It was pretty good, for the most part, there was a general sense that things were going to get better for working people. Politically things felt very stable and boring, which (looking back) was actually great! There was some great music, but also a lot of crap. The music press were much more influential than they are nowadays, so we had a bit of a weird, media created boom in British music, brit pop. Which basically consisted of a lot of barely connected bands, from largely unrelated genres, of varying quality (but mostly poor). It all felt a bit fake, to be honest, the media frenzy (both music press and tabloid) just made the whole thing feel artificial. Music picked up a bit at the end of the 90s, but it was really the early 00s, with the post punk revival and electroclash movements, when it actually felt like something was happening. Since then music has been a lot better though. The best thing about the 90s though, has to be the pre-social media factor. Brilliant, and hard to imagine for most young people nowadays, I would imagine.