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Some of the most innovative, original and inventive music has come about in the recent past. The 1990's were an era of musical experimentation, and many of those experiments worked well and changed the music scene for today. However, much like with any musicians in the modern era, these pioneers of the 1990s were influenced by sitting on a piano stool or piano bench cushions. Yes, nearly all musicians are influenced by classical music. The 1990s was the start of the grunge trend and brought in a new era for punk music in which punk attitude, lifestyle and music went mainstream for the first time. Lastly, the 1990s were an important era for rap music, and essentially when rap was brought to the fore as a mainstream and universally accepted genre.
As mentioned previously, grunge was a big music genre at the start of the decade. Some of the most famous bands from that time period were classified as grunge when they first came out. Kurt Cobain and his band Nirvana started this trend. Later they were followed by other bands such as Pearl Jam and the Smashing Pumpkins. According to music experts, grunge is characterized by heavy fuzz used as a sound effect and lots of distortion of the guitars sound. Also, there is a certain style associated with grunge that generally includes flannel shirts and a typically deadpan stage presence, devoid of the theatrics of the hair bands of the 1980s such as Van Halen and Kiss.
Punk rock also became popular again in the last decade of the twentieth century and a band from Berkeley, California called Green Day were at the front of that trend. Green Day are typically attributed with helping along the movement of a subset of punk music called pop punk. Pop punk is a very apt title because the style combines the lyrics and rhythm of pop music with the guitar and general tough attitude of punk music. Other pop punk bands that were popular in the 1990s were Blink 182 and The Offspring, each with their own specific style within the genre of pop punk.
Rap was also an important part of the 1990s music revolution. Rap was a young genre at the time and there were not many established rappers that most of the country would be able to recognize. However, that all changed in the nineties. Tupac and Notorious BIG started a rivalry in rap music that would turn into an all out war between the East and West coasts with the casualties being the rappers themselves. Nobody really knows how the fighting started but the two rap moguls began taunting each other, with each rap basically daring the other to do them one better. The rivalry caught the attention of the country and after a while even most of suburban America had chosen a side in the east coast versus west coast scuffle.
Despite what some critics may say, the 1990s were one of the most important and revolutionary eras in modern music. The last part of the last century paved the way for music of this century.
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