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 had the most fantastic time. 'The State's in Liverpool anyone? I left my soul on that dance floor...

The State!

1980 child here. Completely agree. Sometimes I feel so nostalgic for my home town but I've come to realise it was the time, not the place. 1996-98 was a great time to be in sixth form ( and we all got served in the pub!!)

Pretty hard for us in those day, young children,. massive mortgage 5x salary, interest rates rose and rose, properties sold at a loss. Very difficult.

No internet, no social media, no instagram, no filters, no mobile phones. We are expected to be available to contact 24/7 now, people get mad if you don’t answer your phone or texts. In the 90s if you rang someone’s house phone and they weren’t in then they weren’t in. Plastic surgery was something for the rich in Hollywood, we didn’t have ‘normal’ girls walking around filled with Botox and lip fillers and hair extensions. We clubbed and raved like nobody was watching, now it’s all selfie pouts for the gram. The music was better, the economy was healthier. The uk definitely peaked in the 90s.

I agree. I left school in 97. My fave things:

miss the chenille jumpers and Heather shimmer lipstick.

watching Moesha, the secret life of Alex Mack and hanging with Mr Cooper during half terms.

white palladium shoes and polo shirts, but not those babydoll dresses!

perms and ‘sun in’.

alcopops like woodys and hooch, and being violently sick!

britpop blasting through the speakers into the beer garden. The rivalry between blur and oasis. Preferred Pulp!

watching the infamous England Argentina game in 98 in the pub, everyone smoking and drinking.

sunset beach!

‘in the mix 96’ cassette tape.

definitely the best decade.

From 1991
seems right for tonight

Me too 😊

Completely reasonable. It was somehow a much more optimistic time too. Brit Pop, Brit Art... Being a Brit was cool and modern. The music was great and more varied. The fashion was iconic and better than the 80s. Films were works of art, not exercises in propaganda. It wasn't normal to engage in introspectively dissecting your identity and who and what you were. We all had fake ID, but we still used to bundle out of the back of the nightclub if anyone thought there was an age check because it was a laugh. Young relationships weren't damaged by porn. We weren't all attached to screens all the time. Compared with teenagers now I think we had a much more fun, care-free existence. The last 25 years have gone so fast, but I am glad I was a teenager then and not now.

They were more expensive but they lasted for days - when you know, you know 🫣😉.

@Doingtheboxerbeat What were?

So glad I was a teen in the 90’s…very special times, if only we could all go back

Smartphones ruined it.

Before then, only people with computers used the internet and that, ahem, put a floor under who was on it.

I miss them as well and life was just easier and the weather better too, something has changed since Covid too which makes me get all nostalgic for the 90s.

Agree OP. What makes me saddest is that my DC will never experience anything so vibrant and free as the 90s

Also back in the 90s then songs were in the charts and at number 1 for weeks on end, not like these days, all these one hit wonders.

@ILoveeCakes. Thats so true. It was a rite of passage to go travelling around the world then and everywhere you went there would be hostels with other likeminded travellers. You swapped paperbacks and sat around talking late into the night. Now I gather travellers are just bent over their phones in their own little bubble of virtual 'friends' and people they know back home. They miss out on so much. Plus the world seemed a bit safer. Syria was beautiful and prosperous.

100 per cent this. Every generation pines for their youth but the 90s was such a water shed moment it’s hard not to feel it’s different.

No era was perfect, but when I left school (99) I meandered through a very cheap university education, got a job I wasn’t qualified for, and even on a low salary bought a flat.

If you could sum it up it’s optimism. In the 20 plus years that have followed it’s hard to argue the world has improved. Kids now are more concerned, more anxious, and home ownership is a distant dream for many.

I also bloody miss not being able to smoke in the pub.

Im crowd funding a DeLorean.