7:35 "This was the pinnacle of heavy metal and Metallica's best album" .....No Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets and AJFA all are arguably "better" than the black album (even though I love the black album) Also why no mention "Facelift" Alice in Chains in 1990?!?!?
The Cranberries deserve more love and recognition, such and underrated band. Dolores is the greatest rock vocalist of all time, including male and female vocalists, IMO
Guys, your history of Rock series has been great. Yes, you and your friend's bit can be a little corny, but you guys were having so much fun doing the videos I loved it. Please, just keep having fun and I'm sure the rest of the Internet will soon find you guys. Good luck, love the channel thus far.
19:40 Heartbreakingly, Chris Cornell won't be doing any videos anymore, shirtless or otherwise. Probably the most indisputably massive loss to music of the past decade. I doubt there will ever be another person with the range Chris Cornell could get from his voice.
I think that bands that should be mentioned in the 2000's video are: Foo Fighters White Stripes Strokes Arctic Monkeys Kooks Linkin Park MCR FOB P!ATD New Found Glory Sum 41 Blink182 SOAD TOOL Slipknot Green Day Franz Ferdinand AFI Killers Kaiser Chiefs The Hives Kings of Leon Shinedown TDG Skillet Breaking Benjamin Radiohead QOTSA Muse RHCP Disturbed Fuel Rise Against Raconteurs Stone Sour Thirty Seconds to Mars Seether Avenged Sevenfold Trapt Mudvayne Chevelle Darkness Time for some hated bands: Creed Nickelback Limp Bizkit I know a pretty long list 😅
Yeah, that was one of my two disappointments with this video. (The other being the lack of acknowledgement of Guns 'N' Roses' Use Your Illusion). Morning Glory is legitimately in my Top 3 favorite albums ever.
2000s The Strokes Linkin Park Green day (american idiot) Blink 182 Interpol Muse The Killers Coldplay (sorry) My chemical Romance Radiohead (Kid A, In rainbows) Daft punk Arctic Monkeys Tool
Good episode. Pretty much accurate analysis as I was a college radio DJ in the mid 90’s. As for Radiohead, maybe it’s because I’m a Gen Xer who graduated college in the 90’s but at the time OK Computer was released, it was so refreshing to hear something different from an alternative rock band pushing themselves creatively. Many in my age group recognized that bands brilliance (although I prefer In Rainbows)
It is really, really stupid to bring generation into this because it has nothing to do with that. Radiohead has many Gen Z fans so ig we are just fuckin Gen Xers according to you, huh? Yeah, very dumb
JT, with being the top (or near top) live touring band since 1996 or so, Dave Matthews Band were a huge influence on millions of people in the 90s and they were able to sustain it to this day. That’s worth a mention if you do a 90s bonus video. Great video man, we appreciate all the work on these
For a 90's teenager like me this was an awesome nostalgia trip! I grew up on this music and it will always be close to my heart. Thanks so much for these videos.
I think heavy metal has been on the rise in the 00s and onwards. Bands to talk about Nightwish, Slipknot, Rammstein, Killswitch Engage. But also bands like Green Day, Clutch
JEFF BUCKLEY. I know he wasn't huge, but he contributed massively to music, and Grace was an incredible album. He deserved a mention! By the way, I'm ignoring Jeff's "hallelujah" cover because, while it's pretty and popular, it's honestly the most boring thing he ever did. Buckley's vocals on "Lover You Should Have Come Over", "Grace", and "Mojo Pin" were life-changing for me as a singer. Not to mention he was a killer guitar player, brought up on blues. Seriously, everyone go listen to Jeff Buckley. Oh, and he also fits into the "artists who tragically died too young in the mid 1990s" category. Had Buckley NOT died and continued making music, he probably would have been a part of this video.
I just discovered the series this week! Fun and entertaining!! I don't know the numbers needed for RUclips payouts, but I'm subscribing. I look forward to watching the other videos including band performances. Keep it going!!
Incubus' Make Yourself was definitely a solid pick to close off the 90s, but I personally prefer Dream Theater's 1999 album Metropolis, pt 2. Everything from Myung's melodic bass playing, LaBrie's soaring vocal style (definitely Dickinson-inspired), Portnoy's skillful drumming, Rudess' absolutely beautiful keyboard playing and John Petrucci's positively ludicrous guitar skills makes this album one of the greatest ever in my book. The collective instrumentation blends into this extremely fine mix that ages like a 5-star bottle of port wine. Not to mention this album is kind of a throwback to the 60s in a way due to its rock-opera structure. Every single song on the album is perfect and can stand on their own two feet like a collection of singles. Want a calming acoustic ballad? Through Her Eyes! Maybe you prefer more of an avant-garde act? Beyond this Life got ya covered. And let's not forget Petrucci's best song in terms of guitar playing, Overture 1928! This concept album also cemented Prog Metal as a driving force into the 2000s that would inspire even more bands to take it to the extreme with acts like Meshuggah and Periphery. It's a shame the album never really got the credit it deserved, not even breaking into the top 50 in the US album chart.
YESSSSS I 100% agree, definitely one of my favorite albums of all time and I really wish he would’ve included it because it is a truly influential album for a lot of prog metal and prog rock and metal bands.
I love this 90s episode of the history of Rock also RIP Neil Pert of RUSH today tho. Also, Love Radiohead, Stereolab, and other 90s acts. Do TOOL and Gorillaz more in the 2000s video.
I’m Canadian so the record that comes to mind in 1991 that I listened to over and over again and still love was road apple’s by the Tragically hip.. on the more international mega hit side of things it was RHCP-BSSM..I was 10 😊👍🏻
The first rock concert of the 2000s was Phish playing for 80,000 fans on a Seminole indian reservation in the Everglades from midnight til 7am on 1/1/00. It rocked hard.
