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what do you remember about the 90's???

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Aspiration


    The Jenny McCarthy Show :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Given all the chat about Dublin venues of times past, this thread is well timed:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055389384


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭noby


    Aspiration wrote: »
    Apparently Freakscene was the sh*t in there.

    Indeed it was. I wasn't into dance, so the other six nights didn't interest me, but I was semi-regular on Wednesday nights.
    Before that it was probably Gorbys when I first moved to Cork.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,602 ✭✭✭✭ShawnRaven


    Actually, speaking of MTV, anyone remember it in the late 80s/early 90s with their gameshow, Remote Control hosted by Denis Leary? Of course, when he finished up, he'd go on a crusade against MTV. :D

    Once it finished up in the US, then the UK gave it a crack with Tony Wilson presenting it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    JLemmon wrote: »
    Yeah, 120 minutes was the best video show on TV at the time,
    post modern and alternative nation were good too.
    120 had the more out there stuff, Barnes and Barnes - Fishheads, Reverend Horton Heath - Psychobilly Freakout. This program changed the way I listen to music.
    120 Minutes was awesome! I remember seeing Einsturzende Neubauten on it and was totally freaked out by this noisy, weird, scary, insane stuff (sorry John if you're reading!) but wow, what a far cry from ****ing My Sweet 16!
    Yeah I remember Pip Dann - she was cool.
    Anyone remember SnubTV on BBC2 for great alternative/indie?

    I totally associate daytime MTV in the early 90s with RHCP, Pearl Jam, Faith No More, Beavis & Butthead etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭noby


    Dudess wrote: »
    I totally associate daytime MTV in the early 90s with RHCP, Pearl Jam, Faith No More, Beavis & Butthead etc.


    Broken up by Paul King's 'day job' on MTV Greatest Hits.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    In no particular order:

    Vagabonds Nite Club in Salthill in Galway,
    Jeff Buckley,
    Compulsion being my favourite band,
    Getting into the Pixies when Bossanova was released,
    Whipping Boy,
    Feile in '94 and '95,
    Getting ****faced on a tenner,
    Suede, Radiohead, Pulp etc,
    Therapy?,
    Drinking flagons of linden village,
    Having a ticket to see Nirvana and then Kurt blew his brains out,
    Old college bar in UCG,
    Puppylovebomb,
    Revelino,
    Lir,
    Tindersticks,
    Stina Nordenstam,
    No Disco,
    Sack,
    and having fcuk all money but great craic. Ahhh, nostalgia......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭JLemmon


    Dudess wrote: »
    120 Minutes was awesome! I remember seeing Einsturzende Neubauten on it and was totally freaked out by this noisy, weird, scary, insane stuff (sorry John if you're reading!) but wow, what a far cry from ****ing My Sweet 16!
    Yeah I remember Pip Dann - she was cool.
    Anyone remember SnubTV on BBC2 for great alternative/indie?

    I totally associate daytime MTV in the early 90s with RHCP, Pearl Jam, Faith No More, Beavis & Butthead etc.

    Yeah, Under the bridge, Even Flow and MidLife Crisis :D
    Also Zuccero and Paul Young "Sensa Una Donna" got alot of plays and The Rembrants "That's just the way it is baby"
    As regards Pip Dann, Paul King, Ray Cokes and the rest, they knew there music unlike the later VJ's who were celeb wannabes like our modern radio Dj's.
    How the Feck can MTV call itself a music channel now?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,688 ✭✭✭Nailz


    Metal, Grunge, Black Grape and some terrible amounts of Pop!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 266 ✭✭JLemmon


    Here's one pre internet to the masses thing.
    Having less music in your life.
    Now what I mean is, you got an album or 2 and that was it, you listened to
    them alot and the rest of your collection. There was no overload in the amount of music available and what you had you gave more time and truly got a feel for it.
    The 90's was the last time anything "Cult" was cult.
    Now with the net, every corner of pop culture has been exploded beyond it's boundaries, good in one way bad in that the joy of discovery and immersion in a subject is gone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,505 ✭✭✭irlirishkev


    -Classic gigs in the Tivoli.. hang around outside afterwards and meet the bands.. Inspiral Carpets, Oasis, Gene, Ride, EMF..

    -The Oasis V Blur thing was a bit annoying. I liked both of them.
    -First albums by Suede, Oasis, The Charlatans.
    - Blur wearing ill fitting suits with Doc Martins
    -The Garth Brooks craze that sweeped the nation (world!)

