80's comeback?

Zarko · 11-18-2009, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe

The music being played on the radio was amazing too

Ricky Martin fan are we? I'm betting it was the Backstreet Boys actually

CanwllCorfe · 11-18-2009, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Zarko

Ricky Martin fan are we?

You have no idea

Zarko · 11-18-2009, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe

You have no idea

Haha

The memories.... The terrible terrible memories.

sidewinder · 11-18-2009, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mr dave

i don't think it's so much about style so much as reaction. what really distinguished the 90s for me is how it seemed to strip itself away from the excess of the 80s.

when i think back to the 80s i remember cheese. lots and lots of cheese. self indulgence and arrogance to the point of hubris. a future so bright you didn't just wear shades you figured you already knew how to dress like the primitives you'd be meeting in tomorrowland.

a lot of people i've talked to said the only distinguishing factor of the 90s was that it was depressing. to an extent that's true but it's also due to taking a harsh look at the reality of our situation. there wasn't going to be a magic change in 2000. people weren't going to be riding around in flying cars.

I quote in agreement.

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

...the whole grunge pseudo-genre/sub-culture, which, musically, really hasn't quite left us yet.

Truth. The good and the bad are still with us.

CanwllCorfe · 11-18-2009, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Zarko

Haha

The memories.... The terrible terrible memories.

He wasn't really that big until the really late 90s though. Like 99 when that song came out. By that time I started having my own taste of music. The next year I would be introduced to trance music and everything kinda changed after that. This is the kinda stuff I remember :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP95btX8NJE

**Janszoon** · 11-18-2009, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by SATCHMO

I just don't see what, if anything, was distinctive about 90's culture, besides the whole grunge pseudo-genre/sub-culture, which, musically, really hasn't quite left us yet.

I think, like every decade, the 90s have their distinguishing characteristics that are becoming more and more apparent with time. The internet boom is a huge one and grunge, which you mentioned, is another well-known but less significant one. As far as other very 90s things go here's a little list of things off the top of my head:

Gangsta rap
The explosion of rave culture
Phat pants
Celtic tats
Body piercing
Zillions of novelty items involving greys (aliens)
Zines
The explosion of fancy coffee
Britpop
Chunky shoes
Indie crime cinema
Distressed typography
Extreme sports
Extreme everything else
The re-legitimization of facial hair
"Magic eye" posters
The birth of CGI special effects
The birth of computer animated kids movies

Petro · 11-19-2009, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

The explosion of rave culture

I remember the morning clubs. Opening at 6 in the morning, playing mostly techno/trance and serving only water. Ridiculously expensive water that is.

Guybrush · 11-19-2009, 11:16 AM

Thinking music and the 90s, it wasn't just grunge and rave which was distinct from that decade either. I mean, there was an explosion of electronica genres. IDM for example, like Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy". You don't find stuff like that in the 80s and it hasn't been popular in this decade either - at least I didn't notice.

Eurodance **** like Rednex "Cotton Eye Joe" is another example .. Or New Agey crap like Enigma's "Return to Innocence". We got Downtempo and Trip Hop like Massive Attack and Portishead.

Boybands also became really popular in the 90s. Black Metal got popular too and while that genre is still around today, it's usually in some more advanced evolved form. There's lots!

sidewinder · 11-19-2009, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by toretorden

Thinking music and the 90s, it wasn't just grunge and rave which was distinct from that decade either. I mean, there was an explosion of electronica genres. IDM for example, like Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy". You don't find stuff like that in the 80s and it hasn't been popular in this decade either - at least I didn't notice.

While many don't like to use the term IDM anymore (I still do), I don't think it has gone down in popularity at all. Sure it had more exposure at the time that it exploded (MTV's short-lived Amp show had something to do with it), and then regressed to a more underground genre, but believe me it's still going strong. In fact many elements of IDM (such as glitch) have worked their way into mainstream music over the past decade.

But you're right, many different styles of electronic music were born (or at least became known to the masses) in the 90s.

Liljagare · 11-19-2009, 11:55 AM

Don't forget the entire Swing dance comeback fad that came into fashion around the mid-late nineties with bands like the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Cherry Poppin Daddies. Every other bar seemed to be advertising "Swing dance" lessons then and people wearing zoot suits. If I have to choose one form of music to make a comeback now I would actually go for this....I can live without another revival of grunge.

edit: I am sorry to be a bit negative on the eighties comeback but it just seems to me that alot of it was just a cut/slash of old eighties hits with a new beat or people just redoing hits that really should never have been redone..at least it seemed like that for a while..

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Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	Thinking music and the 90s, it wasn't just grunge and rave which was distinct from that decade either. I mean, there was an explosion of electronica genres. IDM for example, like Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy". You don't find stuff like that in the 80s and it hasn't been popular in this decade either - at least I didn't notice. Eurodance **** like Rednex "Cotton Eye Joe" is another example .. Or New Agey crap like Enigma's "Return to Innocence". We got Downtempo and Trip Hop like Massive Attack and Portishead. Boybands also became really popular in the 90s. Black Metal got popular too and while that genre is still around today, it's usually in some more advanced evolved form. There's lots! __________________ Something Completely Different

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Liljagare Music Addict Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sweden Posts: 182	Don't forget the entire Swing dance comeback fad that came into fashion around the mid-late nineties with bands like the Squirrel Nut Zippers and Cherry Poppin Daddies. Every other bar seemed to be advertising "Swing dance" lessons then and people wearing zoot suits. If I have to choose one form of music to make a comeback now I would actually go for this....I can live without another revival of grunge. edit: I am sorry to be a bit negative on the eighties comeback but it just seems to me that alot of it was just a cut/slash of old eighties hits with a new beat or people just redoing hits that really should never have been redone..at least it seemed like that for a while.. Last edited by Liljagare; 11-19-2009 at 12:02 PM.