80’s nostalgia overdose
January 21st, 2008
music
I’m impressed by the effort with this shot-by-shot remake of the ‘classic’ music video by Journey. But, come on folks, 80’s the pop culture nostalgia must die. Really. It’s not ironic. It’s awful. It was awful. Especially 95% of the popular music. But, I suppose that probably has something to do with the fact that I was listening to records like this at the time.
The saying goes, “If you remember the 60’s, you weren’t really there.” So, shall we coin a phrase? : “If you remember the 80’s, you probably wished you didn’t”, perhaps?
Ok, there were actually many bright spots of that time for me. Just very few which are celebrated or recognized today.
And so, this is probably as good a time as any to cop to my own 80’s nostalgia trip this weekend, where I stopped by the Jack Hanley gallery to get a look at a show by Gee Vaucher. Gee produced much of the visual art used by the seminal punk band, CRASS. The show featured the original art from the album covers and posters, as well as paintings and insanely detailed works in gauche. We got a chance to meet Gee, and she was very sweet. We missed out on Penny Rimbaud’s poetry and saxophone deal, with bedtime schedules and all.
(Gee Vaucher)
