Daily Archives: September 30, 2010

Nostalgia Week: We Had A Cold War Too, Y’Know.

  By Lisa McInerney | September 30, 2010 - 2:00 pm | Music, Nostalgia Week, Random Whimsy, The Culch
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In a case of not so much looking back through rose-tinted glasses as looking back through a tose-tinted kaleidoscope, Bloc Party, in their track Hunting For Witches, referenced the transition from 90s to Noughties with the lyric “90s: optimistic as a teen / Now it’s terror…” And while the 90s was indeed a great decade to grow up in, with a slap bracelet on every wrist and a poster of Lee Sharpe on the inside of every locker door, I feel that Bloc Party are glossing over the terrible conflict of the summer of 1995, a scuffle that divided best mate from best mate and brought the spirit of football hooliganism into what was previously a foppish kind of hobby. I refer, of course, to the Blur vs Oasis War, the lowest, nastiest point of which was the release of Blur’s Country House and Oasis‘ Roll With It on the … There’s more →

Ad Nauseam: Poll – Your Favourite Guinness ad here

  By Éilish Burke | September 30, 2010 - 1:09 pm | Adverts, The Culch
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It struck me today that I let Arthur’s Day pass by last week without theming Ad Nauseam accordingly. How remiss of me, dear readers. Let me make amends by dedicating this weeks post to the black stuff. Now, everyone knows that Guinness have been producing advertising par excellence for the best part of 80 years, ever since the days of the iconic posters created by John Gilroy featuring steel-beam carrying workmen, toucans, seals and of course, the proclamation that “Guinness is Good for You”. I know that my favourite part of the Guinness Storehouse is the section dedicated to their advertising (coming in a close second is the cooperage exhibition which is strangely hypnotic) and I’ve spent hours trawling through the brilliantly archived displays there. The brand are famous for making epic, big budget, “big idea” TV ads and boy do they win awards for it. In fact, their 1999 … There’s more →

Competition, Nostalgia Week Day 4: Top 30 Hits - The Best Radio Jams of the 90s

  By Ronan | September 30, 2010 - 10:30 am | Competitions, Music, Nostalgia Week, The Culch
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You remember it, don’t you? Back before the days of Sky Digital, NTL, Chorus, and all of them, there was just one place to find music on television, RTE’s Top Thirty Hits. It counted down both the singles and the albums charts, as well as the dance chart. Oh the dance chart… However, for this part of nostalgia week, I’m not looking back at Scooter or Darude, but instead the 30 best radio jams of the nineteen-nineties. Beware, there is some woeful songs coming up. But they do bring back great memories. You’re going to have to hit “Play” on them all though. [Sorry I couldn't get all the videos, but at least a live version is better than watching a ball with the album cover on it for three minutes. And like every good top 30 list, there's 32 entries.]

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

  By brogen | September 30, 2010 - 9:30 am | Movies & TV, The Culch
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In 2001, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is released from prison. Gekko served eight years for insider trading, and when he walks through the gates of the prison, he is alone. Seven years later, as the global economy takes a nosedive, young Wall Street trader Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), learns first hand the devastating effect a drop in share price can have on those invested in a company. Moore teams up with his fiancée’s estranged father, Gekko, to not only take revenge on the company that destroyed his mentor, but to also warn the world of the upcoming financial crisis. It seems that releasing a sequel to films years after the first one is something that Hollywood is banking on for success… If you’ll pardon the pun. Toy Story 3 was released 11 years after it’s predecessor, Tron: Legacy is on the way, 28 years after Jeff Bridges first ventured into … There’s more →

Nostalgia Week: What was on the soundtrack to your youth?

  By johnmfinn | September 30, 2010 - 8:59 am | Music, Nostalgia Week, Radio, Random Whimsy, Soundtracks
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Can you remember what song was playing during your first kiss? How about during your first break-up? The truth is music has the power to dredge up long buried memories like no other medium so we want you to tell us some of your favourite songs and what memories you associate them with. If we get enough suggestions we’ll put together a little playlist, a sort of soundtrack to our collective naval gazing. To get the old grey matter warmed up here are some songs that will forever remind me of my own teenage years.