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Old 06-16-2011, 06:41 PM   #6101 (permalink)
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I hate the 20s.

Couldn't find a decent techno album from then anywhere.
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Old 06-16-2011, 06:45 PM   #6102 (permalink)
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I hate the 20s.

Couldn't find a decent techno album from then anywhere.
You just haven't looked hard enough.
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Old 06-16-2011, 06:47 PM   #6103 (permalink)
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Old 06-16-2011, 07:11 PM   #6104 (permalink)
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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
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.
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Old 06-16-2011, 08:10 PM   #6105 (permalink)
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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.
i know there was alot of great music in the 80s but i have to balance it against the crap like van hagar, paula abdul, hair bands. ugh so much crap
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Old 06-16-2011, 08:34 PM   #6106 (permalink)
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We don't all live in America here, so
Just like if someone said "Punk was on the British Charts and not on American Charts during the 70s" there's no need to point out we all don't live in the US or the UK.

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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.
You make it sound like only a few critics liked Husker Du or REM, they had a fan bases too and there are many other post-punk and college rock bands that are worthy of mentioning as well.

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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.
The height of AOR, hip-hop roots, Independent labels were also in the 70's. Indie is short for Independent labels and even though the moniker didn't start to be used till later for a style of music there were independent record labels much earlier.
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Old 06-16-2011, 09:39 PM   #6107 (permalink)
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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.
why doesn't anyone talk about synth-pop when talking about the 80s?

i mean some of those stuff were terrif - Heaven 17, Ultravox, ABC, Blancmange

and Kate Bush was at her peak in the 80s
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Old 06-16-2011, 09:52 PM   #6108 (permalink)
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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.

The 80's, is my least favorite decade when talking mainstream, everything seemed overblown, and superficial in the mainstream 80's to me, apart from a select few... However, Underground 80's was amazing. So many styles that I loved developed during the decade. Same with most any form of entertainment and media during that time... the mainstream was mainly generic and inflated, and the underground was where things really started.

Same goes for the 90's for me, a lot of mainstream garbage, but a ton of underground stuff.
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90s rock was way better than 80s rock. i'll take nirvana and soundgarden over poison and bon jovi any day
I'd take The Replacements and R.E.M over Nirvana or Soundgarden any day.
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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
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