Getting pissed on red wine. Who wants to join me ?

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This week has been 💩. Dh who works in insurance is full of doom and gloom and now working again. ( on phone to Canada).

I'm just scraping 40 now but had the same sort of upbringing with the music my parents loved. David Bowie, T-Rex, Roxy Music, Meatloaf and that was just my mum. I've inherited the rock chick thing from her I think as I was part of the late-90s wave of punks going on but had a good indie side of me too thanks to the era.

My dad was a proper hippy back in the day so we still have all the vinyl: The Beatles, Yes, Cream, and some Blondie that I will one day liberate from him. He still won't let me touch his vinyl of Abbey Road LOL.

I didn't get on with Kula Shaker on shuffle. It felt wrong. So now I'm shuffling Mumford and Sons. Another one I saw live and have to say it was absolutely amazing. It was when they did the tour of two halves or whatever they called it so I saw them in Dundee Caird Hall, one of the small venues they did. I've been to plenty of gigs there but have never heard this just "wall" of music they created during that gig. It really was something else. I was up front for that too. I've got a good knack for that at any gig where I'm standing.

It's one of my regrets that I didn't go to more gigs when I was younger. In those days I had the energy but not the money - now I have the money but not the energy. When I did go in the 90s it tended to be punk bands because that's what my then-boyfriend was into - don't regret that, but if I had my time again I'd have been less worried about my savings (especially with what's happening now - my savings might well end up in the taxman's hands as I don't have children. I'd planned to blow all my dosh on fast living as a pensioner - can only hope I get there now) and would have 'lived' a bit more.

Currently on my 2nd vodka and redbull in a pint glass. Not long finished cleaning the kitchen while listening to music.

@TheMemoryLingers

Ooh, Kula Shaker and Cornershop--Nice one!

I'm nearly 50 but the mid-90's is when I moved to England to marry my English husband so those years and those songs evoke excellent memories to me.

I opened the wine (Cabernet Sauvignon) because Coronavirus panic shopping has hit the US (I've been back for 16 years) today. I don't have young children but my three grandchildren live with me and we just got wind that the schools are closed for another week. They were on spring break last week. Ugh. I have lost the urge to pretend to enjoy watching children's tv and the incessant demand for snacks is slowly eroding my will to live right now.

But now that you've put the idea of dancing around to UK songs from the 90's seems like a wonderful way to spend an evening. I want to hear Pulp, Dodgy, The Prodigy, Stereo MC's, The Divine Comedy, Blur, Elastica, Jamiroquai, and some Spice Girls for dancing!

That's genius vodkaredbull.

Pulp, Dodgy, The Prodigy, Stereo MC's, The Divine Comedy, Blur, Elastica, Jamiroquai, and some Spice Girls for dancing!

Just about sums up my time at university. Elastica - fab - going to line up 'Line Up' now

On the increasingly rare occasions I venture on a night out, I still mentally run through 'keys, money and fags'

Definitely don't give up on going.I'm definitely not the fit young thing I didn't know I was, but I've been to more gigs in the last few years than I had ever gone to in my younger days. The adrenaline has always kept me going despite having chronic pain now.

My first gig was Stereophonics in 98 and after that I didn't go to another "big" one for 4 years (I'd been to many local "underground" type things though, didn't cost as much as the community was amazing). I was rocking Alkaline Trio (up front of course) at 6 months pregnant but did have to give up the gigs for the kids for a while. As soon as I split up with their dad I had a new found freedom and happily went to any gig I could when he or my parents had them, and usually on my own. Once I met DH he loved gigs too so we have been to loads together. We had plans for a couple we fancied later this year but not sure of it now. We'd kill for tickets for the just announced Biffy tour but can't really afford it with different things right now and he's wary planning anything with me this year now, despite my health issues, he's the worrier when it comes to them. I'm more a "fuck it, you only live once" person.

They say vodka is good for cleaning lol. Im 50 and listening to Trance Anthems.

Loving that we've turned this into a (drunk) music chat tbh. And I love seeing what everyone else is listening to as well.

DH just came through from the bedroom and asked that I don't do this when he's on early shift next weekend. Must be singing along a bit more enthusiastically than I thought. Our neighbours have a new baby so I've been trying to be quiet as well.

Might have to go to the fridge again for another.

I'm on my last beer (given that my beers were preceded by wine, my head tells me that's probably just as well). I could talk about music forever. I'm in track-hopping mode and listening to REM 'Sweetness Follows' just now. Automatic for the People was pretty much on repeat play in the student union bar when I was a fresher - very poignant memories!

Me too. And this talk of the 90s has me wanting to listen to James again. Bloody loved those guys.

Should really go to bed, not seen it since Thursday morning.

My me too was in reference to going to the fridge again. But it's apt for more than that now.

James, yes! Thank you for playlist suggestion.

A bit of an obscure one but I used to love 14 Iced Bears - when I was in sixth form so a shade earlier than these. Any takers for the Bears?

After a brief scan I think I may be an elderly on this thread at 47.

I didn't stock up for Corona, my cellar is always full. I have hit the '87 Armagnac. If it gets any worse I'm ploughing into the 70's.

Music-wise, it's late 80's and early 90's house and 80's electronica for me.

Gawd I do feel old, my first gig was AHA in 1985.

Just sidestepped to 'Life on Mars' as the end of the 'Sweetness' video reminded me of the namesake TV series. No drunken music binge is complete without Bowie.

The fridge was calling, so poured myself another.

I'm nudging 46, HairyHands so you're by no means an oldster on the thread. I'd have gone to see A-ha if I'd had the initiative in the mid-80s. Scoundrel Days is one of my favourite albums because it works as a whole album IYSYIM.

I somehow have a full glass of wine and a roll and pâté (since I ate the whole baguette the other day ).

We didn't have an album on repeat in the student bar but there was ALWAYS someone who would put on the shouty song from The Wedding Singer (not me). The staff used to turn the volume down every time I got near the jukebox though.

More recent pub owners haven't learned that one yet with me. The more country music I hear, the loudest rock I try to find on the jukebox. DH is the same and we once went up to put a few songs on each and discovered we had both chosen Green Jelly's Three Little Pigs so they got a double helping of that one.

Ahh TheMemory do you remember this?

Scoundrel Days was an excellent album.