Music To Oppo To: God Lives Underwater, "From Your Mouth"

"PanchoVilleneuve ST" (PanchoVilleneuve) 06/16/2016 at 16:37 • Filed to: MusicToOppoTo

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AKA that band your not-so-smart friend insisted was The Crystal Method.

Ash78, voting early and often > PanchoVilleneuve ST 06/16/2016 at 16:45

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This reminds me of talking with a 25-y-o coworker who ate/slept/breathed electronic music most of his life, but when I mentioned liking Crystal Method and Chemical Brothers to him, he just stared at me blankly. He had also never heard of Filter. I was at a loss. I don't think electronica ever crossed over into the mainstream as much as it did in the late 90s.

PanchoVilleneuve ST > Ash78, voting early and often 06/16/2016 at 16:54

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A lot of it was different crowd than who is into electronic music these days. The Chemical Brothers were more of a neo-psychedelia thing, more popular with stoners than anything. Filter was the band people listened to before they finally discovered Helmet. The Crystal Method was for people who owned a PS1.

Of all the electronic music of the 90s finding weird fanbases, though, I still remember when The Fat of the Land came out and all the metalheads started listening to Prodigy.

Ash78, voting early and often > PanchoVilleneuve ST 06/16/2016 at 17:00

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Yeah, a lot of crossover back then, for sure — I was big into NIN for a while, plus some other UK/Euro stuff like the Propellerheads, Fatboy Slim, some Drum'N'Bass stuff...but mostly I stuck to metal and mainstream rock. I used to say "everything but Country" and I probably still stand by that, even though you can hardly tell one genre from another anymore. Not a bad thing, just harder to make conversation :D

PanchoVilleneuve ST > Ash78, voting early and often 06/16/2016 at 17:10

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My 90s high school years were spent playing Quake Deathmatch and listening to KMFDM.

Also, the whole Prodigy/metalhead thing was great since they had a touch-the-monolith moment where they realized music could be loud without guitars.