Time has a way of getting away from us, especially at the speed at which news cycles travel… With a firehose of information coming at us from traditional media, online sources, social media, and just life in general, it’s really easy to forget where we’ve been and what we’ve done.
The speed of 21st-century life has either created our ultra-short attention spans or exacerbated what was already there.
Me? Sometimes it feels like I have the memory of a goldfish. Somebody will mention something that happened, and I’ll go, “Oh, yeah. That happened a couple of years ago.” And then they’ll say, “No, that was 21 years ago.”
It’s been so long since the ’90s that the music of that era is number one for nostalgia, eclipsing the public’s fascination with the ’80s, the ’70s, and the ’60s. People who weren’t alive in the ’90s have latched on to that music in a very fierce way.
Maybe that’s why to older folk, the rock from that time still seems fresh and top-of-mind—because to a substantial number of young music fans, it’s fresh and top-of-mind for them. I find it fascinating when a young generation embraces music from an older generation as their own.
But time is an arrow that points only one way. We don’t know where we’re going, but we do know where we’ve been. And that’s where history comes in. Remembering and analyzing the past helps understand where we are today and where we might possibly end up tomorrow.
That’s the point of this series of “Ongoing History” programs. What has happened with music in the last 25 years? And can we use any of this history to predict the future?
This is chapter four of “The 100 Greatest Moments in Rock of the Millennium—So Far.”
Songs heard on this show:
- Final Fantasy, He Poos Clouds
- Twenty One Pilots, Stressed Out
- Rage Against the Machine, Renegades of Funk
- Walk Off the Earth, Somebody I Used to Know
- Metallica, St. Anger
- Frank Shop, Girl from the Record Shop
- Nickelback, Rockstar
- Coldplay, Talk
- Muse, Uprising
Eric Wilhite has pulled together a playlist.
The Ongoing History Music can be heard on these stations. Don’t forget that there’s a podcast version, too, in case you miss any episodes. Get them for free wherever you get your podcasts.
- 102.1 The Edge/Toronto – Sunday night at 7pm
- Q107/Toronto – Sunday night at 9pm
- Live 88-5/Ottawa – Saturdays at 9am and Sundays at 6pm.
- 107.5 Dave-FM/Kitchener – Sunday nights at 11pm
- FM96/London – Sunday nights at 8pm
- Power 97/Winnipeg – Sunday nights at 10am and 10pm
- 107-3 The Edge/Calgary – Sundays at 10am and 10pm
- Sonic 102.9/Edmonton – Sunday at 8am and 8pm
- The Zone/Victoria – Sunday at 8am and 9pm
- The Fox/Vancouver – Sundays at 10anm and 10pm
- Surge 105/Halifax – Sunday at 7pm
- WAPS/WKTL The Summit/Arkon, Canton, Cleveland, Youngstown – Mon-Fri at 9pm
Don’t forget about my other podcast, Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry. If you love true crime with your music, you’ll love this. Get Uncharted wherever you get your podcasts.
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