Now that it's 2013 we can start the retrospective looks at 1993, officially two decades in our rear view mirror. (It's 20 years since Pearl Jam's second album, Vs., came out with the song "Rearviewmirror," as a matter of fact.) Over on I Will Dare Jodi posted something recently suggesting '93 may have been the banner year for Gen X music-wise, listing many notable albums released that year (including that Pearl Jam one).
Perhaps.
Glancing at that list... it's not that I didn't like many of them, nor that I didn't buy at least some of them, but for whatever reason personally that year's offerings (both then and when I look now), while certainly including good ones, don't hit me with the Oh yeah that was the year feeling.
It's only from the vantage point of twenty years that we can survey the pop culture landscape and declare what year was "the best" in a given category; in the moment we are too caught up in its immediacy to appreciate it.
If one is so inclined. Maybe I'm just not as inclined to think in such terms. So let's instead focus on something about the music from that year noted on Jodi's list that I do recall, still quite well.
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Having been a fan of the Replacements (who'd played their last show in '91), not surprisingly I was excited about the '93 release of Paul Westerberg's first official solo album, 14 Songs, and was equally excited when I learned he would tour in support of it.
Perhaps.
Glancing at that list... it's not that I didn't like many of them, nor that I didn't buy at least some of them, but for whatever reason personally that year's offerings (both then and when I look now), while certainly including good ones, don't hit me with the Oh yeah that was the year feeling.
It's only from the vantage point of twenty years that we can survey the pop culture landscape and declare what year was "the best" in a given category; in the moment we are too caught up in its immediacy to appreciate it.
If one is so inclined. Maybe I'm just not as inclined to think in such terms. So let's instead focus on something about the music from that year noted on Jodi's list that I do recall, still quite well.
~
Having been a fan of the Replacements (who'd played their last show in '91), not surprisingly I was excited about the '93 release of Paul Westerberg's first official solo album, 14 Songs, and was equally excited when I learned he would tour in support of it.
