Early-mid 90s Songs That Have Lasted

[Dis]

80's gets a bad rap. For that matter the70's and the 90's also get bad raps.

Why do people say these decades suck? If all 3 decades sucked what music did they listen to the last 30 years?

There is nothing wrong with the music of the 70's, 80's, and 90's. You can say the pop music was horrible, but that goes without saying.

Beneath all the crap there was lots of good music.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
None whatsoever. The nineties were the weakest decade of music since like the forties, consisting mostly of unlistenable, predictable bollocks. And since music now is so much better, there really is no point in revisting older embarassments.

Okay early-nineties song: Movin' on Up by Primal Scream.

You do like hyperbole, don't you? Every decade has its musical embarassments- Pat Boone anyone? Racey? Cats U.K.? Styx? No decade has a monopoly.

1990s music I love:

Massive Attack: Blue Lines, Protection

Portishead: Dummy

Grant Lee Buffalo: Fuzzy

William Orbit: Strange Cargo III (especially Water From A Vine Leaf, with Beth Orton)

P.J. Harvey: To Bring You My Love

Attica Blues: Attica Blues

D.J. Shadow: Endtroducing...

Jhelisa: Friendly Pressure

Leftfield: The Afro-Left E.P.

Future Sound of London: ISDN

Mercury Rev: Deserter's Songs

Everything But The Girl: Walking Wounded

Dead Can Dance: A Passage in Time

Saint Etienne: Too Young To Die

Craig Armstrong: The Space Between Us

Morcheeba: Big Calm

Air: Moon Safari

Moloko: Do You Like My Tight Sweater?

Shara Nelson: What Silence Knows

That leaves out whole genres, including artists such as Emmylou Harris, who released the magnificent 'Wrecking Ball', Lucinda Williams, Iris Dement, Natalie Merchant, the Indigo Girls, June Tabor, Mary Coughlan, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Victoria Williams, Jane Siberry, Brian Eno, and so on and so on...

[Caesar the Great]

Originally posted by MosesPresley


I'll admit to liking their early music, but "The Soft Bulletin" sucked like a Tim Allen modified Hoover.

yeah i didn't like soft bulletin too much either, but clouds taste metallic and yoshimi battles the pink robots are great

[Felch]

Sublime - they kicked ass, Brad kicked the bucket, and anybody who has their heart in the nineties can still chill and listen to them.

[devilmunchkin]

JohnT is right..Nirvana is still huge here..we just all have to realize that the market in england is very different than america (i mean..i've been into bjork for years..many people are just discovering her here..and she's been big in europe for awhile)

other songs:
"Blackhole SUn" by Soundgarden
"Sober" by Tool
"Hey Man Nice Shot" by Filter
"Closer" by NIN
"The Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson
anything that Metallica and the Smashing Pumpkins and pearl jam and STP and Alice in Chains came out with during that time
"Sweet Fantasy" by Mariah Carey
"Love" and "walk" by Pantera
"I WilL Always Love you" sung by Whitney Houston
whole bunch of early celine dion songs
"Sweater SOng" by Weezer
"Name" by the Goo Goo Dolls
"dreams" by the cranberries
"shine" by collective soul
"longview," "basketcase," and "when i come around" by green day
"no rain" by blind melon
"runaway train" by soul asylum

that's all i can think of off the top of my head

[Hueij]

"I WilL Always Love you" sung by Whitney Houston

Forgive her, Dolly Parton, for she knows no better... Anyways, they made music in the 90's? Must have passed right by me...

[alva]

King kong 5
suicide commando - No more

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I can't believe no one's mentioned it yet:

[grand pronouncement]
The most influential CD of the 90's was Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville.
[/grand pronouncement]

And "F*ck and Run" remains one hell of a song.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by BustaMike


Agreed... IF you are talking about the pop top 40 type stuff like NSuck and Nickelcrap or anything by Metallicrap past And Justice for All (pre Black they were Metallica and they were good) and don't get me started on how much I hate Fred Durst. Otherwise you're dead wrong. The 80's is the musical void consisting mosltly of butt hair rock and semi-electronic pop crap (not that Divo isn't funny but they suck).

On other notes, Nirvana was incredibly influential but gets more credit then they had talent for. Alice in Chains and Soundgarden were the good grunge bands.

Everything that Mike Patton did in the 90's from Faith No More to Mr. Bungle to the less heard of Fantomas is classic, period. Angeldust was and still is one of the greatest albums ever. All the garbage NuMetal bands like Papa Roach that speak so highly of him are tainting his legacy.

NIN freakin' rules.

Opeth... this band is so good that there's almost no reason to listen to anything else.

Other great 90's music includes: Tool, Helmet, early Wu-Tang Clan (36 Chambers), Bad Religion, Pearl Jam's Vitalogy album, anything by Chris Cornell, Soul Coughing (especially Ruby Vroom, Screenwriter's Blues is one of my favorite songs ever), EVERYTHING by Stone Temple Pilots, Monster Magnet, Korn's fist album, God Lives Underwater, etc... I could go on and on.

I tend to agree, especially about Mr. Bungle, Soul Coughing, STP, Pearl Jam. All great 90s groups. The eighties sucked so much that I used the time to:

1) Fill in my collection of older music, including some artists who continued their previously established music into the 1980s, like the Talking Heads, King Crimson, Roxy Music, David Bowie etc.

2) Check out the new indie type music that was managing to gain a fingernailhold on the market. I'm talking Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth, Violent Femmes, Meat Puppets etc. Dire times (Madonna and Prince simultaneously!) call for dire music.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by SpencerH
Green Day have a number of songs that fit the bill for me (even though I cant think of them as punk).

A lot of people seem to have forgotten this band other than "Dookie", but I have 4 of their albums, and IMO they are all good. This band has a lot more talent than their grungie beginnings would suggest. Their writing and arrangements are often quite sophisticated.

[Sikander]

I'm glad Devilmunchkin mentioned Bjork, I really like her stuff. Some of the music on Post sends me into a rapturous tingling spine and head rush sort of feeling. Who needs drugs?