90s "pop" music

Some Indy Pop/ Dream Pop/ Twee Pop some call it...





And some Pram



Pram is more my thing, but I do like Dubstar's "Just a Girl She Said".



Edited by Logan - May 18 2020 at 22:34

Cristi wrote: Icarium wrote: I can second Crash Test Dummie, underrated band oftend to wrongfully prejudged. Album with amazing production. their most famous song (the "mmmm" song) was alright, quirky and playful, but got played so much back then that it got old so fast, you could not escape it...

It is unfortiomate that also Eddie Vedders 'yarly' vocal style accidently also was used quite silmuntainously by Crash Test vocalist.

Edited by Icarium - May 12 2020 at 04:10

Icarium wrote: I can second Crash Test Dummie, underrated band oftend to wrongfully prejudged. Album with amazing production.

I can second Crash Test Dummie, underrated band oftend to wrongfully prejudged. Album with amazing production.

While I'm more into classic Krautrock, I was thinking that I like music of the "Krautpop" ilk (some Stereolab being an obvious preference point, and Pram which I posted a track of before, and one track which I thought as 90s but was from 81).

I'm digging Prolapse, which is more of a 90s Indie Rock/ Post Punk band with Krautrock qualities than a "poppy" band for me (yes, me and labels but labels help to describe music), but there are dream pop qualities in music. I guess I could have just made this topic "90s music one finds quirky and/or interesting generally not considered Prog" (nah, doesn't work for me either). Or entitled it "Indie/Pop/Alternative/Downtempo/Lounge/Electro etc".

Some Prolapse:



(this has a very poppy sound to me).

Electralane (Indie Rock/ Indie Pop meets Krautrock):





Quickspace (which has noise pop qualities):



I really hadn't meant to get too hung up on labels, though that has been interesting to think about and delve into, and meant from the beginning, if you find it pop or poppy, then the music you mention fits. If we're enjoying each other's music to some extent, that's what matters more to me than how it's labelled, but that doesn't mean that I don't find the discussion/deep dives on labels interesting in and of itself. Pop and poppy can cover such a huge amount of ground, which I hoped to express. If one uses the terms pop and poppy utilising narrow parameters, that's fine as well. Hopefully we can come to understand each other, but we don't have to agree on the limits.

Edited by Logan - May 04 2020 at 08:36

Well, I genuinely am sorry about that Cristi. I appreciate hearing all the music here and, while I was getting a bit of a headache from spending too much time typing for this thread (to which I chose to do because I wanted to), I genuinely have appreciated the discussion. I wanted it to be fairly free-wheelin' and fun for people. I try to keep open ears and an open mind, just not so open that my brains fall out, as the saying goes. Labels, by the way, commonly become less and less important to me as I get older.

EDIT: I'm really liking the Barbara Morgenstern, Lewian particularly, and the other music.

Re: Barbara Morgenstern - "Die Liebe". Wow, this is amazing! Very original, and I like the adventurous and surprising chord changes a lot. Didn't know her.

this thread is giving me a headache...

Edited by Lewian - May 03 2020 at 16:23

Logan wrote: I prophesy disaster wrote: From Australia, released in 1998, was the electronic Endorphin - Embrace. My favourite track from the album:           Good stuff, and that downtempo electro vibe fits in very well with kinds of music I was exploring from the 90s. I came to enjoy House kinds of music much more in recent years than in the 90s.