I’m too late for this but, Jeff Buckley was awesome! He was a great singer and guitar player, even though he died at a very young age but he rocks so hard
Funny how Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails got renewed relevance in 2019 thanks to Lil Nas X of all people sampling them. He sampled Nine Inch Nails' "34 Ghosts IV" for his record-breaking hit "Old Town Road" and interpolated the chorus of Nirvana's "In Bloom" for "Panini."
please for the love of god mention The Microphones' records The Glow Pt. 2 and Mount Eerie in your 2000's video. they're a RIDICULOUSLY influential avant-garde folk band and the sole member, Phil Elverum, has kept making amazing music to this day. he deserves as much praise as possible.
thank you so much for these videos!! they have made learning infinitely more exciting!! i really enjoyed this series and i am so grateful for your work!
This series is phenomenal - I used it to teach a three week intensive "School of Rock" for high school kids. Couldn't have asked for a better "textbook." One notable omission I see for the 1990's episode is Hole's album "Live Through This." A dark and angry grunge masterpiece from a female perspective.
I don't know if Metal bands would be covered in the 2000s video, but bands like Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, Tool, Ayreon, Meshuggah, Nightwish, and Avenged Sevenfold carried on the Rock spirit, if not the pure sound, for the decade and they had their impact on the 90s. Additionally, bands Sabaton, Mastodon, Gojira, Daydream XI, and Seventh Wonder started in the 2000s and came out with great early albums. Also the djent movement really started in the late 2000s. I know what I have listed is more Metal than Rock, but metal is arguably the healthiest part of the modern "Rock" scene at the moment.
@@mountainmgtow5421 ....... Dream Theater never innovated in any way? Mastodon, Gojira, Tool, Sabaton, and Meshuggah were also stagnant in your eyes? Yes, maybe they are not the most popular, but that doesn't mean there was no innovation. Additionally, Avenged Sevenfold and Sabaton are at least medium in terms of popularity. You have a very distorted view of Rock. Yes what you like might have died or gone underground in the 90s, but things did keep happening.
@@nathanielhellman6952 Doesn't mean it was any good things, all of it has been done before and all the sounds are just copies of what's come already. Yes, Tool innovated - in the 90s.
@@mountainmgtow5421 It was good. All of the bands I have mentioned have released great songs and great albums. Lateralus was released in 2000 and it wasn't like anything else. If you want to check out something innovative then I suggest Wintersun. That group sounds like nothing else. Also stop being such a fanboy for 90s music. This video talks about how the vast majority of 90s Rock songs just fell in line with the simple stuff established in the 70s.
@@nathanielhellman6952 Lateralus? Wintersun? Nobody has ever heard of this. I can guarantee just about everyone in the world knows who Nirvana was. I'm not a fan of Nirvana, don't inject me personally into the debate. But I suspect this is going to turn ugly in a moment, so I'm dropping out.
Acts I hope you'll cover in the 2000s include acts that continued from the '90s such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Weezer, and No Doubt along with Nickelback (unfortunately), Coldplay (brings back a lot of childhood memories), Maroon 5 (before they sold out hard), Train, The Killers, Linkin Park, Audioslave, Evanescence, Jimmy Eat World, Puddle Of Mudd, Kings of Leon, Three Doors Down, Franz Ferdinand, etc. Pop-rock acts like P!nk, Avril Lavigne, and Kelly Clarkson (Breakaway era with "Since U Been Gone), etc. And pop-punk/emo bands such as Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Simple Plan, Boys Like Girls, The All-American Rejects, Paramore, etc. Some non-rock acts you could discuss would include more of the rap artists like JAY-Z, Kanye West, Ludacris, Eminem, Nelly, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent and OutKast. The R&B acts like Usher, Beyonce, and Alicia Keys. And don't forget the pop acts like Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry, The Black Eyed Peas, Justin Timberlake and Rihanna. In terms of cultural references, you can parody the way RUclips and social media used to be when they started out as well as CDs turning over to digital download as the primary form of musical consumption in the 2000s that started with Napster and went over to iTunes.
You should do the 2000s man, that's my decade of being a teenager to young adult, moving from skateboarding to playing music in 05'. The comment section pretty much has all the bands I would have suggested. 😎 great job guys! peace out 🤓 -bassandguitarscales
The 2000 was my teenage years and i could speak so much on my favorite rock in that era. Nu metal, emo and the heights of poppunk. Mcr, coheed and cambria, greendays last great album american idiot, the used, from first to last, hawthorn heights, panic at the disco!, wasnt korns album issues this era ?to thats my favorite, fanz Ferdinand, modest mouse, fall of troy, some of incubus' greatest work, im sure im forgetting some blink 182 prolly, it was very full of great music, and mcr specifically spoke to millions of people we emos are rather loyal they still have 6 million follows on spotify and you cant tell me welcome to the black parade influenced by queen didnt match up. To some of the oldest greats.
Nice to have it on RUclips finally. I too grew up in the 90's, and the Nirvana cult was still very much alive when I was in my teens (second half of the 90's - early 00's). I'll be reposting my favourite albums of the decade: Björk: Debut and Post David Bowie: 1. Outside (one of his most underrated albums) Blur: Parklife Jef Buckley: Grace Eric Clapton: Unplugged Eels: Electro Shock Blues Hedningarna: Trä (Swedish/Finnish folktronica) C.V. Jørgensen: Sjælland (Danish "lyric rock" artist, here mixed with jazz and electronics) Kashmir: Cruzential and The Good Life (Danish rock band, on Cruzential they are kind of mixing grunge with funk and Primus, on The Good Life there are clearly echoes of Radiohead, Jeff Buckley and Pink Floyd) Nirvana: Nevermind and In Utero Portishead: Dummy Pulp: Different Class Radiohead: The Bends and OK Computer R.E.M: Automatic For the People (+ maybe New Adventures in Hi-Fi) Sorten Muld: Mark II (Danish folktronica, based on old folk ballads) Sort Sol: Flow My Firetear (Danish alternative rock - features Link Wray on one track btw.) Sting: The Soul Cages (another one I can go along with too) Under Byen: Kyst (another Danish band - a bit difficult to describe, but the music is very dreamy and sometimes slightly jazz-influenced - it includes, apart from usual rock instruments, things like accordion, cello and saw - very poetic lyrics too btw.) U2: Achtung Baby
Good job with the video! Enjoy a lot of the acts you listed. And I agree about the teen pop acts. I have a lot of older cousins who like this music so it already annoys me when I hear the music. As one RUclips critic put it, grunge was the definitive sound of the '90s alongside hip-hop, not the boy bands, not the pop princesses or any of that other teen pop crap. People of my generation who've didn't experience the '90s a lot seem to think the later teen pop half is what the entire '90s was like.
