In 2009 or so my high school choir director decided we'd sing Zoot Suit Riot for our pop/jazz themed concert. To make it worse, imagine a 60-something year old saying "Cherry Popping Daddies" into a microphone in an auditorium filled with parents. Worst musical experience I've ever had.
I literally just realized what that band name means (to be fair the last time I heard it was on MTV when I was like 10)🤦♂️ next your going to tell me chumba wumba means d1ck cheez
I recall playing football, getting hyped going ok the field busting through the stupid paper (grrrr), and hearing our high school band at that moment playing that Cherry Poppin' Daddy's song & legit half the team went from sprint ready for the game to, "did that really just happen?"
Scatman was a wonderful example of how bonkers the 90's pop music scene was. Dude was a legit virtuoso jazz piano player, but did a kind of jazz/swing/techno hybrid with scat vocals. And I still love him to this day.
One thing Finn misses about the 90’s. No matter what your thing was. No matter how out there or “strange” your musical taste was there was something for you. This is why so many people who were teens in the 90’s are insanely eclectic in their musical taste.
That's why I loved about that explosion in the early 90's. You had grunge, but you also had all of these weird, avant garde and eclectic bands that were doing their own thing. There was a lot going on.
the presidents of the united states of america is one of my favorite bands ever. i think they are highly underappreciated. they made music that was just purely fun in a wholesome and goofy way. top 3 or 4 favorite bands of all time. fight me.
They literally have a song called "We're Not Gonna Make It", they're 100% aware of how people perceive them. They were never trying to be serious, and I think that it sucks so many people can't just enjoy goofiness.
@@tjarway4555 I think Love Everybody is right up there. The debut and Love everybody, those are the 2 I can easily listen to front to back no skips. The rest of their discography I like all of, but I skip around more in all of them.
Im just gonna say this: presidents of the United States had THE single best snare sound in the history of music. Nobody before or since has a better snare pop.
I'd say them and the drummer from 311, Chad Sexton, and John Stanier, the 1st drummer for Helmet, had snares that fucking popped!! Good call though Lucas.🕶🤙
Holy shit thats true, I didnt notice, Snappy Metallic snares are the S Tier Snare, I even like the St. Anger snare (too much reverb) but still amazing snare
@@SterlingJergens the entire around the fur has a shitload of different snare sounds and they all seem god tier, literally came here to see comments on this album lol
I love a lot of 90s music, but every decade has amazing and terrible music so I don't think it's necessarily better than modern music, but the 90s do hold a special place in my heart.
I will say though I do like songs like "Peaches" just because I'm a fan of absurd stuff like that haha. I appreciate those bands boldness to put out stuff that ridiculous
I think the difference is that the MAINSTREAM music was way better back then, I think that's objective, but there will always be great bands that aren't that popular.
And it’s a whole decacde. Was everything the same for ten years? Like 2000-2010 was all the same? It was grunge til -99 and sandstorm was a banger in -91?
In 1993 my garage band opened for Cherry Popping Daddys in Salem Oregon. They gave us $50 and then a ton of the crowd didn't stay to watch them after we were done. We spent the $50 on beer. Not to mention there was a small group of dudes that wanted to fight us for no reason whatsoever.
Bro, I love you, but the Presidents of the USA are actually an amazing band. I swear. They're pure genius. I'm dead serious. Give em a real chance and just listen. And, dig in to their whole thing and history. It's good stuff.
Another couple of 90s things young people might find interesting, it was not uncommon to see people riding in the beds of trucks, oftentimes shirtless and consuming alcohol. Also, a lot more people smoked and many establishments allowed it indoors.
Brand new theory: Remember that brief time in the late 90's/early 00's when bands like Static-X, Rammstein, Orgy, Powerman 5000, and Rob Zombie were topping the charts? That was fucking weird in hindsight that we all just agreed industrial disco metal was something we should all listen to. My theory of why European music is so fucking weird is that they never left that mindset. I can't tell if that makes me want to move to Europe or avoid it forever.
On the bright side I actually think that techno metal avoided the drowsy doldrums that even the best grunge/90's alternative rock bands often sank into.
@@amberfashing1136 candyass is a great album. Or maybe its just that everyone in Orgy looks like a model so I'm biologically inclined to like it, I'm not sure. Everyone in Orgy looks like the models hired for the "Feel Like a Woman" music video from Shania Twain. Tell me I'm wrong. I work at a gay bar and watch that video like 4 times a week.
These songs remind me of the older kid across the street showing me “misfits - attitude” on a cassette tape. He’s in prison for a meth lab now, but the misfits are still going!
I struggle to recall what life was like before Finn came crashing into our lives to demolish the music I love and lift up the most random things from pop culture, past, present, and future.
Hanson may be immortalized in people’s minds as a group of teeny boppers, but they were legit. They’re just a band that at least partially writes their own songs and happened to form when the members were all super young. They’re still together and still have quite a following playing power pop music.
Yeah, they were the 90’s equivalent to the Jonas Brothers (a teeny bopper group that matured into respectable and well liked adults). Funny thing is that Canada had a similar 90’s era group called The Moffats that are similarly regarded today. All three groups have had a lot of success behind the scenes as songwriters, industry executives, and producers as well.
So true. I remember seeing a video advert online here in Australia advertising Hanson tour for this year, and all they showed was Mmmbop. Like seriously, I mean I'm into Hanson's music, but to be known just as that - ouch
OH MY GOD! Peaches!!!!! So, I’m 43 and I’m a lunchlady (shut up, i actually like it🤣) and everytime I have to open a can of peaches, I’m singing this all day long. Nobody I work with remembers this! Most are older than me but I’m so glad to see someone else remember this song!!! Remember “kitty on my foot and I want to touch it”…I loved presidents of the United States of America. Love Boys2Men too!
