90's Rock Appreciation Thread

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To me, the 60's, 70's and 90's are the 3 greatest decades in rock n roll. The death of 80's hair bands gave rise to the alternative rock scene. It was just rock going back to its roots. A stripped down, lean, grungy return to real, emotion filled music. Sure there were a lot of fluff in the 90's as well. Every decade has that. But this thread is about the great stuff that came out in the 90's. Gotta kick off the festivities with one of my favorite 90's bands....Oasis



 
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Runwildboys said:
Alice in Chains - Had they been more prolific while Layne Staley was alive, they probably would have supplanted Aerosmith and AC/DC as my favorite. (Apparently, I have a thing for bands that start with the letter "A".)
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Such a great band. Jerry Cantrell is special and Layne's voice was incredible. Dirt is my favorite AIC album. Down in a Hole is a masterpiece.
 
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I have a story bros!! Lol

My Chiro went up to Apple Valley Washington in the early to mid eighties and ran into and formed a cover band..As his time in washington ended he had to come back to Dallas to finish his degree at Parker chiropatric college.

He brought back the two guys he was playing with for a summer..The bass player wound up joining a band called Pretty Boy Floyd and the guitar player, who was actually from Oklahoma.....

One very young Jerry Cantrell..He was about 19-20 at the time..I jammed with him a few times..although at the time he was very good at covers, he didnt have much originality in his music..Common occurance of guitar players at that age..

I was already trying to find my way there so i was cynical about his skill..I may have been incorrect in my assessment!! Lolol

I have a picture to prove this unkown at the time brush with greatness however i cant embed pictures here idkw...
 

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I much preferred hair metal over grunge.
But then again I looked like I was in a hair metal band and was ***** Kelly Bundy clones on a weekly basis.
 
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CowboyDan said:
Such a great band. Jerry Cantrell is special and Layne's voice was incredible. Dirt is my favorite AIC album. Down in a Hole is a masterpiece.
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That album has so many songs that are great that are hardly ever mentioned. Everyone knows Them Bones, Down in a Hole, Rooster, and Would.

You don't hear about the songs Dam That River, Rain When I Die, Angry Chair, and Dirt (the song). Those are fantastic songs and in my opinion deserved just as much air play.
 
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Some people define hair metal differently. For me. If it was consider metal, but not aggressive. It was hair metal. stuff like Warrant, Poison, etc That was hair metal and wuss music.

Other consider Motley Crew hair metal and they definitely started moving that direction, but Shout at the Devil and earlier was not hair metal to me. I did like early Def Leppard before they turned into pop-metal.

I laugh when I see people try to classify Dio, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Iron Maiden as hair metal as some places do.

For me, the heavier the better. I don't mean just speed. I mean HEAVY thump and crunch or groove metal. Fast is okay, but it has to have music too it. Not just pure speed.

GROOVE!

 
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ALICE in chains had a dynamic that was unusual..Jerry wrote most of the music and the lyrics, but he didnt have much range vocally. I know that sounds incorrect but its the dynamic that is some of the underpinning of their success..

He would generally take unusual harmonies in the vocals which caused Layne to be able harmonically to go an unusual way with his vocals and to some degree with the music..

Something fresh in the day of the grunge..Although I thought all of the bands associated with the grunge movement damm good, Nirvana i think over rated..Dave Groehl however pretty gd amazing after that. GO FIGURE!!
 
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YosemiteSam said:
Some people define hair metal differently. For me. If it was consider metal, but not aggressive. It was hair metal. stuff like Warrant, Poison, etc That was hair metal and wuss music.

Other consider Motley Crew hair metal and they definitely started moving that direction, but Shout at the Devil and earlier was not hair metal to me. I did like early Def Leppard before they turned into pop-metal.

I laugh when I see people try to classify Dio, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Iron Maiden as hair metal as some places do.

