The 90s thread

[Kram]

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.

Was always a fair challenge to work out how to program a VCR to record on timer.

 

[footyfan1978]

The best thing about the 90's & it's music was it's coming to an end:

This video done way way before 1990's. I suspect around late 70's and early 80's in video making style back then.
Prince was not even using the same band in 1990's or even his own name...Although strangely he had some song in that time.. My name is Prince...

 

[footyfan1978]

Was always a fair challenge to work out how to program a VCR to record on timer.

Piss weak. Easy as. Got hundreds of hours of video tape of sport and docos from VCR time in garage. Not sure quality of tapes now though...lol

 

[Cleavy]

The best thing about the 90's & it's music was it's coming to an end:

and the world was going to collapse, if you believed Y2K. Did anyone stock pile food, money etc in preparation?

 

[Cleavy]

Was always a fair challenge to work out how to program a VCR to record on timer.

remember G-Codes, so you didn't need to work it out (as much)? Just needed to hope the show didn't run late (or make allowances for it).

 

[Procrastinator35]

This video done way way before 1990's. I suspect around late 70's and early 80's in video making style back then.
Prince was not even using the same band in 1990's or even his own name...Although strangely he had some song in that time.. My name is Prince...

1984 actually....Saw the movie Purple Rain that year....It was posted for it's title relevance only.

and the world was going to collapse, if you believed Y2K. Did anyone stock pile food, money etc in preparation?

Oh yeah...the Y2k bug...I'm sure there's preppers in America who've been awaiting the immanent end now, for far longer than that.

The Western religious & psychic tradition is dominated by apocalyptic visions....Though September 11 2001, wasn't too far away.

 

[Plugger35]

and the world was going to collapse, if you believed Y2K. Did anyone stock pile food, money etc in preparation?

People were worried that planes would drop out of the sky due to their on board computers malfunctioning.

It didn't cause anywhere near the chaos that was predicted, was a bit of a letdown really.

 

[footyfan1978]

1984 actually....Saw the movie Purple Rain that year....It was posted for it's title relevance only.

Song written in 1982. Was not on the Purple Rain album. From before then on some previous album.

Oh yeah...the Y2k bug...I'm sure there's preppers in America who've been awaiting the immanent end now, for far longer than that.

The Western religious & psychic tradition is dominated by apocalyptic visions....Though September 11 2001, wasn't too far away.

and the world was going to collapse, if you believed Y2K. Did anyone stock pile food, money etc in preparation?

just checking this out now from 1999...

 

[Procrastinator35]

Song written in 1982. Was not on the Purple Rain album. From before then on some previous album.

So it was, 1982....Off the self-titled album released that year '1999' in 1982....'Little Red Corvette' was also off that album.....They reached number 2 & 8 on the Oz charts respectively in late 1982....Well I'll be.

His first Oz number 1 track was 'When Doves Cry', off his Purple Rain album in 1984....Purple Rain then followed suite.

 

[footyfan1978]

So it was, 1982....Off the self-titled album released that year '1999' in 1982....'Little Red Corvette' was also off that album.....They reached number 2 & 8 on the Oz charts respectively in late 1982....Well I'll be.

His first Oz number 1 track was 'When Doves Cry', off his Purple Rain album in 1984....Purple Rain then followed suite.

I would not have even listened in 1982. Too busy watching Blues fix up Hawks in finals two times that year to be interested in the music charts then.

Prince was just some very weird pop star to me. I probably did not listen to that album or movie until late 80's or early 90's. When I finally did listen to that album, realised how crazy good it was.

 

[Gough]

I would not have even listened in 1982. Too busy watching Blues fix up Hawks in finals two times that year to be interested in the music charts then.

Prince was just some very weird pop star to me. I probably did not listen to that album or movie until late 80's or early 90's. When I finally did listen to that album, realised how crazy good it was.

I remember 87, another s*** one for us and Tucky playing the second half in a sleeveless guernsey.

 

[footyfan1978]

I remember 87, another s*** one for us and Tucky playing the second half in a sleeveless guernsey.

Satellite into Zimbabwe ?

 

[Gough]

Satellite into Zimbabwe ?

Bottom of the Strezlecki track at the Lyndhurst pub, as 14 year old it was great, they were not fussy about id.

 

[footyfan1978]

My music taste in 1990's ranged from seeing U2 at MCG in around 1992 to Prince live at Rod Laver Arena to Cosmic Pyschos at the Espy... ha ha good times... and Fireballs in Fitzroy pubs in between

 

[Gough]

I doubt it's the case now, something something pc gone mad but the toilet doors at the Lyndhurst pub had drip dry and flip dry on them.

 

[Procrastinator35]

I would not have even listened in 1982. Too busy watching Blues fix up Hawks in finals two times that year to be interested in the music charts then.

Prince was just some very weird pop star to me. I probably did not listen to that album or movie until late 80's or early 90's. When I finally did listen to that album, realised how crazy good it was.

Yeah, I didn't get into him until 1984, my first year of Uni, after 'When Doves Cry' was released.....amazing song that....That's the reason why I assumed 1999 was from the same year.....Orwell's book was all over the campus shelves that year....Compulsory reading still, for anyone interested in understanding the modern world....A true prophet he was.

As for the Blooze & their mosquito squad of 1979-1982, combined with Parko's knowledge of us.....Urgh….The stuff of nightmares.

You'll forgive me for enjoying the current malaise down Princes Park way, a little too much.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Pearl jam taking Ticketek/ticketmaster to court.

 

[Mockcockpit]

This used to be on at 8.30 on a Saturday morning on channel 10 before anyone realised what was going on. Still makes me giggle.

 

[freofc1994]

Def somewhere eastside.

There was a soccer shop in one of the arcades in the city (pretty sure the whole building is gone now) called Soccer Central. Bobby Despotovski bought it and called it Bobby 10 Football World. It closed years ago and I imagine was never successful given it was a small outlet selling stuff that you can mostly get at Rebel, Jim Kidd etc. It's not like Hockey Action which used to exist in East Vic Park where Welshpool Rd, Shepparton Rd and Albany Hwy all converge which catered to a niche market.

There was a soccer shop in the building that sits behind the Wesley Church and they used to sell all the tops back then. I think if you didn't get them from there or have family in the UK/Europe you had to order them off the British Soccer Weekly.

 

[peternorth]

stump cam

 

[Plugger35]

The 1993 Hottest 100 was the GOAT Hottest 100

 

[Papa G]

Yeah the 1993 Hottest 100 is a banger. So many good songs. So many famous artists. Even the lesser lights were good. Detachable Penis.

 

[Power Raid]

People were worried that planes would drop out of the sky due to their on board computers malfunctioning.

It didn't cause anywhere near the chaos that was predicted, was a bit of a letdown really.

There was the cash register in a seven eleven, in Texas, that stopped working that night though.

That may have been Y2K related or just coincidence. This incident alone justifies the $100b or so spent testing systems. The big 5 accounting firms must have loved those days.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

If Procrastinator35 was already broken he'd have been all in on Y2K

 

[Plugger35]

Another great Urge Overkill song that featured on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack.




Not only was Pulp Fiction a must see film back then but the soundtrack was a must have album.

There was the cash register in a seven eleven, in Texas, that stopped working that night though.

That may have been Y2K related or just coincidence. This incident alone justifies the $100b or so spent testing systems. The big 5 accounting firms must have loved those days.

I was living in London back then and on New Year's Day of 2000 we headed down to McDonald's for a hangover feed and it was closed.

We took that as a sign of the Y2K apocalypse.