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At their first rehearsal, ex-Psychobilly upright bassist Edgar Winterhoff switched to electric bass guitar; Schneider (aka Dirk Dresselhaus) switched from drums to guitar and vocals; bassist Gumbo Botanik (aka Thorsten Abel) switched from bass to guitar; chanteuse Brit Bordeaux (aka Britta Hamann) never sang before; and the ambitious Crossover drummer Mitch Meyer was forced to play as minimally as possible for musical reasons.
The first H.Y.T. lineup split up in 1990, and they continued without their female lead singer and with a new drummer named Oli Paroli (aka Olaf Arndt).
In 1991, they supported the Walkabouts on their European tour and subsequently received a record deal with the Glitterhouse label. The debut album, Deflowered, was released in 1992 and received positive reviews throughout Europe. The EP Root'n Varies followed in 1993, which, in contrast to the debut album, was only recorded with acoustic instruments. With Shrug in 1994, on the other hand, the rough sound experiments of the debut album were picked up again, and some of the growing intensity of their live shows of that period was captured.
The band became one of the driving forces of their area's indie scene, the so-called "Ostwestfälische Gitarrenschule" ("East Westphalian guitar school") in the early 1990s, and continued to perform regularly live throughout Europe, sharing bills with the likes of Pond, Gumball, The Ramones, Speed Niggs, Motorpsycho, Tuesday Weld, Beck, The Cramps, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Codeine, A Subtle Plague, Rein Sanction, and others. They released their final album, Ventilator, in 1996, which leaned more towards experimental pop music than previous albums and was followed by a 12“ maxi series with remixes by Console, To Rococo Rot, Tonio Neuhaus, Carlos Peron, and others.
The Hip Young Things disbanded in 1997 due to "musical and personal differences.“ The band members remained active in the music scene.
