What was “shit music of the 90’s” to you guys?
It starts with Pearl Jam.
Post-grunge, boy bands, girl bands, overly-earnest singer-songwriters…
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I’ll allow it. I loved Alice in Chains the most of that grungy-era
Who else? Asking you as well, Tampa-Ty
Alice in Chains
ducks
Seriously, I thought the whole of grunge was excruciatingly awful. I like Smashing Pumpkins ok, and I could tolerate the Dave Matthews Band if it weren’t for Dave Matthews. I’ll echo Ty’s disdain for the boy/girl bands, and most of the female “singer/songwriters” like Jewell or Alanis Morrisette or Tori Amos or Liz Phair, all of whom are as insufferable as Dave Matthews.
I think the phrase all the cool kids use is “OK boomer”.
I love that you went from AIC to Smashing Pumpkins (Gish is by far their best album) to Dave fucking Matthews in one sentence.
Beastie Boys? Dr Dre? Hip Hop blew up in the 90’s. Late 80’s+90’s was also Jane’s Addiction, Red Hots, Pantera, Ministry, etc…
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Hey, I said hardly worthless.
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I was just thinking about how all those bands who insisted on playing everything in drop D were so horrible and then I wondered what the hell was I excited about in the mid 90’s and I remembered MBV and GBV and I thought Hey! GBV has some drop D songs that do not suck and as a bonus they tend to utilize many if not most of their shirt buttons and I submit for consideration
Drop D y’all.
I come to thank you for such delicious pie
I’ve been reading a lot about the now generation gap between millennials and GenZ. Apparently the former are just old and out of touch with modern society while listening to grandpa music, not to mention use outdated phrases, technology, and couldn’t possibly understand the social and economic pressures the latter are under. It’s quite entertaining.
How does GenX fit into your schematics?
Those are all early-mid 80s bands in my mind.
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It doesn’t. We are completely out of sight, out of mind. As far as the world is concerned, no one was born between 1964 and 1980.
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I would say “fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck” if I cared enough
Do you really not like the Nirvana Unplugged show/album? I thought it was brilliant.
Not particularly. Just don’t care for grunge. I don’t find it original or meaningful in any real way. The music is plain, the whining is loud.
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Maybe it was the covers (Bowie, Meat Puppets, Leadbelly, etc) that did it for me.
I should say that I don’t dislike all female singer-songwriters of the era. I am a big fan of Maria McKee (going back to her days with Lone Justice), Suzanne Vega, and a good bit of Sheryl Crow.
I can’t stand the singer from Creed, and apparently the rest of the band couldn’t either. They split and got a new singer forming a band called Alter Bridge and I quiite enjoy their music. Nothing earth shattering but I like it ok.
The acoustic Alice in Chains (SAP, Jar of Flies, Mad Season) is the best AIC.
I liked Layne Staley’s voice when he wasn’t screaming. Same with Chris Cornell.