Worst songs of the 90s?

Cotton Eyed Joe - Rednex
Blue - Eiffel 65
Barbie Girl - Aqua
 
Boom said:
Cotton Eyed Joe - Rednex
Blue - Eiffel 65
Barbie Girl - Aqua
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It's funny-- I know the Barbie Girl song, but I never really heard it all that much. Like I know it got a ton of air time, but I just escaped it somehow and never had that much hate for the song.


It is awfu,l though.
 
what music means to you is by and large how the industry tells you it is, (80s and 90s) or what it really is (60s and 70s). as digital distribution came into play and the RIAA couldn't stop it, the "path" to success changed.

dramatically.

i have my sweet spot, late 70s, early 80s. product of my birth and age to be sure. but i don't see any "new" music really being played, or even readily available. why? the path to success was smashed. the price to pay for the downloading wasn't just lost revenue, but a lost direction. we could no longer be told what was good and what wasn't. FM is dead. sirius isn't far behind. not because of technology, but content.

the current trend i'm seeing is that people revive an 80s radio station they loved and get all nostalgic and people "like" it on facebook so it sells. it gets likes. but what are they getting from said service they can't get anywhere else?

not a damn thing but we all tend to buy back our past.

music was a HEAVY influence on the 60s and 70s. the 80s is where it "popped" out and went corp. but what else could you do. you either did music that way or you didn't get a contract. a very close friend of mine turned down the contract poison wound up taking. it was a very very very messed up world at the time.

it still is now but for so many different reasons.

whether you grew up and somehow or another we're not our dads listening to slim whitman simply not able to understand "these kids today" or the music scene is just fragmented and lost, well, up to the person looking in.

in my day you built a nice stereo with 15" woofers and at least a mid and a tweeter (cerwin vega, anyone!) and appreciated the clarity and fidelity of music. today, hell, i'll listen over my phone or get some $20 headphones.

good music is worth more than that. but the stars have to realign. the way people "hear" new music, has to change.

i've been fighting this battle for 15+ years.
 
if music just was a product of age and birth, I'd be damned to stick with 90s music. I'm grateful it's not. Although I have a clear memory of a lot of euro dance music like Dr. Alban and Ace of Base.... Thanks to Grunge music I came out of the 90ies alive
 
Way before my time but I love pretty much anything by the Beatles. That must have been a very cool era of music.
 
iceberg said:
what music means to you is by and large how the industry tells you it is, (80s and 90s) or what it really is (60s and 70s). as digital distribution came into play and the RIAA couldn't stop it, the "path" to success changed.

dramatically.

i have my sweet spot, late 70s, early 80s. product of my birth and age to be sure. but i don't see any "new" music really being played, or even readily available. why? the path to success was smashed. the price to pay for the downloading wasn't just lost revenue, but a lost direction. we could no longer be told what was good and what wasn't. FM is dead. sirius isn't far behind. not because of technology, but content.

the current trend i'm seeing is that people revive an 80s radio station they loved and get all nostalgic and people "like" it on facebook so it sells. it gets likes. but what are they getting from said service they can't get anywhere else?

not a damn thing but we all tend to buy back our past.

music was a HEAVY influence on the 60s and 70s. the 80s is where it "popped" out and went corp. but what else could you do. you either did music that way or you didn't get a contract. a very close friend of mine turned down the contract poison wound up taking. it was a very very very messed up world at the time.

it still is now but for so many different reasons.

whether you grew up and somehow or another we're not our dads listening to slim whitman simply not able to understand "these kids today" or the music scene is just fragmented and lost, well, up to the person looking in.

in my day you built a nice stereo with 15" woofers and at least a mid and a tweeter (cerwin vega, anyone!) and appreciated the clarity and fidelity of music. today, hell, i'll listen over my phone or get some $20 headphones.

good music is worth more than that. but the stars have to realign. the way people "hear" new music, has to change.

i've been fighting this battle for 15+ years.
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Interesting post.

What has happened to the music industry really isn't much different for other luxuries in a capitalist society.

1. Something great emerges, people like it.
2. Some professional entity researches said "great thing" and finds a way to appeal to a wider demographic.
3. Professional entity makes a ton of money, can dictate what is desirable and/or deliver said great thing at a price smaller entities cannot compete with.
4. Trends Emerge
5. Supply and demand weeds out a lot of the unique variants of the great thing.

More to it than that, but just a quick rundown.

The revolution or renaissance comes once the power is taken out of the hands of the professional entities by either the customer or the aid of some new vehicle that is difficult to regulate. For music, the internet has helped. Record labels cannot regulate the industry as much as they could in the past because people have the ability to listen to what they want at a much lower cost.

It seems like nowadays it's hard to know 'what's cool' because there is so much variety and a lot less regulations on the way you receive it.

There isn't much 'new music' because I think people have run out of ideas and there is a limit to what people are willing to tolerate-- can't just shout and bang two garbage can lids together for 4 1/2 minutes and expect people to like your "music". So with regard to that, Music is kind of like Movies or Fashion. Nothing is really 'new', just recycled and presented slightly differently.

Originality is an incredibly scarce resource in 2014.

But I think opportunity is much greater than before and therefore it's easier to find a band or artist that you like if you're looking.
 
Hey Iceberg (respect for the in-depth post)

But one thing I didn't quite get is where you mention, "we could no longer be told what was good and what wasn't"... Wouldn't that be a positive? Or are you saying ALL music was being pushed out; watering down the standards of quality that were present beforehand?
 
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In case anyone is interested, VH1 is showing their countdown of the top 100 songs of the 90's today. They are currently on #65 Didigal Underground with The Humpty Dance. My Lord!!!
 
I'll never understand the 90s image of bad music. In my opinion, it's one of the best next to the 60s and 70s. Some of my favorite bands come from the 90s, Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, O.A.R and Umphrey's McGee, to name a few. Not to mention some of the best rap in its existence, with Biggie, 2pac, Dre, Snoop etc. If you're looking for bad music, turn to the 80s. With a few exceptions like Gensis, that music scene was a train wreck.
 
iceberg said:
what music means to you is by and large how the industry tells you it is, (80s and 90s) or what it really is (60s and 70s). as digital distribution came into play and the RIAA couldn't stop it, the "path" to success changed.

dramatically.

i have my sweet spot, late 70s, early 80s. product of my birth and age to be sure. but i don't see any "new" music really being played, or even readily available. why? the path to success was smashed. the price to pay for the downloading wasn't just lost revenue, but a lost direction. we could no longer be told what was good and what wasn't. FM is dead. sirius isn't far behind. not because of technology, but content.

the current trend i'm seeing is that people revive an 80s radio station they loved and get all nostalgic and people "like" it on facebook so it sells. it gets likes. but what are they getting from said service they can't get anywhere else?

not a damn thing but we all tend to buy back our past.

music was a HEAVY influence on the 60s and 70s. the 80s is where it "popped" out and went corp. but what else could you do. you either did music that way or you didn't get a contract. a very close friend of mine turned down the contract poison wound up taking. it was a very very very messed up world at the time.

it still is now but for so many different reasons.

whether you grew up and somehow or another we're not our dads listening to slim whitman simply not able to understand "these kids today" or the music scene is just fragmented and lost, well, up to the person looking in.

in my day you built a nice stereo with 15" woofers and at least a mid and a tweeter (cerwin vega, anyone!) and appreciated the clarity and fidelity of music. today, hell, i'll listen over my phone or get some $20 headphones.

good music is worth more than that. but the stars have to realign. the way people "hear" new music, has to change.

i've been fighting this battle for 15+ years.
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Great post, ice.
 
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