Why do people love the 90s

nails1

Correct me if I’m wrong but in the 90s everyone hated the 90s. Now we also have kids born in the 00s saying 90s was the best.

super_furry

nails1 wrote: »

Correct me if I’m wrong

Gladly. You're wrong.

ILoveYourVibes

People interacted more. People are lonelier now because they are all on phones and trying to be Instagram queens.

The music was better. The clothes were better.

They were glorious and grunge tinged.

Everything is so generic now.

grindle

nails1 wrote: »

Correct me if I’m wrong but in the 90s everyone hated the 90s. Now we also have kids born in the 00s saying 90s was the best.

They don't understand that the internet didn't really exist in any entertaining sense and that we had to do stuff like look outside the window or reread the same magazine or book for the umpteenth time depending on what crap was shoved onto the telly.

90s kids used to romanticise the 70s and 80s too - it takes a while for the critical dust to settle and we can look back on a decade and pick out the "best" of everything - depending on your tastes.

odyssey06

I don't remember hating the 90s... when you are living through it, it's not the 90s, it's just 'life'.

The 80s were better. Looking back, I'd rather re-watch Reeling the Years 80s versus 90s.

odyssey06

grindle wrote: »

They don't understand that the internet didn't really exist in any entertaining sense and that we had to do stuff like look outside the window or reread the same magazine or book for the umpteenth time depending on what crap was shoved onto the telly.

Oh the internet existed. It was very entertaining. But it was a thing you connected to, required effort. Not something ubiquitous you have to make an effort to dis-connect from.
The internet 24x7 on phones... big mistake!

But your fundamental point is sound. Someone should write a book on the benefits of boredom...

lbc2019

90s were great. Better than the miserable 80s or selfish 00s or Alt Right 10s

Thelonious Monk

Because they don't remember the 80s. If you were around as a teenager or adult it's still weird hearing people saying "90s music". People have a tendency to romanticise the past.

Frasier is a fine vintage.

PsychoPete

Grunge,rave, and just the music in general. There was sugar in food and everyone wasn't glued to a screen

Timberrrrrrrr

You had to be there.

Sleeper12

nails1 wrote:

Correct me if I’m wrong but in the 90s everyone hated the 90s. Now we also have kids born in the 00s saying 90s was the best.

I'm correcting you. For most people the 90s was a great decade. We had full employment & a booming economy but we hadn't lost the run of ourselves yet. The E was better too

grindle

odyssey06 wrote: »

Oh the internet existed. It was very entertaining. But it was a thing you connected to, required effort.

Yeah, it was still pretty niche back then though. In the early 90s I was considered a nerd for owning consoles. Then the Playstation arrived and all of a sudden...

There's definitely something to be said for boredom (or lack of distraction). Some of the best weeks of my life were myself and friends holed up in a caravan near a beach with nothing but a paraffin lamp and a deck of cards for entertainment.

My 16yo niece the other day was moaning about being bored - with the internet at her fingertips and a world outside the fecking house. Either visit new sites or go for a walk, there is literally no way anybody can feel bored nowadays unless they're chronically depressed and unable to lift a leg or a finger.

Sleeper12 wrote: »

The E was better too

E has come back around - very pure and very strong now as long as you get a good one, which is the majority.
There's an arms race for very strong pills happening with the Dutch the last few years.

odyssey06

grindle wrote: »

Yeah, it was still pretty niche back then though. In the early 90s I was considered a nerd for owning consoles. Then the Playstation arrived and all of a sudden...

Never mind a console... in the 90s you were considered a nerd for being 'online'!

silverharp

The 90's were great, you could buy a house for a bag of beans, communism had been defeated so the constant threat of nuclear war was gone. Economies everywhere were picking up, so it was a great time for younger people leaving college etc.

odyssey06

Sleeper12 wrote: »

I'm correcting you. For most people the 90s was a great decade. We had full employment & a booming economy but we hadn't lost the run of ourselves yet. The E was better too

The drinks weren't... Hudson Blue! Would strip the hide off an elephant never mind your stomach lining the next morning.

odyssey06

silverharp wrote: »

The 90's were great, you could buy a house for a bag of beans, communism had been defeated so the constant threat of nuclear war was gone. Economies everywhere were picking up, so it was a great time for younger people leaving college etc.

