@nixvet
As someone who grew up in the 90s, these comments are almost bringing a tear to my eye. Sometimes I wish I could go back to a simpler time.
@makeitcraz6342
Just remember nostalgia is the killer of joy, it is good to have lived the experiences but do not forget to keep new ones coming!
@SpicyDragoon
When Friday nights consisted of a Pizza, pop corn, soda and a couple of rentals from Blockbuster and it didn't cost month's salary either, haha good times.
@jdolce101
Many of us who lived in the 80's and 90's know how different and "better" daily life was compared to what we're living today. I heard a good quote recently that I felt was worth sharing... "In the moment, you don't realize you're living in the good ole days." If only we knew we would have cherished it more. However, twenty years from now, we may be saying the exact same thing about today.
@Queloque-u8p
I listen to this mix when I come home late and lie on my bed, in the darkness and the silence, and I reminisce. I remember all the bad, the alcohol, the drugs, the violence, the heartbreak, the trauma, but it also makes me remember all the good, my childhood friends, hanging out after school, having fun, the first girl I liked, my first girlfriend, sitting together on a hill above the city watching the sun go down, late night drives, walking in the rain. Takes me back to both the worst and the best days of my life
@OyxNova
I will always miss back in the late 90s as a kid on rainy Fridays my mom used to take me to Blockbuster to rent a couple of movies and a game to enjoy over the weekend. Even though we lived pretty far from the shop and we had to go and back by bus I have to really thank her for creating such warm memories that sticks to me to this day and forever. I often find myself longing for those simpler times when a movie was a wonderful experience to witness and a rented game was something mysterious and that must be lived and played fully knowing you only have a weekend to enjoy it. Going back to my old small hometown nowadays bares only a longing feeling of nostalgia of how things were before... only one shop I found remained the same as long time ago and after I stepped in for a split second I had a feeling as if I was back in time and nothing really changed from then... I came back to my senses and to the present and walked out of the store. Thank you for reading my long comment, this was my experience a few months back when I went to visit my old hometown.
@chaleowin7732
I would give much for being able to grow up in the 80-90's again knowing what I know now. I would have cherished the time more.
@adamjlx2
Loved the times when information took its time getting to us instead of real time. We're living life way too fast to enjoy anything these days.
@TheNitroPython
Kinda funny it says 1998 but there is a redbox in the image lol
@drewcaraballo6883
Longing for a time that no longer exists but still get subtle reminders. Glad things like this exist to serve that purpose
@jackgorby-z8d
Im old, my first high school job was renting people VHS tapes. There was a little corner with a beanbag chair where little kids could watch a CRT TV on the floor, usually with the little mermaid or something playing on it and a few toys. Young couples would browse the racks arguing over what to watch. A kid would throw a fit when his mom only let him get one N64 game. The one female employee would be rolling her eyes as a guy complained in great detail about his .25 or .50 c late fees. A guy who reeked of weed renting zombie movies and a buying a big pile of candy and chips with crumpled dollars and coins everywhere. An incognito husband would return from behind the beads with an adult movie sandwiched between two regular ones. Once a week the manager would make the cash drop to the bank, and return with an entire pizza, which he obviously bought with some of the cash, and eat the entire thing by himself in the tiny office with floor to ceiling plastic VHS rental boxes and stacks of papers. We made 6.00/hr, deadpan min wage at the time, yet somehow that was enough for the full time guys to afford small apartments and cars and gas decently enough.
@nightdrivesynths
civilization peaked at 80s and 90s, its just downhill from there
@priscillaemmanuel222
There's something to be said about 80s and 90s nostalgia. It felt like a golden age of sorts. And it weirds me out to hear myself call it special. I was an '83 baby, and my formative years, childhood and teen years were rife with the kind of trauma that comes from a heavily dysfunctional and abusive family. The 80s and 90s were absolutely some of the worst times of my life as a first born daughter of a Brown evangelical Christian family. But I still look back with such sad longing. Even though home life was volatile, I had my brothers, I had all my books, a wild and vivid imagination that saw me through all the hard times, and a rebellious thirst for adventure that lead me to where I am now. People were more open and hospitable. It was easy to make friends. Things were insanely cheap, mall culture was just beginning, and new fast food joints like KFC and McDonald's starting sprouting everywhere. I used to be able to walk to school and back without anyone worrying for my safety. And we used to PLAY! How we loved being outside. I still wonder how my father was able to drive all over the city, and sometimes cross country without any GPS lol. It truly was both the best and worst of times in the most ironic way for me. But I'll always look back with that unmistakable longing for time that held the promise of a better future while unforgettable memories were being made.
@mattturner7531
The old Blockbuster in the town I grew up in is now a Chipotle/GenSushi/AT&T Wireless building... ha, the old rental stores were MASSIVE, it was a half hour event to go find a movie you were willing to take home. You read the cover, you looked at the actors and you asked the local video nerd what they thought - it was a process, and a social event to go rent a movie or two, or three.
@retrovibe80s123
Such a beautiful composition! It gave me goosebumps.
@FreeToPlay-k6j
Just remember nostalgia is the killer of joy, it is good to have lived the experiences but do not forget to keep new ones coming...
@janinejames645
This is beautiful. I really miss the 90s and how carefree we all were. It was a decade for dreaming. Moments still meant so much.
@pyrophilic1
I like how this convenience store has a Redbox and an Amazon locker in front of it. Neither of which existed in 1998.
@blurgle9185
I remember renting Pirates of Carribean as a young teen, being struck by a dread that there was no mystery for me to find/explore; all lands are charted, the great adventures were already had; and that the future would only be a battle of tugs on my soul to fit into a society that held no appeal to me. I'd like to think I retained my inner child as well as I could, but when I think just back 7 years ago, I'm at a loss reminiscing how much more alive I was then. I feel I know too much things I don't need to know and too little of the things that can't be described. I keep finding and giving love, but the sentiment feels less pure and more hollow as time goes on, like I'm shoehorning that feeling into relationships just to feel like I once did. It's not a temporary rut, it's been a slow development. Maybe it's me, aging, becoming jaded; or it's the stark reality of entropy permeating into everything. Maybe I'll find a new path. I'm not a nostalgic person, but I'd do anything to fall in love with the world again. I still harbor some hope that there's a great swathe of uncharted territory that have eluded me, a place that will avail itself unto me when I'm wise enough to discern its existence. I fuckin hope it's not golf.
@illusionxmuta