Retrospective hilarity

...like I did just now. Housemate Ben picked up the best of Blur DVD and for the first time I saw the original UK version of the "There's No Other Way" video. I saw Damon's pudding bowl haircut as he sweetly crooned looking into the camera. I thought of the balding desperate mid-life crisis freakout case of the now, and all the water under the bridge. I laughed evilly for the cruelty of time and fate.

Every time I hear old Metallica I have an amused but kind-hearted smirk on my face.

Jodeci, Boyz II Men.......holy shit.......I haven't read anything about them for years......still like Jodeci but B 2 M......haha....they used to consume my whole consciousness.....I had posters, the t-shirts, I would karaoke their shit while in the bath, so rapt that I was a prune at the end.......true story: the girl my older cousin lost his virginity used the lyrics to the chorus of End Of The Road as her yearbook write-up. Picture this shit (approximately): Pain in my head
Oh, I'd rather be dead
Spinning around and around
. Although we've come
To the end of the road
Still I can't let go
It's unnatural
You belong to me
I belong to you
. Although we've come
To the end of the road....... CLASS of 98, I love you guys!!!! Growing up with kids like this puts hair on your ass, gorilla status.

I have to admit a love for Soul Asylum about 12 years ago... I thought they were the bee's knees. The fact that they're still actually playing together is pretty hilarious I guess, if it weren't so sad.

Some five years ago I was big into Rage Against the Machine. Some four years ago I decided to ignore them completely. I picked up "Renegades" used a while back out of morbid curiosity to see what they'd do with "Down on the Street". Among other things: replace Asheton's great solo with Tom Morello making some irritating noises that sounded like the adults on a Charlie Brown TV show talking through the Peter Frampton voicebox.

well, Big Country, inexplicably really, but I guess i wasn't actually laughing about where Stuart Anderson ended up...

Easy answer. I saw the Replacements at the infamous "stink bomb" show at the Roxy just after _Tim_ had been released. It was one of the BEST concerts I'd seen (and 12 years later, it's still among the best) - with equal parts anarchy, amazement, pathos, doom, triumph, and capital-R Rock And Roll. I felt like I had just seen the second coming of the '66-era Kinks and Stones all over again.

If you told me then that it'll end up in death, failed expectations, disappearance, and membership in Guns 'N' Roses my head would have exploded.