MUSIC is not a GENRE27 Mai 2024

What’s an ALBUM?? And WHY?? – Part 5.1: '90s DIVERSITY or Whatever | MxG - Season 6 Episode 27

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Season 6 Episode 27 - What’s an ALBUM?? And WHY?? – Part 5.1: '90s DIVERSITY or Whatever

In Part 5.1 of my history of albums, I go through the first half of the 1990s. This decade was the peak for albums – both in sales and in size. CDs quickly rose and sold more albums than any other format in history. And they allowed artists to balloon their albums from the decades-long standard of around 40 minutes, to 75 minutes or longer. Albums morphed in a way that would eventually obscure their importance as a standalone work of art. At the same time, some of history’s greatest albums were released in the 1990s.

I take us through 1994, and show how the explosion of album releases and diversity gave us some of the most iconic music ever, but also started the fracturing that would come to define the music scene – and the world – in decades to come.

What are your favorite albums from the first half of the 1990s? Do you remember how diverse music was becoming? Discuss dammit!

BONUS MxTRA VIDEO: Women in 1990s music

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*music credit: REC - "Sing Owwt"

*mid roll music credit: The Drop - "Outerloper"

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