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Boardsies greatest song of the 90s - Live Thread

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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,215 ✭✭✭khalessi


    Thanks for running a great competition with an apt winner


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Great game Kolido, and a worthy winner in Nirvana!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭Die Hard 2019


    Kolido wrote: »
    The winner of Boardsies greatest song of the 90s


    Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit






    Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit 15 4 R.E.M. - Losing My Religion



    Thanks everyone for taking part.

    Proving once again that first past the post democracy is the correct method


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Thank you for all your hard work kolido. It was great fun taking part


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Sheridan81


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  • Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Thanks kolido
    A very worthy winner


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭lassykk


    Thanks for running this. Will definitely keep an eye out for the next one!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,894 ✭✭✭Triceratops Ballet


    Hooray! A worthy winner!


  • Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭the heathen


    Thanks for your efforts Kolido


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,710 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    Some effort Kol, well done! Much appreciated
    Class winner, I'm impressed by boardsies tastes :)

    Do Nirvana and Joy Division now fly off to Azerbaijan for a Super Cup? ;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 30,346 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Thank you kol for a superb reveal.

    I'm so happy that one of my nominations won :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,998 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Thank you kol for a superb reveal.

    I'm so happy that one of my nominations won :D

    Likewise!


  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,280 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    When I was preparing my nominations every list I saw of best 90s songs, with the exception of one that was full of weird stuff I'd never heard of, had Smells Like Teen Spirit as number one, so it's not a huge surprise that it won here. It's not my favourite Nirvana song (I'd have Come as you Are and Lithium ahead of it), but it's definitely a worthy winner.

    Thanks Kolido for another brilliantly run game. The amount of work you put into these is incredible.

    For the record, here's my list and when they went out:

    Creep - Radiohead (R1)
    Loaded - Primal Scream (R3)
    Cannonball - The Breeders (R2)
    Woke Up This Morning - Alabama 3 (R2)
    Whippin' Piccadilly - Gomez (R1)
    La Tristesse Durera - Manic Street Preachers (Q)
    Novocaine for the Soul - Eels (R1)
    Feed the Tree - Belly (Q)
    Loser - Beck (R1)
    Mrs. Robinson - The Lemonheads (R1)


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Do Nirvana and Joy Division now fly off to Azerbaijan for a Super Cup?

    We haven't finished the decades yet :P

    I'm going to run the Noughties one next (thread to follow this evening) then we might even go back in time to the 70s, if I can find the time :)


  • Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Here's my nominations
    1.Smashing Pumpkins....... Today

    2.Pearl Jam........ Alive

    3.Rage against the machine...... Killing in the name of

    4.Suede...... Animal nitrate

    5.The stone roses..... One love

    6.Placebo....... Every you every me

    7.The frames......... Revelate

    8. Hole........ Doll parts

    9. Golden Horde...... Friends in time

    10. REM......... Drive

    Not sure about the noughties.... Can't remember anything much!


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,346 ✭✭✭✭Tauriel


    Here are my nominations:

    AC/DC - Thunderstruck
    Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Metallica - Enter Sandman
    Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
    Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
    Sarah Brightman ft Andrea Bocelli - Time to Say Goodbye
    Roxette - It Must of Been Love
    Nightwish - Sleeping Sun
    Alanis Morisette - Uninvited
    Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Who wants to see mine

    :pac:


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,054 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Wonderwall - Oasis
    Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
    Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
    I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys
    I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
    My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
    Everything I Do (I Do It For You) - Bryan Adams
    Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet
    Changes - 2Pac
    I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy feat. Faith Evans

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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    1990
    Pump up the jam - technotronic