    -'The Word' on Channel 4. Great great show. Don't make 'em like that anymore! All the best bands got on there.. just look at YouTube.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Aspiration


    Is it bad that when people say Under The Bridge I think All Saints, and not the Red Hot Chili Peppers?? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Yes, yes it is. Very, very bad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 331 ✭✭VickBack


    Aspiration wrote: »
    Is it bad that when people say Under The Bridge I think All Saints, and not the Red Hot Chili Peppers?? :D


    Tut tut aspiration!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    In no particular order:

    Vagabonds Nite Club in Salthill in Galway,
    Jeff Buckley,
    Compulsion being my favourite band,
    Getting into the Pixies when Bossanova was released,
    Whipping Boy,
    Feile in '94 and '95,
    Getting ****faced on a tenner,
    Suede, Radiohead, Pulp etc,
    Therapy?,
    Drinking flagons of linden village,
    Having a ticket to see Nirvana and then Kurt blew his brains out,
    Old college bar in UCG,
    Puppylovebomb,
    Revelino,
    Lir,
    Tindersticks,
    Stina Nordenstam,
    No Disco,
    Sack,
    and having fcuk all money but great craic. Ahhh, nostalgia......

    Compulsion
    Therapy
    Revelino
    Man that's a blast from the past.
    Are any of them still going i wonder?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    tech77 wrote: »
    1990-1994:
    Grunge, grunge and more grunge.
    End of GNR era.
    Dance stuff Xavi6 mentions- some good, some sh1te.
    Never got into the Madchester scene though for some reason.

    Mid-90s:
    Blur vs Oasis/Brit pop sh1te- apart from Suede maybe.
    Manics domination for a brief period as well.

    My belated discovery of:
    1) Smashing Pumpkins- via Melloncollie.., Siamese Dream.
    2) The Pixies.
    3) The Smiths.
    4) Achtung Baby.

    Mid-Late 90s:
    Chart pollution with The Spice Girls, girlbands and boybands.

    Late 90s-Early 00s: Coldplay.
    Not a lot of other good stuff tbh.

    Add to that the post-Creep success of Radiohead (The Bends in particular) and Metallica's The Black Album (and their offerings thereafter) of course.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    tech77 wrote: »
    Compulsion
    Therapy
    Revelino
    Man that's a blast from the past.
    Are any of them still going i wonder?

    Compulsion were class, i'd all their stuff, they just faded away after the Future is medium, they should have been alot bigger. :mad:

    Revelino wrote some great tunes, Donal Dinnen played them off the air on No Disco, dont know what became of them.

    Therapy? could still be on the go, they got a bit samey after Troublegum, but Babyteeth is one of my favourite mini albums still.......... Teethgrinder ftw also.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    1996 was the breakthrough year for me. As an 11 year old I started getting into 'real' music.

    That particular year had some life changing classics including -

    Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
    Manics - A Design For Life
    Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train
    Ash - Girl From Mars/Oh Yeah
    Prodigy - Firestarter
    Space - Neighbourhood
    Reef - Place Your Hands
    Pulp - Disco 2000 (well, it came out in December 1995)
    Bluetones - Slight Return
    Dodgy - Good Enough
    Kula Shaker - Tattva

    The Blur/Oasis thing of 95 gave me a taster but 1996 was when it really took off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Aspiration


    VickBack wrote: »
    Tut tut aspiration!!
    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Yes, yes it is. Very, very bad.

    Hehh... Though so.

    Just off topic for one sec, Graham Hopkins from Therapy? has left Boss Volenti for other projects :( Whan an animal.

    Back on topic, I thought Eternal were the sh*t... "Power Of A Woman" beats "Girl Power" hands down... :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,331 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    wasn't all good - saw these on MTV t'other night, the dregs of Britpop

    Menswear - Daydreamer



    Sleeper - Inbetweener



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭noby


    Sleeper were far from the dregs. Menswear on the other hand...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,336 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Early 90's dance music was brilliant. Hadaway, Snap and all the other tunes like that were brilliant. I was only a wee lad back then but a lot of my early music tastes were developed then.

    Just in case you forgot about it...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,737 ✭✭✭pinksoir


    Eddie Temple-Morris on MTV. Was it the Mullet Police he used to do or something...?

    Also MTV Europe with that Isreali chick who i think presents/ed some show on Euro news now...

    Furthermore, early 90's dance - the sssssweetness!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    pinksoir wrote: »
    Also MTV Europe with that Isreali chick who i think presents/ed some show on Euro news now...

    Do you mean Kristiane Backer? Had forgotten about her. Me and my mates lusted after her for years. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,602 ✭✭✭✭ShawnRaven


    stovelid wrote: »
    Do you mean Kristiane Backer? Had forgotten about her. Me and my mates lusted after her for years. :D

    Kristiane was German though?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,602 ✭✭✭✭ShawnRaven


    tech77 wrote: »
    Compulsion
    Therapy
    Revelino
    Man that's a blast from the past.
    Are any of them still going i wonder?

    Therapy? Are still very much alive, they've had a bit of a line up change since the Troublegum days as drummer, Fyfe Eywing left the band in 1996 and the band were also a four piece for a while in the mid-late 90s.

    New album is due in the next few months as well I believe.


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