It's 199?
What music were you listening to? I've been reminiscing of the good ol' days, when every night was a Friday and the party didn't stop till you were a parent.
I've shared some links to what was happening in Scotland around '94, it's worth having a look at their playlist and go on a musical journey from punk to techno. I've lost a few weekends listening to Chris Low and Twitch recently
https://photos.app.goo.gl/8j2zKgo3P3ndpRGJ8
https://m.mixcloud.com/madpro/jd-twitch-92-hardcore-live-at-kinky-afro-glasgow-30_01_09/
https://m.mixcloud.com/dj_brainstorm_pure/pure-3-the-barrowlands-14th-may-1994/
It's 1994 and the radio 1 broadcast of Monsters of Rock has just changed my life... I was already dabbling in rock and metal, started in 92 after seeing Metallica at the Freddie Mercury concert on the tv and just going wtf is this horrible noise oh actually I like this. But 4th June and suddenly, Therapy?, Sepultura and the ****ing Wildhearts are in my head and they won't ever get out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYM0Go4WWFk
And the one and teh only
To this day that version of Love U Til I Don't is just everything I need from rock and roll. Even though Willie's playing a bloody keytar, at least he kills it at the end. Danny's bassline when Ginger's guitar cuts out is literally in that 30 seconds the entire reason I bought my first bass. And Ginger's rant... "accordin to some people... we're the next rollin stones..." Ah man, what I'd give to have been there.
I thought at the time that the 90s were a golden age for music and I was bloody right. God only knows what I'd be without you.
Acid house, rave, jungle, dnb, house, hard house, techno. The years of going out on a Friday night and coming back for eating (very little) Sunday dinner with parents. Clubs, warehouses, after parties, festivals and just driving with tunes 'cos someone bought a new sub for their car. Pre wife. Pre kids. Pre mortgage. Pre job.
I thought this was going to be about Travis Pastrana. 🙁
Peach on a Friday night at Camden Palace, Mind Over Matter, Clockwork Orange, Trade at Turnmills... some of the many club nights along with organising our own outdoor raves in Hampshire, all predominantly hard house, trance early Goa. We rocked!
Can I remember what any of the tunes were called, or who performed them? Nope, I was way too busy throwing shapes 😁😎
It’s 199?
What music were you listening to?
How old are you?
If we’re talking BC I was listening to Ug smack two sticks together in a rather unrythmical fashion.
Mid 90s full on indie kid here. Moved to Bradford Uni in 94 and it was all about The Charlatans and the Stone Roses but heavier stuff like Smashing Pumpkins, Therapy? and Sugar of course were always there too.
Chuck in some britpop (I liked some of it!) and then Faithless, Prodigy etc and I dabbled all over.
For me the 90s were the best.
That Therapy? Vid reminds me of '93, which is surprising. Me and a mate blagged press tickets to see daisy chainsaw, therapy? And hole in Glasgow then woke up a lot later having been out for a post gig drink with some of them.
Fast forward to summer and with, passes blagged from kerrang, bumped into Andy cairns from therapy? At reading don't really remember much after that apart from dinosaur junior and Julianna Hatfield.
1990-1994 grunge type stuff with the odd bit of house/dance/acid
1995- House
Gotta love house music
I was a full on Greebo, grabbed out of a Stourbridge pub and sent to Norwich to spread the good words of PWEI and The Neds.
Loved neds!
The 90s was my era, I started it listening to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine and RHCP after school. ‘Under the Bridge’ still sounds great to me.
In the mid 90s Id ditched my grundge clobber and was trying desperately to get into clubs and warehouse parties, I did my first pill in 96 and some of my mates claim I didn’t blink for the next few years.
By 1998 I was a real mess the cracks were starting to show, I’d given up clubbing, well mostly and I’d begrudging gotten into Oasis, I liked the easy sing-along whist pissed style of it, but hated all that fake Monchesta thing.
In 2000 I think I’d finally lost the plot, two things save me, my Mate was going backpacking and wanted me to come to, and the girl I had a massive crush on, but had Friendzoned me was going herself but elsewhere.
