Augh! Please, don't be cruel to a Volkswagen enthusiast, like myself!
Fortunately, the only '90s-era VW I owned looked nothing like that horrid thing!
(Not mine, but the same color and configuration.)
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Fortunately, the only '90s-era VW I owned looked nothing like that horrid thing!
(Not mine, but the same color and configuration.)
Meh.I am so glad I wasn't a teen in the '90s!
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<looks towards Seattle> Flannel.
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This style is making a comeback with Gen Z today. I have teenage students who dress like this. As a younger millennial, this is NOT my style.I am so glad I wasn't a teen in the '90s!
Perhaps, is it fair to say that look has had a tendency to come and go since the 1800's? Kind of timeless, if you think about it, save for the intentionally-obscure-band-logo undershirt and pre-ripped knee holes.
You could even set a verbal trap for them. Ask them if they're a lumberjack. If they say, "Yeah, sure", then show them Monty Python's "Lumberjack Song" and watch their reaction.
Perhaps, is it fair to say that look has had a tendency to come and go since the 1800's? Kind of timeless, if you think about it, save for the intentionally-obscure-band-logo undershirt and pre-ripped knee holes.
You could even set a verbal trap for them. Ask them if they're a lumberjack. If they say, "Yeah, sure", then show them Monty Python's "Lumberjack Song" and watch their reaction.
Before getting to the bottom of your post my first thought was to post that universally loved classic song!
Perhaps, is it fair to say that look has had a tendency to come and go since the 1800's? Kind of timeless, if you think about it, save for the intentionally-obscure-band-logo undershirt and pre-ripped knee holes.
You could even set a verbal trap for them. Ask them if they're a lumberjack. If they say, "Yeah, sure", then show them Monty Python's "Lumberjack Song" and watch their reaction.
Monty Python was before my time haha! I could show them, but then I would have them ask their grandparents for more information.
Edit - On second thought, that was my first time seeing it and it was quite strange! My students probably wouldn't appreciate that kind of humor.
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Technically, the TV show was before my time. But, thanks to constant reruns on PBS, well...Monty Python was before my time haha! I could show them, but then I would have them ask their grandparents for more information.
Let's put it this way; there was a summary of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" that was along the lines of, "...made a classic comedy...inadvertently created a language-lab for nerds
".But, to keep things in a musical context...
Understandable, but like many things in life, context matters...especially in that post-Sixties U.K. To say they were pushing hard against the status quo of the times was an understatement.
And if, on the surface, it seems like they weren't "progressive" enough, they were frequently dressed up in drag and had a gay cast member/writer who was the absolute best at cutting deep (heh..."doctor" joke...it's a Graham Chapman thing
) with some of their most brutally scathing humor...both on and off the camera.
Fair point. I can imagine this being very progressive in the 1970s. But it doesn't seem as progressive today, especially to a younger person such as myself. What's interesting for me is seeing something that old with subject matter / humor that's still very current.Understandable, but like many things in life, context matters...especially in that post-Sixties U.K. To say they were pushing hard against the status quo of the times was an understatement.
And if, on the surface, it seems like they weren't "progressive" enough, they were frequently dressed up in drag and had a gay cast member/writer who was the absolute best at cutting deep (heh..."doctor" joke...it's a Graham Chapman thing
Fun fact - HM King Charles is a HUGE Monty Python fan and he has been since it first came out.
Well, even a broken Big Ben is right twice a day, so...
Edited for the Brits among us...
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I am so glad I wasn't a teen in the '90s!
Well it wasn't actually anything like that generative A.I. image would have you believe.
Two of the best StingRays I've ever come across were mid-90's natural finish.
Both still had the mute bridge, but were truss rod wheel adjust necks, with satin (or maybe early oil & wax) finish.
One was just your typical classic natural finish, but it had the best birds Eye maple I've ever seen.
The other - wow! - the only one of it's kind I've ever seen. It was very pale, and almost featureless wood, that seemed as if the entire bass was oil & wax finished.
You could even set a verbal trap for them. Ask them if they're a lumberjack. If they say, "Yeah, sure", then show them Monty Python's "Lumberjack Song" and watch their reaction.
Ah, that's the remake, from "Now for something completely different".
I prefer the original version, from the TV show - not just because of the performance, atmosphere, and that it's the original version - but because my Mum was in the studio audience, and you can hear her shriek with laughter as the Parrot section unexpectedly segues into the lumberjack section.
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Those are cool - very sought after these days. Although teal & mauve were very '80s.
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Okay, that is an amazing story! How lucky she was to be a part of history!
As for my choice to use the movie version, it was partly because of the better picture and sound, but mainly, it was because of the swapping "mama" for "papa" at the end was always funnier, to me.
This is an excellent example of what I was talking about earlier. People like to, understandably, categorize things, but trends do not adhere so neatly to our base-10 method of measuring and recording decades. Trends/styles/aesthetics are much more fluid and malleable.
To be fair, in the pre-internet age, it took years for a style to transition from it's point-of-origin to the rest of the country, so what was popular in one area may take a bit longer to show up elsewhere. (re: "cultural diffusion")
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In many situations, a decade trend usually starts mid-way the decade before. So using 'neon' as an example, it began mid '80s and fizzled out by the mid '90s. Fenders return to its traditional roots (aka; retro) also started in the '80s and bled into the '90s.
