Late Gen X'ers - Who did you listen to?

[Patroclus]

I am a little curious about this question. As of last year, all of the Gen X'ers are fully legal adults (the official terminating year of Gen X is '81). For those of us Xer-come-latelies, the nineties were our time to listen to our music and look down on those who disagreed with us.

What did you all listen to?

[Em7add11]

I'm just a rock kid. I gave up on Nirvana here in the last couple of years cause it's so depressing, but I still listen to Smashing Pumpkins from time to time.

I've only heard one Fiona Apple song, but I liked it a lot. I think it's called "Fast As You Can."

[efta777]

I've always liked Nirvana, though I never thought of them as groundbreaking. I am however still a big Fiona Apple fan.

[Alden]

I was a bit of an odd duck when I was younger. The Pumpkins were on the radio and , while I did listen to them somewhat, I was busy listening to Queen, Clapton, and Hendrix. As far as 90's bands/people go, I listened to (and still do):

STP
Soundgarden
Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins
Live
Jeff Buckley
Blind Melon
Beck
Pavement
Weezer
Pearl Jam
Radiohead
Elliot Smith
Ben Folds Five
Sunny Day Real Estate

There are others, but I can't remember them, nor do I think that you would want the full list

[flipper]

The Orb, Massive Attack, Orbital, Primal Scream, Guy Called Gerald, that nice Mr Digweed, the inestimable Messrs Sasha and Oakenfold, LTJ Bukem, any number of faceless DJs, bedroom tunesmiths and other unknown heros of the digital music revolution. I was a lucky bunny to be alive and in the right places at that time.

[HemofHisGarment]

Nirvana sucks! Soundgarden and Smashing Pumpkins became too moody for me after awhile (I'm moody enuf already )
But I can't give up Siamese Dream
~Pearl Jam, I can't live without
~Live is totally (oh sorry that's an 80's term) best heard live! ~Weezer and Ben Folds Five were/are fun.
~Radiohead cannot be denied despite the melancholy.
~Blind Melon is in the car now....
~Others? Temple of the Dog... Cranberries...

[yxboom]

In the 90's I was listening to the Rastafarian Irie Vibrations!

[Patroclus]

In the 90's I was listening to the Rastafarian Irie Vibrations!

Stone him! I mean... give him drugs! No, wait. Hmmm

[Rubia Warren]

I liked Soundgarden. Chris Cornell was/is a major babe and a half.

[Jin-Roh]

My favorite 90's bands would've been...

Smashing Pumpkins (probably my favorite out of the era)
Soundgarden
Weezer
Stone Temple Pilots (at least for two albums)
Pearl Jam
Live
Alice in Chains

Today still sticks out in my mind as a classic 90's song. The video for it was very Gen-x as well.

[Adrift]

I am a little curious about this question. As of last year, all of the Gen X'ers are fully legal adults (the official terminating year of Gen X is '81). For those of us Xer-come-latelies, the nineties were our time to listen to our music and look down on those who disagreed with us.

What did you all listen to?

Fiona Apple's latest is great!

[Adrift]

I listened to a lot of punk, drum n bass, breakbeat, industrial, and goth in the 90s. Actually, a lot of Electronica in general. I was big into bands like Ministry, My Life with the Trill Kill Kult, NIN, Elastica, Shakespears Sister, Moby, Bjork, Goldie, Aphex Twin, Lords of Acid, PJ Harvey, Southern Culture on the Skids, Beastie Boys, Digable Planets, Depeche Mode, Frank Black, Stereophonics, Chemical Brothers, Monster Magnet, Screeching Weasel, Fugazi, Jamiroquai, Lenny Kravitz, Danzig, KMFDM, Laibach, DJ Shadow, They Might be Giants, Violent Femmes, Janes Addiction, etc. I was probably one of the few people who liked David Bowie's electronic stuff in this period. I was listening to a lot of hardcore punk and 80s New Wave and Anarcho Punk during this period too, and at the tail end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s I was probably still listening to a little metal, a lot of 60s psychedelia and blues rock, and a little bit of grunge (which lasted right up until Temple of the Dog was reissued in 92). By the end of the decade I think I had "discovered" Christian goth and industrial though some of that scene had started earlier if you count the Blonde Vinyl label with bands like LSU, Deitiphobia, Dead Artist Syndrome, Scatered Few, Sincerely Paul, etc, and there was of course Circle of Dust, Argyle Park, Mortal, Black House, and stuff like that around too, but yeah, I wasn't really aware of their existence till the late 90s early 2000s. That lasted for a few years, and then probably in around 2003 I got bored of it all and got back into the secular stuff, especially Deathrock, which was seeing a resurgence in the underground.

Alright, no one probably cares about all the music I used to like.

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[Carrikature]

I was expecting a tweb newbie to have necro'd this 9 year old thread...

Boy, was I surprised.

[Adrift]

I was expecting a tweb newbie to have necro'd this 9 year old thread...

Boy, was I surprised.

I thought it was the rage to res ancient threads around here lately. Figured if you can't beat em, join em.

So... what were you listening to in the 90s? Or you can talk about Spider-man. Up to you.

[Raphael]

I grew up listening to my older brother's music. So Queen, Pink Floyd, Gary Moore etc.

A coupla of the older Christian rock bands (Petra, J.A.G., White Cross etc.)
DC Talk got me through the last few years of High School (favourite music for studying).
Then I became a Panhead.