What do you miss about 1995?

Being young and healthy. And the clothes. Fashion was having a utilitarian moment. Everything was so comfortable! I don't have to miss the music because I can listen to it whenever I want, but it was fun that music was exploring the beauty in deliberate imperfections.

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Everything!!!! Well, except for the Spice Girls, the macarena, boy bands and Euro Disco.

Personally, being away from home for graduate school and a summer in London. (For college, I commuted.) In London, I went to my first rock concert, seeing George Thorogood and the Destroyers.

"Married with ... Children" was still on, but past its prime. In the fall, I discovered "Ned and Stacey" on Fox, but it was good only for one season. If you were a wrestling fan, WCW debuted "Monday Nitro," which directly competed with the WWF. It was the start of another wrestling boom after a few years of declining interest.

The Yankees were playing well, although I didn't quite jump on the new rules for admission in the postseason. Still against the Mariners, I was glued to the TV-screen.

Maybe it was the year before or even 1993, but Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band (which he temporarily left a few years earlier to go solo) released a greatest hits CD, which included the previously unreleased "Murder Incorporated."

In Washington, D.C., where I went to graduate school, I discovered the newly-opened and now-closed three-store Barnes and Noble in Georgetown, the Georgetown Tobacco Shop (still there), and the now-closed Third Edition saloon.

I finally made the transition from my Commodore 64 (which I was using to type my college papers through 1994 until the printer finally broke down) to a Windows PC (Compaq Presario with 4 MGs of RAM) with a dialup modem for AOL and Compuserve access. The content and graphics were limited, but still enough to keep me logged on for hours. (At the time, online providers still charged by the hour.) I honestly didn't think the Internet would become as prevalent in our lives as it was even by 2005. I did notice that more and more people, especially teens, had cell phones, but I didn't think they would be able to bring music, movies, news, etc in an appealing, marketable, and relatively inexpensive format.

I still used cassettes for music. I loved Blockbuster (which seemed to have a wide selection of films including more obscure ones.)

WABC (channel 7) here in NYC still showed movies late at night, including old made-for-TV ones.

Despite the Internet and the growing popularity of cell phones, it seemed you could still keep some semblance of privacy and be left alone. If someone wanted to find you, they had dial information or use a phonebook and hope you were listed and still living in the same place. Today, you can go on Facebook or use those online services that provide every address and phone number you ever had.

I guess 1995 was the year I finally came out my shell and started to live.

Everything. The innocence. The youth. The awesome music, TV and movies. Popples. O'Boise potato chips. Just my pre-depression days where the world held promise and hope for the future. Also Selena. I really miss her. :( But that was before October '95.

I turned 9 in 1995 and honestly that year sucked for my family, so there isn't much that I actually miss about it. The one thing that I can think of is that the music was awesome. The soundtrack to this show is basically the soundtrack to my life back then. I'm waiting to hear Run-Around by Blues Traveler, Roll to Me by Del Amitri, and anything by Hootie and the Blowfish (especially Only Wanna Be with You--Becca looks like the type who likes a man who wants to cry when he sees dolphins). I would love it if they played some Brian Adams; my family loved "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman," which we shortened to "Woman." (My dad and my brother sang that song to my mom when she was in the hospital that year.) These were the first songs that I remember actively listening to as a kid and they form the backbone of my music tastes today (every single one of them are on my Iphone).

I miss music videos!!! I miss warm meals on planes!!! I miss Saturday morning cartoons!!! Nowadays quality children programming or even remotely original is non-existent, right?

Music on MTV. Headbangers Ball. Friends. The mixtape. I remember spending hours picking exactly the right songs to go with whatever was happening that weekend driving around with my friends. And when a song came on that we all loved we'd replay it again and again. I know iPods are amazing, but the thought isn't there like it use to be...

Oh, and Clearly Canadian!!!!!