There WAS great music in the 90's...

What went wrong was we started to get lousy RADIO... The start of the Big Consolidation started (or got up to steam) then, and local radio stations started to have no DJ's or their own programming, and just started to take satellite feeds. Once you lose local promotion, the field of playlist choice narrows considerably, and you start to get this awful homogenization we currently suffer (at least in the US).

How many great bands got their start in the sixties and seventies by being pushed by a local area radio stations, and then blowing up nationally? Nowadays, that opportunity is MUCH smaller and less likely...