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[Misc] What happened in the 90’s ?
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clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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great band
I missed the taking Ecstasy mini era, as I lived with a possessive girlfriend at the time (no way was I allowed to disappear all night). So probably a good thing missing that particular chemical!
But I didn’t miss out on the music thanks to Pete Tong, mainstream clubbing including the Paradox and buying tons of CD’s. Half of them are Perfecto label.
clapham_gull
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I missed it through choice in Madchester because everyone doing it invariably slept during the day usually covered with a duvet and the curtains drawn.
It was paradoxically social and anti-social afterwards. Because I wasn't into the music and only experienced the comedown of others, I associate Ecstasy with smell off unwashed genitals. I've never experienced it.
Luckily / unluckily I was stoned the entire time.
I was able to love the 90’s dance music and dancing, only on booze …. usually
. But never tried an e.
clapham_gull
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I was able to love the 90’s dance music and dancing, only on booze …. usually
During those experiences I had a really bad time with speed, cocaine and possibly heroin and crack cocaine. But read on...
All of those not taking through choice, but stuck in a joint or other methods of deception.
It was anarchy up there, remembering it was coming out of a class A drugs problem in the North West from the 80s.
On one of the last two I blacked out for a day. Drugs aren't great (we all know that), but taken unwittingly they can be horrific.
As soon as I got back to London, that was that and I'd done it (or others had taken that choice for me)
I'm very liberal on the subject of recreational drugs, but not cocaine. It turns everyone into an arsehole, particularly in conjunction with alcohol and that was very much the "Camden" scene in the 90s. It is the very definition of an anti-social drug.
I hate it, "smell" it a mile off and actively avoid anyone who takes it.
I still use the very first email address I created back in the 90s for everything…it’s a @hotmail.com.
Why do you think Britpop was manufactured? Whilst musically and culturally different to Madchester it was the same in some senses and a scene like most others ; a couple of bands came along which were good, other bands copied them, people followed them then the press picked up on it etc.
Difficult to do on away matches
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I was a member at The Zap for years. My mate from school was one of the warm up DJs on a Friday night. I think his music making partner is on NSC occasionally.
Only did The Escape when they had a DJ I wanted to see but it’s also the last place I went clubbing, after we beat Wolves on Easter Friday to set up the Wigan promotion game. Brandon Block was DJing, everyone was over 40, plenty of Brighton in there, still seriously messy.
I digress. The 90s.
Of that list Zap, Escape, Northern Exposure/ Babealicious, Sainsbury’s and Club UK were all regular haunts. We were probably on the same dance floor more than once.
That’s brought back some (hazy) memories!
I was a member at The Zap for years. My mate from school was one of the warm up DJs on a Friday night. I think his music making partner is on NSC occasionally.
Only did The Escape when they had a DJ I wanted to see but it’s also the last place I went clubbing, after we beat Wolves on Easter Friday to set up the Wigan promotion game. Brandon Block was DJing, everyone was over 40, plenty of Brighton in there, still seriously messy.
I digress. The 90s.
Of that list Zap, Escape, Northern Exposure/ Babealicious, Sainsbury’s and Club UK were all regular haunts. We were probably on the same dance floor more than once.
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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My favourite remains the shark club. How they got such glittering DJs at Bingo bongo amazes me.
Brilliant club.
Also Sterns also.
The Hungry Years
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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Yeah I didn't eat much either.
BBassic
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Unquestionably one of the greatest decades for gaming. Just a small sample of the incredible offerings:
Final Fantasy VII
Metal Gear Solid
Silent Hill
GoldenEye 007
The Legend Of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Half-Life
Resident Evil 2
Tomb Raider
Gran Turismo
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Grand Theft Auto
I distinctly remember three of us going round to my mates house before school to play split-screen GoldenEye 4 player deathmatch on a tiny 14in TV.
Final Fantasy VII
Metal Gear Solid
Silent Hill
GoldenEye 007
The Legend Of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Half-Life
Resident Evil 2
Tomb Raider
Gran Turismo
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
RollerCoaster Tycoon
Grand Theft Auto
I distinctly remember three of us going round to my mates house before school to play split-screen GoldenEye 4 player deathmatch on a tiny 14in TV.
Blockbuster Video (worked in their uk head office, installing and supporting POS systems all over Europe)
MTV only English speaking channel apart from the news when working away in various countries, so my music of the 90s was Green Day, Nirvana and Red Hot Chilli Peppers was what I was listening too.
Windows 311
Nokia mobile phones
Don Jonny “I’m on the phone”
Getting married in 1998
The Verve
MTV only English speaking channel apart from the news when working away in various countries, so my music of the 90s was Green Day, Nirvana and Red Hot Chilli Peppers was what I was listening too.
Windows 311
Nokia mobile phones
Don Jonny “I’m on the phone”
Getting married in 1998
The Verve
I was a sport gamer and the 90s gave us
Super tennis.
Sensible soccer
Championship manager (I also like premier manager)
The birth of fifa
But the best two were
Brian Lara’s cricket with Agnew saying “pushpakamara steaming in”
Jonah lomu rugby - what a game.
Shout out to micro machines and street fighter 2. Not mortal combat because it was crap and people pretended to like it.
Creaky
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For me the latter part of the 90s was taken up by companies paranoid about the Y2K bug - tiring, boring but highly profitable
Hilario!Can I throw a really really random one in who I met as part of the John Peel experience.
The Tansads - Wikipedia
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Live (but probably not on record) they did a sort of Levellers thing, but had a really anti Southern thread going through a number of songs.
Unfortunately usurped (and ironically) by the Levellers from Brighton
One of those bands who were doing first but got overtaken by somebody doing it better and everyone thought THEY were the imposters.
They bloody hated me.
I think Stimulin may fall into that category (usurped by several bands of the same ilk)
Also Redbeat, who had much the same sound as sablemates Killing Joke, and the company could afford to back only one of them