Songs from the 90s

The 90s were both an akward and golden time for music. The decade of 1 hit wonders, from flanel t-shirts to the black shirt-khaki combo. Who didn't ask for a red yankees cap for christmas? I'll admit that I did. I did it all for the nookie back then and I still do today.

Let's see/hear your favorite 90s music here. Don't be embarrassed, I once owned this album. I wanna hear the stuff you might not wanna admit. We all made bad music choices and I think most of them might have been in the 90s. Personally, I still love me some of the 1 or 2 hit wonders from the era.

I love 90's music so much. I know it's a little gay but I don't care. Specifically all that comes to mind is No Doubt. I'll think of more later I'm sure.

an awesome song. for an awesome show

TUBTHUMPIN - CHUMBAWUMBA

an instant classic.

90's was in my honest opinion one of the hugest times for underground music. Fuck all that mainstream crap, with the exception of some grunge it was all about the underground. Metallica/Slayer/every good metal band of the 80's went to the shitter come 1991.

Alternative grew it's wings in the late 80's and early 90's with bands like Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine (and earlier on The Pixies) encouraging experimentation in music. Pushing the boundary of what was actually considered music. These were the roots for those cool indie bands you see today. The Mars Volta learned a lot form Sonic Youth. As Rads can attest, an album like "Loveless" is absolutley beautiful sounding, yet is only the sound of a guitar on 11. Later on in the decade we have those other awsome alternative bands such as Radiohead, Incubus, etc...
Radiohead - Paranoid Android; Sonic Youth- 100% (Not 90's but listen to Teenage Riot by SY) My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow, Sooner

On the heavier side of alternative, we branch out to bands such as Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Faith No More, RHCP (pre-Californication), and The Deftones. (imo, I don't consider that mainstream). All 3 of these bands still having a long lasting effect today.
Alternative hard rock also began to include hip-hop into their music. I'm indifferent on this subject. Limp Bizkit is very much a no, while newer bands such as Flobots, and the Transplants do it alot better.
Tool - Stinkfist"""""Deftones - Change"""Faith No More - Epic""""RATM - Know Your Enemy
I am a fan of Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and that whole scene, but what is important to understand is that it is not grunge that was important, but the massive roots it left behind. Alice In Chains - Rooster
The Day I Tried to Live - Soundgarden""" All Apologies/Serve the Servant - Nirvana

Seattle and the Northwest was a huge explosion of groove/stoner metal. Sleep's "Holy Mountain" is one of the iconic albums of stoner metal form 1993, this led to band like Electric Wizard, while their later drone metal albums are still considered benchmarks (63 minute songs for example). Curt Cobain alone had a huge part on the stoner scene. His roommate (and the man who bought his shotgun), Dylan Carlson, formed a band called Earth which are widely considered the godfathers of drone. Cobain even auditioned to play for The Melvins. Without these bands we wouldn't have BORIS or Sunn 0)), or any form of ambient rock.Sleep - Dragonaut

The Melvins alone are worthy of their own heading. Any metal/hard rock band today cites them as an influence, yet they are still just a wierd psychadellic rock band from seattle.

In the southwest, and texas, people started combining sythesizers with heavy electric guitars to creat industrial, and probably the evolution in goth from The Cult to KMFDM . To this we can thank them for Ministry, Fear Factory, Skinny Puppy, Prodigy, once again KMFDM, and any electro-rock band you can think of. Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod

In Europe and the Eastern USA, extreme metal took a whole different turn. Thanks to bands such as Death, Morbid Angel, and Possessed metal was becoming faster, eviler, and more inrticate. Death created several amazing albums in the early 90's such as "Symbolic" and "The Sound of Perseverance." Death metal exploded. British band Carcass had a triple hitter with "Necroticism", "Heartwork", and "Swansong," emerging along with In Flames as the kings of Melodic Death. Brutal Death grew with bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Nile, and Suffocation all debuting in the 90's. Any of you metalcore/deathcore kids out there who like KSE, Chimera, Lamb of God, Job For a Cowboy, or Atreyu (etc...); this is your history.Carcass - Heartwork

In Northern Europe, paganism and satanic rituals were becomming ever more popular. Black Metal, a simpler, more orchestral form of old school death metal grew out of this. I like to refer to it as "European Hardcore." The musicians weren't very good and the production is terrible. It was like the Norwegain version of LA hardcore suburbs circa 1980. This era was more about attitude and actions than music, and suicide, church burnings, and murder ws a common element of the scene. Dimmu Borgir - Mourning Palace
Black Metal and European Death metal has since evolved into a legitimate genre, adn satanism is now just part of the act, and is not as serious. Check out Dimmu Borgir; they are the prime example of good black metal.European death metal took off closer to the 00s, borrowed alot form Carcass and the American scene. Meshuggah - New Millenium Cyanide Christ
 - Deliverance
Dance and Electronic music evolved form guys with stupid haircuts to the club/rave scene scene. Daft Punk is a good example of the music that out grew Flock of Seagulls...... I dont know to much about this scene, but I know it was the 90's ditched New Wave for this. Modern club, electronic and dance is the main product of ths evolution. Daft Punk - Da Funk

Punk died and Hardore was abandonned. To this we now have Pop Punk, Ska Punk, and all those other hated versions of punk. Curse or Blessing? Swedish Hardore was it's last breath. Refused made an attempt to change it with 'The Shape of Punk to Come..." (Hands down on of the best punk albums ever), but lost to Greenday and Blink 182. Refused's influence can still be seen in alot of that new stuff that they call hardcore. Underoath, From First to Last, screamo? "New Noise - Refused" "Blink 182 - Dammit - Rancid - Time Bomb

Jazz abandonned synthisizers and turtlenecks for actual instruments.

