The Decade the Music Died - Who Agrees?

The 1990's started with a bang and that bang was called The KLF. The sparse ambience of their 1990 LP Chill Out was an instant classic and their follow up LP, The White Room released in 1991 led them to becoming the world's biggest selling band that year. This led to them being invited to  be the opening act at the prestigious Brit Awards in February 1992, and in true KLF style, they restructured their hit 3am Eternal into a death-metal noise fest and as a 'stunned' music business audience watched in horror, Bill Drummond pulled out a machine gun and sprayed blank rounds over the audience before their manager announced "The KLF have just left the music business". Three months later they deleted their entire back catalogue and that was the end of the world's last great band.

From that day forward the nineties were a musical quagmire of humdrum house and boy band boredom. Top of the Pops was the UK's favourite music show and even that struggled to gain viewers through the nineties. The general public turned their backs on the pop charts, instead seeking solace in White Lightning and other chemical brews to make the music of the decade more palatable. But even cheap hard liquor was no antidote for The Spice Girls, Westlife and Radiohead. In fact the pop scene in the nineties was so dull even the tuneless Beatles-esque wannabe buskers Oasis sounded good (to some, not me). And I know almost every person reading this will initially disagree, run to their hi-fi and pull out an Oasis or Radiohead CD, press play, before realising I’m am in fact, correct.

If you're still under the illusion that the nineties were musically good, why not pop over to www.warble-entertainment.com and book yourself a nineties tribute act? There's not much to choose from because musicians with taste look towards other decades for inspiration, and rightly so!