Haha! Alta Vista. You know what you are doing. But this is the last decade of rock n roll. I think nirvana destroyed it with those grunge groups. The singers all made the lyrics sound long and tortured. Not my favorite decade.
How the hell do you guys make such good videos? I haven’t really found videos like this that have this much effort or go this in depth. Good job on these videos. Also, I hate to say it here, but I think significant other by limp bizkit is better than dark side of the moon.
Another ace!!! Only thing is I’d like to have seen you connect this video a bit more to the 50s video. A mention of early 60s (crappy) teen idols and a bigger focus on the British Invasion I’d say was needed. Still, another solid work
Kurt Kobain--oh, man. I only sorta knew Nirvana's music myself at the time (I was in high school and miserable--so I actually WAS the correct audience :P) but I remember the day he died--I went over to my friend's house, and her little sister (only a couple years younger) pulled out a rock magazine with him on the cover and showed it to me while crying her eyes out. That's my I Was Really There '90s memory, I guess. Happier '90s memories--I went online for the first time in 1996, so I do know the early Internet jokes. Let me tell you young'uns: That part of the video is only exaggerated a _little_. :P I remember Lunchables (even though I was technically too old to be eating them, but ask me if I've ever cared), the Macarena, the famous sitcoms, and many of the hits from the decade including both dark and happy ones. But I was an '80s kid at heart, which is why I wasn't paying much attention to the angstier stuff at the time. It just bummed me out too much. NOW, I listen back to '90s music and I'm like "Dude, we still had proper GUITARS back then! We still had ROCK! Man, I never realised how lucky we were..." (Although, mind you, I also _like_ electronic music ('80s kid, remember) and think songs with synthesizers can still rock/be awesome in general, but that's not important right now.) Also, funny you covered Woodstock '99--I still have my t-shirt for that. It still kinda fits. XD (I didn't actually go--my mom got it for me as a present because it had tie-dye and a guitar on it and she knew I was into classic rock. Heh.)
Just a slice of the 2000s Green Day (American Idiot) The Strokes Linkin Park The White Stripes Foo Fighters Fall Out Boy My Chemical Romance Panic! At The Disco Coldplay Blink 182 The Killers Paramore Arctic Monkeys Radiohead Queens of the Stone Age The Black Keys Sum 41 Arcade Fire Kings of Leon Slipknot Metallica and Napster Muse Weezer Disturbed Beck And if you did the 2010s... Greta Van Fleet The Struts Foo Fighters (Wasting Light) Green Day (21st Century Breakdown, Revolution Radio) Jack White Some from earlier (Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, etc.) Imagine Dragons Twenty One Pilots Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Thank you!
Great video! I was alive and well during the 90s but I didn't know most of these bands so this was an educational viewing for me. Obviously I know and love Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers - who doesn't. I think I listened to more R&B and Hip Hop back then and also a lot of Britpop. The Soul Cages is an amazing album - musically and lyrically.
My CD collection in '92 (17yrs old) Pearl Jam (My fav and still rockin) Red Hot Chili Peppers Nirvana Rage Against The Machine (Lyrics ringing loud today) Nine Inch Nails (Woodstock '94 performance is must see) Smashing Pumpkins Dr Dre Ice Cube Cypress Hill DJ Quick
Bon Jovi, Radiohead and Nirvana, that's pretty much all one needs from 90s mainstream rock, sprinkled with some Oasis... but pop was pretty good back then! Thank God I was a teen in the 80s...!
41:48 - I'm a 43 year old guy who grew up on my parent's Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin albums. I have all those great albums on every modern format including 180g remastered vinyl. I will say that Jagged Little Pill stands up to anything from the 90s. When I was in college that was THE album. In 1995-96, you could hear it blasting out of every girl's dorm room at the University of Toledo, but every guy I knew secretly loved that album too. Today we don't have to be so secretive about it lol. And if in fact she wrote that album about her angst with breaking up with Dave Coulier, I still feel terrible for the guy 25 years later lol
@@therooster72 I'd have loved that class! School got so much cooler after I finished. My son had a _surfing_ class. I'd have given just about anything to go surfing at school as a teenager.
JT bro thanks for making these videos I’ve spent a ton of tome watching them, pausing, looking up the bands you mention, rewinding, etc. and I just love everything you present! I’m also really intrigued that you don’t feel any important new forms of rock have been created since the 90’s. How are bands like sum 41, my chemical romance, the strokes, muse, or any of the pop punk bands not offering something new to the development of rock? Is it just because they’re too poppy? I could see that about pop punk but what about Emo rock? Anyway I’m curious to see what you do in your next video if there is one! I hope there is. For one thing I just feel like I still don’t understand how rock evolved from the grunge sound of the 90’s to the emo pop of my high school days( such as boys like girls ) did that all just start with Green Day and blink -182? So yeah please explain you can!
You'll definitely see it in the upcoming 2000s video! In terms of going from the grunge early 90s era to the pop-punk sound of the late 90s, Green Day and Blink-182 certainly had a big hand in that. But it's also just that tastes changed. The early 90s had a darker sensibility in both rock and hip-hop, but as things got a little too real with Kurt's suicide, the murders of Biggie and 2Pac, audiences were ready for escapism. Hence why pop really started taking over (Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, etc) and rock followed suit with poppier songs, which it never really came back from in the mainstream.