Virtuoso music got better. Steve Vai's "Passion and Warfare" album is all the proof you need. "The Audience is Listening -Steve Vai"

Gangsta Rap. P Diddy, NWA, Biggy, Tupac ,yaddah yaddah "Straight out of Compton - NWA"

I'm probably forgetting a whole lot, buut it's late, so if I come up with anymore I might add it. Now you know what I do when I'm not playing TF2
Uggh, this is such an incomplete history of a great musical decade.

PS. A fter reading this over, it;s kind of cool to see how much of this actually did have moments where it did tie back to mainstream, directly or indirectly.

Rednex - Cotton Eye Joe

Crash Test Dummies - Mmm mmm mmm mmm, God shuffled his feet

Snow - Informer

Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise

Haddaway - What is Love

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

A-ha - Crying in the Rain (The Everly Brothers cover)

Inner Circle - Bad Boys

Shaggy - Boombastic

dc Talk - Jesus Freak

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

Vanilla Ice - Ice ice baby

MC Hammer - U can't touch this

Michael Jackson - Black Or White

Seal - Kiss From A Rose

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

Metallica; Too many to list. Allthough they were better in the 80s, they had lots of great ones in th 90s too, with the S&M album as a great cherry on the top =D 

...and lets face it, the 90s were THE Boy-band time.. Mostly crap, but I'm gonna name one (the rest make me shiver=/ );

Michael Learns to Rock - The Actor

...And that was only the main stream music=P I would name contless Metal-songs, but somehow I don't think you like metal too much. (not pussy-metal, like Linkin' Park and that kind of crap. Real metal. Scandinavian (and surroundings) Black Metal ) =D

Edit; Added some extra to the main list. These are only the things I listened to. Ask my sisters for the others=P Some others I can remember from the top of my head that my sister listened to;

TLC - No Scrubs, Waterfall

Bryan Adams - Everything I Do, I Do It For You

Christina Aguilera - Genie in a bottle ('99 is still in the 90s =P)

Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca

Los Del Rio - Macarena

..err, a LOT of Spice Girls (I don't wanna remember the names of the songs), some Ace of Base (?), and some Mariah Carey I think, 

Two words : Smashing Pumpkins.

Nuff said.

Heh, Mister White, did you use wikipedia or similar? =P

Yes, there was a big scene for Black Metal in the early 90s, and most of the music were pretty crap, and the production was downright terrible (I think much of the music could've been good if the production was better).

Dimmu Borgir, big part of my late 90s life=D Not so much Mourning Palace, more the songs from Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia, like Fear and Wonder + Blessings Upon a Throne of Tyranny, and Kings of the Carival Creation. Also listened to the populars, like Metal Heart, and the Twisted Sister cover Burn in Hell. Also listened to hits like Deaths Embrace, Putitania and Tormentor of Christian Souls.

Satyricon also had some big ones, of which my all time favourite is Mother North, from the album Nemesis Devina.

Also listened some to Cradle of Filth, with the songs No Time To Cry, Borned in a Burial Gown, Cthulu Dawn. Along with the covers; Hallow be thy name, and Fear of the Dark (allthough I like the originals from Iron Maiden better).

Mayhem is definetly mentionable, as is Darkthrone and Burzum, as both were the bands that really kicked off Black Metal. (Don't like the music tho, allthough some of the newer Mayhem material is pretty good)

Windir was a great band, playing Viking-metal, with some great lyrics=D

Immortal is another band that springs to mind, allthough I didn't start listening to the until later. Their best music is from the last 2 albums imo, but there are some good ones from the 90s. ...and btw, the music videos from those early songs are hilarious=P Nice Norwegian scenery tho=D

Opeth does not share the genre of the other bands I listed, but is as of now my favourite. No 2 albums sounds the same, and every song is great=)

Some of these bands have a rather.. disturbing history=P We can start with the Mayhem-Vocalist "Dead", who killed himself by slithing his wrists before shooting himself with a shotgun, leaving a note where he said he was sorry for all the blood and gore, and he was sorry he did it indoors. We also have the case where the bassist from Burzum stabbed an earlier Burzum band-member, and then current Mayhem bandmember, 23 times. He were also convicted for burning some old churches (frakking idiot), and is still the head member of Burzum, and have managed to release 3 more albums while inside prison. And then we have Valfar, the vocalist from Windir, who, while drunk after a party, found out that he was gonna take a walk in the mountain to sleep in his cottage. He almost made it there, freezing to death ony 200 meters from it. And Mayhem were forced by Norwegian authorities to appologize to a fan that got knocked out and got his skull fractured ...after being hit by a sheeps head during a rather bloody stage-show, where the band dismembered a (dead) sheep... Last 2 stories took part after the new milennium tho. 

But well, later I have fallen away from Black Metal, and only listen to a select few of the songs. Now I'd rather listen to more calm and creative and lighter music, like Opeth.

...there, some mostly norwegian Metal bands (Only bands that are not are Opeth (Swedish) and Cradle of Filth (British)), and some Norwegian metal-history=P

Heheh. I recently read an interview with former members of Gorgoth. Half on them are serving time for assault and murder, and the other half are hanging out with hot Norwegian models. I've only really started to scratch the surface of black metal. I have a friend who is a haug fan, and he gives me bits and pieces to try from time to time. I enjoy Dimmu Borgir, Enslaved, Cradle of Filth and some other stuff which name escapes me at the moment.

Opeth is absolutley amazing, if you liek the "lighter" european metal, definitley try out Arch Enemy (I'm sure you have), and Gojira.

Nice to see a fellow metalhead. \m/

Yeah, used to listen to Arch Enemy, and have some albums of Gojira=)