Greetings Afterworders
It’s that time of year. I have to create a video for the my company’s Annual conference.
The theme this year is “We’ve been around for 20 years”, so i’m thinking hmm… 1995
First off I will record a lyrically modified version of Prince’s 1999 so that ‘s the soundtrack taken care of.
Next up is more tricky…. i want to do little skits referring to significant things that happened in 1995, only I can’t think of many.
So far, I have:
1) Eric Cantona kung-fu kicks a Crystal Palace fan
2) 1% of the population have internet access (600,000 people)
Err,.. that’s it
Another one and the last one is obviously going to be REL Field Marketing are formed (huge fanfare)
But, really need more than that to do 3 minutes of content.
Any of you AW folk have any suggestions?
-Askwith
PS. The video link is my video that won the contest last year
Lots of good stuff here – a bit US-centric, but still quite useful, I’d think….
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1995.html
Frank Bruno wins the WBC Heavyweight Championship of the World.
Nick Leeson
Brixton race riots
Fred West
OJ Simpson verdict
Tokyo sarin gas attack
Goldeneye
George Graham leaves Arsenal, Dennis Bergkamp arrives
Princess Di TV interview
Frank Bruno is world heavyweight champ
Any use?
Blur vs Oasis, Pulp’s Common People.
Film: Toy Story, The Usual Suspects
TV: Father Ted
I thought I’d find more of note but most of it was pretty forgettable.
In January 1995, Megadeth appeared on the soundtrack of the horror movie Demon Knight with the song “Diadems”.[91] In July, Megadeth released Hidden Treasures, an extended play featuring songs which originally appeared on movie soundtracks and tribute albums.
’nuff said
I vote that this year’s video is a discomforting swirl of images of OJ Simpson and Megadeth, soundtracked by Megadeth with an occasional sample from Frank Bruno.
It’s time to take this work conference to the next level.
@bingo-little
I fully endorse your suggestion
Also – and I’m just putting this out there – Limp Bizkit formed in 1995.
This is your excuse to go full Borland.
Nigel Benn vs Gerald McLellan at London Arena
Possibly the most thrilling and unnerving sporting event I’ve ever attended.
Kenny Everett died in 1995 and I think it was the year of Fred n Rose West…
I wasn’t there, but the Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank fights across 1994 and 19956 were all thrilling.
There’s a long debate to be had about boxing, but that was enthralling stuff
I met my future FPO, which was significant for my history.
Drum & Bass was on the radio – did Roni Size win the ’95 Mercury? I was in my Acid Jazz loving prime.
Some have already been covered, but this might give you some more ideas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/years/1995/default.stm
I saw the Pat Metheny Group on their “We Live Here” tour at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in June that year. I also visited Warsaw for a conference, and had the horrible discovery that the SS used to be based in the Psychology building of the university (and that the 15 minutes of housing estates you pass through from the airport to the city centre used to be where the Jewish community lived).
On the 30th January 1995. Leftism is released.
Peter Cook dies…loads of skits to poach there.
Sadly, Viv Stanshall expired also.
One of the greatest songs in the history of everything is released – Common People by Pulp.
I completed the London Marathon, (4 hours 15 minutes if you’re asking, but it took over 20 minutes to get to the start)
I know, i’m not being very helpful am I ?
runs away giggling…
John Squire falls off a skateboard or something and breaks his arm meaning The Stone Roses don’t headline Glastonbury. Last minute replacements Pulp storm it and thanks to Channel 4’s coverage many at home decide Jarvis should be new Queen Mum which he became the very next year
I love Bingo’s suggestion. You are a genius, Mr Little!
John Major vs Spock’s Evil Twin, AKA John “Welsh” Redwood. Thrilling stuff.
‘Anthology’ on TV.
The Beatles: ‘Free As A Bird’.
OK, so it’s no ‘Penny Lane’ or ‘Hey Jude’, but it is a new single by THE BEATLES.
Seemed important at the time, seems more important now.
I can think of absolutely nothing else about 1995!
You’ve cunningly mentally blocked out Real Love then?
Don’t want to get too anoraky but that came out the following year.
Always preferred it actually.
Come on, @deramdaze – don’t let vulgar fact get in the way of a good zinger…
Here is some stuff I got together for a Britpop article a couple of years ago.
In the news…
> Government’s House of Commons majority down to five by year-end; Tories’ power at Westminster weakened by defections and by-election defeats
> Princess of Wales gives revealing interview to reporter Martin Bashir; Diana discusses adultery, depression and bulimia in “Panorama” documentary
> Race riots break out in Brixton after death of black man in police custody
> Barings Bank collapses after $1.4bn losses by rogue trader Nick Leeson
> BBC begins digital radio broadcasting from Crystal Palace transmitter
> US president Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland
In popular culture…
> James Bond back in cinemas after 6-year gap, with Pierce Brosnan as 007
> Blur beat Oasis in “Country House” vs “Roll With It” race for no.1 spot
> Julie Goodyear leaves cast of “Coronation Street” after 30 years
> “Bridget Jones” column makes debut in “The Independent”
> Manic Street Preachers star Richey Edwards disappears
> Robbie Williams quits Take That; Cliff Richard knighted
In sport…
> Eric Cantona banned for eight months for kung-fu kick on spectator
> Blackburn Rovers claim Premier League crown; Everton win FA Cup
> Frank Bruno becomes WBC world heavyweight boxing champion
> Pete Sampras wins third successive Wimbledon men’s singles title
Some key albums…
> The Beatles: “Anthology, Volume 1”
> Blur: “The Great Escape”
> David Bowie: “Outside”
> The Chemical Brothers: “Exit Planet Dust”
> Bob Dylan: “MTV Unplugged”
> Elastica: “Elastica”
> Emmylou Harris: “Wrecking Ball”
> PJ Harvey: “To Bring You My Love”
> Michael Jackson: “HIStory”
> Leftfield: “Leftism”
> Oasis: “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?”
