The City Life They Talk About in the 90s
August 9th, 2007
I was wondering this morning if we are far enough away from the 90s yet to have a sense of the decade that was. My initial sense was that you need a bit of distance to see how it was different to what came after it.
As a starting point I feel like 90s music was characterised by singer-songwriters with guitars and bands with dominant electrics guitars and plenty of distortion. This decade seems to be much more about beats and speaking but then I listen to so little new music I could be wrong.
What do people think?
Lesson for the day – perspective is more easily valued than attained.
Previously on this date..
- Restart - 2008
- Haystack - 2006
- Web 2.Oh Yeah! - 2006
- The Fat Man In The Flesh - 2006
- Tuesday On My Mind - 2005
- Spluttering And Distinction - 2005
- Feedback (Again) - 2005
- The Food Police Will Get You - 2005
- Podcast #8: The One With Leonie And Harry Potter - 2005
- Now Arriving At Summertown - 2004
- Home Game - 2004
- Compliation Blues - 2004
- There's A Fear - 2004
- Mechanical Mark - 2004
- The Incident With The Brown Dog - 2003
- The Red Car - 2003
- From Little Things - 2002
- In August - 2002
- Tensions Ease - 2002
- Well I managed to find - 2001
- I wonder if Deborah really - 2001
- Sarah tells me I finally - 2001
- Speaking of my Bacon factor - 2001
- Giving away tickets is more - 2001
- I have free tickets for - 2001
- I find it hard to - 2001
- Barking dogs again in the - 2001
- I have put the covers - 2001
- By some miracle I am - 2001
i think the 90s was about cargo pants
I still have something of a soft spot for cargo pants.
Can’t believe after we were just talking about it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SingStar_90s, but this sounds awesome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SingStar_Rock_Ballads
For some reason I still think of 90s music as being the latest thing which of course it’s not. I guess this has something to do with the fact i was recently married and starting to raise kids – for some reason I felt I had little time to keep up with what was hapopening on the radio. I can’t think of what cargo pants are but I’m sure if I saw some I’d remember.