[Rummyfan]

Only agree with about half of her choices, but enjoyed the listing nonetheless.

[mjp]

I liked the music of the 60’s, especially the Beatles, but after 1970 I was too busy to care about music. Now that I am retired, I can’t stand the music of the present, especially rap or hiphop or whatever it is called these days

[KyCats]

No Stone Temple Pilots? Nirvana? Smashing Pumpkins?

Horrible top 10 list.

[mrsmith]

Ha! There are a bunch of songs from the Nineties we all still enjoy today!

The Stars And Stripes Forever
The Band Played On
The Sidewalks Of New York
Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom Der E
A Hot Time In The Old Town
My Wild Irish Rose
Hello! Ma Baby

[dsc]

Dr. Hook, Jungle to the Zoo.

[Yaelle]

I only like and listen to often by choice “Under the Bridge.” Love that song about heroin and LA and the dark choices Anthony “used to” (not buying the tense tho) make.

[AlaskaErik]

“Just a Girl” by No Doubt. I’ve been in love with Gwen Stefani ever since. It plays regularly on Pop Rocks Channel 17 Sirius/XM.

[exodan]

a good amount of music from the '90s that was so solid it will never be outdated.

Lauren you should check out the '80s, even better.

[YogicCowboy]

I agree on Sinead and Wilson-Phillips. Don’t care for the Nirvana/REM alt era much.

For me, Tori Amos’ 1992 “Little Earthquakes” (album and song) is a masterpiece by a virtuoso.

She was accepted to Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute (conservatory) at age 5 - youngest ever. My vocal accompanist circa 2004, Ph.D. and virtuoso pianist, went there as an adult - but after her despite being much older - and spoke of the campus stories about her.

I once saw her live, playing a total of four keyboards, two at a time: her Bosendorfer, an oldish electic piano(?), an old synthesizer (Moog?), and a newish keyboard (computer-style MIDI?) atop each of the first two.

She would straddle her piano bench, so she could switch back and forth between all four, mix and match, while singing the whole time.

Add to that, she wrote her own music, and sang like a virtuoso too - very agile, expressive voice capable of any style.

[zeugma]

Well, my media player has 47 days, 13 hours of music, from the 30s to the present day. It covers big band, country, rock, classical, Christian, blues, jazz, and bluegrass. I didn't look, but I'm quite sure all of the songs listed in the article are on my playlist somewhere. There's a lot of music out there. I enjoy the variety. I really like hearing Sons of the Pioneers, followed by Radiohead. It's not all great, but a lot of it has some redeeming qualities. I'm not snobbish about it. Enjoy what you like, and skip what you don't.

[agave]

The real issue is that the gatekeepers have established a monopoly over the music to which most young people are exposed. Over the last quarter century, pop music, along with other forms of mass entertainment and public education, has been deliberately (and relentlessly) dumbed down. The objective: To produce a generation of uninformed, maleable, and easily (mis)led sheeple detached from reality and devoid of any ability to think for themselves. There has been plenty of fine pop music produced during the last quarter century. But, if the artists and songs don't advance the Agenda, the Powers That Be at the Central Committee make sure most young people never get a chance to encounter and appreciate them.

[RegulatorCountry]

The 90’s were an awesome decade for music no matter what the old fogies say, lol. I keep finding stuff I’d never heard of at the time that I love, or even bands I just didn’t get or even hated, and it finally makes sense and sounds great.

I didn’t get Sonic Youth, at all, in their day. But I listen now and I hear echoes of Velvet Underground, I hear a very groundbreaking sound. No wonder Kurt Cobain loved them so.

Sonic Youth - Antenna

https://youtu.be/1B_NVayA_VI

[21twelve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvAVtRSGIpk

Above is a RUSH song (Bravado) from 1991 (performed live 2013). I’m lucky to be a RUSH fan as I enjoy their music from the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, 2010s! (Some decades better than others).