The whole like 2-year long late 90s “swing daddy” trend was so weird to me even at the time I could happily go the rest of my life without ever hearing Zoot Suit Riot ever again haha 😆😆😆😆
In the next hearing of Finn vs Europe the defence enters into evidence Cherry Poppin' Daddies. Europe moves for a dismissal after that devastating piece of evidence against the U.S. rendering all evidence presented against Europe mute.
Christina Aguilera rules the late 90's and early 2000's that voice is still going strong and I agree she was THE best vocalist of the bubblegum pop era. The girl had to dumb down her vocals in order to fit into tht crowd just insane singer.
Too technical, with not enough emotion or faults in the right way. Great voice, of course. Beautiful is still one of my favorite pop songs. But early 90s Mariah moves me from places to other places.
I was born in 1986 so yeah, I remember the '90s pretty well and I unashamedly believe it **was** the best decade for music in general. If you plan on doing a part 3, I would suggest Freak by Silverchair and either Breathe or Firestarter by the Prodigy. These weren't just obscure songs back then, they were hits constantly on MTV and the radio. These are some good examples of what people mean when they talk about '90s popular music. Both the music and the film clips had this heavy, grimey and dark vibe that you just don't see in top 10 chart singles anymore. And yes, team sporty spice all the way (with a bit of a soft spot for baby and posh) 😂
11:13 Newjack Swing as a style of the early 1990s generally does not get enough credit. Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison is S-Teir. This vibe of not-so-squeaky clean new jack is like the vibe I am sad never took off.
I actually recently learned, the lyrics in mmbop are depressing about how everyone ends up leaving you and only one or two relationships in your life last.
Thankfully, I was just a child and my 90s were all about Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Dragón Ball Z, WWF Attitude and arcades, didnt get into músic till I became an angsty teenager in Y2K, right in time for Nu Metal to make me Who I am...
Cool story about Spice Girls: no one in England wanted to sign them so they DIY it and released “Wannabe” themselves. When the major labels wanted to replace certain members, Scary Spice (leader) refused to do it she demanded that they all get paid equally.
Peaches single and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness were the first CDs I bought. At Target. Both hold up. Peaches as a song and video is revolutionary. I'll put that on my tombstone.
I got that presidents album in the most 90s way ever, through the mailing service where you'd get like 7 cds for 10 bucks or something. It was huge for me as it was my first venture away from cassettes and into the strange new world of compact discs
I'm a 90s kid. My entire teenage existence was in the 90s, and I mean that completely literally - I turned 19 in 1999. So needless to say, I love the 90s and have a heavy bias towards that decade in general. But having actually lived in the era, I know the terrible stuff just as much as I know the great stuff. Not everything can be forgotten or glossed over via nostalgia. Some great music for sure, but definitely a fair share of terrible music as well.
I love how a certain generation of guys in Hollywood seem to have internalized Swing Revival lingo and kept it going into the 2020s (Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith in particular). My favorite thing about Rob Zombie is if you ask someone to put on the song about the evil car you have to clarify which evil car song you're referring to. I'll always appreciate Under the Bridge because one night when I was in high school I was with a group of friends at the beach and some sketchy dude came up to us and once he noticed my friend's guitar he asked him to play something and my friend decided to play Under the Bridge and it turned into this nice singalong but I heard from someone that knew the guy a week or so later that he was actually planning on robbing us at knifepoint until he got distracted by the guitar.
That RHCP song just attracts sketchy people i’ve noticed. I went to an open mic night and there was one super wasted guy that spent most of the night playing the guitar chords and mumbling the lyrics to Under The Bridge into the microphone.
Our weekly dose of Finn desperately trying to convince 19 year olds that he's not like other people his age. He gets it, he's hip or lit or whatever dopes say now.
@@jacksondewit6935 it's annoying when your mom comes over and tops me then doesn't leave immediately after but she's gone now. She said she's going to give you a big kiss as soon as she gets home.
My mom was a regional manager of red lobster back in the early 90s when I was a young kid an she rocked the shit out of the shoulder pad blue blazer she had.
I'll co-sign the 90s even CPD, my grandpa loved Zoot Suit Riot, remembered what it was about and then got me into 40s swing and jazz and I've now got my 13 year old into old jazz and swing because we bonded over that song GFY Finn.....Kidding I love your shows
Say what you will about the Cherry Poppin Daddies, but I saw them play on Warped Tour 98, in over 90 degree weather, on an asphalt parking lot... And they wore those heavy ass suits through their entire set! I'm not a fan of them or their music, but that alone got my respect.
I don’t think it was a 90s attempt to be weird in Primus’s case-Les Claypool is legitimately weird as hell, still. And I say that with love of course, though I tend to prefer some of his solo or post-Primus stuff overall
Remember in the 90's when people took regular denim jeans and cut each pant leg on the outside seam, stitching in some patchwork to turn them into bell bottoms? 😜
generational nostalgia has always been fascinating to me. I was in HS/college in the 90’s. For instance I remember bands like Green Day were maligned for having “no talent”, particularly guitar talent. no one back then would have EVER imagined they would go on to be a Hall of Fame band. In fact, if all the guys hanging onto the 80’s HATED 90’s music for lack of musical ability . Like “Peaches” back then, metal heads be like wtf is this garbage?! definitely it was a battle of genres on the radio! I was actually into “classic rock” back then…. Now I’m just as removed from 90’s rock than I was from 70’s rock back then! 🤯
So true. I was a teen and liked heavy metal and grunge but had a bunch of alternative rock too. My metal friends would judge you so bad if they saw my Sublime or Green Day cds. I was like you guys ever want to get laid? Can't play Alice in Chains with the girls at a party lol
@@toreeadams9873 when I was in High school there were girls that liked Alice In Chains, but they were very few and very far between, your comment still stands 🤣🤣
Yes! This is exactly what I tell people when they get nostalgic about the 90s. It was a pretty cool decade in retrospect, especially how tons of underground bands got signed to major labels (that will NEVER happen again). But most of it was just quirky novelty music that got stale quicker than it got fresh. My high-school marching band played Zoot Suit Riot in the stands at football games, and that definitely makes me cringe, now. The only thing cool about that swing craze was young drummers wanting to learn the jazz ride cymbal pattern.