I have loved watching this series. And the 90s was my era. But we had a whole lot of fantastic bands in Australia that I think you missed out on in the 90's. They never quite made it across the Pacific. Lucky us :) Below are just some of the great Austalian Alt Rock bands of the decade. Silverchair Powderfinger Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Spiderbait Skunkhour Tumbleweed Beasts of Bourbon RatCat The Superjesus Baby Animals The Whitlams You Am I Something for Kate The Cruel Sea Jebidiah Grinspoon Regurgitator The Living End Frenzal Rhomb
Another great documentary!! Only critique is i would have spent a lot more time on Korn, they were the pioneers of Nu-metal and were one of the biggest bands in the world in the late 90s
I’ve been waiting for this video since you made the first one of the 50s. Great video as always I appreciate the fact that all the videos still have the same feel to them as a tone and as a whole. You can really play all episodes back to back like a long documentary. As far as a 2000s and beyond, I agree with you completely on how it feels like the 90s is the end of rock and roll. But I feel you could maybe conclude it with a 2000s video but the only bands off the top of my head are Staind, Puddle of Mudd, more KoRn since you teased them, Black Keys, Kid Rock, Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, Nickleback,, Evanescense, System of the Down, Godsmack, and Drowning Pool (the Sinner album). Thanks for an awesome series, this is one of my personal great lil journeys I had in this past decade that I really appreciate honestly, Respect all the way from Dallas Tx.
I remember the day "Free As a Bird" was released, and what a day that was. On the Billboard charts, it debuted at #1, knocking Boys II Men off the top spot! I saw that, and all I could think was the Beatles stepping into the room, pushing everyone else out of the way, saying, "Aside, peasants, the royalty has arrived."
Just a personal opinion, but Faith no More made really interesting stuff on the 90's with their fusion of funk, metal, rap, avant garde, etc. One of the best bands of the 90's IMO
Man I still feel like this was yesterday I was 15 1990 i have so many memories of the early 90s but i spent most of the 90s dressing in Adidas track suites playing a strang type of metal in Vancouver kind of cross of new metal and thrash great band called dialate thing about the 90s playing music was all about trying to sound different like the band clutch the self titled I still love that album and ministry N.W.O I was a rock and roll outlaw lol
I’m seeing a pattern here
A decade starts with low corporate influence on music and ends with the opposite.
Good observation. Though the 60s was the exact opposite.
That is the trend that’s why after the midway marker for any decade it goes downhill fast
@@JTCurtisMusic I disagree the 60s is more of a mixed bag at the end of that decade flower power was commercialized and whack the monkeys come to mind
These videos deserve so muchh recognition. I know how much effort you put into them. I love these vids
They’re so entertaining
7:35 "This was the pinnacle of heavy metal and Metallica's best album"
.....No
Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets and AJFA all are arguably "better" than the black album (even though I love the black album)
Also why no mention "Facelift" Alice in Chains in 1990?!?!?
@@tremblence this is opinion based obviously
The Cranberries deserve more love and recognition, such and underrated band.
Dolores is the greatest rock vocalist of all time, including male and female vocalists, IMO
Yeah I wish they would’ve talked about the more they had a huge impact on the alternative 90s scene and just alternative rock in general.
Guys, your history of Rock series has been great. Yes, you and your friend's bit can be a little corny, but you guys were having so much fun doing the videos I loved it. Please, just keep having fun and I'm sure the rest of the Internet will soon find you guys. Good luck, love the channel thus far.
I just found these videos, so yes they are spreading online. RUclips algorithm suggested them and I'm so glad!! Love this series, fun and informative.
19:40 Heartbreakingly, Chris Cornell won't be doing any videos anymore, shirtless or otherwise. Probably the most indisputably massive loss to music of the past decade. I doubt there will ever be another person with the range Chris Cornell could get from his voice.
The over-the-cop corny, silly side-sick comedy is eye rolling but so entertaining and fun at the same time. Keep it up!
The fact that incredible musicians are now reduced to making you tube videos tells you how much music has fallen. The girl here has an amazing voice
... You're not wrong...
I think that bands that should be mentioned in the 2000's video are:
Foo Fighters
White Stripes
Strokes
Arctic Monkeys
Kooks
Linkin Park
MCR
FOB
P!ATD
New Found Glory
Sum 41
Blink182
SOAD
TOOL
Slipknot
Green Day
Franz Ferdinand
AFI
Killers
Kaiser Chiefs
The Hives
Kings of Leon
Shinedown
TDG
Skillet
Breaking Benjamin
Radiohead
QOTSA
Muse
RHCP
Disturbed
Fuel
Rise Against
Raconteurs
Stone Sour
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Seether
Avenged Sevenfold
Trapt
Mudvayne
Chevelle
Darkness
Time for some hated bands:
Creed
Nickelback
Limp Bizkit
I know a pretty long list 😅
Really great list! I'm gonna add Evans Blue...
@@allisgrace1313 Thank you
I do think more emphasis should’ve been put on Britpop, that was the defining movement of 94-97. Oasis were the best selling artist of the decade.
I agree. Definitely Maybe by Oasis and Parklife by Blur were probably the biggest British records of 1994.
americans don’t like them
It’s just too lame to mention lol 😆
Yeah, that was one of my two disappointments with this video. (The other being the lack of acknowledgement of Guns 'N' Roses' Use Your Illusion). Morning Glory is legitimately in my Top 3 favorite albums ever.
@@njandrews4105 sorry not everything can be aggressive dumbed down music for mouth breathers but we will pray for you 🙏👍💋
2000s
The Strokes
Linkin Park
Green day (american idiot)
Blink 182
Interpol
Muse
The Killers
Coldplay (sorry)
My chemical Romance
Radiohead (Kid A, In rainbows)
Daft punk
Arctic Monkeys
Tool
Daft punk isnt much of a rock band
sorry for what exactly?
Coldplay gets too much hate
Daft punk wtf 🤷🏻♂️😆
I was dealing with my anxiety and depression today. Your videos helped me thank you.
