defend 1996

Goth-Pop Revival
Garbage, Placebo, Suede - all the crap bits about Grunge but with eyeliner and men dressed in bin bags

Big Beat
A bunch of goons from Brighton making dance music out of children's cartoons is never going to be a dance revolution.

Jungle becomes Drum'n'Bass
Heralding a wave of boring loops with no energy to them at all. New Forms was a crap album, I WANT BIG BEEFY BASSLINES DAMNIT!

Britpop goes crap:
People don't remember Britpop for This Is A Low and Common People, no. People remember a bunch of soundalikes wearing waterproofs and making tuneless bilge about god knows what and Liam Gallagher flipping the bird at the camera.

Poppy Ska-Punk :
No Doubt, Reel Big Fish and that other band started it and before you knew every Hollywood High-School Prom band was fronted by a chubby goateed part-dude with a chequered tie. Queue a billion Ska-Punk covers of cheesy 80s songs.

Mitigating factors: If You're Feeling Sinister, Expecting To Fly

LOLOLOLOLOL

fair point tuomas but to all intents and porpoises, 'born slippy' fkn DEFINED '96.

http://www.cdquest.com/images/album_art/sorted/0049/9250/0049925053227.jpg

Shit, is OK Computer really 9 years old?!!

Mogwai - "Tuner" and "Summer"
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
Scooter - Wicked
White Town - "Your Woman"
Air - "Modulor Mix"
Robert Miles - "Children"
DJ Trace - "Mutant Revisited"
The Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Sneaker Pimps - "Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix)"
Disco Inferno - Technicolour

"defend 2006" would be a better thread.

1997 was a far worse year for music and almost put me off all recorded sound forever.

Sanskrit, yesterday.

I realised/estimated last night that this is the 10th anniversary MONTH I got into punk rock properly, which without sounding old and shit, was probably more important (to me) in hindsight

plus it had 'endtroducing'.

but the aftertaste is curiously 'noelrock' :/

UGH!

armand's 'professional widow' remix is ten years old woo
and they still play it at my local club which i only went to once.

and they still play it at my local club which i only went to once.

get out of the satellites

trying, but hertfordshire is sticky.

Aphex Twin – Richard D James (holds up just fine)
Beck – Odelay (BEST OF THE YEAR – though I never wanna hear it again)
Belle & Sebastian – If You're Feeling Sinister (haters will; it's what they do)
Blackstreet – Another Level (at least 50% boring, but "No Diggety" is the point)
Boredoms – Super Roots 6 (first sign of things to come...)
Brainiac – Hissing Prigs In Static Couture (a personal favorite, that's all)
Cradle of Filth – Dusk and Her Embrace (yes, Jan. '97 counts ... sorta)
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing (comically overrated by white boys, but WTF, you know?)
Dr. Octagon – Dr. Octagonecologist (BEST OF THE YEAR – bad year for hip hop?)
Fugees – The Score (BEST OF THE YEAR – obviously...)
Jay Z – Reasonable Doubt (BEST OF THE YEAR – come on, kids!)
Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go (uh, English people seem to rate it)
Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar (having good taste is waaaay overrated)
Masada Chamber Ensemble – Bar Kokhba (BEST OF THE YEAR – most beautiful music Zorn's ever come within 100 miles of)
Maxwell – Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (but it's world-class R&B pablum)
Mobb Deep – Hell On Earth (not The Infamous, but still...)
Neurosis – Through Silver In Blood (BEST OF THE YEAR – devastating)
Neutral Milk Hotel – On Avery Island (too indie for ya? – still massively influential)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Murder Ballads (chicks dig it)
Orbital – Insides (not classic, but this is a time capsule, right?)
Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream! (with Brainiac, just a record I like)
Sheryl Crow – Sheryl Crow (you're above it - so what?)
Skullflower – This Is (now available in over-the-counter form)
Sleater Kinney – Call the Doctor (every bit as good as Dig Me Out)
Spice Girls – Spice (regrets are for the little people)
Squarepusher – Feed Me Weird Things (still kinda mind-blowing)
Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup (BEST OF THE YEAR - as good as they got)
Sublime – Sublime (I hate this record, but it's better than Tortoise, so deal)
Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic (insanely great, if you dig refried pop-rock leftovers)
Swans – Soundtracks for the Blind (a niche record, but a lovely one)
Tool – Aenemia (hate it, but kids'll be rocking it long after your "hits" are forgotten)
Tortoise – Millions Now Living (I say boring poo; you say classic – shrug)
Tricky – Pre-Millennium Tension (BEST OF THE YEAR – chilling, if dated)
Weezer – Pinkerton (again, it doesn't matter whether you like it or not, you'd have to be an idiot to deny the influence on / relevance to today's pop/rock)

if i may be so bold: are you white?