Hi guys, I'm a big fan of 90s pop music, such as Bon Jovi's "Always", the Backstreet Boys, The Moffatts, Hanson (and all those boybands), Anyone here share the same taste? .

This post has been edited by Iliveunderwater: Jul 25 2007, 07:21 AM

Hmm.... boybands... I guess Spice Girls' still work a listen.

If you're talking about 90s rock like Radiohead, Oasis, Jeff Buckley etc... (No grunge, though. ) then yeah!

dunno y i hate boybands -.- so gay
but almost all my fren love it (during my primary n secondary school), makes me an alien......

This post has been edited by enteryourusername: Jul 25 2007, 11:59 AM

Its a free country.. anyone with personal preferences. As long as the tunes appeal to my ear..I don't really care if its all boy or girl band.
I do enjoy MLTR or Alleycats music once a while and I'll enjoy it to the fullest on my hifi rig!. Afterall why should I care who else doesn't like or not.. its in my own home, on my own rig..PC or hifi.. it only matters to me.

Right now, 80s is the new 70s....

Gone are stuff like That 70s Show, Bell Bottoms, Groovy Tunes, Hendrix Popularity (amongst pop-culture, NOT musically), Weed and hippy power.

Now we see 80s hair metal bands, Spandex, Flock of Segulls, 80s Pop (POP! Goes my heaaaarrrrttttt), Transformers, A-Team, Star Wars, Van Halen...... all making a come back.......

And I have a feeling that the 90s is going to be the new 80s soon enough

In case you don't know 80s pop:

hey blacktrix, thats your guitar.

but uhh, imo nothing good came out from the 90s
even bands from before that once they reached the 90s started producing crap.

i like 80's metal! 90's metal was pretty solid too

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Added on July 25, 2007, 5:02 pmactually, metal pwns no matter what era

This post has been edited by SweetTooth: Jul 25 2007, 05:02 PM

Yeah, I found those are most enjoyable english music. Now all mostly r&b and rap. Sienzz

I think that you're in the wrong place.

Actually, I was talking more about the most popular type of popular songs during 90s which are the boybands type of songs. BUT! I forgot that there were other types of popular songs as well that hit the top of the charts during the 90s such as Green Day's Basket Case, Blur - Song 2 and I cant remember the rest lol, But I know what ur talking about there led_Zep_freak. But I'm not really into those radiohead, oasis, jeff buckley but I guess some of them were popular during the 90s as well, like Oasis :-D so considered also lah. Though I was wondering if anyone had the same taste as me here, especially girls maybe cuz I know there are not many guys in this section of the forum would listen to pop. Just trying to find someone to share my interest with .

MLTR was not bad too at that time, their songs are very emotional, I always remember them as the stuffs that what my dad would hear lol.

Do u know any other 80s rock bands that had similar sound to Bon jovi? I find bon jovi somehow like an 80s version of a boyband lol. if you look at their music videos especially.


ya now mostly rap & rnb and also influenced by the clubbing scene lately. very boring. Even those 80s rock were better lol.

i do listen to lot of pop music when i was younger, BSB, MLTR, bon jovi, radiohead, savage garden etc etc...still remember MTLR's first studio album was the 1st cd that i've ever bought...now still working, only the cover looks like 'salted vege'

but now, mainly jpop, jrock, and lots of european power metal... EPIC

Ooo! Jpop and Jrock. Some of my favs too. But most i know thru Tv shows shown on malaysian tv or games lol. Utada Hikaru - First love (this one is a legend lol, makes u really feel emo), then the Beautiful Life tv show theme song (BZ - Kouta Oni ka uka kane or smth i dont know japanese haha). the digimon tv show theme song is not bad either. Recommend me some jpop and jrock that are similar to these ??

nothing really that survived.
but there is one band now that sounds like bon jovi meets def leppard, they're called Johnny Lima.

and you telling me bon jovi's 80s videos look like boybands?
anyway, the only boyband in the 80s is NKOTB

you can try utada hikaru's latest album 'ultra blue', to me it's quite nice...

maybe you can try ayumi hamasaki, do as infinity, mihimaru GT, ruppina, every little thing, b'z, chemistry, glay...most of them are more mainstream...

but do listen to ayumi and hikaru's stuff...

My personal fav - MLTR , my first ever self bought album is MLTR (25mins series).. Even nowadays i seldom listen to new tune, i still stick to those BsB, Boyzone,Westlife,MLTR, Enya..etc

hahah... i just watched the dvd last week... made me want to watch the wedding singer all over again

this my favorite 80's pop song... check out the guitar licks at the back... awesome tone... it's a shame that the guitarist died a few years back... always wanted to see him play the song live...



This post has been edited by hotfootpowder: Jul 27 2007, 02:46 PM

yea cool song.
i also have a remake of it by the metal band 'to die for'.

bands like bon jovi during the 80's and 90's .... hmmmm ... let me think ... how bout Poison, Motley Crue, Van Halen, Skid Row, GnR, etc ... tight leather pants, pouting lips and overdo hair .... hehehehe ... but they did produce real good music tho ...

just downloaded the cover song... think i like the original better...

also downloaded the extended remix of the original... they digitally remastered everything and no fade out at the end... can hear the guitar licks better and clearer.... sounds like a strat with nice chorus...

well i personally liked the music from the 90's, 3rd eye blind, smasshing pumpkins, savage garden (hmm..), barenaked ladies, those kind of stuff. im ok with BSB (hmmmm...).

right now too much hip hop. not really my taste.

lol, can anyone tell me why drum snares in 80s pop songs always have to sound like that? "TUSH!" "TUSH" lol u know what i mean? I always wondered. Its like the snare went inside a bottomless pit lol.


