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Being British in the 90s

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
edited January 2023 in General Chat
what good stuff can you remember about being British in the 90s, films? TV? Sports?

I mainly remember that Gazza goal against Scotland, Owen's goal against Argentina, Beckham's free kick against Greece, Southgate missing that penalty, and both Becks & Gazza being sent off in WC matches.

Not to forget Oasis, the soundtrack for the 90s.

Oh, and Human Traffic - the last great film of the 90s :D!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    All i remember is Take That and East 17.

    Babyshambler reminded me - Spice Girls. They were my life like 96/97. Had posters, videos, books, shoes everything.

    Sports - Euro 96 sticks in my mind. Was the first time i'd watched football.

    TV - Top of the Pops, Art Attack i seemed to watch a lot, oh yeah and Birds of a Feather. Used to love that.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Music - it has to be Wet Wet Wet, Take That and the Spice Girls for me... and buying Smash Hits every week and sticking those free stickers fucking everywhere! I didn't really begin to appreciate Oasis until a few years ago, when I grew up a bit.

    TV/Books - I remember running home from school to watch The Demon Headmaster, and proper loving Jacqueline Wilson books. The Bed & Breakfast Star! Mint.

    Sports - watching Stockport County every week, home and away. Still love them now.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I remember fuck all. I must have been asleep before my teens :|

    Actually! I remember Cartoon Network; Hong Kong Phooey, The Flintstones, TopCat, Scooby Doo, Wacky Races and The Jetsons etc. Aah they don't show them anymore :(

    And Brum and Thomas The Tank Engine and Rosie and Jim and Come Outside with the old lady with the polka-dot plane :D

    Aah. Tears in my eye hahaha
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I remember singing to Robson & Jerome and The Beautiful South.

    Also used to like watching Wizadora, TopCat, Keanan & Kel etc.

    I can't really think of much else, i wasn't all that old to remember much of importance.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bewitched, Billie

    Scream films

    TFI Friday, Brookside, Heartbreak High, Queer as Folk, The Lakes, Sex chips and rock n roll
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    squeal wrote:
    I remember singing to Robson & Jerome and The Beautiful South.

    Also used to like watching Wizadora, TopCat, Keanan & Kel etc.

    I can't really think of much else, i wasn't all that old to remember much of importance.
    Jesus, blast from the past. I just had all these memories of that TV show (Wizadora) and Nickelodeon was class before it started showing all that shite it does nowadays!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Where to start...
    Kids TV: Fragle rock, kissyfur, gummi bears, the woozles, super mario bros. wackaday, live & kicking, can anyone else remember tc kat (kool kat) from sky one? The boy who swang over the bar..INSIDE OUT BOY!!
    Other tv: birds of a feather, 2 point 4 children, bottom, red dwarf, harry enfield,
    music: oasis, east 17, spice girls, take that, boyzone, blur, sash, babylon zoo, d-ream, eternal, this list could go on for days..
    food: chips with sauce down the middle, crunch bars, lucky bags
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    wtf is chips with the sauce down the middle?

    anyone remember tangy toms which cost 5p from the school tuck shop and you would lick them and make long chains?

    I was in the Brownies and had one of those lovely brown dresses with a sash and a woggle. Cool or what.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    half the TV programs mentioned are 80s ones I think.
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    SkiveSkive Posts: 15,286 Skive's The Limit
    Hardcore, Forest Parties Ecstasy and Raving.
    Oasis, Blur, dance music in general
    Human Traffic, Fear and Loathing
    Hyper colour T Shirts, Kangol hats, Ellesse, my first mobile phone
    World Cup 98, Le Tissier, The Dell
    Weekender Offender 
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Oasis, Blur, Pulp, Lightning Seeds, Cast, Supergrass, Suede, Stone Roses, Radiohead (didn't get into them properly 'til later, but I still remember all their songs being around), Massive Attack, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Boyzone, Take That, Spice Girls, Westlife, M People, The Demon Headmaster, Absolutely Fabulous, Red Dwarf, Harry Enfield and Chums, The Fast Show, Men Behaving Badly, Wallace and Gromit, Fearne Cotton's first day on Diggit (god, that was a good day for TV), Michael Barrymore programmes, Stars in thier Eyes, The Generation Game, Big Break, Goldeneye tournaments, Grand Theft Auto, Man City being shit(ter), Becks sending off, Southgate's Pizza Hut ad, Kevin Keegan's rant, Shearer and Sutton, Opel Fruits, Wagon Wheels being bigger (or me being smaller, I'm not sure), Adidas pants making a return, Nike Air Max, Reebok Hexalite, Reebok Pumps, Adidas Torsion, Puma Discs, Puma Kings, Adidas Predators, LA Gear, and then Hitec, Nicks or Mercurys for the kids that couldn't afford the others, Kickers, Pod, CAT Boots, and Eric Cantona collars (which seems to have returned among chavs in polo shirts recently).
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Fuck ya's I'm not British. Though from the 90's I remember, Oasis/Blur rivalry, Take That, National Lottery, Noel's House Party, Dance Music, Spice Girls, basucally the best time of my life even if I was a young 'un! :thumb:
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Yerascrote wrote:
    Noel's House Party
    :thumb: Down at Crinkley Bottom!

