To miss the 90’s so much it hurts

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😫It was the best.

The Rachel green outfits post has reminded me of it all. I was 15/16/17 early-mid 90’s and it was just the best time. Just about scraped in for the times when clubs were good with house music etc, Blur vs Oasis and the whole Brit pop thing. Proper pubs with pool tables and drinking and smoking, great clothes, jobs more easily available, great music. I know we all probably hanker to the time that was our youth…but really, truly, weren’t the early-mid nineties an amazing time..freedom, no internet/mobiles..if only to go back for a bit.

I could watch an episode of This Life now and be transported back to my flatshare days…grim in so many ways, yet so influential, exciting and quite unique, as also so sociable compared to today where your flatmates are more likely to be on their phone than socialising together as a house😏
Voting for Blair in 97 was just the maddest, most exciting night- we all stayed up partying and honestly felt like we’d changed so much. There’s 90s tracks that are played today that just set off a reaction/trigger a feeling in me from such a fondness of that time.

Love your post @EmmaAgain22

Oh, yes. Early 90s were the best IMO.

Voting for Blair in 97 was just the maddest, most exciting night

Wasn't it just! Seeing all those toppling Tories

Yeah definitely op, I’m glad I grew up without social media and internet in general, I miss it too

We've evolved. You just need to grow up and app

I’m 58 and I agree. The 21st century hasn’t been as much fun as I expected after the 90s.

Agree

Early 90s was bad economically but mid-late 90s was a great time to be in the UK. Peaceful and prosperous. Blair was a fucking disaster internationally but that administration's domestic policies, in those early years, were really very good.

Wider Europe was doing ok too, by late 90s. Communism long gone, Dayton accord in ex Yugoslavia, Germany reunited, Ireland booming and NI Good Friday Agreement. It was all very positive really.

But, things were brewing. Your man who killed that journalist and very likely had a hand in the WTC attacks, he was radicalised via Mujahedeen/Afghanistan after his experience in the Balkans, others also. Plus all these neo Nazis you see in Russia and places like Ukraine etc, they also got a real hold on the Eastern region due to the balkan wars.

So maybe it was just that we didn't realise what was afoot. It was still nice though and certainly more stable and prosperous than we have now.

well into my 20s by then so could really appreciate how my vote mattered. It set the bar high though, I’ve never felt the same again about voting😒 (I still have copies of the newspapers from the late editions with ‘out’ plastered across the Tory faces, a proper inky paper to read, not scroll and be gone)

LOL I see your "OUT" stamps and raise you my copy of Marxism Today where Blair has "WRONG" stamped on his forehead.

I'm not nostalgic for that time. Neither is anyone else who found school difficult.

I don’t really miss the music or the fashion of the time per se - I mean I liked them don’t get me wrong but I don’t have nostalgia for the styles exactly - but I really miss more like the way of life around those things I think. It feels like there were still fewer songs and they would stick around at the top of the chart longer and so then loving a song collectively felt like it meant something a bit different than it does now, and you could spend hours appreciating each thing and just reading the booklet from an album and you could swap with friends and make a mixtape etc… And I much preferred the state of technology including phones and the internet back then - that all started out so well! And before the destructive influence of social media and 24 hour news, we weren’t having constant pointless culture wars and things.

I found school very difficult ... I left school in 1990 😃

ive just been reminiscing about my misspent youth in the late 80s early 90s. There were around 10 nightclubs in my small northern city and almost each one catered to a different scene so somewhere for the casuals, somewhere for the goths and alternatives, a couple for the ravers, 1 for the indie kids, 1 for live music people…. It’s all just bars now with no alternative scene at all. Everyone just looks the same and I feel sorry for young people now because it doesn’t seem anywhere near as much fun.
I worked in a couple of nightclubs when I was late teens early twenties and had the time of my life. Clothes were so exciting, sometimes we’d dress up in 60s style sequinned dresses with trainers or platform boots and sometimes just wear flared jeans and a shirt, nobody gave a fuck. It was ace!

"I found school very difficult ... I left school in 1990 😃"

Fair enough. I started proper adult life after uni in the naughties and I have better memories of that time.
I still appreciate progress with technology though. it's obviously good to have all this information at the tip of our fingers.

I almost feel homesick for the 90’s. Life made sense, I could do anything….the music, films, tv, fashion, friendships…I would love to go back.

I'm 28 and was a teenager in the late 2000s and my husband is 42 and was a teen the same time as you op.

When we talk about being teens there is no comparison, the 90s sounded so fun and I'm honestly heartbroken I'll never get to experience it. The 2000s was a pretty crap time to be a teen, major recession so couldn't really afford live music or cheap holidays, crap fashion, shit TV and music, jobs were hard to come by, the start of social media and smart phones...

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We'll probably miss today in a couple decades

I still appreciate progress with technology though. it's obviously good to have all this information at the tip of our fingers.

It's something I have really mixed feelings about. The internet pre-1995 was a marvellous place - populated mainly by geeks like me. If it could only have stayed like that on a social level. I do agree the wealth of information is mostly a good thing; although part of me misses going down to the reference library to look things up. In a way, knowledge felt more valuable when it was hard-won.

I was 15 in 1997 and that's basically when I stated going out partying etc, pubs, clubs. Everyone was out, everyone seemed to be in a goo mood. And as we've said, no cell phones to capture every bloody moment.

Cheap holidays abroad, the best music, 90s dance and britpop, I think top of the pops was still on too. Anyone remember Don't Forget your Toothbrush? Tons of random stuff like that that I miss.

When we talk about being teens there is no comparison, the 90s sounded so fun and I'm honestly heartbroken I'll never get to experience it.

Don’t be too heartbroken, you wouldn’t have your eyebrows now if you’d lived through it. Wax and pluck until there was maximum one, maybe two strands left above each eye…😄

Some is just age / nostalgia but yeah I grew up and graduated in a time of relative prosperity and that was better. The city I live I. Had a fabulous club and live music scene: the former is largely gone and the latter decimated.

Love most of the technology improvements. Social media is mixed, but so many little things have improved. Definitely don’t miss smoke filled venues one bit.

I loved the 90s, but I do think everyone loves the era when they were late teens/early 20s.
My boyfriend at the time had snogged Donna from Elastica before we got together!

I'm going to the IoW festival this year to see Pulp. I last saw them at Glastonbury in 1995.

YANBU!

I want to go back to the 90s!