Lived too long, I guess. Can’t keep my nostalgia decades straight anymore. As for Hot Chelle Rae, if only there was a way to look things up while you are on the Internet.
Apparently, I need a booster shot for both decades, as I bought a Tuxedomoon CD and a Julianna Hatfield CD yesterday. Of course, I’m a historian, so we are sort of professional obligated to be nostalgic….
But good Commodore, that’s not nostalgia is it? Doesn’t nostalgia demand some sort of hazy remembrance of a time you remember fondly (even if in reality, it sucked?)? How can I have Yugo-nostalgia, if I never lived in Socialist Yugoslavia, for example. Isn’t that some other phenomenon?
See, this is why I didn’t look up Hot Chelle Rae myself. If there is any redemptive quality to either Smashmouth or Sugar Ray, it’s that they don’t exist anymore.
@Mindysan According to “Losing My Edge” by LCD Soundsystem, you can have “borrowed nostalguia for the unremembered 80s”. I think it’s the best sort because it’s easier to like a decade you didn’t see the bad side of.
May 15, 2012
I’m sorry but this comic is completely opaque. What the fuck are you trying to say?
May 15, 2012
Andrew, they take their 80s nostalgia vaccine, but 90s nostalgia comes swarming in around them in the last 3 panels.
I don’t know what Hot Chelle Rae means, but I’m sure it’s something exciting.
May 15, 2012
Lived too long, I guess. Can’t keep my nostalgia decades straight anymore. As for Hot Chelle Rae, if only there was a way to look things up while you are on the Internet.
May 15, 2012
oh oh oh i like it like that riding with windows doowowown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbvzkdYqJDc
May 16, 2012
Apparently, I need a booster shot for both decades, as I bought a Tuxedomoon CD and a Julianna Hatfield CD yesterday. Of course, I’m a historian, so we are sort of professional obligated to be nostalgic….
May 16, 2012
See I solve this by only being nostalgic for decades I haven’t lived through.
May 16, 2012
But good Commodore, that’s not nostalgia is it? Doesn’t nostalgia demand some sort of hazy remembrance of a time you remember fondly (even if in reality, it sucked?)? How can I have Yugo-nostalgia, if I never lived in Socialist Yugoslavia, for example. Isn’t that some other phenomenon?
May 17, 2012
See, this is why I didn’t look up Hot Chelle Rae myself. If there is any redemptive quality to either Smashmouth or Sugar Ray, it’s that they don’t exist anymore.
May 20, 2012
@Mindysan According to “Losing My Edge” by LCD Soundsystem, you can have “borrowed nostalguia for the unremembered 80s”. I think it’s the best sort because it’s easier to like a decade you didn’t see the bad side of.
May 31, 2012
i like this one. thanks!
July 19, 2013
Now if only record labels would support good music again.