What Was Blasting Out Of Car Stereos In Your Town In The Early 90s?

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When i lived in Glasgow 91-93(as a student)it was all Ultrasonic and TTF and the usual happy hardcore tapes from the rez.

What was it like in the rest of the uk? and how does it compare now?

And does this happen in the rest of the world?

― Simon James, Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago)

AUDIO BULLETS

― dean? (deangulberry), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Cleveland, OH, '92:
Gonna Make You Sweat
Just Another Day Without You (Jon Secada)
Whoomp There It Is

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 September 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago)

So it did happen all over then. It's usually either trance stuff or coldplay these days.

― Simon James, Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago)

"indian outlaw"

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Still a lot of Public Enemy, I think, though my ears were attuned to that so I might just have noticed. I don't remember what else. Oh, sure, Chubb Rock. Also that annoying song with the "Everybody dance now!" sample (which I guess everyone here will probably like).

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago)

"ba-by dont huuurt me no moooore!"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago)

"Sweet Child o' Miii--iine..."

― briania (briania), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago)

i was 8, and it was suburban connecticut... kris kross

― ccconor, Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Not the early 90s, but one of my earliest vivid memories is from when I was about 4 and I was riding in my dad's red Ford Escort, and at a stop light, a car pulled up next to us blasting "We Built This City On Rock and Roll" at ridiculous volumes. I'm not sure why this memory clings so to my cerebral cortex, but there it is.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 2 September 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago)

Because of the terrifying nightmares it still gives you?

― Simon James, Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago)

"Jump Around" by House of Pain, constantly. (I was living in a white trash Catholic neighborhood in Philly.)

― chuck, Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago)

I lived outside of Chicago, so it was either "B-B-B96" or "103.5, The Blaze!"

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:09 (twenty years ago)

The media hype may have been about grunge but i dont think i've ever heard any grunge blasting out of stereos not even Nirvana. It always seemed to be happy hardcore stuff that was played up full blast in Glasgow. I imagine it was the same all over Scotland.

― Simon James, Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago)

(to clarify, B96 played Cathy Dennis/Black Box/LaTour/LL Cool J/Paperboy/etc, 103.5 played Slaughter/Skid Row/Jackyl/etc)

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:15 (twenty years ago)

If I remember correctly: TLC, "Jump Around," and the occasional Mexican metalhead doing Megadeth or similar.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 2 September 2004 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Wu Tang

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Jump Around was massive. Also big singles by Snap, Dr Alban, Culture Beat And 2 Unlimited.

― Rambo, Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago)

That jungle tune with the Goodfellas sample at the start.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago)

What was that called again?

― Rambo, Thursday, 2 September 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago)

Stuff like Soul II Soul's "Back to Life", those Technotronic singles and Rob Base's "It Takes Two".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 September 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago)

lessee, UC Santa Cruz circa '91-'95 = tons of Beastie Boys, Nirvana, Cypress Hill, the Smashing Pumpholes, plus the obligatory collegiate "classics" (Marley, Zeppelin, Hendriz ad nauseam)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 2 September 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago)

There always seemed to be cars blaring out a track called 'poing' i forget who it was by. I think it was something terror corp but i cant remember the 1st part at all. And it was a high BPM Euro hardcore gabba track that had a bizarre poinging noise.

Anyone remember it?

― Rambo, Friday, 3 September 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago)

Rotterdam Terror Corps.

And yes, they were playing exactly the same stuff in Edinburgh, Simon.

We had a show on Radio Forth called "Tom Wilson's Bouncing Beats" which had either TTF or Ultra-Sonic guesting every week interspersed with plugs for Rez and FUBAR.

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 3 September 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago)

i had the "zig and zag- a hardcore breakfast" tape and also a huge number of bass generator rez mixtapes.
The tunell, 23 precinct, sub club, bomba records, club scene records
dosse possee etc etc.
Glasgow was fresh back then when i was at school 7 yrs ago..

unfortunately lost all my old tapes, id kill to get them back again,
anyone got them?

― willdabeast, Friday, 3 September 2004 07:55 (twenty years ago)

Rotterdam Termination Source, more like.

Answer to orig q: lots of what's been said, and Ace of Base.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago)

'Ardcore mentalism emmanated from the cars in Ipswich, leading onto Ragga Jungle a little bit later.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:23 (twenty years ago)

But when TTF and Ultrasonic got a top 40 single everyone hated them for selling out.
Did the scottish hardcore scene peter out just because the Rez went bankrupt? It certainly meant schoolkids didn't have tapes to hear any stuff after that. And a lot of the ravers where I stay got into Oasis and the like.

― Little Fella, Friday, 3 September 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago)

haha walking home today from the underground a car was waiting outside the station to pick someone up. Blaring out of the speakers was 'Grendel' by Marillion, he was fairly youngish too could only have been 21/22 at most.

Although perhaps the most shocking thing is that i knew what it was.

― Rambo, Friday, 3 September 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Nirvana.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:00 (twenty years ago)

happy hardcore, hip hop, and mariah carey.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:09 (twenty years ago)

'Grendel' by Marillion,

Wow.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 September 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Prodigy - "Outer Space"

― stevo (stevo), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

MC BREED & THE DFC - Ain't No Future in Your Frontin'

― mucho, Saturday, 4 September 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago)

MC Hammer you can't touch this...

― startrekman, Saturday, 4 September 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

I'm honestly shocked, SHOCKED that the Chronic doesn't own this thread. That album(and to a lesser extent, assorted Ice Cube) rampaged through the city for like 5 years straight; granted I'm in L.A. but it couldn't have had a low profile in other (U.S.) towns. MC Breed OTM though, that dominated for at least two years.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

>Did the scottish hardcore scene peter out just because the Rez went
>bankrupt? It certainly meant schoolkids didn't have tapes to hear any
>stuff after that. And a lot of the ravers where I stay got into Oasis
>and the like.

I was trying to explain the Rez to my girlfriend the other week - she grew up near Leicester so completely missed out.

The Rez > Oasis switch happened almost immediately when "Wonderwall" blew up, at least where i lived (Perth). Suddenly all the girls on the school bus who claimed their big brothers were "gonnae take them tae the Rez, ken" were 'singing' "Wonderwall". Bear in mind that i was 12 years old so i have no bigger frame of reference, but for a year from '94 - '95 Rez tapes and bomber jackets were the shit round my way. And those baggy jeans with the stoner dude logo on them.

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

So I was a student at the time... But what was 'the rez'? Something to do with the rezerection 'raves' (great word) at the likes of Ingleston at the time?

― KeefW (kmw), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

I was trying to get my mom to blast ANYTHING out of the stereo. The one time I convinced her to listen to any music, we tuned into our "alternative" station, the song playing was the Let's Talk about sex song, and my mom grimaced for about 1 1/2 minutes before turning it off, permanently.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Monday, 15 January 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

2 live crew!

― friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

>So I was a student at the time... But what was 'the rez'? Something to do with the rezerection 'raves'
>(great word) at the likes of Ingleston at the time?

Bingo!

I also remember the music pages in the Sunday Mail being centered around a lot of the west coast happy hardcore clubs in Ayr and such places.

― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

cybotron! miami booty! luke!

― friday on the porch (lfam), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

searsport, maine: guns n roses, queen, the beastie boys, nirvana, pearl jam.

― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

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