1994

Ongoing History of New Music

Curiouscast

Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The 1990s was a golden era for Gen X music fans…classic and heritage artists were still a thing, but it was clear that a new generation of rock artists was in control and was releasing music that captured the hopes, dreams, wishes, anger, and aggression of young people…we hadn’t seen that kind of thing since the 70s during the punk, post-punk, and new wave times…and for a little while, pop was not dominant…it was a time for rock-with-a-capital-R… Things really got into gear in 1991…momentum carried over to 1992 and 1993…and by the time we got to 1994, we were living in an alt-rock world…was it the greatest year for alternative ever?...maybe…let’s explore that… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.
0:09.3	Right, that's it. Come on. Lights out. You've got a test tomorrow. Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level.
0:14.7	It's going off now. Yeah, whatever. Let's see. Where's the app? Oh, here it is. Ha!
0:20.3	What? How? Oh, here it is. What?
0:21.4	How?
0:23.5	Oh, no, you're out.
0:24.4	Better look next time. Mom!
0:25.4	It's game over for late nights on school nights.
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0:39.6	It's often very hard to know when history is happening, even if you're in the middle of things.
0:44.8	Even when it's super chaotic and you might feel that something very important is happening,
0:50.5	you really can't be sure.
0:52.4	It's only with time that things come into focus. When it comes to music,
0:56.6	we know that some years were more important than others. Ninety-six, for example, people who were
1:02.2	alive back then were occupied by Cold War tensions, the growing civil rights movement in the
1:07.6	United States, the increasing penetration of television into homes, and a
1:11.8	couple of bad earthquakes and hurricanes. But at the same time, a new singer named Elvis Presley
1:18.4	was at the forefront of this new thing called rock and roll. A new construct called The Teenager
1:23.9	was off listening to music on their new transistor radios. And if they had a TV in their
1:29.6	house, they were watching Dick Clark, an American bandstand. Meanwhile, in the UK, a form of pre-rock
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