> Pulp: “Different Class”
> Radiohead: “The Bends”
> Sleater-Kinney: “Sleater-Kinney”
> Elliott Smith: “Elliott Smith”
> Sparklehorse: “Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot”
> Teenage Fanclub: “Grand Prix”
> Tricky: “Maxinquaye”
> 2Pac: “Me Against The World”
> Scott Walker: “Tilt”
Oh, and Mandela’s Rugby World Cup – sorry, that one an important one I missed.
Windows 95 was launched.
South Africa won the rugby world cup with the president watching in a rugby shirt. Highly significant because rugby was seen as a white man’s game.
My top five albums of the year?
1. Maxinquaye – Tricky
2. To Bring You My Love – PJ Harvey
3. Me Against The World – Tupac
4. The Bends – Radiohead
5 Brown Sugar – D’Angelo
The thing I remember about Windows 95 is the Stones charging a squillion quid for about twenty seconds of Start Me Up in the advert. And the idea of advertising a computer operating system on the telly between Daz and the latest DFS sale made us feel like we were living in the future.
Good list! Maxinquaye is an absolutely superb record, still gets regular spinnage at Casa Little.
Here’s mine:
1. Liquid Swords – GZA (Kid Dynamite is spot on – it’s better than Cuban Linx)
2. Maxinquaye – Tricky
3. Method Man – Tical
4. Exit Planet Dust – Chemical Brothers (a really underrated debut record)
5. Timeless – Goldie
Also have a soft spot from albums released that year by Smashing Pumpkins, Fugazi, Pavement, Bjork, Dubstar, Raekwon, Sonic Youth, Leftfield, Spiritualized Electric Mainline, The Verve, Supergrass, Mobb Deep and Rocket from the Crypt.
I like your list a lot, @bingo-little. However, these days I’m less impressed by Goldie and wouldn’t describe as Timeless.
Timeless has aged really badly, but I still love it. I can make no objective argument for it, it simply reminds me of a time and a place, and it sounded ace at the time.
On a similar note, Me Against the World was entirely of the moment and sounds god awful now, to these ears at least.
Have you listened to it lately? I dug it out after hearing Lamar’s “interview” on To Pimp A Butterfly. I enjoyed it. The verbiage is pretty supple and the soundbed remarkably soulful!
Yep – thought it was bloody awful. I think it’s well established that you and I sometimes hear very different things in hip hop records tigs!
Us Bristol folk are to be treated this summer to an open air concert where Goldie will perform Timeless in full with a 42 piece orchestra.
I understand tickets are still available.
Blackburn Rovers win the Premier League (the first “bought” title?).
Despite losing 2-1 to Liverpool, Man Utd only draw 1-1 against West Ham (cue Fergie Rant about West Ham “trying too hard”).
To cap it all, they lost the FA Cup to Everton, hence finishing the season with nothing (ha ha ?)
A good article on why Blackburn’s title win wasn’t as bought as many recall: http://www.theguardian.com/football/when-saturday-comes-blog/2013/oct/23/blackburn-premier-league-title-earned-1995
I got married. (Well, it’s significant to me.)
Headline news that weekend was the death of Alison Hargreaves whilst descending K2. She was the first climber to scale all six great north faces of the Alps solo in a single season, and it’s recently been announced that her son (she was pregnant with him when she climbed the north face of the Eiger) has just become the first to do so in Winter. Is he tempted to have a go at K2? You betcha.
At this point it’s tempting to post a link to “Old Age Killed My Teenage Bride”. Abseil for no-one!
A quick perusal on Wikipedia found that also in 1995, the DVD format was announced and eBay was founded.
If that Cantona thing was 20 years ago then so was this, blimey Charlie!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wXmGjvtVPc
If you want to mention more about the Internet, a significant event was the launch of Windows 95 which made accessing the Internet much much easier than Windows 3.1. It was also the year that Bill Gates (rather belatedly) announced that html was going to be the language of the Web and added (a recognisable) Internet Explorer to the already released Windows 95 – most sensible people still used Netscape though!
It was also the year of a fabulous little Internet cafe in Luton opened…. but then, as proprietor, I would say that wouldn’t I?
Synchronously I was listening to the first Moby album which came out in 1995 and this is a CHOOON. I was driving over spaghetti junction in the sunshine and this just sounded brilliant.
You could also include things that we take for granted now which did not exist in 1995, such as Google (founded 1998), social media, digital downloads, smartphones etc
Smoking bans , student loans, Oyster cards
This was the big UK TV comedy hit that began in 1995. Mark Lamar’s finest moment. from the Shooting Stars Xmas Special intro of that year.
*throws up hands in despair, wags jowels vigorously*
I can’t believe I’ve got this far down the thread without anyone mentioning..
”Twas the year that Annalise Hartman (played by Kimberley Davies) was joined on Neighbours by her hotter younger sister Joanne (played by Emma Harrison).
And now I’m going to take a cold shower…
I can’t believe nobody’s mentioned Pulp yet.
Oh hang on, they have…three times.
No, sorry five times including me.
Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. I remember I’d not long been at university and made an ill advised off colour joke about it at dinner that went down very badly. Learnt something that day.
I’m actually embarrassed thinking about it now…
Was a good summer weather-wise