1990's Jukebox

[tyke1962]

The last great musical decade in my opinion and before Simon Cowell and co trashed the UK music industry .

My first choice is Zombie by The Cranberries live at Woodstock in 1994 .

The late great Doleres O'Riordan of which there aren't enough superlatives to describe this woman's unique voice and left us way too soon .

https://youtu.be/Fa0x3c42pXw

[Bentley Bullet]

Great live performance from a superb band.

[DonnyNoel]

I got in to Absolute Radio 90's a few months ago - plenty of good Britpop and some of the early 90's dance stuff that I didn't really appreciate at the time. A bit of the US stuff too like Green Day and Nirvana.

[Dutch Uncle]

The last great musical decade in my opinion and before Simon Cowell and co trashed the UK music industry .

My first choice is Zombie by The Cranberries live at Woodstock in 1994 .

The late great Doleres O'Riordan of which there aren't enough superlatives to describe this woman's unique voice and left us way too soon .

https://youtu.be/Fa0x3c42pXw

The song was written as a reaction to the Warrington Bomb that killed two children, and Colin Parry, father of one of the children only found that out after her death:

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/colin-parry-learns-of-cranberries-ira-warrington-bomb-song-on-dolores-oriordans-death-36493368.html

One of my favourite bands

[tyke1962]

The tv debut on The Word from these Manchester lads .

https://youtu.be/81Z-WRuQe2w

[Panda]

I'm a teen of the 90's and it has to be the most memorable period for music in history IMO. Never to be repeated. Just before mobile phones came out and we were free. Also free to rummage through the bargain boxes in Track Records and pick up an Afghan Whigs cassette single for 50p.

Free to browse in the Computer Store on Printing Office Street and take home a Codemasters classic for £1.99.

Nowadays kids just download stuff and get it instantly. Where's the satisfaction in that??

Free in so many ways. Not like today.

Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored for me as the stand out classic. Also, the Charlatans - The Only One I Know. Great iconic 90's tune.

[tyke1962]

The Cardigans and Favourite Game ,

https://youtu.be/u9WgtlgGAgs

[tyke1962]

Probably the most iconic film and soundtrack of the decade .

 https://youtu.be/6iKFn8dlxX8

[Nudga]

The 90s for me were about Pete Tong, Carl Cox, Tony De Vit, Brandon Block with a bit of Ice cube, Dre, Wu Tang and later on Eminem thrown in.

And yes, the last true free generation.

[tyke1962]

When my first marriage tipped up in 1992 and aged 30 i thought it was the end of the world .

Nothing could be further from the truth .

I'd had my time of course in the 80's but in the 90's I caught my second wind and in all honesty the 90's was defiantly the better decade in my opinion .

Barnsley town centre from Thursday night till Sunday was rocking with more pubs and bars opening than you could shake a stick at .

Feckin hell I even went to raves and loved everyone if you catch my drift .

Defiantly the last great decade in my opinion with all kinds of scenes emerging .

Probably again and in my opinion the one decade that seriously challenges the 60's for music and  youth culture .

[danumdon]

When you think of the legion of bands that were spawned out of the Brit Pop era and what they went on to do.

Contrast that then with now, no don't bother its too painful.

[tyke1962]

 1990's clubland , scary to think every clubber on this clip are now in their late 40's or 50's.

https://youtu.be/VoknNrvQwNA

[Panda]

I'm just 46. Left comp in summer of 92 at 16. Went to a few raves myself, despite being mainly into Indie / Metal. Altern 8 were awesome though. Anyone remember the BYO on North Bridge?

[Nudga]

I'm just 46. Left comp in summer of 92 at 16. Went to a few raves myself, despite being mainly into Indie / Metal. Altern 8 were awesome though. Anyone remember the BYO on North Bridge?

I used to go a lot until someone dropped a gun in the chill out room in front of me

[Panda]

I'm just 46. Left comp in summer of 92 at 16. Went to a few raves myself, despite being mainly into Indie / Metal. Altern 8 were awesome though. Anyone remember the BYO on North Bridge?

I used to go a lot until someone dropped a gun in the chill out room in front of me

 

Top place weren't it Nudga?

[idler]

The 90s was good but the 60s was better. IMHO.
Maybe it’s an age thing.

[Nudga]

I'm just 46. Left comp in summer of 92 at 16. Went to a few raves myself, despite being mainly into Indie / Metal. Altern 8 were awesome though. Anyone remember the BYO on North Bridge?

I used to go a lot until someone dropped a gun in the chill out room in front of me

 

Top place weren't it Nudga?

Yeah had some good night's in there and remember seeing mark Rankine in there once fully suited and booted

[roversdude]

My late mate used to DJ there, went to Ibiza with him after I got divorced - despite being a dyed in the wool rocker I had a great time

[IDM]

Sorry but it's 80's for me every day of the week.. Especially the indie and post-punk new wave stuff..  Then again, late 70s rock, punk etc weren't bad.  I'd argue 78-85 (aged 10-17) were my favourites.

[mugnapper]

My theory has always been that most people remember the music of their teenage years most fondly.
The reason being, you didn’t have (or don’t remember having) many cares in the world and certainly no gas bills to worry about.
I wasn’t interested in music till punk (I was 15 in 77) and at that time I was only interested in girls, Rovers and beer and punk.
I used to have 2 paper rounds in the morning and 2 at teatime. Then I’d go to the local butchers and clean his shop for 2 hours every night. These jobs paid me £10 a week!!
This used to fund my obsessions, along with the odd fiver my mum would slip me, behind my disapproving father’s back. With beer at 30p a pint and gigs costing £3 or less, you can imagine the tangles I ended up in lol.

