Doonesbury reenacts/predicts the rockism non-wars 15 years ago today

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I remember when this sequence ran:

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

But I love Hang On Sloopy!

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

What's the Calvin and Hobbes clip that predicts Stereolab? - any idea when it's from?

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, that's weird. I was listening to TI's "Bring 'Em Out" this morning and thinking about this very strip.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 10 March 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

"Hang On Sloopy" >>>>> At least 99 percent of hip-hop

― chuck, Thursday, 10 March 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

"Get down homes, my name is Jimmy T
We can rock this house or we can save a tree"

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

Somebody find the Doonesbury where the singer's in the studio and says "where is everybody", producer says "get with it, we use machines for everything now" (last-panel punchline = singer ejected from studio too)

― dave q (listerine), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone ever sampled the HOS bassline?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

there's a Calvin and Hobbes that predicts Stereolab? really?

― lemin (lemin), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Yes

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

It predicts loving easy listening/lounge music once again or something like that, but that's about the extent of it!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

"Hang On Sloopy" >>> 99% of all music.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

so were calvin and hobbes really predicting stereolab, or were they actually predicting the coctails?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

okay i'll bite, what is the big deal about "hang on sloopy"? how is it better than 99% of all music or 99% of all hip hop? (aside from the fact that i haven't heard it in years and could sing the chorus to you verbatim)

― basquiat (disco stu), Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Well, part of the thing is that it's a great swinging dance song, which is more than you can say for lots of hip-hop (though not all of it, and lots of great hip-hop is great regardless.) But part of the equation is pure math -- it's better than 99 percent of country, or 99 percent of garage rock, or 99 percent of metal, too. Because 99 percent of pretty much any genre is less than great. And "Hang on Sloopy" isn't.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

Plus, even if the music wasn't great (which it is), it is a great song about sex and class, which is more than you can say for 99% etc.

Song: Hang on Sloopy
Album:

Hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on
Hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on

Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town
and everybody else, tries to put my sloopy down
Sloopy I don't care, what your daddy do
Cuz you know sloopy, girl, I'm inlove with you

and so I say now

Hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on
Hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on

Sloopy let your hair down, ooo
Let it hang down on me
Sloopy let your hair down, girl
Let it hang down on me, yeah

come on sloopy (come on, come on)
oh come on sloopy (come on, come on)
oh come on sloopy (come on, come on)
oh come on sloopy (come on, come on)

well it feels so good (come on, come on)
you know it feels so good (come on, come on)
well shake it, shake it, shake it sloopy (come on, come on)
shake it, shake it, shake it yeah (come on, come on)

hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on
(yeah) (yeah) (yeah) (yeah)
hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on
(yeah) (yeah) (yeah) (yeah)
hang on sloopy, sloopy hang on

― xhuxk, Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

>lots of great hip-hop is great regardless<

actually, ALL great hip-hop is great, obv. (so, delete "great" #1 here)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 10 March 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

tho that donald trump:frank lloyd wright thing is kinda funny since the donald is building the new sun-times tower.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

whoops wrong thred.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 10 March 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Didn't this become the state song of Ohio or somewhere? I remember reading that a state senator introduced a resolution, and when he got up on the floor of the Senate to proclaim it, he had a few "whereas" paragraphs ("Whereas Rick Derringer comes from the great state of Ohio ..." etc.), and the last one was "Whereas Sloopy lives in a very bad part of town, and whereas everybody else tries to put my Sloopy down, we hereby proclaim ..." Awesome.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 10 March 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

"frank lloyd wright" by simon & garfunkel >>>> at least 95% of hip-hop (maybe 96%)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 10 March 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

on the other hand, oddly enough:

"rock 'n' roll hootchie coo" >>>>>> "hang on sloopy"

― xhuxk, Thursday, 10 March 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Well, at least it's not "Arlo & Janis" waxing rhapsodic over Jimmy Buffett.

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Thursday, 10 March 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

it might very well be ohio's official state song -- it is played exhaustively during ohio state football games, and has thus become syonymous with civic pride, thuggish behavior, and wanton drunkenness. it probably gets stuck in maurice clarett's head as he tries to stuff eight big macs in his mouth at once.

― cobra commander (cobra commander), Friday, 11 March 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

It's not Ohio's official song - it is Ohio State's official party song, and I think it might be the official rock song of Ohio, fwiw...

And if you live near Ohio State, as I do, you learn to fucking hate Hang on Sloopy pretty quickly. (Picture drunk 40-somethings singing it at a tailgate.... in EVERY parking lot.)

Now if they had chosen Rock & Roll Hootchie Coo as the official Rick Derringer State song,.. I'd think we were the Simpsons probably.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 11 March 2005 12:14 (twenty years ago)

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