Three Cheers for Sad, Pathetic Nostalgia

[Brian_Wallace]

Is anyone here aware of the NME's "campaign" to get the Sex Pistol's "God Save the Queen" rerelease to No. 1 to "right the wrong" of having it being banned from the top of the pops thirty years ago?
 
 I mean, NME went all out.  They got NIN, The Beasties Boys, Slash, The Klaxons, Ian Brown, surviving members of the Clash, Foo Fighters and assorted others to plead, beg and pathetically grovel to the consumer public to buy the reissued 7" (or download) and send it to the top of the charts.  Check it all out here:
 
  NME's God Save the Queen campaign.
 
 And what for?  What is the purpose of this?  Why.....?  Isn't this the WORST kind of nostalgia(as if there's a GOOD kind of nostalgia)?  Not only pointlessly reissuing something thirty years past it's sell date but wishing you were fifteen and able to "relive punk."  If The Sex Pistols are No. 1 maybe it will justify your knee replacement, minoxidil, Viagra and mortgage payments!
 
 Hell, let's reissue "Nevermind" or better yet, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and start a campaign to get it to No. 1 on the American charts!  If that will happen, an entire adult life of blogs, Starbucks, college loan payments, being a hipster, Whole Foods, microbrews, bad foreign films, Arcade Fire concerts and Prozac can be written off like a tax deduction!
 
 Brian
 
 P.S.  For once, I was right.  This "campaign" was a horrible failure.  It entered the charts at an earth-shattering No. 42.  Evidence that an entire generation of young people is sick to death of the morbid fascination with nostalgia.

[ggw]

Hey Brian -- your mom called.  She said she will be home around 6:00; you better have all your homework done and she doesn't want to find that her mascara is missing again.

[beetsnotbeats]

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
  P.S.  For once, I was right.  This "campaign" was a horrible failure.  

Thirty years from now you'll be nostalgic for that one time you were right.

[bearman🐻]

I think you need a better reason to convert oxygen to carbon dioxide besides taking a smelly dump all over anything that was released before the year 2003. I think I'll die of shock if you ever post anything positive on this board. Wanker.

[shemptiness]

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[sweetcell]

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
 P.S.  For once, I was right.  This "campaign" was a horrible failure.  It entered the charts at an earth-shattering No. 42.  Evidence that an entire generation of young people is sick to death of the morbid fascination with nostalgia.

impressive.  one campaign's failure = ability to deduce what an entire generation believes.  newsflash: the failure says something about people's feeling on that one song, or this particular campaign.  idiot.
 
 i take it you're a drama major, right? (or will be, once you get to college.  actually, if you get to college, based on that example of your deductive reasoning skillz...)

[you be betty]

I still don't understand what Arcade Fire and Starbucks have in common.

[Mobius]

Hmmm. . . I interpretted this case study to mean the Scientologists are exactly right about the universe.  Perhaps we're both right Mr. Walalce.

[jm1]

I still don't understand Arcade Fire. But the Sex Pistols? Crystal clear on that one...

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

They're both overpriced and not that good?
 
 

Originally posted by you be betty:
  I still don't understand what Arcade Fire and Starbucks have in common.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by you be betty:
  I still don't understand what Arcade Fire and Starbucks have in common.

i wouldnt think that hipsters go to starbucks....but thats just me.  
 
 i dont care for either.
 
   and i dont care for Brian Walalalalace.
 
  but i can understand that when you are at an age that you can still remember crapping your pants on the playground, nostalgia doesnt seem like a good thing.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

They're both favorites of the 35 and under white upper middle class mainstream public.
 
 

Originally posted by you be betty:
  I still don't understand what Arcade Fire and Starbucks have in common.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  They're both favorites of the 35 and under white upper middle class mainstream public.
 
   

Originally posted by you be betty:
  I still don't understand what Arcade Fire and Starbucks have in common.

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but you said you didnt like Arcade Fire.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I'm not sure what your argument is...but my stance on the Arcade Fire is that they're not all that good. Tolerable. I wouldn't say "dislike". Such words are reserved for bands like the White Stripes.
 
 

Originally posted by le sonick:
   

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  They're both favorites of the 35 and under white upper middle class mainstream public.
 
   

Originally posted by you be betty:
  I still don't understand what Arcade Fire and Starbucks have in common.

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but you said you didnt like Arcade Fire. [/b]

[Summerteeth]

Besides, Rhett doesn't qualify in the 35 and under crowd who fawn over Arcade Fire.