It’s almost been a full decade since the ’90s ended which means ’90s nostalgia ought begin kicking into high gear sometime soon. Here’s my bit to get that started. A look at the 10 most popular songs from the ’90s based on most Last.FM listeners over the past week. 01 – Oasis – “Wonderwall” – [...]

Every week Last.FM has a new top 500 tracks chart (ranked by the amount of different listeners each song had during the last 7 days.) It’s amazing to me how little the rankings seem to change week to week and how the same older songs seem to be in the list every week. That’s what [...]

As a follow up to the 60s/70s post, these are the top 10 artists who made their debut in the 1990s according to the Last.FM top artist charts. I think this is interesting as it gives an idea of which bands from the ’90s have continued to remain relevant to music listeners and which ones [...]

As I’ve mentioned about 50 times before Last.FM is my favorite music website. The radio player is a great way of hearing new music (I dig using the similar artist route and the tag route) and I also like the charts they have of what Last.FM members are listening to. I think it’s a reasonably [...]

Dave Grohl was born January 14th of 1969 in Ohio. He grew up in Alexandria, Virginia (a suburb of Washington DC.) He is most well known as the drummer for Nirvana and the singer, guitarist, and songwriter for Foo Fighters. When Kurt Cobain died in 1994 Grohl was unsure what he would do next. Would [...]

Nirvana’s From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah hit #1 on the US album charts on October 19th of 1996. It was a live album including Nirvana performances from 1989 through 1994. It was the second live album released after Kurt Cobain’s death (in April of 1994.) The first was the acoustic MTV unplugged album [...]

15 years ago today Nirvana’s third & final studio album, In Utero, reached #1 on the US album charts. It knocked Garth Brooks off the top spot and was followed up by Meatloaf. It also reached #1 in the UK & and in Sweden. To date it has been certified 5X platinum by the RIAA [...]

Nirvana’s 1991 album Nevermind featured on VH1′s “Classic Albums” program. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10

I recall losing my virginity the year this album came out in 1993, I was only forty-three years of age and all was right with the world. On “In Utero”, it is a situation where the pleasant young chaps in Nirvana wanted to totally back away from the finely tuned production work of the landmark [...]