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?

The only ‘new’ album I listen to constantly is the Hamilton soundtrack.

As a teenager I loved Ocean Colour Scene, Oasis, Blink-182, Alanis Morrisette. I was music obsessed, all my money from my after school job went on cd’s and I actually have a degree in commercial music, my dream was to be a tour manager (after one of my lecturers at uni said tour manager were almost exclusively male!).

As it is at the age of 35 I still listen to the same music I listened to when I was 14, with the odd recent addition (like the Hamilton soundtrack, Churches). My fave band are Foo Fighters, who I’m more obsessed with than ever. Funnily enough I’m not a tour manager for a major band...I’m an estate agent.

@Aworldofmyown. Eclectic tastes but mostly chart stuff because that’s what I’m exposed to. I like good lyrics or a stonking melody, preferably both.

This morning I saw the cover version for “Dancing In The Moonlight”, I liked the original. Jason Derulo has another song out about sex and there was lots of other stuff I can’t remember at all so it can’t have been noteworthy.

@user1471548941, that’s interesting. I could be wrong but I think a lot of modern music is aimed at young people and about love - finding love and breaking up. I’m happily married with a children, been there, got the T-shirt so the lyrics don’t resonate with anymore. A lot of it is vapid and there was a recent trend with lines/words being repeated almost like an echo which I found annoying.

@IheartHarryStyles. Your username is funny! Actually Harry Styles’ solo stuff is interesting and he’s one of the few modern artists I have started to follow on Spotify.

I do like Absolute Radio and I will check out BBC 6 and the other suggestions given. Thanks all!

I don’t know how modern it is but I love Imagine Dragons and Vampire Weekend. I like a bit of Radio X because they play a lot of 90s & 00s but then a couple of new ones now and again too.

After a glass of wine a bit of Kisstory is what I like to mum dance around the kitchen to

Also, if you follow members of bands you love they often suggest new music which usually is a similar taste.

I know what you mean, especially regarding the charts. And we're in a phase were bands aren't really in vogue, so there isn't much new coming onto the radio from rock or indie bands. But I do think there's plenty of good stuff around, it's just a bit more of a mission to find it.

My taste tends towards interesting pop, especially from female artists. In terms of 'now' stuff (or at least, current) I do like Lana del Rey, Dua Lipa, Janelle Monae (Dirty Computer is one of my favourite albums EVER), Robyn, Ellie Goulding, Grace Carter, Goldfrapp, Sia, Lizzo. Lady Gaga, Pink and Taylor Swift sometimes. Missy Elliott's still got it (when she can be bothered). I also like Frank Ocean, JP Cooper, Dave, Years & Years (sometimes), Wrabel, Leon Else.

I recently discovered a Swedish songwriter who goes under the name I Break Horses. Her latest album is called Warnings. Imagine Lana del Rey crossed with Goldfrapp.

Also, Sophia Somajo is worth checking out. She's written songs under various pseudonyms for people like Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, Robyn, Adam Lambert and Christina Aguilera over the years. Her own stuff is great and she's a great ear for melody. Good ones of hers include Klein Blue, Sapphire or A Million Songs. Her cover of Tina Turner's Private Dancer is extraordinary.

Sofi Tukker -- sounds like a person, actually a duo. Very 'New York'. Good rhythms. My favourites are Swing, Fantasy, Playa Grande, Baby I'm a Queen.

I like all kinds of music but I have to be in the right mood. I keep telling myself that I should try listening to more up to date music but then I ask Alex to play a mix of 60’s and 80’s. Maybe I don’t like coming out of my comfort zone. Or is it because of the memories associated with these songs.
I’ve come across a site on You Tube called Postmodern Jukebox where the singers do new versions of old songs. There are some fab singers on there.

@IheartHarryStyles. Listened to some Gerry Cinnamon on Spotify. Really like “Sometimes”. Thanks for the suggestion, would never have discovered him otherwise.

Oh fab! Gerry is absolutely brilliant, he’s probably the one new artist I’ve discovered in the last couple of years where I listen to all of his stuff, even the album tracks regularly. I have to say his newest album isn’t as good as his last one but it’s rescued by the utterly sublime Canter.

DH and I went to see him live last year and he was a bit 🙄 as didn’t really know much of his stuff beyond what I’d made him listen to in the car and he absolutely loved it, one of the best live gigs I’ve ever been to in terms of atmosphere. We had booked to see him twice this year but the ‘rona put paid to that.

Inordinately pleased you liked my recommendation @Lonoxo

I agree that so much modern pop is manufactured auto-tuned rubbish which all sounds the same. That’s because so much of it is written and produced by the same people. Most pop artists no longer write their own songs.

It wasn’t all better in Ye Olden Dayes, though. Remember Stock Aitken Waterman and Jive Bunny?

@AgeLikeWine I know, terrible! Aside from making money, I believe it partly an attempt to introduce 60s music to young people. I love music from the 60s. A generation of professional songwriters with such well crafted songs.