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Has to be the best live version I've seen, I must have just watched this about 10 times just now, I can't remember a live set with this much energy for ages, love the way Money Mark hammers that note on the keys, MCA uses up a lot of cool credit.
No son, there was no HD back then, everything looked like that.
Anyone got a vid that'll stack up against that energy?
Great era for music.
I saw the beasties supported by Public Enemy - one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to (the best was Trouble Funk).
Live performance with a lot of energy - Talking Heads:
There was a lot of absolute dross back then like Barbie Girl and whatnot but the good and bad seemed further apart, not just a middle ground of everyone trying to get on a Spotify playlist maybe
I only got to see the BBs once at NEC on the Intergalactic tour, even a good few records in they were still pushing out good stuff
A blur. (No pun)
Well you're right about the lack of HD in the 90s. From 1999:
This screams mid 90's
absolute dross back then like Barbie Girl
5th highest selling record of the decade…
Robson & Jerome were 3rd.
Yeah Beastie Boys were great live - their Netflix documentary is a good watch.
Best 90's gig for me was RATM first album at Manchester Ritz - the sprung wooden floor coupled with Killing in the name and people slamming from the balcony above was absolute brilliant carnage.
Twas ecstatic.
Nothing will beat the energy of Gina G playing the Uni Engineers Ball 1995 🤣
Daft Punk in 1997 Newcastle and then 2007 in Inverness. Off the f’kin scale.
Also
Fred Durst, Actual lighters in the crowd when everyone smoked and phones didn't take pictures let alone video!
Daft Punk in 1997 Newcastle and then 2007 in Rockness. Off the f’kin scale.
The '80s were better
Would have loved to have seen Daft Punk
90's for me was Faith no More. Remember seeing Limp Bizkit as a support group and coming on stage playing George Michael Faith, lots of plastic bottles and cups went flying towards the stage till it got going.
90s are back:
Remember seeing Travis as the third support band to Reef once, they were bloody awful...
Well son, I went for a night out in 1989, then woke up in 2000, what happened in between **** knows, but I think there was some good music and industrial grade mdma, and at some point I have faint recollections of being a gurning champion.
Blimey, I thought that Beastie Boys tape was completely lightweight and not compensated for by the turkey trousers. It must be old age.
Gave me son and his 15 year old crew a lift back from the skatepark this evening, I managed to get in the following on the playlist…….. at high volume 😄
Praise you ( Fatboy slim)
Smack my bitch up ( Prodigy)
Born slippy ( Nuxx)
Insomnia (faithless)
Better than that drillshite they listen to these days 😂
Any Jesus Lizard gig.
This lot should inspire my drive to work tonight.
I've always liked a bit of Placebo. Their recent work just takes me back to being 16. Every you every me is still a belter for the van on a night shift
I grew up fifteen miles up the road from Braintree Barn, host to Essex acts like The Prodigy, Sunscreem and The Shamen etc. In the summer of 1991, the Prodigy made an appearance at my local fleapit club, your's truly ended up dancing on top of a speaker, sans shirt with a whistle in my mouth.
How I didn't get thrown out of the place I'll never know.
The Prodigy @ Leeds Town and Country in 95.
Massive conical strobes either side of the stage that flashed out of sequence with each other then Keith ran on stage in a giant hamster ball.
I left a bit of my brain there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hjvJb_4th5E
I’ll go with this one, only for Kris Novoselic not being able to catch his bass at the end
Well son, I went for a night out in 1989, then woke up in 2000, what happened in between **** knows, but I think there was some good music and industrial grade mdma, and at some point I have faint recollections of being a gurning champion.
If you can remember the 90's, you weren't there...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Strung Out at a punk pub in Leeds (can’t remember the name of the pub).
Voodoo Glow Skulls in Manchester (can’t remember the venue).
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Arg. give up!
I left a bit of my brain there.
