f you long for the days where white singlet tops and baggy cargo pants were considered an appropriate sartorial combination for a party have I got news for you. Slap on your leather choker and your burgundy lipstick. Find your Alanis Morrisette Jagged Little Pill CD. Dowse yourself in some Impulse Liberte. We’re heading back in time my friends.
My mate Stacey and I were watching the mini series version of Flowers in The Attic (yes there’s a mini series, yes it stars Heather Graham and yes it’s the best thing that’s ever happened) and we thought it would be awesome to start a podcast about all the things we did/saw/loved in the 90s so we could find other cool 90s nerds and be all ‘OMG BLOSSOM!’ with them.
We decided to anchor the show around Sweet Valley High books, with a few other movies and things thrown in. (Spoiler alert – episode 6 is about Clueless. Are you totally buggin?).
If you don’t know how to listen to podcasts – give this a go.
iPhone users
Open up the podcast app on your phone (it already lives there so you don’t need to download it) and search for Sweet Teen Club. Then hit subscribe and you’re good to go.
Android users
The same as iPhone user but you just use the Android podcast app.
Desktop users
You can listen to it while you work at your computer – just click this link here. http://jackrabbit.fm/sweet-teen-club/
I’ve also popped it below for you if you want to listen to it here.
You can also find the show notes and other bits and pieces here at the Jackrabbit site.
If you’re a 90s culture tragic like us please do join in and listen to the podcast – even if you haven’t read Sweet Valley High, we cover off a lot of hilarious 90s teen culture that will leave you cringing.
Use the hashtag #sweetteenclub and let us know where you listen to the show, what you’d like us to cover, and what you remember from that 90s memory
If you want to chat to us about the show (or anything really!) you can find us here.
Carly: Smaggle.com || @smaggle
Stacey: theveggiemama.com || @veggie_mama
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Did you ever read Sweet Valley High books? What 90s pop culture things do you want us to cover?
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I had to haul ass to the kitchen, re-arrange some place settings… but at the end of the day it was like, the more the merrier.
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Was I the only one listening? I mean I thought it reeked!
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Oh Carly, this.is.amazing. I’m totally going to binge listen on a drive from Canberra to Sydney and then listen to 90s pop hits on the way back!
Speaking of which… remember when you couldn’t google lyrics to your favourite songs, and unless you had the CD with the lyrics in the cover, you could only get them in TV Hits magazine? Cutting out the lyrics was my second favourite thing after deciding which side to hang the double-sided Jonathon Brandis and Devon Sawa poster up on the wall.
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Song lyrics were currency at my school! It was always so exciting to grab the latest issue of TV Hits to see what lyrics you were going to get, and then listen to the song over and over (taped off the radio, obvs) while reading along to learn them!
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Oh trying to record your favourite songs off the radio and hoping the radio DJ wouldn’t talk too much in the intro.
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That just totally made my day. Oh and also if they weren’t in TV Hits you’d just have to play the tape and pause it an write down what you thought the lyrics were. and Devon SAWA!!!!!! YAAAAAASSSSSS!
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I am donning a white tee with black spaghetti strap A line dress and a Stussy porkpie hat in readiness. Bring on the ying yangs and Body Shop Dewberry perfume!
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GASP! Body Shop Dewberry perfume!!! Do they still even make that? I’m so going to try to find it today!!!!
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Pretty sure they still make the lipgloss at least. I smell it every time I’m in there, brings back such memories!
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Fond memories of school trips down to Adelaide from the country and crowding around the tester station smelling the glass stick things and dabbing ourselves liberally with Dewberry then quietly leaving without buying a single thing because expensive.
