10 Songs From the '90s That We Still Love To Hear

PJ Media ^ | 22 Mar 2018 | Lauren Spagnoletti

[Rebelbase]

Are you kidding? The 90’s and right now convinced me there are people not even born yet who will make great music.

Born in the 90’s—Greta Van Fleet

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=greta+van+fleet

[shelterguy]

Controlled screaming is good music?

[Rebelbase]

You obviously weren’t listening.

[shelterguy]

Here is some 90’s music that you enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5nuhPM4-rk

Here is some real music so you can clear your head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l0xpkk0yaQ

[Rebelbase]

You’re nuts if you think the first link identifies my taste in 90’s music.

The 2nd link was cool for about 10 years. It’s boring now.

[shelterguy]

More “great” 90’s music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLIiF15wjQ

Some actual music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PLq0_7k1jk

[Rebelbase]

You’re showing your age.

[shelterguy]

I’m proud to be from a generation that produced the last good music before it was turned over to girls, queers and screamers.

[CARDINALRULES]

Cool.

METV is going to start airing WKRP in April. IMDB says the episode was from 1979 so if they do them in order it should air in a few weeks. It is called I do, I do...for now.

[tuffydoodle]

Hey, thanks for the heads up. I need to record all those episodes so my grown kids can watch them when they come home.

[Redwood71]

“You had to be there.....

I was. And they were terrible. Jazz is recognized as America’s only music that transitioned from sounds that started in the deep south with the crossover of African and Carribbean rhythms and European chordal backgrounds, a lot of it dixieland and some just feelings. From there it went up to the northeast where it became swing. Then started moving west where it became bluegrass, split there where it went south into western, or cowboy, and to the far west where it made it to bop. After that it morphed into what people either liked or could buy.

And it’s still the same today. Only real difference is that the latest version of the so called rock music, RAP, contains only a story. It doesn’t contain a melody, or a counter melody. It only has a beat and tells a story of something the public may want to hear or that is fashionable. It really doesn’t qualify as music without the melody. But it sells. And it slowly becomes a Heinz 57 of many styles. But, again, it sells. It’s all about the dollar. Those that don’t sell, don’t get airtime.

rwood

[LouieFisk]

“Only real difference is that the latest version of the so called rock music, RAP”
—
I don’t know of anybody who designates rap as rock music. I think even on the charts, it’s called “urban contemporary” or the like, meaning “black music”. Used to be called “soul music”, before that “race music”.

No serious musicologist would confuse/conflate rap with rock. Two very different animals - you can drop elements of one into another (as Chicago blended jazz with rock) but they’re two different genres.

[Redwood71]

I don’t remember calling it rock, but calling it folk because it lacked a few of the pieces of actual music other than telling a story and having a steady rhythm beat. You mentioned Chicago. Blood Sweat and Tears, and Lighthouse were along with Chicago into the jazz/rock medium starting in the 60’s that transitioned from one to the other. But the original changes were coming from the gospel direction with people including Elvis. Bill Haley and the Comets were part of the transition in the late 50’s calling it rock and roll. And that term has been bent and reshaped many times since.

Most of the true big name jazz groups are gone now. The earlys starting with Glenn Miller, The Dorseys, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Basie, Ellington, Cab, up to the last of them with Don Ellis, and Maynard Ferguson. A few of their groups remain in action, but limited. And many of the active ones have taken canned jobs to back TV shows and don’t tour anywhere near when they seemed like they were going nightly somewhere. Sad the changing times.

rwood

[LouieFisk]

"Most of the true big name jazz groups are gone now. The earlys starting with Glenn Miller, The Dorseys, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Basie, Ellington, Cab, up to the last of them with Don Ellis, and Maynard Ferguson."
--
Jazz and Big Band isn't the crossover mainstream music draw that it used to be even into the 60s, for sure.
Music in general has become very balkanized since the 60s. For example, there was a pretty good variety of music in on the pop charts back then -


From the psychedelic Blues Magoos to Tom Jones were in rotation on the same radio station.

But there's still a lot of variety of good jazz music around, Youtube is one good resource to find newer artists.
So a person can catch up on some good contemporary jazz while still enjoying classics such as:
Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Blue Rondo à la Turk" live

[RegulatorCountry]

The 90’s were an awesome decade for music no matter what the old fogies say, lol. I keep finding stuff I’d never heard of at the time that I love, or even bands I just didn’t get or even hated, and it finally makes sense and sounds great.

I didn’t get Sonic Youth, at all, in their day. But I listen now and I hear echoes of Velvet Underground, I hear a very groundbreaking sound. No wonder Kurt Cobain loved them so.

Sonic Youth - Antenna

https://youtu.be/1B_NVayA_VI

[RegulatorCountry]

I thought I couldn’t stand Keith Urban or even modern pop country in general, that is until I heard this:

Keith Urban - (Baby) Blue Ain’t Your Color

https://youtu.be/SoIKv3xxuMA

[Redwood71]

There are two reasons I use jazz as my denominator. It is the only music that is truly American. And it was a creation of sounds over time that morphed into what we know today as music. It has a piece of everything in it from the early chants to the synthetic creations of synthesizers which started there with the invention of the music telegraph in the mid to late 1800’s. But that took time to refine and become techo like today and is credited to around 1980 in the mid west. (However, Disney’s Main Street Electrical Parade started in 1972.)

So what started out as a humming person with a single sound possibly trying to sound like an animal, has evolved into far more with time. And after all, our modern music theory wasn’t defined until Johann Froberger, a German, in the 1600’s with his tocattas, and Jean Rousseau, a Frenchman with his operas in the 1700’s, pondered between the two of their ideas and their combined thesis actually explained music theory. So we are just really starting to understand what music is now and with time will come a better understanding of it. My only problem with us is that we give it a new name, and it may have branched out a little, but it is still the same thing Bach and the druids did a long time ago.

rwood

[PLMerite]

Piss-yellow deuce coupe.

[21twelve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvAVtRSGIpk

Above is a RUSH song (Bravado) from 1991 (performed live 2013). I’m lucky to be a RUSH fan as I enjoy their music from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s! (Some decades better than others).