Author Topic: Remember the late 90's/early 2000's? (Read 5868 times)

Momo · « **on:** February 28, 2012, 04:27:44 AM »

I really loved some of the decidedly un-pc songs of the time

Dr. Dre cover

White Boy Angst

I think this was considered pop back then

Makes me sad to think of our Bieber/Black pop future.

etiolate · « **Reply #1 on:** February 28, 2012, 04:56:59 AM »

Ben Folds is awesome

benjipwns · « **Reply #2 on:** February 28, 2012, 04:59:40 AM »

Quote from: etiolate on February 28, 2012, 04:56:59 AM

Ben Folds is awesome

Has Been is incredible.

etiolate · « **Reply #3 on:** February 28, 2012, 05:09:03 AM »

Anyone cool enough for Shatner is pretty much cool for life.

Momo · « **Reply #4 on:** February 28, 2012, 05:16:58 AM »

I just found that shatner "song" on youtube, thanks guys

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #5 on:** February 28, 2012, 05:30:08 AM »

sorry, it's too early for late 90's/early 2000s nostalgia. they will have to wait their turn in the 20-year cycle like everyone else.

benjipwns · « **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2012, 05:31:22 AM »

Quote from: Momo on February 28, 2012, 05:16:58 AM

I just found that shatner "song" on youtube, thanks guys

It's actually a whole album, Ben Folds did all the music or at least like 90% of it, Shatner wrote a similar amount of the lyrics.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Has_Been

I thought it'd just be a goof after hearing the "Common People" cover, but I really like the album, was one of my favorites the year it came out.

EDIT2: This thread made me realize Shatner had a second "gather tons of famous people" album I had missed. Too bad it's all covers. Still, yes please.

Momo · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2012, 07:48:09 AM »

Shatner is such a terrible actor, but a legend none the less

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #8 on:** February 28, 2012, 09:30:36 AM »

Quote from: recursivelyenumerable on February 28, 2012, 05:30:08 AM

sorry, it's too early for late 90's/early 2000s nostalgia. they will have to wait their turn in the 20-year cycle like everyone else.

Normally that would be the case, but the past decade has just been so utterly dreadful.

benjipwns · « **Reply #9 on:** February 28, 2012, 09:32:56 AM »

I might attempt to disagree but I found myself listening to Weezer (Blue) on random the other day and didn't change it.

Timber · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2012, 09:42:53 AM »

WHAT IS THIS WILLIAM SHATNER NERD SHIT

Timber · « **Reply #11 on:** February 28, 2012, 09:43:23 AM »

I remember how we all were waiting a new decade, a new millennium, a new start with good friends, we didn't care about the money, clothes, body figure, we didn't have mobile phones we just simply were together lived the life we wanted to live. Who could have thought that the new beginning was, in fact, the end of everything that made people simple and happy...
MsKefir 2 weeks ago 90

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #12 on:** February 28, 2012, 09:54:41 AM »

Timber · « **Reply #13 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:32:29 AM »

Momo · « **Reply #14 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:36:35 AM »

Didnt he eventually get the mole removed?

Timber · « **Reply #15 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:46:13 AM »

Ya I think he did. In his early videos he always made sure to self-consciously put his hand in front of his cheek like it was some real sexy romantic gesture, but everyone knew the real reason and it only drew attention to it. I would have fucked him silly regardless IMO.

Momo · « **Reply #16 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:58:11 AM »

Pity he never realized his mole was actually sexy

Himu · « **Reply #17 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:03:30 PM »

if anyone posts ace of base i will have them banned

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:07:21 PM »

I abused a lot of substances in that time period, so all memories are kind of hazy. I mean, A LOT.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #19 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:08:48 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on February 28, 2012, 12:03:30 PM

if anyone posts ace of base i will have them banned

Here you go, the worst of present and past:

Momo · « **Reply #20 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:08:50 PM »

All that she want is another banning she's gone tomorrow

spoiler (click to show/hide)

you know what sucks, this song is totally playing in your head now

[close]

Momo · « **Reply #21 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:09:59 PM »

whelp looks like i not only got beat but massively out played

Himu · « **Reply #22 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:11:52 PM »

triumph: reported

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #23 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:20:24 PM »

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #24 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:22:30 PM »

benjipwns · « **Reply #25 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:23:21 PM »

Now that's (EDIT: HOW BIZZARE GRRR MAF) a classic.

One song the Saints Row series NEEDED. HARD.

IN A MISSION.

