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FilthyImp posted:The Swedish bikini team is well known to ease loads, iirc. They were considered to have blonde hair and blue eyes, which were apparently the most attractive in the 80's
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FilthyImp posted:The Swedish bikini team is well known to ease loads, iirc. They weren't actually Swedish; they were a new way to put pretty blonde ladies in beer ads.
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FilthyImp posted:The Swedish bikini team is well known to ease loads, iirc. It goes back further than the 80s. In the 60s there was a perception that Swedish society was a lot more sexually liberated than America. This had a lot to do with the success of the Swedish art film "I Am Curious (Yellow)," which came out in the late 60s and featured more explicit sexual content than audiences at the time were used to. "Swedish" became a term applied to all kinds of sexually-oriented content and products. All of that stuff was probably still rattling around in the average beer drinker's head in the mid-80s. They're no ordinary bikini team - they're SWEDISH, nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more!
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Splint Chesthair posted:It goes back further than the 80s. In the 60s there was a perception that Swedish society was a lot more sexually liberated than America. This had a lot to do with the success of the Swedish art film "I Am Curious (Yellow)," which came out in the late 60s and featured more explicit sexual content than audiences at the time were used to. "Swedish" became a term applied to all kinds of sexually-oriented content and products. Swedish laws regarding obscenity, and actual porn, were also very much more relaxed than everyone else in the Western Europe. They even did not have to thinly masquerade risque stuff as art or documentaries, so the name stuck.
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Splint Chesthair posted:Sweet writeup "Austin Powers: ONE swedish-made personal pump..."  Thanks, I figured it was some dumb "European libertine" poo poo like the Emmanuel films but had no idea where to look. It's really weird how that poo poo just becomes cultural truth
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Der Kyhe posted:Swedish laws regarding obscenity, and actual porn, were also very much more relaxed than everyone else in the Western Europe. They even did not have to thinly masquerade risque stuff as art or documentaries, so the name stuck. Funny how people remember Sweden for this, when Denmark was literally the first country in the world to make pornography legal (text in 1967, pictorial/video in 1969, nice), and for a few years there were basically no rules. Not even kidding about that last part, child porn was made illegal in 1980... Swedes and Norwegians came to Denmark for cheap booze and legal porn 
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The show started in the 1980s IIRC, but its probably more identified with the 1990s. How many of you went to school with someone who looked like Screech? There was a girl at my school who looked like him, and I'm pretty sure she embraced it because otherwise she probably would have gotten hosed with relentlessly. Also have a friend (went to different highschool) whose nickname is screech because he bears resemblance.
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uber_stoat posted:i'm a Garbage truther. Garbage only existed because Butch Vig wanted to rip off Curve!!! I’ve been shouting this for decades. No justice in this world.
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Ironically offering people a Snapple because that what happened on Seinfeld.
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smooth jazz posted:Ironically offering people a Snapple because that what happened on Seinfeld. Speaking of, remember The Snapple Lady?
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The only Snapple thing I remember is them changing over to plastic bottles and making a big deal of it because they were like the last glass bottles in the store.
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Todd's latest One Hit Wonderland is Mambo No. 5. A song I associate with 2000 more than 1999. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZtSeqNloYM He's right though, we thought it was the end of history, things can only get better, no more problems. Everything should be bright and happy! Too bad Woodstock 99 would reflect the next decade more than anything. Though I am always amazed about how quickly the swing/lounge and similar music resurgence died out. I got the idea that it was a combination of a few factors; it was expensive to drag a full big band around while touring, it was over saturated very quickly (that gap ad for example) and also it was something older people were into as well and nothing makes kids lose interest in something than having their parents and grandparents be cool with it. For the last point I remember watching Jonovision, a talk show by Jonathan Torrens who people are familiar with from Trailer Park Boys, and they had a episode about Swing music and they had two older people on talking about the dancing and you can see the audience lose interest in real time. Also those band name, Squirrel Nut Zippers sounds like someone just used a random word generator, and the less said about Cherry Poppin' Daddy's the better. Also their titular Zoot Suit Riot was when NYC cops beat black and latino youths so yea, fun times.
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For all the range that 90's music had there was one style that seems to be forever unique to that time. Free from anything before and free from continuity since. I miss it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw5NOYjvlSQ
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Der Kyhe posted:Swedish laws regarding obscenity, and actual porn, were also very much more relaxed than everyone else in the Western Europe. They even did not have to thinly masquerade risque stuff as art or documentaries, so the name stuck. Child porn was also completely legal in Sweden between 1972 and 1980. twistedmentat posted:
LA, not NYC. And it was more sailors and soldiers on leave than the cops. Royal Crown Revue also did a song about it. https://youtu.be/XbtTTxFbNQU Phanatic has a new favorite as of 19:32 on Sep 19, 2021 |
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:For all the range that 90's music had there was one style that seems to be forever unique to that time. Free from anything before and free from continuity since. I miss it. Jumping up and falling down in slow motion
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:For all the range that 90's music had there was one style that seems to be forever unique to that time. Free from anything before and free from continuity since.
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Phanatic posted:Child porn was also completely legal in Sweden between 1972 and 1980. I think maybe there were more than one riot involving youth of colour wearing zoot suits? But Yea I was confusing THE Zoot Suit Riot. A good subject for a fun party song by a band who's name suggests they may not be into sex with consenting adults.
