My stars, you guys get it!
U2 - stinks
Eric Clapton - blech
Grateful Dead - horrible
Country music - all sounds the same
Radiohead - overrated
Duran Duran - underrated! Great band.
I’ll go a bit further here: The B-52’s , that first album, that is a KILLER album. “Dance This Mess Around” is a banger.
The music scene post grunge (not that I was “into” grunge that much) took such a nosedive from 1995 to 2002. System of the Down? Linkin Park? Any of that late 90s BS? Un-f’ing-listenable. I was actually listening to a lot of salsa, bachata (just becoming BIG in NYC after being relegated to Sunday morning’s from 7am-9am on 97.9 FM) and cumbia from 95-02 because music really just died.
It really wasn’t until Yeah Yeah Yeahs , The Strokes, TV on the Radio, Vampire Weekend and other NYC bands came about in early 2000s that music came alive again. You can say something good about hipsters: their music was really good.
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