I love the 90's!
What's not to like, the Philippine Peso was 25 to a dollar. We witnessed the return of the Adidas Samba and Gazelle for your daily footwear needs. There's various states of curious experimentation, but that of course is another story.
Best of all, I loved the variety of music that came out back then. Different genres were coming out from all corners of the globe. Europe had their britpop, shoegaze, twee-tinged music. The US had their Soundtrack Music (Singles OST, Reality Bites OST, Empire Records OST, Mallrats OST, No Alternative Compilations and much much more...) the Philippines had a little bit of everything.
Back then, Indie would mean Indiana Jones and Alternative Music would range from Reggae, Grunge to Poprock. Nevertheless, it was a good time for a long-haired, Birkienstock wearing, don't fear the beer drinkin' music geek like me to collect all of the CDs to fill my heart's content (Back then we had Original Compact Discs that cost around Php 375 and left a huge crater in my chained wallet).
Fast forward 2010, I'm now sport a beer belly, I'm married with 2 kids, I do longboarding and I still am a music geek. Although I still love the 90's Alternative music scene, I have a love/hate relationship with anything Indie. Love because its mutant offsprings still rocks my socks off and as I said the variety it has spawned to pushes me to check out all of them (Thank you internet!!). Hate because there is just too much f@cking music out there...its crazy. I really dunno how Cris does it...how do you do it Cris?!?
Anyway enough chat...here's my 90's Indie List! (P.S. My definition of indie is as long as its not heard on any of our pop FM stations or any of those Pop Music Channels, then everything else is Indie.)
Anne on The Venus Stare
min on 5-Piece Generation X Sushi Roll
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