Samilktray Posted 19 January 2015 Share Posted 19 January 2015 What was the greatest year for music you have lived through? Based on music released, artists who broke through and events within music. A question ive been debating with myself all night at work. Ps please dont list years you werent alive for, they dont count as you didnt experience them first hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 19 January 2015 Share Posted 19 January 2015 2005/6 for me - personal favourites like Arctics, Bloc Party etc all broke through but there was still enough inventiveness about other genres to keep them interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket-Ron Posted 19 January 2015 Share Posted 19 January 2015 1981 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purpleronnie Posted 19 January 2015 Share Posted 19 January 2015 Blimey that's a difficult one. I suppose Punk but was too young to know about that. I guess 1991. The Madchester scene hanging on, Rave scene hanging on, Grunge kicking in, Hip Hop was actually interesting. Nirvana's - Nevermind Pearl Jam -Ten Red Hot Chili Peppers’ - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Primal Scream’s - Screamadelica REM - Out of time A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory Blue Lines - Massive Attack But 91-96 was pretty good, after that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 19 January 2015 Share Posted 19 January 2015 Blimey that's a difficult one. I suppose Punk but was too young to know about that. I guess 1991. The Madchester scene hanging on, Rave scene hanging on, Grunge kicking in, Hip Hop was actually interesting. Nirvana's - Nevermind Pearl Jam -Ten Red Hot Chili Peppers’ - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Primal Scream’s - Screamadelica REM - Out of time A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory Blue Lines - Massive Attack But 91-96 was pretty good, after that... I'll go with that except for the after that, plenty of great music since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry_LCFC Posted 19 January 2015 Share Posted 19 January 2015 What year was Barbie Girl released again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisNedry Posted 19 January 2015 Share Posted 19 January 2015 1994. I technically lived through it (I was 1). - Oasis released definitely maybe. - Nirvana Unplugged - Green Day released Dookie - Weezer - The Offspring released Smash If I had to pick a year I remember I'd say around 2000 when I loved Blink 182 and the pop-punk like. If I was an old bloke, I'd probably point to the 60s when the Beatles changed music forever. The last 5 years of music has been utterly dreadful (for my taste) and can never see it improving to what it was! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inckley fox Posted 19 January 2015 Share Posted 19 January 2015 1994. I technically lived through it (I was 1). - Oasis released definitely maybe. - Nirvana Unplugged - Green Day released Dookie - Weezer - The Offspring released Smash If I had to pick a year I remember I'd say around 2000 when I loved Blink 182 and the pop-punk like. If I was an old bloke, I'd probably point to the 60s when the Beatles changed music forever. The last 5 years of music has been utterly dreadful (for my taste) and can never see it improving to what it was! Lots more great music in 94. I think Portishead, Parklife must have been that year. Maybe Timeless by Goldie, though I'm not sure, but it was an important album. Maybe Music for the Jilted Generation. Different Class, The Bends, I Should Coco, Mellon Collie were all a year later; stuff like In Utero, Siamese Dream, Modern Life is Rubbish, Versus, Rage Against the Machine, Massive Attack a year earlier. And it was all on the back of the grunge explosion, the house era and the baggy scene in Manchester. It was a time when every week there seemed to be a new band who you thought would be as big as The Beatles (how misguided). The last 5-8 years have been a bit poor, I agree, especially in terms of 'bands'. The trend has been towards the MOR, nice unthreatening music. But I think a lot of fans of hip hop feel the same, and fans of electronic music increasingly look on early 90s and mid-90s post-techno as a bit of a golden era. I think the industry has been in trouble for a long time, and has really struggled for new ideas. It's noticeable that there's a lack of a prominent youth culture movement at the moment. It seems odd to see some festival line-ups and the age of the headliners. Maybe my old band has still got a chance after all! If I was a bit older the 60s would have it. Dylan breaking through in 64, The Beatles, Kinks, Small Faces becoming something a bit special 66-67, and then Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Velvet Underground, Bowie and Neil Young at the end of the decade. 90s edge the 70s for me, same quota of trash, none of the excitement that went with The Clash or the quality of Joy Division, Pink Floyd and so on... but I just think that 90s music at its best took stuff done in the 60s and managed to move it along; it didn't have the complete collapse into prog-rock of the mid-70s, or the complete collapse into Kylie in the mid-80s, or the complete collapse into nothing in particular in the mid-00s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingcarr21 Posted 20 January 2015 Share Posted 20 January 2015 The greatest year hasnt happened yet. Surely one year someone will put Bieber, Minaj and Azalea on a plane and fly it straight into a volcano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samilktray Posted 20 January 2015 Author Share Posted 20 January 2015 2003/2004 are what im leaning towards. Alot of great albums and events that really shaped my love for music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Smuts Posted 20 January 2015 Share Posted 20 January 2015 2005/6 for me - personal favourites like Arctics, Bloc Party etc all broke through but there was still enough inventiveness about other genres to keep them interesting. Beat me to it. 2005 all day for me. We Are Scientists, Kooks, Art Brut. Plan by Death Cab, The Mouse and The Mask by Dangerdoom and LCD Soundsystem. Illinois bt Sufjan Stevens And of course Late Registration by Kanye West. