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

hoggie-bear

I am hosting a radio show in college and the theme is the 90's..
I'd love to know what do you remember from the 90's and if you had to p-ick one thing about the 90's, that you could bring back what would that be?
Thanks

Sephiroth_dude

Jesus there was a great atmosphere around 90-95,great buzz about the place,grunge is what i remember most./

andy1249

As the saying goes , " If you can remember the 90's ... then you werent there " ....

Seriously though , Grunge , Bruxxelless full of Devil worshipping rag wearing metal heads as opposed to LA sleaze metalheads , the Robot biker art on the walls in bruxxelles and the tree trunk tables in the industrial wasteland decor of Fibbers.

The after a bit of a paradigm shift in 94 ... the Cushions and the roman orgy type free fruit in the temple of sound ... after that its all a blur .... sorry !!

OK-Cancel-Apply

I remember people in school being all 'ZOMG have you heard Smells Like Teen Spirit?' I remember my older sister's friends coming around, with the ripped jeans, shoulder-length hair and flannel shirt look, smelling like weed (probably early 90's). Ah memories.

Then I remember all these bands with floppy 'Hugh Grant' haircuts in dungarees doing ridiculus dance moves. Oh and MTV used to occasionally have music-related programming.

And then of course the Spice Girls...ugh..*shudder*

I also remember people with brown hair, who now have grey/white hair.

VickBack

One word....


B*Witched lol

Parkie

God help us........."The Cure", Aids scare, "The Summer of 69", perhapse I am getting mixer up.....but... Meatloaf....;)

All the best with it.:rolleyes:

estebancambias

1.SPICE GIRLS
2.BLINK 182
3.EMINEM
4.BOYZONE

mental07

Blur vs Oasis!

And "Britpop" in general.....

VickBack

hahaha...


cant forget the beginning of britney spears?!

Insect Overlord

Not really on the topic of music, but my fondest pop-culture memory of the '90s is the cartoon series "Animals of Farthing Wood"

Musically, has to be the nightmarish flashbacks of the Spice Girls. See also: 5ive, Backstreet Boys, and for some reason Barny the Dinosaur

Nolanger

Irish people working in McDonalds.

KnifeWRENCH

There are some songs that have always stuck in my head as '90's classics, because I remember them being out and hearing them a lot on the radio. when I was growing up. Here are a few (mainly from mid/late '90's) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQJsPGD1t0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSTDXY4wxrA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE6Qcc6VDo8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtIuPApOP-E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVL-zZnD3VU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htobTBlCvUU (not her best song but the one most remember)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwtTOxouD5Q

and three of the most obvious ones!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm4iU0yx9GY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3wgaWAHo2Q
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z7t-Ox3XvU

Scubadevils

andy1249 wrote: »

As the saying goes , " If you can remember the 90's ... then you werent there " ....

Seriously though , Grunge , Bruxxelless full of Devil worshipping rag wearing metal heads as opposed to LA sleaze metalheads , the Robot biker art on the walls in bruxxelles and the tree trunk tables in the industrial wasteland decor of Fibbers.

The after a bit of a paradigm shift in 94 ... the Cushions and the roman orgy type free fruit in the temple of sound ... after that its all a blur .... sorry !!

Yeah, I had about a 2-3 year stint in the Temple of Sound which also started in '94... we may have shared water or vicks Great times, was by far my favourite club back then.

stovelid

Felixdhc wrote: »

Yeah, I had about a 2-3 year stint in the Temple of Sound which also started in '94... we may have shared water or vicks Great times, was by far my favourite club back then.

Gisashotofyourwatertherebud?

ShawnRaven

Good sh*t:

Seattle bands: Nirvana/Pearl Jam/Soundgarden etc
Drum n bass scene 96-99
The Eagles reforming
Porno For Pyros

Bad sh*t
Janes Addiction disbanding
Scatman John
Mr Blobby getting a UK number one.
Smashing Pumpkins disaster concert, The Point 1996.

lordgoat

Maradona hand of God, Brady should be in the squad.