There was a strange but brief period of time from like 91-94 when random indie rock bands somehow became the biggest pop stars in the world, then everyone tried to copy that formula. Other than that, the 90s were like any other decade musically.
I used splashes in the 90s because I was obsessed with Stewart Copeland. I don't remember it being particularly cool and I was accused of being stuck in the 80s
I tend to always consider PUSA as one of the first bands to get me into punk/alt rock. Lump, Peaches and Mach 5 - I was super into that shit. They continued being a great band up until the end. Every album has some absolute bangers on it. Hate that I never got to see them live before they split.
@@xp7575 Totally. Chris Ballew's recent solo stuff is also pretty good. It's more 60s than the PUSA stuff but worth checking out for those who like his songwriting.
@@millerhxc no Finn is just a hater, have you watched more than 3 videos. He consistently has garbage take after garbage take. Obviously he gets some stuff right but I mean even a broken clock is right twice a day... Hes still chill though and is not afraid to say what he thinks which I respect but he hates on everything
@@Keyser___Soze I've been watching/following him for some years now and in many instances I agree with a lot of what he says and like similar things - so this kind of surprises me.
Les Claypool is one of the greatest bassist of all time. WBBB was on Tales from the Punchbowl, but the best song on that album was Professor Nutbutters House of Treats.
You just blew my mind with that 98 GAP commercial. I remember watching it and wanting them, but then would look utterly stupid when I tried them on lol
As someone born in the year 2000, I can say "Peaches" is an all-timer. Also gotta say I'll take Dragula over the entire discographies of any prog metal/djent band
I love the Presidents Of The United States Of America. A Seattle band that came out in the midst of Grungemania and took the heavy grungey sound, matching it with crazy joke lyrics about the weirdest topics. They're loveable and wholesome. Also, Sir Mix-A-Lot joined the band for a while
Some of these 90s music videos haven't aged well. Some are just pure cringe. But you can't deny the vast diversity of music the 90s gave us. Boyz II Men helped popularize the New Jack Swing along with Teddy Riley. Fun fact: Flea was in Back To The Future Part 2. I'll admit to having a crush on Christina Aguilera during her Dirrty phase. I had dark green No Boundaries pants in 1999. Small confession: I was a Spice Girls fan when they were extremely popular in 1996-1998. Posh Spice was my favorite but Baby Spice was a close second.
Let's not forget about 90s New York hardcore which I know you're a fan of. Victory records laid down the blueprints for I don't even know how many genres of heavy music that are around today and a lot of that stuff still holds up even now.
Being in my teens and 20’s for the 90’s, I remember that there was a very brief period of promise. When nirvana broke, suddenly everyone was open to listening to different kinds of music. You could go to a show and hear rock, rap, funk, etc. all in the same place! Sadly, this part of the 90’s lasted maybe two years. Then the suits went back to choosing what people should listen to. By the late 90’s there was very little left. We saw the rise of post grunge, nu metal, ska, Dave Mathews, watered down pop punk, and various other garden variety crap. What started out as…hey maybe listen to something different…turned into top down marketing, but it always does.
@@elosoguapo8137 Interesting response. Both those bands were the ground zero of 90s music. Everything that came after them were heavily influence by them. You really never heard t his album? ua-cam.com/video/deUYdveJziI/v-deo.html
I always tell people the 90s were wild. After Cobain died, all bets were off. Swing music. Vegaboys. The Macarena. The Dancing Grandpa from Six Flags. Who allowed this?
That Presidents of the United States of America album has some real hidden gems on it. Little Dune Buggy and Body are still songs I'm happy to listen to.
Exactly, I stand by the POTUSOA being unironically awesome lol “Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory doooown tooooown”. Doesn’t get much better than that 🤣🤣
Finn, you literally just proved why the 90’s were so great. And you didn’t even mention the great grunge bands, the great nu metal bands, the great alternative bands, or the great gangsta rap.
@@lorenzob249 examples? Gangsta rap tupac , biggie..nu metal bands Korn rage against the machine alternative bands red hot chilli peppers incubus grunge soundgarden alice in chains..dude if you don't know the many many greats of the 90s you need to go listen, you ears will thank you
I shook my head & laughed so hard when Finn said; regarding Hanson, that the kid playing drums with dreadlocks “uggggh that’s CHILD ABUSE!!! ANY PARENT who allowed or ANY stylist who did that to a young white boy should be arrested!”
Rhcp will always be amazing no matter the decade. They were another gateway band for young black ppl to get into rock music just to find out they were basically just copying all the funk and psychedelic bands our parents were listening to. But AK is one of the most soulful rock singers out there, right next to the pretty boy from incubus.
@@DJENTISNTNOTAGENRE the rest of the band are great musicians as well! But agree he is an amazing singer even still he’s hitting all those long notes and on key!
@@brutalbasspro No doubt about it! I know they get a lot of shit, but I've always loved Incubus. Their first 6 or 7 albums are especially great and I love how no two albums from them sound exactly the same. The only album by them I really didn't like was 8 and even if has a couple of good songs on it.
@@nandochavez4546 Yeah I never felt like RHCP were straight up copying anyone. They certainly wore some of their influences on their sleeve, but there's nothing wrong with that.
I think the third wave of ska and swing revival are inextricably linked because of the brass instruments involved. Possibly some of the clothes too. Growing up in mid nineties Denver for a few years almost every punk band was also a third wave ska band whos brass section was also involved in swing. Like the brass dudes just wanted to play different styles that focus on their instruments and the swing thing kinda rode the coattails of ska briefly. And yes. Cringe.
