The 90's

Menas · 19-09-2015 1:13pm

I think the 90s happened during one of my boozy blackouts.

Agricola · 19-09-2015 1:24pm

I think if you left school in Ireland anywhere from the mid to late 90's you'd look back fondly on that time. Just a few years before, everyone was going straight out of school into work or apprenticeships, from '96 on and the abolition of fees the first wave of regular joes started going to 3rd level, me included. I remember a few of my mates all ending up in the same college, they shared a house and the craic was mighty that first year. The economy was taking off, there were great job prospects, it was just wall to wall upbeat it seemed to me.

FrStone · 19-09-2015 1:39pm

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I literally couldn't disagree with you more. We were in NO way a modern country not too long ago. Even the change in Ireland from the 80's through to today is monumental, sure, people are still people, and accents are pretty similar but almost everything else has changed.

If we take the 90's as the benchmark for how things were different before and after here are just a few things that are different, that you don't seem to be aware of for some reason.

It was illegal to be gay.
Our national roads were insanely bad, they were of the same standard as country roads today.
Our immigrants are not all thickos sent to work as labourers in England, they have degrees, skills and knowledge and many leave to earn big salaries, that was never the case before.
We shipped unmarried mothers into Magdelane Laundries.
Bastard children were sold to America.
Paedophile Priests raped and beat thousands of young boys for decades, and were protected.
You could drive after a bottle of whiskey.
If you wanted to book a flight it cost a small fortune which many couldn't afford.
The only tv was one channel that only aired at certain times.
The only radio was severely limited sh1te.
TVs were small and expensive.
Music was expensive to listen to.
Restaurants were of a poor standard.
Everyone ate potatoes every goddam day for dinner.
You had to wait weeks, even months to get a phone line installed for your home from our telecom monopoly.
Taxes were higher then.
ECT ect ect
I could literally keep going with this list for an hour.

Arse biscuits to you if you think nothings changed in this country! Fecking arse biscuits!

Ah they were simpler times!

5starpool · 19-09-2015 1:40pm

DarkyHughes wrote: »

You don't remember.....

Goodfellas "go get a shiny new box"
Pulp Fiction "and you will remember my name as Lord"
Reservoir Dogs "really big penis, hence like a virgin"
Casino "you made pop yo eye outta ya head"
Schindler's List "let my people gooooo"
Trainspotting "get a job, get a tv, get a sofa etc...."
Cape Fear "muhahahahahahahahaha Councillor "
Terminator 2 "i'll be back (several more times)"

The Shawshank Redemption
The 6th Sense
12 Monkeys
Seven
Jurassic Park
The Matrix

Probably loads more too, but that's off the top of my head.

iDave · 19-09-2015 2:16pm

The 90s was a great decade. Technology was making breakthroughs but not invasive like today.
Cold War ended, progress in NI. Seemed like world problems were being solved.
Last decade pop music actually meant something. Last hurrah for the charts. Brit pop etc.
Football was moving away from the grimey hooliganism of the 80s. Money was making it glamours but not obnoxious like today. Internationals weren't moaned at by PL fanboys like today.
Rugby went pro.
GAA was just bonkers. Felt like anyone could win.
CGI made the T-Rex come alive in Jurassic Park but CGI wasn't the movie itself. Then George Lucas ruined it with the prequels. Least we got The Matrix.

Oh and Fr. Ted.

Billy86 · 19-09-2015 2:19pm

kneemos wrote: »

Compared to the originality of the 60's and 70's the 90's were dull as dishwater.
Don't remember any decent films or music from the 90's.Likewise popular movements.

Pulp Fiction, Schindler's List, Goodfellas, Terminator 2, The Matrix (original only!), Fargo, Toy Story, The Big Lebowski, Unforgiven, LA Confidential, Leon, Trainspotting, The Usual Suspects, Casino, Princess Mononoke, The Three Colours trilogy, Chungking Express, Life is Beautiful, La Haine... the list goes on and on. The 1990s was a great decade in film.

joe_six_cans · 19-09-2015 2:25pm

I heart TV wrote: »

The internet was invented in the 60s not the 90s

and the motor car was invented about seven decades before most people could afford one

the nineties was when the internet became familiar to the average person , in fact i knew nobody who had it before around 1996 , we got it in 1999 and didnt get broadband until ten years ago

joe_six_cans · 19-09-2015 2:30pm

DanielODonnell wrote: »

It depends what age you were, if you were a young fellow or just born in the decade it seems like it was a very fashionable time with want of a better word, I was born in 92 but to someone my parents age who were in their 30's at the time it was just a decade filled with work and raising children. I am sure someone who was born in early 2000's would think the 2000's were great because they were children at the time and had no worries.

