Early 90s Pop
 

I can't stand most of the mainstream music that comes out today, but when i hear pop from the early nineties like Prince, Micheal Jackson, Kylie Minougue, 2 Unlimited etc.. I don't mind it. And the same goes for most pop that was recorded before then. I think is probabaly becuase I was young back then and its purely a nostaligic thing.

Does anyone else feel the same way? Or Have any other theories on the matter?

Cheers

I think it wasn't quite so oversold and over commercialized back then. Maybe.. just maybe it had actual meaning.

I definately think it's a nostaligia thing, but damn, I love it all... Especially all those funny electronic dance groups like Real McCoy and Rockell.

I Agree Dr. Luncheon! The Whole Pop has become complete rubbish like you said 'old fashion' pop is well better than now-a-days!

i think lots of music gets overplayed on the radio too. I like son]gs that you're pleased to hear, not ones that you're sick of cos they've been played six times already that day. Especially that bloody Usher track! it is so annoying!

Excuse me while I belly laugh. 2 Unlimited?! Its not that I am great fans of the others you mentioned but how on earth can you put 2 Unlimited along side them?! Apart from being absolute ****e they were a completely different genre of music.

Before some posts were deleted Covle said (taken from my email notification)

"do not take it all for sarcasm...i love that song.
although i have some bad news people. apparently, since featuring on a reality
tv show-in the uk i believe, but could be mistaken-peter andre is planning a
comeback to the industry. he is back in the recording stupdio now, apparently"

Yeah sadly he's well and truly come back. He re released Mysterious Girl and now he's just releasing some other crap.. sorry, song. :rofl:

Which song did you mean when you said you liked it? I have his first (and only?) album going free... LOL

2 Unlimited is cool. So are Tag Team. Everybody loves the few hits they came out with. Their songs are especially fun to hear at sports games.

Back in the early 90's we didn't suffer from Reality TV and the likes of the X Factor. Music was judged then on its' own merits and to some extent the strength of the accompanying video which could dramatically influence sales, whereas now we are being smothered by mass media for a handful of artistes; not judged on anything except how much money someone is prepared to spend on phone votes. This not only distorts the market; we are being brainwashed in order to line the pockets of a few individuals for nobody's benefit except their own.

The 90's dance pop that was always on the radio was never very good, but I suppose there is a nostalgia factor today. I can listen to Haddaway or No Mercy or Real McCoy and enjoy myself, but this stuff gets tiresome pretty quickly.

And it really goes without saying that the best Prince and Michael Jackson stuff came out in the '80's.

Come on, early 90s pop is the trash bin for commercial music. 2 Unlimited was not really that cool. Neither were Aqua, Rednecks, DJ Bobo, Scatman John, Whigfield, Take That, East 17, 4 Non Blondes, Haddaway, Enigma, Dr. Alban, Michael Learns to Rock, Ace of Base, Deep Forest, Captain Jack, Blümchen ..

Come on, the early 90s (and the 90s in general) craplist just goes on and on. You can love crap, but it's still poo.


It was insanely commercial. If you could put a danceable beat on it, you could sell anything. I remember a CD which was called 95 Ultra Rave or something and it had a song which went "how would you like to **** me in the ass?!" with some heavy ass bass drums and rave **** on it. That kind of crap would not sell today .. I hope.

At least not in Norway. I hope.

90's pop was as bad as todays pop and whoever mentioned 2 unlimited needs to be shot. Even factoring nostalgia they were bllody awful. It will be Technotronic threads next :D

No but bands were auditioned in the same way , just behind closed doors.

If anything TV talent shows reduce the number of manufactured girl bands/ boy band because nobody in their right mind is going to try & compete with someone who's already doing pretty much the same thing and who already have an audience of millions as a head start.

Some of these bands are actually mid and late 90s acts, like Aqua and Rednex for example. And I have to admit, I like quite a bit of the stuff you listed. :p:

I don't know why anyone would think that early 90s pop is less commercial than current pop though. I'm certainly with you on that point.

This is one Great track from the early 90's- Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode.

That's actually technically from 89.

Yep! I'm wrong again! I'll be along later with another one... :rofl:

Well, the album it ended up on came out in 1990 so you were sort of right. It's just the single that's from 89.

Anyways, it's not like songs from 89 never got played on the radio / MTV / whatever in the early 90s. :)

Nobody mentioned Backstreet Boys or Spice Girls? ;) I was born in the early 90s and there was nobody to teach me better, so of course I was a huge fan of Aqua, Backstreet Boys, etc, the stuff I wouldn't go near today XP I haven't listened to her in ages but I think Kylie Minogue might actually be alright. I have to admit, though, I am a fan of Scatman (just the one song)....

Good point. Although so did songs from the 50s, 60s and 70s. :p:

That's because they're not from the early 90s.

Oops. Totally missed the 'early' bit XD I'll just silently run away from this thread now ^^;

^^My point is, of course, that it could still be recent enough to be regarded as pop music, something music from the 50s and 60s wouldn't be .. But I think you got it and just wanna tug at my leg a little. :p

There's a fair share of **** throughout the 90s. I don't think it was an overall great decade for music, at least not popular music. There's a lot of good, no doubt, but just so much crap ..



Oh-yoee-yoh-yoee-yooeee-yooee-yee!

Pretty much. :D

LOL. I've never heard that before but it reminds me a hell of a lot of "Barbie Girl".

It's interesting to me how much of a different animal European pop was in the 90s compared to the pop we had over here. I think yours was better actually, at least it wasn't afraid to be silly.

:laughing: What you have to remember is that up North we get everything later!
So can I have Killer by Adamski instead? That's Awesome! :laughing:

Don't you think Kylie's "Confide In Me" was so much better than the rest of her stuff?

Does Ace Of Base count as 90's Pop? If so, they get a big thumbs up from me.

Hell yeah. I kind of like them too.

I went nuts for them as a kid...along with Kenny G.

I don't care how many e-cool points I lose, I loved Kenny G. as a kid...it was a phase...

But yeah..."Beautiful Life" was their peak, I really wish they'd make a comeback...I'd write for them for free if they did.