What is the most 90s thing?

[Dr Syntax Head]

So good. Still gets a listen quite often. One of the few records that I bought on the strength of it happening to be played in the record shop while I was browsing.

When I first heard this I had no idea of quite how brilliant UNKLE would turn out to be

[Blumf]

Red Bull and Vodka.

What were all that about, eh?

[Custard]

A Naff Naff bomber jacket

[Bazooka]

A lad with curtains hair walks into the video shop eating a box of McCains Micro Chips, he is going to rent Waterworld.

[Sebastian Cobb]

UNKLE's Psyence Fiction is an interesting one- it got more hype than it could possibly have lived up to, and then came the totally unfair backlash when failed to live up to that ridiculous level of hype. It's a good album though, and one which has stood the test of time, but- Mo'Wax, Futura 2000, DJ Shadow, James Lavelle, Richard Ashcroft, Badly Drawn Boy, all the Star Wars (original trilogy) nostalgia? It's pure 90s... but in a good way, which I can't say about the other two examples:

BABY GOT AN ATOM BOMB... Christ, Fluke were naff then and they still sound naff now.

The Propellerheads were fun for a while but it was inevitable that they'd take the wannabe Bond soundtrack thing beyond parody

I'll have been about 12 when it came out, so I think I missed the hype entirely. I suppose I wasn't really aware of it until the 2000's so I got to experience it with fresh ears and no awareness of what it was supposed to be living up to really. Sounds like I'm kind of lucky in that respect by the sounds of it.

[Sebastian Cobb]

A Naff Naff bomber jacket

lol, remember when everyone was wearing ones by companies like Kenwood? I assume it was a hifi/car audio thing but for all I know they could've been 'repping' their food mixer.

I'd quite like a Suburban Base MA2.

[MuteBanana]

Red Bull and Vodka.

What were all that about, eh?

Hooch weren't it? Mind you I didn't drink until 2001 so I know nothing.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Oversaturated video suddenly cuts to black and white 8mm film footage.

[Ham Bap]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R8AbfpXoI4

[Sebastian Cobb]

Remember that period in the 90's where MTV in its entirety consisted of annoying vj's, beavis and butthead and this piece of shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2up7su7CeMU

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

A Global Hypercolor t-shirt that stopped changing colour after its first wash, now stuffed folornly at the back of the drawer. I think that's probably a metaphor for the 90's themselves. Or a simile. Or something.

[Sebastian Cobb]

A Global Hypercolor t-shirt that stopped changing colour after its first wash, now stuffed folornly at the back of the drawer. I think that's probably a metaphor for the 90's themselves. Or a simile. Or something.

YES!

And some 'fat willies' (fnarr) apparel you bought in cornwall and never wore again.

[thenoise]

Spiral laces in fluorescent colour that you don't have to tie up yourself (only fashionable after they were banned from school).

[zomgmouse]

Spice Girls and modems

[Blumf]

Spice Girls and modems

But which sounded better?

Ha hah ahahaaha haaaaaaah aaaaahhh hahahaha hhhaaaaaarrrrrr

[zomgmouse]

But which sounded better?

Your mum

Is the most 90s thing

[Sickbed Virgil]

Pepsi Max, MTV Europe, Hufty, Roger Milla, finding your dads porn and it being a bit stronger than your friends dad's collection and you feel a bit embarrassed, Tab Clear, Head bags, The London Monarchs, James Hewitt, Leah Betts, Consulate Menthol, Fred West, Linford Christie's cock, Rachel Nickell, Mega Drive, Fantasy Football League, fingering, Berghaus, Eldorado, Global Hypercolour, Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf, Games Master, Andres Escobar and Ebola.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Pepsi Max, MTV Europe, Hufty, Roger Milla, finding your dads porn and it being a bit stronger than your friends dad's collection and you feel a bit embarrassed, Tab Clear, Head bags, The London Monarchs, James Hewitt, Leah Betts, Consulate Menthol, Fred West, Linford Christie's cock, Rachel Nickell, Mega Drive, Fantasy Football League, fingering, Berghaus, Eldorado, Global Hypercolour, Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf, Games Master, Andres Escobar and Ebola.

Billy Joel's failed comeback.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

"The information superhighway".

[Phil_A]

Remember that period in the 90's where MTV in its entirety consisted of annoying vj's, beavis and butthead and this piece of shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2up7su7CeMU

You're mental, that's a tune and a half. I've still got a crush on the girl with braces on her teeth.

In answer to the thread question, it's this 1993 Nissan Primera ad. The hair. The music. The clothes. The dreadful "cool" affectations.

https://youtu.be/69WpyIniGdg?t=568

I've never understood why does not-Kelsey Grammar has to completely change his clothes before meeting his family,  as if they'll freak out and disown him if they see him not wearing a suit. It's weird.

It's either that or the video for Love City Groove by Love City Groove.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBOyS6OV4Kc

[Sickbed Virgil]

Billy Joel's failed comeback.

Unfortunately I don't think the prick ever went away.

[pigamus]

Whigfield.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

In answer to the thread question, it's this 1993 Nissan Primera ad. The hair. The music. The clothes. The dreadful "cool" affectations.

https://youtu.be/69WpyIniGdg?t=568

Blimey, you win. I remember* one of the SOTCAA boys once adamantly stating that the 90's had no cultural identity - nothing that you could easily parody - but there it is.


_{*because of how obviously wrong it was.}

[greenman]

This pair of cunts

Honestly though thinking JK is a twat is probably a good contender for the most 90's thing.

[Swoz_MK]

[Danger Man]

Men Behaving Badly

[thenoise]

Men Behaving Badly

FHM magazine
Ben Elton's 90s LAD material
Swaggering to the BAR to order a LAGER with the LADs
LADDETTEs
LADs
Superclubs

[Captain Z]

Buying 2 for £10 Friends VHS tapes and a CD single of the song from the Levis ad from Woolworths.

[Danger Man]

FHM magazine
Ben Elton's 90s LAD material
Swaggering to the BAR to order a LAGER with the LADs
LADDETTEs
LADs
Superclubs

LOADED magazine

[greenman]

Could be early 00's as well but Guinness adverts from the likes of Jonathan Glazer , a reminder of an era when there was both something worth watching on Channel 4 that might get you watching them and an era before Sky's massive jump in channels with soul destroying payday lender, personal injury and insurance comparison adverts.