I don’t remember who I saw Cherry Poppin’ Daddies play with, but I saw them more than once in Houston. They were usually playing with the classic Asian Man Records roster. I found hardcore very soon after that point in time, but I’m so glad I witnessed and was involved with this whole scene. These bands put on such good shows, but it was also way more inclusive because moshing wasn’t the only way you could dance to the music, which contributed to a much larger female presence and way more young kids. My nostalgia for that counts for a lot, but it really was a magical time. I do agree though, Cherry Poppin Daddies’ name is as horrible as it is, in retrospect, problematic!
I grew up in Philly in the 80’s and 90’s . They played this song non-stop back then . It was cool when it came out , but after like 6 months it was played out
I saw Hanson like 8 or so years ago, because... well I thought it would be interesting and my wife loves them. But holy shit, they are amazing musicians... albeit awkward looking adults.
Come hang out on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/finnmckenty
Dude, why do you hate everything except Nickelback and preachy straight edge hardcore?
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I've done the month trial of skillshare, not done any courses yet but 😆
The correct name for that hat is a touque, it’s Canadian
breh super hot take about TURNOVER.....they are dope
In 2009 or so my high school choir director decided we'd sing Zoot Suit Riot for our pop/jazz themed concert. To make it worse, imagine a 60-something year old saying "Cherry Popping Daddies" into a microphone in an auditorium filled with parents. Worst musical experience I've ever had.
I literally just realized what that band name means (to be fair the last time I heard it was on MTV when I was like 10)🤦♂️ next your going to tell me chumba wumba means d1ck cheez
My jazz band played that one. Like wtf high school 😂😂😂
wait wat does it mean tho
I recall playing football, getting hyped going ok the field busting through the stupid paper (grrrr), and hearing our high school band at that moment playing that Cherry Poppin' Daddy's song & legit half the team went from sprint ready for the game to, "did that really just happen?"
@@alexisorarian1587 to pop a cherry means take a girls v card.
Scatman was a wonderful example of how bonkers the 90's pop music scene was. Dude was a legit virtuoso jazz piano player, but did a kind of jazz/swing/techno hybrid with scat vocals. And I still love him to this day.
AND the track was made to inspire kids who stutter to overcome it, like he did. Absolute king.
One thing Finn misses about the 90’s. No matter what your thing was. No matter how out there or “strange” your musical taste was there was something for you. This is why so many people who were teens in the 90’s are insanely eclectic in their musical taste.
Exactly!!!
Absolutely!
That's why I loved about that explosion in the early 90's. You had grunge, but you also had all of these weird, avant garde and eclectic bands that were doing their own thing. There was a lot going on.
Word
Spot on
the presidents of the united states of america is one of my favorite bands ever. i think they are highly underappreciated. they made music that was just purely fun in a wholesome and goofy way. top 3 or 4 favorite bands of all time. fight me.
Yes!!!! 100% agree
They literally have a song called "We're Not Gonna Make It", they're 100% aware of how people perceive them. They were never trying to be serious, and I think that it sucks so many people can't just enjoy goofiness.
Yes! They are f**king awesome 🤣
the debut is a 10/10 album for me but everything after was like under a 7/10
@@tjarway4555 I think Love Everybody is right up there. The debut and Love everybody, those are the 2 I can easily listen to front to back no skips. The rest of their discography I like all of, but I skip around more in all of them.
Im just gonna say this: presidents of the United States had THE single best snare sound in the history of music. Nobody before or since has a better snare pop.
I'd say them and the drummer from 311, Chad Sexton, and John Stanier, the 1st drummer for Helmet, had snares that fucking popped!! Good call though Lucas.🕶🤙
Holy shit thats true, I didnt notice, Snappy Metallic snares are the S Tier Snare, I even like the St. Anger snare (too much reverb) but still amazing snare
Deftones Around the Fur\White Pony. So many local bands would use My Own Summer as a drum reference.
I dunno man, Spin Doctors had a great snare sound on Two Princes.
@@SterlingJergens the entire around the fur has a shitload of different snare sounds and they all seem god tier, literally came here to see comments on this album lol
I still think Primus is the best band on the planet. I love Les. Their more eclectic the song, the better but frizzle fry is a masterpiece.
100% AGREED
Primus sucks dude
Dont listen to hipster punk guy. :)
@@EDKsurly "Primus sucks" is actually what their fans say.
Primus fuckin sucks dude lmao
I love a lot of 90s music, but every decade has amazing and terrible music so I don't think it's necessarily better than modern music, but the 90s do hold a special place in my heart.
I will say though I do like songs like "Peaches" just because I'm a fan of absurd stuff like that haha. I appreciate those bands boldness to put out stuff that ridiculous
@@sethhuffproductions170 I think Finn missed that very point. The song and the band were never out to be anything more than a fun tongue in cheek.
@@cycologist7069 I think he understands that, it's just not his cup of tea. Which is totally fine
I think the difference is that the MAINSTREAM music was way better back then, I think that's objective, but there will always be great bands that aren't that popular.
And it’s a whole decacde. Was everything the same for ten years? Like 2000-2010 was all the same? It was grunge til -99 and sandstorm was a banger in -91?
The way people look back on the 90s now is the same as we looked back on the 60s then and said we were born in the wrong era. Same
In 1993 my garage band opened for Cherry Popping Daddys in Salem Oregon. They gave us $50 and then a ton of the crowd didn't stay to watch them after we were done. We spent the $50 on beer. Not to mention there was a small group of dudes that wanted to fight us for no reason whatsoever.
this was wild from start to finish.
Sounds like Salem in the nineties
Dude I grew up in Salem in the 80's/90's too, fucking HATED the Daddies and their stupid name.
