davyK wrote:

Pulp's Different Class album is my pick of that era.

Yep, entirely.

Although, truth be told, I think that music was far better both before and after Britpop. Britpop got a lot of hype, and it appeared while I was in my mid teens, so was an important part of an important time in my life for music, but now I’m older and wiser, I’ve realised that the vast majority of Britpop was just shite.

Pulp still stand out from that era, Blur more for when they stopped being Britpop and became more interesting. Beyond that, nothing has really stood the test of time.

Britpop was utterly destroyed by Britney Spears, in the end.

Yossarian wrote:

poprock wrote:

We all have our own favourites, but the Trainspotting soundtrack was the real champion of the ’90s. Bigger than Oasis, Blur and Pulp put together.

Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction soundtracks too.

I'm gonna throw Lock, Stock in there too.

…was I the only 90s nu-metal kid then? I guess I was only 11 in 1997 but it was very much KoRn and Machine head etc for me at the time.

I do remember a kid at school saw me with my Walkman on a field trip and wanted to swap tapes, he had some blur album and I had White Zombies Astro creep 2000 (I just nicked everything from my brother at the time).

I didn’t mind it but he wasn’t pleased and swapped back after 2 songs.

cosmicjellybean wrote:

…was I the only 90s nu-metal kid then? I guess I was only 11 in 1997 but it was very much KoRn and Machine head etc for me at the time.

I do remember a kid at school saw me with my Walkman on a field trip and wanted to swap tapes, he had some blur album and I had White Zombies Astro creep 2000 (I just nicked everything from my brother at the time).

I didn’t mind it but he wasn’t pleased and swapped back after 2 songs.

I enjoyed bits and pieces of nu-metal, but that was more of a post-Britpop thing.

The one with funny jokes

afgavinstan wrote:

I was around 2000 tbh thanks to THPS and Papa Roach.

I suppose that was a bigger moment actually looking back, it was mostly stuff like KoRn, Fear Factory, Deftones etc until 99/early 00, and when Slipknots debut came out. That understandably got a lot more people listening. I say understandably because I still think that album fucking slaps.

There has never been a good Nu Metal band, come at me.

Dark Soldier wrote:

There has never been a good Nu Metal band, come at me.

I think you had to be there

Dark Soldier wrote:

There has never been a good Nu Metal band, come at me.

Deftones.
Plenty of other bands that I like/liked but I think there is a good case for Deftones being a genuinely solid band even for non Nu Metal fans.

Yeah but they were number 1 when it still meant something, that was the kick off to your mum knowing what Nu Metal was.

True, true. Ugh.

Didn’t tool sort of break mainstream-ish? I swear lateralus went number one or something in America. Was Tool nu metal? If so I’d say they were legit great. And system of a down.

Edit: Incubus was thrown into that genre a lot too, they were great. It’s possible these weren’t nu-metal but rather played the same kind of festivals? I could see all these at Ozzfest for example.

I wouldn’t describe Tool as nu metal.

SoaD got lumped in with nu metal, but I don’t think they really were either.

I reckon there’s an argument to be made that Rage against the Machine were the first nu metal band, although I suspect that most people would say it was Korn.

cosmicjellybean wrote:

Dark Soldier wrote:

I don't think I've ever heard Deftones.

When I went to a festival in Romania a couple years back, Limp Bizkit headlined one day.

It was quite possibly the worst live performance I've ever witnessed.

Wait… did you say you saw them a couple of years ago?! And they headlined?!

Yes.

https://www.romania-insider.com/limp-bizkit-electric-castle-2019

I miss the Astoria.