You're in good company ❤
@@JTCurtisMusic Thanks man. I have been playing guitar since I was 12, I am 43 now. You can say that music saved my life. Great job!
Its amazing how memorable these songs are, even for me being 0-6 during this decade. I'm so excited to see the 2000's!
Good episode. Pretty much accurate analysis as I was a college radio DJ in the mid 90’s.
As for Radiohead, maybe it’s because I’m a Gen Xer who graduated college in the 90’s but at the time OK Computer was released, it was so refreshing to hear something different from an alternative rock band pushing themselves creatively. Many in my age group recognized that bands brilliance (although I prefer In Rainbows)
It is really, really stupid to bring generation into this because it has nothing to do with that. Radiohead has many Gen Z fans so ig we are just fuckin Gen Xers according to you, huh? Yeah, very dumb
I was born in 1982. Eric Clapton's "Unplugged" is an album that really inspire me to learn how to play play guitar in the early 90's. And Queen.
I love this series! I hope you'll consider at least one more decade. Thanks for all the work that you have put into these terrific video histories.
JT, with being the top (or near top) live touring band since 1996 or so, Dave Matthews Band were a huge influence on millions of people in the 90s and they were able to sustain it to this day. That’s worth a mention if you do a 90s bonus video. Great video man, we appreciate all the work on these
Milions?
Huh?
Huh?
PLEASE, take me back to the 70's - the music, the fashion, the people. You never know what you've got till it's gone !
For a 90's teenager like me this was an awesome nostalgia trip! I grew up on this music and it will always be close to my heart. Thanks so much for these videos.
The first half of the 90s imo is the greatest time for rock music in history. That's where rock hit its peak I think.
I think heavy metal has been on the rise in the 00s and onwards. Bands to talk about Nightwish, Slipknot, Rammstein, Killswitch Engage. But also bands like Green Day, Clutch
JEFF BUCKLEY. I know he wasn't huge, but he contributed massively to music, and Grace was an incredible album. He deserved a mention! By the way, I'm ignoring Jeff's "hallelujah" cover because, while it's pretty and popular, it's honestly the most boring thing he ever did. Buckley's vocals on "Lover You Should Have Come Over", "Grace", and "Mojo Pin" were life-changing for me as a singer. Not to mention he was a killer guitar player, brought up on blues. Seriously, everyone go listen to Jeff Buckley.
Oh, and he also fits into the "artists who tragically died too young in the mid 1990s" category. Had Buckley NOT died and continued making music, he probably would have been a part of this video.
Even 2 years after the fact. The work you put into this is truly appreciated. I hope this youtube page is still paying you for this gold!!
I'll put it this way, it ain't covering my rent anytime soon LOL.
I just discovered the series this week! Fun and entertaining!! I don't know the numbers needed for RUclips payouts, but I'm subscribing. I look forward to watching the other videos including band performances. Keep it going!!
I don’t think you can get away with not talking about SISTEM OF A DOWN!!!
that woman is so good at singing tho! at 42:01 when she's singing alanis i got chills
Thank you so much! :)
The Tragically Hip was and still is one of my all time favourite rock bands from the 90’s. RIP Gord Downey.
I fucking loved it. Was genuinely funny and the nostalgia, damn.
Incubus' Make Yourself was definitely a solid pick to close off the 90s, but I personally prefer Dream Theater's 1999 album Metropolis, pt 2. Everything from Myung's melodic bass playing, LaBrie's soaring vocal style (definitely Dickinson-inspired), Portnoy's skillful drumming, Rudess' absolutely beautiful keyboard playing and John Petrucci's positively ludicrous guitar skills makes this album one of the greatest ever in my book. The collective instrumentation blends into this extremely fine mix that ages like a 5-star bottle of port wine. Not to mention this album is kind of a throwback to the 60s in a way due to its rock-opera structure.
Every single song on the album is perfect and can stand on their own two feet like a collection of singles. Want a calming acoustic ballad? Through Her Eyes! Maybe you prefer more of an avant-garde act? Beyond this Life got ya covered. And let's not forget Petrucci's best song in terms of guitar playing, Overture 1928! This concept album also cemented Prog Metal as a driving force into the 2000s that would inspire even more bands to take it to the extreme with acts like Meshuggah and Periphery. It's a shame the album never really got the credit it deserved, not even breaking into the top 50 in the US album chart.
YESSSSS I 100% agree, definitely one of my favorite albums of all time and I really wish he would’ve included it because it is a truly influential album for a lot of prog metal and prog rock and metal bands.
literally every song mentioned was in my playlist: music history 101
I love this 90s episode of the history of Rock also RIP Neil Pert of RUSH today tho. Also, Love Radiohead, Stereolab, and other 90s acts. Do TOOL and Gorillaz more in the 2000s video.
I’m Canadian so the record that comes to mind in 1991 that I listened to over and over again and still love was road apple’s by the Tragically hip.. on the more international mega hit side of things it was RHCP-BSSM..I was 10 😊👍🏻
90s are the BEST decade in rock imo... But I just love grunge and garage sounds.
The first rock concert of the 2000s was Phish playing for 80,000 fans on a Seminole indian reservation in the Everglades from midnight til 7am on 1/1/00. It rocked hard.
Oh my God I absolutely loved you two's Bevis & Butthead impressions!
You have no idea how happy you’ve made me by mentioning Mother Love Bone.
I’m too late for this but, Jeff Buckley was awesome! He was a great singer and guitar player, even though he died at a very young age but he rocks so hard
This was good stuff ... I forgot how good that era made me feel... Nice work guys..
90s Rock songs are destined to play on rock music stations forever
Im finishing conservatory 4th grade and this show prepared me for history exams totally
i love it
Funny how Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails got renewed relevance in 2019 thanks to Lil Nas X of all people sampling them. He sampled Nine Inch Nails' "34 Ghosts IV" for his record-breaking hit "Old Town Road" and interpolated the chorus of Nirvana's "In Bloom" for "Panini."
