Modern music if you grew up in the 90s

[Lonoxo]

As a teenager, I used to love music, listened to the radio all the time. In my 20s and early 30s I stopped listening so much because I didn’t have time.

I’m trying to get back into modern music watching 4Music but I’m finding a lot of it meh! Maybe I’ve hit that age in life when I enter a musical time warp and just listen to old music because I think it’s better.

If you are a similar age to me, what/who do you listen to?

I listen to music I know I like (so out of date music!) My go to radio station is absolute radio.

Grandson are good.

Modern music is a pile of crap. I think of the excellent bands from the 80s and 90s and how they didn't obsess over appearance, wrote their own songs, played their own instruments etc. I know not all modern music is just manufactured pop but the sounds are so....sappy and whiny. I am not a fan of autotune either; it lets quite frankly shite 'artists' get away with too much!

90s music!

Don't bother, just listen to Absolute 90's!

My husband teases me because he says my musical taste is stuck in the 90s.

I do love Laura Marling, Aldous Harding, Sharon van Etten and Courtney Barnett for something more modern though.

I was a teenager in the 90s and agree that so much music today sounds monotonous and dull. I find new music I like through playlists on Alexa or Spotify. So I will ask Alexa to play ‘happy music’ or ‘morning music’ etc. Found lots of songs and artists I like

I am stuck in the 90’s almost completely. Absolute radio 90’s is the only radio I listen to regularly.
I have an occasional wander into Enter Shikari and my 3yo fave nursery rhymes on Spotify.

Radio 6 I like. I also have teenagers so hear stuff they play.

I read music reviews in the Guardian and follow up the ones that sound interesting on Spotify.

I have eclectic taste though.

I used to be crazy in to new music (born in 92) and used to hang on to the radio from a really young age to hear new stuff. I loved the emergence of Fall Out Boy, Panic!, MCR, Snow Patrol, Muse, some really amazing bands.

Now music is just so much more “manufactured”, it doesn’t “speak” to me anymore, it doesn’t connect somehow. I love great lyrics and great instrumental talent and great songwriter.

I found my answer is country music. There a lot of new country that is pop/RnB crossover and sounds like pop in the 90s (Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini, Lauren Alaina), there’s also mainstream country that sounds like country (Tim McGraw, Lady A, Miranda Lambert). If you want something gritty and real you need outlaw country (Chris Stapleton, The Highwomen, Drake White, Lukas Nelson and The Promise of the Real). I’ve found my musical home and I don’t see the need to ever step out of it- there is so much breadth and variety.

“We are the Highwomen, singing stories still untold. We carry the sons you can only hold. We are the daughters of the silent generations, you sent our hearts to die alone in foreign nations. It may return to us as tiny drops of rain, but we will still remain”.

When I heard that, I realised it had been more than a decade since I’d heard lyrics that good and that meaningful.

Me too but just discovered Adam Lambert. What a voice!

I've also recently discovered radio six which I always thought would be to 'edgy' for me but it's got a brilliant mix of classic and modern stuff and I look on bbc sounds app if I hear a song I like and it's got me into quite a few modern bands

There are odd modern songs like, glass animals and Declan McKenna are a couple at the minute that I like but mainly stick to what I like. KISSTORY is a favourite station of mine

There is a lot of really good music about. My current favourite is Sam Fender.

BBC 6music is what you want.

6 music here too.

How old? I'm late 40's and listen to radio 1 (and 4). Life's too short to be stuck in a rut.

My DH says my ears may as well have dropped off in 1998, for all the good they've done me since!

A lot of the bands I like are still going and loads of individuals who were in one band are still there or there abouts with new projects. There's loads of new music being produced. Try facebook or twitter, they're not the sort of thing you may hear on the radio aside from Planet Rock if you're lucky.

What music did you like lenoxo?

I was a teenager in the 90s and I really do think it was the best time, music wise. We listen to Absolute Radio, the main station, it has a good mix of older and newer stuff, mostly good. They have dedicated stations for each decade as well if you feel like a 90s/00s day occasionally!

Gerry Cinnamon is my most recent discovery, but even that is a couple of years old. I was a teen in the late 90’s/early 00’s. As my username suggests I’m not averse to a bit of pure pop but there’s not loads out there I like. I’m more likely to hear a song that one of the DC are playing and get into it that way.

I loved alternative/grunge/metal/rock music in the 90's.
Now my teen son is my inspiration - although sometimes the growling, howling sounds that he calls music just don't seem to click with me :)
And I love youtube random recommendations. 99% are shit, but there are some pure gems.
I got new artists into my playlists like this:
Kongos, Pretty reckless, barns courtney, adam jensen, amy macdonald

I'm older so the same happened to me in the 90s, everything seemed dreadful after the 80s which were my teen years. So its possibly just something that happens. I've started just letting spotify find stuff for me, I click on a playlist that suits my mood and save anything I like.

I'm not a fan of modern music either.

Do love Jessie Ware though. Could listen to her on a loop.