Last 15 years

[Big Fat Sammy]

Jeff Buckley was the Greatest Artist Of The 90's

[Redballjets88]

Originally posted by Rikk
Only the old bitch about the last 15 years of music. A sign of age is looking back to some time that most other people don't give a shit about and claiming that it was THE time for music.

It's about keeping an open ear and finding the good stuff.

i bitch about it...mostly the past 5 years though

[Big Fat Sammy]

Originally posted by Rikk
Only the old bitch about the last 15 years of music. A sign of age is looking back to some time that most other people don't give a shit about and claiming that it was THE time for music.

It's about keeping an open ear and finding the good stuff.

I understand what you are saying, thats been true up until recent years....but now the mainstream music REALLY sucks.

Even youngsters are asking WTF?

[guitarboy5150]

my 90's bands were
Guns N Roses
Soundgarden
Foo Fighters
Rage Against the Machine
Nine Inch Nails
Stone Temple Pilots

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by Soul Reaper
no, bricks are soft and spongy

Give it a listen.

[rustoffa]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
Brick are heavy?

That is probably the shittest title since sliced bread.

They were poking fun @ grunge.

[Panamark]

I thought the 90's existed for listening to 80's music ?? :p

[Jérôme Frenchise]

IMO, only metal (death, trash, grind, etc) has generated worthy stuff since 1990. Though I'm not a fan of those musical alleys, I really think that most of the inspiration has lain there for the last 15 years, don't you?

[thome]

I know, the lamentations of a old man.(I'm Pert neer a hunerd)
what i found last 10 years is tech funk industrial music
reminds me of freeked out chic fusion
give a listen to some John Ingram.

[Hardrock69]

Some people do not care about music before 1980 simply because they were not alive then.

Those of us who began listening to rock music in the late 60s have got 35-40 years of experience to draw upon, as well as having seen many concerts by the great artists who are no more, due to death, breakups, whatever.

The perfect example is CVH.

Many peeps here understand that CVH would destroy many 90s bands in a heartbeat as far as sheer intensity.

Due to the fact that ProTools and "recording with computers" was unheard of...for the most part if you could not deliver the goods as an artist, you would not find much success.

Sure there were many suckass bands signed, with much crap released (same as today but in much smaller numbers), but the most successful bands and artists of the 60s and 70s were REAL musicians and songwriters, unlike a majority of artists these days who literally do not have to be able to carry a tune in a bucket.

As I say often about CVH, if you never experienced them live, you cannot possibly know how great they are. Video and audio will not do.

So many people out there get the attitude that us older peeps are going on about nothing, when in reality, "nothing" is what has been going on in the music biz since the late 80s....certainly when compared to the era of REAL artists in the 60s-70s...

[Soul Reaper]

Pantera did not suck, and they were 90's!!!

Soundgarden did not suck, and they were 90's!!!!

Faith No More definitely did not suck, and they were 90's!!!!

[SweetSecrets]

Well, I must say that music has slowly started to suck more and more since the 80s. I mean, the 80s were awesome...there were some really kick ass bands (most of which REALLY started in the late 70s), but in the 80s we also had the hair bands that started to convert music into mascara.

The nineties tried desperately to hold on to authenticity, with bands like Stone Temple Piolets and Sound Garden, who's biggest influences were Hendrix and Zeppelin...of which such elements can be heard in their music. They made some good stuff, but there is just something that was missing....something that I think could only seep out through cracks in the generations. I think we are a bit desensitized now by technology..so much that even a Pink Floyd reunion concert would not seem as amazing as it USED to be. Back then I think music was magic to people...it was much harder to believe that music could be so powerfully dimensional, existing in such melodic mastery, but now, it's hard to feel those same effects because its been there and been done. I know I wasn't alive in the seventies and was too young in the 80's to really be able to give an unbias opinion...but I think that is what makes my belief unique. I can look at the pictures and old documentaries when I was still a figment of God's imagination, and see and feel something that just isn't present today in music. Something has been lost.

[superdave]

Nine Inch Nails were the best thing to come out of the 90's

[Hardrock69]

Them and Rammstein.....

[Jérôme Frenchise]

The criterion is POSTERITY. Have those bands you mention from the 90s left anything definitive?
You know, stuff that will live on through time, like (at random) "Crossroads", "Voodoo Chile", "You can't always get what you want", "A quick one", "Ramble Tamble", "I'm yours and I'm hers", "Dazed and confused", "20st century schizoid man", "Sleeping village", "One of these days", "Starless", "Tattooed lady", "Lick and a promise" or "Running with the devil"?
I doubt it.