"i grew up in the 90s" (re: "alternative" "christian" music)

Having been born in the 80s isn't the same as having lived the 80s.

Case in point, J. Edward Keyes* posts a best of the 77s record on his website, I download it and am pretty much blown away by it, and can't figure out why I've never heard them before. (Maybe I did hear "Nowhere Else" somewhere?) Prolly cuz I was, depending on when we're talking about, either not alive or very young while this music was being made. The 77s were to Keyes, I think, what Poor Old Lu and Sixpence None the Richer were to me. If you feel what I'm saying. Anyway, the 77s are really good and I might have to finally start listening to all that junk that the people who are 8-10 years older than me keep hyping -- Daniel Amos, Steve Taylor, etc.

{*Tangentially: I have to admit that sometimes I feel very jealous of Mr. Keyes, because he's written a lot of stuff very similar to what I've tried to do, but he's older and has been there and done that. Plus he has the advantage, if you want to call it that, of having undergone a full deconversion and being able to look at the whole music and religion thing in hindsight. I'm not saying I don't like being able to write about pop music as somebody who is still "one of those Christian Christians," but it does mean I'm more likely to get published in Killing the Buddha than, say, the Voice. Which is not a bad thing, really.}