Boardsies greatest song of the 90s - Live Thread

Electric Nitwit

lassykk wrote: »

Black hole sun - I know I'm going to lose this...

Very close at the moment!

Necro

Noughties would be an interesting decade actually, even so far as in what people would nominate.

lassykk

khalessi wrote: »

Listening to him at the moment on Youtube, there might be a tear or two a great loss loved listening to him sing amazing vocalist

Give a listen to his cover of nothing compares to you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk

Love his Temple of the Dog stuff with Eddie Vedder too

the heathen

the heathen wrote:

Coolio The Verve

I like the two songs better. That's it really! Nothing more profound than that.

the heathen

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge


Nirvana - Come As You Are

Two iconic sounding songs

khalessi

lassykk wrote: »

Give a listen to his cover of nothing compares to you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuUDRU9-HRk

Love his Temple of the Dog stuff with Eddie Vedder too

Thats what I was listening to lol

Kolido

R4/Match 5


No Doubt - Don't speak


vs       

       

Garbage - Stupid Girl

R4/Match 6


The Cranberries - Promises


vs       

       

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of

khalessi

R4/Match 5
This is tough love both these songs but Gwen gets it

No Doubt - Don't speak

Love No Doubt and Gwen quirkiness

R4/Match 6


The Cranberries - Promises
love Dolores voice

Necro

Don't Speak - just a timeless 90s song for me I could listen to any day

Rage Against The Machine - It got to Christmas number 1 as a fcuk you to Simon Cowell years and years after it was released. That's enough for me :P

lassykk

khalessi wrote: »

Thats what I was listening to lol

I find music at the best of times makes me emotional but that's a real tear jerker

Kolido

Thats all we will get done tonight.

So the plan is to get this round, qf, and sf done tomorrow, with the final Friday morning.

Thanks everyone.

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight

The more I’ve listened to this song through the comp the more I’ve fell in love with it.


Soundgarden - Black - Hole Sun

I prefer this to come as you are.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Garbage - Stupid Girl - two great songs by two bands I have a lot of time for, but Stupid Girl is simply a better song than Don't Speak.

The Cranberries - Promises - would've preferred if these two weren't against each other because both are great, but gonna go with The Cranberries because it was one of my nominations and Promises is their best song as far as I'm concerned. Wouldn't be mad if it lost to Rage here in fairness though.

Garbage - Stupid Girl

I love love love this


Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of

Prefer this one

ArnoldJRimmer

R4/Match 5
No Doubt - Don't speak
vs       
Garbage - Stupid Girl

Don't Speak, just think its a better tune

R4/Match 6
The Cranberries - Promises
vs       
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of

Rage Against the Machine gets my vote as even all these years, its still an amazing song (and can almost get me headbanging, except I know it'll hurt for a week if I do it)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - not the best Pumpkins song


Nirvana - just love nirvana

Tauriel

R4/Match 5
No Doubt - Don't speak
Great song by a very good band. Definitely Fwen Stefani at her best.

R4/Match 6
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of
What's not there to love about this song? Just an all round classic rock anthem that I may or may not join in when it pops up on my play list in the car.

Dont Speak - love both of these songs but while Garbage are the undoubtedly the better band overall I think Don't Speak edges this one as more of a classic song. If it was a different Garbage song (Push It or Only Happy When It Rains) then I may have voted differently.

Promises - an underrated song that I'm pleasantly surprised got this far, when it comes to the Cranberries only Linger would arguably be more deserving of progressing this far imo. Killing In The Name is great but a bit overplayed, easy to get a bit tired of hearing it.

Irish Aris

Match 5: No Doubt (I just love it and I would vote it in most of the matches in this competition!!)
Match 6: Cranberries (Dolores was one of my most favourite vocalists ever!!)

lassykk

No Doubt - Really catchy tune from the 90s and gets the nod really because I disliked Stupid Girl when it was released (grew on me since)

Rage against the machine - Not a fan of the song its up against and this tune is a great one if it comes in a nightclub

Garbage - Stupid Girl
Prefer it to the other one

Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of
One of my nominations

ShaneU

3 Under the Bridge. My number 1 nomination such a good song

4 Come as you are - apparently I was the only person to nominate this which is weird, Nirvana's best song imo

5 No Doubt - I just really like it, is that a good enough reason?

6 Killing in the name of - We could use more bands like this around today, muppets running the world!

Triceratops Ballet

Kolido wrote:

No Doubt - Don't speak

Toughie for me here cos both are my noms. Don't Speak was never a doubt for me though so I have to go with this. I remember seeing this video for the first time with my mom and it was the first time I realised that she could like "normal" music, like you know when you realise that your parents are ppl too

Kolido wrote:

The Cranberries - Promises

I'm a Cranberries fan and I think this is the better option

Reberetta

Soundgarden Black Hole Sun

Great guitar solo.

No Doubt Don't Speak

One of the most memorable hits of nineties' chart music.

angel eyes 2012

No Doubt - like Stupid Girl too but Don't Speak brings me right back to when I started college and meaningful lyrics.

Edit. Abstain on second vote.

I've changed my mind in regards to Round4/Match 4
I don't like either song but would prefer if Nirvana Come As You Are got through. Therefore, a vote for Nirvana.

