Posted on 06/10/2011 10:59:05 AM PDT by SoonerStorm09
OKLAHOMA CITY -- This seemed like it was all happening way too soon. In April, the romantic comedy “Something Borrowed” began to unspool its lazy, Kate Hudson-flavored comedic romance at a special screening, and it was just chock full of zany side characters, wedding preparations, romantic triangles, lawyers partying in the Hamptons, yada, yada, yada.
At any rate, Hudson’s character asks Rachel, played by Ginnifer Goodwin, to go check out a 1990s cover band at the M1-5 Bar in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood for her wedding reception. So she’s listening to this band of guys with gelled hair (except for the requisite clean-shaven guy) performing Third Eye Blind’s “How’s It Going to Be” and “Round Here” by Counting Crows. And as an entertainment writer exposed to more aggressively average movies than most normal people can stand, I’m constantly hit with half-baked notions and irrational concepts, but this idea of a 1990s cover band simply did not compute.
Then, less than two weeks later, it happened again. I’m at the Norman Music Festival and I see a flier at the Brewhouse for a group named My So Called Band. Their photo is modeled ingeniously after the cover design for the Cranberries’ 1994 album, “No Need to Argue,” and on the band’s Facebook page, they pull other iconic poses -- their pastiche of Weezer’s “blue” album is particularly good.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsok.com ...
If you want worthwhile culture, you really have to go looking for it today.
The only song on the radio I recognize in the GIANT GLASS song. However I was able to create “Dokken Radio” on Pandora.
Frankly I skipped some of the piece and had to skim those parts because it is so ridiculously long.
But, I am surprised the writer is shocked the 90s are nostalgic.
The assertion that today’s music sounds like 90s music is absurd. Pop music in the 90s was tied to rock. Pop music today is tied to rap/hip hop.
WAY WAY different.
In addition, the 90s were pretty good times compared today.
Bands like Poison and Warrant killed rock. Their garbage helped to usher in the “Grunge” scene.
I listen to the stuff the kids in my office play. More often than not, my comment is "Hunh. I heard that 25 years ago, back when they called the band 'xxxxxxxxx' " Just retreads of the same old, same old.
Old fogey? I suppose. I have the same problem with movies.
"Lynch Mob", the group George Lynch founded after Dokken broke up, wasn't too bad either, as I remember.
I was a 90s hipster in every sense of the word. While there’s precious little good music being made today, the best of it beats the best of the 90s by a lot.
As far as I’m concerned, no music has ever aged as quickly and as badly as 90s alt-rock.
I played my Tooth and Nail cassete so much my tape deck ate it.
I played my Tooth and Nail cassete so much my tape deck ate it.
I played my Tooth and Nail cassete so much my tape deck ate it.
Sorry for the multiple posts. I have no clue what happened.
You posted Tooth and Nail so much that Free Republic ate it.
It’s not so much that (popular) culture stagnated, it’s that it fragmented, and the stuff that corporate media pushes is the stagnant part.
It used to be there was pop music (think of the 1940’s), then it split three-for-one into pop, rock and country, now there’s pop, rock, country, hip-hop, electronica, goth (with sub-genres like neo-medieval), industrial, a host of different “world music” styles (some of which are interesting, though none as interesting as the breathless lefties who review them for NPR seem to think). . . and really interesting stuff that almost fits into two or three genres, but not quite, and therefore gets no air-play, not to mention imports like J-pop and K-pop (from Japan and Korea respectively).
The pop, rock and country that get lots of airtime on radio are usually the least interesting parts of those genres, and the other styles all have just niche followings and get air-time only in big markets or online. (I’m rather partial to “alt country” like Neko Case, neo-medieval goth, and J-pop, myself.)
You hit the post button so many times the keyboard ate it. ; )
I think that today's music is more fragmented. When I was in school, there were less than a half-dozen different radio stations that the kids listened to. One country, one classic rock, couple of "new" rock, couple of pop. And more often than not, the music crossed over from station to station.
Now, you can listen to stations like "All the time - 1991 Albums from Boy Bands whose names begin with the letters 'A', or 'D' ". If enough musicians throw enough at the wall, sooner or later something that they put out will stick, at least with someone.
Heck, people even buy albums of Yoko Ono screeching and banging on pots and pans. :-)
I tripped over a Dokken video (don't ask what it was, I just remember thinking, 'hey, that's Don Dokken!') on VH1 Classic awhile back. I remember thinking that the music hadn't aged well, but what hair metal has?
I had their Beast from the East (live) cassette as well. That was awesome too, at least from a teenager's perspective.
There is some good stuff going on now;
Moorefield and Arbuckle
Black Keys
Band of Skulls
Good, solid, blues based rock...and some just pure blues.
It’s getting better. The late 90s and 2000s stank it up.
I read the whole article and I only recognized a couple names. I sure wish people would start making good music again.
LOL! +1 internets for you today
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.