Nico Adie wrote:10 years ago I was 12.

Radiohead was my favourite band then.

I almost never listen to them now.

Every single word of this applies to me.

Except for "almost." I am definitely past my radiohead phase. FOREVER.

I can't remember. 1998? I went into eighth grade in 1999. So it was probably the Beatles or Zeppelin. My musical progression beyond the Beatles and Zeppelin only really started happening in eighth grade.

Were any of you convinced that techno killed rock and was the honest-to-goodness future of music in 1998?

FuzzBob wrote:Were any of you convinced that techno killed rock and was the honest-to-goodness future of music in 1998?

Not even a little bit. My faith in the rock is not so easily shaken that some drug addicted oc's trapped in an infinite loop of boring dance beats and baggy pants would be a threat of any kind. If anything it was obvious to me back then that they would Darwin themselves out of the picture by now due to a combination of low numbers, creative limits and life ending drug abuse.

Rock's foundation is too solid and entrenched at this point. Rock is too primal and exciting to ever go away. It will always destroy itself through excess and then return in it's purest form to start up the cycle all over again.

Salut! The Rock and Roll Music! You are the Phoenix of Musical Forms! Salut!!!

in '98 i was twenty years young. working too much, skateboarding all the time & learning how to drink, so...

somewhat hooked on all the Jawbreaker and J Church albums from years past still.

Jawbox. the later two though. much better. i really preferred them to Fugazi at the time.

Melvins. definitely. mostly lost track after the trilogy though.

Sugar/Husker Du

Elliott Smith. still a favourte.

a friend turned me on to Ben Harper. i still really like the earlier albums but i rarely give 'em a listen.

others i cannot think of at the moment...

I have no fucking idea what I listened to in '98.

I would say Mountain. Yeah. And Mountain still kicks ass.

FuzzBob wrote:Were any of you convinced that techno killed rock and was the honest-to-goodness future of music in 1998?

FuzzBob, not in April 1998, but by year's end I was on a weird techno thing. And I mean "Techno", specifically, as a sub-genre of electronic dance music.

All my friends were confused. I started making techno and listening to a ton of techno. Also: I listened to a lot of Workingman's Dead during the techno period. I don't know why. There was a weird dream in my head to hire a marching band to perform techno. I still think that would sound great!

Wow. I sort of forgot about that weird diversion. And I was 26 at the time!

OK.

1998--I think that was near or around when I "found" SKWM. 1996 maybe? So, yeah, the exact same today.

Come was the close, close 2nd--still listen to them regularly. Thalia Zedek's new album came out yesterday--GREAT, GREAT record.

When I see or hear Shellac it's the exact same feeling as when I saw and heard them for the first time in 1996, at this shitty club in Fargo, ND. They are timeless. I feel the same about the Flying Kadane Bros.'s music as well.

I don't think June or 44 or Rodan have aged all that well. Maybe I've not aged all that well. I was pretty stoked about those bands in 1996-1998.

Somehow I appreciate Unwound and Polvo even more now. Unwound especially.

I bought a million horrible albums from 1991-1996 or so. None of those things have remained "favorites" by any stretch.

I like this thread.

Ike

Superking wrote:There was a weird dream in my head to hire a marching band to perform techno. I still think that would sound great!

Hah, me too, except for drum & bass. I mean, why the hell not? An "amen" breakbeat would sound great as a marching cadence, and the low brass section could all do long "filter sweeps" by opening their plunger mutes in unison. Would have made a great field show in '98.