Office Debate: Best Band of the 90s....

[GritsRgreat]

Its a dam shame Andrew Wood died. Now there is a motherfuger the 90's could have used.

[GritsRgreat]

Hootie and the Blowfish/

[Captroop]

Do you think that 20 years from now any 90's rock star is going to make the money that the Stones generated this past decade?

Well the Stones had the good fortune of:

a.) being relevant in a time where they were the music of the Baby Boomers, still the country's largest cohort, who were buying their music every day between the 60's and now.

b.) There was limited competition. It was just the radio, and there were probably 1/1,000th the number of bands there are today. There's a band for every nich of every genre that so divides the population that it's hard for any one band to be the representative of our time. From about the 80's on we had a record industry that would cater to every demographic and flavor of the month, suck every cent that could be made out of that group and then spit them out and promote the next big thing.

But who knows, Gen-Y is such a nostalgic generation, we are trying to buy back our N64s and Super Nintendos, it's definitely concievable that 20 years from now we are going to Boys II Men, or Hanson concerts, just like nostalgic Boomers are still going to see the Allman Brothers.

[cookinwithgas]

No one is arguing about money here. We are simply talking about the best bands from the 90's. You are probably right, 20 years from now there will not be a lot of the music from the 90's still around. But, that is not at all what we were talking about.

I think all of us who grew up through the 90's saw MTV change and decline into the piece of trash that it is today. No one is arguing that either.

Unfortunately money does have something to do with it. The best band of the 90s probably never made it out of Omaha or Tallahassee and we never heard of it. "Best" is going to have some version of "successful" attached to it, thats just the nature of the beast.

Longevity is also part of the equation. Does the music stand the test of time? In that regard, I think that Teen Spirit works - but the other Nirvana songs? Meh. But just about all the Van Halen hits from the 70's still sound good (too bad they've been played to death). If "Radar Love" comes on the stereo, I still have to listen to it, because it's not only rocking, the lyrics and mood are timeless.

And yes the day MTV started having it's own "programming" was the day it started to collapse.

[Zcustom]

My list:

Tool

Alice in Chains

Smashing Pumpkins

Temple of the Dog

Soundgarden

Sepultura

Foo Fighters

Kyuss

Korn

[GritsRgreat]

My list:

Tool

Alice in Chains

Smashing Pumpkins

Temple of the DogSoundgarden

Sepultura

Kyuss

Korn

great album!

[Zcustom]

Dammit!

Forgot two:

Helmet

Clutch

[Jase]

third eye blind

:leaving:

[Kurb]

Pearl Jam

[Zcustom]

I wish you would step back from that ledge Jase

[C47]

I wish you would step back from that ledge Jase

:lol:

[Jase]

spice girls?

[GritsRgreat]

spice girls?

<3'd baby spice!!

[Darth Biscuit]

Everybody's got an opinion... and that's fine.

I know that I can put Nevermind, Core, or Dirt in my CD player and listen to the whole album and enjoy it... that's what matters to me. Yeah, some of these other bands have good songs and even good albums, but that's what matters to me and that's how I decide which bands are the best.