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

[cookinwithgas]

cookinwithgas right now, "Fug... best band of the 90s... poo!"

google, here I come! :lol:

I can't figure out what you mean by this.

I've seen Alice in Chains, heard them on the radio, and I thought they sucked. I mean flat out, I never understood what made them "good", "different" or "better" than other contemporary bands. That the lead singer was angry? They had more hair?

There were a lot of bands that made good sounding music in the 90's. But the music environment was designed to emulate other success and never to try and make something new. In the 70's it was all about breaking the mold. In the 80's people were trying everything just to be different, that's why it went all over the place, until hair metal bands and rap took over.

[Darth Biscuit]

I can't figure out what you mean by this.

I've seen Alice in Chains, heard them on the radio, and I thought they sucked. I mean flat out, I never understood what made them "good", "different" or "better" than other contemporary bands. That the lead singer was angry? They had more hair?

There were a lot of bands that made good sounding music in the 90's. But the music environment was designed to emulate other success and never to try and make something new. In the 70's it was all about breaking the mold. In the 80's people were trying everything just to be different, that's why it went all over the place, until hair metal bands and rap took over.

Layne was a bad ass motherf*cker and if you can't see it, I can't help you...

[Zcustom]

I know some of you don't particularly care for heavy stuff but Sepultura's Roots album (1996) is one of the most groundbreaking albums of all time IMO.

It was the first metal album to heavily use sampling (not of other songs but random sounds) and they had over 30 different world class percussionists playing on that album.

If you like Ultimate Fighting one of the songs on the album (attitude) was inspired by the Gracie family and they appeared in the video as well.

[Panthro]

Keep that Brazilian mumjubo to yourself ;)

I don't like AIC. Can I see why other people would? Sure...you don't have to love a band to know their importance to music...hell you dont even have to like them. ie Zeppelin

[boo7382]

spice girls?

I almost said it.

I wont deny that I bought Spice! (their first album)

[Zcustom]

Keep that Brazilian mumjubo to yourself ;)

I don't like AIC. Can I see why other people would? Sure...you don't have to love a band to know their importance to music...hell you dont even have to like them. ie Zeppelin

Mumjubo? Cerrano?

So what you're saying is if you are open minded you can appreciate something without actually liking it?

[Panthro]

Yes...but who the fug is open minded though

I'm fuging with you, ted

[Zcustom]

Hell if I know

and how did you get the beans above the frank!?

[Kitten Diver]

Hootie and the Blowfish/

Hootie makes a case for most popular band of '94.

[Kitten Diver]

Layne was a bad ass motherf*cker and if you can't see it, I can't help you...

[dimbee]

I can't figure out what you mean by this.

I've seen Alice in Chains, heard them on the radio, and I thought they sucked. I mean flat out, I never understood what made them "good", "different" or "better" than other contemporary bands. That the lead singer was angry? They had more hair?

There were a lot of bands that made good sounding music in the 90's. But the music environment was designed to emulate other success and never to try and make something new. In the 70's it was all about breaking the mold. In the 80's people were trying everything just to be different, that's why it went all over the place, until hair metal bands and rap took over.

Frankly, I can't figure out why you ever posted in this thread. You haven't given your opinion of who you think was the best band of the 90's, which was the exact premise of the thread. All you've done is deride everyone elses opinion while mentioning how the 70's were better and the 80's were different (both of which really have noting to do with who you may or may not feel is/was the best band of the 90's).

So, basically, you've provided nothing of any worth or value to this thread (imagine that) and I would wager you have only devalued/sidetracked the thread with your useless comments (imagine that).

[CLTPanther]

Dimbee, meet CWG, the great liberal thread derailer

[Kitten Diver]

Good idea to make thread into a poll?

Suggested options

Nirvana

STP

AiC

Tool

PJ

Smashing of the Pumpkins

RHCP

Korn?

Hootie&TB

and I still say R.E.M. should be on the list no homo.

[Zcustom]

I can't figure out what you mean by this.

I've seen Alice in Chains, heard them on the radio, and I thought they sucked. I mean flat out, I never understood what made them "good", "different" or "better" than other contemporary bands. That the lead singer was angry? They had more hair?

There were a lot of bands that made good sounding music in the 90's. But the music environment was designed to emulate other success and never to try and make something new. In the 70's it was all about breaking the mold. In the 80's people were trying everything just to be different, that's why it went all over the place, until hair metal bands and rap took over.

In the 70's very few of the styles of music we have today existed. All of these genres of music were created somewhere in the late 60's to early 80's.

That's the problem with music, there are only so many notes on the scale and eventually you end up writing the same songs that have already been written. In order to differentiate your music you have to find new ways to alter your sound. Hendrix was one of the first to tear his speakers to create the first "distortion" sound, now there are 8,000 pedals that will give you more types of distortion than you could ever use.

it doesn't stop there either. Technology changes so fast today it makes it even more difficult for real musicians to keep pace when some busty 14 year old can go into a studio, have all the music made electronically, and then lay down vocal tracks with an autotune and sell half a million copies.

Take Kiss for example, Gene Simmons admits that they never would have made it anywhere if not for his "stunt" to garner the attention of the media. Try that same stunt today and all you get is yawns.

So for anyone to sit on their pedestal and say that music from way back is superior to todays music is just ignorant. All music has it's place. If an "actual song" (written by the artist and composed with live instruments) makes its way to a mainstream audience today it's a much larger accomplishment than it used to be. The 70's was about "breaking the mold", but the music landscape was wide open with endless possibilities.

To truly "break the mold" is 1000x more difficult than in the 70's.

The next breaking of the mold will be a renaissance of acoustic music, and even then it's not really breaking the mold, it's revisiting the past.