13487644:casual said:
13487644:casual said:
13487735:-benedetto said:
13488037:casual said:hahaaha the thought certainly occurred to me before hitting reply....i said it fuck it anyways.
And to louiemirage or whatever, no, we didn't all get our music from mtv or the box or top 40 radio. we went to shows for 5 dollars in church basements to see bands we maybe never heard, bought singles and albums from bands we saw that we hadn't heard, we hung out in "record stores" and geekily looked up to 22 year old dudes who played guitar in noise bands and talked music, and we read NME, and weird British magazines, and found stuff.
I loved sublime, 311, and to this day am obsessed with hiphop and particularly a lot of 90's (tribe, de la, blackstar, outkast, gangstarr, rawkus, jedi mind, cannibal ox, and on and on), but there was a whole other movement of fucking rad shit being recorded and performed in the 90's that had the internet and a more cohesive culture existed in general, would've been really big. I hate that the endearing image of 90's music is what it is. I find that even a lot of people with good taste in current music (like a of people in here I know for a fact) tend to totally ignore the "cool" music of the 90's in favor of the bullshit, sanitized, focus grouped nonsense. I wish more people looked into that stuff. This sentiment and phenomenon is also totally true for the 80's and how people of today relate/remember it.
Record companies and a few media conglomerates completely dictated what music was popular at that point. It's still true when talking about top 40 music, but generally speaking, music fans have so much more access to different artists, many of whom exist entirely outside of any corporate backing and do everything independently from write, perform, record, promote, release, merchandise, etc. My point is just that had people been exposed to shit like, I don't fucking know.....Stereolab? Elliot Smith? (literally pulling out of my ass, but not the WORST examples) I think they would come to mind as greatest 90's bands. or whatever.
Here's the meme so you don't have to after this condescending, rambling, stony, hipster post:
13488037:casual said:hahaaha the thought certainly occurred to me before hitting reply....i said it fuck it anyways.
And to louiemirage or whatever, no, we didn't all get our music from mtv or the box or top 40 radio. we went to shows for 5 dollars in church basements to see bands we maybe never heard, bought singles and albums from bands we saw that we hadn't heard, we hung out in "record stores" and geekily looked up to 22 year old dudes who played guitar in noise bands and talked music, and we read NME, and weird British magazines, and found stuff.
I loved sublime, 311, and to this day am obsessed with hiphop and particularly a lot of 90's (tribe, de la, blackstar, outkast, gangstarr, rawkus, jedi mind, cannibal ox, and on and on), but there was a whole other movement of fucking rad shit being recorded and performed in the 90's that had the internet and a more cohesive culture existed in general, would've been really big. I hate that the endearing image of 90's music is what it is. I find that even a lot of people with good taste in current music (like a of people in here I know for a fact) tend to totally ignore the "cool" music of the 90's in favor of the bullshit, sanitized, focus grouped nonsense. I wish more people looked into that stuff. This sentiment and phenomenon is also totally true for the 80's and how people of today relate/remember it.
Record companies and a few media conglomerates completely dictated what music was popular at that point. It's still true when talking about top 40 music, but generally speaking, music fans have so much more access to different artists, many of whom exist entirely outside of any corporate backing and do everything independently from write, perform, record, promote, release, merchandise, etc. My point is just that had people been exposed to shit like, I don't fucking know.....Stereolab? Elliot Smith? (literally pulling out of my ass, but not the WORST examples) I think they would come to mind as greatest 90's bands. or whatever.
Here's the meme so you don't have to after this condescending, rambling, stony, hipster post:
13486187:stinky_pete said:
