as you see it from 2006, who do you think sucked worse: EMF or Jesus Jones? And what would the cooler answer be?
Today I kind of think EMF sucked worse. I think that is because I think of EMF as sucking, and I just don’t have any strong gut response associated with Jesus Jones except that I think they probably sucked. But I think it might be cooler to say that Jesus Jones sucked worse.
“right here, right now” surpassed all standards imposed against melodramatic self-importance (in the same way that “winds of change” surpassed those standards), and for that reason, jesus jones definitely sucked worse.
by greg—Jul 30, 10:25 PM
(strangely, i just discovered there was a dissimilar but eerily comparable coversation elsewhere this weekend…)
by greg—Jul 30, 11:04 PM
But EMF does have a tribute to Jesus Jones on its Web site, a fact that doesn’t make me esteem them more.
by greg—Jul 30, 11:12 PM
But what really bothers me is this. I was driving around the new town this weekend, listening to new radio stations, setting pre-sets, etc. It was lunch time, and a rock/pop station I landed on was in their “retro lunch hour.” What was retro? What were their “oldies”? Jesus Jones, “Right Here, Right Now.” REM, “The one I love.”
Am I now, officially, formally old? I have two kids, a mini-van, am a newly minted professor teaching college kids, go to bed at 9:30. None of this makes me feel old. Calling REM retro? That makes me feel old.
by JRB—Jul 31, 08:41 AM
Dude, you’re old.
by JH—Jul 31, 09:27 AM
i glanced at EMF’s tribute to Jesus Jones, and all I could say was “Jesus Jones had five albums?”
by chris—Jul 31, 07:24 PM
1984-1992:retro::1959-1966:oldies—that is, retro is the new oldies.
by greg—Aug 1, 08:46 PM
It’s kind of like postmodernism—what comes next?
by Laura—Aug 2, 07:11 AM
Strange fact: “The Oldies” radio format was developed in the mid-1960s, and it featured then pretty much the same songs as it does now.
by greg—Aug 5, 06:00 AM