What do you think harmed the music industry the most?

I worked in a record store in the eighties and nineties, parental advisories were a selling point

I remember when Mtv was about music videos and NOT pregnant teenagers

Woodstock 94" was a totally different vibe. 99" ruined such a great tradition and sadly tainted the legacy of the festival.

In the 80s and 90s I saw many concerts. AC/DC, Cheap Trick, Peter Frampton, Pink Floyd, Stone Temple Pilots etc... Most tickets were $25 bucks $50 in the late 90s...prices now are crazy.. My 32 yr old son has never been to a big major show bc everything's over $100...Its sad bc those were some of my best memories.. There's not much to do for under 18 kids anymore. Also if your radio station only rotated the same 20 songs it was probably a pop main stream station which was just to raise money for corporate studio heads by pushin shitty auto tuned crap. The 90s was the last fun decade for music.. The last good music too. Auto tune is the worst thing created. If it wasn't for that maybe music might still be good. Yes here and there comes something good once in a while but it's rare.

The biggest gripe I have about ticketmaster is the idea that a seat higher up has a fee or 40 dollars. Then there's a seat, much closer to the stage which has a service fee of 140 dollars. Which the fee is a fee. There shouldn't be a varying price on any of the same exact seats in different parts of a venue. Also to note I heard the super bowl at SoFi Stadium had fees of 6000 dollars. For the same seat that for a concert would be an 80 dollar fee.

There's one other thing you forgot to mention: the music industry gave up on singles. You had albums in the 90s that went multiplatinum, but usually only had one or two good songs on them. Rather than tweaking albums to sound better, record executives basically said one or two great songs were good enough. Eventually, people grew tired of paying $15 to $18 for an album that wasn't worth listening to except for a few choice cuts.

I went to a Pearl Jam concert during the ticketmaster battle. It was a pain in the butt to get the tickets but a super fun show.

Another thing not mentioned; the corporate take over of local music scenes. I can remember one of the better clubs that my band played, on the regular, all of a sudden demand representation. A conglomerate, I won't name, took over the music scene overnight. They were in cahoots with the local radio station, & gave the bands under them a lists of songs they could play, in return of venues they could play. You could watch three bands play most of the same songs the same night, essentially snubbing out local bands that did original material. It decimated the scene I was part of, but gave us some local bars, that didn't cave in, that kept the embers burning. We also threw warehouse parties that local club owners tried to shut down when they caught wind of them which significantly reduced their draw by calling the cops on us. Lucklily they were in rough neighborhoods where the cops had far bigger worries, they told us to make sure we kept everyone inside. The aforementioned club eventually shut down within a year or so, as did a lot of other formally thriving venues. The music scene in my old area is a mere shadow of it's former self. At least we had a great time before they yanked the carpet out from under our feet.

I prefer today to listen to music on KZfaq and make my own playlist, certain songs I can’t find on Spotify or any music platform. So many things happened in the 1990’s, It was the last decade were the music industry was profitable and made billions of dollars and by the millennium, it slowly started to completely decline, today there’s a majority of people who don’t buy music anymore and got tired of being ripped off.

Proof that not everything was good in the '90s, it's just that nostalgia makes people look at the past for what they want it to be.

In the late 70's early 80's I could easily afford to go to a major concert pretty much every weekend as a teenager who sporadically made money. Other than small local bands I have not seen any live music in 15 years because I refuse to pay the ridiculous prices and even if I did go I doubt I could afford to go to more than 3 or 4 major shows a year.

Double Shout out for Far Beyond Driven and Dirt. 2 of the Best Albums from the 90s!

That was really interesting. Thank you for sharing

I take issue with calling Chers use of auto tune wrong. I think it was a creative choice like Imogen Heaps use of vocoder or Peter Frampton’s use of the talk box. The problem is it has since been waaaaaaaay over used.

Great report. Thanks for this

1990s wasn't the best musical decade but it was the last great decade for music.

From what I hear, the 'Parental Advisory' tag on your band's CD make it sell better. Well, with younger ones. They look at it as edgy and cool to own those CDs

The ironic thing is Walmart still does not sell parental advisory cds, but does sell parental advisory vinal albums.

The thing that harmed the music industry the most was the music industry itself.

