The 1990s...
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Bhangra, Music For Dancing
Bhangra has become one of the biggest music subcultures in Britain today. Its origins lie in the Punjab – an area now split between India and Pakistan – and the harvest...
British Hip-Hop
British hip-hop has had a rough ride not only for acceptance, but to fully establish its voice to distinguish itself from the genre’s American origins. There have really...
How Take That Began
For the first half of the 1990s they were the idols of the pop charts, with seven songs that went to number one, and record sales that outstripped everyone except the...
Madchester
Madchester was the name given to a local scene that influenced a nation at the end of the 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s. It made Manchester the most i...
Nirvana, UK and American Band
Buddhists spend lifetimes trying to achieve it, and revere it as the state of bliss. But Nirvana is probably better known to the population in general as the name of...
Stone Roses
If the Smiths were the high point of indie music then the Stone Roses were their dancing step children, producing music that was quite arguably the high point of the...
The 90s and Grunge Rock
Although grunge came of age at the beginning of the 1990s, the rock subculture actually had its roots in the mid 1980s in Seattle, as an underground rock music style...
The Development of House Music
House music is the starting point of all modern dance music, although it is itself simply a radical development of the disco sound of the 1970s. But it was the first to...
The History of Britpop
Britpop was perhaps a misnomer since there’d been British pop since the 1950s. But it became the shorthand term for the revival of music influenced by both the ‘60s and...
The Impact of Oasis On The 90s Music Scene
Arguably the most successful British group in a couple of decades Manchester’s Oasis helped take the sound of Britpop global, finding huge fame with...
The Impact of The Spice Girls on the 90s
More than anyone else, the Spice Girls took British music to a global level in the 1990s, far more than any of the boy bands to emerge during the...
The Jungle Music Scene 1994
In 1994 jungle became the first commercially successful outgrowth and major new development of the dance scene as it merged with hip-hop and Jamaican ragga to create...
The Return of Rock - Boo Radleys
Even with the ascendancy of dance music, rock never went away – it simply took on different colours, camouflaged by indie. It was a different type of rock to the music...
What Are Shoegazers?
No one seems to know who coined the term shoegazing but it was an apt word for several bands in the early 1990s whose performances (and records) were seemingly oblivious...
