To think 90s Britpop/Indie music was just so cool

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Just rediscovered one of my old Shine albums and have been bopping around the kitchen to the sounds of Blur, Oasis, Suede, Ash, Pulp, Elastica, Sleeper etc. Had kinda forgotten just how great all that music was...feeling nostalgic for the long hot summer of 1995 now.... Any other fans out there?

Yes!!! I don’t really listen to ‘new’ music, Ive got play lists of ‘6th form’ (90-92, madchester type, stone roses etc), ‘uni’ (92-95, all the Brit pop, pulp being my fave, but I’ve not seen echobelly mentioned? Give her a gun....class). I used to get MM and NME every week and scour new bands to go and see. Went to uni in Manchester so that I could go to ALL THE GIGS.

These days I don’t research new music to listen to (by new, I mean anything in last 20 years. The killers are new to me). I still love all the 90s stuff. In fact I had a BMX Bandits evening on Tuesday.

90s were totally the days of my youth (12 at the start 22 at the end) and I was very much an indie kid, although also one into dance music too.

I dunno if Britpop was cool, but it was fun for sure there were great tracks/bands and a lot of derivative crap too. And even the good bits were pretty derivative but yes, I still like a lot of it.

Ahhh loving reading these posts. I still listen to the music but don’t act or dress the same anymore (obviously). Uniform of bootcut, hispster jeans, some sort of top, usually showing midriff, glitter on my face, gazelles on my feet. What a time that was.

Haha yes some of it was quite “bandwagon” - Menswear anyone :)

Omg @echobelly. Timing.

Kolo same but Buffalos not gazelles (I’m a shortarse and loved the platform trend !)

I get so nostalgic for the mid 90’s it hurts. I was 16 in 1994 and those were the best years. I lived in London so could go to all the gigs and saw so many amazing bands - Smashing Pumpkins, Teenage Fanclub, Blur, Suede, Pavement and loads of ‘of their time bands’ too! I used to hang out in Camden when it was actually cool - and bump into all the indie celebs.

No mobile phones, no social media. Drinking cider, snogging boys, sigh....

This was my time too. I was in 6th form and was given £1 for lunch every day, which I used to spend on records, gig tickets and band t shirts. I used to tape the evening session, and Mark Radcliffe's show. I still have them actually, wonder if they still play!

Yes!!! I was a teenager of the 90s and all my guy pals were in bands who played covered so they had a brilliant choice.
Some of my favourites are Gomez - Whipping Piccadilly. Seahorses - Love is The Law. Oasis - Champagne Supernova.
Can anyone recommend any albums that have a good selection. Ive looked up a few but can find any decent ones

@DuggeesWooOOooggle & @ManicGirl I bloody LOVED Kenickie! I was so disappointed in their second album as it went in a really electronic direction but their first album was just perfect. Angry punk women shouting almost out of tune, looking shit hot and thrashing their guitars. I wanted to be them (and Saffron from Republica) when I grew up!

My footwear of choice were Acupuncture trainers (does anyone remember them) with baggy jeans and some sort of cropped top thing from Cult clothing. Of and not forgetting loads of karma bead bracelets!

Yes it was awesome - I do wonder whether every "generation" thinks that about the music of their teenage years?

Love love love 90s music. Soundtrack to my teenage years!

I think I saw Ash and Symposium 100 times!

Cult Clothing! Loved it in there.

I love this thread! Have so much nostalgia for this era in music and culture. I was only 11 in 1995 but my dad was into Oasis and soon after that I got into all of it. Suede and Pulp were my faves - loved Garbage and Catatonia, Alanis, Republica, Stone Roses, Charlatans, Ocean Colour Scene...even had a big thing for Kula Shaker for a long time Taping songs off the radio while doing my homework, feeling so cool in my Docs and velvet jacket from Camden Market. Ahhhh....

Ah acupuncture today @plump82 they had teddies with knobs on the soles , absolutely loved Gomez’s album .

People only remember the good songs from back in the day because only the good songs still get played.

There was shit loads of dross in the 90s such as Jive Bunny, Timmy Mallet, Mr Blobby, shit Euro dance etc but they aren’t played anymore so you’re left with the cream and you’ll forget the crap.

The 70s also has fuck loads of dross as did the 80s. Once this decade’s done they’ll launch a station which only plays the cream and the kids of today will be calling it the best ever music yadda yadda yadda.

Ahhh Shed Seven... my best 90's band, or was it Pulp, or Blur, or The Monday's, Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets, The Charlatans. Amazing music era and yes, very cool!

Unfinishedkitchen - every decade had a load of shit. But doesn't mean you have to come in to a lighthearted thread and put a dampner on it.

@ichifanny i had 2 pairs. Ones that fastened with toggles and the other pair had a huge Velcro A. I loved those trainers!!

I was indie kid enough that I made a fanzine with my mate (for two issues). We did actually manage to interview Mogwai, at the start of their career, who are still going!

Unfinishedkitchen oh, don't spoil it

We all know there was some crap music around, and the 90s were the height of all that boorish tits 'n' lager lad culture. BUT I was a teenager between 1992 and 1997, and what I remember most of all was how much innocent fun you could still have without being seen as "sad". I had a sleepover for my 16th birthday it didn't get much more racy than putting on some Suede records and talking about how much we fancied Brett. Getting ready for a night out involved sticking a bit of mascara on and wearing jeans and a skinny rib band t-shirt. We only bothered to take photos if it was a special occasion so as long as we looked ok under the dim lighting in whatever pub would serve us, we were sorted.

I so desperately wanted to be Shirley Manson and I tried to emulate her by putting henna in my hair and wearing big boots. I didn't quite have her swagger unfortunately.

I was a teenager and adult in the 90's. I loved all the music - I was really into techno, psytrance, hardcore rave but also liked grunge and hiphop. Loved britpop and also a bit of Euro-dance too. We used to go be tipped off by a man in the pub about 'free parties' and then hop in a car end up in a random field dancing all night in jeans, skinny top and trainers.

I was a complete music anorak in the 1980s and 1990s (but lost the plot once I had children) and I love the music from both decades with a passion! Wasn’t so much a Britpop fan, but loved stuff like Massive Attack, Leftfield, Tricky, Portishead, and also a Pulp obsessive. I’m a bit more optimistic about current music though, there is good stuff still happening, maybe it’s just not as as tribal or scene-y as it was back then (or maybe it’s just because I’m clueless and ancient now)!

There do seem to be far fewer live music venues now, and more of the mega-venues where tickets cost £££££. I loved going to the Astoria, Brixton Academy and those mid-size venues, there just don’t seem to be as many as there were, or have I imagined that?

What made it so good is that through the early 90s, music had been dominated by manufactured rubbish from Stock Aitken Waterman etc.

Then, just as those of us already over 25 were were giving up all hope, real bands writing real songs and playing real instruments came charging to the rescue. Chris Evans, in particular, provided showcases for bands on his R1 breakfast show and TFI Friday.

Happy days .

Then, a few years later, the karaoke lack-of-talent shows took over and real music died again.

Now listening to Easy 90s in Spotify.

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