Really bad mmusic from the mid to late 90's

[mabudon]

It's still the 1990's in NZ??? Weeeird!!!!! it's like 2005 over here!!

[kidhuman]

Its Middle Earth oover there, dont you know

[homeless man]

Music has not been the same since Michael went white. Damn shame.

[Antropov]

Technically it was a "trade" because your mama went "black".

[Rosie]

ok ok this is stupid bt spice girls comin bak oh god no fuckin way thank god aqua and the vengaboys cant come back 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[anarky]

Who the fuck are the Vengaboys?

I consider myself knowledgeable, but who the fuck are they?

More importantly, do they realize their name is Spanglish for "cumboys"?

[Diabolical]

Ah, Wiki, what did we do before you?

Eurodance group, though they described themselves as an international group with members from Brazil, Hungary, Trinidad and Tobago, the Netherlands, and Spain, that came to prominence in 1997. Some of their most successful singles include "Uncle John from Jamaica", "We're Going to Ibiza", "Boom Boom Boom Boom" and "We Like to Party". The V in their name is pronounced with a soft "B" sound, so that it is pronounced like "Bengaboys". A guest-singer from Spain, for the producer's previous project Nakatomi, kept repeatedly singing Venga in their songs, which means "come on" in Spanish. This led to the name Vengaboys as their following project.

Never critically acclaimed, the group continued making records that were distinctly Eurobeat (the music video of "Kiss" even features one of the dancers from ParaParaAllstars performing a Para Para dance), following in the footsteps of previous Dutch-Dance sensations 2 Unlimited. The ploy worked and by the beginning of the year 2000, the group had achieved four top 10 entries, including two number-one hits ("Boom Boom Boom Boom" and "We're Going to Ibiza"). The group's success continued throughout the beginning of the 21st century, with the The Platinum Album (their third album release) going top 10, spawning three big hits ("Kiss", "Shala Lala" and "Uncle John From Jamaica") and two lesser-known tracks ("Cheekah Bow-Bow (that computer song) which included their fifth cyber-member Cheekah, and the ballad "Forever As One," which gained more notoriety for its video, which was banned after the group used unlicensed pictures of them meeting pop group Westlife). By mid-2001, after nearly ten top 10 hits, the group partly disbanded and went back to working on the club scene.

Their American debut The Party Album peaked at #86 on the US Billboard 200 album sales chart. At the time, overall CD sales were at a highpoint in the USA, which played a role in the album going gold (500,000 units). This is significant as only a few European dance artists have attained similar success.

Translated from Spanish their name actually means "come on boys," which really sounds a lot worse.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

You may remember "We Like to Party" from those Six Flags commercials from a few years ago with the creepy-ass dancing "old man."

[Double_G]

I can't believe you fuckers listed two pages of crap and not one mention of the Macarena, the biggest shit stain of the '90s.

Looking back on the late '90s, I didn't think the music sucked then (fuck me, I even bought a Limp Bizkit CD, even though I still like the song that they did with Redman and Method Man-what was it, "Rollin'"?). I still think some of it was good, like that Santana album he released in '99. I still prefer the stuff from the early '90s, like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, old school rap...but the music industry has been going down the toilet for the past 10 years.

[anarky]

Aside from the Outkast, and the occasional hot joint from Nas or Jay-Z, rap has been dead for over ten years. It's the same shit over and over. It was cool when Tupac and Ice-T were rapping about shooting motherfuckers. Now, it's tired. Get a new shtick.

I will admit I didn't hate Limp Bizkit too much at first. They were definitely overrated, and Fred Durst is a douchebag. But they do score points for having the House of Pain Connection (DJ Lethal), and I'd take them (at least their earlier stuff) over Nickelback any day.

Doesn't mean I'm a fan, though.

In the late 90s, we had a short-lived blues revival of sorts, with albums by younguns like Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, and Shannon Curfman that were the best the genre's seen on that scale since Chess Records in the 50s, as well as great stuff by older school fellas like BB King and Robert Cray. Sadly, it didn't seem to last long. Despite a brief ill-advised sojourn into cock rock, Shepherd is the only one of the kids really staying true to the blues. Curfman and Tedeschi turned more to rock, Trucks is doing some amazing jazz/rock/blues fusion stuff, and Lang became a born-again Christian with a watered-down Motown sound. Sad. I thought the genre was going to make a real comeback there.

[Sleazer]

Not me, I like Nickelback.

[anarky]

I sorta kinda almost liked them, until I heard a second song from them and realized they only have one tune. That and, well, a former co-worker copied their latest album for me, and I couldn't even listen to the whole damned thing. It was like an extended blowjob joke written by a second grader who obviously has never seen a naked woman.

[anarky]

Double post!!

There were three idiots in 90s music who always bugged me. Not because they were disposable pap, but because they thought they were more than they really were.

1) Kurt Cobain. Yeah, I said it. The guy made some great music, but spokesman for my generation? WTF? If the idiot hadn't blown his head off, he'd be about as fondly remembered as Eddie Vedder. The best thing he did was discover Dave Grohl, who is, sorry, Nirvana fans, a million times better.

2) Marilyn Manson. Thankfully, his fifteen minutes ran out long ago. But for a while, he presented himself as the be-all-end-all of rock, and the morons in the press let him. He acted like what he was doing was new and different, but it was the same shit Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie had been doing, and better. Here's an idea, moron: focus on your music. Because, as much as I hate to admit it, he was actually pretty good when he tried to make music instead of going to ridiculous lengths to try to be shocking (and usually failing because we all know he was really a wuss under all that makeup).

3) Eminem. Some of his stuff was kinda catchy. I'll give you that much. But "My Name Is" sounded dated less than a year later. That's not a good sign. I'm not sure why he was given credit as a great street poet, because he was nothing more than Vanilla Ice in a new body. The thing that bugged me the most about him was that stupid "The Real Slim Shady" song, where he kept bitching about imitators everywhere. Okay, show of hands: who has ever seen an Eminem knockoff? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Sadly, though he can go fuck himself in whatever gutter he calls home now, he destroyed the little bit of credibility the Academy Awards had left when Snigtad somehow rigged the voting and gave this doucheface an Oscar. It's impossible to care about a film award when this turd has one and guys like Martin Scorsese don't.

[Sleazer]

I sorta kinda almost liked them, until I heard a second song from them and realized they only have one tune. That and, well, a former co-worker copied their latest album for me, and I couldn't even listen to the whole damned thing. It was like an extended blowjob joke written by a second grader who obviously has never seen a naked woman.

I always just thought they were "okay" until I saw them last summer in concert (and got laid afterward...twice...) and they really won me over live, I love their stuff including the newest one which has some really good tunes.

The song from Spider-Man was awful, I didn't like that one.

[vynsane]

Not me, I like Nickelback.

need we dig up that two songs played at the same time flash thing?