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90's Music. Anyone else remember how good some of it was?

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  • #32
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Biggins wrote: »
    The Spice Girls?
    No, just no.

    They were good for advocating girl bands and female empowerment but as for all having real raw talent, thats debatable.
    They were certainly more PR manufactured than any band/group than ever before that I had come across.



    man the 90s was the best brought people like Zoe ball radio 1 dj, coaxy, radio 1 dj chris evens radio 1 dj :D

    all the coolest things happened then :D I love the 90s they were brilliant :confused:

    zoe coming on drunk also cumin up on drugs and trying to speak words :pac:

    awesome time :cool:


  • #33
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Biggins wrote: »
    These 80's guys were in it just for the pure joy of singing.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_VRXpGhbk


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


    The WAS good music in the 90's to be sure but for me, it lost a lot of its soul and became about shares and profit and loss margins.

    i like the 80s too.

    but joy division was nothing but depression :( didn't the lead singer top him self...



    how ever new order :)<3


  • #34
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Believe me, it was really a musical wasteland back then. I was in my early 20's and what had we to listen to?

    Apart from been bombarded with the likes of girlpower the Spice Girls, I consider the likes of Suede quite good at the time. Perhaps Stereophonics when they were starting off or perhaps for the pop among us a few hits from The Cardigans or Natalie Imbruglia, throw in the Brit pop fight amongst Oasis and Blur and you can see the 90's generation had feck all to remember in music terms.

    Though I really liked the following one hit wonder though. Fools Garden - Lemon Tree. I tried to link it via Youtube but commercial violations stopped it, says it all really how corporate interests supercede music.


  • #35
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    man the 90s was the best brought people like Zoe ball radio 1 dj, coaxy, radio 1 dj chris evens radio 1 dj :D

    all the coolest things happened then :D I love the 90s they were brilliant :confused:

    zoe coming on drunk also cumin up on drugs and trying to speak words :pac:

    awesome time :cool:

    Trust me, the 80's weren't quiet either. :D
    While working in Manchester and a place called The Hacienda, I seen many a thing that even now never made the papers.

    That place alone went out as it started! LOL
    The Haçienda lost its entertainments licence in June 1997, following a final gig on June 15 by Spiritualized and remained open for a short period as an art gallery before finally going bankrupt and closing for good. After the Haçienda officially closed, it was used as a venue for two free parties organised by the Manchester free party scene. One of the parties ended in a police siege of the building while the party continued inside.


    Todays lot are pussies! :pac:


  • #36
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    gurramok wrote: »
    Underwhelmed in what context? We're talking about the 90s now. They were not elitists back in the day, they were friggin welcomed into what was then a musical deformancy.



    All one hit wonders apart from Smashing Pumpkins. Now how can you say the Spice Girls were talented when none of them could play a musical instrument??!

    I was just taking the piss with the spice girls;). I was a teenager in the 90s so it was mainly Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Therapy, Ash, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax to name a few.


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  • #37
    Johro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    Don't forget these boys who are still join strong.. :cool:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055197995&page=249
    Post #3733 ;)


  • #38
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    gurramok wrote: »
    Believe me, it was really a musical wasteland back then. I was in my early 20's and what had we to listen to?

    Apart from been bombarded with the likes of girlpower the Spice Girls, I consider the likes of Suede quite good at the time. Perhaps Stereophonics when they were starting off or perhaps for the pop among us a few hits from The Cardigans or Natalie Imbruglia, throw in the Brit pop fight amongst Oasis and Blur and you can see the 90's generation had feck all to remember in music terms.

    Though I really liked the following one hit wonder though. Fools Garden - Lemon Tree. I tried to link it via Youtube but commercial violations stopped it, says it all really how corporate interests supercede music.


    1. LeftFeild
    2. Massive attack
    3. Orbital
    4. underworld
    5. Sneaker Pimps
    6. Prodigy
    7. Supergrass
    8. Air
    9. Fatboy slim and the big beat sound
    10. Fun loven Criminals
    11. Blur
    12. Oasis
    13. Nirvana
    14. Pulp
    15. I could go on


  • #39
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    You could make a megathread about good 80's music Biggins. ;) If there's even one 90's song you like, y'know in that whole ten year period, then maybe post it. (Or gtfo).



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AVTjHlRiP4


  • #40
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    I was just taking the piss with the spice girls;). I was a teenager in the 90s so it was mainly Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Therapy, Ash, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax to name a few.

    Some of those bands are heavy metal, not appealing to most including myself. Ash as well as Pearl Jam were indeed quite a breadth of fresh air and we know what happened to Nirvana :)

    In the mid 90's when I went to a college party the biggest roar from the dancing crowd was from a song by Ace of Base, that says alot as there was no better tunes around then. Frustrating!