1. I agree that is a real problem, the live ticket industry is now a monopoly. When it becomes a monopoly it either needs to be strictly regulated or broken up, and neither have happened. 2. Yeah the downside is that radio playlists are less diverse than they used to be, but the positive is that now in the era of streaming, that doesn't really matter as much anymore. 3. Guess the M stands for money and not music now. But again I feel like this one doesn't matter so much anymore because of the internet era, where now we can just watch all the music videos we want on this very platform. In fact most of the most viewed videos on here ARE music videos. 4. Yeah again the censorship was bad but the internet has helped alleviate that issue. Now let's just hope the internet doesn't get more censored too... 5. Woodstock may have died, but the concept of music festivals as a whole is still alive and well. 6. And even now, musicians in the industry don't make as much money as they may have been able to several decades before. Streaming is great for consumers, but not so much for those actually making the music. 7. Yeah and I'm sure exploitation probably still happens to some extent, although I'm sure the internet age has also lessened that as more artists now are able to become successful as independent artists. 8. Yeah when there's too much loudness, the quality of the music suffers. 9. One thing that's important to note is that you can TELL when it's there. It's fine to use for a certain effect, but there are other tools out there for just modifying your pitch.

There's a whole music mafia out there.

Literally one of the only inside for videos I’ve seen from this channel. Do more work like this grunge and maybe you’ll be worth checking out again… But I doubt it.

Summed it all up quite nicely.

1994 best year of music , nin downward spiral, Pantera far beyond driven, korn 1st album, white zombie astro creep 2000, and many more....

I remember MTV having an actual prime time lineup instead of Videos (93-94) there was "My So called life (teen drama), Dead at 21(action) singled out(game show) the State(sketch comedy) the Jon Stewart Show(late night talk) and of course Beavis and Butt-Head

I think rising ticket prices were mainly caused by decreasing incomes from royalties because people started downloading music for free, changing the business model for musicians. Until then concerts were meant to make people buy records, their main source of income. So concerts were a marketing tool, an investment to make money by record sales. Since records weren't sold anymore the concerts had to become the source of income. Records now were mainly the investment to make people come to the concerts.

When I first started going to concerts in 86 the service fee was $1 (at least that's how I remember it) regardless of ticket price. It seemed to be that way until some time in the 90's.

It's interesting how you say it was the aggressively wrong use of autotune. A lot of the innovation in sound engineering comes from abusing tools, or using them in a way which they were never intended. That's the art of being a sound engineer, pushing the limits and finding different ways to use sound Not that I liked when auto tune was everywhere, I didn't. but it is a good thing that people are creative

I disagree with the parent advisory sticker was 'censorship'. I agree that it probably did stop a lot of record sales because parents didn't want to buy it for their kids but people were still allowed to buy them if they wanted to. It wasn't the same as simply outlawing the music as some people claimed at the time.

This waa my generation all through the 90s espcially the late 90s when I became a preteen to teen. I had my highs and lows back then . They contuine used audio tune in the 2000s and 2010s

There is a reason why I prefer Spotify over radio

Notice that Prince was never mentioned in this documentary because he wanted none of it from his former record company Warner Brothers trading in Bugs Bunny and friends with Emancipation.

I'm not a music fan but I have not turned on the radio in my car since 1995. Holy fuck! I thought that they played the same ten songs over and over again. Now I know it wasn't my imagination. I have simply turned it off and now drive without any radio whatsoever.

Yeah.. I have no problem saying the 90’s was the last decade of great music

Pretty good doc.

So WalMart won’t sell parental advisor dvd or cds to this day? But rifles and bullets to those under age 21 is straight up? So confused 😂 😂

thankfully we had the explosion of dance music in the 90s.... i didn't care about all the rubbish going on in rock and pop music because house, techno, jungle and trance were new, underground and amazing

100% agree with the premise of this vid

I seen AC/DC in 1986 and was almost on top of the band, just a few feet away, bought my ticket at the door for $12 seen Van Halen for $15

Nirvana ❤

Love this video

I'm done going to concerts until prices drop to a fairer level.

lol the 90s were a good decade of music yeah prices got higher but many things did in the 90s. early to mid 90s had so many hits late 90s started to go downward but still good.

We not going to do that Roger Troutman started with the Auto Tune

Eh, the issues I have with autotune are the complete opposite. The... 'exaggerated' effct of it turned up like in Cher is intentionally an effect, much like adding guitar or reverb to a guitar. On the other hand the 'subtle and completely natural' use of it is far more... sinister.... because that can mask the the fact that a given singer can't carry a tune in a bucket.

