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Fred Ward’s son, Django, is playing the upright bass. This is absolutely charming.

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I disagree with a lot of that.

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What specifically? I’m curious!

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The bands I listened to seem well placed, but there are a lot of bands on there I didn’t listen to enough to make any sort of determination.

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Well, I am not an expert on 90s bands but here are a few observations:

  • Nine Inch Nails is surely more angry than sad/horny.
  • Conversely, Smashing Pumpkins is located closer to Happy and Angry. But they are truly one of the saddest bands that ever existed. Sadder even than Despondent Todd and Self-Loathing Four. The Smashing Pumpkins should be ideally located somewhere between Sad and Self-Absorbed.
  • Cake has been located towards Angry. I can’t think of anything Cake did that was angry.
  • Garbage is located towards being very Sad. I generally find them to be ironically happy — a 90s kind of happy. Even their song ā€œI’m Only Happy When It Rainsā€ was intended to be an amusing parody.
  • And then there’s Green Day. Are they really band? That’s like calling Chicken McNuggets ā€œfood.ā€
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Hmm… Not sure I agree… so many of his songs (especially from the first few albums - up through the downward spiral) certainly have a harder edge, but they are almost uniformly about love and heartbreak, just… with loud synthy-noises and in discussions about violence and bondage. Think about Down in It, Closer, or Hurt, all pretty sad themes, I’d say… I guess there are songs like Head like a Whole or March of the Pigs - angry, for sure, but also a bit sad in it’s inevitable bowing to the realities of the system that an individual can’t really change? But he’s constantly focused on love and loss… For me, the aggressiveness of the music always hid a deeper pathos that Reznor was trying to convey…

Wait is that a band, or just a band you made up! :rofl: But I think I agree with you about SP! But honestly, given how much of a dick what’s his name turned out to… meh.

I was never a huge fan of Cake, but from the three songs I know by them, (The Distance, Rock and Roll Lifestyle, and Short Skirt/Long Jacket) seems like songs that are again, deceptive in their sound vs. content… I think there is some anger at play, despite the groovy nature of the music.

I guess, but what about other songs like Stupid Girl… I would characterize that song as more angry about how women are treated… So, I’d have them more on the angry side, really.

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Made up, but if they existed I would probably listen to them.

ā€œSadder even than Despondent Todd and Self-Loathing Four.ā€ was meant to be read in the voice of Blackadder.

I bet they’d be excellent! So mopey, much wow!

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Yeah, and it’s a little weird. I can kind of see Happy and Sad being a continuum on one axis, but treating Angry and Horny as opposites is weird, especially for 90s music.

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For me, it’s WAY too ā€˜non-POC.’

No Wu Tang, no SWV, no Cypress Hill, no Monica, no Tupac, no D’Angelo, no Biggie, no Shai, no Outkast, no Erykah Badu, etc…

I listened to some of the singers and groups in that meme, but the 90’s was obviously so much more than that, musically…

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Good point!

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And I don’t see how the midpoint of happy, sad, angry and horny is sarcasm. And what makes REM sarcastic?

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Might be best to start a new music topic.

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Black SIS Barbie; found randomly:

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That is also weird… I’ve always considered them to be much more on the deeply sincere side… Maybe Shiny Happy People is the exception…

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