An album a year for each year you are alive

Violent & Funky · 02-18-2010, 10:30 AM

The best thing about '91 was that not only was punk exploding into the mainstream, but underground music was still great too...

Engine · 02-18-2010, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

I just wanted to make people who were in high school back then feel really old.

I graduated from HS in 1992 but somehow I still dont feel even slightly old.

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Being in high school in 91, going to buy a great album like Nevermind or Blood Sugar from your local record store must have been amazing, to actually get it, bring it back and put it on. Now, people get excited for an album, click download, and are let down.

The best was getting the cassette so you could rock the album in your car.
And to make you children a little more jealous: I saw RHCP on their BSSM tour - flaming hats and all.. Better yet (for me) was that Smashing Pumpkins opened for them supporting their Gish album. Part of the tour included Nirvana as the 1st opener. By the time the tour got to me, however, Nirvana had dropped off and were replaced by a band I had never heard of called Pearl Jam. They were a real crowd pleaser - I'm sure they've got a bright future.

TheCunningStunt · 02-18-2010, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Engine

I graduated from HS in 1992 but somehow I still dont feel even slightly old.

The best was getting the cassette so you could rock the album in your car.
And to make you children a little more jealous: I saw RHCP on their BSSM tour - flaming hats and all.. Better yet (for me) was that Smashing Pumpkins opened for them supporting their Gish album. Part of the tour included Nirvana as the 1st opener. By the time the tour got to me, however, Nirvana had dropped off and were replaced by a band I had never heard of called Pearl Jam. They were a real crowd pleaser - I'm sure they've got a bright future.

I finished HS 16 years after you. 2008. When I'm 34 I'll be one of them people who feels very old and wishes I was still in my youth, I just know it. Unfortunately.

All that excitement and great bands, I even wish it was half as good these days. I'm going to buy an album that's out on Monday for the first time in a while, very excited for it. But I just know listening to it in the car on the way home will most probably be a big disappointment.

ElephantSack · 02-18-2010, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Engine

I graduated from HS in 1992 but somehow I still dont feel even slightly old.

The best was getting the cassette so you could rock the album in your car.
And to make you children a little more jealous: I saw RHCP on their BSSM tour - flaming hats and all.. Better yet (for me) was that Smashing Pumpkins opened for them supporting their Gish album. Part of the tour included Nirvana as the 1st opener. By the time the tour got to me, however, Nirvana had dropped off and were replaced by a band I had never heard of called Pearl Jam. They were a real crowd pleaser - I'm sure they've got a bright future.

When I was 17, I would have been deathly envious of you.

Vancouver · 02-18-2010, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Violent & Funky

I wish I would have been in high school...

It was AMAZING. IMO the best time for music.

Proof..Lollapalooza

1991
Jane's Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, Living Colour, Ice-T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes, Fishbone, Emergency Broadcast Network

1992
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush

1993 WOW!!
Main Stage: The Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars, The Breeders, A Tribe Called Quest, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, L7, Boredoms (first half of tour), Green Day (second half)

Side Stage: The Flaming Lips, The Verve, The Boo Radleys, The Frogs (first six dates only), Guided by Voices, Lambchop, Girls Against Boys, Rollerskate Skinny, Palace Songs, Stereolab, Fu-Schnickens, The Pharcyde, Shudder to Think, Luscious Jackson, God Lives Underwater, King Kong, Charlie Hunter Trio, Shonen Knife, Blast Off Country Style, Souls of Mischief, Cypress Hill, The Black Crowes

duga · 02-18-2010, 02:57 PM

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The Flaming Lips in 1993...I would have killed to see them in their formative days (well...not so formative since they started in 1983 but they changed a lot). That was right when Transmissions from the Satellite Heart was coming out. I would just love to be able to compare shows from then and now after they have done things like Yoshimi.

Bane of your existence · 02-18-2010, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Vancouver

It was AMAZING. IMO the best time for music.

Proof..Lollapalooza

1991
Jane's Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, Living Colour, Ice-T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes, Fishbone, Emergency Broadcast Network

1992
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ministry, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Lush

1993 WOW!!
Main Stage: The Smashing Pumpkins, Beastie Boys, George Clinton & the P-Funk All Stars, The Breeders, A Tribe Called Quest, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, L7, Boredoms (first half of tour), Green Day (second half)

Side Stage: The Flaming Lips, The Verve, The Boo Radleys, The Frogs (first six dates only), Guided by Voices, Lambchop, Girls Against Boys, Rollerskate Skinny, Palace Songs, Stereolab, Fu-Schnickens, The Pharcyde, Shudder to Think, Luscious Jackson, God Lives Underwater, King Kong, Charlie Hunter Trio, Shonen Knife, Blast Off Country Style, Souls of Mischief, Cypress Hill, The Black Crowes

That doesn't compare to some of the line-ups going on these days. Did you see (I think it was) funfunfun fest's line up last year?

sidewinder · 02-18-2010, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

Being in high school in 91, going to buy a great album like Nevermind or Blood Sugar from your local record store must have been amazing, to actually get it, bring it back and put it on. Now, people get excited for an album, click download, and are let down.

It was amazing!

I really miss those days. I've got plenty of record stores around me now, but it's just not the same with the internet making things easier (even if I'm still buying CDs), and just the fact that when you got to a record store and can't find what you want, you know it would have been easier sitting on your ass at home ordering it online. It sucks.

Vancouver · 02-18-2010, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Bane of your existence

That doesn't compare to some of the line-ups going on these days. Did you see (I think it was) funfunfun fest's line up last year?

lets see it...

And it was also the time..The big Seattle movement and the feeling.....you can't tell me now can compare with 90-95...really?

edit: found it..very good but I can't say I agree.

http://www.funfunfunfest.com/artists

sidewinder · 02-18-2010, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Vancouver

And it was also the time..The big Seattle movement and the feeling.....you can't tell me now can compare with 90-95...really?

Due to the generational gap, I'm sure the average high school kid now feel the same way about the current music scene (whatever style they like) as we did back then.

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duga MB quadrant's JM Vincent Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 3,762	^ The Flaming Lips in 1993...I would have killed to see them in their formative days (well...not so formative since they started in 1983 but they changed a lot). That was right when Transmissions from the Satellite Heart was coming out. I would just love to be able to compare shows from then and now after they have done things like Yoshimi. __________________ Confusion will be my epitaph...

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Violent & Funky FUNky Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Midland, MI Posts: 2,482	The best thing about '91 was that not only was punk exploding into the mainstream, but underground music was still great too...