I liberally distributed bits of my brain in clubs, festivals and venues all over the country during the course of the 90’s. It was absolutely bloody brilliant!
My 17 year is daughter is insanely jealous of us lucky bastards who got to indulge ourselves through that particular decade
What a time to be alive 😃
I remember very little from approximately 1989 to somewhere in the region of 2001. Give or take.
https://m.soundcloud.com/oldskoolpool/john-kelly-capricorn-club-bibbys-bradford-1991-download
Daddy? Yes son? What does regret mean?
Good times 😊
It may not be from the '90s but this was also a Letterman performance and is doing pretty well on the energy levels front too:
Despite the '90s probably being my formative decade for music too, it seems my brain is coming up with more recent suggestions for high energy performances. Having seen them perform this live myself I can confirm that the amount of energy coming from Broken Social Scene when they do this song is pretty amazing:
Craig Finn brings a unique sort of energy to The Hold Steady's performances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQBEWG5N9rM
Bullet Lavolta. Should have been bigger than nirvana.
That Rollins track (and video) still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Amazing track
Whatever...
Cliched, but being at this gig changed my life
Did the Beastie Boys play that year too? I'll be honest the only thing I really remember was seeing Johnny Cash!
@anagallis_arvensis I only really remember Bjork playing and somebody with a gun being spotted trying to get on the stage, Transglobal Underground, Radiohead, RATM.
Just checked the lineup and it was excellent, plus the weather was fabulous.
But that Orbital performance switched me from biker-rocker to flat out confirmed raver.
from back in 1991
^^Phoenix Festival?? Can’t remember which year, the whole decade is a bit of a hazy blurred memory now!!
We were all very lucky to have been there at the time, a decade for music like no other.
Growing up in the West Midlands meant seeing the Poppies a lot, remember some great nights at Aston Villa Leisure Centre.
Orbital at Glastonbury in 94 sticks in my memory like no other, amazing performance which touched so many people! And the weather was perfect.
I grew up just out Stourbridge, used to see PWEI in the Swan and The Ned's in The Mitre
West Midlands
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gr0rA7IQ8xE
I'll always remember the Skaex remix of Block Rockin' beats by the Chemicals:
Some time in the mid nineties a dis-establishmentarism friend of mine had bought a lowered grey Jag XJS with darked out windows from "a dubious character, who told him the only issue with the car was some slightly odd stains in the boot"
Anyway, he picked me up and went cruising through Peckham high street at about 10mph with that (likely not Skaex but perhap micronauts?) so loud my ears were bleeding. It was funny and scary at the same time, I fully expected to get launched at by some south london gangsters at any moment.
Fun times the 90's...
These were a key part of my 90s
Blimey. The bands I've seen but can't remember 😆
Someone posted the Hold Steady a while back, I'd still love to see them live, in the early 2010s it felt like they played Bristol (I'm Cardiff and Bristol gets all the gigs) every 6 months or so, really wished I'd gone to see them, still hope there's a chance yet!
I’m just looking at the list of bands and artists I saw through the 90’s, starting in 1990:
Cowboy Junkies
Daniel Lanois
Heart
Metallica
Robert Plant x2
Steve Earle
Van Morrison
Laurie Anderson x2
Throwing Muses x3
Maria McKee x3
Sting
Kings X
Paul Simon
Elvis Costello x2
Janis Ian
Nanci Griffith
Lush x3
Hole
Babes In Toyland
Portishead x2
Aimee Mann x2
Page and Plant
Belly
Sleeper
Alanis Morissette x2
Joan Baez x2
Wildhearts
Skunk Anansie
Echobelly
Tori Amos
ZZ Top
Dubstar
Thrum
Steely Dan
Tiger
Kenickie x3
Sparklehorse
Drugstore
Catatonia
Blondie
Dark Star
PJ Harvey
Roy Harper…
That’s not including all the support artists, among which were The Longpigs, The Wannadies, Thea Gilmore, Queens Of The Stoneage, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead…
A good decade for live music.
