Twenty years ago,

...this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCoCTkC0oL0 (ambient house content)

June 1991 ladies & gents. Berkeley, I can't believe this song is that old. To me it still sounds really fresh and modern even today. Never mind the video (from the 2001 re-release apparently), which has aged a million times worse than the song has... Just listen.

I can't believe 1991 was 20 years ago.

Dr Dre's The Chronic was 20 years ago too.

Paul's Boutique is just about old enough to drink legally.

20 years ago I was three going on four years old. My car turned six in June that year, and my bike turned nine in February!

I was listening to this 15 years ago but it is still awesome. I am not that old but they already play quite a bit of the music of my youth on classic rock stations.

I remember what a big deal it was when MTV launched, 30 years ago this summer. Gettin old.

20 years ago, I was nearly a teenager

berk that makes me feel old

20 years ago I was poopin in a diaper.

Well, that was a waste of a mouseclick....

You play that, I hear this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY

twenty years ago I was smoking the tires out of the High school parking lot to celebrate the end of my junior year.

still wasnt born

Also 20 years ago:

And, 22 years ago;

In 1987 the Honda CRX HF was given an EPA fuel economy rating of 51mpg. In 2011, 24 years later, the Honda Civic Hybrid, using the latest in efficiency technology, received a rating of 43 highway mpgs.

Something wrong here?

Osterkraut wrote: I can't believe 1991 was 20 years ago.

Grunge is now classic rock.

The cutting edge is now old.

Duke wrote: Paul's Boutique is just about old enough to drink legally.

Actually it has been for almost a year in the U.S. and almost 4 in Ontario.

July 25th, 1989 according to wikipedia.

1990:

Apparently its old enough to drink and to 'get it on'.

I thought only raver kids on E listened to that type of stuff.

z31maniac wrote: I thought only raver kids on E listened to that type of stuff.

Certain types of electronic music is good. That stuff (or trance), is not and the raver's should stick to it.

20 years ago I was 22, unemployed and mad that grunge had taken over. The program manager of a local "Rock" station asked me what I thought of their (then) new morning show and I told her it was crap. They still play it.

Really it was the end of listening to the radio for me.

Music and Radio 20 years ago.
My job came with a company car and through the FM converter attached to the factory AM radio in my 1989 Chevy Cavalier I pulled in the new station, Detroit/Windsor's new 89X (88.7).
No longer was the dial just classic rock (then known as rock.) This station changed the local radio landscape just like its sister station (CKLW-800am)had done during the Motown years.

20 years later this station still dominates the airwaves but I will admit, I have moved on to Sirius.

gamby wrote:

Osterkraut wrote: I can't believe 1991 was 20 years ago.

Grunge is now classic rock. The cutting edge is now old.

My favorite "classic rock" station has started to play with I call "90s mumble rock." Bleh.

z31maniac wrote: I thought only raver kids on E listened to that type of stuff.

HiTempguy wrote: Certain types of electronic music is good. That stuff (or trance), is not and the raver's should stick to it.

Bah, I'm not getting into a snark-contest again, been in too many of those on here lately. If you don't like it you don't like it, and that's cool... We can't all like "lynrd skynrd" either.

Papua New Guinea isn't trance, not really rave (it got its share of airtime at actual raves though)... I would call it ambient breaks. I wrote ambient house up top but that's probably not quite right. The song was utterly groundbreaking when it came out, and paved the way for quite a few modern genres. Nobody had really done anything like it yet.

Compare PNG to, say, "Strings of Life" or "Clear" which were only 3-4 years old at the time. Those were great songs but you can see how this blew everyone away.

20 years, many pounds, and a few gray hairs ago:

Desert Shield / Desert Storm

^^ I was there then too ^^

5 years later I retired with 20 in.