I will say this about the Jefferson musical franchise, even if I'm not a fan of the 80s stuff, I *do* admire them for being able to stay relevant into the 80s. How many other 1960s psychedlic bands accomplished that?
That said, give me the 'Surrealistic Pillow' album anytime over the 80s stuff...
^^Agreed. Through the band's evolution from Jefferson Airplane to Jefferson Starship and finally to Starship, they adapted to changing musical trends and made them their own. I'm not a fan of ballads, but I think "Miracles," "Count on Me" and "Runaway" have held up better than most romantic pop tunes of the '70s.
(And, ironically, we've added several posts about Jefferson Airplane/Starship in a thread about the '90s -- the decade in which they stopped being relevant!)
When I was a kid, I thought Grace Slick was THE babe. I saw her on a TV show last year promoting her own paintings - sad to say she looked like ten miles of bad road...
I can't speak to her looking like "ten miles of bad road," but I do give her credit for her own sense of integrity. Whereas many aging rockers go on reunion tour after reunion tour (*cough*Kiss*cough*), Grace has stuck to her guns. Barring the occasional reunion with Jefferson Starship, she has never looked back.
Okay, coming from me, this is all-too predictable, but I have to say it:
Nirvana, "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
What annoys me so much is how CALCULATED the whole thing is, from Turd Cobain's "rough-voiced" affectations, to the self-consciously obscure lyrics, to the way-too-polished mix. If it hadn't been sold as having "punk integrity" and "speaking for a generation", I could maybe tolerate it, but in actuality it has as much integrity as Milli Vanilli, and Turd Cobain sure as HELL did not speak for ME!
I hardly followed popular music at all during most of the Nineties, though I will give a nod to the theme from Friends (because I've always found everything about that show intensely annoying). Also "Runaround," and pretty much anything else by Blues Traveler, just by dint of it being mind-blowingly generic/overexposed.
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See, this is why I can only listen to the radio (outside of talk radio) for a few days total a year. If I hear a song too many times, I start loathing it. I heard one of Nirvana's songs, liked it and bought the tape (before I was into CD's.)
Same with several other groups. Listen to the whole 'cd' and hear things that never get airplay.
At a shop I worked at, most of the guys there listened to 'whatever they call hip hop - top 40 today' and kept track in a ten hour day of how often they played about three different popular songs. 13 times in a ten hour period, we heard the same songs...needless to say, I hate those songs now.
Dev, there's a "party" station like that here, too. Aarrgh. An actual 40-song playlist is repetitive enough, but this station's list is maybe 12-15 songs in rotation. Mix in a bunch of screaming ads for diet pills and shadowy car loans, and you've got Hades in a box.
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Sounds just like the station they used to listen to. I think there were about 20 songs in heave rotation, and about 10 others thrown in every 5th time around to 'mix; things up.
I really enjoyed AQUA's first cd. There's no doubt a misogynistic and dark tint to several of the tunes, but they dressed it up in a fun, appealing to gay guys beat:
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because Tubthumping is one of the BEST songs of the 90's! 
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