Someone glossed over the Woodstock 99' gang rapes of minors...tsk tsk

I love when people try and defend auto tune in hip hop and pop music No integrity at all

like myself, whoever grew-up in the 80's remember that famous slogan...I WANT MY M.tv. great info-

That ending was depressing

Yeah that and Ace of Base

did rebecca black so dirty with that shot after “worst singer”😭

3:35 MTV did not facilitate the advent of rap in the 90s. "Rap" has been around since the 1970s. MTV may have facilitated exposure of to "mainstream" audiences, but rap was around before MTV.

Who listens to the radio?? I gave up when the internet came about now all the music I listen is from youtube.

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Bill Graham died and after that ticking became a monopoly and then Clear Channel took over the Airwaves...then there was Napster. American Idol and feckless critics were the final nail in musics coffin.

Though it had it's flaws, MTV was overall great until the TRL and boy bands era. It still played videos adults could enjoy before TRL.

who listens to the radio

I am an 1990s kid so remember the decade with plenty of nostalgia. There is enough decent music during that period to fuel that nostalgia even 25-30 years later. However it was definitely the beginning of some rotten trends... the boy bands, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and most Eurodance stuff count among the material I would rather forget.

And now it costs like 300 bucks minimum to see some bands live!

Being independent is better independent artist

Atleast we have mtv classic. Literally the same as the old mtv with nothing but music videos. I do wish they would implement all generations of music including new bands but I doubt they will cuz these young kids wouldn’t care to watch, they’re too busy on tiktok

MTV should change their name already, it has nothing to do with music anymore.

Snob Alarm. Autotune bad, DAWs bad, Cds bad.😢😢😢😂

4:43 I wonder what tipper has to say about current music

CD is not a reason for a loudness war. It began in the 60s. "Paperback writer" is one the first singles to be made with high volume in mind. CD was intended to be a real representation of an original mixdown tape which was the case until around 1993-1995. CD releases were made worse deliberately to capitalise on vastly inferior vinyl that's much more expensive.

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I think the best and most creatively purely felt music was 90s music, spanning hard rock, alternate rock, goth and gothic metal, black metal, death metal; electronic dance music, hip hop singers and r&b music were too, just not as much real diversity in their genres in my opinion as nowadays.

The FCC was originally intended to issue licenses and monitor stations across the country. Initially, there were laws limiting how much media one company could utilize. The concern was not that stations could create monotery monopolies, but that any emergency message issued for national broadcast could be shut down where the original laws were one radio station and one tv station per market. Period. Money over national security. We knew this 70 years ago. We have not gotten safer; just more ignorant.

Nirvannah's "Nevermind" was probably the last, really good, radio-friendly album of the '90's. Just about every song was made for FM. After that, it's all been downhill. F**K Clear Channel and i❤Radio

Auto tune was used in the 80s by Zapp

Fight the system. Make your own music.

The 90s began so well and ended so badly.

In fairness let's look at the line ups for the 2 Woodstock festivals. Was the second EVER going to live up to the first?? I personally don't associate Kid Rock or Limp Bizkit with "free love"

You left out the fact that there were countless S.A's at Woodstock 99'. It was awful!

Ohhhhh myyyyyyyyy Goooooooodddddd I remember when MTV and VH1 played music vids all day, and Bevis and Butthead. It was like MTV got a reasignment surgery from having huge balls, to all that becoming inverted without balls but crying pregnant teens, and oh my God the fucking drama, drama, DRAMA it has become kinda makes me physically sick and angry.

It all changed in the 90’s. I was just a kid.

at 10:34 Death Magnetic playing in an empty dumpster? Wow, you are so wrong. What hurt the music industry the most was the introduction of shitty pop music.

I didn’t have a problem with the parental advisory labels. Profanity in a song is just lazy song writing. You can’t play the song freely on the radio. It can’t be played at a school dance. If you have kids you don’t want them hearing it.