In July 2000 we had a final blow out in Glastonbury, I saw Bowie, I had no interest really, he was from my folks era but it blew my mind, I’ve never been so amazed by a performer before. We flew to Oz 48 hours later. It took about 6 weeks for me to really ‘come down’ from the mission I started about 5 years before. Whilst I was there they held a lot of ‘90s nights’ and ‘Brit Pop nights’ which seems really retro at the time, but I fell in love with Pulp, Eslastica and stuff like that.
I'm 38 so missed some of the start but I remember getting Rave92 on CD, Shaman - Boss Drum (on tape) then Screamadelica, Nirvana, Senseless things (I used to listen to the Evening Session whilst doing my homework) mid 90'was Blur, Oasis, Sleeper, Echobelly,
I had a huge Dookie poster on my wall then loads of Punk stuff (from BMX vids) like NOFX,EARLY Offspring (saw them at Rock City) which led to some RATM, then later Aphex Twin, all the Ninja Tune and Mo'wax stuff, that first Unkle record! Shadow, Skint, Big Beat, Fat Boy slims first record. At the Drive in! Pavement...
Oh almost forgot the massive Beastie Boys influence (Saw them at the NEC on the Hello Nasty tour) Jurassic 5, Oasis at Knebworth with The Prodigy and Chemical brothers supporting
Then Lincolnshire raves at Metheringham Quarry and the whole superclub scene at Passion in Coalville, Gatecrasher and all the daft after party stuff, Sasha, Ferry Corstan, Carl Cox, 6hr Paul Van Dyke sets, LTJ Bukem, that Roni Size record! (I had Two pages by 4 Hero on today)
All while building Trails and jumping around on an old Azonic DS1, such free, happy days of endless summers (96)
Thing is, I was going to post about this last week, maybe I'm at that age...
since 2000, has anything actually happened? I still go to Gigs a lot, I'm listening to NTS radio right now, I'm always looking for something interesting, but apart from early 2000s Garage, Grime, maybe a bit of post-rock and the math rock thing, has anything actually caught the imagination of a wider audience? Don't get me wrong, there's some amazing bands around right now but, the last 20 years seems a bit dull in comparison? like I say, maybe I'm at that age..
The entire 1990s passed me by. The last 'contemporary' album I listened to was Zooropa, then proceeded to lose all interest in current music. Living in Northern Canada as I did at the time, I spent countless hours travelling the barren highways listening to Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen (whom I had never really liked before), Tom Petty... those sorts of people.
I found the transition from ideologically-inspired bands like REM, to the deliberately angst-y Nirvana, along with the massive growth of hip hop in North America, utterly nauseating. I don't now, funny enough, and can understand much better what the radical change in the music landscape represented, but at the time, I just did not want to go there.
As for House... there really is no excuse.
Early 90’s were Helter Skelter and Dreamscape for me, then later on Hard House and Trance. I was at PaSSion and Storm a lot, Gatecrasher was (and always will be home) I lived for the weekends, Saturday and Sunday would expand into Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday. The friends, the lasers, the tunes, the being stranded at Sundissential North but always finding a way home, the Tuesday blues, the Friday highs.
I’m still up for an all-nighter now and again but I leave the cyber at home these days.
Did I dream this or was there a Wildhearts single that came with blotting paper and instructions of how to grow weed or something? (Not the Pulp Es and Wizz wrap instruction thing)
I had a couple of Wildhearts singles and swear it existed.
@scratch Plastikman's Sheet One CD cover had blotting paper tabs, I did have the original but I don't know where it's gone 🤔
It was the 'Sick of Drugs' CD single, I've just checked.
1995; the year I met my wife, and going out to see the mid 90's alternative / crusty crossovers - Wonder Stuff, Chumbawamba, Levellers, but a memorable night at Credit to the Nation, a car crash, not being able to get home and spending the night......
I started going to gigs when I was 14 in '89. My friends were getting into forming bands and were playing in places like The Venue, The Tap O' Lauriston and SU's and bars in Edinburgh. I remember seeing Idlewild, Finitribe, Tackhead, The Goat's, Oi Polloi, The Levellers and the Sultans of Ping, plus a few I've forgotten the names of.
The Venue was threatened with closure because of the fighting at gigs and went from playing live gigs to djs on a Friday night. My friends went from playing guitars and drums to decks, so I got into that instead. It was more like regular parties at first, we'd get wasted and play a few tracks each; generally because whoever was on the decks had forgotten and was bouncing away on the dance floor. Some of them became quite successful though and still dj, run clubs and record labels.
