Boardsies Greatest Music Act of the 90s - Live Thread

Blur - More relateable.

Greenday - Nirvana cant win best 90's song and best 90's band (spoiler, they will)

Zaph

pc7 wrote: »

I’ll abstain as not really pushed on any of them.

Same

The Mighty Quinn

REM

Green Day

Kolido

REM 11 1 Blur
Green Day 5 7 Nirvana

rainbowtrout

REM
Greenday

GREEN DAY

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Kolido wrote: »

REM 11 1 Blur
Green Day 5 7 Nirvana

Think you've miscounted the Green Day vs Nirvana match.

I make it 9-6 to Green Day after Strawb's vote...

TheValeyard

REM

Nirvana

Kolido

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Think you've miscounted the Green Day vs Nirvana match.

I make it 9-6 to Green Day after Strawb's vote...

Correct, thanks.

Currently

Greenday 9 - 8 Nirvana

Reberetta

Nirvana

Sam Hain

Nirvana

Sam Hain

REM are such muck, and had a very shady experimental (total piss) end to the decade.

Sultan of Bling

Like green day but nirvana just so much better.

Nirvana

Electric Nitwit

As fun as Dookie was, Nirvana have to go through here

Electric Nitwit

Sam Hain wrote: »

REM are such muck, and had a very shady experimental (total piss) end to the decade.

Gru

Blur

Nirvana

as my favourite two if i am not too late to the party...

Vestiapx

Green Day because I preferred them at the time.

Sam Hain

Sam Hain wrote: »

REM are such muck, and had a very shady experimental (total piss) end to the decade.

I actually prefer mid-late 90's REM to early 90's REM.

Losing My Religion is grand but I could take or leave it. Man on the Moon never did much for me. I always thought Everybody Hurts was a bit maudlin and overwrought, and The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite is just annoying. And then there's Shiny Happy People......ok, I actually do unironically like that one!

Compared to those, I prefer the likes of What's The Frequency Kenneth?, Strange Currencies, E-Bow the Letter, Electrolite, Daysleeper, At My Most Beautiful, Lotus, Walk Unafraid, The Great Beyond (just about still a 90's track).....shít, even just listing all these makes me realise that REM are a band I like a lot more than I thought I did!

Green day as I likes colours

Rem as I like dreams

Irish Aris

Deleted User wrote: »

I actually prefer mid-late 90's REM to early 90's REM.

Losing My Religion is grand but I could take or leave it. Man on the Moon never did much for me. I always thought Everybody Hurts was a bit maudlin and overwrought, and The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite is just annoying. And then there's Shiny Happy People......ok, I actually do unironically like that one!

Compared to those, I prefer the likes of What's The Frequency Kenneth?, Strange Currencies, E-Bow the Letter, Electrolite, Daysleeper, At My Most Beautiful, Lotus, Walk Unafraid, The Great Beyond (just about still a 90's track).....shít, even just listing all these makes me realise that REM are a band I like a lot more than I thought I did!

I think their whole 90s discography shows how good they are as a band. Automatic For The People is still my favourite albums of theirs. But I was listening to the deluxe edition of Monster recently and it's amazing how good it still sounds. And Lotus and The Apologist, 2 great songs from the Up album. I thought there was some fatigue in the 00s, but overall a great discograpjy and a great band.

Irish Aris

Irish Aris wrote: »

I think their whole 90s discography shows how good they are as a band. Automatic For The People is still my favourite albums of theirs. But I was listening to the deluxe edition of Monster recently and it's amazing how good it still sounds. And Lotus and The Apologist, 2 great songs from the Up album. I thought there was some fatigue in the 00s, but overall a great discograpjy and a great band.

I've never listened to their full discography properly, I only really know the singles and a handful of album tracks that my sister would play. I probably should listen to their albums properly, though that always seems a bit intimidating when an artist has such a huge back catalogue!

Pretzill

REM
Nirvana

If we're still voting.
The 90's wasn't my decade but these two had some memorable tracks, Daysleeper is still a favourite of mine.