I remember watching The Rick Roll when it was just another good song with a cool video. Now it's legendary and I feel cheated that I didn't record it on my dad's camcorder so I could show people that I knew what cool was! I'm still trying to figure out how to be cool now because The Rick Roll betrayed me!!! I thought for sure that Cris Cross was gonna be the biggest thing ever back then lol. Peace and love y'all 🤟

Cher just liked that sound she used vocoder which is a bit different than autotune we knowshe can sing

as a former BSB fanatic and still supporter Lou Pearlman did not create BSB there would have never been a Backstreet Boys Had Howie and AJ n Nick not met that time they are the real reasons behind BSB then they met Kevin and he brought Brian

wish i was young so wouldn't know everything about the music industry these days is soooo LAME

You forgot the gang SA of minor females.

How about the messed up truth of the 2020s music industry

I was indeed using certain services in the early 2000s. After It fried my brick of a dell 5150 i stopped. But the way record execs have acted. Artist have commercialized themselves, selling merchandise that cost 5$ to manufactur yet fans happily pays 25$ for. I have no love for tipper gore (that harpie), the PTA sticker. Woodstock 99' and todays production with autotune. I did watch the boyband con and thats how I got to know Lou Pearlman. But todays artists, I see them as sellouts and hypocrites. When they say one thing and do the opposite. Just look at taylor swift and the tracking that shown her private jet In motion...

Still gaining on today gotta think what the fuck.

Also, the drugs . Cobain, Weiland, etc, all went down that path.

Alright Imagine Dragons Bones clip !! 2:30

You would think that multiple artists & bands would come together & form there very own industry by now, giving the middle finger to the ones who ripped them off.

The 90's were crap, in my opinion, in the music industry. Yes, there are a few great songs from that decade but I'm a classic music fan. Give me the 60's thru the 80's anyday 😊

Mental health in this era is still not perfect. Anyone who thinks we're doing so much better now than in the 90s, you may be on drugs yourself.

If the original Woodstock was in 1969 how was Woodstock 50 in 1999?

All I heard was baby boomer greed destroyed the music industry… and that sounds about right. I swear they have the opposite of a Midas touch to legit every industry.

Yes, I grew up in the 80’s as a teen getting my tickets from TicketMaster for $17.50 during my concert years seeing Tool, Metallica ,and STP both 7X each all over the Southern States, also seeing Korn, Pantera, & the “Original” Smashing Pumpkin’s once at Biloxi’s Coliseum here in Southern COASTAL Ms. Our local radio station “WCPR” had Rock Festivals here in Biloxi, Ms. They brought alot of cool bands in the end of my concert days. Now just small venue’s are at our local Coastal Casino’s like “HARD ROCK” Biloxi,Ms. for alot more money but alot less crowd’s, “NO” 100+ degree temps! All nice, clean, small venues that are much better overall with restrooms with A/C for the few I’ve paid “more” to see! I miss the “Good Ole’ Days” of the 80’s seeing EVERY Rock Band from Van Halen(DLR💎Days), Ozzy, AC⚡️DC, Ratt, DefLeppard, Guns N’ Roses, & Motley Crue before they started doing their “Final Farewell” Tour every couple years as a money grab like I saw with KISS do in my early concert days in the late 70’s/80’s as a teen!#80’s#”BestofTimes!”#🎸🤘🏻🔥❤️✨

What's your favorite Nickelback song?

Censorship had absolutely nothing to do with MTV no longer playing music videos; it was entirely because of steaming platforms like KZfaq. It made no sense for mtv to play music videos when people could watch the same videos on demand on KZfaq. MTV made more money by replacing the programming spots with reality shows which are inexpensive to produce as it is.

I think the Glam metal crash of the early 90s was also manufactured by the industry. If you only looked at the numbers you wouldn't think there's a crash, you'd think Glam and Grunge coexisted, as bands still charted pretty high on Billboard and their albums from 91-92 have earned gold (less than the double platinum they were earning before that but it was definitely still a thing). A lot of the bands did have their own inside problems, and management in labels changed that was much more in favor of Grunge, but the main kicker was MTV. Right after Nirvana put Grunge on the map they made a blacklist of Glam bands that are banned from any airplay, including big ones like Motley Crue ans Poison but also newer ones like Slaughter. And also Beavis and Butthead did some damage by having their uncool character Stewart wear a Winger shirt

Auto-tune's use and abuse is the single greatest reason music has gotten so awful this century. Korn, Kid Rock and Shit Bizkit killed rock but that stupid plug-in killed listenable music.

2:56 trust me, they're nowhere as friendly as they sound