I've had some really random encounters with a few of them recently and combined with the death of Keith Flint it sent me off down memory lane. My memory's a bit shonky though, hence my op
Soundgarden, Faith No More, Screaming Trees, Elastica, Kenickie, Sleeper, Portishead, Goldfrapp, Catatonia...
Lots more that I can’t remember off the top of my head. A period with a great many gigs, Bristol was really getting a great music scene going with lots of new venues starting up. I think I managed 39 gigs in one year, mostly local.
‘93-’95 saw me at either the Civic or Wulfrun in Wolverhampton most weeks for gigs.
PWEI, Neds, Queensryche, Senser, RATM...
Three highlights of the decade from a live music point of view for me would be Metallica at Milton Keynes Bowl in ‘94 with Megadeth & Billy Idol supporting. My first proper big gig and it was awesome.
Donnington in ‘96 (I think) again Metallica, Slayer, Pantera, Machine Head....
Then again in ‘96 visiting my sister at Sheffield Hallam uni. Going to see Orbital at the Octagon. First real experience of anything other than metal or Stourbridge sounds. Mind blown.
Then on a coach to Manchester for Rage Against The Machine the next night....
I got this as a Slam white label summer 94. Reminds me of a crazy day/night/day in Strasbourg!
Therapy? was my first ever gig, early 1994 at Sheffield octagon. Supported by kerbdog and credit to the nation.
Troublegum was a big album for me although can't listen to it now ("...masturbation saved my life...")
Although those lyrics spoke to me back then!
Early 1994, britpop hadn't started yet and the nme and melody maker were trying to get excited about the 'new wave of new wave' . Long forgotten now, SMASH on top of the pops, compulsion 'comforter' and these animal men
Oasis were talked about as up coming band, getting chucked off the Amsterdam ferry for being louts
Wasn't into much, had a couple of 'pop' albums then bam!
Iron maiden and Daley Thompson showed me the way! Metal from then on in for the rest of the nineties (and still, although bit more diverse these days).
I'm not sure, mid/late 90's its all a bit of a blur!!! Pete Tong Essential Selection on Radio 1 was the best radio show ever.
Late 90's was mainly Hard House being mixed on the 1210's, here's a sample of a mix.
https://soundcloud.com/milkiekula/hard-house-sampler-clash-of
Mid 90's I was attempting to mix House/Trance music, using mum's tape deck and turntable with a little Gemini 2 channel mixer with my Sony Discman.
The only album I was listening to in the late 90's was Reverence & Irreverence..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iOojt3a1Yw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdFgYwRsdS4
^^Some great tunes in this thread!
Early 90s is a bit of a blank... Pixies? Probably on the fade by then. Wasn't massively into grunge, except Nirvana. It was Nirvana and a lot of crap heavy rock bands... although Dinosaur Jr were doing some of their best stuff.
Mid 90s... was mostly Britpop - nothing I'd listen to now.
Late 90s...Underworld, Chemical Brothers, Bigbeat and Mary Anne Hobbs' Breezeblock. Proper mix of styles began to emerge which accounts for a lot of what I listen to now.
The NME was just about dead, so most of my decade was covered by
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1994 - my mate's garden in the Summer, Radio 1 Essential Mix, first play of Paul Oakenfold's Goa Mix. Nothing was the same again.
1995- House
Gotta love house music
Yep.
Stayed out of this thread because we’ve had a few recently, and I don’t think STW can cope very well with the YouTube links 🤷♂️
1992,everything from about 87 to that point was metal, Maiden, Anthrax, Megadeth, but with smatterings of skate music from videos like Hocus Pokus and the Bones Brigade videos. Then I got some new friends at college and I fell into a world of American Indie and Hardcore. Fugazi, dead Kennedys, sonic youth, dinosaur Jr.
Then, in 1994,and purely based on an interview in melody maker with Aphex Twin, I bought SAW2 and my third eye opened. Then came The Orb, FSOL, David Holmes, Plastikman. Then, a little album called Endtroducing came out and all my bboy tendencies came with it. Unkle, Ninja Tune, Mo Wax..... Thank god for all of it because it meant I could ignore most of Britpop