    1991
    Charly - the prodigy

    1992
    Utah saints ft Kate Bush - something good

    1993
    Bjork - big time sensuality

    1994
    Blur - girls and boys

    1995
    Pulp - common people

    1996
    Faithless - insomnia

    1997
    The verve - bitter sweet symphony

    1998
    George Michael - outside

    1999
    Fatboy Slim - praise you


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,359 ✭✭✭✭Kolido



    Song | Noms | Reached | Song | Noms | Reached
    Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit | 7 | W | Lauryn Hill - Doo Woo (That Thing) | | Q
    Natalia Imbruglia - Torn | 5 | R1 | LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live | | Q
    Primal Scream - Loaded | 5 | R3 | Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away | | R1
    Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity | 4 | R1 | Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't Over Till It's Over | | Q
    Sinead O Connor - Nothing Compares to You | 4 | R4 | Lighthouse Family - High | | R1
    The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony | 4 | R4 | Lisa Loeb - Stay (I missed you) | | Q
    Blur - Girls & Boys | 3 | R2 | Madonna - Frozen | | Q
    Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence | 3 | R3 | Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go | | R2
    Goo Goo Dolls - Iris | 3 | R1 | Manic Street Preachers - La Tristesse Durera | | Q
    Radiohead - Karma Police | 3 | R1 | Marc Cohn - Walking in Memphis | | R1
    Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply | 3 | R2 | Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch - Good Vibrations | | R1
    The Breeders - Cannonball | 3 | R2 | Massive Attack - Protection | | Q
    2 Pac - Changes | 2 | R2 | Massive Attack - Teardrop | | R2
    Beck - Loser | 2 | R1 | Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy | | R1
    Blur - The Universal | 2 | R4 | MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This | | R1
    Bjork - Big Time Sensuality | 2 | R1 | Meatloaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) | | Q
    Eels - Novocaine for the Soul | 2 | R1 | Metallica - Enter Sandman | | R3
    Faith No More - Easy | 2 | R1 | Metallica - Nothing Else Matters | | R2
    Fatboy Slim - Praise You | 2 | R4 | Michael Jackson - Black or White | | Q
    Foo Fighters - Everlong | 2 | R2 | Moloko - Sing it Back | | Q
    Garbage - Stupid Girl | 2 | R4 | Neil Young - Harvest Moon | | R2
    Happy Mondays - Step On | 2 | R1 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms | | R1
    Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate | 2 | R1 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand | | R1
    Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger | 2 | R2 | Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow | | Q
    P. Diddy feat. Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You | 2 | R1 | Nightwish - Sleeping Sun | | Q
    Pearl Jam - Alive | 2 | R3 | Nirvana - About A Girl (Unplugged) | | Q
    Pulp - Common People | 2 | R2 | Nirvana - All Apologies | | Q
    Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) | 2 | R2 | Nirvana - Come As You Are | | QF
    Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge | 2 | QF | Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World | | R2
    R.E.M. - Drive | 2 | R2 | No Doubt - Don't speak | | QF
    R.E.M. - Losing My Religion | 2 | RU | Oasis - Champagne Supernova | | R3
    Ricky Martin - Livin La Vida Loca | 2 | R1 | Oasis - Morning Glory; | | R1
    Roxette - It Must of Been Love | 2 | R2 | Oasis - Wonderwall | | R3
    Seal - Kiss From a Rose | 2 | R2 | Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught the Train | | R1
    Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 | 2 | R2 | PJ Harvey - Down By The Water | | Q
    Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight | 2 | R4 | Placebo - Every you every me | | R1
    Spice Girls - Wannabe | 2 | R1 | Placebo - Nancy Boy | | R2
    Suede - Animal Nitrate | 2 | R2 | Pulp - Do You Remember the First Time | | R1
    Supergrass - Alright | 2 | R1 | Radiohead - Anyone Can Play Guitar | | R1
    The Frames - Revelate | 2 | R1 | Radiohead - Creep | | R1
    The Sultans Of Ping - Where's Me Jumper | 2 | R1 | Radiohead - Just | | R1
    TLC - Waterfalls | 2 | R1 | Radiohead - Paranoid Android | | R1
    2 Pac - California Love | | Q | Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of | | SF
    2Pac and Snoop - 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted | | Q | Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Scar Tissue | | Q
    AC/DC - Thunderstruck | | Q | REM - The Great Beyond | | R3
    A House - Take It Easy On Me | | Q | Richard Marx - Hazard | | Q
    Aerosmith - Crazy | | Q | Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy | | Q
    Aerosmith - I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing | | Q | Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy | | Q
