Once the Inevitable 90s Revival occurs which genre will be the most influetial or popular?

With respect to dance music, I don't think that there was a big break between the 80s and 90s.

It was. But it was around 1987-1988 already. The 90s started then.

(Speaking of music here though. Clothes and hairstyles were still very much 80s until 1991 or thereabouts)

a lot of my friends have been repping Drinking In LA as some sort of lost classic just fyi?

If we take this template and flip so it applies today: who from the 90s sounded incredibly ahead of their time at the time, but then seemed pathetically dated last decade?

Hardcore techno.

A 90s revival is not inevitable, and I'm pretty sure threads like these have jinxed this possibility..

I suppose one question that could help point in the right direction: are there any 90s artists or songs or albums that became retroactively more popular during the 00s, perhaps as a result of usage in a soundtrack or commercial? This happened a lot with 80s pop during the late 90s, ie Tainted Love, Da Da Da... I know there were more of these.. top 40 stations (in my area anyway) added these songs to their rotations as a result of the commercials' popularity (and I'm assuming an increase of listener requests..) and around the same time there was "the wedding singer" soundtrack, and cartoon network started airing Thundercats in the afternoons... something tells me "80s nostalgia" was considered highly marketable during the last 3 years of the 90s and beyond, whereas 90s nostalgia between 2007 and the present hasn't been nearly as ubiquitous.

The only recent "90s nostalgia" movie I can recall is The Wackness and that was over 2 years ago.. I occasionally hear some newer artists like Silversun pickups or that Amerie song "Why R U?" from last summer, but unfortunately none of these attempts seem to be making any lasting impressions.

maybe this thread highlights how stupid it is to divide everything cultural up into decades anyway

maybe this thread highlights how stupid it is to divide everything cultural up into decades anyway

xposts. Drinking in LA was on the radio when i was in work today. It is not a lost classic.

Why do I fucking bother

Anyway, I think, what would be needed for a 90s revival is for typical 90s music to become unfashionable. Which hasn't really happend other than in the case of Eurodance and drum'n'bass.

Drum and Bass is big with the kids at the moment, sunshine

How is 'Why R U?' 90s?

Are you serious

I agree with jungle and wouldn't be surprised if hardcore techno came back, albeit in some mutated form.

Plenty of bands from the Creation stable will be ripped off, I'm sure.

ffs it's a reasonable question

I imagine that's based on the "synthetic substitution" break, yeah? vocals wouldn't be out of place in 90s r&b, either

Wouldn't you guys rather this generation came up with it's own original music that has nothing to do with what has gone before?

Rites of Spring revival

Well that's obviously going to happen as music continues to evolve.. I don't think that's what the original question was suggesting (xpost)

here were an awful lot of horrendous acid-washed ripped jeans on sale at the mall a couple weeks ago...

not to mention plaid revival

I hope Naughty by Nature becomes the coolest thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5J0xVfHNZs

because they were awesome xp

look for a comeback by Sylk-E Fyne. and just less use of the letter i in general.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7afzqmdQcUc/SkpxbuNPbtI/AAAAAAAABqI/Ab5OBjw6L4o/s400/SYLK-E+FINE+-+Raw+Sylk+(1998).jpg

yeahhhhhhhh I could do for a revival of this type of slow-rolling rap slow jam in general

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaNMAlt4IjQ

damn, I want to hear z-ro on that beat

this album sounded SOOOOOOOOOO great to me the other day! uh, appropos of nothing.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3SuTf_D3hhk/Sp0s3EHgGiI/AAAAAAAAA9k/kXzv5BvW42g/s320/cover.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQdfI6rFmJE

like, the best thing i had heard in weeks.

Luke Records!

nice

THIRD EYE BLIND

Yeah, this will happen.

Or it already has.

Revive this imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If7bELSqWy0&feature=related

I keep feeling that if there is a 90-revival it won't be centered much on grunge, since I feel that post-grunge, which is still very popular, has pretty much killed that possibility of happening for quite a while. Instead I feel that music is going to go in the direction of what if grunge never happened and be some sort of mutant hybrid of shoegaze, new jack swing and jangle pop or something like that.

And maybe the orchestral hit will make a comeback.

mutant hybrid of shoegaze, new jack swing and jangle pop or something like that

This is sort of already happening with a lot of that glo-fi (i know, i'm sorry) stuff.

euro pop grunge revival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEzrxoy09B0

And that made me think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVtf9tg9fxQ

And also I think a grunge / alternative rock revival is possible, post-grunge naffness or not. I've been rewatching a lot of old Beavis & Butthead videos recently and the music they have on that show is a goldmine of lost oddities and assortments, many bad but a number of them pretty good. There's a visceral feel - that wigged-out, nihilistic, raging, don't-give-a-fuck sort of attitude- the kind people only hear these days when they remember to put on "In Utero", that's just not happening in recent rock. Compare emo/crabcore's namby pamby black-dye teen dramas with the music of bands like Ministry, Lawnmower Death fuck it- even Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains seem light years ahead in the credibility stakes.

THANK U PFUNKBOY

YOU HAVE BROUGHT JOY TO MY LIFE AND POSSIBLE ANNOYANCE TO THOSE OF OTHERS

No doubt someone who grew up in the 90s will be along to say they remember that cover from TOTP's and how they think it's much better than the original.

I wonder what other 90s songs could be covered by shitty europop bands if there was a revival.

Losing My Religion?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5S5OeZIThE

^much worse starting point imo

oh shit i just realised, those Creed big hits would be perfect fodder for those american idol wannabe-diva's

that's where the revival will begin

Which 90's songs are ripe for cover version on American Idol or for shitty europop revival.

There's a visceral feel - that wigged-out, nihilistic, raging, don't-give-a-fuck sort of attitude- the kind people only hear these days when they remember to put on "In Utero", that's just not happening in recent rock. Compare emo/crabcore's namby pamby black-dye teen dramas with the music of bands like Ministry, Lawnmower Death fuck it- even Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains seem light years ahead in the credibility stakes.

What's strange is that the second we seem to put that angry grunge thing to bed finally it's ready for some sort of revival, or a return to its original form. Nickelback, Puddle of Mud, and so much nu-metal was really just the residue of all that, and that hasn't even completely died.

I will get on my hands and knees and beg the hipsters not to bring certain trends from the 90s back.

You might be able to stop hipsters but you cant fight the ordinary guy in the street getting nostalgic for his youth.

xp I think the point being made is that 2000s post-grunge ISN'T angry and visceral the way OG grunge was.

the second wave of emo was the 90s so with the 3rd wave still existing the 90s is definitely influencing stuff just now.