pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
only stopping for the occasional satsuma or yoghurt pot
Jurassic Park but every time there's a dinosaur reveal, The Boys Are Back In Town starts playing:There's a Vice article about a guy putting this on the jukebox over and over in some pub until everyone goes nuts and he gets thrown out. The thought of that opening chord and bassline coming on for the nth time and everyone groaning and swearing is absolutely brilliant.
the magical thing about the time barrier is it makes all the great music of the past sound shit and all the shit music of the past sound great.
so here i am a bloke in his twenties loving something like wham and absolutely perplexed by rakim from the same time. i'm sure i'm not alone.
it's not poptimist hipsterism. it's not contrarianism. it's a percular function of music that defines itself in relation to the cutting edge; it dates whereas rubbish ages like wine it's tackiness and ham-fisted sentimentality rendered nostalgic and wonderful by the sepia lens of time.
Jurassic Park but every time there's a dinosaur reveal, The Boys Are Back In Town starts playing:
deus ex machina. a ray of light and all is right in the world.