[Misc] What happened in the 90’s ?

[Berty23]

Internet 1.0 which is infinitely better and more fun than the monetised shit show we have today. In fact, everything was more fun in the 90s.

Games consoles. Getting my mind blown by the quality of graphics on the snes and mega drive compared to my master system.

Gamesmaster (good)
Bad influence (rubbish)
Fun house.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Games consoles. Getting my mind blown by the quality of graphics on the snes and mega drive compared to my master system.

Seeing Lylat Wars 64 on the N64 demo booth in Toys R Us for the first time blew my tiny mind.

 

[clapham_gull]

• Madchester
• Rave scene
• Britpop
• Blur v Oasis
• Girl power and rise of boy/girl bands
• Indie music near the end of the decade - Radiohead, Coldplay, Travis etc
• Tony Blair and New Labour
• Cool Britannia
• Italia 90 and Euro 96 - heroic semi final penalty losses basically

Hope this helps, that covers a fair bit.

Having patronisingly experienced Manchester and then going up to London to work, London and the whole Britpop nonsense was completely fake.

In my opinion Manchester was the last authentic "scene" and everything else has been manufactured.

 

[slimes]

Out out 6 nights a week. The pubs were packed, smoking was allowed, you were allowed to get drunk in a pub and there was no mobile camera phones.
I still use my email address I had in the 90s

 

[BNthree]

I had a great time partying during the 90s but can’t remember much about it at all.

 

[BadFish]

I missed the rave scene and I regret that a bit. Did some damage when we did get back out partying.
Anyway I’m on the Verve at the moment .

I recommend giving a lot of time to the A Northern Soul Album. Tis excellent, as is A Storm in Heaven - The Sun, The Sea especially.

Allow this to seamlessly lead you into Shoegaze which was an excellent scene killed before its time by the cardigan wearing scruffs of grunge. IMHO of course.

Start with Nowhere and Going Blank Again by Ride and end with Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Music-wise:

Front Line Assembley
Haujobb
VNV Nation
And Also The Trees
System F
The Fall
Radiohead
Paul Van Dyke
Apoptygma Berzerk
Icon of Coil
Pulse Legion
Eminem
Lacuna Coil
The Verve
Talk Talk
Prince
Madonna
Eno
David Sylvian
Killing Joke
Legendary Pink Dots
Velvet Acid Christ
DJ Shadow
Chris and Cosey
Clan of Xymox
Dr Octagon

I could go on....

 

[Questions]

As long as it stays on here ……. got Mrs Q to buy me that David Gray album at the end of the decade. You can see where I was in my head by that.

 

[Eeyore]

FFS……I’ve just given myself a slap round the ear

You got wooshed by me buddy. I'd be beating the crap out of myself.

 

[Mr Bridger]

 

[SeagullinExile]

• Madchester
• Rave scene
• Britpop
• Blur v Oasis
• Girl power and rise of boy/girl bands
• Indie music near the end of the decade - Radiohead, Coldplay, Travis etc
• Tony Blair and New Labour
• Cool Britannia
• Italia 90 and Euro 96 - heroic semi final penalty losses basically

Hope this helps, that covers a fair bit.

The first two were technically the 80’s tbf.

 

[BN9 BHA]

The first two were technically the 80’s tbf.

Definitely carried on into the early nineties, I would say Madchester was bigger in the early nineties

 

[clapham_gull]

Having patronisingly experienced Manchester and then going up to London to work, London and the whole Britpop nonsense was completely fake.

In my opinion Manchester was the last authentic "scene" and everything else has been manufactured.

That said I don't remember it.

 

[clapham_gull]

I could go on....

You're going to anyway....

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

You're going to anyway....

Later, perhaps.

 

[Weststander]

Music-wise:

Front Line Assembley
Haujobb
VNV Nation
And Also The Trees
System F
The Fall
Radiohead
Paul Van Dyke
Apoptygma Berzerk
Icon of Coil
Pulse Legion
Eminem
Lacuna Coil
The Verve
Talk Talk
Prince
Madonna
Eno
David Sylvian
Killing Joke
Legendary Pink Dots
Velvet Acid Christ
DJ Shadow
Chris and Cosey
Clan of Xymox
Dr Octagon

I could go on....

Faithless
The Verve
The KLF
Enya
Capella
Real McCoy
Alice Deejay
Paul Oakenfold
St Etienne
SNAP!
TLC
Portishead
Bjork
Dido
Sybil
U2
Utah Saints
Pete Tong
4 Strings
N Trance
Felix
U.S.U.R.A.
Way Out West
Chicane
Westbam
Robert Miles
Lost Witness
Ferry Corsten
Moonman
Age of Consent
The Space Brothers
Red Jerry

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Faithless
The Verve
The KLF
Enya
Capella
Real McCoy
Alice Deejay
Paul Oakenfold
St Etienne
SNAP!
TLC
Portishead
Bjork
Dido
Sybil
U2
Utah Saints
Pete Tong
4 Strings
N Trance
Felix
U.S.U.R.A.
Way Out West
Chicane
Westbam
Robert Miles
Lost Witness
Ferry Corsten
Moonman
Age of Consent
The Space Brothers
Red Jerry

Some filler in there but good stream of consciousness effort

 

[SeagullinExile]

Definitely carried on into the early nineties, I would say Madchester was bigger in the early nineties

Indeed. All be it on the commercial band wagon. Both scenes were at their finest in the late 80’s, when they were much smaller, imo anyway!

 

[Weststander]

Some filler in there but good stream of consciousness effort

They’re all 10 out of 10 to me, pal

 

[clapham_gull]

Later, perhaps.

Or earlier please. Your eclectic and encyclopedic knowledge of music is a highlight of NSC.

I love to catch up with at some point and talk about the random occurrence that ended me up spending a day in John Peel's house in the 1990s.

1. The bin bags of cassettes tapes that arrived in his post.
2. The multiple copies of the same LP he never had time to listen to.
3. The depression the above caused him.
4. The Live Aid back stage pass randomly sitting on a shelf.
5. The Noel Edmonds story.
6. The offer of a caravanning holiday in North Wales from my colleague that he politely declined.
7. Why I ended up there in the first place, driving overnight through a snow storm from Manchester because of those (his words) ##### at the ####.