Re: Jack Lawrence

["Sean Smyth" <Sportswriter@dejazzd.com>]

Mike Thomas writes:
> The 90's specialty shows are already starting to pop up.
> WLAN/Lancaster, PA (a CHR) occasionally does "all-90's weekends"

They do them once a month, IIRC.

> Their
> list includes everything, from Wilson Phillips to Stone Temple Pilots to
> Notorious BIG.  For the most part, the songs are from the earlier end of
> the decade and they do lean pop, but WLAN isn't afraid to play some of
> the extremes, which makes sense because that's what popular music was in
> the 90's--a blend of pop, r&b, alt-grunge-rock and rap/hip hop.

When I have listened to their flashback weekends (which is not all that
often, since I am not a regular WLAN listener) I have to admit I've been
impressed with the musical mix. They have some stuff from some "forgotten"
artists, such as Arrested Development and Toad the Wet Sprocket, which was
big in its day.

My main point is that there are two distinct camps of '90s music: rap/hip
hop and grunge/alt/rock/whatever it's called nowadays. Generic pop music was
essentially dead between 1992 and 1997, until the Spice Girls and Britney
Spears and Hanson surfaced.

-Sean