Posted on 09/14/2005 9:05:10 AM PDT by Millee
"Conjunction Junction", "No More Kings" "Interplanet Janet"
nothing like it since
...and a step to the right!....
Great song from a strange movie!
While I enjoyed adrenaline hardcore, I did also like the Minutemen and saw them play at some little bar in Berkely the first time I ever went to San Francisco. I think D.Boone died soon afterwards in a car accident. This was in 1989 I think. I also loved X. You could study and drink beer listening to it. What ever happened to them? A couple of months ago I spend hours loading this music up to my dh's Ipod (whatever I could find). Was singing along with Youth Brigade's "We'll sink with California when it falls into the sea"--great anthem.
We used to put together shows-- 5 bands for 5 bucks kind of thing and had lots of fun. The same music lives now in alt.rock but it is way better produced and popular (plays on radio). A lot of the bands today are playing covers of our songs--basically ripping the old punk bands off.
A few things we all had in common besides music were The Iran Hostages (I was in 6th grade--vaguely remember Watergate and the images of Vietnam with Walter Cronkite), The Reagan Revolution, Mutually Assured Destruction, Perestroika, Berlin Wall going down. Also we had Jaws, the Star Wars series, ET (nobody thought it weird that these kids were home alone all the time?) Irreconcilable Differences with Drew Barrymore, Vacation, Monty Python, (in addition to all the gratuitous babyboomer era type films), and horror films like Halloween, and the 1970's realism --Taxi Driver. They are remaking all our movies now.
Also tv--Taxi, All in the Family, MASH, Barney Miller, Kojack, Hawaii Five-O, The Jeffersons, What's Happening. Happy Days, Dif'rent Strokes, Mork & Mindy, etc and Game Shows. We had 3 channels so there was always cartoons on in the early am (Bullwinkle & Rocky Showcase, Davey and Goliath) and after school, the 4 O'Clock Movie (old movies--that's where I saw The Birds and began a phobia with large flocks). Christmas specials were a treat, not common and annual viewings of "The Sound of Music" and "The Wizard of Oz" were family favorites. At the end of middle school cable tv came to town and then in high school, MTV only played music videos and they didn't broadcast until after 4pm. Remember Martha Quinn?
Many boomer parents were disappointed with our generation because we were more conservative, not protesting the bomb and Reagan like they thought we should. My parents weren't boomers -- they were born in 1939 and 1943.
LuceLu
Yes, it is the answer to a trivia question.
X is still playing, and their country alter-ego the Knitters is on tour right now, with a new record out.
And Barney Miller was one of the most subversive shows ever on television.
I still sing the preamble to the Constitution. It's the only way I can remember it!
Yea, we had it pretty easy. We did not see Depression, war, hard times. We got to watch too much tv. I myself spent a lot of time outside playing, having a great time doing things that are now unsafe (running around the neighborhood) or now deemed politically incorrect (dogdeball).
I think the interesting (and sad, for traditional types like me) thing is we are the generation that got to experience not one but two paradigm shifts in our so far short life. We were born in the middle (or toward the end) of the shift to the humanist/liberal paradigm and now we are of course (unfortunately) experiencing the second shift to the new age/globalist paradigm. Sad but interesting, to say the least, to be living to see these things. I'm 38.
First mention of the USSR... and it took 77 posts.
The cold war was very real for some of us.
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