I see from my ventures online that there seems to be a lot of excitement over the upcoming reunion tour of England's Answer to The Black Crowes, But Not As Good. Of course this goes hand-in-hand with nostalgia for Cool Britannia, when the UK was awash in the previously unknown and unseen Union Jack and a radioactive ghoul managed to get elected Prime Minister. (The latter sounds cooler than it was.)
It's all part of the circle of life, of course. The 90s are back―or at least the most mainstream aspects of it are―because a sufficient number of people who were teenagers then have attained high status jobs. I'm a little different though. It's not that I'm immune to nostalgia, but I don't remember the time of my adolescence as being some great lost golden age.
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As you might expect I know nothing about Oasis. I've read the article you linked to and understand the two brothers were known for fighting a lot up until the time when things between them got so out of hand they gave up playing together. I suspect the reunion comes down to the need/desire for money. Naturally, the sibling feud I remember was the onging one beteen Ray and Dave but they were fun to see and hear.
Do you mean John Major who convinced Boris Yeltsin to agree to sign the London Dumping Convention Amendment as well as doing some radioactive waste management? No, I didn't remember that on my own, I had to look it up. "Over lunch we discussed Chernobyl" How very dry.
Things started to get dark in the 90s - grunge never appealed to me (okay, Nirvana was kind of cool), but most gangsta rap and death metal was about as negative as you can get. I understand how it would be hard to find anything much to be nostalgic about; how much more welcoming is the music of earlier decades.
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ps - Last time I should have said Taylor Swift, not Britney Spears - not that I listen to either one :)
I wouldn't contradict people who were into Oasis, in part because that kind of argument seems like a poor use of time in general. They just never seemed very interesting to me. Too samey. The Kinks were conservative in a way but always idiosyncratic and personal.
Good research on John Major. But no, I was talking about Tony Blair. Mostly on the basis of him being an especially creepy example of the global elite.
The 90s had its share of interesting music. Nirvana were one example, although one it's hard to get an evenhanded assessment on due to Cobain's self destruction. The big mark against the decade relating to music was the way commercial radio became concentrated in a few big conglomerates, the beginning of the end of the art form in this country.
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Oh yeah, this is where you made the correction. Swift is the one who's still popular.
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