'Central Reservations'

I consider the 1990s to be one of the worst decades of popular music over the past 200 years.

The good stuff was really, really good. But the middle of the pack and bad stuff was just really bad.

One of the facets of this opinion is based on the mediocre output from the females. For every Lucinda Williams, there were five Courtney Loves, Sarah McLaughlins, 10,000 Maniacs, Edie Brickells and Beth Ortons.

I don't know why, but I thought Orton had a little more. Apparently not. She's like all the rest. Quasi-modern jazz, mixed with un-soulful, mid-range vocals, uninspired lyrics and a hodgepodge of genre-mashing (from country to hip-hop beats). This scourge of modern music was probably perfected by Dido. Just useless tripe.