    Channel 5 came into existence. OMG that was a BIG event, and all they showed to start with was Raw Hide. Aahahahaha.

    Rainbow. Seasame Street. I paid no attention to pop music AT ALL. As such, Fear Factory was my main thing then.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Pj & duncan
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Castlemorton festival
    Spiral Tribe
    DIY Soundsystem
    Reclaim the Streets
    Road protests
    Deptford Urban Festival
    CJB protests
    acid techno before it was shit
    hard house before it was shit
    trance before it was shit
    Cooltan
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Oh I forgot, Mr. Bean.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    big manga blitz
    watching marvel stuff

    thats all I really remember...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Wasn't Tab an 80's drink? It's in Back to the Future and everything.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The Orb
    Orbital
    Massive Attack
    Future Sound of London
    Portishead
    Screamadelica
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'm With Stupid wrote:
    Wasn't Tab an 80's drink? It's in Back to the Future and everything.

    Was It? hm. Thats was just when it was on sale in the shops till they pulled it from shelves. Thats how I remember the 90's though, that and cream soda hubba bubba.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ibiza scene,
    oasis and blur,
    firestarter,
    gladiators, disney club, going live, hart beat/art attack,
    baggios and southgates penaltys, beckham sent off, man u's treble
    cargo pants, checked shirts, big logos on sweaters,
    undercuts, centre partings
    rollerblading,
    tangy toms, space raiders, wagon wheels, tabs, chuppa chups, chew bars.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Trainspotting and pickled onion space raiders. Ah, the joys of a misspent youth :thumb:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jurassic Park. When that film came out, the whole country went dinosaur crazy. The natural history museum must have made a killing off the back of the film's success!

    The Blur/Oasis thing. I was always more of a Blur fan. Parklife was one of the very first albums I acquired. I still have it.
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    BunnieBunnie Posts: 6,099 Master Poster
    briggi wrote:
    pickled onion space raiders.

    I had them for my lunch (and just them, i was poor!) everyday at school from year 9 to 11.

    Strangely I havent gone off them! :yum:

    I adored Human Traffic. It is still up there as one of my faves.

    I remember Sun In and straw like hair as a result, and walking the streets in Adidas Poppers, and thinking I was the bees knees

    Oh and Icey, do you mean Top Cat? the yellow cool cat from america?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Blagsta wrote:
    Castlemorton festival
    Spiral Tribe
    DIY Soundsystem
    Reclaim the Streets
    Road protests
    Deptford Urban Festival
    CJB protests
    acid techno before it was shit
    hard house before it was shit
    trance before it was shit
    Cooltan

    i <3 you!! basically all of that - plus lots of going to squat parties and nearly all my friends living in various squats all over london - lots of other semi illegal activity and J18 and all that utter madness.
    Not having to pay for glastonbury because everyone climed over the fence
    Mods vs Rockers - blur vs Oasis
    Italia 90!
    Euro 96
    old skool music before it was old skool
    808 state - happy mondays and the whole baggy madchester thing
    Melody Maker
    PJ and Duncan - and byker grove
    The Big Breakfast
    New 50p coins
    The fall of communisum - particually romania - which I remember really vividly.
    The 1st Gulf War and watching all the missile reports on the TV on the extended news every night - which was really quite exciting as they all had TV images and you tended to forget they were actually killing people.
    IRA bombs
    Badger watching.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mega Drives & SNES'
    Gameboys
    Cantona's goal against Liverpool in the FA Cup final.
    Most of the other football memories mentionned (after about 93-94)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bunnie wrote:
    Oh and Icey, do you mean Top Cat? the yellow cool cat from america?
    Noooo! I know who topcat is. This was like a real life puppet thingy like roland rat type thing. Used to be on sky one in the mornings before school and basically just used to make jokes, run competitions and intoduce cartoons
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Picked Onion Space Raiders and Tab are both from 70s dudes.

    I was there.

    My most abiding memory of the 90s was the re-birth of Glastonbury and the rise of festivals generally...

    Apart from the births of my kids of course ;)
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