Do You Remember When....

[sodamntired]

Chuck Norris jokes were fucking hillarious,and needed to be repeated 50 times over lunch?

or Jackass was totally outrageous and Steve-O got a tattoo on his back?

or Terri Schiavo was in a coma?

or....9/11 happened, and all Americans were sad and scared?

or....that girl is totally a Samantha or a Monica or a Rachel?

or....Tom Green is crazy.

 

this thread was made as a comment on how society is impacted and changes and we all move on to something else.

do you remember anything?

 

*I feel old* as a note, I am stuck in 1998, by choice. that was a good year.

Edited November 27, 2009 by sodamntired

[eclipse]

I miss 2004.

[AnOceanPearl]

we used to sing?

Sha la la la la la la la la la la te da

[sodamntired]

Or How I'm A Barbie Girl

[rebellious_L]

Or How I'm A Barbie Girl

 

Life was plastic and fantastic!

[sodamntired]

still remember when I first heard that song.

was that a real song?

 

come on barbie, let's go party

oh whoa oh oh whoa oh

 

my retard of an old friend told me how it is actually a statement about women's rights.

lame.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzh10_xoqw

 

he liked Abba too.

 

but we all know that Dr. Jones was like so much better. *gag*

Edited November 28, 2009 by sodamntired

[bishopx]

I remember when I was listening to New Wave, when it was still fairly new...

[sodamntired]

New Wave was/is incredible. Was music that came right after Punk Rock, and it wasn't quite Rock and wasn't quite Pop. B52s for example.

[borntohula]

i don't really see a divide between new wave and punk. new wave is what record companies called punk when they realized that they got to the party way too late and needed to package punk as something new and exciting in order for people to go crazy about it (again) and sell records.

 

some of the best "new wave" acts were punks in the late 70s. blondie, talking heads, the jam, elvis costello and even the b-52s. can you really point out a time where these bands stopped being punk and started being "new wave"???

[sodamntired]

wikipedia: New Wave is a genre of music that emerged in in the middle to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, and disco and 1960's pop music, as well as much of the original punk rock sound and ethos, such as an emphasis on short and punchy songs.[1][2] During the 1980s in the United States New Wave became a catch-all term that applied to new music acts in general and synthpop and British acts in particular. The 1990s and 2000s have seen revivals, and a number of acts that have been influenced by a variety of New Wave styles.

[Lauren]

i don't see a divide between this thread and that other one you made with the news synthesis video. why didn't you just add on in that thread? or stopped reminiscing out loud?

[borntohula]

wikipedia: New Wave is a genre of music that emerged in in the middle to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, and disco and 1960's pop music, as well as much of the original punk rock sound and ethos, such as an emphasis on short and punchy songs.[1][2] During the 1980s in the United States New Wave became a catch-all term that applied to new music acts in general and synthpop and British acts in particular. The 1990s and 2000s have seen revivals, and a number of acts that have been influenced by a variety of New Wave styles.

 

quote from wikipedia all you like, but that's really not a convincing argument in the least, especially the part:

 

The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated [...] much of the original punk rock sound and ethos, such as an emphasis on short and punchy songs.

 

new wave is punk but it is not because it also uses synthesizers and ppl dress funny.

 

like i mentioned before, there are tonnes of bands that sit outside the definitions of "new wave" that confuse your affirmation that it is somehow an absolute thing.

 

these guys use synths, but you'll never find them on a new wave comp.

 

 

david bowie used synths around the same time, having gone from this:

 

 

to this:

 

 

in a matter of five years. was he new wave?

[Moonlight_Graham]

I can remember when i got my first 2400 baud modem. That's 2.4 kbps download speeds people. That was like mid-1990's. It was so awesome, cuz that was my 1st taste of the internet. i could go on Freenet sites and talk in chatrooms with people in florida, which was a CRAZY thing back then. And then go on BBS's and play those crazy text-based RPG games.

 

I also remember when ICQ was the "cool" thing to be on.

 

I remember when i used to masturbate to bra & lingerie ads in Sears catalogues & Zellers fliers etc. That was before the internet took off. Kids these days dont know how lucky they are.

 

I remember, before google came alomng, when we had to use Yahoo and Dogpile.com as our search engines.

