I Love the Nineties, Spin-Off of Hilly's 80's Thread

[Mizz.Yasmine]

girls wearing baggy jeans
and then flared jeans and full-on bell bottoms came back
TLC's Crazy Sexy Cool and the Waterfalls video
Blue colored nail polish
Space Jam (lol)
Super Nintendo
Srunchies and Jaw Clips
Smiley faces/peace signs/ying-yangs on EVERYTHING
POGS
Butterfly hairclips....

 

[Krasevayadancer]

Wow, I remember pogs and the sparkley butterfly clips (i had a collection of them!)
Remember pleather pants? Oh the horror!

And on a side note, I remember watching my so called life and thinking I was so mature and angst ridden. I remember watching and episode about Angela wanting to have sex with Jordan. That night I wrote in my diary about sex (i was in the fourth grade)

And come on people, no love for the power rangers? I was obsessed! I even remember seeing them at Radio City Music Hall and having my classmates ask me for autographs if i met them. Woops, did I just say admit that?

Ok, im done for now

 

[pratbc]

I graduated high school in 1997, so I have many, many memories of the 90s. Here are a few:

early 90's:
MC Hammer
Z Cavaricci's (so god-awful but all the kids were wearing 'em)
Kriss Kross
Cross Colors
Scrunchies
Blossom and those silly Blossom hats
Scrunch socks and scrunchies to match every outfit (even worn more than 1 pair at a time)
Hyper Color shirts (only good until you washed 'em once)
Colored Denim (think Bongo jeans)
CDs

Mid 90's
Flannel shirts for that "grunge" look (in Florida summer even)
Babydoll Dresses
Espadrilles (although I think they're attempting a comeback)
Doc Martins (yes, mine even had the steel toes since I was so "tough")
Dying your hair a different obnoxious Manic Panic color on a weekly basis
pagers and having to run to pay phones to call ppl back

Late '90's
the Rave scene
wearing a tight little cut off tank top with huge baggy jeans
piercings
cell phones started becoming more popular
gas for 98 cents a gallon

I have tons more, but those are just the ones that come to mind at the moment!

 

[Divinity]

Colored plastic pacifiers...ugh...and I had one!!
My So Called Life - I wanted to watch it alone always (in LOVE with Jared Leto) so I told my mom my sister was too young. Lost that battle.
New Kids on the Block
Peachee folders
K Swiss
flannel shirts
scrunchies
Saved by the Bell
Forrest Gump
Titanic
grunge
rolled jeans and colored scrunch socks with keds
Death to the Macarena and the Electric Slide...ick!

 

[MAC_Whore]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ms.marymac See, that's what I was thinking when I read through the posts...I don't remember much from the 90's...lol! I do remember big old platforms though...and trying to drive in them. "I can't feel the peddle, is that the brake?"

I hear you sister! We were living overseas and I remember some serious ankle twists on cobblestone streets. Cobblestone + platforms = medical care. Driving? Forget about it.

 

[Mizz.Yasmine]

OMG i forgot i had metallic gold pleather pants like some1 mentioned! i burned any photos of me in them. lol

 

[BarrelOfDonkeys]

Loved the 90s, still having trouble letting go lol. Half of my CD collection is made up of 90s music and most of my TV/DVD-watching time is spent watching Friends, Roseanne, Seinfeld and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Oh and of course Clueless, a staple in any 90s girl's DVD collection. I still have a case full of Pogs under my bed and my Crimp and Curl Cabbage Patch doll is still lying around the house somewhere.

 

[BAMBOOLINA]

OASIS - WONDERWALL.
BRIT BANDS
GIRL POWER (SPICE GIRSL, ALL SAINTS)
BOY BANDS.
TECHNO MUSIC
RAVE AT THE END OF 90´S, GLOWSTICKS...

SMILEY FACES!! gosh, i had yellow short, with yellow smily t-shirt and a transparent pastic belt full of smiley faces all around it.. I was like 10, so that´s ok.

 

[trip75]

FREESTYLE!!!!! OMG...I loved Stevie B, TKA, Little Suzy, Shannon!

 

[toby_is_cute]

Tevin Campbell -- I just heard Round and Round on the radio today
And SWV -- Love Will be Right Here is my JAM!!!

(saying stuff is your Jam)

 

[toby_is_cute]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Krasevayadancer And on a side note, I remember watching my so called life and thinking I was so mature and angst ridden. I remember watching and episode about Angela wanting to have sex with Jordan. That night I wrote in my diary about sex (i was in the fourth grade)

LOL an angst ridden fourth grader. I think a lot of people in the 90s thought they were angst ridden.

