Which came first? Was it 20-year-old trends or the 20-year trend cycle, prompting people to dig out trends from 20 years ago? I don’t have the answer to such a question, and you are probably finding it hard to even decipher it. For whichever reason, Oasis will reissue What’s the Story: Morning Glory this September, the 1995 album that cemented their position in music history.
Oasis haven’t played together since 2009, but Noel’s still reaping the benefits of his former song-writing years. In April, he helped put together Chasing the Sun: Oasis 1993 – 1997, an exhibition celebrating their first four years as a signed act, and announced that their first three albums would be reissued. Definitely Maybe came first (it didn’t exactly meet with Liam’s approval) and Be Here Now will be the last in the Chasing the Sun series.
Who’d have thought that Brit Pop would have such lasting appeal? Like mums from the early 80s, still faithful to their champagne-coloured jumpsuits and pointy stilettos, a not-so-small division of our generation will grow old in their graphic designer t-shirts and peaked caps. Who would have thought that younger generations – crying onto their oiled muscles and raw food salads – would look back on the louts of our past as unlikely heroes, bastions of a cocky, carefree age?
And if you think we've already exhausted every possible cultural reference from the 90s, think again. Here are ten things we’d like to see remastered and reissued for 2015.
1) My So-Called Life
As a teenager, I found it deeply upsetting that My So-Called Life only lasted one series. At the time, it seemed quite dark and ‘edgy’. There were kids doing drugs on Channel 4. Let’s bring back Claire Danes and Terry’s mate Jared Leto for one final lingering look. Robert Pattinson and Kristen have nothing on Claire and Jared, the originators of breathy stuttering and tense stares.
2) Boomy ice lollies
Boomy’s fell into the discontinued bin and out of all memories, but not mine. Strawberry on the top, lemon in the middle and orange on the bottom, Boomy’s were the crème de la crème of the iced-snack world.
3) Centre partings
There’s something very satisfying about a straight line of scalp.
4) Good, clean pop
Personally, I do not like pop music, but everyone has an Achilles’ heel and 1995 was a great year for pop music. N-Trance’s Set you Free, Everything But the Girl’s Missing, Seal’s Kiss from a Rose, TLC’s Waterfalls, Pulp’s Common People, the Original’s I Luv you Baby. DJ Pete whacked out the bangers at birthday discos, set to a light display of red, yellow and green. Whizzo!
5) Satin
Unkind to most but not Helena Christensen, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell.
6) Clueless
Clueless changed my life as a ten year old so who knows what it did for the people who actually understood all the sexual references.
7) Boho
Everything goes on about the 00s being the time of boho. That’s rubbish. I was boho back in 1995, when I used to go down to the indoor market to buy floppy velvet hats, glow in the dark stars and incense. All my sheets were indigo, a lot of what I owned was indigo. There was an alien period too, we all got into aliens. We were in touch with all aspects of spirituality in those days, it was a very tolerant time.
8) Brown lipstick
People used to think of red lipstick as a bit racy, brown was class.
9) Bottom
The final series of Bottom aired on the BBC in 1995 and it was the last time we saw Rik Mayall and Ade Edmundson in their element. RIP Rik. Here’s an excerpt from episode 9, The Burglar:
Eddie: Shall I make him sweat, chief?
Richie: How d'you mean?
Eddie: You know, stick an overcoat on him, bung a hot-water-bottle down his trousers.
10) One penny sweets
1995 was probably the last time you could use one penny in a solo purchase. They were days when you could get a bag full of black jacks and fruit salads and still have change for the bus.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.