I wanted this to be true but apparently it’s not.
… they were released within 44 days of one another!
https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/44-days-7-legendary-90s-rock-albums/
God, being young in the 90s really gave me some warped expectations. Oh, everyone has a house and culture-defining music drops regularly? Sweet, can’t wait to grow up!
Both can be true. It’s also true they were released within 1000 years of each other.
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As a diabetic Blood Sugar Sex Magic is something I can actually offer.
I feel fortunate to have my defining years of youth in the 90s. Debut and Post and Homegenic by Bjorn. Violator and SoFaD, by Depeche Mode. Downward Spiral and The Fragile, by NiN. Dummy and Portishead, by Portishead. Blue Lines and Mezzanine by Massive Attack. OK Computer. Music has the right to children. Music for the Jilted Generation. And they just keep coming and coming and coming…
It really was a golden era of music.
Plus, that was during the Golden Age of Hip-Hop.
So much good music!
I listen to Black by Pearl Jam on occasion. It’s the only song that has ever made me tear up.
I go years between listening to Nevermind and then wonder why I wait so long.
I owned Use Your Illusion I ended up giving them away because they really couldn’t stand up to Appetite For Destruction. There’s some great songs on there but then there’s some filler that ruins the whole thing.
Never was a Soundgarden fan. But I did see them open for some band called Nine Inch Nails and realized that I know a lot more Soundgarden songs than I thought I did.
I had Blood Sugar Sex Magic. It started to great on my nerves. It wasn’t as good as their earlier albums. Not enough funk. Too quiet. Mother’s Milk also started to go sour on me.
And of course there’s The Black album by Metallica. I was a huge metallic fan. And this album really ruined it. Some of the songs individually were good but as an album it couldn’t live up Justice For All. The songs were shorter, less classical in their orchestration, All the last messages of Cliff having a hand in the composition were gone. And probably worst of all someone thought they could teach Kirk how to sing. He’s a shouter, not a singer. Someone stole the tape from me about a month after I got it and I didn’t feel any sense of loss.
Other albums released in that time frame:
Psalm 69 by Ministry.
Shorty the Pimp by Too Short.
Dirty by Sonic Youth.
Soul Of A New Machine by Fear Factory.
Dirt by Alice In Chains.Some of these have stuck with me a lot more than some of those.
Thank you for this little writeup, it was a nice read
I started off reading it like Patrick Bateman
“Some band called Nine Inch Nails”
What, you thought no one would comment on that?! 😂
Lifelong fan detected!
I had scrap wood, stain, paint and decided to go for it to break in my new miter saw.
Pearl Jam’s Ten is one of the perfect 10/10 albums for me.
What a crazy few months to be alive and into music.
For real, this picture did a good job of showing the evolution of the direction music would go on to follow into the 90s too. From metal to grunge.
