of them and it's a pretty diverse list you must admit.

Ronan, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually that was complete bollox. you're probably right.

Ronan, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I, too, fail to recall any U2-esque bombast. If you remove that "angry" track (with Bobby, you big man, telling everyone to FADE AWAY), that album would be nearly unbeatable (if it weren't already hopelessly derivative, and all the better for it, a la Garbage's best work).

David Raposa, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I love the way he rhymes truth with you and then you and then true.

Ronan, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think i heard u2 in the BIG BALLAD which comes right after the john barry/jack johnson killer spy-theme. actually, it may not sound like u2 at all as i have Never Listened To It, but i was searching for some sort of emotionally Grand, lighters aloft @ the quiet moment stadium band.

jess, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, that one sounded like Suicide.

cw, Friday, 11 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

just to expand the spashing pumpkins = 90s, must include obligatory appearence on the simpsons.

geoff, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Dr Dre) achieved this after 'efil4zaggin' was the first album to be #1 on the soundscan chart, way back in 1991

Actually the first number one album on the Billboard charts after Soundscan came into effect was whatever Michael Bolton record was out at the time (or was it Mariah Carey?). Efil4zaggin came out a few months later (and debuted at number 2 before hitting the top spot the following week). Doggystyle was the first debut album to debut at number one if that helps yr arguement any.

Vic Funk, Saturday, 12 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Easy canuck answer is Sloan. From the 'grunge' beginnings, their label problems, their breakup, their problems with breeaking through in the states, being a one hit wonder to a whole diffirent generation and recently remebering how to write pop songs again. Every album they get slotted as being like another band: Nirvana, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Television or Kiss.

Harder answer for me to defend would be Tragically Hip but for most of my peers it would hold true. Starting the nighties with Road Apples and filling it with Fully Completely and Day For Night. Instead of breaking up they put out a crappy mccrap crap album (Trouble at the Henhouse) just intime for more then a few high school kids to get infatuated with coke/E fueled rave culture that had recently surfaced from the underground and its former home in adandoned warehouses in Toronto. Then, as all fads start to die off with people, it was a well timed return with Phantom Power in 1999. My friends view going to their travelling festival, Another Roadside Atraction in the same manner as I held seeing Neil Young & Crazy Horse live. heck I even climbed onto my roof to listen to one of those concerts from 10km away when they played the Markham Fairgrounds.
I guess international isolation made something easier for once. Sigh, me and my lexicon of can con hereos.

Mr Noodles, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...
Wow - the 90s!

the bellefox, Sunday, 27 November 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

Yes - the 90s!

Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Teehee - the 90s!

Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

ugh - the 90's!

AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

*searches thread*

nope, not there.

SUEDE, people!

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)


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