My Musical Evolution – Part 348 The 90’s Recap And Worth Mentionings

So I am at the point in My Musical Evolution where we are approaching another big technology change. Before I get to that I thought I’d take a moment to reflect and summarize a little.

All year long, I’ve been concerned about how the last couple of months would play out. I feel like this era of My Musical Evolution is somewhat sloppy and undefined. I have a few theories why. The biggest being that in this era, music had taken on a diminished, supporting role. Less attention at that time makes for foggier recollection now.

Another issue is focus or lack thereof in this case. In all of my tidy previous eras, my musical attention was primarily focused on the music of the moment. With a few clear exceptions, The 90’s feel like they didn’t have music of the moment. I was acquiring and enjoying music that had covered the entire span of my evolution which givesThe 90’s a bit if and identity crisis.

Lastly, I feel that this most current phase of my life is still active. Each of my previous eras had a pretty clear beginning and end that was linked to some autobiographical aspect of my life like a location or school or relationship. In 1988 I got married and even though we’ve moved once in that time and our kids have gone to 2 Daycares and 6 schools, and we have changed jobs 6 times, it still feels like it is the same 24 year phase. Perhaps the 24 year length has something to do with it. My previous eras were all 3 to 5 year blocks or less. This last segment which chronologically accounts for over half my life is being crammed into 2 months of posts. So yeah, I’m feeling a bit rushed.

I’m about halfway through 1997 at this point in My Musical Evolution. I work in IT for a local company. My personal computer is a Commodore 64C that I’ve had for 8 or 9 years and an early IBM ThinkPad. I have a mini mixing studio in my basement and my hobbies include brewing my own beer and making mix tapes for people. The mix tapes might be part of the identity crisis too. My mixes would cover the gamut and seldom focus on any particular era. As I think about this, I remembered that I have a rather large box of my old Basement Tapes. I should dig them out ant listen to them to see if that stirs and echoes. At this point, my Compact Disc Collection is so large that I make 2 custom shelving units to hold them. Commercial ones are either too small or cost too much. My musical influences at the time were few. Didn’t have much in the way of peer influence. MTV hadn’t played any music in years and my radio listening was usually just Car Talk on NPR.

Maniac Mansion Theme Love electronic music

Zak MacKraken Theme

MC Hammer – You Can’t Touch This