Probly cause you were trying to actually DO something, and they were just some losers drinking at a bar
Rev. Horton heat did it better
the 90s will always be remembered as the weird but cool decade
The Presidents of the United States are awesome. Peaches is over played as hell, but that album is great
Lump was, is, and will always be a jam!
Yeah that's legit a good album. They're weird as hell but it still slaps
MAN! you gotta learn to drive a big rig
MAN! you lose your hair you wear a tiny wig
MAN!
Kitty, We are not going to make it, Naked and famous. Great songs
We're not gonna make it.
Finn: why clown?
90’s: produces both ICP and Stephen kings “IT” in the same decade
I had a girlfriend when Genie in a bottle was big and every time she started playing that song I knew I was getting lucky.
Bro, I love you, but the Presidents of the USA are actually an amazing band. I swear. They're pure genius. I'm dead serious. Give em a real chance and just listen. And, dig in to their whole thing and history. It's good stuff.
Old Man on the Back Porch!
Also the fact they play with bass/guitar hybrids is quirky but cool as hell. Two bass strings and three or four guitar strings each instrument😅
You're sounding like a Tool fan
Peaches is a stone cold classic. Anyone that says otherwise is a philistine!
The main riff is dope too!
They where also the first band to put guitar strings on there basses.
For real
Bro Finn liked this song too lmao. I promise you he wasn't talking like this when the song came out.
I have no issues with being a Philistine...this song is all hook & no meat. Just catchy as hell & impossible to forget.
That clean New Jack Swing sound was great and Boyz II Men did some fantastic harmonies.
Another couple of 90s things young people might find interesting, it was not uncommon to see people riding in the beds of trucks, oftentimes shirtless and consuming alcohol. Also, a lot more people smoked and many establishments allowed it indoors.
Yes! The truck thing is so true
Good times
Yes! The truck thing🤣
Guilty of all charges.
Woah I never thought about the truck thing but you're 100% right when I think back to that time 😆
Brand new theory: Remember that brief time in the late 90's/early 00's when bands like Static-X, Rammstein, Orgy, Powerman 5000, and Rob Zombie were topping the charts? That was fucking weird in hindsight that we all just agreed industrial disco metal was something we should all listen to. My theory of why European music is so fucking weird is that they never left that mindset. I can't tell if that makes me want to move to Europe or avoid it forever.
Lol!
I was a mansonite and also obsessed with orgy. Candyass is still a great album, with min cringe.
On the bright side I actually think that techno metal avoided the drowsy doldrums that even the best grunge/90's alternative rock bands often sank into.
@@amberfashing1136 candyass is a great album. Or maybe its just that everyone in Orgy looks like a model so I'm biologically inclined to like it, I'm not sure. Everyone in Orgy looks like the models hired for the "Feel Like a Woman" music video from Shania Twain. Tell me I'm wrong. I work at a gay bar and watch that video like 4 times a week.
All those bands you named rank from pretty good to amazing though.
These songs remind me of the older kid across the street showing me “misfits - attitude” on a cassette tape. He’s in prison for a meth lab now, but the misfits are still going!
This is incredibly specific and accurate to my 90s experiences lol
Funny!
I struggle to recall what life was like before Finn came crashing into our lives to demolish the music I love and lift up the most random things from pop culture, past, present, and future.
The R&B music of the 90s was phenomenal!
Love how Finn had the most interaction with the “Genie in A Bottle” video
Motown Philly is so damn great. I had to pause this video and go listen to it immediately.
As an F1 fan, I see Ginger Spice almost as much as my sister did in the 90's. She's married to Christian Horner, team principal of Red Bull F1 team.
Hanson may be immortalized in people’s minds as a group of teeny boppers, but they were legit. They’re just a band that at least partially writes their own songs and happened to form when the members were all super young. They’re still together and still have quite a following playing power pop music.
Yeah, they were the 90’s equivalent to the Jonas Brothers (a teeny bopper group that matured into respectable and well liked adults). Funny thing is that Canada had a similar 90’s era group called The Moffats that are similarly regarded today. All three groups have had a lot of success behind the scenes as songwriters, industry executives, and producers as well.
So true. I remember seeing a video advert online here in Australia advertising Hanson tour for this year, and all they showed was Mmmbop.
Like seriously, I mean I'm into Hanson's music, but to be known just as that - ouch
They were on the masked singer. And wow. They were amazing.
Hanson is super underrated.
I love that every Gen Xer remembers how old they were when Blood Sugar came out because I was born that year.
OH MY GOD! Peaches!!!!! So, I’m 43 and I’m a lunchlady (shut up, i actually like it🤣) and everytime I have to open a can of peaches, I’m singing this all day long. Nobody I work with remembers this! Most are older than me but I’m so glad to see someone else remember this song!!! Remember “kitty on my foot and I want to touch it”…I loved presidents of the United States of America. Love Boys2Men too!
The whole like 2-year long late 90s “swing daddy” trend was so weird to me even at the time I could happily go the rest of my life without ever hearing Zoot Suit Riot ever again haha 😆😆😆😆
In the next hearing of Finn vs Europe the defence enters into evidence Cherry Poppin' Daddies. Europe moves for a dismissal after that devastating piece of evidence against the U.S. rendering all evidence presented against Europe mute.
* judge bangs gavel * ORDER, ORDER IN THE COURT!
Christina Aguilera rules the late 90's and early 2000's that voice is still going strong and I agree she was THE best vocalist of the bubblegum pop era. The girl had to dumb down her vocals in order to fit into tht crowd just insane singer.
Was literally thinking the exact same thing when I heard one of her songs at work the other day, her voice is incredible!
Christina is legit. Her voice just has so much emotion and she can sing anything
Too technical, with not enough emotion or faults in the right way. Great voice, of course. Beautiful is still one of my favorite pop songs.