EDIT: I would have accepted The Way as well.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #26 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:26:21 PM »

the late 90s had a few classics- early 90s were tragic...cept maybe for rap and grunge but I was never into rap or grunge

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #27 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:28:13 PM »

http://music.yahoo.com/videos/44649266;_ylt=Avu4_pdQdMzl9DLEvNkcPDg0tCUv?cat=44649266&page=1

Timber · « **Reply #28 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:37:24 PM »

DEAD GIRL TROIKA

Himu · « **Reply #29 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:41:43 PM »

Quote from: MrAngryFace on February 28, 2012, 12:26:21 PM

the late 90s had a few classics- early 90s were tragic...cept maybe for rap and grunge but I was never into rap or grunge

Early 90's were great. Late 90's is worse than early.

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #30 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:42:32 PM »

I guess this thread is a reminder that most music sucked 10-15 years ago as well.

Himu · « **Reply #31 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:46:42 PM »

Quote from: Flannel Boy on February 28, 2012, 12:42:32 PM

I guess this thread is a reminder that most music sucked 10-15 years ago as well.

Kill yourself.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #32 on:** February 28, 2012, 12:49:02 PM »

lol kiss from a rose wtf

Brehvolution · « **Reply #33 on:** February 28, 2012, 01:16:53 PM »

The rise(and fall) of Nu Metal

Diunx · « **Reply #34 on:** February 28, 2012, 01:18:10 PM »

Late 90s

etiolate · « **Reply #35 on:** February 28, 2012, 01:39:17 PM »

yeah last half of 90s had a lot of suck

can we get back to Ben Folds

cool breeze · « **Reply #36 on:** February 28, 2012, 01:42:43 PM »

Quote from: MrAngryFace on February 28, 2012, 12:22:30 PM

I have this on cassette. I still have a mono cassette player

(in my garage, next to my Eric Lindros jersey)

Momo · « **Reply #37 on:** February 28, 2012, 02:43:55 PM »

there is so much a man can tell you, so much he can say. yooooooouuu became the light on the dark side of me

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #38 on:** February 28, 2012, 03:55:27 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on February 28, 2012, 12:46:42 PM

Quote from: Flannel Boy on February 28, 2012, 12:42:32 PM
I guess this thread is a reminder that most music sucked 10-15 years ago as well.

Kill yourself.

Am I being trolled?
"Kiss from a Rose" is 18 years old; "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" is 17 (and I should know because I must've listened to "1979" 300 times);"End of the Road: is 20; "Creep" is 18.

Huff · « **Reply #39 on:** February 28, 2012, 04:05:23 PM »

Wonder if it pisses Seal off that he is best known for a song in a shitty batman movie

tiesto · « **Reply #40 on:** February 28, 2012, 04:15:10 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on February 28, 2012, 12:41:43 PM

Quote from: MrAngryFace on February 28, 2012, 12:26:21 PM
the late 90s had a few classics- early 90s were tragic...cept maybe for rap and grunge but I was never into rap or grunge

Early 90's were great. Late 90's is worse than early.

Mid to Late 90's was great for EDM, probably the best ever for the genre.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #41 on:** February 28, 2012, 07:19:48 PM »

Early 90's rap was actually really good, before No Limit ruined everything (at least in the South) in the mid to late 90's

etiolate · « **Reply #42 on:** February 28, 2012, 07:34:11 PM »

dear god No Limit

I was working a record store at the time of No Limit. Every week, the same chumps would come in and buy the new No Limit record, hate it and return it. The next week they buy the next No Limit record. Repeat to infinity. The last half of hte 90s was dominated by hype and single sales trying to push bad albums. You had to retreat to electronic stuff for quality.

Akala · « **Reply #43 on:** February 28, 2012, 08:17:03 PM »

90's electronic

actually there was a lot of good music released in the 90's...just not much of it was really mainstream. probably moreso than now TBH.

pilonv1 · « **Reply #44 on:** February 28, 2012, 08:52:00 PM »

the 90s peaked in 96. 97 onwards was the beginning of the end

Himu · « **Reply #45 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:40:46 PM »

Make em say unhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nah nah nah nah

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #46 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:45:13 PM »

Southern rap didn't ruin hip hop in the 90s, the east coast did. That's where we got the biggest explosion of pop rap shiny suit shit. The south was producing dope shit even in the late 90s, son

>>>>Diddy shit

Himu · « **Reply #47 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:46:23 PM »

Yep, Biggie and Puffy started that bling shit.

