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

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.

Aspiration

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

Xavi6

Yes, yes it is. Very, very bad.

VickBack

Aspiration wrote: »

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

Tut tut aspiration!!

tech77

Captain Darling wrote: »

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?

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.

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

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.

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:

loyatemu

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

Menswear - Daydreamer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmBoEUG4-aM

Sleeper - Inbetweener

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9K1DKzDs08

noby

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

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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsCXZczTQXo

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!

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.

ShawnRaven

stovelid wrote: »

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

Kristiane was German though?

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.