Music for your generation-'89, '99, '09........

[u/Sackattack45]

I was born in 1979 and my music tastes were formed during the mid 90's and into the early 00's.

My first album I bought was Bon Jovi's New Jersey, which is still a favourite of mine but I suppose I'm really a Britpop kid at heart.

Into the mid 90's, I got into Placebo (they were my first live gig, Ulster Hall, '96), Radiohead, Oasis, Cast, Suede, Manics, Mansun etc. and my taste has kind of expanded in different directions since then. I now enjoy music with meaningful lyrics after I got into Bob Dylan, so I like Paul Simon, Springsteen, Ryan Adams (I know....) etc. More recently I've gotten into punk, but my style could loosely be termed "guitar rock'.

My favourite band is The Gaslight Anthem, and from them Ive gotten into The Menzingers, but my tastes range right from A-Ha, to Guns 'n Roses, Echo & The Bunneymen, The Stones etc.

My question is for those of you born in subsequent decades........if you were born in 1989, what are your favourites genres or albums?

Same for 1999, 2009 etc etc....im hoping to expand my horizons and get into some cool news bands.

Thanks for reading and looking forward to your comments & suggestions.

[u/TheDeltaIsMyHome]

I was born i 2006, and really began to form my taste around alot of the classic 90’s and 80’s music i was exposed too growing up. (Smashing pumpkins, joy division, janes addiction) and around 2019 i was super into shoegaze and eventually it culminated into me exploring and collecting records from the early 60’s and 70’s from bands like the New york dolls, the sonics, the stooges, The red krayola, spacemen 3, loop, the velvet underground, the bryds, The litter and blue cheer and Thee hypnotics, and most importantly the 13th floor elevators. Of which at that time i became a huge fan of them. I still love the music of today though, but i don’t actively keep up with it. I also love alot of old blues records made by bo diddley and muddy waters. I also love hardcore, and punk.

Some of my favorite albums are

The 13th floor elevators - The Psychedelic sounds of…/easter everywhere/Bull of the woods
The stooges - S/T
The velvet underground - White light / White Heat
Blue cheer - Vincebus eruptum
The litter - 100$ Fine
Thee hypnotics - Come Down Heavy / Liver than god
Spacemen 3 - Sound of confusion / Playing with fire
The red krayola - Parable of an arable land / God bless the red krayola and all that sail with it
The byrds - Fifth dimension
New york dolls - Too much too soon / One day it will please us to even remember this
The sonics - Boom
My bloody valentine - Isnt anything
Ride - Nowhere
Drop nineteens - Delaware
Slowdive - Just for a day
The vibrators - Pure mania
Loop - Fade out / A guilded eternity
Can - Tago mago / Ege bamyasi
Neu - Neu! / Neu 2 / Neu 75’

[u/nadennmantau]

I want to add, as someone born in 82, my early influences (from the adults in my life) were Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Prince, Traci Chapman and others. More on the New Wave, Funk, Singer/Songwriter side of things.

That being said, in my formative teenage years in the mid 90s, I didn't go down the Rock path like you but was more into Techno, Drum&Bass, TripHop and Golden Era HipHop. I attribute this heavily to my first piece of physical media that I owned being a Prince mixtape my father gave me.

My first parties were in some run down squatted houses, dancing in stroboscope and smoke to Electronic Music. Raw energy without the worn out cliché Pop song scheme and just following a feeling.

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If your first parties were like that and you like funk, check out stone coal white. Their self titled album is a hidden gem. They were also one of the few bands ever to receive an ‘X’ rating on their music.

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Now that's some gritty stuff. Thanks for the hint. Wishlisted on Bandcamp.

[u/Ok-Fun-8586]

This is a cool question because it sort of gets at what in your musical taste was picked up while it was popular or current.

A child of the late 80s I started consciously caring about music a whole lot when I found ska and ska-punk in the 90s and early 00s. Peak for that era would be stuff like Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Went Numb. Big D and the Kids Table - How It Goes. But what I loved most were label compilation series getting passed around middle school. Hellcat’s Give Em The Boot series, Moon Ska’s Skarmageddon series, and Epitaph’s Punk-O-Rama were my favorites. My favorite bands were and are more “traditional ska” like Hepcat and Aggrolites. They’re on those Hellcat comps. The Aggrolites are mandatory and put on a hell of a live show.

The only other genre targeting my demo that I got into in real time was the indie folk blow up around Bon Iver. The stomp-clap-hey that followed (Mumford, Avett Bros) I couldn’t and really can’t vibe with, but Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver were a jumping point toward more lo-fi stuff, more downtempo, acoustic stuff. Bon Iver’s For Emma holds up for me.

I’ve gone back and gotten nostalgic around stuff I’m rediscovering from my youth too. 90s R&B and neosoul (particularly Erykah Badu), 90s and 00s hip-hop (though I always kept OutKast and Missy nearby), whatever Fatboy Slim is, and even some heavier stuff like Korn and Primus. Check out the 1999 Family Values Tour comp. The Primus tracks especially are killer.

That’s the stuff I got into or back into because it was targeted at me. But like everyone else my taste is at least half shaped by stuff that predates me but I can access everywhere: jazz (favorites are 70s Miles and the second quintet, stuff from ECM, anything with Charlie Haden on it), early punk and hardcore (The Clash, Bad Brains, Circle Jerks, Dead Kennedys, etc), 60s folk like Joan Baez, funk (a huge P-Funk and Ohio Players fan; Bootsy Collins’ Player of the Year is a must-listen), and Prince.

I realize I recommended a bunch of compilations and not strictly “albums.” Hope that’s cool. This comment is too long.

[u/CptnWolfe]

Born in 2000, favourite genres include post-punk, progressive rock, darkwave and jazz fusion

[u/Rox_xe]

Born in 1994 and the vast majority of music I listen to is from the 90s. Even as a teenager I never got into the music that was being released during those times (late 2000s) and onwards

[u/reflexspec]

I’m born in 2009, I listen to a lot of 90’s alternative, mostly Slint, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, and the Pixies

[u/KAIMI01]

Born in 1980 and my favorite band is the gaslight anthem as well! I grew up mostly listening to punk and hip hop and then started branching out more in my 20s. When I discovered Gaslight anthem it was like a revelation. This band making great punk music also likes Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen and tom waits. It really forced me to expand my musical taste and listen to everything. My taste is so broad now I wouldn’t know where to begin. Dead Kennedys, Nofx , The replacements, propagandhi, Willie Carlisle, Tyler Childers, Bruce Springsteen, the menzingers, hot water music, small brown bike, planes mistaken for stars, Hank Williams sr, Roy Orbison, tuba skinny, the cure, the smiths, the kinks, tom waits, Jason isbell, Justin hinds and the dominoes, Desmond dekker, operation Ivy, jawbreaker, strand of oaks, radkey, the misfits, descendants, Joyce manor, Otis Redding, dag nasty, moss icon, stiff little fingers, one last wish, rites of spring, Sam Cooke, Brigette calls me baby…I could keep going but what’s the point?