90's Retro

LegacyUser

Hey, feel free to bin/move this, but I was just wondering, do the 90's qualify as being retro?
As a young woman in my early 20's, the 90's where my decade, movie/music and fashion wise.
Has enough time lapsed to allow the 90's become a core part of the 'all things retro' forum?

dahooligan

I think so, I've been trying for ages to get the 90's to be appreciated for what it was - the best decade ever! Every time Rhythm is a Dancer comes on in a night club you can't help but smile.. the Fresh Prince of Bel Air was the best show ever! Man Utd were the greatest team ever.. ah I'm all emotional now

Steve_o

Yea, whenever i think of the 90's i think of Man Utd, Saved by the Bell and Run DMC vs. Jason Nevis!!

beardedchicken

i'm blue................. da ba dee da ba daa

Nightwish

beardedchicken wrote:

i'm blue................. da ba dee da ba daa

barely makes the cut-1999!
for me the 90's was The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sally being a teenager on Home and Away, Cotton Eye Joe and Coolio, the shameful line dancing craze circa 94 and the resulting anti-line dancing lobby group set up by Dustin called S.O.L.D. (Stamp Out Line Dancing), MTV playing music videos and being in German, Nirvana, Umbro jumpers, the rise and rise of dance music...

whiskeyman

It's not retro enough yet.
I don't think the 80s hit retro til the late 1990s.
Went into a club in Sheffield a while back... upstairs was 80s and downstairs 90s.
Upstairs was packed and no-one downstairs... only went there to get a drink!
Will be another while yet before "90s t-shirts" are all the rage.

Dimitri

For me the nineties is definetely retro ad definetely cool. This decade is sh1t in comparision. The 90's, what a time to be alive, man u, home and away, those stupid naf naf jackets, x worx jeans and music for a jilted generation. The 90's simply rocked, great films trainspotting to name one. The 90's saw metallica reach their peak and charted much of their later decline, along with the rise and fall of grunge.

monkeyfudge

I pretty much hate all the things that have been listed here as 'good' about the 90's...

The best thing about the 90's is the fact that cartoons actually started to get pretty damn good. The quality of the animation and scripts took a dramatic increase over their 80's counterparts.

LegacyUser

I love all the 90's dance stuff, Mt Vain, Rythmn is a dancer, no limits, cotton eye joe, all of that, and I loved brit pop, and I would have married boyzone:p
Lets not forget Right Said Fred, and our Eurovision wins!
And as for TV, we had saved by the bell, the babysitters club, Beverly Hills 90210, The Den (back when ray darcy was presenting), lets not forget Blind Date, Super Market Sweep
and the rise of trashy talk shows.
Movies, we had:
SpiceWorld
Ok, I admit it, I'm a big Spice Girls fan! This movie is campy, cutesy, and downright fun! I've probably watched it a zillion times and I never get tired of it!
Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin Williams in drag, wonderful!
The Sixth Sense
Extremely scary and disturbing. It was the THE movie in the summer of 1999!
Forrest Gump
Timeless, truly a genuine classic of our time. Tom Hanks is so brilliant and wonderful.
BIG,
Iwent searching for one of thos fortune teller machines after i saw this!
Honey I shrunk the kids -
Fuppin excellent film, need say no more
Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
I never get tired of this one! One of the coolest and funniest films of the decade!
Clueless
Like, this movie is WAY cool! Everything about it: The clothes, the cell phones, the lingo, and the music epitomized what it was like to be a teenage girl in the 90s...we felt like we could change the world!!
Home Alone
The ultimate Christmas movie!
Jurassic Park
This mega-hit movie also started the dinosaur craze that was so big in the early to mid 90s.
Titanic
This is only the tip of the iceburg. The 90s was THE decade of movies, and I had so many that I loved and saw it millions of times



I love the 90's, I wanna go back!:D

dahooligan

I like stuff too..
ooohhh its the decade when the internet came to fruition!
..and its when Bill clinton was in power - he's such a coolio :cool:
2Pac and Biggie went down
Boybands vs Girlbands
Rollerblades were invented
Mobile phones burst onto the scene :rolleyes:

Ah, I'm getting all emotional now..

RE*AC*TOR

The Nineties...

Pros:
Economic Growth
End of Cold War / Berlin Wall
The Internet comes of age
Mobile phones become widely popular
Human Genome Project
End of apartheid
Gay rights
Grunge
Prime Time Cartoons (Simpsons, Family Guy and similar)

Cons:
Materialism
Windows 95
Y2K bug
Gulf War
Rwandan Genocide
Balkan War
Reality TV
Teen Pop (boybands / girlbands etc)
The phrase "You go, girl!"

LegacyUser

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

The Nineties...
Reality TV
Teen Pop (boybands / girlbands etc)
The phrase "You go, girl!"

Ha ha ha, i love these things!

Steve_o

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

The phrase "You go, girl!"

That one phrase turned me off the 90's!!!

