This is what all those 90’s nostalgic posts here in Tumblr did to me.
**This is more like the late 90’s 12 year old girl edition. (I should know, I was there.) Anyway reblog for … oh well, you know why.
Ah, the 90s. I would’ve given my left boob to really grow up (teenage years) in the 80s, but I suppose the 90s weren’t so bad, either.
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With the exception of the Gin Blossoms, Come as you are, Stay and Runaway Train, this is a compilation of the absolute worst songs from the 90s. Songs that weren’t good then and are not good now.
The 90s were awesome, as long as you weren’t listening to crap like Aaron Carter, The Spice Girls, Britney, LFO, Hanson, N’Sync, Aqua, SmashMouth, and the Backstreet Boys.
Let’s talk reasons the 90s were awesome:
Pearl Jam’s Ten, Vs, and Vitalogy
Nirvana’s In Utero and Nevermind
Soundgarden, creating the heights of grunge with Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, and Down on the Upside.
The Black Album. The absolute best Metallica that ever was.
Nine Inch Nails essentially creating (and then perfecting) industrial music with The Downward Spiral. The Fragile! Hell, I’ll even throw the original and still innovative Pretty Hate Machine into this pile since it was Oct of 1989 and didn’t really pop until the 90’s anyway.
Live’s Throwing Copper, remember that? It was issued to kids in the suburbs and you had to prove you owned it to be let into any high school in America.
Garbage and Version 2.0 as the Brits began the second invasion.
Oasis defining the suburban rock sing-along with Definitely, Maybe and (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? and then getting into fights with Blur over who was more popular.
Third Eye Blind and Blue
Remember playing Mellon Collie at night with your friends and feeling like you’d discovered God?
Various tracks from STP’s Purple and Tiny Music blasted through the open windows of your mom’s car into the summer freeway air.
Undertow and Aenima, oh God Aenima. I remember when I first discovered Tool. It was evil, and dark, and I knew my parents would hate it. And I loved it.
The Blue Album, and knowing all the words to Buddy Holly without understanding the irony.
And lest you think I’m only partial to the above 90’s alt-rock awesomeness, it was also one of the greatest eras of rap and hip-hop in the (admittedly short) history of the genre: Tupac, Dre, Snoop, Biggie, Jay-Z coming into his own, Nas, Warren G and Nate Dogg, amongst many, many others.
So yeah, if your 90’s experience was filled with boy bands and kiddie pop, I can see why you feel like maybe it was a lost decade. Hell, I could probably list a couple dozen more examples to destroy that mental image, but having experienced my entire teenage years within the span of the 90’s, I refuse to allow the above mix to stand as any representation of one of my favorite decades of music ;)