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 20 January 2015 Share Posted 20 January 2015 Wasn't Maximo was 2k5 too? What a time to be alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Prussian Posted 21 January 2015 Share Posted 21 January 2015 1994. We find ourselves somewhere towards the end of the grunge era. Switzerland feature at the 1994 World Cup - their first WC in 28 years. The Beastie Boys are kicking it with the absolutely smashing "Ill Communication"; Green Day and Korn debuting alongside Weezer, Radiohead had just started out a year earlier, Meat Loaf had come back from a longer hiatus, Ween surprised everyone with melodic songs for once (on "Chocolate & Cheese"), Guns n' Roses and Aerosmith were still around, even Nirvana - before Cobain ended his own life so abruptly, rendering the whole "slacker" hype pretty much useless. Blur release "Parklife" (shortly followed by Oasis' "Definitely Maybe"), Pulp issue "His 'N Hers", Morrissey convinces with "Vauxhall And I", The Toadies bring out "Rubberneck", TLC "CrazySexyCool", Jeff Buckley records "Grace", Nas "Illmatic", R.E.M. "Monster". Faith No More's "I'm Easy" is played day in, day out. Same goes for the Breeders' "Cannonball", Tori Amos' "Cornflake Girl" or the Spin Doctors' "Two Princes". The Smashing Pumpkins find themselves in the period leading up to "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". Also featuring: Beck, Marilyn Manson, Aaliyah, Outkast, Warren G, Elliott Smith, Notorious B.I.G.. Wow. Portishead, Bush, Dave Matthews Band, Pavement, Stone Temple Pilots. Even more wow. What a year. Also still a great time in history for music video channels, such as MTV (Ray Cokes, anyone?) or VIVA 1 or 2 (opened in 1995). Those were the days. And a great year for film - Pulp Fiction. Say no more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozleicester Posted 22 January 2015 Share Posted 22 January 2015 1994. We find ourselves somewhere towards the end of the grunge era. Switzerland feature at the 1994 World Cup - their first WC in 28 years. The Beastie Boys are kicking it with the absolutely smashing "Ill Communication"; Green Day and Korn debuting alongside Weezer, Radiohead had just started out a year earlier, Meat Loaf had come back from a longer hiatus, Ween surprised everyone with melodic songs for once (on "Chocolate & Cheese"), Guns n' Roses and Aerosmith were still around, even Nirvana - before Cobain ended his own life so abruptly, rendering the whole "slacker" hype pretty much useless. Blur release "Parklife" (shortly followed by Oasis' "Definitely Maybe"), Pulp issue "His 'N Hers", Morrissey convinces with "Vauxhall And I", The Toadies bring out "Rubberneck", TLC "CrazySexyCool", Jeff Buckley records "Grace", Nas "Illmatic", R.E.M. "Monster". Faith No More's "I'm Easy" is played day in, day out. Same goes for the Breeders' "Cannonball", Tori Amos' "Cornflake Girl" or the Spin Doctors' "Two Princes". The Smashing Pumpkins find themselves in the period leading up to "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". Also featuring: Beck, Marilyn Manson, Aaliyah, Outkast, Warren G, Elliott Smith, Notorious B.I.G.. Wow. Portishead, Bush, Dave Matthews Band, Pavement, Stone Temple Pilots. Even more wow. What a year. Also still a great time in history for music video channels, such as MTV (Ray Cokes, anyone?) or VIVA 1 or 2 (opened in 1995). Those were the days. And a great year for film - Pulp Fiction. Say no more. That is one hell of a year! In 1993 Triple J, Australia's yoof/indie radio station began the annual Hottest 100. it is of course quite AussieCentric, but its a great way to see what some of the years provided. Oh and by the way its on again this Australia/Invasion Day(26th Jan)holiday. If you want to hear it (im too old for this sh*t now but im sure for the young folk its still fantastic listening) there is a listen now on that link, highly recommended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairy Posted 22 January 2015 Share Posted 22 January 2015 Blimey that's a difficult one. I suppose Punk but was too young to know about that. I guess 1991. The Madchester scene hanging on, Rave scene hanging on, Grunge kicking in, Hip Hop was actually interesting. Nirvana's - Nevermind Pearl Jam -Ten Red Hot Chili Peppers’ - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Primal Scream’s - Screamadelica REM - Out of time A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory Blue Lines - Massive Attack But 91-96 was pretty good, after that... That will do me too if we add Wedding Present's Seamonsters, MBV's Loveless, the early Spiritualized singles, Future Sound of London's Accelerator and Chris IsaaK's Wicked Games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
separator Posted 22 January 2015 Share Posted 22 January 2015 I quite like 1997, some of my favourite albums were released that year.... Spiritualized - Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space Mogwai- Young Team Radiohead - OK Computer Super Furry Animals - Radiator Loved most of the 90's really, grunge, brit pop, trip hop, lots of alternative stuff breaking through. Good times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howlinmadmurfdoc Posted 28 January 2015 Share Posted 28 January 2015 2004- Killers Hot Fuss, Kasabians Debut, Razorlight up all night Keane- Hopes and fears Green day- American Idiot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystonFox Posted 29 January 2015 Share Posted 29 January 2015 94 04 06 Were all good for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miquel The Work Geordie Posted 31 January 2015 Share Posted 31 January 2015 Keane- Hopes and fears kill me now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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