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The decade I was born in. Most of the alternative music that I would discover and identify with well into adulthood would be discovered here. We spent the '90s pretending the '80s didn't exist, then spent the 2000s revisiting all the music that came out in the '80s.
Ten years that were home to some of the best records ever made, assuming you are into shoegaze, alt-rock and big beat techno, as I very much was. If this section seems a tad bare, it's because much of my '90s record reviews are compiled for GLIDER, a shoegaze/noisepop focused zine I write.
Unlike prior decades, the '00s were the first time I was around and conscious of these records as they were released; even saw some of these bands live! Garage rock revival, electro and witch house were all booming then. I was in college during the late '00s, so this was the era that solidified most of my musical tastes. This would be the last decade for which I could say that I had the pulse of what was cool or not.
Real life arrives. I'm in grad school, and later in the workplace. I'm no longer tending to my garden of last.fm listens with the meticulous care and effort that I used to. I'm still listening to records, but finding time to write reviews is hard.