Is it me, or were the 90s better?

Question

Sunny EVERY day, great music, great brit pop scene .... blur, oasis, verve, oceon colour scene etc.... euro 96, the big bang of the premiership.... could leave ur front door open, no fear of burglary, crime hadn't yet been invented ......

2000s, 9/11. Iran, nuclear threats in the middle east, terrorists, bad music, hoodies

Answer 1

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but you have to get with the times. You may have prefered the nineties to the noughties, but there's no going back. You can still listen to nineties music nowadays, anyway. Maybe crime hadn't been invented yet for you, but for me crime existed the day I was born (91, I'm not telling you the day!), because my parents and I were at the hospital, while my grandma was at home looking after my sister and my cousin. Our next door neighbours were a bunch of little brats, and they started throwing fire bombs around the house. If it weren't for the fire brigade, my sister, cousin and grandma would be dead. Other crimes that I remember happening to anyone I knew included the theft of my mother's purse (it had about £30,000 inside it), and vandalism of my house (someone threw something metal at one of our windows). So don't say crime hadn't been invented yet (or that there was no fear of burglary). Like I said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Answer 2

I was a youth in the 90s but I think I am having more fun, and am enjoying life more now, in the 2000s. I guess it depends on your lifestyle and life circumstances in the times in question.

Now, I have more money, more physical strength, more friends, a much better self image and I think and feel more positively than I did then. Or rather, all of those things have improved since the 90s. I feel as if I am having my youth now. I'm 27 going on 21.

No doubt, the Indie music scene was better, but now I think it's another 'golden era' for dance music. Now we have Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, but then the IRA were much more active. Now we have rumbles in the Middle East, but in 1991 there was a huge clash of land armies in the Middle East.

There are nuclear threats now, just as there were also nuclear threats in the 90s. Now I can still leave my front door open and my back gate unlocked, just as I did way back then.

Now there is probably more sunshine. Look at recent weather!

I think the Premiership is just as entertaining as it was in the mid-90s, especially now as my Watford team are in the top division! I just wish more teams would play two strikers upfront and go for games; and there was more financial parity.

Ok, you are right, Euro 96 was great and the England team then were the closest we have had to a trophy winning side since we actually WON the World Cup...but now Terry Venables is back in the England management set-up. Maybe the good times are about to really roll again.

As for great England victories, we have 5-1 in Munich and 1-0 over Argentina in Sapporo; versus 4-1 over Holland in Euro 96. 2-1 to the 2000s there then.

Each decade has its own unique zeitgeists and cultures. The trick is to embrace each 'era' for what it is, rather than hark back to 'the good old days.....' That's the utterance of a weary middle-ager in the corner of a pub, who nobody really listens to.

Life is what you make of it. Each and every decade can be great for you in some way.

Answer 3

In the 90's people were just recovering from the excesses of the 80's, this included lots of trouble in the Middle East, people going bankrupt left right and center, etc. In the 90's there was the recession which left a lot of people with nothing, music for most of the decade was utter shite (dance crap). Now that Iran and the rest of those Mid-East countries have re-armed and re-formed they're at it again! Music is much better now than it was in the 90's, and people have more money, although that time bomb will probably go off in the 10's and we'll be saying how good the 00's were...

Answer 4

Perspective. I was a teen in the 60's. We had the Beatles but JFK was assassinated. We were hippies and thought we could change the world. The Vietnam War and Nixon. 2000's? How about the Internet, HDTV, the possibility for a cure from many diseases? Don't give up hope. There is no such thing as "The Good Old Days". We have selective memory.

Answer 5

The price of ecstacy is extortionate now. I remember the good old days, driving to my local on my Sinclair C5 with The Prodigy playing on my tape player, popping up to five at a time whilst dancing the night away with my 50p glow stick. And still having enough change to buy the 20p sun for the next week at work....

Ahh the 90's

Answer 6

no, the 80s were better, only 1994 came anywhere near any year in the 80s. 2001 was pretty good, but still not as good as 1994.

1986 was by far the best year in the past millenium, but the other years in the 80s were also good, a personal favourite being 1984.

Answer 7

Yup, it was great! No worries, good music, no major conflicts. All good!

As the article i've sourced says "the 90s began with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and ended with the fall of the twin towers in 2001"

Answer 8

Lohads is right...

The 80's were much better....

In fact pick ant decade and it was better than the 90's...

Watered down anything is a waste os space and the 90's were like having water and squash with only a teaspoon os squash in!!!

No life AT ALL in the 90's!

Answer 9

waaaaaaaaaaaaa, i miss the 90's people didnt care if you stood on top of the table and started singing! nothing was boring you can do cheesy and crazy things without peple judging you, now a days people have just turned out to be such ***holes! but the good point of this year is the great new music!

Answer 10

the 90s (especially 96) where great, but the 80s had better horror films.