Early 90's radio!

[TheEnd]

Out of the blue, the local pub DJ in a major explosion of free thought played this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poD6-YJsOCY
Tracy Jacks- Blur.

It started off a wave of nostalgia of the britpop era and before.
Flicking through youtube reveals loads of almost forgotten tracks that were played every day on the radio, and seem to have been removed from playlists.

So lets run through a few!

Shakespere's sister - I don't care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3Bu_Rkz55w
and also Stay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eXw47qb4U0

Elastica - Waking Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIt7eWa0oG4
and Line Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwpKYnQaZnU

The Verve- Bittersweet Symphony - what a vid!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3m4e45bTo

Suede - Animal Nitrate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3HgbYMSl74
and Stay Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUUi7w3uSsk

Mansun - Wide open space
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beMWGQSM59Y

Ian Brown- F.E.A.R
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9wue5sCpuM

The Smiths - This Charming Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3pNeihQA8

Sleeper - Insomnia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8ooRPG-mfY
and
Sale of the Century
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az5vS9cOyXk

Republica - Ready to go (Saffron )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3BmxjhmN20

Garbage - Stupid Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N29vkIT3eo

The Cardigans - My Favorite Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=styYbRWQYP8


My findings?
There is a hell of a lot of awesome songs that are disappearing to the back of the record boxes, and 15 years ago, women in bands were way hotter!
How many do you remember?

[XJSJohn]

ohh the end of the 80's and the start of the 90's ... you just got me flipping through my MP3 collection (converted everything a long time ago !!!)

some nostalgia.

10,000 Maniacs - Hey Jack Karouac

An Emotional Fish - Celebrate

beastie boys fight for your right to party

Belly - Feed The Tree

Cannonball - The Breeders

Chumbawamba - Enough Is Enough

Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals

Mystify Live-Inxs

Manic Street Preachers - Suicide Is Painless

nirvana smells like teen spirit

The Offspring - Nitro

Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection

Lemonheads It's a shame about Ray

Levellers - One way

The Presidents of the USA - Lump

OK i have crept into the end of the 80's for some .....

The old Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Suede, Inspirals etc were great from around then too!!!!

[Meeja]

Up until 2005 I was DJ'ing in clubs and pubs several times a week.

I would regularly dig out stuff like this to drop into a set. Basically it was what differentiated the venues I was working at from every other venue on the high street - and ended up getting the venue a reputation for good and eclectic music.

Since hanging up my headphones, my experience of the nightlife scene in cities is very limited (much prefer a night in with Mrs Meeja and the telly, with the kids safely tucked up in their beds) but on occasions I have been out (couple of stag weekends, lads' nights out etc) I have found that the playlists that many DJs in "high street" venues are seriously limited, and it makes me itch to go and sort their music collections out!

[V8mate]

XJSJohn said:

Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

Around the same time as the Ozrics - probably thinking mid-eighties now - was a band called Ring of Roses. Don't think they ever released a single, but toured a lot.

Do you remember them? I thought they were awesome but lost all the tapes I made of their gigs in a relationship split many years ago. Would love to get my hands on some of their material again and have taken to pouncing on anyone who may have been around at the same time.

[TheEnd]

We should start a Historical music appreciation society.

Most people "of a certain age" will know a lot of those songs quite well, enough to sing along to, but there are so many i haven't heard for over 10 years easy.

Even when we start getting 90's theme bars, they'll only be playing 50-100 of the most famous stuff, again and again.

[Meeja]

TheEnd said:

Even when we start getting 90's theme bars, they'll only be playing 50-100 of the most famous stuff, again and again.

Already happening - before I retired from Djing, some city centre venues were running a few "90s" nights - but the music selected by the DJs was so limited, and repetition of tracks seemedto be the order of the night.

So much good stuff missed!

[XJSJohn]

V8mate said:

Around the same time as the Ozrics - probably thinking mid-eighties now - was a band called Ring of Roses. Don't think they ever released a single, but toured a lot.

Afriad i don't remember them, but then again there is a lot that i don't remember from that time of my life