The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 1039: The Top 100 Moments in Rock in the 21st Century So Far (80-71)
The great 20th century philosopher once said “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
I think of this wisdom a lot, especially when someone starts talking about, say, the music of the 1990s. My instinctive reaction is always the same. “Yeah, the 90s, That was ten years ago, right?”
Obviously not. Nirvana’s Nevermind still lives and that record is over 30 years old. All the legendary grunge artists are in their 50s and 60s if not dead. And so much of the music of the era is always in the air.
I was in an airport recently—a big public space serving people of all ages and all backgrounds from around the world—and “Man in a Box” from Alice in Chains was playing on the P.A.
And then there are all those moments in the grocery store when I hear music playing and think to myself, “When did supermarket music get so cool?”
The truth is that this music is a lot older than my brain wants to believe. Even though it still sounds fresh, so much has happened since those records came out.
Life does move pretty fast. And it seems that it’s moving faster with each passing day. And yeah, we do need to stop and look around once in while because, let’s face it, we’re missing a lot of stuff.
Now that we’re 25 years deep into the 21st century, I feel the need to look around a lot more, if for no other reason, to remember and keep track of everything that we’ve seen in music. What have we missed? What have we forgotten? And if we’re not acquainted with how we got here, how can we possibly be ready for what might be coming next?
This is episode 3 of a series I call “The 100 Greatest Rock Moments of the Millennium So Far.” Let’s see how many of these things you remember.
Songs heard on this episode:
- Radiohead, Creep
- Tool, 7empest
- Imagine Dragons, Radioactive
- The Killers, Mr. Brightside
- Pantera, Walk
- Foo Fighters, Something From Nothing
- Nine Inch Nails, 34 Ghosts IV
- Tragically Hip, Poets
- Sinead O’Connor, The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
- U2, Even Better Than the Real Thing
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