Xavi6

mental07 wrote: »

Blur vs Oasis!

And "Britpop" in general.....

"Who do ya prefer? Oasis or Blur?"

VickBack wrote: »

cant forget the beginning of britney spears?!

Hands up who cracked one off! /raises hand


For me the 90s was all about cheesy dance -

Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer
Culture Beat - Mr. Vain
N Trance - Set You Free
2 Unlimited - No Limits
Haddaway - What Is Love?
Dr. Alban - It's My Life
Adamski - Killer
Londonbeat - I've Been Thinking About You
Robin S - Show Me Love
Urban Cookie Collective - The Key, The Secret
Whigfield - Saturday Night
Corona - Rhythm Of The Night
Black Box - Ride On Time


As well as the obvious indie bands, I grew up on that stuff and it still gets regular iPod time today!

Ruu_Old

Rage Against the Machine and the album Evil Empire. I had it on tape.

humberklog

lordgoat wrote: »

Maradona hand of God, Brady should be in the squad.

Huh? Maradona's sublime hand pass was is '86 and Chirpy Chippy was manging Celtic in '91.


Chris Evans was the 90's.

lisajane

I feel so old.

Anyone remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN3PGqDRNg

tech77

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.

lordgoat

humberklog wrote: »

Huh? Maradona's sublime hand pass was is '86 and Chirpy Chippy was manging Celtic in '91.

I know this. The song i quoted was from 1990. If you were as smart as your comment you'd have figured it out.

Scubadevils

stovelid wrote: »

Gisashotofyourwatertherebud?

then a massage and blast of olbas oil for good measure. :pac:

ShawnRaven

lisajane wrote: »

I feel so old.

Anyone remember this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN3PGqDRNg

I remember his bad breakdancing on Top Of The Pops around that era. Who'd have thought he'd have gone on to be a household name after that?

Certainly not me, that's for sure.

Aspiration

Los del Rio - Macarena *shudders*

humberklog

lordgoat wrote: »

If you were as smart as your comment you'd have figured it out.

A bit strong...no?
I don't see how the figuring that out would have elevated my smartness as high as my comment.
]
What song is it anyway?

Creature

The whole commotion about Blur and Oasis and which one was better (it was Blur for those that never found out), while no one even considered Suede or Pulp.

American rock. The videos for Come As You Are and Black Hole Sun being played repeatedly on MTV. MTV back when it actually played music and Davina McCall was a presenter.

Boy bands and Spice Girls.




And of course the disgracefully bad dance music that Xavi mentioned.

noby

Blur v Oasis. While both bands had their moments, that whole particular spat was over two steaming piles of turd, and which one would get to no.1

I haven't seen MTV in about ten years, and I'm not missing much judging by the comments.
MTV for me was Pip Dann's PostModern, and Paul King's 120 minutes.

Early 90's indie/baggy/'Madchester' (much as I loath that word) was the true highlight.

ShawnRaven

Didn't Blur win that one in the end because they dropped the price of the singles?
They had to, It was Country House vs Roll With It at the time, whereas Roll With It was bad, Country House just made my ears bleed.

MikeHoncho

The 90's would have been nothing without the album "ill Communication" by the Beastie Boys.

Dudess

Parkie wrote: »

God help us........."The Cure", Aids scare, "The Summer of 69", perhapse I am getting mixer up.....but... Meatloaf...

Is that not the 80s...?

