The 1990s
Below are our 13 articles in the 'the 1990s' category:
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 celebrations that happened ...
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 been three waves of it, the ...
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 punk that became popular – ...
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 influential musical city in Britain, a ...
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 a band.
In fact, ...
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 Madchester scene as the 1980s ...
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 Beatles. They were the kings of ...
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 be really electronic, its drum ...
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 what was essentially “classic” pop music, ...
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 period. Known to millions around the world by ...
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 something new, that would rapidly ...
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 that had prevailed 20 years ...
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 of the audiences. Instead, ...
