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Have I used that title before? I don't care. Nineties night was bloody bizarre. I'd love to see what the Phonogram boys would have made of it - though for the most part it felt more like being in a really-pushing-it follow up to Life on Mars. OK, my default look basically hasn't changed in a decade but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angelv, say, was in brilliantly old skool mode - leading to a momentary disconnect whenever she got out her shiny modern mobile. And the music! There was the ace stuff, obviously. Some of this you still hear out anyway (Suede, Carter USM), others not so much (early Echobelly, Green Day's 'Basket Case') and some I don't think I even heard played out the first time round (Kenickie b-sides?). With dire bands who had one good song (as most ultimately do), they generally did well in finding it - so we got Shed 7's 'Dolphin' and Sleeper's 'Delicious'. But still, there was also the really rubbish stuff, because this was the whole nineties, more or less - so 'Here Come The Hotstepper' and Chaka Demus & Pliers were in full effect, alongside plenty even worse and unmemorable with it. There were gaps - one DJ had never even heard of White Town, and there was a distinct lack of dance from the handbag or boshing schools (though we did get 'Hey Boy Hey Girl' - 1999, and had a lot of us thinking it might be outside the remit). Overall, they weren't just going for 'our' nineties, they were going for the whole nineties. And it was weird seeing those boundaries melt away with distance, like that Borges story about the two feuding theologians whom it turns out their god can't tell apart. Or like how Soft Cell saw themselves as adversaries and opposites to Visage, but nowadays you'd assume that a fan of one will probably like the other. Of everything they played, I think Elastica's 'Line Up' stood out as the single most nineties song ever made (though there was a sheer bloody-minded joy in dancing to Me Me Me in 2007. They said it wouldn't last - well we showed them). But the weirdest moment for me was Ash's 'Girl from Mars'. I don't know if I even own that song, and perhaps that's part of why it whirled me straight back to the Wherehouse - well, that and the fact that as a song about a lost summer and the things that never quite happened, it was only ever going to get stronger with time.
So yeah, I think I enjoyed myself, in an existential crisis sort of way.
In other news: stripy rabbit!
angelv, say, was in brilliantly old skool mode - leading to a momentary disconnect whenever she got out her shiny modern mobile. And the music! There was the ace stuff, obviously. Some of this you still hear out anyway (Suede, Carter USM), others not so much (early Echobelly, Green Day's 'Basket Case') and some I don't think I even heard played out the first time round (Kenickie b-sides?). With dire bands who had one good song (as most ultimately do), they generally did well in finding it - so we got Shed 7's 'Dolphin' and Sleeper's 'Delicious'. But still, there was also the really rubbish stuff, because this was the whole nineties, more or less - so 'Here Come The Hotstepper' and Chaka Demus & Pliers were in full effect, alongside plenty even worse and unmemorable with it. There were gaps - one DJ had never even heard of White Town, and there was a distinct lack of dance from the handbag or boshing schools (though we did get 'Hey Boy Hey Girl' - 1999, and had a lot of us thinking it might be outside the remit). Overall, they weren't just going for 'our' nineties, they were going for the whole nineties. And it was weird seeing those boundaries melt away with distance, like that Borges story about the two feuding theologians whom it turns out their god can't tell apart. Or like how Soft Cell saw themselves as adversaries and opposites to Visage, but nowadays you'd assume that a fan of one will probably like the other. Of everything they played, I think Elastica's 'Line Up' stood out as the single most nineties song ever made (though there was a sheer bloody-minded joy in dancing to Me Me Me in 2007. They said it wouldn't last - well we showed them). But the weirdest moment for me was Ash's 'Girl from Mars'. I don't know if I even own that song, and perhaps that's part of why it whirled me straight back to the Wherehouse - well, that and the fact that as a song about a lost summer and the things that never quite happened, it was only ever going to get stronger with time. So yeah, I think I enjoyed myself, in an existential crisis sort of way.
In other news: stripy rabbit!
