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WIN Tickets to Electric Picnic with Electric Ireland!

  • 24-08-2015 10:50am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6


    Hi all,

    Electric Ireland is the Official Energy Partner for Electric Picnic 2015!

    This year we're all about #90sPowerParty, and to get everyone in the mood, legend Mark McCabe will be on stage to deliver ‘Maniac 2015’ on Saturday 5th September! The Vengabus will also be dropping off the Vengaboys on Sunday 6th September to power the #90sPowerParty with a set that includes ‘Boom Boom Boom Boom’, ‘We Like To Party’, and ‘We’re going to Ibiza!’ That's not all though – we're bringing the '90s to Electric Picnic for the entire festival weekend with activities and much more! See www.90spowerparty.ie for the full Electric Ireland line-up.

    To get you to this sold-out event, we're giving away a pair of tickets to one very lucky winner here on Boards! To be in with a chance to win, just post your favourite hit from the ‘90s to this thread! One post per person (but that post can include a reason why it’s the best!)

    The competition will run until the afternoon of this Friday, 28th August, with the winning entry being announced shortly thereafter.

    ***Full T&C here***

    This year as Official Energy Partner we've helped reduce the Electric Picnic festival's lighting emissions by 80%, and we have installed six kilometres of energy-efficient lighting to help guide festival-goers!

    All the best :)
    The Electric Ireland Team


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  • Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭gubber



    Although I was only 1 when this was released, this is my 90's jam. 


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 LauraMcCabe


    Heard this song this morning on the radio, and it was the ultimate blast from the past.

    The leopard print, the exposed midriff, girl power, singing in a dessert and the 'hot' guys that she's just too busy and independent for!!! Every inch of this song and video is pure 90's.

    I give you......Shania Twain's amazing "That don't impress me much".

    Hope I've impressed you much, and you kindly send those 2 tickets to EP my way.

    Peace and love 90's fans!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭scrumqueen




    Smells like teen spirit from the Album Nevermind.  A memorable soundtrack for an entire generation. 


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 Tezza02


    Ah lads this is a toughie the 90s were the business. ok I'm going to say Common People by Pulp. It's a great sing along song, and relatable. Not that I've ever met a girl from Greece who studied sculpture at St. Martin's College :) I mean the common/ poor bit. That's why I need to win my EP tickets. I bet that plucks at your heartstrings 😂


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭WetDaddy


    It has to be Scatman by Scatman John. Scatman all the way home, upstairs and into bed. Scat scat scat. His name was Scatman. Guys. Seriously. Scat. Man.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 613 ✭✭✭MisterKipling


    Rhythm is a dancer.... Most infectious booty shaking arms flayling head bopping choooon ever.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,207 ✭✭✭maximoose




  • Registered Users Posts: 41 Snowstandards


    Phats & Smalls - Turn Around

    This is literally the sound of the 90's.
    It doesn't matter what mood you're in, this song is guaranteed to brighten up your day.

    Somewhere out there, Phats & Smalls are looking down on us, empowering us with their power of 90's nostalgia. Either that or they're probably a few SU bars.

    None the less, a sound that can define a decade :)



  • Registered Users Posts: 10 ciarancu


    Groove is in the Heart by Dee-Lite.

    It still sounds great after all these years.  Always gets a party going :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 4 C.Hewitt




    Growing up with an older sister in the 90s lead to this being my favorite song from that decade. Thanks to her I knew every move and lyric. If I win these tickets I'll be bringing her with me and serve up some baby spice 90s realness!!!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 427 ✭✭MGMTea


    Ah lads you can't beat a bit of D:Ream - Things Can Only Get Better


  • Registered Users Posts: 7 Cutie_mcfruity


    culture beat - Mr. Vain

    Definite dancing tune


  • Registered Users Posts: 31 5dolla12


    Everybody - The Backstreet Boys

    If you can find me a person that doesn't dance when this song comes on, then keep them to yourselves because I don't want anything to do with them. TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNEEEE!!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭smallgarden


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ateQQc-AgEM
    Seals kiss from a rose, love its use in vacation film!and reminds me of singing along to songs on long car journeys to cork

    and love this version in community
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUYGRxRCCoc


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 LBH95


    Has to be The Backstreet Boys 'I Want It That Way'.
    To this day it still gives me the same feelings as it did in 1997! There are very few out there who do not know the words to this song whether the care to admit it or not! Fingers crossed for the EP tickets :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭vkid


    Stardust - Music sounds better with you

    https://youtu.be/TUC2b-OSZ00

    Sums up the latter half of the 90's for me. Feel good song from 1998, heard everywhere around the world at the time.
    Always heard it at festivals and in clubs, where music did sound better with you...your friends, your Mrs, your family.
    A great party track from those days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words




    Billy Bragg doing his bit for equality way back when. Including lines about driving mitsubishi zeros, Red Star Belgrade playing uncles and nuclear subs sinking in Scandinavia.

    And of course featuring the wonderful Kirsty Mac Coll.


  • Registered Users Posts: 227 ✭✭Conbhar




  • Registered Users Posts: 18 davdd




    [font=Roboto, arial, sans-serif]Released in 1998 and topped the charts in 17 countries, including Ireland [/font][font=arial, sans-serif]#90sPowerParty[/font]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Kurtosis


    My favourite has to be Aerosmith, I Don't Want To Miss A Thing. An apt song title for EP!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1 caatdolan


    The 90s are personified by Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    New Radicals - Get what you give. Brilliant song. Reminds me of studying with friends after school.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11




  • Registered Users Posts: 1 SophiaLeon


    Being a 90's baby myself this is probably the toughest question for me to answer! Although I am a die hard Britney Spears fan as she was the business and my absolute idol for most of my childhood I'm going to have to be a traitor and say Whigfield - Saturday Night!

