90s Music

My second-favorite decade in music didn’t need Thriller or Purple Rain to rock my world. — Half the fun of loving music is living in the past. Nostalgia is a powerful drug. That doesn’t necessarily mean we all want to return to the good-old days of listening to our favorite tunes on cassettes and 8-track tapes, but CDs and vinyl LPs will always have their place…

An aftershock from a celebration I missed — When The Police broke up in 1984, I was 10 years old. I missed the party. But even though the party wasn’t still kicking, I still tried to attend. When I found a cassette of “Synchronicity” a few years later in my brother’s room, I stole it and wore that…

Salvation for the Sour Sixteens — Some people have a sweet sixteen. I dealt with a lot of difficulty through my tween and teenage years. So, as I struggled through my sour sixteen, I found solace in songs. The first picks are a bit of a cheat. These aren’t all the songs I listened to when…

Woohoooo! — I’m not interested in fighting any of you super duper Blur fans out there. I can feel your love for this group and I understand. I’m not trying to boil this group down to one song and bring out the soccer hooligan inside of you. But let’s face facts, when…

Hard line hard line after hard line — Rage Against the Machine’s debut album dropped in the early 90s and at first, it was hard to place. It wasn’t really “grunge” nor was it purely “rap-rock.” I guess the closest frame of reference I had at the time was Anthrax. But Anthrax was kind of goofy, and Rage…