Well, fair enough, but I never said anything about SAW - which had died completely by 1990 anyway. I was more into the more intelligent pop acts such as Adamski, The KLF etc. Also I loved the indie of the time, vastly superior to what followed even if it didn't match the cream of what had gone before...and I mean the cream, I'm perfectly aware of stacks of poor 80s indie bands...there's a reason only the best are remembered, same with the 88-92 time.

 

Also, dance between 88 and 92 with the arrival of acid house and initial rave definitely beats the commercial trash of the late 90s. I'm confident those who had lived through early dance music would see the late 90's as nothing but utter rubbish ;)

 

Even the acts championed at the time such as the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Leftfield and Norman Cook had done their best work way before 1997.

 

i think the mistake made was that you were compareing the rarer , underground, album, acts around at the time with chart music in the late 90's. again the best dance music of the late 90's barely made any impact on the charts, and i personally never liked cook, the chemical brothers, leftfield at all.. though i did like prodigy.

Aha, but I was talking about the charts! Thus you agree with me that charting dance music between 88 and 92 was better than between 97 and 99?

 

Hee hee...

Aha, but I was talking about the charts! Thus you agree with me that charting dance music between 88 and 92 was better than between 97 and 99?

 

Hee hee...

 

eh?...not at all.. i dont like... most i detest, dance music 88-93, as far as im concerned dance was at its best late 90's early 00's.

 

so you think chart music 88-93 was GOOD? ok, not everything was bad, but the general flavour was appauling. this can be seen in the sales of singles which hit rock bottom. many #1s from that era wouldnt have been in the top 40 in the early-mid 80's. recent years sales have been low, but since the internet many of us download for free , or just buy the album.

I rather lost touch with the charts in the nineties and, looking at this chart, I can see why! There's nothing there that I would really want to listen to. Of all the pop decades I personally think the nineties were the worst. Obviously, if you were a teenager at the time, you will find plenty to fondly remember, but I think much of the chart pop that was around isn't going to stand the test of time. Perhaps the recent Take That and Spice Girls reunions will prove me wrong, although it's interesting to see that Take That have updated their sound to great success, whereas the Spice Girls may stumble with their dated sound. Maybe another 10 to 15 years will give the 90s a nice nostalgic glow, but I'm not holding my breath.

I rather lost touch with the charts in the nineties and, looking at this chart, I can see why! There's nothing there that I would really want to listen to. Of all the pop decades I personally think the nineties were the worst. Obviously, if you were a teenager at the time, you will find plenty to fondly remember, but I think much of the chart pop that was around isn't going to stand the test of time. Perhaps the recent Take That and Spice Girls reunions will prove me wrong, although it's interesting to see that Take That have updated their sound to great success, whereas the Spice Girls may stumble with their dated sound. Maybe another 10 to 15 years will give the 90s a nice nostalgic glow, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

i tend to think that when you are having a real good time in life, any old c**p sounds good! lol, sentimental value, nostalgia, memories, all can give weak tracks extra 'likeability'..

i tend to think that when you are having a real good time in life, any old c**p sounds good! lol, sentimental value, nostalgia, memories, all can give weak tracks extra 'likeability'..

 

Absolutely. I bet we've all had stuff in our collections that make us now think "What on Earth did I buy that for?" :o