Just remembered, there was a Reading Festival in there somewhere, ‘95, where I saw Neil Young backed by Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Bjork, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement, Mudhoney, Juliana Hatfield, The Cardigans, Throwing Muses…
Blimey.. Roy Harper
Lost count of the amount of times I saw him in the 90’s.
It was the opposite end of the spectrum to the weekends usual activities involving industrial quantities of weapons grade MDMA and deafening sweat-pits full of lazers
You need to maintain an equilibrium in life, after all 😃
what was it like in the 90’s?
Marginally better than the 80's and considerably better than the 70's.
We would be skating and street bmxing in Manchester every weekend and go to the under market ticket office to buy random Oxford road venue gig tickets for whatever band we liked the name of even if we hadn't necessary heard of them. Remember seeing loads of crap (early Chumbawumba) but then loads of awesome stuff including Moneymark.
Contrast this to my 30year old work colleague who has never been to a gig in his life and has no interest in music whatsoever.
I do miss the 90s, but I think I really just miss being young and mostly care free.
I do feel a little bit sorry for my Eldest generation, they don't seem to have a Hero, or a movement or much of anything bar competitive 'wokeness' mixed with the extreme vanity and insecurity of having their awkward teenage years on social media. I thought Billie Eilish might be their anti-establishment hero, but it only seemed to take her 5 mins of fame before she was cutting about in a Loius Viton track suit and selling her Purfume and 'signature' Jordon shoes via Insta like some dead-eyed Karadishan.
Anyway, I'll go back to my rose tinted memories of the 90s being the pinnacle of the human experience because it was my era.
This is what it was like son...
93 was my first Backyard jam, went to everyone till the last one in 97 (before they revived it in the 2000's)
The 90's for me were spent on the BMX and clubbing, being a Southsea skatepark local there was lots of influence around from older riders/skateboarders
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Someone posted the Hold Steady a while back, I’d still love to see them live, in the early 2010s it felt like they played Bristol (I’m Cardiff and Bristol gets all the gigs) every 6 months or so, really wished I’d gone to see them, still hope there’s a chance yet!
@scratch In recent years The Hold Steady have foregone regular tours and instead do a few weekend-long mini residences in various cities, mostly in the US but also in a few other locations. The one most likely to work for you is the Weekender, which is in London in early March.
I've been to all the Weekenders so far and they've all been great. They do two nights at the Electric Ballroom in Camden, then a third night at a smaller venue elsewhere in London. Last year they had to livestream gigs from the US instead but hopefully the Weekender will be happening again this year!
The 90's. Damn. Possibly the most influential decade for music in my life, starting just when I was doing GCSEs and moving me away from ska/punk to a life-long love of rave, hip hop and EDM more generally.
By the end of the millennium I was DJing in and around London and had done a couple of festival. Still love hard house, still regret selling my vinyl and decks.
Have some Praga Khan:
Ah, the 90's
didn't the skies always have little fluffy clouds in them? The most beautiful skies as a matter of fact.
You don't see that, you might still see them in the desert.
It's mental to think that all of these songs & albums came out in '91. Most of them actually came out in a 6 week period in the autumn
https://youtu.be/5HDPenYIPtg
https://youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg
https://youtu.be/qM0zINtulhM
https://youtu.be/CD-E-LDc384
https://youtu.be/Y3ixEzKA4k0
https://youtu.be/ZWmrfgj0MZI
https://youtu.be/hwUKR_9Xdns
https://youtu.be/O_253-HURY8
https://youtu.be/FHixChYgGRI
https://youtu.be/s5BJXwNeKsQ
https://youtu.be/LJzCYSdrHMI
https://youtu.be/14r7y6rM6zA
Thanks ChrisL! the current state with Covid and young children has properly taken me out of the loop gig wise, something I need to sort in 2022!
