Now, I am obviously a doddering old fool who should shut the hell up. But I am so old that I remember things such as when "swag" used to just mean free gear or promos that bands or radio stations gave away. I remember when the now-moribund style of last year (or was it the year before that?) "glo-fi" was simply called "Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygene (only not recorded all shitty)." And more!
So let me just say that it is with jaundiced and decrepit eye (ear?) with which I posit that Youth Lagoon's album The Year of Hibernation actually sounds as if it were recorded to be excerpted for Apple product commercials. Or the Nissan Leaf. Or some other "post-'Occupy'" proffered items.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. I remember a review in Spin in 1985 that said ABC's "Be Near Me" sounded like music you'd hear when shopping for socks (which was correct, really) and I loved them. So maybe to some kid, this piece of dross is their Quadrophenia or something. One never knows.
And that current Apple song, the "take me to your best friend's house" thing that I see when watching football ["Twisted Tongue" by Grouplove - ed.] , wa-hey! SONG OF THE CENTURY!
So let me just say that it is with jaundiced and decrepit eye (ear?) with which I posit that Youth Lagoon's album The Year of Hibernation actually sounds as if it were recorded to be excerpted for Apple product commercials. Or the Nissan Leaf. Or some other "post-'Occupy'" proffered items.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. I remember a review in Spin in 1985 that said ABC's "Be Near Me" sounded like music you'd hear when shopping for socks (which was correct, really) and I loved them. So maybe to some kid, this piece of dross is their Quadrophenia or something. One never knows.
And that current Apple song, the "take me to your best friend's house" thing that I see when watching football ["Twisted Tongue" by Grouplove - ed.] , wa-hey! SONG OF THE CENTURY!
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