scot'teryx Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 Does anyone else think this new station kicks ass? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_W Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 I like it. But, then, I was a child of '80's music; you were probably still ridind a Big Wheel and wearing Garanimals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scot'teryx Posted February 27, 2004 Author Share Posted February 27, 2004 The 80's? I was wearing topsiders and my banana republic pants! Oh yeah, can't forget the Mother Karen pullover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_W Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 The 80's? I was wearing topsiders and my banana republic pants! Â Weren't we all...well, maybe not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arlen Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 It beats the previous entry in that slot. It's weird to hear stuff that was blackballed down to college radio in the 80s mixed with the upmarket "alternative" rock god tunes from the 90s. But you can dial up to KNDD when your fave song is over and hear it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arlen Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 US Department of Retro Warns 'We May be Running Out of Past'  WASHINGTON, DC—At a press conference Monday, U.S. Retro Secretary Anson Williams issued a strongly worded warning of an imminent "national retro crisis," cautioning that "if current levels of U.S. retro consumption are allowed to continue unchecked, we may run entirely out of past by as soon as 2005." Retro chart  According to Williams—best known to most Americans as "Potsie" on the popular, '50s-nostalgia-themed 1970s sitcom Happy Days before being named head of the embattled Department of Retro by President Clinton in 1992—the U.S.'s exponentially decreasing retro gap is in danger of achieving parity with real-time historical events early in the next century, creating what leading retro experts call a "futurified recursion loop," or "retro-present warp," in the world of American pop-cultural kitsch appreciation.  Such a warp, Williams said, was never a danger in the past due to the longtime, standard two-decade-minimum retro waiting period. "However, the mid-'80s deregulation of retro under the Reagan Administration eliminated that safeguard," he explained, "leaving us to face the threat of retro-ironic appreciation being applied to present or even future events."  "We are talking about a potentially devastating crisis situation in which our society will express nostalgia for events which have yet to occur," Williams told reporters.  The National Retro Clock currently stands at 1990, an alarming 74 percent closer to the present than 10 years ago, when it stood at 1969.  Nowhere is the impending retro crisis more apparent, Williams said, than in the area of popular music. "To the true retrophile, disco parties and the like were common 10 years ago. Similarly, retro-intelligentsia have long viewed 'New Wave' and even late-'80s hair-metal retro as passé and no longer amusing as kitsch," Williams said. "We now face the unique situation of '90s retro, as evidenced by the current Jane's Addiction reunion tour: nostalgia for the decade in which we live."  "Before long," Williams warned, "the National Retro Clock will hit 1992, and we will witness a massive grunge-retro explosion, which will overlap with the late-period, mainstream-pop remnants of the original grunge movement itself. For the first time in history, a phenomenon and nostalgia for that particular phenomenon will actually meet."  "In other words, to quote '90s-retro kitsch figure David Lynch," Williams said, "'One of these days that gum you like is going to come back in style.'" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lummox Posted February 27, 2004 Share Posted February 27, 2004 The 80's? I was wearing topsiders and my banana republic pants! Â Weren't we all...well, maybe not. not. damn my mohawk was fukin cool back in the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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