 

[Krasevayadancer]

The original emo kids, huh?


Quote:

Originally Posted by toby_is_cute LOL an angst ridden fourth grader. I think a lot of people in the 90s thought they were angst ridden.

 

[florabundance]

in terms of hideous fashion, i distinctly remember skirt over trousers...where u actually bought it as one item...and also, fleece. but mainly the skirt over trousers, cos i cannot believe people actually were like "oh wow how ingeniously stylish".

i remember when i actually teamed my lilac skirt over trousers thing (what the hell was it called??) with a fleece jumper and some platforms.

and ye, it was as hideous as it sounds. luckily, my fashion sense improved from what it was at age 8. this is late 90s btw...'97/98

 

[frocher]

Good music!! *Sounds raspy and old, shakes fist* Today's music just is not as good.

 

[Arisone]

I miss the 90's!!

I'm going through a stage where I am trying to collect

old 90's music, tv shows, toys etc


Grunge/Alternative: The Seattle bands: Pearl Jam, Nirvana,

Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage,

Marylin Manson, No Doubt (Spiderwebs), Stone Temple Pilots (Plush

)

I love the grunge look


Rock: Sinead O'Connor (remember the Pope fiasco), The Red Hot Chilli

Peppers (Give it Away Now!!), U2 (One), Nine Inch Nails (Pretty Hate

Machine and the Downward Spiral.. two albums I still own and love), Prince

, Sarah

McLachlan, Poe, Natalie Merchant (Carnival), Tori Amos (Crucify is still one of my faves!), Oasis,

Hootie and the Blowfish (couldn't

stand them but they were so popular)

Rap: Queen Latifah (U.N.I.T.Y), Vanilla Ice

, Marky Mark, Heavy D and

the Boyz


Reggae: Shabba Ranks, Supercat, Patra


R&B: SWV, En Vogue, Brownstone


Pop: Mariah Carey (ballads in the early years), Britney Spears:watching

her "evolve" from Baby Hit Me One More Time to Stronger, Ace Of Base (All

that She Wants, I Saw The Sign!), Haddaway (What is Love?), Mark

Morrison (Return Of the Mack), N Sync, The Backstreet Boys (Everybody!

)

Slang Terms: "Off the Hook", "That's Fly!", Homegirl/Homeboy

Dances: The Running Man, The Snake


Movies: Robocop, Terminator 2, Aliens (the reaction to Sigourney going

bald), Indecent Proposal, Nightmare On Elm Street, Boys In The Hood,

South Central, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, The Child's Play

movies, Friday The 13th, Beetlejuice, Mermaids, The Crow, Howard The

Duck, The Garbage Pail Kids, The Karate Kid

Favorite 90's actors: Winona Ryder


Books: Sweet Valley High (I used to think these books were so scandalous..

They are nothing compared to the stuff out now like Gossip Girls),

The Babysitter's Club, Sleepover friends, Fear Street, Goosebumps, God Are

You There Its Me Margaret, Wifey


TV: Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Beetlejuice (the cartoon), Are You

Afraid of The Dark, Goosebumps (especially the dummy epsiode), VR

Troopers, Pokemon, the Afterschool/Weekend Specials (the Mouse and the

Motorcycle), 21 Jumpstreet (where i first fell in love with Johnny Depp, remember the theme song?

Go 21 Jumpstreet!!

), Power Rangers (used to make fun of the show in school but

secretly liked it), Felicity (wasn't a fan but I remember how popular it was), My So Called Life,

90210, Melrose Place, The Smurfs, Tales From The Crypt, Xena

,

Hercules, Growing Pains, Silver Spoons, Saved By The Bell, Buffy, Angel


MTV: the video jockeys, beach house, the summer concerts, when Road

Rules and the Real World first began (before the huge reality tv craze)

Crushes: Johnny Depp, Leonardo Di Caprio (The Basketball Diaries, Romeo

and Juliet), Videos actually being played

Events: The second Woodstock concert, Lillith Fair, Kurt Cobain

,

Brandon Lee

Toys: My Little Pony, Cabbage Patch Kids, The Garbage Pail Kids cards

(gum came with them), My Little Buddy

Songs: "I Wanna Sex You Up!" I cannot remember the name of the group

 

[d n d]

I may be repeating previous posts but I remember:

Mood Lipstick-you know, the one that magically matched your mood and stained your lips!

