RE: Growing Up 90's: What a Blessing it Was to Come From the Grunge/Punk/Metal Era of Music
88er here
I made a similiar post to yours https://steemit.com/music/@sinned/an-ode-to-the-alternative-of-the-1990s
I love yours I love this era.
Without the 1990s I would probably not exist. I came into the music when it was a staple in our society every band would try to outdo each other. I had a rough catholic upbringing and the era gave me confidence and gave me the will to continue on no matter what happened. Everyone had a heavier style with apathetic overtones. It was the heavy or nsync or britney spears or gangster rap. I consider all alternative anything that had that. I liked the post grunge when it first came out but I also loved nirvana and one of my first girlfriends showed me AIC and to this day I still listen to them. I listened to all grunge bands religiously and my peers thought that was weird. I delved deeper later on but I also like TAD, BABES IN TOYLAND, LOVE BATTERY. i love all of the alternative from the 1990s. It is a mild obsession of mine. Being younger then you my peers accepted nu-metal as their first music of choice. That and INSANE CLOWN POSSE. We listened to SLIPKNOT MUDVAYNE KORN PANTERA MUSHROOMHEAD COALCHAMBER etc etc. That is when it first started. We were waiting for the next big band or the next album. Some of the bands got softer or sold out. We were disheartened. In 2004 the 1990s were still going strong where I was. But every album from every band we enjoyed was a dud.
I personally hated the style they went. I wanted heavier stuff. But I realized that this is ending and when I made that discovery I hated it but emo came around.
Some of them really got into it and ignored all other genres. I delved myself hardcore into it. I liked everything my sister even got me they might be giants and REM and RAP cds. I also liked death metal industrial and thrash.
My first band I listened to that would be considered would be rock at the time was metallica. Metallica at that point was in there bullshit trying to get into hard rock music. Alot of the old fans looked at it funny. I didnt know I was trying to get into music for the first time. One of my best friends from highschool who was considered weird liked original thrash and he inspired me to listen to megadeth oldschool metallica. Even though he was sooooo weird everyone was still getting into slayer. Everyone had a shirt or knew reining blood. I stopped liking metallica but later liked their original stuff and I found Marilyn Mansons first couple albums and KoRns albums. I was thinking of it in a way that I wanted to get heavier and heavier closer to my core of my self.
My peers at a young age were sneaking into bars stealing alcohol from customers drinking it and smoking ciggarettes without anyone batting an eye. They were also watching WWF pay per views with austin being the main attraction. Beavis and butthead was my spongebob square pants. I DO NOT think we will have an era like this EVER AGAIN =(.
Thank you for posting this so I can remember an era that will never go away in myself but has been replaced by society
@sinned
Love comments like this where a person really goes even deeper than the piece I wrote. I just read your article, great stuff, guess we both felt that nostalgia call very recently and in similar ways. You put a bunch of bands in there that I should have included lol....I was racking my brain for bands but I been running on empty lately so missed a ton. But that was the 90s, so much creative souls coming out in one decade you just kind of had a pick and choose of great bands, great music and a great time in itself. So true though, society really did take what we had in the 90s away, they commercialized it, boxed it up and put it in pieces on so many shelves that its been watered down, truly sad. I just hope maybe guys like you and I who truly lived it in the 90s and offer our pieces of joy from those days can kind of pass it down to the youth now in hopes they could kind of rekindle versions of that massive movement and time for their peers. Seems to me the music scene now is with no real voice, the gathering of people is no longer fun like the concerts and festivals you and I had the honor to attend. Just doesn't feel like the youth is enjoying their time other than mischief in a violent way vs just partying and celebrating life.
Its an honor @sinned to know we lived the same era together and have a heart left in us to remain those same kids from back then. No matter what, I am still a Beavis and Butthead, Metallica worshipping and Tool Tshirt wearing kind of guy, just cut the hair but not the 90s soul inside. Great comment, thank you so much for taking the time to write that and really share the feelings I hold as well for those times.
Nah yours is as deep as mine. I have the nostalgia everyday. People keep on telling me to switch over to 2017. The only 2017 in me is the websites I go to a big tv and a few games here and there. I aint leaving it I am keeping my clothing my long hair I do not care if I am the last of the last. I do not really feel molded and a part of this new era. I feel like I was connected deeply with gen-x can I call myself a x-y fuck the y. They definitely had the creativity of the 1960s mixed with metal and punk. So many new genres and new ways to play music. You are right about the new generation. On top of that there is MEME music which is just joking around music. Music making fun of older ways of life but in a internetty way. Not like the 1990s but still has its basic roots in that. Internet snobs that like music and if you do not like it with them they get offended. the 1990s the music was the voice it was everything. Every thing in pop culture based from it. They also are going anti hard with the music on purpose. Just recently a 70 something age person came to me and was like fuck yeah marilyn manson cuz i had a shirt on. I was like you like them. He was like I was at one of their first shows but towards their 3rd album or so he stopped getting into them. He started talking about the antagonistic generation being birthed that needed to come out and be alive. Society restricted them to much he said. Everything was boring. I was surprised that someone at that age would vibe with that.
The pendulum swings back to it being restricted again in our era.
If you actually do anything you might offend peoples different parties.
People want unity not to be divided.
I think the rebellion will come again but it will have to be something totally different.
There is so many bands forgotten but you find em again or never seen em before and I am so obsessed with this era I added like 400-500 music videos to this website http://my90stv.com/
I think our current era is a crisis era like ww2... The closest thing generation wise the 1990s were I think were the 1920s but the restrictions of alcohol/cannabis/ rebellion of the generation/rise of women in politics are reversed. Alcohol was crazily fought against. Cannibas was hush hush just do not let me see it! Dare logos on games etc. Rise of women in politics was not as big as the rebellion. Also think of the internet/ and ford perfecting themselves in the second industrial revolution.
A lot of similarities just different varying degrees of it.
It was a pleasure to see another 1990s head here we should talk about it sometime drop me a line so we can show the world our love for this time!
Gonna have to check out that site, I am always looking for musically created sites lol. I agree, this generation right now is lost and confused on the art form that music should be. No say no voice to provide anything to society in their lyrics or belief system it feels. Just commercial slapped together mess in my opinion. I always joke to my girl when a kid bumps this new girly sounding rap stuff that it feels as if the manly music of our youth is dead and gone. How these guys call this stuff ganster when its guys whining about girls all day long is beyond me lol. Times have changed, hopefully it will change back to a more vocal style of music that actually says something