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To Think the 90's Were The Best Decade We've Had?

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A4710Rider · 20/04/2018 10:50

Certainly from a personal point of view;

Real music with guitars and drums and everything.

The emergence of dance music.

Mobile phones hit the market place (it made it so much easier to meet people you met previously - instead of having to ring their house number and speak to their Dad)

We were even allowed to choose our own email address. [email protected]!

TV was great, as were the Films

The 80's were just depressing and the 00's were a non event.

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DontCallMeCharlotte · 20/04/2018 12:22

It is just me but was England just an amazing place in be during Euro 96 - it felt like the country was on a month long party in the Sun?

It's probably just me.

Definitely not just you. Euro 96 was a very special few weeks. I was living and working in London during the 90s (my twenties/thirties). I bloody loved it.

I have about 250 CDs and I'd say 200 of them were bought in the 90s.

Definitely my favourite decade (although I would never call the 80s drab - tasteless, but not drab). I really wouldn't want to be young now.

TheElementsSong · 20/04/2018 12:24

Agreed OP, the 90s was the best decade!

(I'm guessing everybody on this thread is in their 40s Smile)

Queenofthedrivensnow · 20/04/2018 12:27

Completely agree. I'm 38. My teens in the 90's were following oasis around the country and loving Brit pop I had amazing teens what a fab time

Queenofthedrivensnow · 20/04/2018 12:30

First memory that I thought of was bring at mount universe at Alexandra palace on nye in either 95 or 96 dancing to orbital with a fairground. Them were the days!

KenDoddsDadsDog · 20/04/2018 12:30

Best by a mile , especially mid 90s. Best of times . University in 1991 , year abroad , first job , mobile and met my husband right at the end.

PinkyBlunder · 20/04/2018 12:32

Agreed.

I had my childhood in the 90s. Flipping excellent Grin

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A4710Rider · 20/04/2018 12:32

What makes me smile about this thread is how many ravers we have here.

Anyone got any veras?

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Baubletrouble43 · 20/04/2018 12:35

I spent a lot of time in the 90s off my face in a field listening to dance music till the sun came up/the police arrived . It was fabulous.

mashpot · 20/04/2018 12:36

I get emotional about the 90s. I did my A-Levels in ‘97 and that long summer afterwards before uni was the best.

Baubletrouble43 · 20/04/2018 12:36

Rider I have the shamen on my kindle and have a nostalgic listen when everybody is out occasionally! Lovely!

Ozgirl75 · 20/04/2018 12:37

Totally agree. Finished school and went to University in 1997. Men and women got on well, I felt like I could do any job I wanted. Also loved the music, London was so much fun - a bit grungy but not totally dangerous but not the preserve of the super rich either.

The future seemed really bright and exciting and the UK felt like the centre of the world with loads of great stuff going on.

Being a kid in the 80s was great too - I really think that anyone born in the late 1970s lived through a pretty cool 20 year period.

tigerrun · 20/04/2018 12:38

The 90's were just bloody brilliant - I turned 18 in 1990 and the next ten years were a blur of parties, raving, travelling, having fun, career flying, spare cash, sex, sunshine, holidays, hanging out with friends, freedom, spontaneity...amazing stuff, loved every minute of it!

I suspect it may have been because I was carefree, fun, young, slim and smiley and gorgeous as opposed to the fat, middle aged, haggard, perpetually skint and sleep deprived mess I am now!!

So, I think it might be that being young and fun is the best, not the era!? Saying that, raving between 1988 and 1993 was pretty fucking incredible..

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A4710Rider · 20/04/2018 12:45

Most memorable tunes anyone?

Paul Elstak - You can make the Sky Turn Purple (Luv you more)

Camisra - Let me Show You.

....Never, ever fails to put a smile on my face.

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A4710Rider · 20/04/2018 12:45

Nice one Bauble ha ha!

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TheElementsSong · 20/04/2018 12:51

It wasn't just the "fun stuff" that made the 90s great, was it? Social stuff, politics, science, the arts, all seemed bursting with positivity and promise.

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A4710Rider · 20/04/2018 12:52

the 90's - When our Society Peaked. :)

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MrPan · 20/04/2018 12:54

Crumbs!!

90s was the most sterile decade eva! Brightened only by Oasis.

You lot have a very low bar.

bellsbuss · 20/04/2018 12:56

Loved the 90's , was really into the rave scene and had some amazing nights dancing until the sun came up. I was quite wild tbh, I look back now and I seem unrecognisable to how I am now

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A4710Rider · 20/04/2018 12:56

You've obviously never tried a £15 dove then mate.

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LadyRoughDiamond · 20/04/2018 13:00

Bloody loved the 90s. Amazing uni years, first job in London in '97. The music, the clubs, the friends. It was amazing.
I also remember feeling really happy and proud to be British - London was a fantastic place to be and the world was full of possibilities!
Off to find some nostalgia on Spotify!

Leafyhouse · 20/04/2018 13:00

Don't forget Bridget Jones - God, that was the funniest movie ever. Went and saw it 3 times I think. The sequels were rubbish in comparison.

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A4710Rider · 20/04/2018 13:02

Off to find some nostalgia on Spotify

This!

Let's roll out the nostalgia barrel people, tell me your favourite tunes.

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LucilleBluth · 20/04/2018 13:02

Absolutely. I went from 10 in 1990 to 20 in 2000. I have absolute 90s on my car radio permanently, I drive around reliving the golden era.

I had my hair curly, wore tea dresses and doc martens, listened to great music.....I was obsessed with PJ and Duncan in 1994 until I came alive and found Kurt and Courtney. It was an amazing, optimistic time.

DryHeave · 20/04/2018 13:03

I too have very fond memories of the summer of 1996. I thought it was just me.

fopper · 20/04/2018 13:11

I loved the 1990s! I left school in 92, went to 6th form college - which was fantastic - and then university. Met boys, had parties, smoked weed, went to my first festivals. And then in 1999 started working for a digital/internet company...very exciting at the time. I had a young boss, probably the same age as me, and the oldest person in the office was 26. He seemed old then!

But the best thing was the music. I listened to a lot of the American bands. Not just the Seattle scene but other US 'alternative' acts and a handful of British ones too, as well as a shedload of great albums from the 1960s and 1970s courtesy of my dad. Happy times. Actually, we watched "No Nirvana" on YouTube last weekend.

I also second what the poster said about Euro 96. It was just fabulous! I remember listening to Chris Evans on the radio a lot too during that summer; I quite liked him.