So many reasons that could explain my infinite love for the 90's. When Rock music and ballads were huge. When it wasn't hard to look for pop songs with meaningful lyrics. When singers actually sang and didn't use any kind of electronic voice improvers. When Shakira was an amazing songwriter ( ****! I miss her ). When trance, techno and dance gave us classic after classic ('The Sign', 'Around The World', 'Children', etc ). I could go on and go on listing more reasons. Anyway, here are some of my favorite 90's tracks.
I didn't have Filter.Take a Picture in my collection, thank you so much i always loved that song but i didn't knew the name!
By the time 1990 came around, I was already 10 years old, so I got a good experience of the 90s though I still think the 80s ***** on both 90s and 2000s.
The 1990s were a blast due to the introduction of eurodance, especially the German acts. There was Fun Factory, Mr. President, and I can't remember the other ones. We had La Bouche, Aqua, Ace of Base...dance music was at a high back then. By 1999, it'd gone downhill and the 2000s up to 2008 were a horrid decade of hip hop/urban/rap. I was so turned off by the dominance of those genres that I didn't listen to radio for 7 whole years and instead turned to the european dance scene PLUS Super Eurobeat. I came back to radio around early 2009 when I heard "Just Dance."
The 90s were not by any means as iconic as the 80s, but it still was way better than the 2000s.
Anyways, I was born in '91, but I definitely feel far more like a 90s child than a 00s one, even though the latter decade is the one I came of age in. Everytime I hear a 90s song, especially one I listened to a lot as a kid, I feel very nostalgic. The 90s isn't necessarily my favorite decade in music (though it definitely ***** on the 00s in every way), but it's the only one that I feel an emotional attachment to, primarily for the fact that I actually have memories from it. I love the 70s and 80s, but I have no real attachment to those decades since I wasn't around to experience them in any capacity.
Here some songs that are very close to my 90s heart:
First Radiohead song I ever heard without even knowing who they were until years later.
This song always makes me nostalgically tear-eyed.
My first taste of bubblegum pop! I was five.
I loved these dudes before N*SYNC.
My introduction to TLC.
The latter was the first Aaliyah song I ever heard without knowing who she was. The former was the first time I got to know her as Aaliyah.
My heart rips whenever I hear either song nowadays, especially the first. Brings back so many memories
I guess it's mostly the nostalgia, but I agree with the 90's cartoons ***** all over the new ones , the music had to change since many of those 90's singers went thru irrelevancy right now :-/
Yeah I agree '90s were definitely better than the '00s overall. '90s hip-hop and '90s rock own the crappier '00s versions. 92-97 was probably the best era within my life. I didn't hate the earlier '00s though I see them as an inferior watered down version of the '90s, but by 2005 or so I started disliking a lot of current things. The 2005-2008 era pretty much represented everything that was wrong with the '00s.
Someone please enlighten me about the noteworthy of 90s rock
I don't know much about music that time but those 90s rockbands like Weezer and The Cure,New Order definitely have HUGE influence to the modern rock