>visit the pilots when flying
>go to school all day and ride bikes all afternoon
>original playstation
>windows 95, diskettes, encarta, mavis beacon
>memorising phone numbers
>roller blades
>NSYNC, Westlife, etc
Sushipunk
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Originally posted by FuzzQi
encarta
Best one.
looom
lots of fresh air
being younger
folding paper planes and experimenting how to fold the best one
riding a bike to get anywhere
learning English by watching cartoons :D
doing mischief.. lots of it
being mischievous.. often enough
Desiderata
I forgot Skateboarding and XTC
Lagrangian
Remember taking a nap after school with MTV on and this came out
I was transformed mentally and spiritually, A changed boy. So intense, scary, and beautiful at the same time.
Salegon
quote:
Originally posted by Vector A
haha Myst :D
Also:
and:
not to forget:
DJ RANN
The 90's were special for me. The early part was kinda rough, growing up in a ghetto area, bit of a rough school but still had fun although you had to watch yourself. in the mid to end of the 90's, I didn't know it at the time but I really did have the time of my life. I had so much fun and knew that at the time, but just not how ing great it was. Thinking back, so many incredible lineups and events.
Being in London, the music was great and it really was kinda the center of the earth for it at the time.
Rave culture exploding, you had the whole indie thing happening (Oasis, Blur, Suade), at the same time clubbing was exploding without being lame and commercial, bristol was doing the whole triphop thing so well (tricky/portishead etc), elecronica and Beat Beat raised it head for a short period before it eat itself.
I think at one point (around 1998) there were more than twelve 2,000+ people club nights on a Friday night, mainly trance/epic house/hardhouse etc. Not even talking about the underground stuff or other raves.
I remember Jungle coming up and morphing in to DnB, Garage (not that ing later tripe: speed garage) and then prog really taking certer stage.
Man, now I really contextualize it, I realise how damn lucky I was to be the right age at the time. Well, actually not quite the right age but I had a true gift for forging ID's that doormen just couldn't argue with.
I'd been to hardcore and oldschool raves at 14/15 - I first came up at a huge DnB/Olschool rave - DJ Hype played his remix of Ready Or Not (fugess) and , he wasn't kidding.
My first "house" club came while on a family holiday in Ibiza. Priviledge - Manumission. That changed everything and I'm happy that was my first real club. And those two weeks in Ibiza (pre-Ibiza uncovered which was the start of the end) were nothing short of magical.
Funnily enough, people say 90's fashion was bad and it was (and when I see the revival thing especially here in LA I see it is) but back then you had to dress up to get in to clubs. it was ing great. good looking people, well dressed. No shoes, no shirt = no entry. Trainers/sneakers or a T-shirt were a sure fire way to get refused on the door at any EDM club worth it's salt.
But yeah, baggy pants, dungarees, white gloves, glowsticks, ben shermans, reeebok classics, (fake) Ralph lauren sport jackets - not good looks.
No cares as well at that point - I didn't have the pressures of bills and rent. So many good times.
LA in this period reminds me of it in some ways. Loads of clubs, tons going on, being in and coming out of recession (which was a big factor in the 90's) and enjoying life. The 00's were actually pretty ty for me.
Lagrangian
DJ RANN, that is awesome! I used to follow the UK scene at the time. "What's the story, Morning Glory" was my first CD EVER! My mom said, "They sound like the Beatles, but with very bad instruments". The fashion was awful, but sexy in some ways--the baggy jeans, metallic chains, red-eyed skulls -- I dyed my hair orange once. Lol so much fun!!
Napster! Remember that?! Who can forget the Real Audio boom too! People take streaming for granted, but in the 90s it was so clunky & . On the other hand, many UK clubs and dance stations would stream their sessions online; even if you had to wait during those annoying 'buffering' periods, it was well worth it.
What about Netscape? kinda disappointed that Marc Andresseen has turned out to be a complete tosser. :D
Great times overall.
Zharen
A much better decade than this current one.
Funny though, how many rappers used to talk about not having a black President back then. We got one now and aside from health care, can't even get anything else passed. Happy now rappers? :p
Lagrangian
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Originally posted by Zharen
A much better decade than this current one.
Funny though, how many rappers used to talk about not having a black President back then. We got one now and aside from health care, can't even get anything else passed. Happy now rappers? :p
But it's all Dubya's fault, no?!
Remember, the guy who was caught reading a children's book upside down? You know, the one who just recently opened a Librarry in TX for childrens who can't read good.
Sho nuff
Zharen
W. will always be a lying, manipulative piece of . His legacy continues on in Iraq. Worst sectarian violence this past month than in the last 6 years. That said, it is quite unfortunate Obama can't get anything done thanks to a highly partisan Congress. His 2nd term has been extremely lackluster, and while I understand the reason, he's still going to have to come up with something in order to get his policies pushed through. You can't just point the finger at Congress for the entire 8 years.
Sushipunk
quote:
Originally posted by Zharen
W. will always be a lying, manipulative piece of .
