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Anybody remember when this stuff was the best thing you ever heard and MTV actually played music videos?

Sonic Youth, L7, Skunk Anansie, Nirvana, Concrete Blonde,Depeche Mode, The Cure, Alanis Morissette, Screaming Trees, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, STP Smithereens, Smashing Pumpkins, Pulp, Blur, The Cramps, the list goes on. I lived for 120 Minutes and Matt Pinfield then. Alternative was a vast and important collection of music for me as a teen.

Alternative is still a vast and important collection for me, and hey, I love Alanis, Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana!!

I'm going to move this thread to Music Genres. Great idea to start it, Amanda.

Let's not forget: Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr., Bush, The Nixons, Spin Doctors, Cranberries, Primus, Tori Amos, Beck, Cellophane, Crash Test Dummies, The Cult, Elastica, Gin Blossoms, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Gravity Kills, Live, Moby, Morphine, Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, Peter Murphy, Offspring, Porno for Pyros, Jane's Addiction, Rusted Root, Tonic,

and when they were still cool: Green Day, Collective Soul, Hootie and the Blowfish, & Pearl Jam.

Toad the Wet Sprocket...its been a while :)...Cranberries and Alanis top my list...loved it all especially all the enthralling music videos that flooded MTV....

Our Lady Peace

I love Toad The Wet Sprocket, seen them about 4 times, whenever they come this way. Also have seen Lapdog, a kinda solo effort of theirs. Even have a Glen Phillips CD. I wish they would just pony up and do another album.
Also love Cranberries, and I have Dolores two solo albums, she rox out, her voice is so lovely.

Nickelback, Incubus?

Cranberries is supposed to getting back together :)

Yikes, that would be awesome. I saw them once, they were fantastic. I love Zombie!!!!

A bunch of 90s bands are in some fashion. I was pretty happy when Smashing Pumpkins got back together even if it wasn't in the form I preferred.

Amanda wrote: "Cranberries is supposed to getting back together :)"

Thats great news, I already have all their albums!!
...love their music!!!

I was and still am a big fan of Alice in Chains.

Jason wrote: "I was and still am a big fan of Alice in Chains."

Me too miss Layne but they're coming back with Jerry so here's hoping

Yeah, I miss Layne, too. They released a new album, Black Give Way to Blue, close to a year ago. It's pretty damn good!

Jason wrote: "Yeah, I miss Layne, too. They released a new album, Black Give Way to Blue, close to a year ago. It's pretty damn good!"

Yes, it's an awesome album. It has that true AiC sound without trying to sound like AiC. It's just Jerry and company making good music.

Indeed! I thought it a funny album, too. It sounds like the most natural progression from their last, self-titled album. It felt as though it was only two or three years between albums instead of 15.

It's also eerie how the new singer (his name escapes me right now) can summon Layne, sounding almost exactly like him, while sounding like himself at the same time.

Yes, I agree. I think part of that is because like Layne, he's able to harmonize well with Jerry.

I'm still a big fan of most of the groups mentioned, except Jane's Addiction. I thought i'd go mad if i heard that song Been Caught Stealing one more time.

LOL Me, too, Lori! That song gets really annoying!

Don't even say that! Lady Gag Gag, and i'm being nice, isn't a lady at all. She's some non-singing, narcissistic, ugly, hyped up, money scheme. Do not put Madonna in with her. Madonna paid her dues, and has been making music longer then that "woman" has been pumping air. Which is a waste on her.

I didn't rejoice when Poison left, or more to the point got PUSHED out of MTV. Nirvana wasn't my favorite grunge from that time, but i liked them. S.T.P., Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Bush, and Pearl Jam were my top 5. I liked it all and thought there was room for all of them. Good old Rock-N-Roll, and Grunge together on one format, but MTV didn't think so. But really who gives a damn what anyone at MTV thinks, or has to say now? That whole format is gone, now they play the top 10 or 20 Billboard "hits", what once a week? And most of that is Hip-Hop. VH1, MTV, MTV2, VH2, and even CMT doesn't have room for what matters, the MUSIC and the VIDEOS. All they show now is S**T reality crap.

As for "all kinds of musical genres combining...getting along", they still do. Just take a look at my I-POD. I have Prince next to Garth Brooks, Madonna next to Pearl Jam, Sting next to AC/DC, Miles Davis next to The Bee Gees, and Mariah Carey next to Pink Floyd, and all the Queensryche i can find. As long as we listen to it, whatever it may be, then music will be as combined, and diverse as we are.