[Monkcaster_Rover]

Gutted I missed out on the 90s. Regularly watch clips of Donny Warehouse etc. A time before phones and all that. Modern day music is 90% shite.

[Bentley Bullet]

It's definitely an age thing, reflecting on one's youth. For me, the early '70s was the best era of music, from Glam Rock to Bowie there are too many great performers to mention.

 However, tell that to Scawsby Steve and Wolfie and they'll skit at that, and insist no one has or won't ever match the '30s and '40s sound of The Ink Spots.

[DonnyNoel]

My theory has always been that most people remember the music of their teenage years most fondly.
The reason being, you didn’t have (or don’t remember having) many cares in the world and certainly no gas bills to worry about.
I wasn’t interested in music till punk (I was 15 in 77) and at that time I was only interested in girls, Rovers and beer and punk.
I used to have 2 paper rounds in the morning and 2 at teatime. Then I’d go to the local butchers and clean his shop for 2 hours every night. These jobs paid me £10 a week!!
This used to fund my obsessions, along with the odd fiver my mum would slip me, behind my disapproving father’s back. With beer at 30p a pint and gigs costing £3 or less, you can imagine the tangles I ended up in lol.

This is definitely true. When choosing a song for a TV ad, the company specs out the target age range, looks at a couple of years in the middle then picks a very memorable tune from the year that age would have been 16 to be the soundtrack. I know adverts aren't as big these days due to streaming but I've certainly noticed a few Britpop songs (even one by Oasis) being used in TV ads at the moment.

[DonnyNoel]

The 90s was good but the 60s was better. IMHO.
Maybe it’s an age thing.

I think both are comparable in that British music clearly had an identity (without wanting to put it in football terms!) in those decades. You could listen to a tune (usually guitar based, or dance in the early 90's) and just know it was British. I rarely catch modern music now but a lot of pop stuff could be from any country in the world.

[ravenrover]

That is the problem every generation thinks that the music was best in their own era but without the past where would music be today?
We went from the Crooners  and Ballad Singers of the 50's to Rock n Roll in the late 50s to be replaced by Skiffle then by Pop and the Folk revival in the early 60s. This spawned the psychedelic heavier progressive rock of the late 60s in turn replaced by Glam in the early 70s. Along came punk and the new romantics, indie. Rap (with a silent C) hip hop and all the later versions. Then to the noughties, I have no idea what the music was called then or now. One form of music carried on in the background all the way through, Jazz. Which influenced a lot of musicians Country n Western influenced a lot of American artists possibly less so our side of the pond
So each generation will claim theirs to be the best, but for me music has progressed from the 60s to the present in the form of one man who was there at the beginning has had a big influence all the way through and is still going strong in his 80s, cant wait for 28th Oct.

[Panda]

Music these days is atrocious. I can't listen to it. My 13 year old has to put earphones in when we go out in the car because todays music, mainly all shite annoying rap or tinny rubbish like Ed Sheeran etc i can't listen to. I walk out of shops or ask the receptionists in GP surgeries etc to turn the music off in waiting rooms as i can't abide it. Rap is worst and it has taken over everything in society. Bloody awful, misogynistic, repetitive, droning crap.

My kid used to listen to Korn, Slayer, Sepultura when she was a young kid on the way to school in the car but she's not been converted and chooses to listen to mainstream dirge. I'd rather her listen to Coldplay than Ed Sheeran etc and that would be a difficult thing to accept too. 

[tyke1962]

As I said earlier I had two bats of the ball when my marriage ended in 1992 and we weren't married for too long either .

Looking back the 80's seemed a really violent decade , football hooliganism was rife ,  Heysel stadium and the Luton v Millwall riot , tragedies at Bradford and then Hillsborough .

We had the miners strike and Orgreave and many other industrial disputes with unemployment at 4m .

The Brixton and Toxteth riots , looking back it was a very turbulent time .

The 90's were different , there were still problems but not anything on the scale the country saw in the 80's .

The amount of certain substances hitting clubs certainly calmed everyone down and this is something that certainly had an impact .

Hooliganism at football dropped massively , Euro 96 and the Premier League played its part also .

It might be me but there seemed more money kicking about in the 90's as I said earlier Barnsley town centre was rammed from Thursday till Sunday night and became a go to place for young people outside the borough .

There was real energy in the country with Britpop and change in the offering with New Labour .

It's a mightily different country today from back then .

[RobTheRover]

I'm just 46. Left comp in summer of 92 at 16. Went to a few raves myself, despite being mainly into Indie / Metal. Altern 8 were awesome though. Anyone remember the BYO on North Bridge?

I used to go a lot until someone dropped a gun in the chill out room in front of me

 

Top place weren't it Nudga?

Friday night, Indie night. I was always there.

[RobTheRover]

The early 90s for me were all about Carter USM, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Inspiral Carpets, New Order, James, Blur, Bridewell Taxis (saw them play far too many times) amongst many others. I was rummaging through my old record collection last week, and gave Flowered Up, Milltown Brothers, Paris Angels and Mock Turtles a spin.

[Panda]

World of Twist, New FADS, Jesus Jones, Telescopes, Kitchens of Distinction. Yep, 90's the best deffo.