For people who say the music was better, that depends what music you like as metal music is better now than it ever was, in terms of films, it was just the Disney movies that were better, hollywood films are actually better now.

hollywood today is about endless sequels , remakes of old tv series began in the mid nineties but the nineties was a great decade for blockbusters and orignal ones

joe_six_cans · 19-09-2015 2:33pm

kneemos wrote: »

Compared to the originality of the 60's and 70's the 90's were dull as dishwater.
Don't remember any decent films or music from the 90's.Likewise popular movements.

brit pop
dance music went mainstream
hip hop went sort of mainstream but was still fresh ( unlike today where all pop music has some element of hip hop )
alternative rock went mainstream

the nineties was a very indie decade compared to the very conservative eighties ( which i love BTW but it was very conformist musically in the main )

arcticmonkeys · 19-09-2015 4:02pm

I loved the nineties but find it kind of disturbing that I cant remember ever listing to any of the grunge bands at the time Nirvana Pearl Jam Alice in Chains or Pixies bands which I love now but have a perfect recollection listening to the Spice Girls Aqua and Backstreet Boys.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 19-09-2015 4:05pm

The 3 greatest sitcoms (Frasier,The Simpsons and Seinfeld) of all time were from the 90's so for a sitcom lover it was great decade.

blade1 · 19-09-2015 4:08pm

LexieOnRale wrote: »

I barely remember the 90s.
Scrunchies
Tamogatchis
Those weird alien things that were supposed to open their eyes at the millennium.
Hairbands
Spice girls
Rugrats

That pretty much sums up my memories

A couple more,
Teenage Mutant ninja turtles and La Gear runners.

RobertKK · 19-09-2015 4:29pm

DarkyHughes wrote: »

You could get bags of coke for 50p back in the 90's? Was this the 1890's?

No not coke, a quids worth of Pat Cash.

19-09-2015 4:35pm

This

This

This

This

The anthem of the decade, for those who may have been too young for 88 and the Summer of Love...

Born Slippy Nuxx - Underworld

http://youtu.be/XiMrrleH_hI

Cold War Kid · 19-09-2015 5:27pm

Loads of great things happened but still found it meh after the early 90s.

Looking back it seems so much better. Always the case I guess.

It was the decade of my teens and very start of my 20s. Would prefer to have been older for acid house.

riclad · 19-09-2015 5:44pm

See this is england set in the 90s, on channel 4 this week.
it was the last era before everyone had a smartphone, and social media took off.And the start of internet acess for ordinary people .
Satellite tv was just getting started .
re games it was the age of the ps2 ,where there was actually good games
On consoles, games with epic storys , not just platformers .
There was lots of pirate radio stations, before 2fm started broadcasting .
IT was a time of optimism , ireland gets to the world cup.
You bought music on cd,or tape, there were big record shops like virgin.
you either got a job or you were on the dole ,
now half the jobs are advertised as internships .
The concept of lgbt rights or gay marriage was hardly mentioned .
There was a wide range of music in the charts from britpop to dance music to boybands and britney spears and grunge .
You could say the 90s was a decade when things got better ,
ireland became a more modern outward looking country .
CGI special effects became much more advanced in films like the matrix,
terminator 2 .
more immigrants came here to work in hotels , restaurants and the building
industry.
Dublin became more multicultural , with people from different countrys living there .

19-09-2015 5:47pm

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Loads of great things happened but still found it meh after the early 90s.

Looking back it seems so much better. Always the case I guess.

It was the decade of my teens and very start of my 20s. Would prefer to have been older for acid house.

Yep, one of the few things I would change in my life is to have been born a couple of years earlier, left home in 92 when 18 so the clubbing only started then and missed the real acid house era. But there was still plenty of fun...before trance...

Cold War Kid · 19-09-2015 5:51pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Yep, one of the few things I would change in my life is to have been born a couple of years earlier, left home in 92 when 18 so the clubbing only started then and missed the real acid house era. But there was still plenty of fun...before trance...