True. It was probably the most care free decade since the 1920s.

Major political crisis: American president "did not have sexual relations" with his intern in the oval office.

Pissartist

Ecstasy

grindle

odyssey06 wrote: »

Never mind a console... in the 90s you were considered a nerd for being 'online'!

In the 00s as an adult (apprentice electrician) I was considered a nerd for reading a book. Unironically taking the piss out of me for not reading The Sun.

But anyway, the 90s - VR someday will allow kids to live a tailored day or week in the life of people in the 90s. They'll come out of it with their coughs softened.

"How did you meet a friend?"

"We had to set up a time to meet on a phone that was wired to the wall or stuck in the middle of the street."

"What if they didn't show up?"

"You had to wait a polite hour before you knew they weren't going to show up and then go home."

Sleeper12

grindle wrote:

E has come back around - very pure and very strong now as long as you get a good one, which is the majority. There's an arms race for very strong pills happening with the Dutch the last few years.

I'm too old now

grindle

Sleeper12 wrote: »

I'm too old now

a/s/l?

odyssey06

grindle wrote: »

"We had to set up a time to meet on a phone that was wired to the wall or stuck in the middle of the street."
"What if they didn't show up?"
"You had to wait a polite hour before you knew they weren't going to show up and then go home."

We had one mate, whatever time we were told we were meeting at he was told it was 1 hour earlier. Late for his own funeral that guy.

I remember having a post-it in my wallet with phone numbers written on it, and an Eircom phone card so I could use a phone box when out and about.

ILoveYourVibes

It's the decade I was born in

Sleeper12

grindle wrote:

a/s/l?

Wow. I'd forgotten about that

Titzon Toast

Pre 911, great music, everything was on the up and up.

grindle

odyssey06 wrote: »

I remember... phone numbers

...used to be a thing we could honestly say.

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Wow. I'd forgotten about that

nvr4gt

Also: having to find porn (like full videos or sets of pics and not just single pics with paywalls blocking you) or music by using IRC to log into somebody else's home computer and rifle though their shared files folder (SoulSeek still works like this and I love it for that little nostalgic kick).

TCM

Do they?

grindle

TCM wrote: »

Do they?

https://www.facebook.com/pg/LathamStreetVintage/photos/

Yeah, for hipsters this is a thing.

RasTa

Nothing beats 90's hiphop

Thelonious Monk

Smoking soap bar washed down with a few pints of Breo

olestoepoke

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

People interacted more. People are lonelier now because they are all on phones and trying to be Instagram queens.

The music was better. The clothes were better.

They were glorious and grunge tinged.

Everything is so generic now.

Spot on! Especially regarding the music

odyssey06

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Smoking soap bar washed down with a few pints of Breo

A decade before its time, like Kilkenny.

Thelonious Monk

odyssey06 wrote: »

A decade before its time, like Kilkenny.

KK is still going, I like it

odyssey06

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

KK is still going, I like it

Ditto. But getting harder to find and it don't get no respect.
Great beer.
Same beer from some on-trend craft brewery would be getting massive buzz.

jk23

Titzon Toast wrote: »

Pre 911, great music, everything was on the up and up.

Yes, there seemed to be a shift in dynamics around the world after this event. I can't explain what but I felt there was

Thelonious Monk

odyssey06 wrote: »

Ditto. But getting harder to find and it don't get no respect.
Great beer.
Same beer from some on-trend craft brewery would be getting massive buzz.

