Teenager in the 90's

[KellyElly]

On the back of the 70's and 80's threads, what do you remember as a teen in the 90's. For me it's

Nirvana
Grunge
Friends
Twin Peaks - The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
Axl Rose
Christian Slater
Saved by the Bell
Bill and Ted
Fresh Prince
Snoop
House Music
Drum & Bass
Ibiza holidays
Fruit of the Loom jumpers
Nerds
My So Called Life
Friendship bands
TFI Friday
The Big Breakfast
Take That
Tekkan 2
Blur v Oasis
Gameboys
Nike Air Max
Mad Cow Disease
Euro 96
Andre Agassi
Cycling shorts

I was a teenager in the 90's! (13 in 1990 to be precise, so remember a LOT of it!)

My memories -

• Sweater Shop jumpers.
• Shell suits. I had a purple one. Dead trendy, I was
• The BodyShop, white musk perfume
• dummies in your mouth if you were out clubbing. (Not me I hasten to add, I found it weird!)

Music:

• The Shamen (Ebeneezer Goode)
• EMF You're Unbelievable
• Urban Cookie Collective - The Key, The Secret -Pulp
• Oasis
• Blur

Telly:
Men Behaving Badly
Bottom

Does anyone remember the first episode of Home and Away?

I remember it from about 3 months in, so don't remember the first episodes. There was Floss and Neville, Lance and Martin, Bobby, Carly, Steven, Tom and Pippa!

Oh yes, lovely lovely Hooch!

Just seen the references to Hooch.Was so pleased to see it making a comeback in my local pub last year, was like being 18 again!
Does anyone else remember the limited edition Hooches they brought out?!
There was a "Smooch" drink for Valentine's Day which was, I think, passion fruit flavoured. Gorgeous.
Then there was "Hoo la la" which was French based for EUFA Euro football, I do believe!
Loved Hooch

Also videos, web chatrooms, phone cards..

Web chatrooms?! Oh go away, lol that's not PROPER 90's reminiscing.
The internet was literally only just rolled out when I was at college and 17 (1994.)
If you can remember web chatrooms there's something wrong!

The internet started in the 80s, even if normal people didn't have it.

Web chatrooms were definitely around at the tail end of the 90s. I was 13 in 2002 and used them then, but they were around before then.

Yes there were definity web chatrooms in the late 90's.

And AOL - which if you put on your PC then, is probably still there now

Pogs - remember them.

Amusing ads - Pot Noodle, Hula Hoops (they're round, they're staying round and they'll be around for ever), Dime Bar (Smooth on the inside, crunchy on the outside... Armadillo's).

The Word and Eurotrash.

Oh god yeah I had thousands of blinking pogs , I was talking about them the other week and my Dsis12 thought I'd lost the plot

Does anybody remember that programme 'The Queens Nose' It was about a magic 50p

Also does anybody else remember those chocolates that came in a round tub and were filled with yogurt -actual yogurt as you got them out of the fridge and you would get a toy with them , I think they were called Frufoos or something

MD 20/20. Like vaguely fruit flavoured paint stripper...

Global hypercolour t-shirts.

yolo yes I loved The Queen's Nose. It was based on a book actually, by Dick King-Smith.

Pogs.

Pulp, Bon Jovi, Nirvana, Hole, Chumbawumba, Blur vs Oasis, Take That vs E17, Prodigy, The Shaman, Spice Girls, All Saints, Radiohead, The Verve, Scooter...so much class music!

Randomly my 11yo has been listening to Charlie says and Ebeneezer Goode and loads of other '90's choons lately. He's raiding my music collection!

This thread is MY childhood. Sounds odd now to say that in relation to the decade in which my DD was born, but I was 16 in '98 when I had her, so it is true, I guess!

Pogs. Full scale wars were launched over pogs. You don't seem to get free stuff in crisps these days.
Launch of channel 5 everywhere else but not being able to get it.
Dawson's Creek
Babysitters club books
trousers with skirts
hair mascara
spray in hair dye/glitter
white musk
candles, especially floating candles in bowls with coloured glass chips
incense sticks
byker grove
neighbours
home and away
greenday
blink 182
blur
oasis
pulp
radiohead
Manic street preachers
Stereophonics
boybands (take that, boyzone, 5ive, 911, A1 and about 100 others)
girl bands (spice girls, all saints, eternal, destiny's child)
Aqua
Steve Lamacq on the Evening session
John Peel
Radio 1 Sunday Surgery
T4

Forgot the Sweet valley high books and point horror.

Yes to all of these. I love this thread it has made me so nostalgic.
More than anything it has made me miss my friends from that era who I don't see enough of. Such an amazing part of my life.

I just realised the other day that my whole style 'ideal' is based on 90s calvin Klein ads. White tshirts and vests, lovely faded denim, tanned skin, messy naturally highlighted hair, the beach in winter and summer, all that.

I still love and use daily the old school CK perfumes, especially Truth and Escape.

Also, Hanson are still around! They make quite good indie/pop/rockish music now on their own independent record label (and Taylor is still hot)

Having a massive argument with my best male friend (who I really loved but it was unrequited so I just did the whole Joey thing for about 5 yrs) about Wayne's World. He said it was a classic movie that would never date. He was soooo wrong (about that and about not wanting to go out with me).

Loving this thread!

Think I might go and get some white musk next time I'm in the Body Shop (if they still do it).

Looking through photos (yes photos taken with a camera with a film !) my student flat in '96 had Trainspotting and Nirvana unplugged live in NY posters on the wall. Also a wall of Shirley Manson pics (male flatmate had a massive thing for her).
Used to also love Ash. Whatever happened to them ?

Vic and Bob, Newman and Baddiel, The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Baddiel and Skinner's Fantasy Football, Sky tv with all random German channels...

See that tramp rummaging through a skip MrsDean? That's you that is!

Ash are still around, kiwi. I saw them last summer at we mobley arena supporting smashing pumpkins