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swordznsorcery) wrote2015-12-13 08:04 pm
swordznsorcery) wrote2015-12-13 08:04 pm
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1996
I seemed to spend half of 1996 trapped in an underground train at Liverpool's Lime Street Station, while the police checked out some suspicious object or other. The IRA had decided to start blowing stuff up again, which was nice of them, and this seemed to lead to just about everything being labelled a possible bomb. Not that I blame the authorities for being overly cautious, but it does begin to get boring after a while! Especially when it's an underground station, and there's sod all to look at while you wait.
The rest of that year was spent online (I say "the rest", presumably I did some work at some point). By now the Net was growing and changing so fast that you'd practically notice the difference over a weekend. Probably inevitably, although most of us didn't have anything much faster than a 28.8K dial-up modem, already the video sharing had started. This meant tiny little videos, barely bigger than an LJ icon, and rarely more than a minute long. Mostly, from what I saw, they were Methos soundbites from Highlander, or clips from Late Night With Conan O'Brien; usually Max Weinberg doing something brilliantly ridiculous, or reading one of his fake public service announcements. Happy days. :)
Otherwise it was a year of highs and lows. Take That split, which was a high. The Spice Girls appeared, which was a low. Doctor Who returned for a one off special, with a truly terrific Doctor, and a truly dreadful script. Well, that's being a bit unfair I suppose. Only half dreadful; the bit with the shoes is genius. A sad time for Who fans otherwise though, as Jon Pertwee died shortly before the film aired. Also bowing out this year was TW3 and I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue star Willie Rushton. There's been a Rushton-shaped hole in that show ever since. In American Tellyland, it was also the year that Greg Morris died. He played the great Barney Collier, easily the best thing about Mission: Impossible.
Elsewhere of course, this was the year of Dunblane. Not the best thing to remember a year by. On a distinctly happier note, it was also the year when Jarvis Cocker, slightly the worst for alcohol, gatecrashed Michael Jackson's performance at the BRITs, on the grounds that Jacko was being a tit. In all fairness, he was. I was listening on the radio, and it got a lovely running commentary! Annoyingly though, it was another good year for music, and I have a "short" list of about a hundred songs that I obviously can't fit all of under the cut. It doesn't matter how many times I stare at the list - it refuses to get any shorter!
From '95's Made In Heaven album, this is the awesome Let Me Live:
One of the big albums of 1996 was Kula Shaker's K. It's a huge favourite of mine, and this is my favourite song from it, Hey Dude:
The Manics returned this year, after taking a break following the disappearance of Richey James. I hope we find out what happened to him one day. In the meantime, this is the title track from the album - Everything Must Go:
Space, with Female Of The Species:
One of the best bits of music news this year was that of an upcoming collaboration between David Bowie and the Pet Shop Boys. This was the result, and it's fab - Hallo Spaceboy:
And oh, so many that I would have also liked to include! Ocean Colour Scene's second album Moseley Shoals became a smash, with some great songs - The Riverboat Song was my favourite, I think, but The Day We Caught The Train was also a good one; Republica's Ready To Go; Garbage's Stupid Girl; Deep Blue Something brought out the very catchy Breakfast At Tiffany's; Mansun's Wide Open Space; Bjork baffled us all by being brilliantly weird on It's Oh So Quiet; Dodgy hit the big time with Good Enough. Also the Monkees came back for their thirtieth anniversary, with the album Justus... On the plus side, in a few more years I won't be listening to the radio anymore, and I won't know what to include! The list will then rapidly dwindle away to nothing at all.
The rest of that year was spent online (I say "the rest", presumably I did some work at some point). By now the Net was growing and changing so fast that you'd practically notice the difference over a weekend. Probably inevitably, although most of us didn't have anything much faster than a 28.8K dial-up modem, already the video sharing had started. This meant tiny little videos, barely bigger than an LJ icon, and rarely more than a minute long. Mostly, from what I saw, they were Methos soundbites from Highlander, or clips from Late Night With Conan O'Brien; usually Max Weinberg doing something brilliantly ridiculous, or reading one of his fake public service announcements. Happy days. :)
Otherwise it was a year of highs and lows. Take That split, which was a high. The Spice Girls appeared, which was a low. Doctor Who returned for a one off special, with a truly terrific Doctor, and a truly dreadful script. Well, that's being a bit unfair I suppose. Only half dreadful; the bit with the shoes is genius. A sad time for Who fans otherwise though, as Jon Pertwee died shortly before the film aired. Also bowing out this year was TW3 and I'm Sorry, I Haven't A Clue star Willie Rushton. There's been a Rushton-shaped hole in that show ever since. In American Tellyland, it was also the year that Greg Morris died. He played the great Barney Collier, easily the best thing about Mission: Impossible.
Elsewhere of course, this was the year of Dunblane. Not the best thing to remember a year by. On a distinctly happier note, it was also the year when Jarvis Cocker, slightly the worst for alcohol, gatecrashed Michael Jackson's performance at the BRITs, on the grounds that Jacko was being a tit. In all fairness, he was. I was listening on the radio, and it got a lovely running commentary! Annoyingly though, it was another good year for music, and I have a "short" list of about a hundred songs that I obviously can't fit all of under the cut. It doesn't matter how many times I stare at the list - it refuses to get any shorter!
From '95's Made In Heaven album, this is the awesome Let Me Live:
One of the big albums of 1996 was Kula Shaker's K. It's a huge favourite of mine, and this is my favourite song from it, Hey Dude:
The Manics returned this year, after taking a break following the disappearance of Richey James. I hope we find out what happened to him one day. In the meantime, this is the title track from the album - Everything Must Go:
Space, with Female Of The Species:
One of the best bits of music news this year was that of an upcoming collaboration between David Bowie and the Pet Shop Boys. This was the result, and it's fab - Hallo Spaceboy:
And oh, so many that I would have also liked to include! Ocean Colour Scene's second album Moseley Shoals became a smash, with some great songs - The Riverboat Song was my favourite, I think, but The Day We Caught The Train was also a good one; Republica's Ready To Go; Garbage's Stupid Girl; Deep Blue Something brought out the very catchy Breakfast At Tiffany's; Mansun's Wide Open Space; Bjork baffled us all by being brilliantly weird on It's Oh So Quiet; Dodgy hit the big time with Good Enough. Also the Monkees came back for their thirtieth anniversary, with the album Justus... On the plus side, in a few more years I won't be listening to the radio anymore, and I won't know what to include! The list will then rapidly dwindle away to nothing at all.