 

I remember when it used to take 20 minutes to download a song off Napster. My friend had cable internet in his dorm at the time and told me that it only took him like 3-4 minutes to download a song, and i was totally blown away by this.

[saturnine]

I can remember when i got my first 2400 baud modem. That's 2.4 kbps download speeds people. That was like mid-1990's. It was so awesome, cuz that was my 1st taste of the internet. i could go on Freenet sites and talk in chatrooms with people in florida, which was a CRAZY thing back then. And then go on BBS's and play those crazy text-based RPG games.

 

L.O.R.D.!

[bishopx]

Jesus, Moonlight how old are you? That was forever and a day ago.

 

I remember my 7th wedding anniversary, and yes the seven year itch was getting scratched like a motherfucker.

[sodamntired]

I remember when the "internet" was new and exciting, and a little scary.

chatting with people was new

online porn

that rocked my 12 year old world.

*wait, you can look at pictures of women naked on the internet? I've got to keep this a secret*

I remember Napster being brand new

same with Google

read about it first in some video game magazine.

only had to wait over night to get a whole song

Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song was the first song I got.

Edited December 1, 2009 by sodamntired

[Lauren]

i remember my mom demanding to know the password to my first email address. i still don't know why she thought that it was any of her business. can't remember the email address though.

[borntohula]

yeah i had a dumb first email address. i think it was at music.com or something. back then, free email accounts were hard to come by.

[sodamntired]

[email protected]

I remember picking that up in computer class

signing up for all these news e-mails

cause as I told my friend,

It's great to just get an e-mail.

heh

*no tears*

same reason why I love sending out the first survey e-mails

cause it totally seemed like a great way to find out everything

[Jarrod]

We got 56K internet in 2000 and we couldn't use the internet and talk on the phone at the same time. It was crazy! Only upgraded to cable about 4 years ago... lordy... Downloading a song took forever.

[sodamntired]

this should really bring you back

[sodamntired]

and if you can't remember what happened in 2009

[Lauren]

only 4 or 5 things happened this year. 2009 will be a section thin in the history textbooks.

[LonelyWreckage]

i don't see a divide between this thread and that other one you made with the news synthesis video. why didn't you just add on in that thread? or stopped reminiscing out loud?

Honestly, I think SDT lives in a perpetual state of reminiscing. I don't mind a bit of nostalgia myself, but at this stage it's concerning - it's like someone who's in his last week alive.

 

Anyway, here's the memorable moments from 2009 for me - probably forgotten tonnes of important things:

 

-UK's further decline into recession

-Obama inaugarated

-Death of Jade Goody

-G20 protests

-Large Hadron Collider

-England qualify with two games to spare in the World Cup

-UK swings to the right politically, far-right in some areas

-Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross fiasco

-Parliament expenses scandal

-Amstell leaves Never Mind the Buzzcocks

-Swine flu

-Michael Jackson's death

-Cumbria flooding

-Corus plant closed down

[Jarrod]

Don't you remember

The fizz in a pepper

Peanuts in a bottle

At ten, two and four

A fried bologna sandwich

With mayo and tomato

Sittin' round the table

Don't happen much anymore

 

We got too complicated

It's all way over-rated

I like the old and out-dated

Way of life

 

Back when a hoe was a hoe

Coke was a coke

And crack's what you were doing

When you were cracking jokes

Back when a screw was a screw

The wind was all that blew

And when you said I'm down with that

Well it meant you had the flu

I miss back when

I miss back when

I miss back when

 

I love my records

Black, shiny vinyl

Clicks and pops

And white noise

Man they sounded fine

I had my favorite stations

The ones that played them all

Country, soul and rock-and-roll

What happened to those times?

 

I'm readin' Street Slang For Dummies

Cause they put pop in my country

I want more for my money

The way it was back then

 

Back when a hoe was a hoe

Coke was a coke

And crack's what you were doing

When you were cracking jokes

Back when a screw was a screw

The wind was all that blew

And when you said I'm down with that

Well it meant you had the flu

I miss back when

I miss back when

I miss back when

 

Give me a flat top for strumming

I want the whole world to be humming

Just keep it coming

The way it was back then

 

Back when a hoe was a hoe

Coke was a coke

And crack's what you were doing

When you were cracking jokes

Back when a screw was a screw

The wind was all that blew

And when you said I'm down with that

Well it meant you had the flu

I miss back when

I miss back when

I miss back when