10 Albums Which Defined the Dotcom Era

Posted by moezilla on November 22, 2009

A former DJ identifies the 10 albums “that defined the dotcom era”.

“When that wave of prosperity which brought us there – for a happy, shiny moment – rolled back violently, these kids found out even drugs wouldn’t help.” But remembering the 90s as “the time of Napster’s infinite-mp3-download-orgy,” Steve Robles asks whether there could be a nostalgia craze for music from the era. “Someone sold a lot of kids on the idea that the Brave New World had been reached,” he points out, also arguing that there’s now a subsequent bleakness “which continues to this day.”

And he lists the albums which historians will remember as defining the decade – while simultaneously noting that 10 years from now, no one will even be using the word ‘album’!”