60 Songs That Explain the 90s, Rob Harvilla
60 Songs That Explain the 90s, Rob Harvilla
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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Author: Rob Harvilla

Narrator: Rob Harvilla

Unabridged: 9 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 11/14/2023


Synopsis

A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade. 

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous R&B to rambunctious ska-punk, from Axl to Kurt to Missy to Santana to Tupac to Britney. In 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s, Ringer music critic Rob Harvilla reimagines all the earwormy, iconic hits Gen Xers pine for with vivid historical storytelling, sharp critical analysis, rampant loopiness, and wryly personal ruminations on the most bizarre, joyous, and inescapable songs from a decade we both regret entirely and miss desperately.

Reviews

So, if you have been keeping up with my reviews, you may have noticed a pattern. If you haven't, let me spoil it for you: I fell into a 90s nostalgia vortex a while back and I am clearly taking my sweet old time climbing out. I may never emerge. It's OK. I'm fine. I got this book for my husband's bir......more

Goodreads review by Brendan

Listen, big disclaimer up front. I was born in 1982, so my formative music years were the 1990s. Or, if you want to be mean, the late 1900s. Rob Harvilla's 60 Songs That Explain the '90s is the type of book in which I cannot be trusted to be impartial. I'd like to say I'm mature and professional eno......more