90's music was the best
Kayleigh2010
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I prefer the music that was out then much more than music out now:(
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Some of it was pretty good stuff, Blur, Oasis, Nirvana etc. But there was also some crap about then too, think Westlife, Take That etc.
This.
I was an 80s kid but around this time was awesome 89-93ish.
Robin S - Show Me Love
Tony Di Bart - The Real Thing
Livin' Joy - Dreamer
Haddaway - What is Love?
Olive - You're Not Alone
That is just a short example. What do we have now? David Guetta...*sigh*
Why does everyone just bring up Guetta? He isn't the only DJ/Dance act around.
There is some good dance/electro out there like Deadmau5, Tiesto, Avicii, Martin Solveig, Simian Mobile Disco, Justice etc who have had chart success over the years.
Also Swedish House Mafia, Laidback Luke, Diplo.
A lot of these DJs do take inspiration from 90s dance.
Yeah I love 90s dance music because of the anthem style of many of the big house and US garage tunes as well as the progressive scene and some techno and trance plus IMO one of the most amazing periods of RnB in music history.
Virtually all of these genres still exist in one form or another or they have split into sub categories (US garage-which Robin S was classed as basically exists now within the themselves diverse categories of soulful,(mostly this one) deep or just plain old House).
As for Guetta, well to me he's only continuing the pop dance trend which has been pretty much around forever really, I mean remember act's like 2Unlimited and the crazy euro DJs who where having hits in the 1990s-its just dance music for the masses. No worse, no better. I used to (and still do) think they where terrible.
I agree with the previous poster, there is plenty of stuff around and a lot of the big name 90s DJ legend's like Frankie Knuckles are getting into producing and remixing again because there is a real demand for it.
by the 80s a whole lot of things were wrong, with samplers and the creation of boybands, and sequencers, so you had people who couldn't sing or play an instrument topping the charts. the 90s were a reaction to that with grunge and britpop, but many of the acts were copying what came before them, most notably in the 70s, and late 60s, most notably with blur and oasis, and grunge
but in each period there is good and bad music. you just need to turn away from the charts. in the past the charts had sometimes had influence from better music, but not so much in the last decade or so
At the same time, it's easy for any of us to say that today's songs won't be regarded as classics in ten-fifteen year's time. Sure, *I* probably won't regard so many songs as classics - I think music is engaging with me far less than it ever has done before - but in ten years time, well educated music fans will definitely be able to put their case across that music in the 2010s is fantastic, compared to music in the 2020s (or, indeed, music is equally just as good/bad as it ever was).
For me though, the 90s will always hold a special place in my heart, since it was the time I was buying music the most. I would emerge from my local HMV with literally armfulls of CDs. I was about 17 or so at the turn of the 90s, so I guess it was my "time". Then again, my folks maintained that 90s music was dire by comparison to the stuff they were buying in the 60s. I don't dispute they're right about that (at least as far as they themselves are concerned), much the same as I'd hate it if anyone else tried to insinuate that I am wrong to hold a particular opinion about the 90s and how it compares to today's music output.
For me, the best music came in the 70s. It's a pity I wasn't born until 83.
Agreed
lol..couldnt disagree more, 89-93 was for me the worst period ever... hated it, hated the styles, hated the fashion.
unusually i dont agree with you on this.
but i dont think you can catagorise one decade as different from another because fashions didnt start and end with each decade.
the early 60's = poor , the mid 60's = great
early 80's = great, late 80's = poor.
i didnt get much into the britpop stuff in the 90's, just a third reincarnation of 60's mod. (the second being new wave in the late 70's), but i loved the way dance evolved and peaked in the 90's, especially the late 90's when trance was at its zenith. for me trance propped up an otherwise dire decade.
id also champion the early 00's, as for me preferable to the 90's. there was some class rock from qotsa, white stripes, hives, auf der maur, etc.
Great for dance stuff:
Livin Joy
JX
Nightcrawlers
Olive
Real 2 Reel
the late 80s/early 90s fashions were the worst ever. but whilst a lot of music was shite, the early house/acid stuff at that time was classic, 87/88, and then you had the baggy era at the end of the 80s/start of the 90s. personally i wasn't a big fan of most of the indie stuff of the 80s, and the 90s "indie" was about as far removed from indiependant as you could get, with the majors owning the indie offshoots