For me, the heavier the better. I don't mean just speed. I mean HEAVY thump and crunch or groove metal. Fast is okay, but it has to have music too it. Not just pure speed.
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Yosemiti i dont even allow a record company description of genre to get in the way. ITS ROCK OR HEAVY ROCK!..LOL
 
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heh the funny thing is, I always see Foo Fighters as a show-tunes band of sort. They play catchy stuff, but I don't consider it great. He is clearly talented, but he just doesn't jive with me. I can't remember what the song was, but he repeated the same thing over like 10000 times during the song and it just turned me off to him.

I probably didn't give them enough of a chance after that. I do like some of their songs though. Just nothing makes it into my playlist.
 
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I understand your take, however playing the drums, changing over to guitar and taking the vocs and being successful in two different bands says something..

My real respect for Groehl came when I read about him buying the Neve Console used in recording some of the best albums put out in the late 70s 80s and into the early 90s..

http://www.documentarytube.com/videos/dave-grohl-the-sound-city-studios
 
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Billyd said:
I have a story bros!! Lol

My Chiro went up to Apple Valley Washington in the early to mid eighties and ran into and formed a cover band..As his time in washington ended he had to come back to Dallas to finish his degree at Parker chiropatric college.

He brought back the two guys he was playing with for a summer..The bass player wound up joining a band called Pretty Boy Floyd and the guitar player, who was actually from Oklahoma.....

One very young Jerry Cantrell..He was about 19-20 at the time..I jammed with him a few times..although at the time he was very good at covers, he didnt have much originality in his music..Common occurance of guitar players at that age..

I was already trying to find my way there so i was cynical about his skill..I may have been incorrect in my assessment!! Lolol

I have a picture to prove this unkown at the time brush with greatness however i cant embed pictures here idkw...
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I believe you. That's an awesome story!!!
 
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YosemiteSam said:
That album has so many songs that are great that are hardly ever mentioned. Everyone knows Them Bones, Down in a Hole, Rooster, and Would.

You don't hear about the songs Dam That River, Rain When I Die, Angry Chair, and Dirt (the song). Those are fantastic songs and in my opinion deserved just as much air play.
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Angry Chair and Dirt are probably 2of my top 3 of theirs.
I wish Sap had more on it. They had a great sound going on that.
 
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Trust me when i tell you my musical tastes are much deeper than the commercial music of that time frame. I STARTED looking for the best players in the world in 1981.. But i respect the players of this time frame immensely just in a different category..
 
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YosemiteSam said:
Some people define hair metal differently. For me. If it was consider metal, but not aggressive. It was hair metal. stuff like Warrant, Poison, etc That was hair metal and wuss music.

Other consider Motley Crew hair metal and they definitely started moving that direction, but Shout at the Devil and earlier was not hair metal to me. I did like early Def Leppard before they turned into pop-metal.

I laugh when I see people try to classify Dio, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Iron Maiden as hair metal as some places do.

For me, the heavier the better. I don't mean just speed. I mean HEAVY thump and crunch or groove metal. Fast is okay, but it has to have music too it. Not just pure speed.

GROOVE!

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The Hair Metal channel on Sirius/XM plays everyone you listed. Lol
 
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Billyd said:
ALICE in chains had a dynamic that was unusual..Jerry wrote most of the music and the lyrics, but he didnt have much range vocally. I know that sounds incorrect but its the dynamic that is some of the underpinning of their success..

He would generally take unusual harmonies in the vocals which caused Layne to be able harmonically to go an unusual way with his vocals and to some degree with the music..

Something fresh in the day of the grunge..Although I thought all of the bands associated with the grunge movement damm good, Nirvana i think over rated..Dave Groehl however pretty gd amazing after that. GO FIGURE!!
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That "off key" Harmony is what I love about them. It's so different, but so interesting.
 
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ANOTHER funny story then..In 1981 some friends told me about a show I needed to see, so we went and saw..
These guys..



A very young Def Leppard warmed up for them touring under the High and Dry album..There guitar player at the time kind of of a dominative prick..The crowd got a lil rowdy and booed them off the stage coz didnt want to listen to them, the prick, and wanted the greatness of Blackfoot!!Lol.
 
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