How is it funny
you think famous bands "got relevance" because an unknown that nobody heard about sampled them?
lil nas x is trash
please for the love of god mention The Microphones' records The Glow Pt. 2 and Mount Eerie in your 2000's video. they're a RIDICULOUSLY influential avant-garde folk band and the sole member, Phil Elverum, has kept making amazing music to this day. he deserves as much praise as possible.
thank you so much for these videos!! they have made learning infinitely more exciting!! i really enjoyed this series and i am so grateful for your work!
This series is phenomenal - I used it to teach a three week intensive "School of Rock" for high school kids. Couldn't have asked for a better "textbook." One notable omission I see for the 1990's episode is Hole's album "Live Through This." A dark and angry grunge masterpiece from a female perspective.
I absolutely loved the series !
Thank you!
I don't know if Metal bands would be covered in the 2000s video, but bands like Blind Guardian, Dream Theater, Tool, Ayreon, Meshuggah, Nightwish, and Avenged Sevenfold carried on the Rock spirit, if not the pure sound, for the decade and they had their impact on the 90s. Additionally, bands Sabaton, Mastodon, Gojira, Daydream XI, and Seventh Wonder started in the 2000s and came out with great early albums. Also the djent movement really started in the late 2000s. I know what I have listed is more Metal than Rock, but metal is arguably the healthiest part of the modern "Rock" scene at the moment.
The problem is that those bands never made an impact on the music industry or innovated in any way. Everything died with the 90s, sadly.
@@mountainmgtow5421 ....... Dream Theater never innovated in any way? Mastodon, Gojira, Tool, Sabaton, and Meshuggah were also stagnant in your eyes? Yes, maybe they are not the most popular, but that doesn't mean there was no innovation. Additionally, Avenged Sevenfold and Sabaton are at least medium in terms of popularity. You have a very distorted view of Rock. Yes what you like might have died or gone underground in the 90s, but things did keep happening.
@@nathanielhellman6952 Doesn't mean it was any good things, all of it has been done before and all the sounds are just copies of what's come already.
Yes, Tool innovated - in the 90s.
@@mountainmgtow5421 It was good. All of the bands I have mentioned have released great songs and great albums. Lateralus was released in 2000 and it wasn't like anything else. If you want to check out something innovative then I suggest Wintersun. That group sounds like nothing else.
Also stop being such a fanboy for 90s music. This video talks about how the vast majority of 90s Rock songs just fell in line with the simple stuff established in the 70s.
@@nathanielhellman6952 Lateralus? Wintersun? Nobody has ever heard of this. I can guarantee just about everyone in the world knows who Nirvana was. I'm not a fan of Nirvana, don't inject me personally into the debate.
But I suspect this is going to turn ugly in a moment, so I'm dropping out.
radiohead is my favorite band that originated in the 90s, i still love them today tho
I can die in peace. Enjoy this decade when I was a teenager, proud Xer. God save the 90s. Really crazy years.
This videos are just so great and the quality is just a step above the rest.
Acts I hope you'll cover in the 2000s include acts that continued from the '90s such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Weezer, and No Doubt along with Nickelback (unfortunately), Coldplay (brings back a lot of childhood memories), Maroon 5 (before they sold out hard), Train, The Killers, Linkin Park, Audioslave, Evanescence, Jimmy Eat World, Puddle Of Mudd, Kings of Leon, Three Doors Down, Franz Ferdinand, etc. Pop-rock acts like P!nk, Avril Lavigne, and Kelly Clarkson (Breakaway era with "Since U Been Gone), etc. And pop-punk/emo bands such as Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Simple Plan, Boys Like Girls, The All-American Rejects, Paramore, etc. Some non-rock acts you could discuss would include more of the rap artists like JAY-Z, Kanye West, Ludacris, Eminem, Nelly, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent and OutKast. The R&B acts like Usher, Beyonce, and Alicia Keys. And don't forget the pop acts like Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry, The Black Eyed Peas, Justin Timberlake and Rihanna. In terms of cultural references, you can parody the way RUclips and social media used to be when they started out as well as CDs turning over to digital download as the primary form of musical consumption in the 2000s that started with Napster and went over to iTunes.
You should do the 2000s man, that's my decade of being a teenager to young adult, moving from skateboarding to playing music in 05'.
The comment section pretty much has all the bands I would have suggested. 😎
great job guys! peace out 🤓
-bassandguitarscales
The 2000 was my teenage years and i could speak so much on my favorite rock in that era. Nu metal, emo and the heights of poppunk. Mcr, coheed and cambria, greendays last great album american idiot, the used, from first to last, hawthorn heights, panic at the disco!, wasnt korns album issues this era ?to thats my favorite, fanz Ferdinand, modest mouse, fall of troy, some of incubus' greatest work, im sure im forgetting some blink 182 prolly, it was very full of great music, and mcr specifically spoke to millions of people we emos are rather loyal they still have 6 million follows on spotify and you cant tell me welcome to the black parade influenced by queen didnt match up. To some of the oldest greats.
Started with the 70s and now in the 90s . I'll go back to the 60s after this one. Yall did a great job on these videos and it's appreciated.
Nice to have it on RUclips finally. I too grew up in the 90's, and the Nirvana cult was still very much alive when I was in my teens (second half of the 90's - early 00's). I'll be reposting my favourite albums of the decade:
Björk: Debut and Post
David Bowie: 1. Outside (one of his most underrated albums)
Blur: Parklife
Jef Buckley: Grace
Eric Clapton: Unplugged
Eels: Electro Shock Blues
Hedningarna: Trä (Swedish/Finnish folktronica)
C.V. Jørgensen: Sjælland (Danish "lyric rock" artist, here mixed with jazz and electronics)
Kashmir: Cruzential and The Good Life (Danish rock band, on Cruzential they are kind of mixing grunge with funk and Primus, on The Good Life there are clearly echoes of Radiohead, Jeff Buckley and Pink Floyd)
Nirvana: Nevermind and In Utero
Portishead: Dummy
Pulp: Different Class
Radiohead: The Bends and OK Computer
R.E.M: Automatic For the People (+ maybe New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
Sorten Muld: Mark II (Danish folktronica, based on old folk ballads)
Sort Sol: Flow My Firetear (Danish alternative rock - features Link Wray on one track btw.)
