"Whatever: The '90s Pop and Culture Box Set"

[DroppinScience]

What do you guys make of this?

http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=79716

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0009YA4EO/qid=1119724801/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/002-1934839-2423201


All I gotta say is... WHAAAAAA?? :eek:

For one thing, I don't like how our culture has barely waited when it comes to having nostalgia for the '90s. When we got nostalgic for the '50s, '60s, '70s and even the '80s... we actually waited a considerable amount of time before we did so. It struck me that once January 1st, 2000 struck, it was time to yearn for the '90s. Laaaaaame.

Anyways, looking at the track list... their fundamental problem is a lack of FOCUS. They just seemed to throw in whatever was remotely popular in the '90s. MC Hammer, Snow, The Flaming Lips, Pavement? Ummm... that's too disparate. I know they're trying to say that the '90s was all over the place, but somehow all this just doesn't seem to fit. The '80s was all over the place too, but they were smart in making a box set that focused specifically on College Rock. Same thing with '70s punk, '60s garage, and the '50s rock.

I'm gonna have to pass... :rolleyes:

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but they were smart in making a box set that focused specifically on College Rock.



hahaha I didnt think anyone actually called it "College Rock" other than like 40 year old journalists who didnt really know what they were talking about and also referred to said music as "The Voice Of Generation X" and other trite overrused rhetoric bullshit sayings.

[Freebasser]

You're both dumbasses.

YES, there WAS such a thing as college rock, and NO it wasn't in the 90s.

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I guess I dont separate my music up into sub genres, so whos the real dumbass?

"Oh man this is more of a math rock dude, you wanna check out some REAL garage rock!!!!!!!!!"

[DroppinScience]

"College rock" is just a catch-all term for (yes) the college radio stations to play stuff that's outside the mainstream. It's composed of any and every genre.

From AllMusic.com
Essentially, college rock is the (largely) alternative music that dominated college radio playlists from the rise of alternative rock (circa 1983-84) through the '80s. Most college rock was born in the confluence of new wave, post-punk, and early alternative rock. College rock's poppiest bands didn't fit into the mainstream the way new wave did; although it could be arty, it wasn't quite as experimental or detached as much post-punk; and where much early alternative/American underground rock was rooted in punk and hardcore, not all college rock necessarily was (though many of those early alternative bands fit the definition nicely). Early college rock's two most influential groups were R.E.M. and the Smiths, who paved the way for countless practitioners of jangly guitar-pop from the U.S. (the dB's, Let's Active) and U.K. (Housemartins, La's). But college rock encompassed much more. There was the burgeoning, post-hardcore American underground rock scene (Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, the Minutemen, the Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr., the Replacements); the quirky, cerebral British pop of new wave survivors XTC and Robyn Hitchcock; similarly quirky American artists like They Might Be Giants, the Violent Femmes, Camper Van Beethoven, and the Pixies; literate folk-rock (Billy Bragg, he Waterboys, 10,000 Maniacs); post-punkers who added more pop dimensions to their music (the Cure, Siouxsie & the Banshees); synth-based dance-pop with moody, introspective lyrics (New Order, Depeche Mode); and bands who blended pop hooks with ear-splitting guitar noise (the Pixies, the Jesus & Mary Chain). College rock also included a few mainstream stars like U2, Peter Gabriel, and Sting, whose thoughtful lyrics and socially conscious idealism made them favorites on college campuses. College rock's heyday essentially ended with Nirvana's breakthrough in 1991, which opened mainstream ears to the more accessible side of alternative rock; as college radio playlists began to resemble commercial alternative radio, the more experimental branches of alternative and indie rock were driven even further underground.

[Freebasser]

College rock came before all the shitty sub-genres, asswipe. It encompassed any alternative bands who found airplay (mainly through college radio stations).

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thats exactly what he was referring to.

[Freebasser]

I wasn't talking to him.

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neat! im gonna do laundry now

[Homsar]

Rhino seems to bring out good collections. Their Ramones remasters are great and the 70's Punk Rebellion box set looks pretty solid. I wonder what their 80's alternative set (I think they released it) is like.

I could care less for most of the stuff that came out in the '90s.

[King of Rock II]

back to the original subject

that box set is crap. who'd wanna listen to Helmet, House of Pain and En Vogue in a row?

[Sandinista!]

Fuck the 1990s.