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[arethinn]

I can handle the "I Love the 70s" and "I Love the 80s" shows, but the idea of "I Love the 90s" is rather creeping me out. In my memory, there was very little to love about the 90s. Maybe in another ten years that decade, too, will be called to my mind with smirking yet wistful nostalgia, like I do the 80s, but I just don't think I'm ready to relive junior high and high school yet, thankyouverymuch. *wince*

(so, what, the 80s - where I was teased past my breaking point by the other kids and eventually brought a knife to school - is somehow better? *raps on own head* hello? what fucked up value system is this?)

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[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

The 90's... eugh. Shitty politicians, mostly shitty music, and public education. What *was* to like?

[soundwave106.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I remember liking the 90s quite a bit. At least music wise -- a lot of the cheesy pop disappeared for a small time. To be replaced with a new breed of cheesy pop, but in the transition there was some niceness.

[arethinn]

Well, I tend to remember it as "I didn't worship Nirvana, so what's left?" I wore flannels and boots but that was because it was my friends' fashion as techies (when we weren't wearing black), not because I gave a whit about nascent alternative music. We were into Monty Python and the Moody Blues. All right, and TMBG too, but TMBG isn't Nirvana or... uh.. soundgarden? wtf else was around then? (I really never had any clue about music at all til I started dating a music nut in college, and still don't, really.)

[soundwave106.livejournal.com]

Soundgarden I consider one of the better 90s byproducts. Same with Smashing Pumpkins. I don't know if you'd like either. You might like Ben Folds Five, a mid-90s band.

But from the early 90s until roughly the late 90s is when I consider the best electronic dance music to be produced so far. You've got bands like Orbital, Orb, and Underworld getting England dancing. That was, too, when the scene was evolved around raves. You don't get the spontaneous feeling from raves anymore.

I doubt VH-1 will cover this aspect of the scene much, but that's what I remember from the 1990s. :)

[arethinn]

I've never been too fond of Smashing Pumpkins. Just never understood what was so freaking cool. Soundgarden I have limited recollection of except that my ex (circa late 90s) was fond of that sort of music, having taught himself to play guitar mostly from listening to Nirvana, and listening to a disc or two of Soundgarden once. Ben Folds Five sounds familiar and I get a faint inkling of thinking they were ok, but meh.

OTOH, Orbital and Orb are pretty much da shiznit. Not that I would recognize them unprompted - there's little and few I can do that for, since I am not a "musicologist" - but I know who you are talking about. Underworld is familiar sounding but I can't call up their sound.

Personally I like weird comedic music (Weird Al, TMBG, think Dr Demento), the Cure, dark-synth (the stuff that passes for goth nowadays, without being too hard noize), and deep house the most. I can deal with ambient (like who can't? what's to object to? it's meant to be unobjectionable), and some trance and breaks, but I'm not really fond of dnb, most breaks, a lot of trance, etc.

As for raves, I've only been to one thing that I might remotely call a rave (as opposed to just a "party", of which I've been to only.. two?), and it seemed it just wasn't my thang, although I might have liked the psytrance being played there had I been listening to it at home. In social terms I vastly prefer goths.