And GREEN DAY RULES!!!!!!

Lori,
Respect your opinion. Not gonna argue, just present my point of view. I don't like Lady GaGa much, I think she is mostly just a poser. But as for putting her is a class with Madonna, I would. I think she is exactly like Madonna, only she has the advantage of picking up where Madonna left off. She like to shock, switch genres, incite controversy. People are as shocked by her videos now as they were by Madonna in the wedding dress at the MTV awards long ago. I begrudgingly give LGG her due for at least that much. For dance music, its as good as most these days.

And for laughs, I have to say watching her latest video, where she has the machine gun bra (ala Madonnas bullet bra) was a hoot.

LGG doesn't play any instruments, I don't think, and her dancing is pretty stilted, but I don't think she would have any career at all if not for Madonna.

For someone who doesn't like her "LGG" you make a pretty good case. :) Maybe it's just me, but i don't remember being shocked by Madonna until she did the naked book thing. And i wish i'd have bought it when i had the chance. The video with her thumbing naked, didn't get much air time. Madonna did push the envelope on so many things. But she paid her dues. She went to all the dives, clubs, and dance places she could to get someone to take her seriously. But this LGG person just seems to have appeared out of nowhere. Kind of like the Spice Girls, only not as good. See what i mean?

Yeah, I agree, LGG just popped up out of nowhere. I was impressed with that hitchhiker picture of Madonna, it could have been Marilyn.

I don't know if LGG has paid any dues, her outfits crack me up though!!

And on that note, teh Spice Girls are getting back together!!

second sign of the apocalypse?

OMG it may well be! Even the SG's are better then her!

Did you see her fall on that stupid show TMZ? I hate that show,but my honey likes it, that's how i seen her fall. That was some funny shit. She's at the airport in these 10 or 15 inch platfrom shoes, and she falls. They took the video off due to infringment. But here's some pictures. http://www.tmz.com/2010/06/23/lady-ga...

wow cant believe she didnt break her ankle!

You mean it's too bad she didn't break her ankle...lol

That was mean, I know...

Dana wrote: "Yeah, I agree, LGG just popped up out of nowhere. I was impressed with that hitchhiker picture of Madonna, it could have been Marilyn.

I don't know if LGG has paid any dues, her outfits crack m..."

I wouldn't consider myself a LGG fan but I have heard her name for 3 years. I had prejudged her because of this and her look and wrote her off and THEN I heard some of her music. I was surprised by how not bad it was. Again, I haven't purchased any of her music or even heard an entire album by her but she's okay and probably here to stay. The day I saw her duet w/ Elton John I decided she deserved some respect. If he can respect her I sure can.

As to paying her dues I got this from wikipedia:

She learned to play piano from the age of four, went on to write her first piano ballad at 13 and began performing at open mike nights by age 14.

I just recently found a band called Veruca Salt in my search for women and music, got their first two albums with Nina Gordon, and I have to say, American Thighs (the album with Seether on it) isn't even their best. While there are some great songs on American Thighs, Eight Arms to Hold You (the album with Volcano Girls on it) is MUCH better in my opinion.
Eight Arms has more crunchy guitars and sounds a lot more like the classic rock I love, while American Thighs is very fuzzy and much weirder. Not saying American Thighs is a bad album, it is pretty good, it's just Eight Arms blew me away.

I used to love Varuca Salt.

And then Nina left and they went all Metallica. Which again souns pretty cool sometimes (love the song 'So Weird) but they kind of lost something after Nina left. There was nobody to balance out Louise.

I stopped listening to Varuca Salt after their second album, I think it was. Had no idea they went so heavy.

Jason wrote: "I stopped listening to Varuca Salt after their second album, I think it was. Had no idea they went so heavy."

I have the same problem with Kittie. I loved the first album but then they went a little too into the guttural metal.

I don't really listen to Kittie, so consider me ignorant, but didn't Kittie start out really really heavy?

Mostly yes but starting with the 2nd album they went from melodic blended with heavy somewhat guttural tones to complete guttural stuff. The melodic/metal tone was nice skipping the melodic bits just made it uninteresting.

Ah, I see.

I love the heavy gutteral stuff, but I really have to be in the mood for it. If I'm not, then it just pisses me off...lol

I heard one of Kittie's songs once I think. I kinda creeped me out

Guitar Chick-Dolly Dagger wrote: "I heard one of Kittie's songs once I think. I kinda creeped me out"

Some of their songs can be but overall i think of them as riot grrl for the metal set. Otep (who is a bit more political) also falls under this heading for me.