But early 90s Mariah moves me from places to other places.
I was born in 1986 so yeah, I remember the '90s pretty well and I unashamedly believe it **was** the best decade for music in general. If you plan on doing a part 3, I would suggest Freak by Silverchair and either Breathe or Firestarter by the Prodigy. These weren't just obscure songs back then, they were hits constantly on MTV and the radio. These are some good examples of what people mean when they talk about '90s popular music. Both the music and the film clips had this heavy, grimey and dark vibe that you just don't see in top 10 chart singles anymore. And yes, team sporty spice all the way (with a bit of a soft spot for baby and posh) 😂
Which one is the red haired one? I like her best
I’m still convinced Peaches is a metaphor for country girls.
I can't tell if your joking but it was always a metaphor for vaginas
But yes vaginas that are located in the country
Gives new meaning to "gonna eat a lot of peaches."
I STILL sing motown philly, full throated, just to make my wife laugh. With the dance. No lie.
11:13 Newjack Swing as a style of the early 1990s generally does not get enough credit. Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison is S-Teir. This vibe of not-so-squeaky clean new jack is like the vibe I am sad never took off.
I actually recently learned, the lyrics in mmbop are depressing about how everyone ends up leaving you and only one or two relationships in your life last.
The President of the USA was also the first band who put bass strings on their guitars or guitar strings on their basses.
There's a very 90s production that makes all the pop songs blend together
I'm glad I was 6 when Hanson came out, I was able to love them without being questioned.
Thankfully, I was just a child and my 90s were all about Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Dragón Ball Z, WWF Attitude and arcades, didnt get into músic till I became an angsty teenager in Y2K, right in time for Nu Metal to make me Who I am...
Cool story about Spice Girls: no one in England wanted to sign them so they DIY it and released “Wannabe” themselves. When the major labels wanted to replace certain members, Scary Spice (leader) refused to do it she demanded that they all get paid equally.
Peaches single and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness were the first CDs I bought. At Target. Both hold up.
Peaches as a song and video is revolutionary. I'll put that on my tombstone.
Mellon Collie is a masterpiece and that Presidents album holds a special place in my heart.
farewell, goodnight, last one out turn out the light
I got that presidents album in the most 90s way ever, through the mailing service where you'd get like 7 cds for 10 bucks or something. It was huge for me as it was my first venture away from cassettes and into the strange new world of compact discs
I'm a 90s kid. My entire teenage existence was in the 90s, and I mean that completely literally - I turned 19 in 1999. So needless to say, I love the 90s and have a heavy bias towards that decade in general. But having actually lived in the era, I know the terrible stuff just as much as I know the great stuff. Not everything can be forgotten or glossed over via nostalgia. Some great music for sure, but definitely a fair share of terrible music as well.
I turned 19 in 99 also! Viva the 90s!
I love how a certain generation of guys in Hollywood seem to have internalized Swing Revival lingo and kept it going into the 2020s (Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith in particular). My favorite thing about Rob Zombie is if you ask someone to put on the song about the evil car you have to clarify which evil car song you're referring to. I'll always appreciate Under the Bridge because one night when I was in high school I was with a group of friends at the beach and some sketchy dude came up to us and once he noticed my friend's guitar he asked him to play something and my friend decided to play Under the Bridge and it turned into this nice singalong but I heard from someone that knew the guy a week or so later that he was actually planning on robbing us at knifepoint until he got distracted by the guitar.
JESUS!
That RHCP song just attracts sketchy people i’ve noticed. I went to an open mic night and there was one super wasted guy that spent most of the night playing the guitar chords and mumbling the lyrics to Under The Bridge into the microphone.
22:29 this is a CERTIFIED Luanne look.
Our weekly dose of Finn desperately trying to convince 19 year olds that he's not like other people his age. He gets it, he's hip or lit or whatever dopes say now.
Lol you seem upset
@@jacksondewit6935 it's annoying when your mom comes over and tops me then doesn't leave immediately after but she's gone now. She said she's going to give you a big kiss as soon as she gets home.
@@FURTHER_ADO mads confirmed.
I get it, my audience just wants me to say that the music they liked in high school is good
@@FinnMckentyPRMBA I love your vids Finn, and I disagree with probably well over half of your opinions
33:00 this Primus song was on "Tales From The Punchbowl", which was indeed their 4th album. Anyway Primus is awesome and always will be. Haha
My mom was a regional manager of red lobster back in the early 90s when I was a young kid an she rocked the shit out of the shoulder pad blue blazer she had.
I'll co-sign the 90s even CPD, my grandpa loved Zoot Suit Riot, remembered what it was about and then got me into 40s swing and jazz and I've now got my 13 year old into old jazz and swing because we bonded over that song GFY Finn.....Kidding I love your shows
Say what you will about the Cherry Poppin Daddies, but I saw them play on Warped Tour 98, in over 90 degree weather, on an asphalt parking lot... And they wore those heavy ass suits through their entire set!
I'm not a fan of them or their music, but that alone got my respect.
Jumping around with a chain wallet of such magnitude is hazardous to the nards
Primus is so unique that they are cool, regardless of 90's attempt to be weird. WBBB is not a good representation, but they are awesome all together!
They suck!
Yes. Frizzle Fry was insane.
@@blackbeansmatter1280 So was Sailing the Seas of Cheese!
I don’t think it was a 90s attempt to be weird in Primus’s case-Les Claypool is legitimately weird as hell, still. And I say that with love of course, though I tend to prefer some of his solo or post-Primus stuff overall
@@virgilflowers9846 ya? which of his side projects do you like more than Primus?