Always loved the way the guy jumps through the cake in the November Rain video, like it's raining acid or something, I need to get in doors so fast I'm literally going to jump through the cake, sorry about that Axle but it was really starting spit with rain just now
Crazy that lot was released in the same year!
So much good stuff on this thread, thanks everyone.
I came of musical age in 2000 (my first Glastonbury, age 16) so not sure I'm really qualified to post, but I think this has a home here:
I've been fortunate enough to get to a lot of live gigs over the years, starting with the baptism of fire that was Donington '90. So whilst I consider myself "a child of the 80s" I guess I have to begrudgingly admit that the 90s was 'my' decade for live music.
Out of that lot, far and away the most mental, intense gig I've ever been to was The Offspring at (I think) the Manchester Apollo. I've a photo somewhere that a mate took outside after the gig, I look like they've just dragged me out of the canal.
It had Kylie..
Energy you say? Prodigy live has to be up there!
Youtube - The Prodigy Live Phoenix Festival 1996 Complete Set
Watching Leeroy dancing makes me wanna jump around like a loon 25 years later...
absolute dross back then like Barbie Girl
5th highest selling record of the decade…
Robson & Jerome were 3rd.
It's the same every decade isn't it?
Ken Dodd had the 3rd best selling single of the 60s - the Beatles were 1st and 2nd. Look at the 70s if you really want a laugh - Wings, Boney M, John Travolta and ONJ, Village People take the first 6 slots. Jimmy Osmond was 15th - I still get an allergic reaction of trying to kick the TV if that comes on!
The 80s? That's my decade, so I'm possibly brainwashed, but the top 10 isn't that bad - Band Aid, FGTH, Stevie Wonder, Human League, Wham, Culture Club, the awful Jennifer Rush, Dexys. I wouldn't choose to listen to them, but they aren't Ken Dodd! The first proper novelty hit is Agadoo at 27.
It’s the same every decade isn’t it?
Yes
First time I flew with Emirates they had a thing in the In Seat Entertainment that had every British number one single ever (at the time). I thought magic, lets revisit some classic years in the 60s and 70s.
90% of whatever week and year I clicked on was absolute garbage compared to the great music of the era. Came home and told me old man about it and he explained the charts have always been crap. The great bands either never released singles or if they did, some absolute novelty cringefest kept them off the top
The first proper novelty hit is Agadoo at 27.
Yeah, sorry, I bought that.
I know everyone thinks "their" decade was the best, but the 1990s really did see an incredible development in electronic music spurred by technology and dance music culture, at the same time as some amazing guitar music and hip-hop.
The calendar decade division is a bit artificial though, it's really the 10 years from 1987-1996 for me that encompasses all the good stuff: Acid house, My Bloody Valentine, Public Enemy & NWA, Pixies, Aphex Twin...
As I went through school then Uni in the 90s music was massive for me, seemed to go through loads of genres which I still listen to today metal, grunge, indie, hip-hop, house, trance, D&B - looking back (subjective I know) the 90s had some amazing music across these.
Reading Festival had some great lineups in the 90s. Particular highlights were Blur in an absolutely packed Melody Maker tent in 93 and Therapy? in 94, I'd seen them in 93 and got right into them by 94 so was better prepared to the singalong to Potato Junkie (love that Andy Cairns looks like David Brent fancy dressed as a vampire).
Would have loved to see PWEI, the one band that eluded me live.
I saw hundreds of bands in the 90s and unfortunately only have vague memories of most of them. Orbital at Glastonbury I just about remember. Took a fair bit of acid before hand which probably explains why.
Saw the Beastie Boys in Wolverhampton Civic Hall. Drove from Mid-Wales in a blizzard to get there. We were in a single line of traffic driving about 20mph down the centre of the A5/M54. A combination of too much weed and the heavy snow made it feel like we were doing Warp Speed. It was awesome. Amazing gig too.