The 90s thread

[footyfan1978]

My Hometown is my favourite song off that album, it was the old school working class Springsteen from his early days.

Springsteen certainly 80's man...not 90's
In fact is the 90's tv star from Friends on the video of Dancing in the Dark video from 80's ?

 

[footyfan1978]

How many bands get better after a decade or more? Not really an era specific thing.

The Rolling Stones have been pumping out tunes since 1963 but if you took 1963-1973 out of the catalogue they would be just another average band with a following rather than a cultural icon like The Beatles, Elvis etc. that everyone knows.

AC/DC from the mid 70s, Metallica from the early/mid 80s, Foo Fighters from the mid 90s, U2 were around in the early 80s but hit it big with the Joshua Tree in 1987 then had their run of 3 or 4 big albums until the mid to late 90s. They all have 5-10 years of great albums then it mostly tails off after that. Pretty common for a band to have a couple of popular albums then coast off that success with tours for the next 20 years, releasing the odd album that isn't any good but enough people buy it to make it worthwhile. Who goes along to a Cold Chisel gig wanting to hear The Last Wave of Summer, No Plans and The Perfect Crime?

Not so much that weird 90's album when they were not even a band.
The other two, of recent times would certainly pay to see live if it was close to me.
You are right about most bands. As a teenager went to 1985 to see AC/DC here thinking they were past their best that well before my time. I was right too. Their 70's stuff sounds far better than anything in mid 80's or 90's.
U2 probably at their best in mid to late 80's and early 90's. Did not listen to them much when I was a teenager.

 

[Plugger35]

Dr Dre also contributed to this classic 90s 2pac hit.




Dre was the Quincy Jones of rap. he was a hit maker.

 

[Del191229]

Dre produced and/or rapped on some of the seminal biggest selling albums of the 90s. Well before Marshall Mathers ever appeared.

Doggystyle.

The Chronic.

 

[Cleavy]

Was the 90's peak "joke" bumper stickers?

was the 90s the peak of bumper stickers in general, especially for radio station allegiances (e.g. MMM rocks "my suburb")?

 

[Scotland]

It's pretty hard to keep producing top quality music for decades on end. Part of the mystique of The Beatles is that they were done and dusted in 8 years. Lennon died in 1980 so any hope of a reunion died with him. Had their timeline extended 10, 20, 30 years of producing albums it's unlikely they'd all be instant classics. Less Sgt Pepper, more Yellow Submarine. Even if you do produce another Abbey Road is it as good in 1975 or 1980? Eras change and people move on from the sound of the day. By the 70s you are talking The Wall, Zeppelin IV, A Night At The Opera... do The Beatles go down the path of rock epics? Do people lose interest in their pop rock? It's an alternate timeline we'll never know.

 

[HahnPremium]

It's pretty hard to keep producing top quality music for decades on end. Part of the mystique of The Beatles is that they were done and dusted in 8 years. Lennon died in 1980 so any hope of a reunion died with him. Had their timeline extended 10, 20, 30 years of producing albums it's unlikely they'd all be instant classics. Less Sgt Pepper, more Yellow Submarine. Even if you do produce another Abbey Road is it as good in 1975 or 1980? Eras change and people move on from the sound of the day. By the 70s you are talking The Wall, Zeppelin IV, A Night At The Opera... do The Beatles go down the path of rock epics? Do people lose interest in their pop rock? It's an alternate timeline we'll never know.

Hard to disagree with anything youve said. But I might proffer up that the Beatles went thru a myriad of extensive musical progressions during those 8 years.

 

[Plugger35]

Dre produced and/or rapped on some of the seminal biggest selling albums of the 90s . Well before Marshall Mathers ever appeared.

Doggystyle.

The Chronic.

Yeah but Dre's seminal biggest selling albums of the 90s were with other black guys.

Dre from NWA working with Marshall Mathers was a game changer, he crossed racial lines to work with a white rapper to take rap to us white folk.

Says a lot about Eminem that he chose him to work with.

Dre could have coasted on his reputation as a black rap god from the 90s but he saw the bigger picture.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I don't know exactly how to feel about that last post, but I know it shouldn't be good.

 

[Plugger35]

I don't know exactly how to feel about that last post, but I know it shouldn't be good.

I mentioned black and white people? That was acceptable back in the 90s but now it's PC acceptable Caucasians and Afro Americans.

Seinfeld predicted this bullsh*t back in the 90s.




The Caucasian and Afro-American cookie.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Eminem's legacy would be better if someone John Lennon'd him circa 2004.

 

[Plugger35]

If you don't know this song you weren't there.

 

[HahnPremium]

Jesus Christ plugger. You are Bf's virtual flea market vendor of trash.
Respect.

 

[Plugger35]

 

[revo333]

do The Beatles go down the path of rock epics? Do people lose interest in their pop rock? It's an alternate timeline we'll never know.

McCartneys opinion was if the Beatles had kept going they would of sounded something like ELO.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

1997




Thought this was an American song until 2014 when I learned she's from New Zealand.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

My introduction to Eminem was Rage playing 30 seconds of filler in place of his charted songs. Not G rated for Saturday mornings I guess.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

How many bands get better after a decade or more?

Nickel Creek




Incidentally all 3 members of Nickel Creek went on to good things

Chris Thile



Sara Watkins



Sean Watkins

 

[Plugger35]

Still the best 90s song for me.

 

[NSWCROW]

And who could forget The Late Show, you had to stay at home on a Saturday night or rely on someone else to video tape it.

No streaming back in those days.

It was Late Show THEN hit the pub.

The Sunday Footy Show was a bunch of grey and white haired old men and sometimes ended with them throwing footballs at each other.




Rex Hunt had a competing show on Channel 7




I'd flick between them but make sure to see the handball segment on Channel 9

Funnily due to the WA time difference sometimes Channel 7 would start showing a live game while Channel 9's panel show was still going.

Both shows might've been as s**t as the present day offerings; I was just a kid.

FIVE !

TWENTY !

TWENTY FIVE-EYE !!

SHUT UP TED !

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Bluegrass not that big in Australia

How about this belter!

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Still the best 90s song for me.

Yeah you've only posted it three or four times now

 

[NSWCROW]

The 1994 world cup got me into soccer, apart from the final it was a very entertaining world cup.

Also I don't think any other world cup has had better playing kits!

 

[Plugger35]

Arguably the best Aussie band of the 90s.

 

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