Popular Nostalgia

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This track, Coco Jamboo, came out in 1996 courtesy of the German reggae style outfit known as “Mr President” – this was an instant summer classic which spun us round and round the waltzers in the summer of ‘96.
Another treasured memory.

This advert came out in the UK in 1993. It was an instant hit and many people still sing the  lines and ice cream vans play the tune:
Just One Cornetto
Give it to me
Delicious icecream
For me to eat
Its taste is just supreme
Give me Cornetto
From Wall’s Ice Cream
The theme is “O Sole Mio” written in 1898. The [...]

This song was so blatant and rude, the kids loved it. Is it wrong that they played this at our school disco? Ten points to anyone who knows the dance. Careful though, this can get you jailed in some countries. Enjoy it and laugh one more time.
Lyrics to “Sex on the Beach”
Oh We Oh We [...]

Great proponents of the curtain hairstyle, the Backstreet Boys took the nineties by storm with their urban cool and increasingly complicated shaving regimes. Nick Carter was the pin-up boy of the decade and his little brother very almost succeeded in leeching of his success. I’ll always remember them for their catchy tunes and genuine harmonies. [...]

Let’s croak some toads!
Captain Bucky O’Hare was the early 90’s cartoon character who graced our screens with an intergalactic battle against space toads. Remember the psychic cat “Jenny” who could read minds through the purple jewel on her head or the mad eye duck who could shoot with four arms at a time.
For those of [...]

Apologies to those of you who rightly assume that I’ve just been mining a rich vain of 1995 tracks. I actually got a “Dance Tip ‘95″ cd for christmas one year (1995 would seem logical). Cotton Eye Joe was one of the tracks on that very Dance Tip ‘95 CD.
I never really liked it, but [...]

Freddie Mercury died before he could perform at the opening of the Barcelona Olympic Games but his favourite opera singer, Montserrat Caballe went onto perform a spine-tingling live version of the theme penned by Queen.

Vanilla Ice in hindsight seems laughably unfashionable, but I’m reasonably certain that at the time Ice Ice Baby came out and took the world by storm, the old V dog was pretty cool.
The baseline was stolen (out of court settlement apparently) from Queen’s “Under Pressure”, and apparently it might be questionable whether, er, Ice himself [...]

Barbie Girl by Aqua was a huge success, and despite the slightly silly words and light-hearted look of the video, this is an incredibly catchy and was really a la mode at the time it came out in the mid-late 90s.
Even the mums and dads liked Barbie Girl. Dads particularly enjoyed the video on Live [...]

The year was 1998. A good vintage for Bordeux. A very good vintage musically, for this was the year the world woke up and realised they had ears: every single piece of recorded or live music they had heard up until the point The Cartoons released Witch Doctor would soon be akin to white noise.
The [...]

What can I possibly say about the lyrical genious that is Eiffel 65 Blue. Not much. Just listen to it, enjoy the video, and remember what you were doing during the latter half of the 1990s!
I’m blue too!

Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil battle it out with Angelica in the sandpit. My abiding memory of Rugrats is that everyone used to know how to play the theme tune on the piano. Angelica also got on my nerves. The babies talked in silly toddler speak with lots of missing teeth and spittal – getting [...]

The best Fresh Prince – stylee big hair do’s and MCHammer style dancing ever. How does their hair stand up so tall? Will we ever dance like that again? The universe holds many mysteries, but The Power is certainly a brilliant track and quintessential 90’s hit. German duo Snap! had their first big hit with [...]

A 1992 hit with all the prerequisite uniform: perm, big earrings and a lot of PVC. I love the setting for this video – how exactly do you book a missile launch platform? The German duo Snap! were responsible for this club hit and UK number 1 as well as The Power which was another [...]

Didn’t this song drive you up the wall? The upside that everyone could sing it “ab a dee ab a dii” etc… The guy’s accent was Italian and his europop trio took 1999 by storm. Here are the lyrics so you can sing along to this bizarre little number
Lyrics to Blue by Eiffel 65
Yo listen [...]