Tomorrow remember yesterday
Bill:
OK. The Sox played 20 games in 20 days. Won 13 of 'em. And finish right where they started the 20-stretch, a 1.5 game lead in the AL East.
Bill:
So I'm gonna take last night's loss in stride.
Mike:
Seriously. Time to just chill out, put on some tunes...
Bill:
Speaking of...
Bill:
The best thing about Spotify is it gives you the chance to dig up and listen to music from your past.
Bill:
But the worst thing about Spotify is it gives you the chance to dig up and listen to music from your past.
Mike:
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, eh?
Bill:
Jesus. I need to go back in time and give my past self a serious beat down.
Mike:
Need to go all Bat Shit Taverez on your previous self.
Bill:
Yeah, Tavarez with a heavy helping of Tek:
"Listen up youngah, Bill, we don't throw at .260 hittahs and we don't listen to this pussy music you've been playing on your Walkman!"
Don't remember The Colourfield, but "Virgins & Philistines" sounds like a good porn title.
Posted by: soxinsix | 2011.08.11 at 09:18 AM
A similar thing to what HB describes but for TV is what I call "The Night Court Effect", wherein you remember a TV show as ridiculously funny, but when you watch it in later life you're wondering how it could be more hokey and obvious.
Posted by: da kine | 2011.08.11 at 09:30 AM
A similar thing to what HB describes but for TV is what I call "The Night Court Effect", wherein you remember a TV show as ridiculously funny, but when you watch it in later life you're wondering how it could be more hokey and obvious.
Posted by: da kine | 2011.08.11 at 09:30 AM
Haha. h.b. you go stuck in what my husband refers to as the 'pussy-rock-college-anthhem-infusion-seduction-loop'. He claims that I still live in this loop. :(
It's not easy to be mocked by a man whose last iPod shuffle presented us with first Britney Spears' Toxic then F**k the Police immediately after.
Posted by: pseudosanity78 | 2011.08.11 at 09:37 AM
My high school play list has stood the test of time: X, Black Flag, The Clash, Talking Heads, Johnny Cash...
And then there's Wall of Voodoo, their "Mexican Radio" standing in stark, embarrassing contrast to all the great songs. (Although a lot of WoV's work was much better than "Mexican Radio," and Stan Ridgeway has done some very interesting things since then.)
Posted by: Bob | 2011.08.11 at 10:03 AM
Hey, come on now.
Sometimes going back to the past is a good thing!
Posted by: Kaz | 2011.08.11 at 10:06 AM
Kaz, wow. Is that Ron Jeremy sitting behind that group?
Posted by: soxinsix | 2011.08.11 at 10:19 AM
Doesn't everyone get fingahbanged at the ballpahk by their mum and her creepy boyfriend while enjoying the last few drags of a Marlboro light? No? Just me then.
Posted by: pseudosanity78 | 2011.08.11 at 10:20 AM
I've got no real problem with most of the music I used to listen to in high school/college.
But Sweet Jesus, I wish I could go back in time and save my future (present) self the untold nightmarish horror of my 70's high school hair. How could I have thought that was EVER cool? The kids found my HS yearbooks a while back, and I've yet to live it down. Don't expect I ever will.
Posted by: Rob in CT | 2011.08.11 at 10:20 AM
Holy shit, pseudo. I mean just, WOW...
Posted by: Rob in CT | 2011.08.11 at 10:55 AM
Pseudo - that comment is definitely Soxaholix top ten. Simply light years beyond Sully and Denise.
Posted by: yazbread | 2011.08.11 at 11:30 AM
High school was late Beatles (Sgt Pepper onward) and mid-Stones (Let It Bleed, Gimmie Shelter) for me - nothing to be ashamed of I think, and most are still on my playlists.
Posted by: Steve in MD | 2011.08.11 at 12:38 PM
A message to you, Rudy......I remember Fun Boys Three/Bananarama post Specials
Posted by: redleghockey | 2011.08.11 at 12:49 PM
Just as bad as recognizing the level of suckitude of music that you used to like is realizing that what you're listening to today will likely be poop a couple more years down the road.
Posted by: Professional Hitter | 2011.08.11 at 01:43 PM
you know what, HB? You're Electric Blue.
Heard that song last night - holy shit does it suck. Half my H.S wanted that as a prom song, the other half Depeche Mode - Someone. D.M won thankfully - I think. I was more a twisted REM, U2, Grateful Dead fan. Oxford Speedway '87 bootleg anyone?
Posted by: sonomasox | 2011.08.11 at 02:40 PM
I think a lot of the music I listened to late teens/20s still holds up well.
But a lot of it doesn't.
What surprises me most is how some bands that I considered "throwaway" in those days and never expected much out of, I now listen to and I'm blown away at how solid it is. Two off the cuff examples that fall into this realm for me, The Go Gos first album, The B-52s first album.
Then there are the bands that I thought of as groundbreaking, colossal, surely the kind of music I'd listen to forever and forever but now can barely tolerate. A couple bands that fall into this niche for me: REM, U2, The Beat, and everything by the Clash except London Calling and 1/3 of Sandinista.
Oddly enough per the last mention, as a kid I much preferred early Clash to Pistols, but I find now I much prefer in every way Bollocks over Clash's first (or 2nd).
Then there are the bands I totally missed, either out and out just didn't know about or heard but didn't like, and now say to myself, wow, how did I not "hear" this before? Led Zeppelin falls into this category for me.
Finally there is music that I know on some level is great etc but I just don't have an ear for, now or in the past, e.g., Janis Joplin.
Posted by: h.b. | 2011.08.11 at 03:08 PM
Sonomasox, likely yes on the Oxford Speedway show. Recently came into digital possession of about 300 GD shows and another 50+ jerry and about that many WSP. Still sorting my way thru them all. Wait a minute.. Were you the one made a crack about TJ's school being somehow better than my favorite cow pasture in the Va mountains? Might be I need to rethink this musical cameraderie :).
Re high school music tastes, I am somewhere between still proud nd somewhat chagrined. DLR era VH is still really good. ZZ Top still good. GD and the like still good. LL Cool J not so good. Bon Jovi just plain embarassing. Hey, at least I did not pucker up for KISS.
Posted by: Jeff in NC | 2011.08.11 at 03:17 PM
I listened to that first VH album on Spotify just the other day. Holds up well.
Posted by: h.b. | 2011.08.11 at 03:20 PM
Ack! Pedroia on the cover of SI!
Posted by: Steve in MD | 2011.08.11 at 03:46 PM
@Jeff in NC...I think TJ would accept the friendship given the backdrop of harvested hemp and a live WSP show. Vegas last October most recent. Nice inheritance on the digital shows, btw.
@Steve...at least he isn't green.
Posted by: sonomasox | 2011.08.11 at 04:30 PM