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

Cause we all know Metallica did that.

From the perspective of someone who was a tween at the time and who just bided his time from new Motley Crue album to new Extreme album to new Poison album, it sure felt that way to me! xp to Neil S.

from what i remember there was quite a bit of a crossover period with bands like Tigertailz and Poison being around at the same time as Pearl Jam et al. Then you had bands who were kind of half way, not really grunge, but still tatty - the Quireboys, Guns'n'Roses, Skid Row...

geir, don't know about norway but indie/hipster types have been wearing some painfully tight keks these last few years. curse these footballer's legs.

Indie fans are outsiders.

that hasn't really been true since about 1995.

In fairness, nowhere in Geirworld does Russell Brand exist, so it must be a pretty nice place to be.

This was in the player at my mates' house the other day:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Dance-Tip-A-Decade-Of-Dance/release/1469633

i can already hear these tracks ironicising student dancefloors across the land. probably already happening.

that hasn't really been true since about 1995.

It is true and remains true. The average 13 year-old kid still likes pop and hip-hop, just like in 1995 and 1990.

(And the mainstream, as in pop mainstream, will always be defined by 13YO kids)

yes, but not fashion.

*realises there's no point*

The 90s revival has been happening for awhile, hasn't it? Deep house, for instance..

Geir, I'm not sure if it's that different in Norway, but in Finland at least hip-hop and baggy jeans haven't been particularly fashionable for years, and average teens actually do wear tight jeans and dress in "indie" or "rock'n'roll" or "metal" fashion.

The 90s revival has been happening for awhile, hasn't it? Deep house, for instance..

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I wouldn't necessarily call that a 90s revival, just a deep house revival. Despite a dearth of electro in the '90s, you still got little pockets of it, I-F's "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass" from 1996 for example. these things aren't that clear cut i guess.

Dearth of electro? In the 90s you had Alter Ego, Jedi Knights, Two Lone Swordsmen, Kerosene, Khan, DJ Hell, Mike Paradinas, etc etc, all of them doing their take on electro. Though I guess you're right that the 00s electro was more about reviving certain parts of 80s electro wholesale, whereas 90s electro was more about building on the foundation of the 80s. (I prefer the 90s style.)

The names you mention were very much underground though.

As in, I mean, there will always be an underground for reviving styles that were popular in the past. Particularly with the net, you can find a revival underground scene for any genre that has ever been popular.

even britpop

Don't know about the others, Tuomas, but I I'd argue that 2LS's '90s stuff wasn't really electro. Obviously there was an influence, same as dub, funk and punk etc but they didn't make a proper electro album till 2000's Tiny Reminders. Same with Mike Paradinas, although granted the Jake Slazenger project could have been interpreted as electro.

oh hey i actually have a real question. what was going on in the 90's that would create/help create the whole german kompakt/microhouse scene/sound? were those guys just listening to minimal detroit techno records in the 90's? were they big idm fans? i think i might have actually answered my own question...

+ several preceding Euro labels e.g. Basic Channel, F Com, Emissions, Ladomat 2000

i'd say Tresor was headed in the very micro-tech kind of direction as well for awhile

I'm trying to work out which record from the 90s will be ripped off the most. I'm thinking Hip Hop Hooray by Naughty by Nature at the moment.

since this thread began i've discovered/rediscovered Credit To The Nation - why weren't this band MUCH bigger than they were? Definitely ahead of their time in the Brit-hop stakes.

Matt DC - I reckon it'll be "Come Baby Come" by K7 - a big dumb party anthem which Djs of the "Boom Shake The Room" variety seem to have slept on.

Come Baby Come will need to appear in a Judd Apatow film first.

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(big, dumb and really really fun, that should say)

Definitely ahead of their time in the Brit-hop stakes.

By sampling Nirvana? hmm

even britpop

Britpop becomes pointless as a retro genre because it was one hundred per cent retro anyway. Even in the mainstream, there is still music that has roughly the same musical roots as Britpop.

tbf i've only heard Call It What You Want (good) and that track he did with Chumbawumba (terrible iirc)

Come on, it is only a matter of time before a grime MC samples Nirvana. Dizzee's people are probably working on it already.

Whither Collapsed Lung?

Actually 'In Bloom' would sound great with I Luv U-style drums and bass bombs.

Incidentally I picked up this week's NME while waiting for a train this morning and they were positively reappraising the Babylon Zoo album. Now I've seen everything.

wait waht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_CEjQ0vQrM&feature=related

like, really?

The world is still waiting for Styx and Barclay James Harvest to be reappraised.

Using Dalston club nights as a general barometer of emerging hipster tastes - 90s rnb seems to be making a comeback. Ironically of course.

the world can keep waiting

I'm surprised this thread has only just started, hasn't there been 2-step and jungle throwbacks around for a while now? A lot of noisy pavement-ey type bands around too.

Incidentally I picked up this week's NME while waiting for a train this morning and they were positively reappraising the Babylon Zoo album. Now I've seen everything

"They were the MGMT of their day!!"

TBH, they were no Stiltskin.

Jas Mann, now best known for being clowned by Chris Morris.

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Don't know about the others, Tuomas, but I I'd argue that 2LS's '90s stuff wasn't really electro. Obviously there was an influence, same as dub, funk and punk etc but they didn't make a proper electro album till 2000's Tiny Reminders. Same with Mike Paradinas, although granted the Jake Slazenger project could have been interpreted as electro.

Well yeah, maybe 2LS were not the best example, as they've done lots of different stuff, but some of their 90s tunes, like "Black Commandments", sound like electro to me. And the Jake Slazenger material is deinitely. Anyway, my point was that many people were making their version of electro throughout the 90s, all that happened in the 00s was that the sort of electro that was recycling 80s sounds and/or adding vocals to it became popular.

"And the Jake Slazenger material is definitely electro."

hip-hop will get rid of it's DJs, and put mediocre raps on top of electronic beats that were meant for the club. soulless dance music overall will be very popular. what a minute, nevermind...

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hip-hop will get rid of it's DJs

Has already happened, and it was probably hip-hop's wisest move ever. Now it only needs to get some proper producers/songwriters and get rid of the rhythm fixated bunch they are working with now.

Geir Hongro: destroying hip-hop in order to save it.