Page 3 | To be nostalgic for the 90s

overwork · 25/06/2021 22:49

Haha also watching Glastonbury and feeling exactly the same - and yes, it probably is just the way that all older people look back on their youth. Can't tell you how lucky I was to grow up when phones could only text though, social media would have been awful for me as a teen.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 25/06/2021 22:49

I was 11-21 in the 90s. Perfect age!

maxbabi · 25/06/2021 22:51

@BashfulClam

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

Gosh yes completely agree. Like saying goodbye to a friend uou never see again

Arcadia · 25/06/2021 22:51

I'm feeling nostalgic too watching Glasto 1998! I know the words of every song!
I was 24 then and had a fantastic group of friends that I hung out with, life seems so dull now in comparison. Will I ever get that high of the excitement of a big night out again, where anything could happen? Probably not

showerbeer · 25/06/2021 22:52

I was born in 1994 but always loved the vibe of the 90s! The Glastonbury programme was great!

MrsTulipTattsyrup · 25/06/2021 22:53

I’m often nostalgic for my 1990s - university, and then moving to London and having my first career, working with a load of other bright young things and having a very good time in all ways possible. The music takes me right back to that time and place. 80s music will always be my first love, but the 90s soundtrack accompanies some of my most cherished memories.

MiaMarshmallows · 25/06/2021 22:55

Yes and it makes me sad looking back. All those good times, gone. The world is so different now.

user1471519931 · 25/06/2021 22:58

It was fucking ace

Arbadacarba · 25/06/2021 23:00

I spend every waking moment feeling nostalgic for the 90s. YANBU.

ScribblyBaller · 25/06/2021 23:16

@showerbeer

I was born in 1994 but always loved the vibe of the 90s! The Glastonbury programme was great!

That means you are 7 years old and should therefore be tucked up in bed.

Ihavehadenoughalready · 25/06/2021 23:17

When I'm feeling nostalgic for the 90's I watch Nirvana on MTV Unplugged.

TheMoth · 25/06/2021 23:18

Is not actually the 90s though, is it? It's your youth. Same reason my dad pines for the 60s. It wasn't actually better, but it was YOUR heyday and YOUR excitement. I buzz more off the memories of being 16-18 than the birth of my children.

DancyNancy · 25/06/2021 23:19

Life was more simple in general terms. Less technology. I had more hope for the future . Although i felt miserable a lot then too...... if I'd known then how life would turn out......

StyleAndLasers · 25/06/2021 23:20

Yep, I also was watching Glastonbury in the 90s, and it was the DMs and jumpers in 1993 that made me cry with the nostalgia.
I was at Glastonbury 93,94 and 95 and was “entertaining” DS with constant cries of “I saw them! I was in the front row for them! Oh I remember her wearing that! Ooh, look, is that me? No it isn’t. But I had sunglasses like that.”

Waitwhat23 · 25/06/2021 23:20

Currently watching 1995: Britain's Biggest Hits on Channel 5 and it's making me soooo nostalgic. Looking back, it just seems like it was so much less pressured than it is now.

Arbadacarba · 25/06/2021 23:21

Ah, but early or late 90s?

[early early early]

LuxuryWoman2020 · 25/06/2021 23:27

@TheMoth

Is not actually the 90s though, is it? It's your youth. Same reason my dad pines for the 60s. It wasn't actually better, but it was YOUR heyday and YOUR excitement. I buzz more off the memories of being 16-18 than the birth of my children.

I'm not so sure about that. I.was 20 - 30 during that decade so quite adult at the end. I miss it like it hurts. I had a good job and a nice house and felt like it was good times. Everything changed after 9/11

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 25/06/2021 23:27

Nope the mid 80s for sure .
I was late teen/20s in the mid 80s I feel old now

Terrylovesyogurt · 25/06/2021 23:30

Love that @LadyCatStark

thefemaleJoshLyman · 25/06/2021 23:31

I watch the Channel 5 programme every week, have just created two Spotify playlists and watched some of the Glastonbury shows (will watch in full on iPlayer later). The 90s were awesome, I was 13-24, went to university, met DH.

Alex James is still hot.

TheMawisbraw · 25/06/2021 23:35

Yes yes yes I’ve been so nostalgic recently don’t know if it’s because some of fashion is coming back and my teens wear it or because I was a teenager then, the 80s were crap for me living in a council house in Glasgow, everything just felt poor and beige, the naughties were ok but I was a young mum just trying to stay afloat exhausted and the 20s have been, well you know same for everyone a bit shit and stressful so far, so yes I miss the 90s sometimes or at least being a teen

MorrisZapp · 25/06/2021 23:35

All of the shagging, none of the social media crap. Lime green and acid orange. Two Dogs lemonade. Louise Wener. Adidas worn tight.

Big Brother. Huge, banging dance anthems. My first job. Oh just bloody everything.

Jalapinot · 25/06/2021 23:36

Watching Glasto too. My heart aches for the 90s. Everything was just better and more fun. And more alive. The same way my parents feel about the 60s.

EachandEveryone · 25/06/2021 23:38

What happened to REM. That was my first Glasto experience. I bloody love that place been to everyone since.

TurquoiseDress · 25/06/2021 23:40

YANBU

Absolutely not!

I was a teenager in the 90s and I get all nostalgic for it esp when I see those programs with the hit songs from that time

Maybe it's because it was such a formative time for me but looking back it just seemed a very different time from today in many varied ways

Yes I know it's the past so it's obviously not the same...but no social media, no mobile phones (they were just coming in), internet picking up but in its infancy.

No hours lost browsing social media sites etc and going to the library to look at books to write an essay!

I do love the 90s!