Remember in the 90's when people took regular denim jeans and cut each pant leg on the outside seam, stitching in some patchwork to turn them into bell bottoms? 😜
generational nostalgia has always been fascinating to me. I was in HS/college in the 90’s. For instance I remember bands like Green Day were maligned for having “no talent”, particularly guitar talent. no one back then would have EVER imagined they would go on to be a Hall of Fame band. In fact, if all the guys hanging onto the 80’s HATED 90’s music for lack of musical ability . Like “Peaches” back then, metal heads be like wtf is this garbage?! definitely it was a battle of genres on the radio! I was actually into “classic rock” back then…. Now I’m just as removed from 90’s rock than I was from 70’s rock back then! 🤯
So true. I was a teen and liked heavy metal and grunge but had a bunch of alternative rock too. My metal friends would judge you so bad if they saw my Sublime or Green Day cds. I was like you guys ever want to get laid? Can't play Alice in Chains with the girls at a party lol
@@toreeadams9873 when I was in High school there were girls that liked Alice In Chains, but they were very few and very far between, your comment still stands 🤣🤣
I remember having to “secretly “ like bands because of exactly that! Lol
I only know zoot suit riot bc we played it in my high school band at basketball games. I graduated in 2017 btw.
Yes! This is exactly what I tell people when they get nostalgic about the 90s. It was a pretty cool decade in retrospect, especially how tons of underground bands got signed to major labels (that will NEVER happen again). But most of it was just quirky novelty music that got stale quicker than it got fresh.
My high-school marching band played Zoot Suit Riot in the stands at football games, and that definitely makes me cringe, now. The only thing cool about that swing craze was young drummers wanting to learn the jazz ride cymbal pattern.
There was a strange but brief period of time from like 91-94 when random indie rock bands somehow became the biggest pop stars in the world, then everyone tried to copy that formula. Other than that, the 90s were like any other decade musically.
I used splashes in the 90s because I was obsessed with Stewart Copeland. I don't remember it being particularly cool and I was accused of being stuck in the 80s
I tend to always consider PUSA as one of the first bands to get me into punk/alt rock. Lump, Peaches and Mach 5 - I was super into that shit.
They continued being a great band up until the end. Every album has some absolute bangers on it. Hate that I never got to see them live before they split.
PUSA is one of the most creative and raw bands in the history of music, killer fuckin songwriting
@@xp7575 Totally. Chris Ballew's recent solo stuff is also pretty good. It's more 60s than the PUSA stuff but worth checking out for those who like his songwriting.
@ghost mall It's a shame to see Finn bag on them so hard, but maybe our fondness for them is based on nostalgia, making us slightly bias haha
@@millerhxc no Finn is just a hater, have you watched more than 3 videos. He consistently has garbage take after garbage take. Obviously he gets some stuff right but I mean even a broken clock is right twice a day...
Hes still chill though and is not afraid to say what he thinks which I respect but he hates on everything
@@Keyser___Soze I've been watching/following him for some years now and in many instances I agree with a lot of what he says and like similar things - so this kind of surprises me.
Fun fact, there's footage of Hanson covering wait and bleed by Slipknot in a hotel room.
Link?
Les Claypool is one of the greatest bassist of all time. WBBB was on Tales from the Punchbowl, but the best song on that album was Professor Nutbutters House of Treats.
Interesting note about The Presidents of the United States of America….the lead singer now makes music for kids in a band called Casper Babypants.
I was listening to The Presidents Of The USA and Primus yesterday ❤️
The 90s was just everyone trying to be quirky without knowing they were trying to be quirky lol
That Peaches song is amazing!
Still think it's cute
Jesus that song got ran into the ground and got old super fast. I wonder how much their label was paying MTV to play that song.
You just blew my mind with that 98 GAP commercial. I remember watching it and wanting them, but then would look utterly stupid when I tried them on lol
I remember being like 5-7 years old and jamming out to Zoot Suit Riot with my parents while we cleaned the house lol also, Lou Bega with Mombo No. 5
Finn: "How was CPD a thing in the 90's??" Me: "Did you watch Pulp Fiction?"
"Color Me Bad? Get the fuck out of here."
Spice girls just screams “drunken bachelorette party shows up at a karaoke bar” to me.
As someone born in the year 2000, I can say "Peaches" is an all-timer. Also gotta say I'll take Dragula over the entire discographies of any prog metal/djent band
Damn, no way? Haha Well, to each their own Abel.🕶🤙
Symphony X is a great prog metal band tho
They're not even wearing zoot suits, they're just singing about the Zoot Suit Riot but without wearing the suits.
In high school, some buddies and me were total death metal heads and even we were saying that breakdown in Boys2Men was amazing!!
Worst thing is you had to watch through these horrible videos on MTV to get to the good ones. No choice back then.
I love the Presidents Of The United States Of America. A Seattle band that came out in the midst of Grungemania and took the heavy grungey sound, matching it with crazy joke lyrics about the weirdest topics. They're loveable and wholesome. Also, Sir Mix-A-Lot joined the band for a while
This dude is basically the angry video game UA-camr stereotype, but for alternative music.
I love third wave ska, and I know that the peaches song holds up in some crews but I think Dragula holds the test of time most between them all.
Some of these 90s music videos haven't aged well. Some are just pure cringe. But you can't deny the vast diversity of music the 90s gave us. Boyz II Men helped popularize the New Jack Swing along with Teddy Riley. Fun fact: Flea was in Back To The Future Part 2. I'll admit to having a crush on Christina Aguilera during her Dirrty phase. I had dark green No Boundaries pants in 1999. Small confession: I was a Spice Girls fan when they were extremely popular in 1996-1998. Posh Spice was my favorite but Baby Spice was a close second.
Let's not forget about 90s New York hardcore which I know you're a fan of. Victory records laid down the blueprints for I don't even know how many genres of heavy music that are around today and a lot of that stuff still holds up even now.
Earth Crisis 🤘
My expectation of a white person with dreds is that he is going to take my money and give me killer indoor hash in return.
