This “what were you like in the 90’s” trend has made me realise one thing

AliasGrape · 22/03/2026 14:31

I have a DD named Iris and I hate when people think it’s because we loved the song so much we named her that, which has happened more often than I’d have expected. The song did not factor into that decision at all.

ClafoutisSurprise · 22/03/2026 14:26

I had never heard of this, but when I played it I recognised it. I listen to 90s music regularly, I was a teenager then and yet until this thread this song had obviously made no impression whatsoever on my conscious mind. An anti-earworm.

It's boring but somehow just lively enough so that not even its boringness registers.

SurvivalInstinctsOfABakedPotato · 22/03/2026 14:08

Love it. But then I still look and act like it's the 90s 😂

Doingtheboxerbeat · 20/03/2026 21:50

I hate ballads but love this, sorry 😐.

I was listening to Fade Into You by Mazzy Star , which is another fav of mine from the time (and also features in millions of soundtracks) and my old mum screamed at me to turn this shit off 😳 rude .

So I won't have that as my funeral song 😖. .

UnctuousUnicorns · 20/03/2026 21:32

Dersie · 20/03/2026 20:52

For some reason it posted twice, not sure what I did. I havent even had a G&T urt either! Very odd.

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Could be worse, sometimes you see seven or eight or more identical posts in succession. 😅 I think they don't always show immediately, so the poster thinks they haven't gone through successfully, so keeps trying, then whoosh! the whole load appears, almost all at once. 😅

Dersie · 20/03/2026 20:52

UnctuousUnicorns · 20/03/2026 19:47

You just said that! ☝️

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For some reason it posted twice, not sure what I did. I havent even had a G&T urt either! Very odd.

UnctuousUnicorns · 20/03/2026 19:47

Dersie · 20/03/2026 19:44

Far too ballady, not enough indie for me, hated it then, and even more so now. Lead singer was quite fit though.

You just said that! ☝️

Dersie · 20/03/2026 19:44

Far too ballady, not enough indie for me, hated it then, and even more so now. Lead singer was quite fit though.

UnctuousUnicorns · 20/03/2026 15:14

FirstCuppa · 20/03/2026 14:47

You've all reminded me of some classic 90's pop/rock and I also realised I routinely deliberately changed words! So, and I realise some of this is not PC so apologies, we would sing Asians instead of Angels for Robbie's song and any others (City of Asians etc etc), You're Gormless instead of gorgeous, Just a Little Thrush instead of Crush.

That's reminding me of the James Blunt spoof:

You're gullible, you're gullible, it's true.
You saw my face, on a CD case,
And you knew just what to do.
Now you own a coaster too.

😅

FirstCuppa · 20/03/2026 14:47

You've all reminded me of some classic 90's pop/rock and I also realised I routinely deliberately changed words! So, and I realise some of this is not PC so apologies, we would sing Asians instead of Angels for Robbie's song and any others (City of Asians etc etc), You're Gormless instead of gorgeous, Just a Little Thrush instead of Crush.

Oblivionnnnn · 20/03/2026 14:44

Oh it’s that Mumford and Sons song that’s trending just now that’s doing my head in. In fact it’s giving me A SWIRLING RAAAAAAAAGE.

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EdinaTheConfessor · 20/03/2026 14:10

I can’t believe YABU is winning. I’m bloody not!

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Thechaseison71 · 20/03/2026 14:03

EdinaTheConfessor · 19/03/2026 21:00

How much I hate Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.
I mean (controversial) I always have. But now I hate it even more.
There I said it.
Am I being unreasonable?

Very It's a great song

DoubleDoubleDown · 20/03/2026 13:46

@ThatCyanCat- You were right!. I knew quite a few of their songs. I really enjoyed the show and I'll be adding some songs to my playlist.

Dersie · 20/03/2026 13:39

Far too ballady, not enough indie for me, hated it then, and even more so now. Lead singer was quite fit though.

Lovesplasticstraws · 20/03/2026 13:36

You're Gorgeous by Babybird. Absolutely loathe it and all the pastiches of it that were around.

Grapewrath · 20/03/2026 13:27

My worst one ever is Angeis by Robbie Williams I fucking hate it

Grapewrath · 20/03/2026 13:24

I was abroad a lot in the 90s so never really heard it until 2001.
Weirdly I was in a really intense situationship and was having a meltdown about it… I put on some music without realising that my friend left the city of angels CD in my Walkman (lol) and the first song I heard was Iris, for the first time .
It was as though it had been written about that exact situation/ even some of the words said in conversations earlier that day. It was so weird.
Anyeay it’s not a song or band I’d often listen to but I love that song, for that moment in time

WonkyMirror · 20/03/2026 13:24

I hate it too, but the one that takes my most hated song is True by Spandau Ballet, ruined the 80’s!! Absolute dirge both of them.

AlexiaH · 20/03/2026 13:19

tequilam0ckingbird · 19/03/2026 21:37

it's awful and I hated it back in the 90s too.

I can't decide whether or not it's worse than Aerosmith's Don't Wanna Miss a Thing 😷

Yessss!! I’m with you on that one! I hate the Aerosmith one more 🤣

TheRuffleandthePearl · 20/03/2026 10:39

Loved the 90s but I feel Iris has become bigger now than it was even then. Dont mind it tbh. Music just felt so much more eclectic then - there was a genre for everyone.

UnctuousUnicorns · 20/03/2026 10:36

Lovesplasticstraws · 20/03/2026 10:30

Marlboro menthols had white filters and have been known to be lit at the wrong end.
Happy days.

😂 I seem to recall Consulate having a ring of little turquoise spots to indicate the filter end. Pure class.

OrlandointheWilderness · 20/03/2026 10:36

zurigo · 20/03/2026 07:34

God I miss the 90s! Those of us who lived through them never realised how good we had it (plus, I was young and gorgeous 😆)

Everything is so fucking depressing now!!!!

I realise that's not the point of this thread. I don't mind the song. But I really hate 'Sit Down' by James and 'Tubthumping' by Chumbawamba - if either of those intensely irritating songs comes on the radio I instantly turn it off.

With you on this. 😂

TheRuffleandthePearl · 20/03/2026 10:35

NormasArse · 19/03/2026 23:53

I fostered a baby when that Aerosmith song came out. He was so tiny and fragile (5weeks early). He was on 1 1/2 hourly feeds, so I used to have the music channel on low when I fed him during the night, and that became our song. I dreaded him going; I absolutely adored him.

Anyway, he’s a 26 yr old pain in the arse now ( never left us 🥰) , but I still get teary when I hear that song.

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Awww this is lovely.

NooNakedJacuzziness · 20/03/2026 10:30

I loathe all the clips that have a bleeding awful version of Let it Be playing, some rough voiced slowed down abomination. Why do they all choose the same song anyway??