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06-17-2008 , 06:29 PM

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Pop-rap and Hype Williams fisheye lens videos ftw.

LFS: Pearl Jam comment = fail.

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06-17-2008 , 06:29 PM

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i think sublime definitely needs to be on the list, but radiohead did their best stuff on 2000's imo

I can't decide if the recent trend of ranking Kid A over OK Computer is because of legitimate reasoning or because of historical revision by snobby hipsters who prefer the offbeat, less popular choice to make them seem unique.

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06-17-2008 , 06:29 PM

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also surprised not up there, Beck

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06-17-2008 , 06:32 PM

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i actually got the releases mixed up, i still think radiohead really have had their peak of relevence in the 2000's, but i rank OK Computer higher, though i do think Kid A is really solid.

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06-17-2008 , 06:34 PM

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i think sublime definitely needs to be on the list, but radiohead did their best stuff on 2000's imo

Radiohead is tough because OK Computer came out in 97 and was great, and then they released three albums from 2000-2003 and not much since, so they haven't been prolific throughout either entire decade.

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06-17-2008 , 06:35 PM

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maybe i missed it but has no one mentioned Tool?

I think Schism is their iconic song, and hell, they had a pretty popular album in 2006. They aren't a 1990s band the way that Metallica isn't a 1980s band.

See also Nine Inch Nails.

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R.E.M.?

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06-17-2008 , 06:36 PM

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Smash Mouth
Lilith Fair crowd - Etheridge, McLachlan, Meredith Brooks-types
Barenaked Ladies
Phish and others
Korn
Robyn anyone? Sweden ftw
Early Blink 182
DMX ldo

Getting toward turn of the century, but as anyone who was glued to MTV/the Box during that era will note, Cash Money was ****ing huge.

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06-17-2008 , 06:36 PM

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this forum is full of lamestains, imo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak

it's a real shame this didn't catch on.

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06-17-2008 , 06:38 PM

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There's a difference between a band that had good albums in the 90s and a band that will be triggered in your mind in 2020 when someone asks you for 90s music. Nobody will think of Radiohead or Tool, they'll think of Hootie and Hanson.

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06-17-2008 , 06:43 PM

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Forgot about Blues Traveler, their first album was very popular my freshman year of college, 1991-1992.

yeah these guys, big head todd and the monster, dmb to an extent, phish to an extent... all sort of remind me of this particular popular genre in the early 90s -- sort of hippie type rock **** i guess

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06-17-2008 , 06:44 PM

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Lilith Fair crowd - Etheridge, McLachlan, Meredith Brooks-types

right forgot about that -- this is like the lesbo / chick equivalent of my above post

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06-17-2008 , 06:45 PM

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Robyn anyone? Sweden ftw

Konichiwa, bitches.

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06-17-2008 , 06:46 PM

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Also, it's clear Radiohead's best albums are from the '90s (OK Computer, The Bends) but I don't think of them as a 90s band because they're just as relevant now as ever.

i think this is wat lfs is trying to say about pearl jam... but i also think he's off on that one -- they are the almost the quintessence of "grunge" (actual one is obvi nirvana)

i think "timeless" bands shouldn't be included in any decades list obvi

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06-17-2008 , 06:47 PM

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As generous as I can be:
3) Sinead O’Conner – Nothing Compares 2 U
4) Bel Biv Devoe – Poison
4) Seal – Kiss From A Rose

these 3 are legitimately good imo

you know what i always found interesting about the 90s? That Nirvana and Pearl Jam have always been the most popular / highly regarded of the alternative / grunge bands, but really, the bands that influenced the sound of "alternative" music thereafter were Green Day (Blink 182, all the terrible pop-punk bands that came afterward) and Alice in Chains (Staind, every other ****ing awful morose sludgy band that didn't even have the guts to OD or shotgun their face off).

(Meanwhile, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots broke up and their lead singers joined supergroups. I'm not sure what that means.)

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06-17-2008 , 06:50 PM

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Off the top of my head, ten songs I think of when I think of random crap that encapsulates the 90s:

Run Around
One Week
1979
Hey Jealousy
Two Princes
Mr. Jones
Crash
Bitch
Who Will Save Your Soul
Wannabe

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06-17-2008 , 06:50 PM

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Getting toward turn of the century, but as anyone who was glued to MTV/the Box during that era will note, Cash Money was ****ing huge.

400 Degreez and whatever album Bling Bling was off came out before 2000, but their peak was post-turn of the century with like #1 Stunna and **** imo.
That **** ran The Box in like fall of 2000, it was Big Tymers and Eminem nonstop.

I still try to force "leave the stickers on the Bentley to show the price" into conversations.

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06-17-2008 , 06:51 PM

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you know what i always found interesting about the 90s? That Nirvana and Pearl Jam have always been the most popular / highly regarded of the alternative / grunge bands, but really, the bands that influenced the sound of "alternative" music thereafter were Green Day (Blink 182, all the terrible pop-punk bands that came afterward) and Alice in Chains (Staind, every other ****ing awful morose sludgy band that didn't even have the guts to OD or shotgun their face off).

Sounds pretty right.

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06-17-2008 , 06:52 PM

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hm - maybe. i had to actually look up when "losing my religion" came out (which for better or worse is the iconic rem song in the popular culture) -- was 1991

i think there is some similarity between pearl jam and rem, when trying to date them and see if they are "90s music". something about both of them really hitting it big in the 90s, and helping defining the sound of that decade in a very powerful way, in my mind makes them more "90s music" than time agnostic, e.g. radiohead

obvi both bands went on to be productive / even groundbreaking post 1990s but i think there is something to waht i'm saying above

Last edited by The Owl; 06-17-2008 at 06:55 PM. Reason: eh maybe my rem argumenet sucks, their 80s stuff is awesome and very much of that era also

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06-17-2008 , 06:52 PM

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Toad the Wet Sprocket
Presidents of the USA
Green Day (DOOKIE!)
Alice in Chains
Cracker
Counting Crows
Dave Matthews Band

"Stars" by Hum is one of my favorite songs ever.

Those off the top of my head. Songs by bands like that are what define the 90's for me.

*edit - OMG forgot Gin Blossoms

*edit #2 - Pink Floyd's "Division Bell" was a 90's album. Not what I'd consider "90's music", but I love it.

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06-17-2008 , 06:53 PM

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All went to **** with "Baller Blockin"

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06-17-2008 , 06:58 PM

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Nobody has mentioned the Goo Goo Dolls. Or Everclear. Or Stabbing Westward.

I kinda liked Collective Soul.

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06-17-2008 , 06:59 PM

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And I said, what about, Breakfast at Tiffany's?

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06-17-2008 , 06:59 PM

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weezer!

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06-17-2008 , 07:06 PM

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And I said, what about, Breakfast at Tiffany's?

lol secret shame imo

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06-17-2008 , 07:07 PM

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The mid-to-late 1990s had a bunch of pretty kickass one-hit-wonders:

Banditos
Pepper
Popular

Last edited by FlyWf; 06-17-2008 at 07:08 PM. Reason: yeah, that seems fair

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