    Now, this was not an easy decision for me to make and a lot of thought and consideration went into this answer as I'm sure you can remember all the amazing boy bands and girl bands that completely took over the world such as the Spice Girls (Baby Spice being my favourite!), N-Sync and the Backstreet Boys! Whigfield - Saturday Night is defo a tune that even if you heard in the present day on a Saturday night it'd make you call your friends tell them you're all hitting the tiles, run up the stairs and start getting ready for a night out!! 

    It's stuck in my head for as long as I can remember as being a feel good song, my dad went out and bought me a Party Anthem CD for my 5th birthday and Saturday Night was on it and of course it was played on repeat as me and my friends danced like crazy to it, a memory I will never forget!

    I think Saturday Night is also a good song choice to pick for this competition as Mark McCabe will be playing at Electric Picnic on the Saturday and nothing would make me happier to see the absolute legend himself!! I would LITERALLY be the HAPPIEST CAMPER if I won!!

    I also have to mention that in runner up 2nd and 3rd place for my favourite 90s songs would have to be Los Del Rio - Macarena (Which I will ALWAYS be the first person on the dancefloor dancing to) and Aqua - Barbie Girl!! Amazing tunes as I'm sure you will agree!

    Now, time to leave this brilliant tune here for your enjoyment and yes, I am singing along and I will be dancing around my kitchen now for the next hour or so to all my favourite 90's songs wishing I had a time machine to go back and relive the good oul days!


    #90sPowerParty

    #90sPowerParty  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNQRtmIMxk


  • Registered Users Posts: 411 ✭✭NotInventedHere


    This is the song of 90s Ireland. Nothing else even comes close



  • Registered Users Posts: 41 Snowstandards


    This is the song of 90s Ireland. Nothing else even comes close

    Are you sure that's not Boston?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Maniac 2000

    Why?

    I entered a certain Dublin establishment recently, and discovered that I knew the DJ.
    We exchanged pleasantries, and I fetched a pint.
    Even though the place was close to empty, I requested Maniac 2000.
    The. Floor. Hopped.

    Few songs can still get people popping after close on 20 years.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭pipkin12


    Had to be anything by Aqua but especially this one.... 

    https://youtu.be/ZyhrYis509A Barbie Girl :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 nu123




    definitely return of the mack by Mark Morrison, still puts me in such a good mood every time it comes on the radio


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1 wetdogs


    :p:p:p 1996!! never gets old :p:p:p



     


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 adamhide





    Because you can only be in a good mood when this beat comes on!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Sarn


    Too many good tunes from back then. From the late 90's:

    Daft Punk - Around the World


  • Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭EachSmallChime


    The pop, the cheese, the denim, the choreography, the Irish dancing section, the video, the "Get a Loife" line and the fact I may have fancied Lindsay. 



    Defines the (or at least my) 90s.


  • Registered Users Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Pink11




  • Registered Users Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Raven Runner


    Haddaway What is Love 



    I've never found love but if you give me this ticket I hope to find the love of my life at the Electric  Picnic and live happily ever after


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Released back in 1990, this has held off all comers for the entirety of the decade to be the best, cheesiest and worst song all at the same time.

    Impossible to top.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 Aoifekels


    It would have to be Destinys Child Say My Name!!!

    When no one is around you 🎀🎀🎀🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎀🎀🎀🎀


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 afallon1


    It just has to be 'Iris' from The Goo Goo Dolls..

    Will literally NEVER get old!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,741 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    don't look back in anger - Oasis. as I haven't since ha


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 rex_banner




    How about this quintessential 90's song, Attention bebe do any amazing cover :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭Jk_Eire


    Instant nostalgia right here :
    SNAP - Rhythm is a Dancer



  • Registered Users Posts: 1 Neil Corcoran


    'She's Electric' by one of the defining bands of the 90's 'Oasis'. This song always puts me in a good mood and makes me want to get up and dance! 


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 salsaemoji


    has to be En Vogue - My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)

    AND NOW... IT'S TIME FOR A BREAKDOWN!


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpugp6DIb3I


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,256 ✭✭✭c0rk3r




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,478 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Spice Girls Wannabe.

    "Make it last forever; friendship never ends!"

    Can't beat a bit of 90s cheesiness :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 Rosieposie89


    Saturday night by Whigfield!! Absolute banger of a tune!! Still gets everyone to the dance floor! I know every move to this tune! Love the 90's! ❤️


  • Registered Users Posts: 1 e101


    I am going to go with Britney Spears - Baby one more time. I was a massive cheeseball in the 90's and me and my school friends loved dancing around to a bit of Britney!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭FatRat


    Under the Bridge - RHCP .. When these guys were in their prime, from my favourite album of theirs :) Frusciante on guitar really made this band shine and this song is an example of one of their many many timeless songs!



  • Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭SwimFin


    Song:           Come As You Are

    Artist:          Nirvana

    Album:        Nevermind

    Released:   1991


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 837 ✭✭✭CFC007


    Sash-Encore Une Fois!


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