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What did you like most about them? Besides pokemon of course!

 

Sound Garden

STP

Pearl Jam

No Doubt

Sublime

Alice n Chains

Cranberries

Alanis Morrisett

Jesus Jones

Third Eye Blind

Nirvana

 

 

 

There are a few others that helped carry rock n roll through the gangster rap era

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Speaking for the music in '90's, I think it was by far the worst decade as from the time western music reached the mass audiences ('50s - '60s that is...). It was so damn poor, that really mediocre bands, who would never got a contract in other times, reached global success and their names are still mentioned (yes, even in the Gibson forum - as above!).

 

BTW, ''alternative'' and ''grunge'' terms are referring yet today to bands that had nothing in common in their sound / attitude. They only shared a common origin (yes, Seattle).

 

However, one particular genre of Metal reached it's finest moments, with bands like:

 

Dream Theater

Queensryche

Fate's Warning

 

That genre was Progressive Metal. As it is natural, the genre now is in complete decay with only Fate's Warning keeping the fire burning... The rest of Metal went down the drains, after 1993-1994 as well. Kids that were ''porn'' in that decade listen to either Death Metal (Jeeeeeezus!) or hip-hop...

 

As far as the rest were concerned, fashion got indifferent (to those following it, that is), food got ''fused'' and ''oriental'', and wars broke up both in regions we could see them coming (for different reasons however) and in regions noone could predict (former-Yugoslavia for example).

 

By far the worst decade as from the 50's I say...

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The early 90s was one of the best eras for rock. Nirvana swooped in to put those horrible hair bands out of commission. The Seattle bands were putting out great music. Superunknown and Bad Motorfinger are still two of my favorite albums. Janes Addiction and the Chili Peppers from California. Smashing Pumpkins from Chicago' date=' and a slew of bands that put out a few great albums. Ever heard Saturation by Urge Overkill? Question the Answers by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones? I could go on and on. Cobain dies and within months Matchbox 20 is playing on alt radio. The end of a great era.

 

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#-o Very well stated Rocky!!! I never agreed with a post on this forum like this one. Grunge saved hard rock!! I think the 80s has to be the worse era for music in general!

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[thumbup] Very well stated Rocky!!! I never agreed with a post on this forum like this one. Grunge saved hard rock!! I think the 80s has to be the worse era for music in general!

 

Hi Bill

 

That is what I feel too. Also bands like Nirvanna wrote exceptionally melodic tunes to a back drop of all out distortion. I think songs had become so eroded in rock by the end of the 80's and the guitar solo had become so self coscious; grunge saved the day in my opinion.

 

Matt

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Hi Bill

 

That is what I feel too. Also bands like Nirvanna wrote exceptionally melodic tunes to a back drop of all out distortion. I think songs had become so eroded in rock by the end of the 80's and the guitar solo had become so self coscious; grunge saved the day in my opinion.

 

Matt

 

 

Matt,

 

It seemed that the bands of the 80s focused more on becoming a rock star than the music itself. In the 60, I don't think musicians were in it for the stardom as so much as they wanted make great music. I see the bands of the 90s doing the same thing. It was about the music and the way they felt at the time they wrote it.

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After slightly more than 20 years of excesses, in January 1990 I got clean and sober and have remained so ever since. Everything was fresh and new to me in the 90's. My own resurrection, I suppose, is what I most treasure from then. Also, in 1992 I met the future Mrs. Cruznolfart. At the time we both were pretty jaded on relationships and humanity in general. We'd have been quite happy with a cave and a few books, one or two guitars and a blanket to put over the mouth of the cave.

 

We've come a long way, baby. peppersdance.gif

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After slightly more than 20 years of excesses' date=' in January 1990 I got clean and sober and have remained so ever since. Everything was fresh and new to me in the 90's. My own resurrection, I suppose, is what I most treasure from then. Also, in 1992 I met the future Mrs. Cruznolfart. At the time we both were pretty jaded on relationships and humanity in general. We'd have been quite happy with a cave and a few books, one or two guitars and a blanket to put over the mouth of the cave.

 

We've come a long way, baby. [img']http://static.keebali.com/guitars101.com/forums/images/smilies/new/peppersdance.gif[/img]

 

Good on you Cruzxxx[biggrin] [thumbup]

 

Bill,

this is spooky; because I always felt the similarities too between the 60's and 90's! By the way what ever happened to Portishead? They were an awesome group!!

 

I am probably a little hard on the 80's. For metal I know it is a very important decade[cool]

 

Matt

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Hector et al...

 

I don't know what the 50s were like where you call home, but...

 

Where I was brought up during the '50s I saw and heard:

 

Television arrived. Rock arrived. Radio signals vastly improved. Small group dance bands became "the" way to go for live music. Unpaved streets became paved, highways became paved, public utilities ranging from telephone service to electricity, water, sewer and natural gas pipelines became almost universally available and - excepting the last - even in some of the most rural of regions of the US. Better quality food preservation changed the western world's nutrition.

 

Gibson invented the LP, the SG, the 335 and such. Fender appeared on the scene. Etc.

 

International trade, for better or worse, burst into importance everywhere. Even the Soviet bloc increased various sorts of trade within its economy/political sphere and life certainly was better there, too, than in the 1930s.

 

In ways, the lives of individuals almost everywhere except perhaps China, Africa and some other "third world" nations, improved significantly and relatively quickly after the "great depression" and WWII. In a sense, WWII made possible not only an incredible postwar boom economically, but also in technology and individual quality of life.

 

Good grief, just the appearance of antibiotics for general public use changed the world.

 

Bottom line, I can't think of a time period with much more "change" that improved life conditions for more people worldwide than the 1950s. Yeah, "war" made life hell in the late 30s through the mid 40s, but the recovery reached further and farther than anyone in the 1930s would have imagined in their most fantastic dreams.

 

The 60s? Major cultural changes as a postwar youth generation saw the world through the eyes of their post-war, rather than pre-war parents: That being that the world should be better, more peaceful, more creative... and they also ignored the factors that brought WWII in the first place or the post-war burst of economics and creativity. They lacked perspective that comes with a bit of age.

 

The 90s? I guess I don't see much out of it in a lot of ways. We gained the Internet, increasingly powerful personal computer systems that have become a mixed "blessing," and increased communications options that similarly are something of a mixed blessing - especially for musicians. The value of many sorts of workers dropped unless they worked for some large institution such as gave them political power to retain their economic position. The U.S. lost much of its European market for agricultural products.

 

Oops, this is getting long, but I do not believe it is political at all. Age and personal experience covering politics and economics since 1965, on the other hand, admittedly almost certainly does color my outlook.

 

Music and musicians tend to be creatures of time and place as much as retailers and soldiers.

 

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