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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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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.