Rothko

Deleted User wrote: »

I've never listened to their full discography properly, I only really know the singles and a handful of album tracks that my sister would play. I probably should listen to their albums properly, though that always seems a bit intimidating when an artist has such a huge back catalogue!

I'd definitely recommend Murmur and Reckoning. I love AFTP but I think the 80's was their best decade.

Kolido

REM 11 1 Blur
Green Day 9 11 Nirvana

Kolido

Welcome to the Grand Final

Please PM your vote to me, I will not count votes posted on thread

In the event of a tie, I will cast deciding vote

Voting closes at 6pm today

Please continue discusion here but refrain from stating who you voted for.

Good luck to both acts

Kolido

Grand Final

REM


Route to final…


R1 6 - 0 Alabama 3

R2 6 - 0 Type O Negative

R3 6 - 4 Oasis

R4 7 - 4 Manic Street Preachers

QF 9 - 3 Radiohead

SF 11- 1 Blur





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.E.M.


Vs


Nirvana


Route to final…


R1 6 - 0 Aerosmith

R2 6 - 1 Bon Jovi

R3 6 - 3 The Chemical Bros.

R4 7 - 5 Guns N Roses

QF 9 - 2 The Verve

SF 11- 9 Green Day





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band)

Green day my first love.

Good run though....

The Mighty Quinn

Okay, R.E.M... a ramble.

I had a familiarity with the radio hits during the 90s, but I was pretty young.

First got into them with the release of the Great Beyond, which to my memory was January 2000 before coming to Irish shores, but was released in November '99 in US.

I followed on with purchasing Reveal when it was released in 2001. A bright summery album for much of it, and I'll Take The Rain was a reason for me to learn to play the guitar.

I wasn't waiting around for the next album of new material and to my delight discovered that they had released a LOT of albums.

I got Monster next as it had a cool album cover, I didn't know what to expect but Reveal it wasn't. I lapped it up.

Over the next 2 years I gobbled my way through reckoning, murmur, fables of the reconstruction, life's rich pageant, document, green, out of time, automatic for the people and up.

he Internet wasn't as widely available at the time and I didn't know what albums they had. Every town I went to I called in to CD shops and leafed through the R section, often stumbling on a new album I hadn't heard of my them, delightful days.

Then they released a greatest hits album and did a tour in 2003, I went to see them in Marlay Park. Blown away with how good they were live.

2004 came and so did Around The Sun. What. The. Hell. Is. This. Crap. Poor album, but a few good songs on it which I feel suffered from over production. Boy in the well, electron blue, ascent of man.

2005 they played in the point, and released a live dvd/CD (I can find myself in several of the songs when they cut to crowd), and the around the sun songs sounded great live.

2007 brought "live rehearsals" to the olympia, an absolute treat for the fans, full set of either new unheard songs from their next album Accelerate or from their 80s albums. Amazing gig, and I met Michael and Mike outside the venue in the afternoon, spoke for a minute and shook hands.

Accelerate had them sounding good again, and 2011 they bowed out and said goodnight leaving us with Collapse Into Now, another fine effort.

I've collected the 25th anniversary re-releases as they arise. A poster earlier said they liked the Monster one, its my favourite too. The bonus disc with a fully re-produced version by the original producer was brilliant to hear. The same songs yet due to changes in layering and mixing sounded quite different, loved it.

Anyway, yeah, I like R.E.M.


... But I vote Nirvana.

I joke I joke.
Vote for the Athens boys please.
I was in Athens GA once just to make a point of stopping in at Wuxtry Records where Peter worked when the band was new.

Electric Nitwit

I was due to see Nirvana in Brixton, it would have been my first ever gig. Truth is I didn't really know them at the time, I was trying to keep up with the cool kids at school when I got offered a ticket. Sadly it never happened though, Kurt went a few weeks before they were due to play

So, coincidentally, my first gig was REM (although i was more excited by Radiohead on the day)...

Kolido

Boards contest rewind

In January, both these acts fought it out in the final of the greatest song of the 90s contest.

Nirvana winning 15 - 4 on that occasion.

https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2058045962/116