Re: Okay, then where do the 90's stand?
Reg
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I don't think the 90's was, we're mainly talking rock 'n' roll right, an improvement over the 70's but it was better than the 80's. I think the guitar came back and the technology got better so all the synth sounds weren't so "Atari" sounding. One of the big negatives of the 90's seemed to me to be that once they found a sound...like a band that had a particular sound that sold...then all they did was go out and look for 20 more bands that could make that sound and they put out records from all of them. So, pretty much you'd have 16 new bands that all sounded the same and mined the same territory.
No risk...just a fast buck. I think the 90's was all about finding a sound and mining it for every nickel. Didn't the whole "Seattle sound" come out of that time frame...then the "unplugged" sound came back...thanks to MTV right?
So, after the 80's synth pop phase we had a return of the guitars. Which to most ears here was probably a good thing. But the tech sounds of the 90's were not as annoying as those of the 80's to me.
I would say in the 80's they pasteurized the music then in the 90's they homogenized it.
I'm not saying that there was no good music from these decades...just that there were some annoying aspects.
It's like the Baerwald Board...there's lot's of good stuff but all my political posts annoy the hell out of a lot of people.
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Reg
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I don't think the 90's was, we're mainly talking rock 'n' roll right, an improvement over the 70's but it was better than the 80's. I think the guitar came back and the technology got better so all the synth sounds weren't so "Atari" sounding. One of the big negatives of the 90's seemed to me to be that once they found a sound...like a band that had a particular sound that sold...then all they did was go out and look for 20 more bands that could make that sound and they put out records from all of them. So, pretty much you'd have 16 new bands that all sounded the same and mined the same territory.
No risk...just a fast buck. I think the 90's was all about finding a sound and mining it for every nickel. Didn't the whole "Seattle sound" come out of that time frame...then the "unplugged" sound came back...thanks to MTV right?
So, after the 80's synth pop phase we had a return of the guitars. Which to most ears here was probably a good thing. But the tech sounds of the 90's were not as annoying as those of the 80's to me.
I would say in the 80's they pasteurized the music then in the 90's they homogenized it.
I'm not saying that there was no good music from these decades...just that there were some annoying aspects.
It's like the Baerwald Board...there's lot's of good stuff but all my political posts annoy the hell out of a lot of people.
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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