    Aqua - Barbie Girl | | R1 | Robbie Williams - Let me entertain you | | Q
    Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning | | R2 | Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart | | R1
    Alanis Morisette - Uninvited | | Q | Sarah Brightman ft Andrea Bocelli - Time to Say Goodbye | | Q
    Alanis Morissette - you oughta know | | R2 | Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me | | R3
    An Emotional Fish - Celebrate | | R1 | Shakespeare's Sister - Stay | | R3
    B*Witched - C'est la Vie | | R1 | Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do | | Q
    Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreets Back) | | R2 | Sheryl Crow - Everyday Is A Winding Road | | R1
    Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way | | R1 | Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar | | Q
    Belly - Feed the Tree | | Q | Silverchair - Tomorrow | | Q
    Bette Midler - From A Distance | | Q | Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back | | R1
    Ace Of Base - All That She Wants | | R1 | Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me | | R2
    Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole | | Q | Smashing Pumpkins - Today | | R2
    Baby Bird - You're Gorgeous | | Q | Something Happens - Parachute | | R1
    Blind Melon - No Rain | | Q | Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover | | Q
    Blonie - Maria | | Q | Soul Asylum - Runaway Train | | R1
    Blur - Song 2 | | R3 | Soundgarden - Black - Hole Sun | | R4
    Blur - Tender | | R1 | Stereo MCs - Connected | | Q
    Björk - Bachelorette | | Q | Sting - If I Ever Lose My Faith In You | | Q
    Bjork - All Is Full Of Love | | Q | Suede - Stay Together | | Q
    Britney Spears - Baby One More Time | | R3 | Supergrass - Moving | | R1
    Bryan Adams - Everything I Do (I Do It For You) | | R1 | Technotronic - Pump up the jam | | Q
    CeCe Peniston - Finally | | Q | The 4 Of Us - Mary | | R1
    Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On | | Q | The Beautiful South - A Little Time | | Q
    Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun | | R2 | The Bluetones - If | | Q
    Chris Isaak - Wicked Game | | R3 | The Cardigans - My Favourite Game | | Q
    Collective Soul - Shine | | Q | The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl | | R2
    Coolio - Gangster's Paradise | | QF | The Cranberries - Dreams | | R3
    Crowded House - Weather With You | | R2 | The Cranberries - Promises | | R4
    David Gray - Late Night Radio | | Q | The Cranberries - Zombie | | SF
    Donna Lewis - I Love You Always Forever | | Q | The Divine Comedy - National Express | | R2
    Duran Duran - Ordinary World | | R1 | The Fat lady Sings - Arclight | | Q
    Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You | | R1 | The Frank and Walters - After All | | R1
    Eels - Susan's House | | R1 | The Lemonheads - Mrs. Robinson | | R1
    Eiffel 65 - Blue | | Q | The Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring | | Q
    Embrace - Come Back to What You Know | | Q | The Prodigy - Charley | | Q
    Eminem - My Name Is | | R1 | The Prodigy - Everybody in the Place | | Q
    Elastica - Connection | | R3 | The Prodigy - Firestarter | | R1
    Electronic - Disappointed | | Q | The Prodigy - No Good (Start the Dance) | | Q
    Enigma - Return to Innocence | | Q | The Prodigy - Out of Space | | R1
    EnVogue - Don't let go | | Q | The Prodigy - Voodoo People | | R1
    Everything But The Girl - Missing | | R1 | The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode | | R1
    Faithless - insomnia | | R2 | The Stone Roses - One love | | Q
    Faith No More - Midlife Crisis | | Q | The Stone Roses - Waterfall | | R1
    Garth Brooks - Friends In Low Places | | Q | The Sundays - Summertime | | R1
    George Michael - Freedom(90) | | Q | TLC - No Scrubs | | R3
    George Michael - outside | | Q | Tom Petty - Yer So Bad | | Q
    Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me | | Q | U2 - One | | R1
    Golden Horde - Friends in time | | Q | U2 - Staring at the Sun | | Q
    Gomez - Get Myself Arrested | | Q | Underworld - Born Slippy | | Q
    Gomez - Whippin' Piccadilly | | R1 | Utah saints ft Kate Bush - something good | | R1
    GreenDay- Basket Case | | R2 | Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby | | R2
    Greenday - Good Riddance | | Q | Warren G - Regulate | | Q
    Gun - Steal Your Fire | | Q | Weezer - Buddy Holly | | R1
    Guns N' Roses - November Rain | | R3 | Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around | | Q
    Hanson - Mmmbop | | Q | White Town - Your Woman | | R2
    Hole - Doll parts | | Q | Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You | | Q
    Hole - Malibu | | Q | Whipping Boy - We Don't Need Nobody Else | | Q
    James - Laid | | Q | Wilson Phillips - Hold On | | R1
    Lamb - Górecki | | Q |