My university years began with Britpop, hated all that "TFI Friday" kinda culture.
It fizzled out by about '98 though. Actually I really enjoyed the late 90s/early 2000s. The time of every flat ever having copies of Play and Moon Safari.

19-09-2015 6:04pm

Cold War Kid wrote: »

My university years began with Britpop, hated all that "TFI Friday" kinda culture.
It fizzled out by about '98 though. Actually I really enjoyed the late 90s/early 2000s. The time of every flat ever having copies of Play and Moon Safari.

Loved Mobys earlier stuff, like Go, I Feel It, Move etc. so felt a bit underwhelmed by Play.

Loved the whole ambient house stuff like the Orb, and then the whole electronica explosion, the Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Future Sound of London etc.

Billy86 · 19-09-2015 6:15pm

riclad wrote: »

re games it was the age of the ps2 ,where there was actually good games
On consoles, games with epic storys , not just platformers .
There was lots of pirate radio stations, before 2fm started broadcasting .

PS2 Release date: March 4, 2000. It didn't come out in Europe for a while after that, and was basically impossible to get until the following year.

Also to be fair, many games nowadays have story lines with very epic story lines.

Cienciano · 19-09-2015 6:22pm

Billy86 wrote: »

PS2 Release date: March 4, 2000. It didn't come out in Europe for a while after that, and was basically impossible to get until the following year.

Also to be fair, many games nowadays have story lines with very epic story lines.

The snes, the best console of all time was out during the 90's.

DanielODonnell · 19-09-2015 6:37pm

iDave wrote: »

GAA was just bonkers. Felt like anyone could win.

It might look that way in judging by the record books but Derry were good in the 80's, they were Ulster champions in 87 and nearly made it to the final that year too, plus they won minor AI in 89.

DanielODonnell · 19-09-2015 6:40pm

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

The 3 greatest sitcoms (Frasier,The Simpsons and Seinfeld) of all time were from the 90's so for a sitcom lover it was great decade.

don't forget that Frasier ended in mid 2000's, over 40% were aired in 2000's.

Skerries · 19-09-2015 6:49pm

there was more originality in clothes due to the various music types
you had Metal heads, grungers, Goths and ravers all distinctive

BMJD · 19-09-2015 6:53pm

The Sopranos began in 1999

nullzero · 19-09-2015 6:54pm

kneemos wrote: »

Compared to the originality of the 60's and 70's the 90's were dull as dishwater.
Don't remember any decent films or music from the 90's.Likewise popular movements.

No decent music or movies from the 90's? Can I ask how old you are?

Pac1Man · 19-09-2015 6:55pm

I was drowning in a sea of Pogs.

Billy86 · 19-09-2015 7:00pm

Cienciano wrote: »

The snes, the best console of all time was out during the 90's.

Well yeah, the SNES was awesome. You can get an app on your phone, I think it's called SNES 9XE and find the games on your browser, and BOOM! public transport commutes all of a sudden are grand. Works better if you've got a big phone like a Samsung Note or the bigger iPhone 6, since the screen is also a touch remote. There's an N64 one too called Mupen, Mario 64 has amazingly barely aged a day in graphics or gameplay (Goldeneye, on the other hand...

). Oh and Super Metroid - yes, it is still top class 20-odd years later!

nullzero · 19-09-2015 7:00pm

Pac1Man wrote: »

I was drowning in a sea of Pogs.

Don't forget your slammers

Pac1Man · 19-09-2015 7:40pm

nullzero wrote: »

Don't forget your slammers

Ah yes. A topic of many lunchtime debates. Steeleys were overrated imo. I was in the minority with that opinion.

booooring! · 19-09-2015 7:41pm

When rap music was actually rap music.

R.I.P my homies Bigge and Pac

Dirty Dingus McGee · 19-09-2015 7:42pm

8 Counties won the football championship and 6 counties won the hurling championship in the 90's.

13 out of the 32 counties in Ireland won a senior all ireland in the 1990's something that will never be repeated it was an incredibly exciting era for GAA.

Dirty Dingus McGee · 19-09-2015 7:45pm

DanielODonnell wrote: »

don't forget that Frasier ended in mid 2000's, over 40% were aired in 2000's.

7 of the 8 great frasier seasons were from the 90's.

