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 in this episode:

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 Turner - Girl From The Record Shop

Nickelback - Rockstar

Coldplay - Talk

Muse - Uprising

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