kate asked:


Wanna help?
I’m into Paramore, Mayday Parade, All Time Low types of bands as well as Oasis, The Subways, and Thriving Ivory. So anything similar to these bands would be fantastic.

Eric asked:


i need a music download site that all i do is by a lifetime subscription for so much and then i download my music track by track . ive already tried music oasis , rhapsody , i tunes and limewire.So dont tell me to gi to those.

Digital asked:


1) There were no TV talent shows.

2) Television supported new music.
Not only were there no talent shows on telly in the 1990s, there were a number outlets for new music which don’t exist anymore.

3) Big album releases were an event.
On 21 August 1997, Oasis released their third album, Be Here Now. It was rubbish but that’s not the point. The point is that people queued outside record shops (remember them?) all night to buy it and it shifted nearly half a million copies on its first day of release. Perhaps it’s just us but we can’t help finding it sad that only new mobile phones generate the same level of excitement these days.

4) We had proper rock stars.
At the start of the 1990s, Guns ‘N’ Roses were the biggest rock band in the world. They took drugs, shagged groupies, caused riots and raised hell in a manner befitting their position. Then it was Nirvana, whose frontman didn’t just whinge about being depressed, he actually did something about it. Then came Oasis who sung “you might as well do the white line” and prompted questions in parliament about their behaviour. Now we’ve got Coldplay.

5) There were music movements.
The 1990s kicked off with the Stone Roses playing a massive outdoor gig at Spike Island in Widnes for 27,000 young people dressed in flares, tie-dye t-shirts and ‘Reni hats’. Then came the all-devouring grunge movement with its flannel shirts and self-loathing, which in turn was overthrown by Britpop and its Union Jack-wearing, mod hairstyle-copying retro cool. In short, there were musical movements with their own distinctive style and attitude. What have we had since? Emo? Please.

6) Good dance music was popular.
ance music began as an underground phenomenon and continues to thrive there but, for a few years in the 1990s, some of the best stuff sold by the bucketload. The Prodigy, Leftfield, Chemical Brothers and Orbital all had hit albums. These days the biggest-selling dance music is in the shape of dodgy corporate-sponsored compilations.

7) The charts mattered.
Of all the ramifications downloading and file-sharing have had on music since the 1990s, the increasing irrelevance of the charts is surely the saddest. People under 20 might not believe it but listening to the chart countdown on a Sunday night used to be a genuine event which could assume tribal importance if a record by your band made number one. In the summer of 1995, this reached a level of cultural significance not seen since the 1960s when Blur and Oasis went head-to-head in what News At Ten dubbed ‘The Battle Of Britain’. Yes, it really was on the news.
You could make loads of money from music.
We want to live vicariously through our music stars, do we not? We want them to be obscenely wealthy outlaws, living in ludicrous mansions, travelling the world in private jets, answerable to nobody and sticking it to the man. Well, too bad, those days are over. Established superstars can still rake in millions with mega-tours but the unstoppable decline in record sales of the last 10 years means that any new artist hoping to make serious cash has to ***** themselves out with commercial endorsements, product placements and ‘alternative revenue streams’. Not very rock ‘n’ roll, is it?

mccarthy1983 asked:


I want a free legal alternative to limewire but have seen that sites like music oasis are not safe. What sites can I use?