What's funny is during the 90's I felt like I was born 10 years later than I was supposed to be because I always preferred stuff from the 70s and 80s. I still like older stuff but nostalgia has improved my perception of the 90s. No lie, probably the last 3 concerts I've been to have been 90's cover bands.
You're correct about it being every style...just looking at mainstream rock, it's interesting to look back at the pendulum swings from the partying and excesses of the hair bands of the 80s, to the more simply produced and serious grunge, then back to a lighter, more fun tone in the mid-late 90s alternative, then the post grunge stuff. If I have a memory that I can't quite place the year for, I just have to look up the music I associate with that time and see what year it was popular. One genre that I think got worse instead of better in the 90s was metal. That's when even the harsh scream vocals that still at least carried a note really became widely replaced by cookie monster growling and I stopped even looking for new metal to listen to. It's really a shame because there is some masterfully written and performed stuff out there instrumentally, and then they have to go ruin it with "the most annoying sound in the world".
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