Why Did 90s Nickelodeon Music Slap SO HARD?!

The music of Nickelodeon in the 90s was SO GOOD - I had to get some answers.

Thanks to Heath Seifert and Kevin Kopelow! Go check out Good Burger 2 on Paramount Plus!

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#nickelodeon #90s #musichistory

[SoulOfTheSouth]

I was born in 1986 and let me tell you. Growing up, All That was the SNL of my age group. I always tuned in every Saturday and to see who were the musical guest. I missed that era. I watched it including Kenan and Kel. They was always my favorite comic duo and I watched those shows religiously.

[TammiJuusu]

TV show composers deserve so much more credit

[Positive_Tea]

I always thought of All That as a kids version of In Living Color. As a kid, both shows introduced me to hip-hop.

[Buster_Chestnut]

Peanuts holiday specials tricked me into being a Jazz fan, and 90s Nick did the same for Hip Hop. Neither of those are bad traits. Thanks for taking up the topic...

[samthompson]

Can we also mention how hard Hey Arnold's soundtrack lowki slapped?! I have a softer spot for jazz because of that show lol

[DSmicklas]

I have a jazz playlist. The Hey Arnold theme is on it next to all of the greats. That show injected jazz into my psyche at an early age.

[SamFocused]

As a Kid grown up in the '90s I still Cant believe how they get all the Legends in the Show.
Kids nowdays will never understand what it means to wait for a Show and get so excited When they Call Out the Artists.
Great Video 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[pervertedalchemist]

Also, it should be noted that the announcer of "All That" would become famous in their own right. Believe it or not, it's Courtenay Henderson AKA Soup of underground rap group Jurassic 5.

[wipis]

I can't see Kenan on SNL without thinking of him on All That. He was hilarious then and he is now. He's gonna go down the greatest working entertainer in history if he keeps this up. He's had a 30 year career and he's only 45 years old.

[SkyBlew]

Thanks for this! 😊🙏🏾 I feel like alot of people slept on how good the music for 90's Nick was. It really added to the overall style they had 😎🤙🏾💙✌🏾🎨⛅️

[StillOnTrack]

Damn this is one aspect of the '90s that doesn't get talked about enough. Fantastic video as always.

[nicolesherman]

I remember someone saying Nickelodeon was the Black channel for kids back in the day lmao 🔥

[herpderpy]

Nickelodeon's golden age was something truly special. This was still in the era when young, scrappy networks that wanted to try something new had a chance to actually make it. They almost shut down in their "silver ball" era because they were perceived as corny and didn't engage kids on their level but rather just beat the fact that they were "educational" over their parent's heads, but with some outside help, they managed to rebrand into their "orange splat" era with a focus on engaging kids on their level and it worked. I even remember the first sketch comedy show on the Snick lineup - Roundhouse, which was also good and doesn't seem to get much recognition, but All That was on another level for sure. I know a lot of people call All That "SNL for kids", but I always felt it was more in line with In Living Color or MadTV.

[wipis]

Younger people might not appreciate that Hip-hop/Rap wasn't quite mainstream yet in 1995-96. Soul, R&B, rock, grunge, pop, were all dominating the charts. The Grammys didn't even award a best hip-hop album until 1996 and it wasn't until 2004 that OutKast would win best album. So this was cutting edge at the time.

[aldali]

I wish you could do a video on Kurt Farquhar, the guy that did the background music for shows like Moesha, The Parkers, C Bear and Jamal, just to name a few

[akmadsen]

We didn't get much Nickelodeon over here in Scandinavia back in the '90s (unless you had cable or satelite TV, but both were expensive), so I'm not super familiar with any of the shows, but I do know this: One of the greatest hip hop bangers ever was written for a kids movie. I'm talking, of course, about Hit 'Em High from Space Jam. Such a sick tune with some on point verses from some of the absolute best in the game.

[cequario]

A dedicated video/documentary of the legendary Electric Lady Studios would be great! So many legendary LPs and tunes have been recorded there, apart from 1996-2002 ;) Thanks, as always, for your content and love!

[JoseMorales-lwnt]

As an 80's baby, I really got to be in the passenger seat of a great entertainment ride courtesy of some great parents and grandparents. Growing up in The Bronx, my parents had early access to Cablevision. Out in Reading, Pennsylvania, my grandparents were able to get Nickelodeon!
One show that caught my musical ear was ROUNDHOUSE. Particularly that end theme. Reprise the theme song and roll the credits!❤

[malcomalexander]

And big up to you for highlighting these incredible shows and how they changed our lives and WHY they changed our lives! THey never talked down and really inspired us.

[UdokaChima]

This is one of my favorite episodes because I got to relive my childhood. It’s been so many years I couldn’t forgot that these shows had musical acts, but it must have affected my taste in some unconscious way. Plus, I didn’t know you play bass for Nas! 🤯