The 90s thread

[Gough]

Two ebullient souls singing of rainbows and lollipops.

Loved this one, the contrast between Sinead's and Shane's voice just works.

 

[Procrastinator35]

jesus, the irony in that post, from this poster, is astounding.

Nup….Too cryptic for me to unravel....Alls I can decipher from it is the usual massive chip upon your shoulder.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Seen as we're going full Irish....The best contemplative music of our time.

 

[HahnPremium]

Whats wrong with U2. Love their music.. prob gonna skip their concert this year tho

Just noticed your sig and immediately thought of this.


oops. Sorry folks. Just realised its 10 months past the 90's.
My humble apologies.
Im counting Dorset as the most Irish of counties in the UK for a faint strain of relevance to the flow of the thread.

 

[Plugger35]

Yep i remember Donahue, Sally Jesse Raphael, Oprah and Jerry Jerry Jerry

Yeah Sally Jesse Raphael was big back then too.

When I first got to New York back in 1999 I got in a cab and it had a recording saying "This is Sally Jesse Raphael welcoming you to New York City".

You had to sit in the back seat with a screen between yourself and the cab driver who barely talked to you, it was like something out of Total Recall.

Jenny Jones was pretty big there too until her show caused a murder and that was the end of that chapter for that talk show at least.




Like Donahue there were Jerry Springer imitators but Jerry was smart in that he mostly got people that were paid actors to play real people rather than actual real people which is where other shows like Jenny Jones went wrong. You look at Jerry Springer's shows and it's like WWE wrestling, it's all theatre.

 

[Procrastinator35]

The Cranberries were also huge in the 90's....Dolores O'Riordan had such a unique, resonant & powerful voice.

 

[HahnPremium]

A great great writer.
With an interminable quench for the booze.

https://www.historyireland.com/20th...ion-dying-air-france-brandon-behans-mi5-file/

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Whats wrong with U2. Love their music.. prob gonna skip their concert this year tho

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah *guitar noise* yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeaaaaah

 

[Shell]

Ok

 

[Gough]

Bono never namechecked Brendan Behan.

 

[HahnPremium]

Bono never namechecked Brendan Behan.

Too artsy deep and incomprehensible for the Vox.
He preferred much lighter artsy fare.
Understandable. From a man who took a bad latin appellation as his stage name.
Bono Vox- Good Voice.

 

[Plugger35]

I saw Bono live before the 90s, back in 1989 on their Rattle and Hum tour, that was before he tried to save the world and was all about the music.

BB King and his band supported Bono and his band and then they came back on to play this song together for an encore.




Tickets cost us 50 bucks, pretty good value in hindsight but as a high school student I thought that was pretty steep. that was two cartons of beer.

 

[Procrastinator35]

I saw Bono live before the 90s, back in 1989 on their Rattle and Hum tour, that was before he tried to save the world and was all about the music.

BB King and his band supported Bono and his band and then they came back on to play this song together for an encore.



Tickets cost us 50 bucks, pretty good value in hindsight but as a high school student I thought that was pretty steep. that was two cartons of beer.

I get the fact that U2 are somewhat removed from the Irish folk traditional heritage, & that their 'commercial' tag is seen as a mark against them from that perspective.....But geez they were a bloody good rock band....A fair amount of 'jealousy' I think also hangs round the attempted diminishment of their value from that perspective.....'Achtung Baby' was, to my mind, their Opus as a band.

 

[Shell]

I saw Bono live before the 90s, back in 1989 on their Rattle and Hum tour, that was before he tried to save the world and was all about the music.

BB King and his band supported Bono and his band and then they came back on to play this song together for an encore.




Tickets cost us 50 bucks, pretty good value in hindsight but as a high school student I thought that was pretty steep. that was two cartons of beer.

Love that song.

I saw the Claw concert- was a good night. ($99)

 

[Shell]

My fave 5 U2 songs (but in no order)

- Mysterious ways
- Desire
- Elevation
- Sunday bloody Sunday
- Beautiful Day

 

[HahnPremium]

Dont hate U2. The live show (was it red rock from memory?) was pretty good.
Thought the "fly' personna was apt. Bono's extrapolation of an ego shitting on the id.
Ironic but funny nonetheless.

 

[Shell]

Dont hate U2. The live show (was it red rock from memory?) was pretty good.
Thought the "fly' personna was apt. Bono's extrapolation of an ego s**tting on the id.
Ironic but funny nonetheless.

Red rocks? Denver?? Ive been there.



Er... saw the Beach Boys. Was the only act on the week i was there. Still had a blast- venue is amazing.

 

[Shell]

Yep.


Walking up the hill to get there tho is a fking bitch and a half.

 

[Plugger35]

I get the fact that U2 are somewhat removed from the Irish folk traditional heritage, & that their 'commercial' tag is seen as a mark against them from that perspective.....But geez they were a bloody good rock band....A fair amount of 'jealousy' I think also hangs round the attempted diminishment of their value from that perspective.....'Achtung Baby' was, to my mind, their Opus as a band.

Achtung Baby is one of my favourite albums, it's U2's best album imo and one of the best albums of the 90s.

Bono was at the forefront of it, he knew U2 needed to change their sound and image going into the 90s to stay relevant but the rest of U2 were like let's just do another Joshua Tree or Rattle and Hum, if it ain't broke don't fix it, Bono kept pushing them to do something different and he was vindicated.

This first single was like wow, a whole new U2 sound, Rattle and Hum was gone.

 

[Plugger35]

Bono took U2's new sound a step further with Zooropa, another great 90s album.




That song was massive in the clubs back then.

Bono had his finger on the pulse.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Achtung Baby is one of my favourite albums, it's U2's best album imo and one of the best albums of the 90s.

Bono was at the forefront of it, he knew U2 needed to change their sound and image going into the 90s to stay relevant but the rest of U2 were like let's just do another Joshua Tree or Rattle and Hum, if it ain't broke don't fix it, Bono kept pushing them to do something different and he was vindicated.

This first single was like wow, a whole new U2 sound, Rattle and Hum was gone.

Reckon it was all down hill for U2 from there....Bono & the band well & truly lost the plot from there on in.

 

[Plugger35]

Reckon it was all down hill for U2 from there....Bono & the band well & truly lost the plot from there on in.

They jumped the shark with Pop in 1997 which was a bit all over the shop.

The first single was another dance club number but not as good as Lemon.




Then there were other songs like their new stuff mixed with old stuff, a few good songs but a mess.


They returned to form though with All That You Can't Leave Behind to bring in the new decade.

What a single.




And another great single off that album.




That was their last great album, they jumped the shark for good after that.

 

[Procrastinator35]

They jumped the shark with Pop in 1997 which was a bit all over the shop.

The first single was another dance club number but not as good as Lemon.




Then there were other songs like their new stuff mixed with old stuff, a few good songs but a mess.


They returned to form though with All That You Can't Leave Behind to bring in the new decade.

What a single.




And another great single off that album.




That was their last great album, they jumped the shark for good after that.

Yeah, nah!....Their rock n roll era was good stuff, because it still had the folk-based lyrical ballads behind it, as the grounding element....One they went full-on pop, all traces of authenticity went out the window long with it.

 

[Plugger35]

Yeah, nah!....Their rock n roll era was good stuff, because it still had the folk-based lyrical ballads behind it, as the grounding element....One they went full-on pop, all traces of authenticity went out the window long with it.

I agree but All You Can't Leave Behind was the exception in the U2 pop era.

How can you not be moved by Bono's heartfelt tribute to Michael Hutchence?




That is poetry.

 

[Shell]