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭lassykk


    Necro wrote: »
    Wonderwall - Oasis
    Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
    Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
    I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys
    I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
    My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
    Everything I Do (I Do It For You) - Bryan Adams
    Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet
    Changes - 2Pac
    I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy feat. Faith Evans

    That's a cracking list of 90s tunes in fairness!

    Some of the longest chart toppers of the decade in there


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭lassykk


    That's some analysis Kolido - you did some work on this

    Would have thought some tracks would have done better like Torn or Iris. Actually wouldn't have been shocked to see Iris get a lot further


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭lassykk


    Necro wrote: »
    We haven't finished the decades yet :P

    I'm going to run the Noughties one next (thread to follow this evening) then we might even go back in time to the 70s, if I can find the time :)

    Have my nominations ready to go and all!

    None of which will get past round 1!

    Well, one might


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    My songs did horribly, confirming what I always suspected about forum games, that there are a lot of people with horrible tastes in music


    U2 -Staring at the sun – Lost qualifier to Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back
    Gomez - Get myself arrested – Lost qualifier to Radiohead - Just
    Embrace - Come back to what you know – Lost qualifier to Everything But The Girl - Missing
    Stereo MCs – Connected – Lost qualifier to Duran Duran - Ordinary World
    Pulp - Do you remember the first time – Lost R1 to Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
    Supergrass – Moving – Lost R1 to The Cranberries - Promises
    Ocean Colour Scene - The day we caught the train – Lost R1 to Pearl Jam - Alive
    Radiohead - Anyone can play guitar – Lost R1 to Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply
    Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun – Lost R2 to Garbage - Stupid Girl
    Primal Scream – Loaded – Lost R3 to Blur - The Universal


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,998 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Here are my nominations:
    Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
    Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
    Everybody in the Place - The Prodigy
    Voodoo People - The Prodigy
    Being Boring - The Pet Shop Boys
    Steal Your Fire - Gun
    Disappointed - Electronic
    The Great Beyond - REM
    Yer So Bad - Tom Petty
    Late Night Radio - David Gray

    When I look at the list from Kolido, there are some interesting omissions. No-one nominated one of the singles from White Ladder by David Gray, or other REM songs (besides the finalist and my own one) or The Spice Girls or All Saints or Sit Down by James.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭lassykk


    Green&Red wrote: »
    U2 -Staring at the sun – Lost qualifier to Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back

    That's hilarious - Were people just voting to wind you up


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    lassykk wrote: »
    That's hilarious - Were people just voting to wind you up

    Apparently not :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,387 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    bubblypop wrote: »
    Here's my nominations
    1.Smashing Pumpkins....... Today

    2.Pearl Jam........ Alive

    3.Rage against the machine...... Killing in the name of

    4.Suede...... Animal nitrate

    5.The stone roses..... One love

    6.Placebo....... Every you every me

    7.The frames......... Revelate

    8. Hole........ Doll parts

    9. Golden Horde...... Friends in time

    10. REM......... Drive

    Not sure about the noughties.... Can't remember anything much!

    Good picks, love that golden horde song


  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,280 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    No-one nominated one of the singles from White Ladder by David Gray, or other REM songs (besides the finalist and my own one) or The Spice Girls or All Saints or Sit Down by James.

    Sit Down was the last song I cut from my shortlist, partly because I assumed that somebody else would nominate it. :(


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭lassykk


    I'm genuinely shocked that no one put either Pearl Jam Black or Jeremy in their list of nominations. Alive is a quality track but I'd put Black or Jeremy before them.

    Given a grunge track won the whole thing it's even more surprising to me!

    Also surprised no Spice Girls or All Saints or even more so Take That, who's songs have stood the test of time a bit better (Back for good, etc)


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