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Seriously. Anyone? Please?

The modern day sucks. Send me back to the days of Trainspotting and a vaguely optimistic future pre-Al Qaede.

I was totally born 5 years too late. The films then were excellent. The music likewise awesome (apart from Dance. Which to this day I cannot stand). But even when it was gak, it was tolerable. Simon Cowell had no grip on the industry. hippity Hoppity actually meant something.

Surely some Dakkaite has a time machine that I might go and reclaim my wasted youth? Better misspent than saved up for the numbing world of maturity!

You can always go and search up "90s" on Google, print off a million pictures of random 90s stuff, and then wallpaper your bedroom with it

Oh come on.

Go see The Expendables and get a hold of yourself. I'll put that movie up against anything that came out in the 90s.

Monster, that's because "The Expendables" is a tribute to 80's and pre-95 movies and action TV series

You know what I miss most of all? Pre-CGI Transformers. Back when it was all cartoon animated :(

metallifan wrote:Monster, that's because "The Expendables" is a tribute to 80's and pre-95 movies and action TV series

So you really want to go back to the 80s.

Depending upon your sensibilities, possibly NSFW...

Monster Rain wrote:

metallifan wrote:Monster, that's because "The Expendables" is a tribute to 80's and pre-95 movies and action TV series

So you really want to go back to the 80s.

Well, post 95 isn't really "90's"

I mean, there're a few things that could be considered 90's about it, but if you want the true feeling, you're looking pre-95

90s are overrated, remember when people didn't have hi-speed internet and cell phones?

You had to plan gak out carefully. Now it's meet at ____ and everything works out. Back then you actually had to call everybody and set a meeting and exact time at someone's house otherwise it went downhill because there was no way to change the plan once someone was in a car.

I'm glad we're past the stone age.

GRRARRRRGH!!!!!

*attacks Avant Garde in a Luddite pre-90's Stylee!*

I didn't get my first cell phone until 2004. And we didn't have internet until 2000 at my childhood home. Hell, we didn't even own a colour TV with -buttons- until about 1996. Before then, we had an antenna and a black and white picturebox with dials. That's right. dials. And forget about a remote, that was way too space age for that TV

When we finally did get a colour TV, I'm pretty sure I screeched with childish glee for a good 20 minutes until my parents put me outside. No more black and white Canucks games for that boy!

Dude, with you on the Dials!

Though I broke that one in 1991...oops.

I'm with the OP, the 90s were a lot better art-wise, meaning music and movies, and GW was cheaper and more fun, than the present, but it wasn't that great. Sure you could still smoke in restaurants and play NHL'94 on your Sega Genesis, but there were also things that totally sucked in the 90s too. Arsenio Hall to name but one. The constant resurrection of Woodstock was another. The last days of action movies where the 'star' wasn't the special effects.

Actually, the 90s was great for metal fans as the genre had lost its clout. I remember seeing Ozzy, Motorhead, White Zombie, Sabbath, Dio, Maiden and a bunch of other 'legends' in small venues the size of a school gym. I'm getting misty eyed now. Where are my Doc Marten's?

Personally, I think the early to mid 70s would've been a great time to be young. The music was great. The cars cool. The girls not fat. No cell phones. High tide of Western Civilization.

Have fun with your Walkman.

ShumaGorath wrote:

Have fun with your Walkman.

I don't see what that's supposed to prove. I know guys that still use walkmans because they find tapes to have a cleaner sound than a compressed audio file on an mp3 player.

Louise LAUGHS at your weakling modern technology!!!!

metallifan wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:

Have fun with your Walkman.

I don't see what that's supposed to prove. I know guys that still use walkmans because they find tapes to have a cleaner sound than a compressed audio file on an mp3 player.

I like being able to compress a million audio files into one little player that's about the size of one cassette.

metallifan wrote:

ShumaGorath wrote:

Have fun with your Walkman.

I don't see what that's supposed to prove. I know guys that still use walkmans because they find tapes to have a cleaner sound than a compressed audio file on an mp3 player.