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This Is the Zodiac posted:Do you mean the style of being self-awarely "silly" as in PUSA, Cake, Barenaked Ladies, et al.? Because that existed in the 70s (Frank Zappa), it existed in the 80s (Camper Van Beethoven, Dead Milkmen), it existed in the 2000s (Bloodhound Gang)... for a little while in the post-9/11 2000s it seemed like the prevailing sense was "no one can ever have fun again" but that finally, gradually wore off eventually. I did and I was clearly wrong! Was completely convinced bloodhound gang ended earlier. Last I remember was Electric Six, nice if loud guitar stupid is getting new songs. It did seem to be more in the zeitgeist for a moment there in the 90's though. ThisIsJohnWayne has a new favorite as of 20:29 on Sep 19, 2021 |
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I mean it definitely does seem like music takes itself way more seriously these days than it used to, and you can't just be a goofball anymore unless you're, like, Andrew WK, but that's probably just because there's so much more coexisting now? PS, I saw Bloodhound Gang live in 2000 and they started the show by coming onstage in matching white suits like N*SYNC.
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This Is the Zodiac posted:I mean it definitely does seem like music takes itself way more seriously these days
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FilthyImp posted:I refuse to believe that Tekashi69 is serious or the guy that got the gem placed in his head like the fuckin Vision isn't into purestrain lols. I haven't heard them but their names don't imply guitar music. There's obviously fun music existing today, hell JazzEmu puts it inside high class 80's Funk thats better than what the 80's managed, but... Loud Guitar Stupid felt, I don't know, gone? as a common genre for a long time passed now.
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There was that period where everything was just white boys singing melancholy songs about how much they love you. Has there been fun summer jams in the last few years? I have lost all touch with popular music that isn't synthwave and that isn't popular music.
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twistedmentat posted:There was that period where everything was just white boys singing melancholy songs about how much they love you. That "period" is known as the entirety of music.
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Trabant posted:That "period" is known as the entirety of music. White true, there were periods where that wasn't the big hit song of the summer was Sean Mendez singing about how girls should date him because he's a gentlemen.
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Trabant posted:That "period" is known as the entirety of music.
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I mean, there's also like NSP, TWRP, Night Ranger, and a whole bunch of other bands of mid-tier popularity that are doing the whole "Goofy Rock" or "happy rock" thing these days.
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twistedmentat posted:There was that period where everything was just white boys singing melancholy songs about how much they love you. A lot of them. Old Town Road, Despacito, etc. This years was Good 4 U. An angry pop punk breakup song feels fitting for the year.
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twistedmentat posted:Has there been fun summer jams in the last few years? I have lost all touch with popular music that isn't synthwave and that isn't popular music. Supremely catchy. Though, I don't think we'll see a masterpiece on par with The Thong Song/The Boy is Mine for a while
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FilthyImp posted:Montero. Yea that's kinda what I was getting at, i'm not denying there still aren't bangers that get released thought due to cultural diffusion they're not as inescapable. When you don't just have MTV and the local top40 station being your only sources, things can still be great and popular but not on the level they used to be. If i wanted to hear Montero i had to specifically seek it out. I only did that because everyone was going crazy about the video from every angle and i wanted to check it out. I didn't have a choice to hear the Thong Song.
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twistedmentat posted:There was that period where everything was just white boys singing melancholy songs about how much they love you. I thought "Good 4 U" was a decent Summer pop song with broad appeal. There does tend to be a couple every year, but its also not the case that everyone has the same radio stations or TV channels anymore. ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I did and I was clearly wrong! Was completely convinced bloodhound gang ended earlier. Last I remember was Electric Six, nice if loud guitar stupid is getting new songs. It did seem to be more in the zeitgeist for a moment there in the 90's though. Tenacious D were part of that too, and Weird Al has remained popular. Are They Might Be Giants still going?
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Disco Pope posted:I thought "Good 4 U" was a decent Summer pop song with broad appeal. There does tend to be a couple every year, but its also not the case that everyone has the same radio stations or TV channels anymore. They transitioned to kids songs I think?
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It seems inevitable that as music distribution becomes more democratized, major labels will only have safe, uncontroversial (and/or long established) artists on them. If you want to do weird stuff you just won't bother with them, and they won't bother with you. So that whole thing where an artist gleefully sneaks some weird stuff onto a major label record is probably a relic of the past. You can maybe still do it, but it's just not as fun without that context.
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Sir Lemming posted:So that whole thing where an artist gleefully sneaks some weird stuff onto a major label record is probably a relic of the past. 
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This Is the Zodiac posted:I mean it definitely does seem like music takes itself way more seriously these days than it used to, and you can't just be a goofball anymore unless you're, like, Andrew WK, but that's probably just because there's so much more coexisting now? excuse me but andrew wk is 100% entirely serious
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Was there ever a resolution to that "Andrew WK may not be Andrew WK" thing that was going around a few years ago, or did we collectively lose interest and drop it?
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Neito posted:Was there ever a resolution to that "Andrew WK may not be Andrew WK" thing that was going around a few years ago, or did we collectively lose interest and drop it? it regularly comes back every few years - i remember it being a thing as far back as like, 2004 - and it's always tiresome bullshit
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mactheknife posted:it regularly comes back every few years - i remember it being a thing as far back as like, 2004 - and it's always tiresome bullshit Cus it's just based on flimsy evidence, or another reason?
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Neito posted:Cus it's just based on flimsy evidence, or another reason? for me, even as a big fan, it just falls under "oh my god who the hell cares" territory anyway to stop this 00's derail, as far as someone posting the kind of weird borderline novelty song hits from the 90s, this one has always been a favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VTBam8YzQg
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Neito posted:Was there ever a resolution to that "Andrew WK may not be Andrew WK" thing that was going around a few years ago, or did we collectively lose interest and drop it? No, but his music videos did start referencing the conspiracy more and more so that's fun e: They Might Be Giants have done a few kids albums but they're still putting out normal music too. It's still really good too! Saw them in 2018 and it was a blast
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