  • #41
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Biggins wrote: »
    Trust me, the 80's weren't quiet either. :D
    While working in Manchester and a place called The Hacienda, I seen many a thing that even now never made the papers.

    That place alone went out as it started! LOL




    Todays lot are pussies! :pac:

    hell yeah they all gimps and hipster who take there sound really seriously :roll eyes: and they were tight jeans wtf like how can you be cool if your balls are in your stomic

    Id love to punch the kings of leon in the face because they ve offended me for too long...


    and there **** live :rolleyes:


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  • #42
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    i like the 80s too.

    but joy division was nothing but depression :( didn't the lead singer top him self...

    however new order :)<3

    He did but that was because of person problems - maybe he also foresaw the coming of Westlife, Boyzone and now One Direction some day.
    I'd be depressed too if it was possible to see into the future.

    Then we had these guys...
    (I'd like to see someone singing this today, the wusses!) :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdbLqOXmJ04


  • #43
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    I was just taking the piss with the spice girls;). I was a teenager in the 90s so it was mainly Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Therapy, Ash, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax to name a few.

    you mean you were smelly and hairy as a teenager



    Nice :P


  • #44
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    1. LeftFeild
    2. Massive attack
    3. Orbital
    4. underworld
    5. Sneaker Pimps
    6. Prodigy
    7. Supergrass
    8. Air
    9. Fatboy slim and the big beat sound
    10. Fun loven Criminals
    11. Blur
    12. Oasis
    13. Nirvana
    14. Pulp
    15. I could go on

    Half of them have no musical affection with me. Prodigy had that famous one hit wonder with your man in the tunnel starting fires:D

    Massive attack had that one hit wonder too which was well received, the rest were either Brit pop or were heading towards house\dance music. Well, are they remembered now? Don't think so for the majority listed.


  • #45
    ascanbe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,089 ✭✭✭ascanbe


    Funny you should mention that.
    I was looking through my brother-in-law's CD collection earlier today in order to pilfer a few to listen to in the car on the way back.
    Dismissed a lot of it that i was either too familar with or had no interest in and, at the last minute, went with a few of those 'The best album ever!' compilations that were popular in the 90's, that he had.
    They mainly concentrated on British music, the 'brit-pop' explosion of the time.
    There were, at best, three or four good songs on each of these double cd's; i'd forgotten just how god-awful, boring, cravenly derivative a lot of the music of that time was.
    I was nearly tempted to turn on 2fm in order to luxuriate in the relatively superior sounds of contemporary pop.
    I 'came of age', as they say, in the 90's and still love a lot of music from that time; but holy f*ck, there was an awful lot of absolute dreck.
    Having got that off my chest, lol, i may, if this thread continues, come back and post some music from that era that i love.


  • #46
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    gurramok wrote: »
    Half of them have no musical affection with me. Prodigy had that famous one hit wonder with your man in the tunnel starting fires:D

    Massive attack had that one hit wonder too which was well received, the rest were either Brit pop or were heading towards house\dance music. Well, are they remembered now? Don't think so for the majority listed.

    The majority of them who i listed still play bar nirvana because they had a dude who shot him self in the head......


    massive attack you don't call them a one hit wonder there one of the most influatual sounds ever to come out of england...


  • #47
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    This reminds me of meeting my now Hubby

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-aPIXeAmpO8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    and this reminds me of hating school

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-aPIXeAmpO8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


  • #48
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    Johro wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055197995&page=249
    Post #3733 ;)

    stevie nix in her witch dress you would so motor boat her :cool:


  • #49
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    LETHAL LADY wrote: »
    This reminds me of meeting my now Hubby

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-aPIXeAmpO8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    and this reminds me of hating school

    <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-aPIXeAmpO8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>




    I just made vomit :(:p aww so cute :pac:


  • #50
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Snow-Monkey wrote: »
    The majority of them who i listed still play bar nirvana because they had a dude who shot him self in the head......


    massive attack you don't call them a one hit wonder there one of the most influatual sounds ever to come out of england...

    Thats very well that they still play but are they any good?!

    Ok, what hits did Massive Attack have other than teardops?

    I have never liked LeftField, Orbital,underworld, Sneaker Pimps, Air, Fatboy & fun Lovin Crims(apart from one hit wonder) as they all sounded the same from dance\house 90s style.

    Yes Pulp were good as well as early Oasis\Blur. You see, we're struggling at what's good with 90's music.