Seasons 8,9 and 10 were the 3 weakest of the show (but better than 95% of of other sitcoms) were on in the 00's, only the last season was comparable to the show in the 90's.

Kev W · 20-09-2015 11:10am

DanielODonnell wrote: »

For people who say the music was better, that depends what music you like as metal music is better now than it ever was,

Have to disagree there, at least if it's the popular stuff you're talking about. Metal's dominated by horrible whiny vocals now, it's unbearable. In the 90s we had Pantera, now we're stuck with rubbish like Bollocks to my Valentine.

speedboatchase · 20-09-2015 11:34am

Billy86 wrote: »

Well yeah, the SNES was awesome. You can get an app on your phone, I think it's called SNES 9XE and find the games on your browser, and BOOM! public transport commutes all of a sudden are grand. Works better if you've got a big phone like a Samsung Note or the bigger iPhone 6, since the screen is also a touch remote. There's an N64 one too called Mupen, Mario 64 has amazingly barely aged a day in graphics or gameplay (Goldeneye, on the other hand... ). Oh and Super Metroid - yes, it is still top class 20-odd years later!

Mario 64 on a touch screen? Sounds awful, considering every button on the N64 controller had a function on that game. Even the DS version was rubbish without an analogue stick.

Hotblack Desiato · 20-09-2015 1:13pm

Fluffy Cat 88 wrote: »

As for the Millennium Bug.... much ado about nothing!

Thanks to a lot of people (like me) who fixed the problems in time. Can't win.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

If we take the 90's as the benchmark for how things were different before and after here are just a few things that are different, that you don't seem to be aware of for some reason.

It was illegal to be gay.

Nitpick: anal intercourse between males was illegal, it was not illegal to be gay, and not all men who have sex with other men identify as gay... and lesbians could do whatever they wanted :cool:

We shipped unmarried mothers into Magdelane Laundries.
Bastard children were sold to America.

Up until the 70s yeah. This thread is about the 90s

You could drive after a bottle of whiskey.

You exaggerate. Being able to stand up never mind getting the key in the lock would be challenge enough for most people after a whole bottle of whiskey - it would be enough to put some people into a potentially fatal coma
Illegal to be drunk in charge of a vehicle since the 60s, breathalyser brought in in 1978, the limit then was approx. 3 pints of beer

The only tv was one channel that only aired at certain times.

RTE2 started in 1978

You had to wait weeks, even months to get a phone line installed for your home from our telecom monopoly.

There were several neighbours of ours (in Dublin) who got phones at the same time in the mid 80s, they'd all been waiting between 8 and ten years. No waiting in the 90s though.

DarkyHughes wrote: »

Goodfellas "go get a shiny new box"

"Get your shine box" (major insult to character who was so poor as a child he shined shoes to make a few cents)

riclad wrote: »

There was lots of pirate radio stations, before 2fm started broadcasting .

Radio2 started in 1979. Most of the pirates were off the air by 1990. 98FM and Capital Radio (as it was then, then Rock 104 then FM104) started in 1989 and there were lots of other licensed local radio stations by 1990.

Sheep Lover · 20-09-2015 1:30pm

^thread killa.....

Billy86 · 20-09-2015 1:35pm

blade1 wrote: »

A couple more,
Teenage Mutant Hero turtles and La Gear runners.

Sorry, couldn't let that one lie (to quote another definitive 90s show).

Links234 · 20-09-2015 1:38pm

Cienciano wrote: »

The snes, the best console of all time was out during the 90's.

The PlayStation.

Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII, Silent Hill, the sheer amount of legendary, genre defining games that came out on that console was unreal.

Billy86 · 20-09-2015 1:42pm

speedboatchase wrote: »

Mario 64 on a touch screen? Sounds awful, considering every button on the N64 controller had a function on that game. Even the DS version was rubbish without an analogue stick.

Nope, its remarkably playable because all of the buttons fit nicely on the screen (if you have a big phone) - it can make some games like Mario Kart 64 trickier though, since the L/R button for turns isn't as easy to reach as on a contrller, but that's not an issue for the likes of Mario. Here's a video of someone playing it o their phone, actually. Controls look like this (but you can customise them exactly how you want them).

Links234 · 20-09-2015 1:46pm

Kev W wrote: »

Have to disagree there, at least if it's the popular stuff you're talking about. Metal's dominated by horrible whiny vocals now, it's unbearable. In the 90s we had Pantera, now we're stuck with rubbish like Bollocks to my Valentine.

