To be nostalgic for the 90s

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The 90s had an air of possibility about them. There was a big positive move towards LGBQT rights, and women's rights. Yes the 80s had better music, but 90s music was fantastic too.

Eh. I remember the 90s, I was 4-14. I hated the fashion and the music! I was gutted I missed the 80s, I feel nostalgic for that decade even though I don’t remember itx

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Absolutely the best era. I was at uni in the very early 90s, best times, best music.

Very happy to report my teen DD is a 90s girl at heart, she was born in the wrong era. Watches all the 90s films, goes to gigs by 90s bands, wears the clothes(can't beat a band T). In fact she's a bit peeved that the clothes have now come back in and everyone else is starting to look like her!

I'm the same watching Glastonbury and thinking back to euro 96. Best era so many memories so miss those days!

It did feel like a positive, hopeful time. I was 6-16 and honestly felt like I had lots of opportunities ahead of me. Now, at 37, I feel as if I’ve not lived that life I though I would!

Britpop and cool cymru were the soundtrack to my youth. Buying melody maker and NME and writing in to request a poster! Gigs for a tenner and cheap drinks. Oh, now I’m going to make a playlist!

I was looking on Spotify at the Top 100 British chart songs for each year in the 80s and 1987 was certainly very Stock Aitken Waterman heavy but by 1988/89 the charts had changed quite dramatically, house music was exploding, Soul II Soul, Technotronic,

SO MUCH GOOD MUSIC IN THE 90s.

Yep Brit pop, pop, drum & bass, dance, garage. I went to some brilliant raves.

I feel like Britpop as a movement was fun but only small number of bands from that era hold up today. I think American indie music of that era better stood the test of time.

But amazing, amazing dance music from the 90s

But amazing, amazing dance music from the 90s

Yep.

Best times of my life 💜 18 in 1996..best years were 91-98, specifically 94/95…the music, fashion, freedom..happy, happy days..if only we could go back.

@Terrylovesyogurt

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Absolutely the best era. I was at uni in the very early 90s, best times, best music.

Very happy to report my teen DD is a 90s girl at heart, she was born in the wrong era. Watches all the 90s films, goes to gigs by 90s bands, wears the clothes(can't beat a band T). In fact she's a bit peeved that the clothes have now come back in and everyone else is starting to look like her!

@Terrylovesyogurt your DD would get on very well with my DS! He’s a full on 90s skater boy, listens to punk rock and watches Friends on repeat. He’s basically me in boy form, 20 years later!

Brit pop, indie, house music..the clubs and all that went with it…all so good

I just watched Glastonbury in the 90s and now I'm watching 1995 on Channel 5. It was when I got into music. I was 18 in 1995. Very nostalgic.

Everything felt so optimistic then. Like there was nothing stopping us from making the world an amazing place to live.

9/11 was such a turning point. I wonder what our lives would be like if we hadn't endured everything that came about as a direct result of that attack. Would we be on our way to solving climate change as part of a liberal and fair society?

It's weird how it did change in the 00s, we also had the 08 decline.

I was 21-31 and I found the 90s brilliant (prefer 80s music but being a teen in the 80s was miserable with all the nuclear war, AIDS and Thatcher stuff) - my mistake was in thinking things were going to continue to 'only get better'. In fact, nothing's been as good since.

I don't think decades have been as good since but unsure if that's teenage optimism.

Watching the glasto coverage is great, but literally every generation thinks this You are all turning into your mother's "in my day...."

Early 90s. Great music, great clubs and great disco biscuits

I loved the 90s. The music still makes me so nostalgic. I loved Britpop and grunge. It’s the decade I discovered Radiohead and Take That. I was a teenager and have so many memories.

I listened to a documentary about Euro '96 the other day and it made me so nostalgic. I was a student that summer and it was amazing. The music was fantastic and there was a real sense of optimism. Maybe everyone feels like that about the Era they are young but I think, like the 60s, in the 90s it felt like it coincided with lots of positive social change.

I feel almost homesick for the 90’s for a home I can’t return to.

Absolute radio 90's is my go to music station, until they put Alanis Morrisette on again. So cringy I used to listen to that crap.
Nostalgia for my teenage years definately. Never really liked 80s music.