  • #51
    billybudd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭billybudd


    mcalmond and butler, one hit song but what a song


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  • #52
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    I always remember the 90s for the emergence of trip hop from the Bristol scene, Portishead, Massive Attack, Tricky and leftfield, then other amazing electronic stuff like Aphex Twin, BOC. Sort of progressive rock meets the dance scene, ambient music reinvented, the emergence of jungle, d n b etc.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #53
    Allyall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    gurramok wrote: »
    The birth of Oasis & Blur? :)

    Arrrghh.. sorry... But only mentioning this because you said "Birth"

    Blur formed in 1986, reformed in '87 and the Blur we know, formed in '89..

    That said, Most of the acts mentioned so far, began in the 80's.. But i think the OP's point was, the music that was released/re-released/"large"/popular/unpopular/originated in the 90's

    Happy Mondays formed in 1980 :eek:


    You'll have to excuse me.. i had a few.

    I love the memories the 90's music brings me. Even songs i didn't like when they were released/popular back then, listening to them now, has memories flooding in..
    I HAYTE the fact that it seems less then a couple of years ago to me, but isn't.. :mad::):rolleyes::mad:

    Is it possible to go back there? and if so how?

    Can i hack/patch my laptop or Desktop, to bring me back? Oh, and have sex loads more times then i did, (i think i was possible for me to have it more back then, but i (in my mind) never fully availed of those opportunities, and some of the songs bitterly remind me of that.. :rolleyes:)

    But all in all, a great decade for music, but mostly from 90 - 95 (Not including the S/A/W stuff...


  • #54
    gurramok
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    Enigma were good though

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08


  • #55
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    gurramok wrote: »
    Thats very well that they still play but are they any good?!

    Ok, what hits did Massive Attack have other than teardops?

    I have never liked LeftField, Orbital,underworld, Sneaker Pimps, Air, Fatboy & fun Lovin Crims(apart from one hit wonder) as they all sounded the same from dance\house 90s style.

    Yes Pulp were good as well as early Oasis\Blur. You see, we're struggling at what's good with 90's music.

    Unfinished Sympathy, Safe From Harm, Protection among others.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #56
    billybudd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭billybudd


    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Unfinished Sympathy, Safe From Harm, Protection among others.

    and many many more


  • #57
    gurramok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Allyall wrote: »
    Arrrghh.. sorry... But only mentioning this because you said "Birth"

    Blur formed in 1986, reformed in '87 and the Blur we know, formed in '89..

    That said, Most of the acts mentioned so far, began in the 80's.. But i think the OP's point was, the music that was released/re-released/"large"/popular/unpopular/originated in the 90's

    Happy Mondays formed in 1980 :eek:


    You'll have to excuse me.. i had a few.

    I love the memories the 90's music brings me. Even songs i didn't like when they were released/popular back then, listening to them now, has memories flooding in..
    I HAYTE the fact that it seems less then a couple of years ago to me, but isn't.. :mad::):rolleyes::mad:

    Is it possible to go back there? and if so how?

    Can i hack/patch my laptop or Desktop, to bring me back? Oh, and have sex loads more times then i did, (i think i was possible for me to have it more back then, but i (in my mind) never fully availed of those opportunities, and some of the songs bitterly remind me of that.. :rolleyes:)

    But all in all, a great decade for music, but mostly from 90 - 95 (Not including the S/A/W stuff...

    You know what I meant by birth, they became well known in the 90's, not just from the date of when the bands were formed.

    Yes, we've all had a few ;) But you say it was a great decade of music, seriously though? Creativity was suppressed back then by the labels hence the trouble we are in today.

    So what was memorable then? One hit wonders do not suffice and don't mention relaunched U2 :D


  • #58
    Dotrel
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    Smashing Pumpkins. A definite 90's band.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmUZ6nCFNoU


    Still around today (in name at least) but it's just not the same anymore.


  • #59
    billybudd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭billybudd


    Barenaked ladies, Gordon, pure pop genius.


  • #60
    leggo
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    It was the decade of the cheesy one-hit wonders, waaaaaayy too many random boybands, the Spice Girls, Blur/Oasis and when 2Pac/Biggie got killed. People are dead right when they point out it's when the tabloids and suits began to take over the music industry. Artists realised that headlines sold records and perhaps worked harder on the former than the latter. But back then, because it was new, it was a novelty.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTpnnuYi9os


    All of the actual good, credible music that stands up today would override what I'd consider '90s' music...they're just good tracks.

    All-in-all, the 90's won't ever be remembered as a great musical decade by anyone who isn't seriously pissed. It was a transitional period: for better or worse depends on your personal taste and won't be properly judged for another 50 years. But man it was fun!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBe0VCso0qs


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  • #61
    Biggins
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    leggo wrote: »
    ...Biggie got killed.

    Not really. I'm in hiding. Elvis lives next door! :D;)
    Now if I can just get him to stop jumping over my broken fence with Shergar!


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