Sting: The Soul Cages (another one I can go along with too)
Under Byen: Kyst (another Danish band - a bit difficult to describe, but the music is very dreamy and sometimes slightly jazz-influenced - it includes, apart from usual rock instruments, things like accordion, cello and saw - very poetic lyrics too btw.)
U2: Achtung Baby
Last decade of good rock music.
Music in the 1990's sucked.
@@503punxoioioi9so do you
The White Stripes?!?!?!
@@SleepingonThefloornah I'm pretty sure it's you who sucked .
Good job with the video! Enjoy a lot of the acts you listed. And I agree about the teen pop acts. I have a lot of older cousins who like this music so it already annoys me when I hear the music. As one RUclips critic put it, grunge was the definitive sound of the '90s alongside hip-hop, not the boy bands, not the pop princesses or any of that other teen pop crap. People of my generation who've didn't experience the '90s a lot seem to think the later teen pop half is what the entire '90s was like.
Teen pop in the 90s was the equivalent of kids listening to the carpenters or captain and tenille in the 70s.
I think Gorrilaz should get a 2000s mention
Oasis , blur nirvana , foo fighters sting , and more are legendary rock and roll bands of the 90s and perhaps of all time
Thanks for the passing mention of Blind Melon, RIP Shannon Hoon. They were a lot more hard than their commercial video "No Rain".
I love watching your videos because I always rediscover good songs to add to my playlists
Dude, I have no idea how you have only 15k subs like these videos are epic as hell and you really put so much effort, ily
Came recently only across this great rock-document series . Excellent job guys and really well done, enjoyed the jokes and many references 🎸🎸👌🏻👌🏻👍🏻👍🏻
1994 was best yr for rock n roll. So many great albums made that yr. Especially debuts
Please do the 2000s! I love the series, it’s taught me so much about pop culture
I love Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails and Ministry! These are such awesome bands!
Uh... we did like a whole section about Nine Inch Nails reacting to it like Beavis and Butthead. How did you miss that?
Haha! Alta Vista. You know what you are doing. But this is the last decade of rock n roll. I think nirvana destroyed it with those grunge groups. The singers all made the lyrics sound long and tortured. Not my favorite decade.
This was great! Watched the 70’s and the 90’s with my teenage daughter.
How the hell do you guys make such good videos? I haven’t really found videos like this that have this much effort or go this in depth. Good job on these videos. Also, I hate to say it here, but I think significant other by limp bizkit is better than dark side of the moon.
Thank you! I owe a lot to my father, who was our original director.
I definitely recommend the band Del Amitri, who I believe are criminally underrated.
This is great! You guys are hilarious!
Another ace!!! Only thing is I’d like to have seen you connect this video a bit more to the 50s video. A mention of early 60s (crappy) teen idols and a bigger focus on the British Invasion I’d say was needed. Still, another solid work
Kurt Kobain--oh, man. I only sorta knew Nirvana's music myself at the time (I was in high school and miserable--so I actually WAS the correct audience :P) but I remember the day he died--I went over to my friend's house, and her little sister (only a couple years younger) pulled out a rock magazine with him on the cover and showed it to me while crying her eyes out. That's my I Was Really There '90s memory, I guess.
Happier '90s memories--I went online for the first time in 1996, so I do know the early Internet jokes. Let me tell you young'uns: That part of the video is only exaggerated a _little_. :P I remember Lunchables (even though I was technically too old to be eating them, but ask me if I've ever cared), the Macarena, the famous sitcoms, and many of the hits from the decade including both dark and happy ones.
But I was an '80s kid at heart, which is why I wasn't paying much attention to the angstier stuff at the time. It just bummed me out too much. NOW, I listen back to '90s music and I'm like "Dude, we still had proper GUITARS back then! We still had ROCK! Man, I never realised how lucky we were..." (Although, mind you, I also _like_ electronic music ('80s kid, remember) and think songs with synthesizers can still rock/be awesome in general, but that's not important right now.)
Also, funny you covered Woodstock '99--I still have my t-shirt for that. It still kinda fits. XD
(I didn't actually go--my mom got it for me as a present because it had tie-dye and a guitar on it and she knew I was into classic rock. Heh.)
these kids seem to be having fun! I was working in Europe , not the UK, for the 90s, so I only heard the big hits on the radio
Just a slice of the 2000s
Green Day (American Idiot)
The Strokes
Linkin Park
The White Stripes
Foo Fighters
Fall Out Boy
My Chemical Romance
Panic! At The Disco
Coldplay
Blink 182
The Killers
Paramore
Arctic Monkeys
Radiohead
Queens of the Stone Age
The Black Keys
Sum 41
Arcade Fire
Kings of Leon
Slipknot
Metallica and Napster
Muse
Weezer
Disturbed
Beck
And if you did the 2010s...
Greta Van Fleet
The Struts
Foo Fighters (Wasting Light)
Green Day (21st Century Breakdown, Revolution Radio)
Jack White
Some from earlier (Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, etc.)
Imagine Dragons
Twenty One Pilots
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Thank you!
black rebel motorcycle club and foster the people for 2010s
Gotta yeet with the fleet bro. 🤘🏼
Would agree if you didn’t include father of all... 😄 that album was a joke
Never thought about it till he said it but that is the first decade I also complete remember from beginning to end
Great video! I was alive and well during the 90s but I didn't know most of these bands so this was an educational viewing for me. Obviously I know and love Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers - who doesn't. I think I listened to more R&B and Hip Hop back then and also a lot of Britpop. The Soul Cages is an amazing album - musically and lyrically.
I am a 80's metal kid. bands like Motley Crue, Poison, Guns N' Roses are the band that got me into metal. I love all metal now!!
