![]() Pic: Joe Telling/ Flickr/ Creative Commons What would a teenage bedroom have been without a trusty tape collection? Stacks upon stacks of Now! compilations, songs taped off the radio – to be played on your sticker-covered Walkman, of course. A lava lampĪlongside a fibre optic ornament, the lava lamp was the coolest bedroom accessory going. They were also ideal for sticking it to the man (read: your parents) with a series of posters featuring swears and lewd stick figures. Your walls were where you pledged your allegiance to either Blur or Oasis, Boyzone or Take That. Your bedroom walls displayed your taste in the way an iPod does now. ![]() Stacked in the corner of your bedroom was your precious collection – including anything from the NME, Smash Hits, Kerrang!, Just Seventeen, Sugar and a straggler Beano annual from last Christmas. Some excerpts could make Adrian Mole blush. A locked notebook full of handwriting dotted with hearts, musings on the fairness of life, and a detailed breakdown of that week’s crushes. Your secret diaryĭon’t deny it! Somewhere well-hidden in your old room is a tear-soaked teenage diary. Especially comforting when you were sent to bed without your dinner for giving your brother a thump at the dinner table. These stars, bought in the pound shop, were painstakingly applied to the ceiling and gave off a satisfying tacky glow. Here are 9 of the things that made it special. After a tearful argument with your parents over curfews and discos, it was where you ran, slammed the door and blasted angsty lyrics.
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