I was too young for the good part of the 90s (the early part) so there was no going to raves in Sir Henry's, shoegazing gigs up in Dublin at venues like McGonagles, the Baggot Inn, the Rock Garden (now Doran's) or even heading over to Manchester to check out the Hacienda. It sucked cuz I was old enough to be into all this stuff (early to mid teens). Then when I got to 17/18, started university etc the sucky mid 90s arrived. How I detested Britpop.

stovelid

Dudess wrote: »

McGonagles (check)

Rock Garden (check)

Heading over to Manchester to check out the Hacienda. (check)

/Sticks out tongue/

ShawnRaven

I miss McGon's

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

/Sticks out tongue/

Oh you BITCH!!! :mad:

stovelid

ShawnRaven wrote: »

I miss McGon's

First club I ever went to (was about 17) was called Voodoo (and later, Soul on Ice) in Mcgonagles in the late 80's. Dublin's attempt at an acid night. Some of the best times I ever had. I still have some of the posters in my mums somewhere. They were just different variations on acid house smilies, and the Soul on Ice ones were just Malcom X mugshots. Funny to think it was still such a nite-club then: no bar, just ritz /wine all the way.

Also sides on Dame Street and the Olympic Ballroom off Camden Street.

Later on in the 90's, it was the TOS. The Rock Garden. Also the Blue Note, near to where The Viper Room is now.

Scubadevils

The Blue Note... I remember that name but can't remember being in there. Although there are many places like that from back then :pac:

I really miss the Temple of Sound and the UFO... especially the nights in the Temple where they opened out the whole lobby and other function rooms. Strange seeing people boppin' away in the lobby while some residents checked into the hotel

The Chill Out room on the nights they opened it was great too, some nice soothing tunes before you hit the mayhem of the main dance-floor again... walking through that door and you were hit with dry ice, smell of vicks and a couple of hundred people bouncing around to the latest techno :pac::pac::pac:

humberklog

Dudess wrote: »

raves in Sir Henry's, McGonagles, the Baggot Inn, the Rock Garden (now Doran's) Manchester to check out the Hacienda

My 90's started in Israel and ended in Brighton with a few stop offs in between.
I loved sir henry's the twice I went.
McGonagles was starting to wane by the early 90's as was the Baggot inn. They didn't evolve with music or intent and (especially)The baggort Inn deserved they're cancerous demise.
I was unfortunate enough to be sent to Manchester during mid 90's. A kip. Canal street is good laugh then as now. I made it to the Hacienda in '95 (not long before it shut) and found it to be the most dangerous, threatening rancid sh!thole this side of Dundalk. The drugs were good though.

These places are BIG talked up beyond the perspective they sat in at their time. We all remember the good times fondly and that does indeed rosey the landscape in thoughts. Especially when it comes to The Baggot Inn. A prime example of how memory twists reality. It always treated its clientle to expensive, badly looked after booze and charge a lot to see very average bands playing in a very below average venue. The pool tables were never serviced either but you could smoke wagga in the room.

stovelid

Felixdhc wrote: »

The Blue Note... I remember that name but can't remember being in there. Although there are many places like that from back then :pac:
I really miss the Temple of Sound and the UFO... especially the nights in the Temple where they opened out the whole lobby and other function rooms. Strange seeing people boppin' away in the lobby while some residents checked into the hotel

:

The Blue Note was between Bedford Lane and Aston Quay.

Was UFO in the Rock Garden? I'm sure there was a club of that name there at one stage.

I often wondered just wtf the hotel residents thought of the gurners in the TOS.

Scubadevils

stovelid wrote: »

The Blue Note was between Bedford Lane and Aston Quay.

Was UFO in the Rock Garden? I'm sure there was a club of that name there at one stage.

I often wondered just wtf the hotel residents thought of the gurners in the TOS.

Not sure on the Blue Note but defo think I was in there at some stage.

Yeah the UFO started out in the Rock Garden but moved to Columbia Mills - Francois was the resident DJ there and basically ran the club, he posts here on boards... over in dance/electronic.

stovelid

Felixdhc wrote: »

Yeah the UFO started out in the Rock Garden but moved to Columbia Mills - Francois was the resident DJ there and basically ran the club, he posts here on boards... over in dance/electronic.

Was Columbia Mills down on the docks, just past the Dockers? Forgot about that. Was it called something else before that, like the Waterfront?

