Your 90s nostalgia (Bar's open).

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Since Radio 2 has decided to reincarnate the Evening Session for the week, BBC 2 is showing Ian Hislop pondering the British obsession with the past, it's been a long day and the bar is open; I got to pondering fondly about the 1990s when I was in my formative years. I got my GCSEs and A Levels, went to University, made lots of lifelong friends (and met a few hate figures/comedy villains), passed a few woman related milestones etc....

Thought I'd ask, what do you remember fondly from that time? Here's some of mine to start:

The grunge scene
Big baggy grungy jumpers
DM boots
Indie music - obvious choices but also stuff like Gene, Ash, James, Supergrass, Lush, Elastica, Echobelly
No jeans, T-shirts or trainers to get into a club
Pulp Fiction / Reservoir Dogs
"Curtains" hairstyles
Ben Sherman shirts
Kickers
Late night rutting on parental sofas
Cheap as chips student PoS motoring
Drinking st beer with good mates in secluded places, beach/woods after dark etc
Ripping up deserted chalk pits etc on st early mountain bikes
Airfix
Superclubs
Spaced
Labatts Ice
TVR
X Files
Alicia Silverstone
Senna/Prost
Hill/Schumacher
Murray, obviously
Men Behaving Badly
Volvo 850 T5R (still would!)
The first internet chatrooms

I'm thinking mainly pre-www and pre-mobile phone 90s, good times or rose tinted specs?

I think On and Different Class in the car tomorrow.

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That's a good call. I also call the Mark Radcliffe graveyard shift and the Lovegroove Dance Party with Danny Rampling.

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Mobile Chicane said:

Pitying students in their DMs and Nirvana T-shirts. All desperately trying to be different.

Yes, much like I pity the fools these days in their Ramones T Shirts and jeggings.

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One of my mates couldn't put enough money into the Time Crisis gamer

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So much good stuff on here and so much I'd forgotten, thanks all. Proper read later as I'm at work just now.

PS1 and Driver I remember... Lara Croft was the most sophisticated polygonic woman going

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Matt_N said:

The 90s, inparticular the late 90s was a brilliant time for dance music?

The house and trance scenes went massive on the back of the baleric sound and many new genres really established themselves.

Some came and went but they layed the foundations to many of the genres heard today.

Have to agree with this, I started getting properly into it around 98 when I started uni for the second time. I ended up messing around with decks but it never went anywhere, I still have probably/easily over 100 12" singles knocking around. Must have been 2000 when a few mates and I piled into my crappy Escort and drove from Birmingham to Leeds for the first Love Parade, no accomodation or anything sorted. Town was a mess, rubbish, piss and messed up folk everywhere... we slept in the car / car park elevator.... silly, silly lads. Another random mid week excursion to Nottingham, the Renaissance student night. Forget who was DJing but we ended up staying at the YMCA. Silly, silly lads