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

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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.

Cheesiest song of all time but I love this.

Dancing in the SW1 Club at 8am...

Summer of 96 was brilliant. Finished my A Levels and took the summer off before my gap year. Euros, festivals, hanging out in Brighton and London, trip to Corfu. Best summer ever.

Agree that they were great - music was at its best.
I went to uni in the early 90s, Met dh, got first jobs, had fun without responsibilities, did festivals, travelled. Obviously am looking at it through rose-tinted glasses as there were tougher times personally but on a whole prob best decade. Didn’t end well, but that was beyond my control.
Now the DCs are getting well into their teens we are def getting some of our life back in terms of freedoms - we can go out and leave them at home etc. The next excitement will be being able to leave them both overnight in a couple of years. Obv love them, but children don’t half change your life...

Agree re euro 96 and I don’t even like football! We got time off work to watch it in pub next door! I remember being round at someone’s house when we went out. Was gutting!

Loved it. Still relatively cheap housing. Young people could live in a flat share and afford a good life out drinking and eating and dancing and wearing cool clothes. Remember better weather too but not sure if that’s real or a trick of the mind.

Yeah, just may have got a bit dusty in here when I listened to this, for probably the first time in almost 20 years.

Oh Euro 96 was amazing. I remember sitting on the mall eating my sandwich watching all the Dutch fans go down to see Buck House, then back up to Trafalgar Sq. such a nice atmosphere.

Remember better weather too but not sure if that’s real or a trick of the mind

I have a definite memory of really good summers...probably just a trick like you said.

God yes the nineties was the best. Absolutely loved the music, the clubs. Just the best

I regularly get pangs of nostalgia and an almost painful desire to go back to the 90s.

97 was a vintage year for me. If you watch back box sets of 90s programmes, the fashion was fantastic too! Oh for a tartan flannel shirt....

I was 4 in 1990 and 14 in 2000 and much prefer it to being 14 to 24 between 2000 and 2010 even though I had more freedom as an adult in the middle of the 00's and went to uni.

Yes! Loved the 90s. Would go back in an instant if time travel was possible .

I love the 90s! Had the best music, films and tv shows.

I was a kid in the 90's, and love how much the pop girls and boy bands were acceptable- so many to choose from and have favourites from! Spice Girls, Boyzone, Steps, Westlife, S Club 7, Backstreet Boys, Take That... and a few more in the early 00's like Atomic Kitten and Blue. Don't have much in the way of pop groups anymore, it's not very 'cool'

I often fantasise about being able to go back in time to the 90s. I was 12 in 1990 so it really was my coming of age decade.

I was a bit young for the original raves but by the mid 90s was firmly into clubbing and pills. Best nights of my life. Still listen to 90s house regularly.

And the 97 election. First time I could vote, voted labour, sat up with uni mates watching the landslide. Incredible. It felt like there was so much optimism in the 90s.

I think the fact it was pre social media made it special. There wasn't the pressure on us that there is on girls nowadays...nobody spent that long getting ready to go out, and not much photographic evidence remains of what we got up to!

You are most definitely not BU OP! I thank God I was a teenager in the 90s. Even though I am now a fully fledged grown up with wonderful children/good job/lovely DH/nice home etc. my teenage years in the 90s will always be the best years of my life.

Yep, bought a house for a year's wages, the music, the optimism, the coolness the later half of the 90's was very good for me.

YANBU!

There were some bands and people on popular culture who were either manufactured, from public school or both.

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

Yes! This! I finished my GCSEs in summer 96 and was on holiday for 3 months before starting A Levels. Pub. Parties. Barbecues. Football. Beach. Park. Friends. Romances. Best days of our lives.

yy a million times to the optimism.

There was such a sense that good times were just on their way. Now everything is so depressing.

Yes OP!

Britpop, grunge and Jordan Catalano from My So Called Life were particular highlights.

90's R&B was/still is great.
Easy, cool, feel good vibes, sunshine beats and you could just get right into it when bopping around. I remember a person could just dance to music without wondering if they looked like a dick. Just grooving for the love of it. Does anyone know what I mean? I can't really explain it. A lot of Music is so angry now. I still like watching my movies of yesteryear.

I was at uni from 1990-1997. Damn good decade. 1998 was a bit shit but then I moved in with DH and we had all this disposable income and a great social life and freedom. Then the millennium struck and mortgage, marriage and kids put the tin lid on my life.
I listen to a lot of 90s indie and reminisce. In fact, I reminsced so much that I moved back to my university city.

Oh God, the memories this thread is bringing back. I love that 2nd tune choon you posted OP, I remember bouncing to it many times.