Everyone would bleach their bangs and wear them puffy

Rolled up pants-remember how you would fold the bottom and then roll?

Beach/surf/volleyball style clothing-the t shirts that matched the shorts. The short's were usually neon colored and looked like swimming trunks.

Leggings-these are making a come back though!!!

Turtleneck shirts under any shirt

Those pleated pants like Slater wore on Saved by the Bell

Those striped burlap looking ponchos w/ the hood

Using Kool-Aid for Hair Dye-don't ask me

 

[Le-Saboteur]

I was just a little kid in the 90s (born in '88) and obviously not from the US or UK so some of these might be a bit different, but I remember it well

Shows: Fresh Prince, Full House, Captain Planet, Magic School Bus, Power Rangers, Sailor Moon (lol), Hey Arnold, Real Monsters, uhh... X-Men, Batman, Hulk, Iron Man, Superman cartoons, the big music show we had here called Coca Cola Ready to Roll which was the top 40 chart- went for like three hours on a sunday morning

Bands: Backstreet Boys, OMC!!, Spice Girls of course, Aqua, S Club 7, All Saints...
Other random stuff: CHATTER RINGS, jelly shoes, bracelets made out of the plastic things that come in the top of bottles of fizzy (coke, whatever).

Oh, also, games: Alex the Kidd, Echo the Dolphin, all the Sonic games, crappy DOS games like Jazz Jackrabbit, Halloween Harry and Jill of the Jungle... Duke Nukem! Haha. Doom, Wolfenstein, Crash Bandicoot, the early Tekken Games, Spyro... I was a nerdy kid (still am)

 

[captodometer]

I'm a child of the 80's; I was in college from 1991-1997. For me, the decade was mostly about trying to get an education and a life.

Some of the things I remember:

the birth and death of grunge rock

The (de) evolution of rap and hip hop. Started out with MC Hammer and Will Smith, ended up with Tupac and Biggy Smalls.

A multitude of annoying boy bands

The Spice Girls

The one hit wonders of summer 1996:
OMC-- How Bizarre
Los Del Rios-- The Macarena
White Town-- Your Woman

The birth of country-pop: Jodee Messina, Faith Hill, etc

Can y'all tell I didn't really care for the 90's music scene? I own almost no CD's from this decade.

mad cow disease
E coli 0157H7 (the Jack in the Box bacteria)
Cryptosporidium in the Milwaukee water supply

Freddie Mercury dying from AIDS

Life before the internet and cell phones

Ethnic cleansing in the country formerly known as Yugoslavia

Jerry Springer

Programming from the Fox Network that was in truly bad taste: Alien Autopsy, When Animals Attack, etc

Late Night with Conan O'Brien. And the dudes who came on after him. And the infomercials that came on after them. No sleep for tired veterinary students

Y2K hysteria. People hoarding toilet paper and building survival bunkers, waiting for the world to end. Dom Perignon being crazy expensive in 1999. The Pacific Island of Kiribati was the first to ring in 2000; very understated celebration with traditional Polynesian dancers. I remember getting up really early on what was still New Year's Eve in the US, and seeing the ABC news coverage with Peter Jennings at the anchor desk: it was pretty cool watching the world countdown across the time zones.

 

[breechan]

Choker necklaces, usually black velvet with a (faux) metallic cross.

Tank tops with the lower portion of the back cut out.

Camisoles becoming super popular.

Cookie dough ice cream becomes popular.

Baby barettes on teens, fastened to the hair above the temples.

 

[BEA2LS]

i first think of clueless in the 90s

and animal backpacks, butterfly hair clips, lol.

than i move on to flannel, grunge, nirvana, green day (i really loved the song basket case, haha), my so called life, tupac/biggie

but i can dive into lisa frank, baby-sitters club days of my early years. i am in my mid 20s so alot of my childhood was still pretty 80s - and the early 90s were still pretty 80s

i was in high school for the end of the 90s and there was n sync, backstreet boys, titantic, all the teeny bopper stuff. i remember the skater boys were the cutest ones and the huge jeans they wore, lol. i used to wear jeans with like stripes going down the side, they were really popular where i live. haha.

oh and the best show ever : sweet valley high. oh yes i have season 1 on dvd. oh yes i have all the seasons on VHS. i one time wrote a letter to tv guide because they were talking smack about my beloved svh. let me tell you, i did not cry when i graduated high school but i sure was sobbing on their last book when they did. svh forever!