Blisterman

I dunno. The nineties wasn't that good.
Pros: Good TV (The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Frasier, Father Ted, Etc.)
Good Movies: (Pulp Fiction, Jurrasic Park, Waynes World)
The Internet
Good Video Games (Monkey Island, Sonic the Hedgehog etc.)
Economic Prosperity
Nice coffee
Birth of the DVD.

Cons:
Pretty poor music (Grunge, Boy Bands, Techno etc.) Probably the worst Decade for music in the last 50 years.
Annoying Catch Phrases, like "you go, girl" and "Talk to the hand".
The rise of scumbags.
Zig and Zag leaving the Den.

Laplandman

Some things 90's:

Ireland jerseys
Rollerblades
Economics itself
Jesus
Sky one
The colour day-glow
Eastern Europe
Basketball
Reebok Pumps
Rap music
Nike
The letter X
Football boots
Nostalgia
Food
The mini-skirt
Video games
Peace
Los Angeles
New York
London
Majorca
Education
The human soul
80’s nostalgia
The 80’s itself

Chavster

The 90's were awesome, they include my teenage and university years. I'm a big dance music fan and 90's rocked for all kinds of dance. Prodigy kicked ass (still do!) and Rhythm is a Dancer is possibly the best dance song ever (well for the memories it conjures up anyway).

Weirdly though I wasn't really into the whole britpop thing at the time but listening to the songs now I think they're great too..

klong

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

The Nineties...

Pros:

End of Cold War / Berlin Wall

* Cough * Berlin Wall fell 1989 :v:

tj-music.com

In todays society everyting that happened a week ago seems to be regarded as retro!

RE*AC*TOR

klong wrote:

* Cough * Berlin Wall fell 1989 :v:

That's true, however, reunification of germany was 1990 so its 6 of 1, half dozen of another. The breakup of the soviet union was really a 90s phenomenon.

billy the squid

are the 90s retro? well if larry gogan is playing any of these then yes.

I love all the 90's dance stuff, Mt Vain, Rythmn is a dancer, no limits, cotton eye joe, all of that, and I loved brit pop, and I would have married boyzon

90s dance was what was wrong with the 90s, Good music was hard to find on the radio in the nineties. You had the Sunrise radio and the Club FM to thank for that. only half decent station on at the time was Coast FM. Coast used to be on 103.2 FM then moved to 105.2 FM. They used to always play Abba - Thank you for the music at the end. Phantom came along later.

we had saved by the bell, the babysitters club, Beverly Hills 90210, The Den (back when ray darcy was presenting), lets not forget Blind Date, Super Market Sweep

the first two were the first thing that went off on TV at home. Beverly hills 90210 was watch but then it started to get silly in later years. The den was better with Zig and Zag. and blind date made you want to wish that it didnt survive the 80s.

Also they should ahve NEVER cancelled spitting Image.

SpiceWorld
Ok, I admit it, I'm a big Spice Girls fan! This movie is campy, cutesy, and downright fun! I've probably watched it a zillion times and I never get tired of it!
Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin Williams in drag, wonderful!
The Sixth Sense
Extremely scary and disturbing. It was the THE movie in the summer of 1999!
Forrest Gump

first thing that came into me head when seeing these movie names is the almost monthly letters from sky saying that the subscription fee was going up.

what harm the thing used to go crazy every time it rained. in the early 90s one would like 4 or five different set top boxes. satelite receiver, VideoCript decoder, video, computer game console, and later on a Chorus box. back then you were not able to watch RTE BBC or ITV on satelite.

The ultimate Christmas movie!

nah they will be showing the Neverending story and indianna jones long after home alone is long forgotten.

Cons:
Materialism
Windows 95
Y2K bug
Gulf War
Rwandan Genocide
Balkan War
Reality TV
Teen Pop (boybands / girlbands etc)
The phrase "You go, girl!"

Nah we had materialism in the 80s. Americana and all that ****e.
windows 98 was worse.
will second reality TV.
boybands were around in the 60s, remember the Monkees. course you do. hay hay we're the monkeys, ok maybe you don't

ok somethings i want to add to the list.

Star Trek: the next Generation. granted it started in 1987 but didnt come on air here until the 1990s.

MTVs Greatist hits with Paul King

mobile phone scanners

zig and zag were da bomb in the 90s as well as italia 90

billy the squid

i would also like to add that the 90s was a time when a 3 way chilli at eddie rockets was value for money. and when they had big massive tortilla chips. and the mince wans't cheap ****e they are using now.

RE*AC*TOR

There's no way that Windows98 was worse than windows95. Windows98SE was actually a fairly solid platform.
Yeah you could class the monkees as a boyband - but in fairness in the 90s Teen Pop was a movement, morseso than an localised outbreak. Like compairing a pimple to acne.
As for materialism - in Ireland especially - the 90s brought in never before seen levels of materialism.

billy the squid

would associate this more with win98 than win95. anyway if win98 was any good why did they have to bring out a second edition.

RainyDay

billy the squid wrote:

would associate this more with win98 than win95. anyway if win98 was any good why did they have to bring out a second edition.

You could say the same about Win XP SP2 - there is always room for improvement.