Better late than never: 90s acts got into post-90s

^ Thanks Mike. I have liked plenty of Opeth. It can be so heavy at one time and so melodic at others (and some beautiful instrumentals) I like the folk influence in the music. It has been a while since I listened to the albums, but I do recall enjoying My Arms, Your Hearse (1998) (which I had listened to due to the Comus reference in the title).

Here's "The Amen Corner" off it.

I hope this OP is a little clearer than mud. I should be doing other things.

The idea for this is to mention acts that you are very into now but were not in the 90s or earlier (you became a fan of the act with 90s release you love post 90s). These would have releases in the 90s which you were mostly unfamiliar with (a track on the radio etc. is okay), and did not really get into and were pretty unfamiliar with until years after the 90s.

Most of my list I did not get into until the past decade. I was going to go for acts that were completely unknown in the 9os to you but you came to love later for 90s releases, but that's harder and can be hard to remember. I'm sure I heard some Portishead in the 90s, don't remember what, and was not a fan until maybe the late 2010s.

Aside from listing the acts, please mention one specific album from each act, and a track if you have the time and inclination. I want this to focus on stuff we know very well, and are currently into (probably have listened to the album in the last few years).

These are 30 plus of my favourites that fit the bill, but of course you are free to mention as many or few acts as you like provided that you were not into the act in the 90s or earlier and did not know the album you list in the 90s.

I had been introduced to some 80s Cardiacs by the early 90s, like "Jibber and Twitch", but I was not a Cardiacs fan or a fan of that song at all. From the list, Air is I think the one that I got into closest to the 90s as I got Talkie Walkie at the time of release, January, 2004, and had already loved a track off Talkie Walkie ("Cherry Blossom Girl" turned me onto Air).


Air - Moon Safari (1998) Key track: "La femme d'argent"
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (1996) Key track: "Fingerbib"
Fiona Apple - When the Pawn (1999) Key track: "Get Gone)
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (1996) Key track: "The Boy Done Wrong Again"
Björk - Post (1995) Key track: "Isobel"
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (1998) Key track: Aquarius
Bondage Fruit - Bondage Fruit (1991) Key track: "Kakuu No Sakana"
Broadcast - The Book Lovers EP (1996) Key track: The Book Lovers
Cardiacs - Sing to God (1996) Key track: "Dirty Boy"
The Cardigans - First Band on the Moon (1996): Key track "Great Divide"
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Let Love In (1994) Key track: "I Let Love In"
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (1990) Key track: "Pitch the Baby"
Controlled Bleeding - Golgotha (1991) Key track "Standing in Twilight"
Current 93 - Thunder Perfect Mind (1993) Key track: "Hitler as Kalki (SDM)"
Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth (1993) Key Track: "The Carnival Is Over"
Fishmans - Long Season (1996) Key Track: "Long Season Part 5"
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999) Key Track: "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate"
The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms (1995) Key track: "Vertical Pig"
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - F♯A♯∞ (1996): Key track: "The Dead Flag Blues"
Komeda - Pop pa Svenska (1993) Key track: "Borgo"
Mr. Bungle - California (1999) Key track: "Pink Cigarette"
Naked City - Radio (1993) Key track: "Sunset Surfer"
The Necks - Hanging Gardens (1999) Key track: "Hanging Gardens"
Neutral Milk Hotel (1998) - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Key track: "Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2"
Portishead - Dummy (1994) Key track: "Roads"
Pram - Helium (1994) Key track: "Blue"
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997) Key track: "Exit Music (For a Film)"
Spiritualized® - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997) Key track: "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space"
Stereolab - Dots and Loops (1997) Key track: "The Flower Called Nowhere"
Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind (1996) Key track: "Helpless Child"
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (1991) Key track: "After the Flood"
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 (1994) Key track: "Strangers From the Universe"
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) Key track: "The Taut and the Tame"
Tuxedomoon - The Ghost Sonata (1991) Key track: "Licorice Stick Ostinato"
U Totem - U Totem (1990) Key track: "Vagabond's Home"
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997) Key track: "Moby Octopad"

As for some 90s bands I recall liking in the 90s:

Depeche Mode's Violator was a great one. Key track: "Waiting for the Night". And I liked music by Mercury Rev, Pulp, Lambchop, eels, Low, The Orb and Enya in the 90s. I enjoy Depeche Mode, Mercury rev, Pulp, Lambchop, eels, Low and The Orb more than ever now as I got into exploring more of the music and returning to some of it in recent years.

When it comes to "popular" styles of music (including Progressive Rock / Art Rock), I was mostly stuck in the 60s and 70s until the mid 2000s.

Edited by Logan - September 24 2024 at 13:21