What are their best songs?

Correct!

This post has been edited by Iliveunderwater: Jul 28 2007, 07:31 PM

MOST 80s pop bands uses synth drums instead of real acoustic drums......
And MOST Metal bands that time have a keyboardist........

Electronics was the new fad in that era.......

im imagining blacktrix plays like that in the next gath.....

then you see everyone using midi controller connected to their gears

haha. me, eong xien and blactrix all have our own midi keyboards. trio of terror on keyboards/triggers? lol

maybe can upgrade the name to trio of triggers?

Oii oii... I don't have one...

...yet!

Holy crap...... I STILL HAVEN'T COLLECTED MY FRIEND'S OXYGEN!!!!! That's about a month there already! Crap.... have date tomorrow. Will have to pick it up next week..... sigh.

But I'm thinking of getting my own keyboard/keypad combo like the Axiom...... that is if I want to be involved in music production.

Guys! Remind me of some 90s pop songs that were popular on radio other than:

Backstreet Boys
The Moffatts
Nsync

Any that u know? Altho I do know some of them but I wanna see if I missed out any.

The 2 most important music-ish shows you need to watch for 90s era music......

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Wayne's World.......

Excellent!!

ahems.
the 1st bill & ted came out in 1989.
wayne's world also featured mostly 70s and 80s rock, same goes for both the bill & ted movies

Nobody mentions M2M, probably I'm the only remaining of their fans....

lets see.. pop music... from my sister's old CD's, n sync, westlife, bsb, a1, o town, m2m, britney spears, 98 degrees...

brrrhh

M2M? bleh they sux.
but you notice my avatar? its marion raven solo, she doesnt suck

Ah yes I know that show, I havent watch it yet but I know the show cuz there is a young keanu reeves inside it. Another great movie from the 90s - SPEED ! . Sandra bullock and Keanu Reeves look way better back then. Good show too. Been showing on astro lately, catch it if you havent watch, recommended.

I remember M2M, I have them in my list. lol. The day you went away, a good pop song, the song is good and can make me emo at times


I remember all of them. thanks for the help though. Anyone knows any that I dont remember? LOL. Needdddd 90s music badly

Caught in the Act anyone?

Well back in the 90s you had the Spice Girls with good hits like Wannabe, 2 Become 1, Mama. They started to suck with "Spice Up Your Life", the chorus sounded as though the songwriters didn't have any idea.

Then you've got Boyzone (noticed nobody mentioned this boyband earlier in previous posts), which I find has much better songs than N Sync or 98 Degrees and what not.

Then of course there's Alanis Morrisette's (Jagged Little Pill) which is an awesome alternative rock album, which I'm sure everyone likes! There's that one hit wonder 'b****' by Meredith Brooks (was that her name? kinda forgot lol).

Other than that, don't know what else to recommend already, Gloria Estefan kot.
Or that Tony Rich Project song 'Nobody Knows', jiwang giler, from the 90s as well I think.

They not sux, I particularly love both their album. The first album from M2M is a bit teen-ish, but the 2nd album is more mature.

Marion have a very powerful voice and I really love her first album (Here I Am), all the songs (except At The End Of The Day, which is weird) sounds great, I absolutely love For You I'll Die, Marion + piano = harmonious. But I can't say about her 2nd album (Set Me Free) only 3 songs were new, others are from old album, and the new songs that I like is Falling Away, she needs to write her song on her own, not just co-write it. The new Heads Will Roll does sounds great though. She have 'sold' her body for popularity, I don't like that

I prefer Marit more, because her music have soul. But some songs does sounds a bit folk-ish, but it blends in nicely with her cute, soft voice. Her song is unique, 'Under The Surface' song for instance have happy music but if you just read the lyrics, its a very sad song actually. I pay RM190 to buy this album from Amazon

beavis and butthead... heheheheh

added: forgot another one... 'this is spinal tap'

This post has been edited by hotfootpowder: Jul 30 2007, 06:02 PM

the only movie that does 90s somewhat, tho rooted somewhere in the tail end of the 80s, is Singles.
nothing else.

the name sounds really familiar, but I watched the video just now and their songs not as good as the bigger boybands in those days lol.

Boyzone, wat songs are their best?

I like M2M in their first album, I dont like it when artist change too much for their 2nd or 3rd album, it just makes them not original, i mean, their first album would usually be the introduction to the audience on how their sound is like, but when they change, its like its not them anymore . Avril's songs used to be teen-ish nice too for her first album before she turned mature.

This post has been edited by Iliveunderwater: Jul 30 2007, 06:30 PM

boyzone is like a cover band
they did a lot of covers

I had their Vibe album, which IMO had the best of of their songs including that one. It had a quite big promotion over here but people were more overwhelmed by Westlife & 911 at the time.