Sunday Conversation – Soundtrack of 90s
There are conversations that I have with people that I want to note.
Spring 2014
My living room
With a friend.
The drink: Indonesian Loose leaf tea, no sugar, no milk
Gimmick: Diver tea plunge
Drinking our tea, listening to the radio as it plays Alanis Morisette sang Jagged little pill.
Friend: This was definitely the soundtrack of the 90s, this defines the 90s for me.
Me: Really? was it for you?
F: Yes, I think so.
M: What about Oasis’ Wanderwall?
F: Uhmm, was that really early 90s?
M: I think it was about the same time as Alanis. What about Blur and Oasis? they were more the soundtrack of my teenage years in Indonesia.
F: Yes, I guess it was the time of Britpop, I suppose I did listen to them but because they come from here (england) there was never the emphasise, they were music from this country.
M: hmm, I guess it was different for you perhaps it was like me and the local bands in Indonesia.
F: britpop was just local music for us, it was never branded Britpop until later on.
As we sip our tea, the song changed to..
“Today is gonna be the day…That they’re gonna throw it back to you…By now you should’ve somehow…Realized what you gotta do..”
I thought it was interesting how I used to think that Britpop has some sort of a novelty, whereas for them it was not. What did you think of Britpop? Do you have anything that you used to think was cool or value as more interesting, now you don’t?
For me bands like Blur, Lightning Seeds, Pulp, Bush and Oasis were my heroes of Britpop music. Nevertheless, I also listened a lot of Nirvana (my heart was broken when Mr.Cobain died), Silverchair and Red Hot Chilli Pepper when I was growing up (the 90’s). I used to think Tori Amos was my savior and I found her so cool and so was Fiona Apple. My taste in music is hodgepodge of anything cool in the nineties LOL !!
Silverchair and rhcp! yes of course. Oh Tori Amos she is too cool! Fiona apple? I must have missed her..* looking at youtube.
this is quite interesting as I thought we, Indonesians, were more exposed to USpop/charts in the 90s. salah ya… tergantung orangnya mungkin..
hihihi! Iya kayaknya sih begitu, bukannya aku gak dengerin Alanis, tapi temen2 ku dan aku lebih mendengarkan Oasis, Blur dan Pulp. Memang kita , Indonesian, lebih terexpose ke budaya Amerika in general. 🙂
Early nineties for me was grungy with Nirvana and neo-soul R’nB with D’Angelo and the likes.
In the eighties I used to like britpop; Nik Kershaw & Kajagoogoo. Listening to their songs now I couldn’t imagine I ever found it cool, too much synthesizer 😉
oooh… I watched kajagogooo here performing at the stage. Line up was Kajagoogoo, Midge ure and bananarama… hahahah. I know they are so not cool nowadays. Nirvana was definitely cool.
1990s! I remember Spice Girls, My Heart Will Go On, BoyZone, BSB, Code Red, All Saints, Destiny’s Child and the first ever VH1 Divas Night (the best one too, I think!)
hahaha..! of course Spice Girl.
I can still hear “Spice Up Your Life!” in my ears. It was on the top of MTV hit list for MANY weeks! 😀
Every boy and every girl.. spice up your life…! You would then ask, what with scary spice? what with? a bit of cumin or parsley perhaps? 🙂
That’s not spicy enough! One must use Carolina Reaper, the world hottest pepper. 😀