I never heard this song my whole life until this week when it came on the radio while I was walking up, written by Smokey Robinson:
The same for these two songs:
Mashed Potato Time:
The mashed potato is an underrated dance, it looks like something James Brown would do.
Party Lights – claudine clark:
It makes me really mad that I live in a world where postwar baby boomer era music has been relentlessly pushed on me since birth by every conceivable mechanism but it’s always the same 2 dozen songs so I never hear a genuine banger like one of these until 2000 and 9. What the eff you double hockey sticks kind of shirt is this!? Someone give me society’s reins and I’ll fix it.
Are there any examples of old things you found out about later than you should have?
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Tiffany!
// Nov 18, 2009 at 5:19 pm
I have always listened to music way older than me, but I feel that sometimes a new song will come out and I’ll hear it and be like “What IS that?! ” And Beth or someone will tell me that the song has been out for years, and perhaps I should climb out of my itunes rock and listen to new music.
This also happens with literature. I spent so many of my formative and collegiate years reading fine literature, that I have read very very little from this century, and even less from the last two decades.
Someone tried to give me Eat, Pray, Love at the worst possible time in my life and I wanted to throw it in a fire and ask about what happened to all the good writers. Right now I’ve stumbled upon a book that everyone has read about 9 years ago, by Mr.Dave Eggers, and it is amazing. I feel like I really missed out on this, or perhaps it is coming to me at the right time. We’ll see.
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ryanb
// Nov 18, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Doom metal from the late 70′s early 80′s, like Pentagram, Saint Vitus, and later bands like Sleep and Electric Wizard. I am loving the shit out of that stuff right now.
Also, I missed out on cooking for myself for the first 33 years or so, until I found out that it’s a pretty cool thing to do. Along those same lines would be engaging in regular exercise.
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