Who owned the 1990s?

Woo hoo!!

kosmo wrote:

Yada wrote:
How can a band like Blur who 99% of the world has no idea who they are be considered for this thread?

Song 2

So one song that was heavily used for adverts qualifies the band for owning the 90s?

I change my answer to Fatboy Slim and Moby.

Sorry Oasis strongly over Blur as far as song recognition by the average Josephine.

Yada wrote:
How can a band like Blur who 99% of the world has no idea who they are be considered for this thread?

two reasons:
1) denizens of this board have their heads so far up their own asses they don't realize what they're saying, and
2) we never defined what "owned" means.  most hits?  most recognizable/popular?  most influential to other musicians?  most albums sold?  biggest social impact?  longest hair?!?

my reading is that most folks here are either naming most recognizable/popular, or the band(s) they happen to like (because everyone here has impeccable taste, so if they like a band then clearly it must be the best from that era, right?)

sweetcell wrote:

Yada wrote:
How can a band like Blur who 99% of the world has no idea who they are be considered for this thread?

two reasons:
1) denizens of this board have their heads so far up their own asses they don't realize what they're saying, and
2) we never defined what "owned" means.  most hits?  most recognizable/popular?  most influential to other musicians?  most albums sold?  biggest social impact?  longest hair?!?

my reading is that most folks here are either naming most recognizable/popular, or the band(s) they happen to like (because everyone here has impeccable taste, so if they like a band then clearly it must be the best from that era, right?)

A+, would read again.

Could the creator of this thread make some parameters?

sweetcell wrote:
my reading is that most folks here are either naming most recognizable/popular, or the band(s) they happen to like (because everyone here has impeccable taste, so if they like a band then clearly it must be the best from that era, right?)

I'd say that is what Kozmo is using as his definition of 'owned'

Hootie and the Blowfish

The Verve. Forgot about them.  Shame on all of us

2 amazing albums and another very good one. Lots of great b-sides and a stellar EP. Likely the best catalog of any artist that decade.

Uncle Tupelo

StoneTheCrow wrote:
90s are a tough call.

Nirvana is a lock. Oasis/Blur is a great call. Pearl Jam was still a formidable act at that point. Metallica sucked but we’re massive.

I’ll go Nine Inch Nails.  3 amazing releases that decade which is more than any of the above acts can claim. Massive Attack can claim this as well, tho.

Their debut came out in 1991.

Critical acclaim and influence
Cultural relevance
Popularity (not just raw sales..)



The above are criteria that come to mind

Space wrote:

StoneTheCrow wrote:
90s are a tough call.

Nirvana is a lock. Oasis/Blur is a great call. Pearl Jam was still a formidable act at that point. Metallica sucked but we’re massive.

I’ll go Nine Inch Nails.  3 amazing releases that decade which is more than any of the above acts can claim. Massive Attack can claim this as well, tho.

Their debut came out in 1991.

I think he means they did not start their fecund, legacy-act period until the very end of the 90s. I read it the same way you did at first, too.

Correct. Thanks for clarifying.

Jesus Jones.

Jesus Jones, motherfuckering owned, the 1990s. Well, the early 90s.

One take on the 90s

Garth Brooks, 80s Covers and bands with one huge hit owned the 90s. Think Counting Crows, Barenaked Ladies, etc.

or

The 90s are tough one because for the first half of the decade R.E.M., the Beastie Boys and U2 were at the peak of their popularity and could be seen as owning the 90s.

I think the 90s were more about scenes verses individual bands\artists.  You had BritPop, Madchester, Nu-Metal, Grunge, Indie Rock, Alt-Rock, Gangster Rap, EDM, Shoegazer, Lilith Faire, etc, etc etc…

My takeaway is from the 90s I'm still listening to a lot of BritPop, and 90s Power Pop (Posies, FOW, Tommy Keene, Semisonic).

So which 90s scene owned the 90s?  My money is BritPop

p.s. as a sidenote looks a bunch of dudes are just now realizing what Rage Against The Machine have been all about all these years. 

kosmo wrote:
p.s. as a sidenote looks a bunch of dudes are just now realizing what Rage Against The Machine have been all about all these years.

I saw someone whining  "Tom, you lost a fan" because RATM was getting political…almost should go in the Onion thread.  I really has to hurt to be that stupid

Although I hated all of it save for Nirvana, I'm not sure how you could argue that anything other than grunge/alternative ruled the 90's here in the good old USA.

I get not liking Nirvana but anyone who doesn’t have them in there either wasn’t there or is in denial

Although it’s likely if it hadn’t been Nirvana it would have been someone else we can’t really say how it would have gone….

I think bands like Janes and Faith no more set it up so somebody like Nirvana would have blown the doors off things

I think britpop is a fuckin joke..just a creation of the British music rags…Oasis are just ripoff artists…Be Here Now is unlistenable

I will take Pulp and Supergrass over Oasis and Blur any time

Surprised nobody thought to mention Fugazi


Repeater came out in 1990

In case my communication was off…Nirvana was the only, or maybe one only a few, grunge/alternative bands i liked in the 90's. They were head and shoulders above the rest for me.

I was into Britpop (New Order, Smiths, Big Audio Dynamite, etc) and to some extent college rock (Replacements, um others but none nearly as much as the Mats) in the 80's…by the time the 90's rolled around, I was tired of "alternative rock" be it British or American, and turned to Americana.