I had dinner with a few folks at a friend’s house and after dinner the five of us sat around talking. Playing in the background was a tape that my friend made of a MTV’s 120 Minutes, circa 1992.
Although that was made some 13 years ago, I still consider much of the music featured on the show - “grunge”, some self-aware hardcore, the budding manchester scene - to be new music, music that was released after my core musical ideas formed & taste is music was burned into the aural/memory portions of my brain.
A few formative musical selections -
- Depeche Mode - culminating with Music for the Masses, or perhaps Violator
- The Cure - culminating with Disintegration
- The Smiths broke up in 1987 but Johnny Marr, Morrissey, Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce have continued to put out great music on other projects
- The Stone Roses had their second coming in 1994 but broke up soon after
- Cocteau Twins only released two albums after 1990’s Heaven or Las Vegas
- Richard Blade’s Flashback Lunch on KROQ - rock of the ’90s
- Sonic Youth - still going strong?
- The Pixies, the Cure and Love & Rockets played an amazing show at LA’s Dodger Stadium
- Jane’s Addiction’s first three albums
- Red Hot Chili Peppers’ albums up to & including Mother’s Milk
- Public Enemy’s hard-hitting sounds
- The Beastie Boys’ albumbs up to and including Check Your Head
- Trent Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails’ first album - Pretty Hate Machine
- Alain Jourgensen’s projects of the late 80’s & early 90’s - Ministry, RevCo, Pigface
- Christian Death’s 1993 Only Theatre of Pain
- D.I.’s Team Goon
- Joy Division and New Order
- The Sugarcubes!
“new-school music” -
- all of the above artist’s post-late-80’s/early-90’s records
- Dr. Dre-style gangasta rap
- ‘grunge’ (What was I doing in 1989 when Bleach came out? Listening to the British electronic music of Depeche Mode & releated projects like Erasure)
- Marc Almond’s solo years
- All of Björk’s solo music
- New Order
- Does MTV play muisc videos any more?
Since my formative years in the late 1980’s, early 1990’s I’ve grown to listen to both new music and older music - I (thankfully) re-discovered the Beatles, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan & Van Morrison. Thanks in part to my interest in watching new music and in part to folks like Greg of San Francisco’s Fallout I’ve been able to get a bit of information about new independent bands.
Gosh, what a masterbatory blog entry. I suppose I think that if I write regularly I may actually get good at it or come up with something useful to say.
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