[Ecurrexchangess]

I don't like this thread. It's already making me feel old.

[carinsurancess]

Year Album Peak chart positions
1991 2Pacalypse Now #64 Gold
1993 Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. #24 Platinum
1994 Thug Life: Volume 1 (with Thug Life) #42 Gold
1995 Me Against the World #1 2× Platinum
1996 All Eyez on Me #1 9× Platinum
1996 The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory #1 4× Platinum
1997 R U Still Down? (Remember Me) #2 4× Platinum
1998 Greatest Hits #2 9× Platinum
1999 Still I Rise (with the Outlawz) #6 Platinum Pretty ****ing cool in my book.

[seekfrieddy]

The 90's sucked in everything except gaming.

[antonyandruleit]

The 90's sucked in everything except gaming.

[Leczyslaw]

Watching back to the 90s documentaries are cool. Things have sure changed!

Listening to 90s music is so-so. Lots of crappy music, more crappy than any other decade than the 00s. Some great in-between. Most music I enjoy listening from there is either a) of the rare good ones, or b) crap music I listen to because it reminds me of growing up/revives good memories, but which in itself is not worth listening to.

[Duaceanceksm]

70's were the peak for great music in the mainstream, going forward every decade is getting worse, more corporate junk and less good music in the mainstream... so 90's are the worst since WWII but still beter than 00's

OneFootInTheGrave...your name says it all...you're knocking on a bit and it is showing

[Meenepek]

there's been so much amazing music made in every decade, it's ridiculous.


My ass. The music of the 1910's was absolute ****...

[ehib8yPc]

90's had some great, great music. It had some garbage too, sure - every decade has it's garbage. But you mention smashing pumpkins - one of my favorite all time bands, without a doubt.

As to whether it's "cool" or not - well...

being *back* at college I'm surrounded all day now by people considerably younger than myself. Anyway, I saw this girl wearing a t-shirt (it was like her senior class 2010 t-shirt or something) with a line from a vanilla ice song on it.

So I *think* that means the 90's are currently "cool." Even though vanilla ice actually sucked ass.

[Uninkipsyncp]

90s were the coolest decade.

If you disagree you are either a stupid old man, or an ignorant kid. Not the perfect ideal age like me.

It was WAY better than the 80s or the 00s that's for sure.

[Bill-Watson]

Yes. A little older than you.

[TepSteade]

Aha! You are an ignorant kid!

If you were born in the 80s you definitely aren't able to appreciate how horrendous they were.

[Edisesyethisp]

I think 90s was pretty cool. Then again it's when I spent my teen years so that might have a lot to do with it.

[effebrala]

I think 90s was pretty cool. Then again it's when I spent my teen years so that might have a lot to do with it.

[bikersfan]

Don't forget alternative rock! For most of the decade you could turn on the radio and listen to Smashing Pumpkins (or five hundred other bands just like them) groaning into the microphone while lackluster guitar riffs played in the background.

[feannigvogten]

i always get somewhat annoyed when people talk about the music of a particular decade being 'good' or 'bad' or some such simplistic view. there's been so much amazing music made in every decade, it's ridiculous.

Exactly. I tend to stay away from musical discussion because it frequently, if not invariably, degenerates into the worst kind of ignorant and bigoted pissing-contest imaginable.

For a start, people often mistake the small subset of available music that they actually encounter with all the stuff that's actually out there but they'll never hear, usually because it's not in the mainstream.

Also, there are so many variables that go into the function that determines what music people say they like that any kind of objectivity is usually unattainable and the discussion is usually rendered utterly, utterly pointless.

[Forex Trading Software]

I recommend Neal Morse. He debuted as a solo artist in '99, but was part of the band Spock's Beard from the early 90s on. Great music. As I understand it, the genre he plays is normally seen as prog rock, but I have heard different takes on this, seems people associate different things with the genre. I for one don't care much for genres as such, I like most music genres to a lesser og larger extent.

I found a CD compilation I gave to my brother a year ago btw, it's called "100 hits of the 2000s" or somesuch. I forced myself to listen to 4 of the CDs. I hadn't heard of 80% of the artists/bands on the CDs, so I suspect the compilation is not that representative. It lacks a lot of the hits I remember at least. But the thing that hit me, was that most of the songs on those CDs that I actually liked to a degree(and those were long and far between), was boy band songs. I mean, then something is not good with either the decade or the compilation.

[mylittlejewelaa]

it's certainly frustrating at times to talk about music here, but i suppose it's the same for people who are really into any subject to have to deal with the opinions of those who know very little.

Now you know how I feel all the time.

[huntbytnkbel]

Thanks, man. As far as potential statutory rapists go, you're not bad.

[iceleliewBync]

Don't forget alternative rock! For most of the decade you could turn on the radio and listen to Smashing Pumpkins (or five hundred other bands just like them) groaning into the microphone while lackluster guitar riffs played in the background.

Siamese Dream is one of the top 5 albums of all time. (IMO)

And they aren't the best example for bad guitar riffs! They were technically excellent as a band. Especially Jimmy Chamberlain.

[bUqLfXRI]

Exactly. I tend to stay away from musical discussion because it frequently, if not invariably, degenerates into the worst kind of ignorant and bigoted pissing-contest imaginable.

For a start, people often mistake the small subset of available music that they actually encounter with all the stuff that's actually out there but they'll never hear, usually because it's not in the mainstream.

Also, there are so many variables that go into the function that determines what music people say they like that any kind of objectivity is usually unattainable and the discussion is usually rendered utterly, utterly pointless.

Bingo!

And people like to pick mainstream pop music of the 90s and define the decade that way rather than realizing the diversity of music in the indie scene.