You tend to get it in touristy places. John Smith's is quite similar.

mrsdewinter

Nah, I agree with the OP. The 1990s were pretty awful. I wasn't into dance music or drugs, so I was left with my jangly guitar bands and my Richard Curtis romcoms.
1995 was a pretty great year: Pulp Fiction, Pulp (the band!), an amazing summer... but apart from that, meh.
Kids: don't make my mistake - don't do the decade 'wrong'!!

Thelonious Monk

Yo Breo as Guinness does a Michael Jackson

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/yo-breo-as-guinness-does-a-michael-jackson-1.145069

lol, wonder if they'd publish that now

mark_jmc

odyssey06 wrote: »

The drinks weren't... Hudson Blue! Would strip the hide off an elephant never mind your stomach lining the next morning.

Oh god there’s a blast from the past- it was launched in 1996- the year I turned 18. There was a promotion night the the pub I went to for my birthday-I won 5 free pints on top of the 5 I had bought. I still remember the morning 22 years later!

odyssey06

Music - OASIS v BLUR!!! This isn't just about music. This is the defining choice you will make.

The start of the Premier League. CANTONA!!!

Friends. Frasier. ER.

Blockbusters like Independence Day.

Hit me baby one more time.

Riverdance. Eurovisions where we actually WIN. And are expected to.

The start of a generally available internet.

Irish soccer teams at TWO world cups.

The Commitments.

These are some of my favourite things.

Thelonious Monk

Oasis aged really badly imo, not that they were much good in the first place, they just managed to attract an audience that wasn't listening to guitar based music at the time

odyssey06

mark_jmc wrote: »

Oh god there’s a blast from the past- it was launched in 1996- the year I turned 18. There was a promotion night the the pub I went to for my birthday-I won 5 free pints on top of the 5 I had bought. I still remember the morning 22 years later!

Permanently on promotion. Only way they could get anyone to drink it!

ceadaoin.

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Nah, I agree with the OP. The 1990s were pretty awful. I wasn't into dance music or drugs, so I was left with my jangly guitar bands and my Richard Curtis romcoms.
1995 was a pretty great year: Pulp Fiction, Pulp (the band!), an amazing summer... but apart from that, meh.
Kids: don't make my mistake - don't do the decade 'wrong'!!

I went to see blur at the rds in 1995. Class.

Edit: no it was 96. Still class

Beasty

I like parts of the 90s, particularly the very end. I love the 80s though, then the noughties. And who can forget the 60's? Well I guess many of us who were around then can't, but those who were not do not have any memories of them.

The 70s only manage to come in 5th for me. Of course the teenies are not over yet and I'm not sure where they will end up in my all time favourite decades....

Thelonious Monk

ceadaoin. wrote: »

I went to see blur at the rds in 1995. Class.

Edit: no it was 96. Still class

I was at that, Supergrass supported them. Cans of cider beforehand and scored some wan from Naas I remember. Those were the days...

DoozerT6

I wish grunge fashion would make a re-appearance. I tend to dress down mostly, so having an excuse to walk around with a check flannel shirt tied around my waist, a well-worn looking Metallica t-shirt, Doc Marten boots and baggy jeans sounds ideal to me.

SEPT 23 1989

Oasis and Blur by day

Mitsubishi by night

Ol' Donie

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

People interacted more. People are lonelier now because they are all on phones and trying to be Instagram queens.

The music was better. The clothes were better.

They were glorious and grunge tinged.

Everything is so generic now.

I miss the 90s.

When only girls wore girls' jeans.

Thelonious Monk

Ol' Donie wrote: »

I miss the 90s.

When only girls wore girls' jeans.

At least in 2019 only cowboys and culchies wear boot cut

s7ryf3925pivug

It was a period of relative peace and stability.

I thought someone would have mentioned that, but it looks like everyone's ****ing on about music charts and fashion.

Sorry about that

The 90's were great. No fking iPhones, no fking Kardashians no cyber bullying...

Plenty of beautiful music, early Radiohead, Britpop, Seattle, Stone Roses... Plenty of beautiful non narcissistic women- All Saints making cool pop music/videos, wearing clothes, seems like forever ago.