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Originally Posted by blankall
It's fun to reminisce about the late 90s and what a cultural black hole it was. I remember when Limp Bizkit had that "faith" cover and I thought they were just a novelty act... Then they somehow became a movement into themselves.
Music in that era really was trash. You had rapcore, bad pop, horrible early electronic music/electronica, etc... It was the last death throes of the music video/radio dependency era. But also where the music videos were at their peak of gaudiness and excess.
It wasn't just music: tribal tattoos, parachute jeans, wife beaters, puffy jackets, chin straps, etc....
I remember how ground breaking the White Stripes and the Strokes were. We were finally getting good music again.
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I don’t know, with the exception of Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit, I’d say the Woodstock line up was pretty kick ass. I mean sure, Offspring had gone full on Pretty Fly for a White guy by then but they’re weren’t far removed from good music. Then Korn, RATM, Metallica, RHCP as the evening headliners have all held up reasonably well, even if none of them have released a relevant record in 20ish years. Bush was a one hit wonder I guess so they’re kind of the odd man out of that group. Then the daytime acts were solid from a more mainstream perspective, Hip, Dave Matthews, Counting Crows, Jewel, Alanis, Cheryl Crow etc.
Plus, Limp Bizkit sucks but Wes Borland is awesome. That guy can write a damn good riff and has had a good low key career since he left Fred in the dust.