To want the 90s back?

[JulianFawcettMP]

I know I am of course. It can't happen and I'm so grateful for that time but I miss it. I want to go clubbing without looking like a dodgy old person and dance to the verve and the chemical brothers

Yes 1995 to 2005..

Apart from a series of hot but arseholeish boyfriend's, the 90s were fab, raves, selling vegi good at Glastonbury, Grunge, I had a blast. Went out last night to a House music night, was delighted to see loads of younger folks grooving to 90s type House, with a smaller cohort of older ex-ravers. Feel crippled today but it was fun to lose myself in dance music again.

I want to go to a gig and get thoroughly sweaty and come out into the cold night air and talk about it all the way home then lie in bed with my ears still ringing so that I can't sleep.

We went to see Suede literally this week. Was a great night with loads of 90s energy. It can be done. Mind you, we’ve aged with them, there’s no getting being in your 20s back.

Life wasn't perfect in the 90s but it was bloody close. A great time to be a teen. I miss the 80s too. A high point for being a young child, carefree and out playing all day. Everything is so over organised and staged now. Life for young people is an endless Truman Show. I feel for them.

@Changes17 I did exactly the same! Didn't drink but couldn't sleep for hours after. Now totally going through a midlife crisis by looking for more gigs to go to 😁

@Brieandme It was a great gig, don’t know how Brett Anderson keeps up the pace. Pulp are touring in the nearish future, I believe.

I had my first mortgage in the 1990s - can't remember what the interest rate was, but the monthly repayments were half what I'd been paying to rent a smaller house beforehand.

Does help that we no longer need babysitters. I think that’s an underrated big turning point in the lives of 50 (or 40) somethings.

@Changes17 I've seen that Pulp are playing Hyde park, I'm not sure they'd do a full tour of 2000 capacity venues though. Suede definitely seem happier to work harder in that regard. Suede are one of the few bands from the nineties where I like the new music as much as the old, most of the others would only be for the nostalgia I think. (Also some 90s indie was SO bad - not just in terms of taste, but technically/musically/production bad! For a while I think they let any four lads with guitars into a recording studio)

@Brieandme sadly not. Our nearest Pulp stop will be Cardiff, I believe, which is where I originally saw them circa 1996. Sadly arenas are massive and tickets expensive.

Ah, you have to have a fair number of duds to get some great bands. It certainly seems to be a lot harder to break through these days. Easier to get the initial exposure, thanks to the internet, but harder to make money out of it.

Miss the 90s so much. Indie/alternative/ rap crossover music, techno/trance late nights, sneaking into festivals for free, cheap drugs, hot boys with long hair, army trousers and combat boots, £1 a pint, smoking, dirt cheap tattoos, nose rings, labour winning in 97…..

I was - I was properly grown up! The music of the 90s passed me by but even with a mortgage at (briefly) 15% I felt on top of the world. Life and work had so many possibilities. I worked hard, drove a fast car, had lovely clothes and fab holidays.

... and a (half-starved) body to die for. Perfumes actually smelled of something, nails and lips were matching Rouge Noir inspired by whassername in Pulp Fiction.

Great times.

@Dotjones

"Blair" didn't take double jeopardy away. Are you completely unaware of the case that drove that change in the law?