January 30, 2008
Party Like It's... You Know
Miss the fourth installation of YO! Remember the 90's?? As if! Unless you're totally clueless when it comes to comebacks, you know the nineties are the dopest thing since, like, the eighties. And if you don't, you oughta know.
No, we're not talking overplayed nu-rave, just good old-fashioned dance mixes: hip-hop, pop and rock, plus all the one-hit wonders it's cool to like now that there's a decade of ironic distance between you and your adolescent self. Think Hammer Time, Ray of Light remixes, lots of love for Courtney, a Jagged Little Pill overdose or two, and generous helpings of Salt, Pepa, and Spice Girls.
The city's most wicked-awesome retro dance party has all that and a bag of chips—organizers Paul G. and company are taking song requests on the Facebook event page. (Please don't try to be all old-school hip and ask for, as Cher would say, "the maudlin music of [your former] university station." No one wants to shake it to Pavement.) They'll also be playing seminal 90s movies on the big screen.
So stop being all, "Back in the day..." and get with the old times. Jump around. Be a Lovefool. Get too sexy for your (flannel) shirt.
The party goes down like Lewinsky this Saturday, February 2 at Teranga (159 Augusta Avenue). Doors at 10 p.m. Cover is five dolla. Snap bracelets optional.
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"eventually, within the next quarter of a century, the nostalgia cycles will be so close together that people will not be able to take a step without being nostalgic for the one they just took. at that point everything stops. death by nostalgia."
[frank zappa]
"Such mainstreaming of retro, the report warned, has forced the hipster-elite element that formerly dominated the retro world to seek increasingly current forms of retro, a trend which threatens to consume the nation's past reserves faster than new past can be created." — from the classic Onion article "U.S. Dept. Of Retro Warns: 'We May Be Running Out Of Past'"
That said, this past Sunday's Simpsons, "That 90s Show," was one of my favourite episodes in years.
both of those quotes are 24-carat. especially the zappa one.
i wrote about the nineties resurgence way back in august, and now that i think about it, i am already totally nostalgic for that time. remember when everyone liked d.a.n.c.e.? god. those were the days.
I think there were some retro-80s fads happening by the late 90s as well. Maybe they should try to figure out a way to incorporate that into this event.
Ugh. My record collection limps barely past the year 2000, and all I feel about this is ugh.
Spacejack: A lot of those retro '80s fads took a lot from 1950s culture. Maybe this dance night should sample a little of that as well?
Either way, we can all agree on one thing: date -10 years > date.
I would have to agree: one does not shake to Pavement--one bounces.
Skippy: This dance party will definitely not directly celebrate the 50's--you'll have to go across the street to The Boat (Goin' Steady) for that sort of homage.