You joke, but the 90's were actually pretty good.

The Gibson

@JoYo Pogs were primarily in the very early 90's...

I was in college in 93.

94 was the real watershed for music and art in my opinion... and 93 was the internet proper.

the funny thing is... you don't know you are in a golden era until it's over... and much like the 60's ended in 71 at Altamont, the 90's really ended in September 2001.

Random Geek

@thegibson @JoYo Around Seattle at least, it felt very much like there were two 90s: grunge/alternative, a year of mourning, then "fuckitlet'sdance" with Seattle now represented by POTUSA)

Lohikäärme 32 :amiga:

@randomgeek @thegibson @JoYo

Hmm, having been in Chicago for the Pumpkins and returning to C attle in late 1999, I'm not sure about the 2nd part. But then there was that temporary underground version of "The Funky Monkey" radio that just played Beastie Boys, Fred Durst, and a few other bits... and then got bought...

At least for a bunch of us, it was "the hill got shut down because no one could put flyers up."

It was sort of the indication that shit was going wrong, and then it people did something about it. Somewhat. We still had that horrible Redmond problem... and the Experience Music Turd was imprisoning Husker Du and other important works...

But again, there was always the feeling we could fix it and were in the works to fix it. Koska C attle.

Random Geek

@mjd @thegibson @JoYo oof the nu-metal years.

I hid on Napster.

Lohikäärme 32 :amiga:

@randomgeek @thegibson @JoYo

To be fair

I still love the Nu-Metal album from MachineHead.
"From This Day" slaps.

JoYo

@mjd @randomgeek @thegibson i dont get the hate nu metal got.
linkin park and korn are amazing musicians.

Random Geek

@JoYo @mjd @thegibson my issue was more the span of 1999-2002 where every station seemingly flipped to playlists of mostly Limp Bizkit and bands that kinda sounded like them.

That was tiresome.

So I think of that more than the genre itself.

JoYo

@randomgeek @mjd @thegibson over saturation is annoying.

i think that's why people dont really know when theyre experiencing an era of good music: if i hear the same songs enough times in grocery stores or loud bars im gonna get sick of them.

Random Geek

@JoYo @mjd @thegibson oh god.

I was a young adult in The Puget Sound region for grunge.

It wasn't until 2005 or so that I could go "yeah Nirvana was good and heck I guess Pearljam is too."

(but my heart still belongs to Soundgarden, Mudhoney, The Gits, and Tad for bands associated with that sound)

Lohikäärme 32 :amiga:

@randomgeek @JoYo @thegibson

I'm down for Screaming Trees nearly Lost you...
and all of Loud Love.

And both Hole albums.