1995 was a sad year. Counterculture icon and guitarist Jerry Garcia dies in rehab leaving a vast musical legacy
My CD collection in '92 (17yrs old)
Pearl Jam (My fav and still rockin)
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nirvana
Rage Against The Machine (Lyrics ringing loud today)
Nine Inch Nails (Woodstock '94 performance is must see)
Smashing Pumpkins
Dr Dre
Ice Cube
Cypress Hill
DJ Quick
You know, there was a lot of cool music in the 90s
Bon Jovi, Radiohead and Nirvana, that's pretty much all one needs from 90s mainstream rock, sprinkled with some Oasis... but pop was pretty good back then!
Thank God I was a teen in the 80s...!
41:48 - I'm a 43 year old guy who grew up on my parent's Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin albums. I have all those great albums on every modern format including 180g remastered vinyl. I will say that Jagged Little Pill stands up to anything from the 90s. When I was in college that was THE album. In 1995-96, you could hear it blasting out of every girl's dorm room at the University of Toledo, but every guy I knew secretly loved that album too. Today we don't have to be so secretive about it lol.
And if in fact she wrote that album about her angst with breaking up with Dave Coulier, I still feel terrible for the guy 25 years later lol
I love these videos. When my history of rock teacher was tired he would put these on and I really enjoy them. Thanks for the entertainment 👍
"History of Rock" is a subject where you go to school??
@@RiffRaffMama. yes, it's actually a very fun and interesting class
@@therooster72 I'd have loved that class! School got so much cooler after I finished. My son had a _surfing_ class. I'd have given just about anything to go surfing at school as a teenager.
Thanks for the video. Brings back lots of memories!
JT bro thanks for making these videos I’ve spent a ton of tome watching them, pausing, looking up the bands you mention, rewinding, etc. and I just love everything you present!
I’m also really intrigued that you don’t feel any important new forms of rock have been created since the 90’s. How are bands like sum 41, my chemical romance, the strokes, muse, or any of the pop punk bands not offering something new to the development of rock? Is it just because they’re too poppy? I could see that about pop punk but what about Emo rock?
Anyway I’m curious to see what you do in your next video if there is one! I hope there is. For one thing I just feel like I still don’t understand how rock evolved from the grunge sound of the 90’s to the emo pop of my high school days( such as boys like girls ) did that all just start with Green Day and blink -182?
So yeah please explain you can!
You'll definitely see it in the upcoming 2000s video!
In terms of going from the grunge early 90s era to the pop-punk sound of the late 90s, Green Day and Blink-182 certainly had a big hand in that. But it's also just that tastes changed. The early 90s had a darker sensibility in both rock and hip-hop, but as things got a little too real with Kurt's suicide, the murders of Biggie and 2Pac, audiences were ready for escapism. Hence why pop really started taking over (Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys, etc) and rock followed suit with poppier songs, which it never really came back from in the mainstream.
@@JTCurtisMusic bro wow thanks for responding that makes sense!
We are watching jt Curtis videos about rock and roll in music class
Tom Petty’s guitarist Mike Campbell is also on One Headlight
Pantera🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
"Above"/Mad Season may be best album of 90s
I have loved watching this series. And the 90s was my era. But we had a whole lot of fantastic bands in Australia that I think you missed out on in the 90's. They never quite made it across the Pacific. Lucky us :) Below are just some of the great Austalian Alt Rock bands of the decade.
Silverchair
Powderfinger
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Spiderbait
Skunkhour
Tumbleweed
Beasts of Bourbon
RatCat
The Superjesus
Baby Animals
The Whitlams
You Am I
Something for Kate
The Cruel Sea
Jebidiah
Grinspoon
Regurgitator
The Living End
Frenzal Rhomb
Loving this video!! I’ll be checking out the other decades next 😁
I’m gonna address the elephant in the room...
Mark Tremonti is a fucking beast of a guitarist.
Another great documentary!! Only critique is i would have spent a lot more time on Korn, they were the pioneers of Nu-metal and were one of the biggest bands in the world in the late 90s
I’ve been waiting for this video since you made the first one of the 50s. Great video as always I appreciate the fact that all the videos still have the same feel to them as a tone and as a whole. You can really play all episodes back to back like a long documentary.
As far as a 2000s and beyond, I agree with you completely on how it feels like the 90s is the end of rock and roll. But I feel you could maybe conclude it with a 2000s video but the only bands off the top of my head are Staind, Puddle of Mudd, more KoRn since you teased them, Black Keys, Kid Rock, Linkin Park, Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, Nickleback,, Evanescense, System of the Down, Godsmack, and Drowning Pool (the Sinner album).
Thanks for an awesome series, this is one of my personal great lil journeys I had in this past decade that I really appreciate honestly, Respect all the way from Dallas Tx.
Oh and P.O.D. of course!
I remember the day "Free As a Bird" was released, and what a day that was. On the Billboard charts, it debuted at #1, knocking Boys II Men off the top spot! I saw that, and all I could think was the Beatles stepping into the room, pushing everyone else out of the way, saying, "Aside, peasants, the royalty has arrived."
That legitimately had me in stitches
I took out my old cd’s and showed them to my son while they appeared in the video. Loved the Beavis & Butthead bit.
1991 is actually an epic year for albums so many classics from rock and hip-hop
Just a personal opinion, but Faith no More made really interesting stuff on the 90's with their fusion of funk, metal, rap, avant garde, etc. One of the best bands of the 90's IMO
Man I still feel like this was yesterday I was 15 1990 i have so many memories of the early 90s but i spent most of the 90s dressing in Adidas track suites playing a strang type of metal in Vancouver kind of cross of new metal and thrash great band called dialate thing about the 90s playing music was all about trying to sound different like the band clutch the self titled I still love that album and ministry N.W.O I was a rock and roll outlaw lol
The Black album is the reason why I'm a metalhead today!!
At 18:06 you see him about to break character which is amazing
Awesome series! Thanks JT
Love it! So much fun. And I learned some things about the 1990s I did not know. xo