Scubadevils

stovelid wrote: »

Was Columbia Mills down on the docks, just past the Dockers? Forgot about that. Was it called something else before that, like the Waterfront?

Yeah the venue was called the Waterfront and then UFO was on a Friday night. There was a chill out room downstairs with a sort of 'anything goes' policy

It was raided sometime in I think '95 - about 30 garda barged in and everyone had to get down on the floor with hands behind our heads... they then searched everyone and told us to wait outside to collect our coats after! Francois mentioned he has the newspaper clipping and is going to stick it up on boards. It was a good night!

ShawnRaven

stovelid wrote: »

no bar, just ritz /wine all the way.

I went to the metal nights in McGon's from 91-92 (and then the last one in 93, which had a piss poor turn out of about 40 people due to poor promotion). Still only had wine and ritz then as well!

lordgoat

humberklog wrote: »

A bit strong...no?
I don't see how the figuring that out would have elevated my smartness as high as my comment.
]
What song is it anyway?

Maybe a little i suppose!

Italia 90 anthem...

Acacia

I remember bands like Steps, Aqua, B*Witched and Boyzone. I also recall hearing about the 'feud' between Oasis and Blur, and not really caring because the Spice Girls were obviously the best band ever!:pac: Wish I could recall grunge and decent bands from that time, alas, I was only learning to read when 'Nevermind' was released.

ShawnRaven

Acacia wrote: »

Wish I could recall grunge and decent bands from that time, alas, I was only learning to read when 'Nevermind' was released.

So were most of my Inter Cert (for those who remember back that far) class!

stovelid

One of the things I most detested about the 90's were some of the Seattle type rock bands. I thought Nirvana themselves, and maybe Alice In Chains were just OK. But I hated the likes of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Mudhoney.

Even now I shudder when I think of those hurdu-hey voices, smelly looking hair and lumberjack jackets.

I saw that video recently by the Spindoctors(?) and I broke out in a cold sweat.

JP Liz

2 Unlimited - No Limit

"No No No No No No No No theres no limits"

JLemmon

noby wrote: »

I haven't seen MTV in about ten years, and I'm not missing much judging by the comments.
MTV for me was Pip Dann's PostModern, and Paul King's 120 minutes.
.

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. MTV in the early 90's was pretty good at least it was all music
and who could forget Ray Cokes Still remember the night he announced Cobains death.

Aspiration

Dudess wrote: »

Is that not the 80s...?

I was too young for the good part of the 90s (the early part) so there was no going to raves in Sir Henry's, shoegazing gigs up in Dublin at venues like McGonagles, the Baggot Inn, the Rock Garden (now Doran's) or even heading over to Manchester to check out the Hacienda. It sucked cuz I was old enough to be into all this stuff (early to mid teens). Then when I got to 17/18, started university etc the sucky mid 90s arrived. How I detested Britpop.

I always felt left out when people started going on about Henry's When I started college my classmates even brought me down there just so they could reminisce. Not being from the city, I didn't have a clue where they were taking me and I thought they were bringing me down an alley to beat me up. Apparently Freakscene was the sh*t in there.

I was also too young for the grunge scene, only appreciating it when I got older. I was however, *hangs head in shame*, very into my britpop. In my defense, I was young and naive and didn't have a clue. The amount of money I spent on SG's merchandise is shameful.

Back on topic, other 90's music for me would be:

N*Sync
Ace is Base
Aqua
The Fugees
No Mercy
Jennifer Paige
TLC
Puff Daddy
Offspring
Meredith Brooks
Alanis Morisette
The Cardigans
Chumbawamba
Salt n Pepa
No Doubt
Savage Garden

:pac:

Howard the Duck

MTV Europe.
2 World cups.
Hot summers.
Suede and Pulp.
Pound coins.

Thats it for now

MikeHoncho

MTV's most wanted with Ray Cokes.