Today we have bands like Mastodon, Gojira, Ghost, Periphery, I could mention a list of bands as long as my arm, Metal is doing grand. You could just as easily look at the 80s and point out some crappy hair metal band that was popular and say metal in the 80s sucked, while ignoring all the good stuff.

Kev W · 20-09-2015 1:48pm

Links234 wrote: »

Today we have bands like Mastodon, Gojira, Ghost, Periphery, I could mention a list of bands as long as my arm, Metal is doing grand. You could just as easily look at the 80s and point out some crappy hair metal band that was popular and say metal in the 80s sucked, while ignoring all the good stuff.

Fair point. I'm a little out of touch so I can only go by stuff I see on Scuzz when I'm killing time waiting for Doctor Who to start.

Links234 · 20-09-2015 1:56pm

Kev W wrote: »

Fair point. I'm a little out of touch so I can only go by stuff I see on Scuzz when I'm killing time waiting for Doctor Who to start.

Scuzz? Well there's your problem right there! :pac:

20-09-2015 3:53pm

Fluffy Cat 88 wrote: »

....... Going out every Saturday night was the norm. I enjoyed the 90's.

As I remember, going out Thursday, Friday, Sunday & Monday night, as well was the norm.

speedboatchase · 20-09-2015 4:07pm

Billy86 wrote: »

Nope, its remarkably playable because all of the buttons fit nicely on the screen (if you have a big phone) - it can make some games like Mario Kart 64 trickier though, since the L/R button for turns isn't as easy to reach as on a contrller, but that's not an issue for the likes of Mario. Here's a video of someone playing it o their phone, actually. Controls look like this (but you can customise them exactly how you want them).

Yeah, certainly seems to be playing it fine, but I'd be interested to see a video of someone holding the phone and playing it. I'd imagine I'd need a huuuge phone to enjoy it though.

Maybe I'm just old school but I've always taught that there was always a massive difference between what works on a handheld console (Pokemon, Animal Crossing) and what doesn't (a first-person shooter, for example), and similarly, what works on a mobile game is very different to a console game port. I could play Doodle Jump quite a few times a day on my phone but I wouldn't be arsed sitting in front of a TV playing it, you know?

Billy86 · 20-09-2015 4:14pm

Well Mario 64 was slower paced than a first person shooter, so that helps an awful lot (there are one or two stars where you need to race down an icy path with no walls that is a bit frustrating, got it eventually though). But on a Note 3 the screen size works absolutely fine (here is a pic for screen size comparison). Could see it being an issue on one of the smaller iPhone types, but I far prefer bigger phones anyway, for watching Netflix, NFL on the go, better browsing, etc. I'm one of those "not bothered with smartphones" types that did a complete 180 after a little bit of exposure, mind.

Hotblack Desiato · 20-09-2015 8:39pm

speedboatchase wrote: »

I could play Doodle Jump quite a few times a day on my phone but I wouldn't be arsed sitting in front of a TV playing it, you know?

haha, just tonight my daughter (7) was bugging me to get Doodle Jump back on her Nabi tablet, we had to do a factory reset recently and it's no longer included in the bundled apps, got it from the play store but with ads, when I get around to buying a Google Play voucher I'll have to pony up 99c to get rid of the ads. Might as well stick on a few paid apps like Stellarium while I'm at it. Have to start looking into Spectrum emulators too

DarkyHughes · 23-09-2015 12:18am

Whitewinged wrote: »

I always remember World Cup 1994.

Me and my pals were going to be staying in a tent in the back garden. Ireland were playing Italy and we heard them score and went to run into the house but i tripped and landed on the stake in the ground supporting the tent and hurt my knee. I still have the scar!

My mother used to get so emotional over the eurovision. She used to be welling up and shed say "your so lucky, we never used to win when i was growing up"

Oh & I nearly forgot Steve Collins beating both Nigel Benn & Chris Eubank twice in 95 & 96.

DarkyHughes · 23-09-2015 12:22am

323 wrote: »

As I remember, going out Thursday, Friday, Sunday & Monday night, as well was the norm.

I'd be to focked from the E on Friday & Sat to do anything any other days. I'd just smoke a few J's & pop a few Valium or Dolly's for a few days after.

The 90's

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