Hells yeah, I do the same when the wife and kids aren't in the car. Also forgot that Makaveli was released the same year in '96. Here's the last video 2Pac ever filmed according to Wikipedia (although I remember "To Live and Die in L.A." came out later") <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Owdl9BnxHV4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Mayne, miss the days of MTV music videos
I was more a fan of the Deftones who released their first studio album in 1995, but for the sake of this thread, they released the single "Bored" off of that album in 1996. I did like Marilyn Manson though back when though. Also, they released the live Nirvana album "From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah" in 1996. There was a ton of good music still in the mid-90's
There was, but not much of it was the same style of "alternative rock" that existed in the first half of the decade. The "angst-y" kind of rock started taking a nosedive...and then OK Computer was born.
Refugee camp! Fugee's the score was one of the best albums of that year. Lauryn hill was beautiful. R.I.P hiphop
Oh for sure, mainstream "rock" music changed pretty radically in the 90's. It went from music like Nirvana to music like Korn and that change started like a year after Kurt died.
I've never seen this and it is awesome. One of my favorite Talking Heads albums. Sorry, that I can't rep you again, yet.
I feel indifferent, mainstream alt rock stations (like the Buzz) moved from Nirvana, to Green Day, and then by 95-96 crap like Sugar Ray (I Want to Fly....cringe ). There were still a lot of Nirvana wanna bes like Bush, but the "mainstream" changed to pop rock. By '97, the top of the alt rock charts was crap like No Doubt and Ska band wanna bes. I feel mainstream was becoming poppier and poppier by the end of the decade. Korn and Deftones had much less subtle airplay in comparison in mid 90s
I think the whole tones of "depression" "complete hopelessness "gangster" and "violence" in rock and rap at the time was just unsustainable really. It took itself MUCH too SERIOUS, to where the music leaders of the genres actually DIED from those same things. If it wasnt already gonna fade away naturally, those losses hastened the fadeout quicker IMO. I still think Pearl Jam let down the grunge scene a little with their non-comformist NO commericalism no videos stance. If they woulda just SOLD OUT and owned the role as the face of the scene, could have gotten another 2-3 year run out of grunge/alternative. They might have become something like a U2 punchline instead of having cred, but it woulda held off the Sugar Rays and the Smashmouths too.
Well, rap and hip hop has still been able to sustain based on the gangster and violence imagery it projects to this day. Even though it's gotten terribly bad, the serious persona of thug life is still there. BTW, in 1998 Pearl Jam did release a video for Do the Evolution off their Yield album (not going embed it since this is a thread about '96, but a bad ass album). So in a sense, they did cave in.
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