The 90s thread

[Bomberboyokay]

Smoking was still acceptable in restaurants, bars and cafes in a lot of European countries like France and Italy when I traveled there 20 years ago.

Countries like Australia and the US had literally stamped it out but it hadn't caught on there, they were still smoking like it was going out of fashion.

When I moved to Melbourne from WA in 2009 couldn't ****ing believe they let people smoke at train stations. Didn't get rid of it until 2011ish.

 

[Plugger35]

WA is a nanny state but they produced some good music in the 90s.




Ammonia were the 90s WA Beatles.

 

[Plugger35]

Midday television was still a thing in the 90s.

Who can forget the day Ray Martin went Jerry Springer?


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I used to watch the midday show as a uni student.

It was actually the breakfast show for uni students and the unemployed.

Wake Up with Ray.

 

[Plugger35]

Doesn't get much more 90s than this,

 

[Procrastinator35]

Doesn't get much more 90s than this,

No way Jose....Now this was the quintessential 90's.

 

[Plugger35]

No way Jose....Now this was the quintessential 90's.

Another 90s nightclub staple.




If you weren't dancing to that song in the 90s nightclubs you weren't there.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Another 90s nightclub staple.




If you weren't dancing to that song in the 90s nightclubs you weren't there.

Great voice that gal had....Reminds me of this one also.

 

[Gough]

KLF is going to rock you.

 

[Plugger35]

I was a massive Spacehog fan for a few weeks in 98.





One trick ponies.

 

[The Dice Man]

I was a massive Spacehog fan for a few weeks in 98.





Didn't back it up.

One shot.

That intro always reminded me of the music from the Aussie film, Malcolm. Brilliant film too.

 

[Plugger35]

Doughboy Hollow was an underrated 90s album.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Another great dance hit from the 90's featuring the voice of Heather Little of M People....British of course.

 

[Gough]

One of the many things that Tony Blair spoiled for everybody was this song.

 

[Silent Alarm]

Travis - The Man Who

This song was huge in 1999 in the UK, you couldn't get away from it.




Used to laugh at all the Poms belting out the lyrics.

"Why does it always rain on me?

"Is it because I lied when I was 17".

No it's because you live in the UK you f***heads.


Moby - Play

Was another big UK album from 1999.




That was a game changer.

I don't mind a bit of Keane or Travis. Completely melodramatic brit-shit but love the saturated blues in the videos and the down and dreariness of it all.

I like some Moby songs like We Are All Made Of Stars and mostly his instrumental, ambient b-sides but it's amazing how Play went. Every single song was sold to Vodafone or a car company or in a movie. Unpredecendent. He is a bit of a sell-out though. I read his first book though; he is a seriously strange dude and I don't think it's in an endearing way. Weird unit.

 

[Plugger35]

Play was a slow burner, I didn't listen to it that much until the girls I traveled with in 2000 kept playing it, then I thought that's actually pretty good.




I always assumed Moby was English as it was a huge album there, it was called one of the great comedown albums from the pill popping 90s.

I was just getting started on the jack and jills which is probably why I didn't get into it that much.

 

[Plugger35]

Another big album from 1999.

RHCP - Californication




Like Play it took a year or so to take effect.

That album was everywhere back in 2000, every bar in Europe was playing it.




It was on high rotation on my Sony discman, iPods still weren't invented back then.

 

[Plugger35]

And who could forget The Late Show, you had to stay at home on a Saturday night or rely on someone else to video tape it.

No streaming back in those days.

 

[HahnPremium]

Its ashes season.

 

[Plugger35]

 

[Plugger35]

SBS in the 90s.

 

[Cleavy]

KLF is going to rock you.

Justified Ancients of MuMu



also in terms of dance music from early 90, 2unlimited had a few hits

 

[Papa G]

This was bloody everywhere too

 

[Plugger35]

This was bloody everywhere too

It was the go to drinking anthem in pubs back then.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

The 90s might've been the last decade where one-hit wonders stayed one-hit wonders. Now when anybody has a hit, the music industry and trash media kraken just keep pushing them. Meghan Trainor had one big song five years ago and apparently is going to be around forever.

Silent Alarm

 

[Bomberboyokay]

The Sunday Footy Show was a bunch of grey and white haired old men and sometimes ended with them throwing footballs at each other.




Rex Hunt had a competing show on Channel 7




I'd flick between them but make sure to see the handball segment on Channel 9

Funnily due to the WA time difference sometimes Channel 7 would start showing a live game while Channel 9's panel show was still going.

Both shows might've been as shit as the present day offerings; I was just a kid.