Happy Black Friday Caroline Polachek

[woops]

odd thread this, @suspended saying i know this isn't very good but better this than siding with the boring old farts, and on the other hand boring old farts saying anyonne can see modern music is rubbish what about this though, this is alright (half-decent at best)

 

[woops]

what's your favourite tune in the new dancehall thread @suspended

 

[sus]

I'll check it out, let you know

Also, I think plenty of it's pretty good, but my expectations in general for culture are pretty low, I just assume time is a good sorting mechanism so the past seems to have a higher hit rate than it did

 

[woops]

I'll check it out, let you know

Also, I think plenty of it's pretty good, but my expectations in general for culture are pretty low, I just assume time is a good sorting mechanism so the past seems to have a higher hit rate than it did

as i said it's a weird thread, you make this claim while admitting yourself you don't expect to be listening to whatshername in a year. caroline polachek

 

[luka]

The sense that the 80s is being recreated, but it's even more false this time...

good line, very true. is it one of mine you've 'borrowed'? i can't rememnber

 

[woops]

i've never had the experience of enjoying music while thinking eventually i won't like this

 

[luka]

i invented it as @luka would say

this was many many years before the woops character was introuduced to the sitcom

 

[Corpsey]

This probably doesn't "belong" here but it's somehow related – purloining the joyful (but melancholy) sound of UK garage, except the vocal is all artificial sounding and has a sinister lyrical theme.

 

[craner]

good line, very true. is it one of mine you've 'borrowed'? i can't rememnber

No, it was mine.

 

[luka]

it works. becasue as Gus says the songs dont really sound like eighties songs but they carry over something from the eighties, something i very astutely and movingly articulated in the eighties pop poignance thread.

 

[craner]

It makes you wonder why these kids love the 80s because most people in the 80s hated it.

 

[woops]

It makes you wonder why these kids love the 80s because most people in the 80s hated it.

Maybe cos they were kids? At a guess

 

[luka]

we were kids. they werent born.

 

[luka]

@shiels explain this eighties thing to us

 

[luka]

you're always trying to sleep with posh art students. this stuff soundtracks your world.

 

[shiels]

@shiels explain this eighties thing to us

You ok with something off the shelf boss?

 

[Corpsey]

I don't always fancy girls with Fjallraven Kanken backpacks, but when I do fancy girls, they often are wearing a Fjallraven Kanken backpack.

 

[Corpsey]

Goes to show that attraction is tied to self-esteem, shoring up some sort of inner aspirational self-image

 

[luka]

You ok with something off the shelf boss?

yeah go for it if it's already prepped

 

[shiels]

As I've said Christine is my favourite of these nu 80s ones. Best voice, better dancer, more charisma. The harmonies in the outro of this, late MJ