Electric Nitwit

Stupid Girl for me - love both but this I was into at the time and remember a couple of great gigs

Rage - what a tune. I went to their free celebration gig when they got the Christmas number one and this was off the scale

Sheridan81

Soundgarden-Black Hole Sun : The quintessential Soundgarden song with super vocals.

Rage Against The Machine-Killing In The Name Of : Because we need some metal and that Cranberries song doesn't scream classic to me.

Die Hard 2019

Killing because it's election time
Don't speak cos we have all loved and lost
And Come as you are b cause of the cheerleaders with tattoos

Omackeral

Match 3 RHCP- Under the Bridge. Captured a mood very well.

Match 4 Blackstreet- No Diggity. Because it should be in the competition

Match 5 No Doubt- Don't Speak Has a beautiful tragic quality to it.

Match 6 RATM-Killing in the name of Because it's off its own head

Triceratops Ballet

If my count is correct then no doubt and rage have already made the quota right

Die Hard 2019

Triceratops Ballet wrote: »

If my count is correct then no doubt and rage have already made the quota right

And Nirvana ?

Triceratops Ballet

Die Hard 2019 wrote:

And Nirvana ?

I don't think that match up is settled looks like 9 - 8 to Nirvana but they need another to make the quota.
Somebody above voted for come as you are and Soundgarden so I didn't count that not sure how Kolido will deal with that

RHCP also lol like they're through

Die Hard 2019

Triceratops Ballet wrote: »

I don't think that match up is settled looks like 9 - 8 to Nirvana but they need another to make the quota.
Somebody above voted for come as you are and Soundgarden so I didn't count that not sure how Kolido will deal with that

RHCP also lol like they're through

That was me , I'm an idiot, edited.

rainbowtrout

Match 3 & 4
RHCP
Soundgarden


Match 5 & 6

Garbage
Rage Against the Machine

Die Hard 2019

Sorry for the confusion, Pumpkins over Peppers in the fruits that people think are vegetables showdown.

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

Noughties would be an interesting decade actually, even so far as in what people would nominate.

Necro

Sweet Jesus I take it back cancel the idea entirely

Kolido

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge 10 5 Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
Soundgarden - Black - Hole Sun 7 8 Nirvana - Come As You Are
No Doubt - Don't speak 10 3 Garbage - Stupid Girl
The Cranberries - Promises 5 10 Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of

Kolido

R4/Match 7

Blur - The Universal

vs

The Cranberries - Zombie

R4/Match 8

Sinead O Connor - Nothing Compares to You

vs

R.E.M. - Losing My Religion

Tauriel

R4/Match 7
The Cranberries - Zombie
My favourite song by the Cranberries and it really shows off Dolores' vocal range.

R4/Match 8
Sinead O Connor - Nothing Compares to You
This really shows off what an amazing voice that Sinead has.

Necro

Kolido wrote:

The Cranberries - Zombie

Better song imo. Comes down to preference I guess.

Kolido wrote:

R.E.M. - Losing My Religion

I detest that Sinead O Connor song and thus will vote against it often.

So, REM because it isn't Sinead O'Connor

Also Starring LeVar Burton

The Cranberries - Zombie - tough call. I love both bands and both tracks are great, but Zombie is probably just a bit more iconic than The Universal.

R.E.M. - Losing My Religion - was hoping these wouldn't go head to head, both should be in the quarter finals, gotta go with R.E.M. though as Losing My Religion is one of my noms and such an epic song.

Omackeral

R4/Match 7
The Cranberries - Zombie

Haunting, epic and iconic


R4/Match 8
Sinead O Connor - Nothing Compares to You

Something very tragic and pleading about it

Electric Nitwit

Cranberries
REM

The first gig I ever went to was these two


That's not it my reason though. I never really liked The Universal, whereas I remember the first time I heard Zombie, holy shıt! After the niceties of the first album it blew me away. And I've never loved Nothing Compares and, though this isn't my favourite REM by a long stretch, they were such a part of my childhood I want them to progress

Green&Red

Blur and REM

The universal

I’m a bit of a blur fan and not so much a cranberries fan

Nothing compares to you

It was written by Prince who we haven’t seen enough of in this competition

loyatemu

Blur - not their greatest song, but I hate "Zombie"
REM - this would be a reasonable pick for tune of the 90s, kickstarted REM stint as one of the worlds biggest bands, and was very influential on the rise of alt-rock during the mid 90s (though it actually didn't even make the top 10 in the UK at the time).

Kolido

Green&Red wrote: »

Blur and REM

Need a reason this round please GnR

lassykk

Cranberries - Zombie

Whilst I am a fan of The Universal I think this is the Cranberries best track and deserving of a place in the next round. Dolores' voice is exceptional and it's a song I'd still listen to today

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

This was exceptionally tough as I am a big REM fan and really like Losing my Religion but I am basing this off the fact that I loved this track when I heard it first in the 90s and still love it today. My fondness for rock music only developed in my late teens so I have to give the nod to Sinead on this one for longevity!

Zombie - monster chorus and overall just a better song than The Universal imo.

Nothing Compares 2 U - beautiful song with a haunting vocal. Losing My Religion is good but REM have better songs imo.