Momo · « **Reply #48 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:46:36 PM »

Just woke up, my alarm is relevant to this thread

Himu · « **Reply #49 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:47:15 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 28, 2012, 11:45:13 PM

Southern rap didn't ruin hip hop in the 90s, the east coast did. That's where we got the biggest explosion of pop rap shiny suit shit. The south was producing dope shit even in the late 90s, son

>>>>Diddy shit

On the other hand

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #50 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:53:27 PM »

Questlove's take really fascinated me:

Quote

The ideology of what I considered "real" hip-hop died at the 1995 Source Awards. I was literally at its funeral-- I sat three rows behind Nas. In the audience, the Bad Boy camp was on the far right, all the West Coast and the Southern rappers were in the middle, and on the far left were all the New York underground rappers like Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, Nas, Busta Rhymes, and us. That was the day when Suge called out Puffy, and there were fights in the audience. I felt like a bomb was going to detonate.

Nas' body language that day told the whole story of where we were about to go. The more he got ignored for Illmatic, I literally saw his body melt in his seat. Almost like he was ashamed. He just looked so defeated. I was like, "Yo, he's not gonna be the same after this shit." None of us were the same after that day. I feel like the true underground lost its oxygen that night.

http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8031-uestlove-15-years/

Beezy · « **Reply #51 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:54:38 PM »

Fuck Drake for his version of Back That Ass Up.

Himu · « **Reply #52 on:** February 28, 2012, 11:56:42 PM »

Isn't it arguable that west coast rap also marked a quality decline in hip hop? I mean, Common's I Used To Love HER is pretty much on point.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #53 on:** February 29, 2012, 12:03:05 AM »

Mandark · « **Reply #54 on:** February 29, 2012, 12:41:08 AM »

Don't have much time for people whining for a lost era of purity and authenticity. If an art form becomes popular enough that people can make a comfortable living doing it, it's going to attract people who are in it largely for the money. The only alternative is keeping it unpopular (the less smug synonym for "underground") and making it hard for the people producing stuff to do it full time. Shitty mainstream rappers weren't obligated to adhere to some sort of Code of Hip Hop arbitrated by Common and KRS-One.

That said, the big East Coast/West Coast bubble seemed to crowd out everything else. For a couple years it looked like acts like the Tribe could reach a surprisingly large audience, and hip hop could go into a bunch of different directions. I know that a lot of creative, experimental stuff still came out in the 90's after The Chronic, but it was almost like samizdat for music geeks, rather than getting the wider appreciation it maybe deserved.

Also, sometimes it's just fun to listen to some crotchety conscious rapper chew out a knucklehead for making dumb music. So I'm a hypocrite, so sue me.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #55 on:** February 29, 2012, 01:09:44 AM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on February 28, 2012, 11:56:42 PM

Isn't it arguable that west coast rap also marked a quality decline in hip hop? I mean, Common's I Used To Love HER is pretty much on point.

Pretty much, yeah. If Dre wasn't producing it, it was likely shit.

Momo · « **Reply #56 on:** February 29, 2012, 01:33:18 AM »

Oh God, nearly forgot Beck

Himu · « **Reply #57 on:** February 29, 2012, 01:55:21 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 28, 2012, 11:53:27 PM

Questlove's take really fascinated me:

Quote
The ideology of what I considered "real" hip-hop died at the 1995 Source Awards. I was literally at its funeral-- I sat three rows behind Nas. In the audience, the Bad Boy camp was on the far right, all the West Coast and the Southern rappers were in the middle, and on the far left were all the New York underground rappers like Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, Nas, Busta Rhymes, and us. That was the day when Suge called out Puffy, and there were fights in the audience. I felt like a bomb was going to detonate.

Nas' body language that day told the whole story of where we were about to go. The more he got ignored for Illmatic, I literally saw his body melt in his seat. Almost like he was ashamed. He just looked so defeated. I was like, "Yo, he's not gonna be the same after this shit." None of us were the same after that day. I feel like the true underground lost its oxygen that night.
http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/8031-uestlove-15-years/

This interview in general is amazing.

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #58 on:** February 29, 2012, 02:00:16 AM »

At least Nas never had to be a bitch prop for a white boy's dunk.

Himu · « **Reply #59 on:** February 29, 2012, 02:02:04 AM »

Nas also barely has a career. He also got checks from the very dude who fucked his wife ten years prior. Nas lost. Roots won. Roots' name is even more powerful thanks to going on that show. You'd be a fool to turn that down.

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Author Topic: Remember the late 90's/early 2000's? (Read 5868 times)