Though it pains me to say so, 90s rock music is completely overrated and its reputation basically rests on stuff released between 1990-93.
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Though it pains me to say so, 90s rock music is completely overrated and its reputation basically rests on stuff released between 1990-93. I've been listening to a 90s rock station on SiriusXM (so it has survivorship bias baked in), and between post-grunge, nu metal, and other commercialized varieties of alternative rock, like 75% of it plain sucks. Sure, there were plenty of great music in the 90s, but it wasn't some sort of Golden Age...
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Though it pains me to say so, 90s rock music is completely overrated and its reputation basically rests on stuff released between 1990-93. I've been listening to a 90s rock station on SiriusXM (so it has survivorship bias baked in), and between post-grunge, nu metal, and other commercialized varieties of alternative rock, like 75% of it plain sucks. Sure, there were plenty of great music in the 90s, but it wasn't some sort of Golden Age...
@Tim_Eagon Next step: how much of the overblown tripe from the 90s has male vocals? As for the female vocals... oh wait... where ARE the female vocals of the 90s?
It's almost as if there was a concerted effort to promote male vocals over women artists... and the whole genre suffered. Or something.
Ha ha, that couldn't possibly have actually happened, right?
Right? In radio?
RIGHT? RADIO?
In the NINETIES?
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@Tim_Eagon Next step: how much of the overblown tripe from the 90s has male vocals? As for the female vocals... oh wait... where ARE the female vocals of the 90s?
It's almost as if there was a concerted effort to promote male vocals over women artists... and the whole genre suffered. Or something.
Ha ha, that couldn't possibly have actually happened, right?
Right? In radio?
RIGHT? RADIO?
In the NINETIES?
@miriamrobern I swear, female rock vocalists all but disappeared from the radio circa 1995
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@miriamrobern I swear, female rock vocalists all but disappeared from the radio circa 1995
@Tim_Eagon i wonder what other things were happening in radio around that time...
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@Tim_Eagon Next step: how much of the overblown tripe from the 90s has male vocals? As for the female vocals... oh wait... where ARE the female vocals of the 90s?
It's almost as if there was a concerted effort to promote male vocals over women artists... and the whole genre suffered. Or something.
Ha ha, that couldn't possibly have actually happened, right?
Right? In radio?
RIGHT? RADIO?
In the NINETIES?
@miriamrobern @Tim_Eagon Well, we had Gwen Stefani, and... and... um.
Fuck. No wonder I've always considered the 90s a musical wasteland.
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@miriamrobern @Tim_Eagon Well, we had Gwen Stefani, and... and... um.
Fuck. No wonder I've always considered the 90s a musical wasteland.
@audreygwinter @miriamrobern Hey don't forget Courtney Love! In the first half of the 90s, I heard a lot from Liz Phair, Veruca Salt, The Breeders, L7, Kim Gordon's work with Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, etc. in the rock space. Now, almost all of them released music later in the decade, but I rarely heard it on MTV much less the radio!
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@audreygwinter @miriamrobern Hey don't forget Courtney Love! In the first half of the 90s, I heard a lot from Liz Phair, Veruca Salt, The Breeders, L7, Kim Gordon's work with Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, etc. in the rock space. Now, almost all of them released music later in the decade, but I rarely heard it on MTV much less the radio!
@Tim_Eagon @miriamrobern Thank you, Tim. I actually *was* having trouble coming up with female artists from that era. But then, I gave up on things when "alternative" got big and just retreated into the 80s, for the most part.
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@Tim_Eagon @miriamrobern Thank you, Tim. I actually *was* having trouble coming up with female artists from that era. But then, I gave up on things when "alternative" got big and just retreated into the 80s, for the most part.
@audreygwinter @miriamrobern If you want female rock artists from nowadays, there's a wealth of them!
