The 1990s discussion

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For some reason a huge chunk of the best songs of the nineties were indeed one hit wonders: Jump around, the Humpty dance, Groove is in the Heart, Baby Got Back, Barbie Girl, Rico Suave, - just the ones off the top of my head.

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I don't like 90s music as much as 70s and 80s music, but I still enjoy it more than music today.

What I really miss is the computers and the computer games - the experience of them at the time; it's not the same digging out old hardware now or playing games on an emulator. It's hard to describe how exactly computers were more exciting back then, but they were. Maybe it's because I was more of a computer geek back then because I hadn't discovered other things, yet.

I turned down going to see Soundgarden because I didn't feel like being around a lot of people. Then found out later that Alice In Chains was playing too. Still kicking myself over that one.

I grew up in the 90s too. I was born in 1990 and was almost 10 when the 90s ended. I do miss the 90s, but I miss being a child more so.

Cartoons that didn't suck.

The 90's were part of my "missing years." I traveled a lot, got real close to death a few times, had drug issues, was in several psych hospitals and had a serious suicide attempt.

the 90s were probably my most hopeful time of life.

Like the TS, I was 2 when the 90s started, and 12 when they ended... but I try not to look at that decade with rose-tinted glasses. I also think there's probably some difference between having experienced the 90s as a pre-teen kid, vs. having been a teenager throughout the 90s vs. being in your twenties, et cetera.

There was plenty of great music in the 90s, sure. Most of it wasn't in the charts, though. The charts weren't about grunge or alternative rock or the better hip hop. No, they were about BSB and NSYNC, eurodance like 2Unlimited and Snap.

TV was abysmal in the 90s. Yeah, I ate it up with a shovel, but I was stupid back then. We had shows like Renegade and Highlander. Don't hold a candle to some of the 2000s shows like Heroes, Lost, and new Battlestar. Sure, there was good stuff like X-Files, but it was sprinkled thin between all the car explosions and bikini shots.

90s was pre-War-on-Terror, but the decade was riddled with acts of terrorism. A number of attempted genocide were covered extensively in the media. There was Rwanda, there was Bosnia. Timor in Indonesia was being torn apart by the Indonesian armed forces. Yugoslavia dissolved following several different bloody civil wars.

Same-sex marriage? Didn't exist. The internet? A dial-up connection, if your parents could afford it. I look at the 90s and view it as this quaint little era from which I'm glad we've advanced significantly since. I see my nieces and nephew grow up in this decade and hope they'll appreciate how much they have now, in spite of the recession that's still going on. See, they'll be in their 20s 15-20 years from now, and I wonder if they'll be looking back on the 2010s as 'the good old days, when the grass was greener, the skies were bluer, and the smiles were brighter'.

Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time re-written every line? And if we had the chance to do it all again, tell me, would we? Could we?

the world has gone on and left me behind in the 90s.

At the start of that decade I was already middle-aged. I would say it was the most eventful decade in my personal life. Looking back, i do not have a clue how I managed to go through what I did. I think that the woman I was in the 1990's would have handled the past 5 to 7 years better than I have.

things have gotten WAY too complicated for me, I miss the relative simplicity of the 90s.

It's hard to believe that there was a time in the 1990s where I didn't have the internet. Then came 1997, and my life was changed!

I understand what you mean and honestly if people wouldn't drink it would be alot better. I turned down seeing them eariler in the year becouse that show was in an arena with 2 modern Nickelback like sounding opening bands that would have given me a headache. I should have gone to that one aswell, I perfer outdoor venues to avoid some of the crowding, ease of escape from the action if needed and I find the sound is better in the outdoors were it can escape, arenas are the worst for loud events although I should have just gone, stuffed my ears with plugs and enjoyed anyway and slepted it off the next day. I would give anything to see AIC and Soundgarden on the same bill.

By the way its standing mosh pit style bring a large hat or something to hold in front of you, you stand to gain 6-7 inchs of clearance.

My fondest sports memory of the 1990s was when my Seattle Mariners reached the postseason for the first time in their history. I was in the 3rd grade, and my whole school came down with the case of Mariners Fever. Good times.....

Not that I care for sports at all becouse i don't however Toronto actually had some good teams to be proud of durinig parts of the 1990's, the Blue Jays were the champions and team to beat before the labour strike. I don't think that will happen again anytime soon.