Thats actually not true. Tape recordings weren't compressed but they had a limited capacity for recording sound. High bitrate digital audio sounds better with a fuller, more capable audio range then tape was really capable of at the time. A lot of that has to do with the recording methods used while tapes were in vogue though, magnetic strips are capable of giving basically any range of audio(As well as doing basically everything else if you design it right (they just didn't because high end magnetic tape recording and manufacture is stupid expensive)).

Also I can surf the internet. Remember the internet? Oh, your going back to the nineties. Have fun with that!

I no need your steenkeen Internet!

I think you'll find that all the uninformed opinion a man could ever need can be found in any given British Pub, 7 days a week!

metallifan wrote:I didn't get my first cell phone until 2004. And we didn't have internet until 2000 at my childhood home. Hell, we didn't even own a colour TV with -buttons- until about 1996. Before then, we had an antenna and a black and white picturebox with dials. That's right. dials.

I didn't get my first cellphone till late last year. And the only reason i got it was cause my dad never used it.
Same deal with internet.

I had a tv with A button. No remote. I think I beat you.

Yeah, but to be fair, you weren't born until 2005....

ShumaGorath wrote:
Thats actually not true. Tape recordings weren't compressed but they had a limited capacity for recording sound. High bitrate digital audio sounds better with a fuller, more capable audio range then tape was really capable of at the time. A lot of that has to do with the recording methods used while tapes were in vogue though, magnetic strips are capable of giving basically any range of audio(As well as doing basically everything else if you design it right (they just didn't because high end magnetic tape recording and manufacture is stupid expensive).!

And we can't forget how easy it was to ruin magnetic tapes. I can't imagine how many I crapped up by getting something on the exposed tape areas, then playing it and spreading it all over the entire track. Still, tapes have a soft spot with me. Like my first cellphone, I didn't own a discman until 2000. So most of my early life was spend with a walkman and a huge stack of tapes. I've only ever had 2 MP3 players, 1 of which was a 3G I bought at a London Drugs for $10.00. I still have it too... somewhere

Gotta love the warped sounds you could get from a tape accidently left on the dash in summer though

I wish we could have the tech of today with the people of the 90's - if that actually makes any sense.

I really dont think I would miss any music post 2000 (and theres alot from the 90's thats only good because its so laughably bad ), theres a coupla bands/songs I don't hate, but overall most of my favorite stuff is from before I was born anyway

I have a collection of over 400 VHS...the home entertainment you can pelt an intruder to death with!

I hear you, I guess. I'd personally rather be 16 in 1965, honestly. The 60's were better than anything else.

LSD, the hell's angels, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Richard Nixon...Everything about the 60's is amazing...Including the constant threat of nuclear holocaust

The 90s. Why? Today is much better. Nowadays you can still get hold of class A drugs while simultaneously hearing 99% less reasons why they are going to kill you on the news every single night. What's not to love?

whatwhat wrote:The 90s. Why? Today is much better. Nowadays you can still get hold of class A drugs while simultaneously hearing 99% less reasons why they are going to kill you on the news every single night. What's not to love?

Getting killed by the class A drugs.

What were the 90's? is that were the internet was invented?

No, the internet was invented by jesus That was at least 50 years ago..The bible told me

ShumaGorath wrote:

whatwhat wrote:The 90s. Why? Today is much better. Nowadays you can still get hold of class A drugs while simultaneously hearing 99% less reasons why they are going to kill you on the news every single night. What's not to love?

Getting killed by the class A drugs.

Seriously that was just about the most incessant news story of the nineties, why ecstasy and cocaine are bad for you and why your going to have a slow and painful death. (at least in the UK it was anyway). Kind of happy the 'drugs are bad, aids will kill us all' and the plethora of other 90s 'you should be scared, if you're not scared, you should be!' news stories, are gone.

Although to be fair nowadays it's: 'You've got no fething money, be scared! Now!'