Have you guys ever heard of a British band called Pitchshifter? A band of the 90's, and early 00's, that I thought were awesome, and still do lol
You cannot find 4-5 people who have the drive to sing and still match with each other to the level of Boyz II Men
Being in my teens and 20’s for the 90’s, I remember that there was a very brief period of promise. When nirvana broke, suddenly everyone was open to listening to different kinds of music. You could go to a show and hear rock, rap, funk, etc. all in the same place! Sadly, this part of the 90’s lasted maybe two years. Then the suits went back to choosing what people should listen to. By the late 90’s there was very little left. We saw the rise of post grunge, nu metal, ska, Dave Mathews, watered down pop punk, and various other garden variety crap. What started out as…hey maybe listen to something different…turned into top down marketing, but it always does.
What did you think of bands like Jawbreaker or Letherface?
@@cycologist7069 never heard of leatherface. I didn’t really get into jawbreaker, but they have a song that I like.
@@elosoguapo8137 Interesting response. Both those bands were the ground zero of 90s music. Everything that came after them were heavily influence by them. You really never heard t his album? ua-cam.com/video/deUYdveJziI/v-deo.html
When you said Peaches, I immediately thought of F*ck the Pain Away lol
90s til i die. film my funeral with a fish-eye lens
I always tell people the 90s were wild. After Cobain died, all bets were off. Swing music. Vegaboys. The Macarena. The Dancing Grandpa from Six Flags. Who allowed this?
That Presidents of the United States of America album has some real hidden gems on it. Little Dune Buggy and Body are still songs I'm happy to listen to.
Exactly, I stand by the POTUSOA being unironically awesome lol
“Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory doooown tooooown”.
Doesn’t get much better than that 🤣🤣
Useless Crushes is an extra track and can't be found on Spotify, but it's one of the most fun songs I know. Look it up, it's on UA-cam...
@@hollyroxy25 If I had my little way I’d eat peaches everyday… yep. Amazing. I loved POTUSOA!
Don't ever question the 90s ... they were as crazy as the 60s but back-to-front and upside down
Finn, you literally just proved why the 90’s were so great. And you didn’t even mention the great grunge bands, the great nu metal bands, the great alternative bands, or the great gangsta rap.
Can you give any examples? I'm curious 🧐
@@lorenzob249 examples? Gangsta rap tupac , biggie..nu metal bands Korn rage against the machine alternative bands red hot chilli peppers incubus grunge soundgarden alice in chains..dude if you don't know the many many greats of the 90s you need to go listen, you ears will thank you
I shook my head & laughed so hard when Finn said; regarding Hanson, that the kid playing drums with dreadlocks “uggggh that’s CHILD ABUSE!!! ANY PARENT who allowed or ANY stylist who did that to a young white boy should be arrested!”
Rhcp will always be amazing no matter the decade. They were another gateway band for young black ppl to get into rock music just to find out they were basically just copying all the funk and psychedelic bands our parents were listening to. But AK is one of the most soulful rock singers out there, right next to the pretty boy from incubus.
Brandon Boyd is one of the greatest vocalists ever and no one can change my mind
@@DJENTISNTNOTAGENRE the rest of the band are great musicians as well! But agree he is an amazing singer even still he’s hitting all those long notes and on key!
@@brutalbasspro No doubt about it! I know they get a lot of shit, but I've always loved Incubus. Their first 6 or 7 albums are especially great and I love how no two albums from them sound exactly the same. The only album by them I really didn't like was 8 and even if has a couple of good songs on it.
I don't think they were copying them, they certainly did something different, and they always give them their respective props...
@@nandochavez4546 Yeah I never felt like RHCP were straight up copying anyone. They certainly wore some of their influences on their sleeve, but there's nothing wrong with that.
"no one can sing like this anymore" - Finn Mckenty.
has the same energy as
"no one sings like you anymore"- Chris Cornell
:D
I think the third wave of ska and swing revival are inextricably linked because of the brass instruments involved. Possibly some of the clothes too. Growing up in mid nineties Denver for a few years almost every punk band was also a third wave ska band whos brass section was also involved in swing. Like the brass dudes just wanted to play different styles that focus on their instruments and the swing thing kinda rode the coattails of ska briefly. And yes. Cringe.
I don’t remember who I saw Cherry Poppin’ Daddies play with, but I saw them more than once in Houston. They were usually playing with the classic Asian Man Records roster. I found hardcore very soon after that point in time, but I’m so glad I witnessed and was involved with this whole scene. These bands put on such good shows, but it was also way more inclusive because moshing wasn’t the only way you could dance to the music, which contributed to a much larger female presence and way more young kids. My nostalgia for that counts for a lot, but it really was a magical time. I do agree though, Cherry Poppin Daddies’ name is as horrible as it is, in retrospect, problematic!
I grew up in Philly in the 80’s and 90’s . They played this song non-stop back then . It was cool when it came out , but after like 6 months it was played out
I love your second channel, it's picking up where Beavis and Butthead left off when it comes to roasting music videos 😆
Thank you!
I saw Hanson like 8 or so years ago, because... well I thought it would be interesting and my wife loves them. But holy shit, they are amazing musicians... albeit awkward looking adults.
90's R&B is one of the greatest genre of music ever!!!
I was born in 83, and I’ll take the mid to late 90’s over everything today.
Love peaches but having two persimmon trees in my backyard I gotta say nothing like a fresh ripe persimmon...maybe I should write a song...
Can't even imagine how Primus could PRETEND to play in those outfits.
Finn has some god awful takes
Finn is on the $$
Bro, the mom getting out of the shower quote means you win..... congratulations
@@napesdrk1174 don’t even know wtf you’re talking about
Thanks for watching!
@@FinnMckentyPRMBA ahhh finn disingenuous deleting my comments