Does everyone just think the decade they were teenagers was the best?

[Daisychainsandglitter]

Sat here with DH after having a few drinks watching top of the pops which I'm sure I probably watched as a child.
I was born in 84 and I look back at the 1990s/early 00's with such nostalgia. Sometimes I just long to go back to those care free days listening to great music (mainly rock and indie in my case). I hear of ppl born in different decades saying the same about the decade they came into their late teens and early twenties being the best. Am I right in saying the 90s were the best or was there a better decade to be alive?

My kids think the decade I was a teen in was the best, the 80s. More safety, no social media pressure and great music. I have brsinwashed agree with them

Everyone thinks their teenage and early adult years are the best. It's all new. You don't realise that band you love sounds exactly like a band twenty years ago. You don't realise that film you love is full of cheap emotional tugs and cliched characters because you've not seen them in a million other films yet. You have the most open conversations with your lovers and friends because you haven't heard the same ideas a million times already. It's a time that can by definition only happen once in your life, and whatever decade it happens in is the best deacde.

Yep, never lived more vibrantly than my years at uni - was the most alive and engaged with the world I've ever felt

@Daisychainsandglitter

Sat here with DH after having a few drinks watching top of the pops which I'm sure I probably watched as a child. I was born in 84 and I look back at the 1990s/early 00's with such nostalgia. Sometimes I just long to go back to those care free days listening to great music (mainly rock and indie in my case). I hear of ppl born in different decades saying the same about the decade they came into their late teens and early twenties being the best. Am I right in saying the 90s were the best or was there a better decade to be alive?

@Daisychainsandglitter

Also born in 84, I’m very much an indie/rock can find Muse, kings of Leon, all that stuff on my playlist, I loved Matt Bellamy back in the day with a couple shots of aftershock haha!

I’d sell my soul right now to be back in my local drinking haunt, probably necking a Smirnoff Ice listening to a live band after finishing my shift at Woolworths.

Yanbu. The 90s were great. Great music, great hair, and some great clothes. Brit pop, Brit Rock - there was so much optimism! New Labour, Good Friday Peace Agreement, 9.11 hadnt happened.

If you dont believe me watch Derry Girls.

No I’d like t have been born 10 years earlier and been a teen in the 80’s/early 90’s.

I’m 54 and still love my 80s music,

Nope. I was a teen in the 80's never did see the point of all the screaming other girls did over musicians.
Although clothes were a huge improvement after the 70's.

I think life peaked in 1997.

@Spongebobsquarefringe I remember those days so well although I'm not sure how I managed to neck back those aftershocks at the time- other than the blue ones they were vile!

I was born in 84 too op. And I think the 90s/00s were the best. My teenagers listen to "my music" which is hip hop,r&b and when I hear them playing it in they're rooms singing they're little hearts out I could burst with pride I'd hate to be a teenager in this generation. So much horrible and nastiness.

@Daisychainsandglitter they were awful...absolutely grim. Ahhh I bet we would have been great drinking, sharing chips after missing the night bus home friends, probably singing wooooooaaahhhhhh your sex is on fire at 3AM tripping over a bin. What a time to be alive!

@justleavemebe I’d hate to be a teen now too, we definitely had a good teenage time, I remember discovering text messages lol

I totally agree- I feel so nostalgic for it all!! You and I would have made good drinking partners @Spongebobsquarefringe
@justleavemebe I totally agree I would hate to be a teenager in this day and age!

The things my girls show me of people being bullied online is horrendous. Some girl on tictok applying fake tan was getting so much stick and being accused of black fishing the names she was being called was just vile.

Much preferred my days, getting drunk in a field somewhere with my bottle of 20/20 and 10 embassy number 1

Loved my teenage years (90s). I agree with a PP that there was a lot of optimism with New Labour, Brit Pop (music I didn't actually like), university was free...No social media. Mobiles were only just taking off, I still remember using telephone boxes to call friends

It seems like an absolute lifetime ago and a different world entirely. I suppose it was as it was pre 9/11 which brought the end of a lot of freedoms we took for granted.

I feel very sorry for teenagers today.

I think this is true but stopped after the 00s. I was a teenager until 2010, and I most certainly do not think that decade was the best and neither do my peers.

My parents were teenagers in the 80s and swear that was the best decade, my uncles grew up in the 70s and say the same about that. The 90s seemed pretty good for teenagers too.

Crikey, I feel old !

I turned 13 in 1979, the beginning of .......the Margaret Thatcher years, strikes, etc. YTS schemes.......

Good job the music helped us through.

I wonder what Maggie would have done with the virus lockdown stuff.....

I was a teenager in the 00s and I don't think it was anything special.

I'm even older than you @CarnageAtTheGardenCentre (great username!) and turned 13 in 1977.

I still listen to music from the late 70s and early 80s.

Mine would be the late '00 to mid '10s and IDK, but probably not.

I grew up basically as social media became more recognisably what it is now, I was 15 when IG started, and I'm glad I'm not 13 now!

Ten years earlier and I might have been in with a better chance of buying a house and had a bit of a less noisy teenage-hood.

I'm much older than anyone on here by a mile. I was a teenager in the 60s, now that was the best time to be young. I wouldn't change it for anything.

@DramaAlpaca

I'm even older than you *@CarnageAtTheGardenCentre* (great username!) and turned 13 in 1977.

I still listen to music from the late 70s and early 80s.

I still listen to music from the late 70s and early 80s.

Me too @DramaAlpaca, they don’t make records like they used to 😂😂

No. I was a teen in the early 2000s and it was way below expectations of the fun I saw 90s teens having!

@Iwasonceabrownie

I'm much older than anyone on here by a mile. I was a teenager in the 60s, now that was the best time to be young. I wouldn't change it for anything.

I wouldn't change it for anything.

Good to hear @Iwasonceabrownie. What memories do you have that stand out in the 60s?