Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger (Post 1072075)

I hate the 20s.

Couldn't find a decent techno album from then anywhere.

Originally Posted by Tumor (Post 1071776)

Originally Posted by Captain Ron (Post 1072070)

i was lucky to live in DC in the early 90s cause there was a great station called WHFS that played alot of stuff nobody else would like the judybats, swervedriver, the boo radleys, the posies, frente, the connells, the milltown brothers, the soup dragons etc.
the early 90s was a golden age

Originally Posted by starrynight (Post 1072102)

Milltown Brothers are ok. Golden age I think is going a bit far, but it was probably better than the rest of the 90s. The 80s was stronger as at least the whole first half was decent.

Originally Posted by starrynight (Post 1072013)

We don't all live in America here, so

Originally Posted by starrynight (Post 1072013)

I think there can be other perspectives apart from the limited one of the 80s being bland AOR rock or bland metal and it being all about Michael Jackson and Madonna and a few critics obsessed bands like Husker Du or REM. If people want to think that is the 80s that is up to them, but I like to take a broader view.

Originally Posted by starrynight (Post 1072013)

And yeh hip-hop had some interesting things in the earlier 90s, though the roots of hip-hop were the 80s, and there were some good things then. Some of the best 90s stuff I actually find on the cusp of the 80s, very late 80s or very early 90s. The roots of trance were the 80s. And electronica in general had roots way beyond the 90s going back even to the 50s. The full indie scene didn't start in the 90s it started in the 80s.

Originally Posted by starrynight (Post 1072013)

We don't all live in America here, so I think there can be other perspectives apart from the limited one of the 80s being bland AOR rock or bland metal and it being all about Michael Jackson and Madonna and a few critics obsessed bands like Husker Du or REM. If people want to think that is the 80s that is up to them, but I like to take a broader view.

And yeh hip-hop had some interesting things in the earlier 90s, though the roots of hip-hop were the 80s, and there were some good things then. Some of the best 90s stuff I actually find on the cusp of the 80s, very late 80s or very early 90s. The roots of trance were the 80s. And electronica in general had roots way beyond the 90s going back even to the 50s. The full indie scene didn't start in the 90s it started in the 80s.

So what are we left with that is specifically 90s? Grunge? blah Even the roots of that were earlier anyway. Britpop? blah Overrated.

Originally Posted by starrynight (Post 1072013)

We don't all live in America here, so I think there can be other perspectives apart from the limited one of the 80s being bland AOR rock or bland metal and it being all about Michael Jackson and Madonna and a few critics obsessed bands like Husker Du or REM. If people want to think that is the 80s that is up to them, but I like to take a broader view.

And yeh hip-hop had some interesting things in the earlier 90s, though the roots of hip-hop were the 80s, and there were some good things then. Some of the best 90s stuff I actually find on the cusp of the 80s, very late 80s or very early 90s. The roots of trance were the 80s. And electronica in general had roots way beyond the 90s going back even to the 50s. The full indie scene didn't start in the 90s it started in the 80s.

So what are we left with that is specifically 90s? Grunge? blah Even the roots of that were earlier anyway. Britpop? blah Overrated.

Originally Posted by Captain Ron (Post 1071873)

90s rock was way better than 80s rock. i'll take nirvana and soundgarden over poison and bon jovi any day

Originally Posted by Captain Ron (Post 1072070)

i was lucky to live in DC in the early 90s cause there was a great station called WHFS that played alot of stuff nobody else would like the judybats, swervedriver, the boo radleys, the posies, frente, the connells, the milltown brothers, the soup dragons etc.
the early 90s was a golden age