I liked the 90's and the early noughties. The music was so much better. It's probably difficult to appreciate if you didn't have to live through the Stock-Atiken-Waterman mass produced, tuneless shite that got everywhere like a dog turd run over by a Roomba vacuum cleaner.
There was a return to real instruments rather than unnatural sounding synths. The 90's also lost the fascination with money and status, which seems to have made a come-back.
It's not that the 90's were particularly good, they were bland. But bland is good when you compare it with collapse of society in the 70's, the greed of the 80's, the war on terror of the noughties and the fascism of the teenies.
It started with the collapse of communism, but not yet the collapse of capitalism because the two were keeping each other in check, and we all started getting computers that were useful. And you could still afford a house and expect a pension.
There was a return to real instruments rather than unnatural sounding synths. The 90's also lost the fascination with money and status, which seems to have made a come-back.
It's not that the 90's were particularly good, they were bland. But bland is good when you compare it with collapse of society in the 70's, the greed of the 80's, the war on terror of the noughties and the fascism of the teenies.
It started with the collapse of communism, but not yet the collapse of capitalism because the two were keeping each other in check, and we all started getting computers that were useful. And you could still afford a house and expect a pension.
