Most egregious displays of content-free nostalgia on youtube comment boxes?

Okay, this may seem a rather minute topic of discussion, but it does seem to be a prevalent trend I'm noticing. There seems to be something about the format of youtube comment boxes that allows this shit to flow freely and unrepentantly. For example, in reference to a clip of Semisonic's Closing Time we get the following gems: "I get a little depressed every morning when i wake up and its not the 90s.." and "Rather than electronics making us virtually dependent, I would prefer the 90s and their great times. I only lived 7 years of it, but I wish I could've lived all of it, truly understanding it's greatness rather than being a baby at the time. The electronic feats now are just getting overboard. A simple life is a better life, don't be too attached to material possessions." On a thread in discussion of a clip of Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life", there is this: "Listening to this takes me back to my childhood. Before Lady Gaga. Before shitty music was played repeatedly over the airwaves. Before Jersey Shore, when MTV actually played music. When the most competitive we ever got was over a game of horse in Tony hawk's pro skater. When Nickelodeon played actually funny, enjoyable cartoons. When kids got fresh air and played basketball or baseball in the park for fun, instead of being cramped up in a basement playing cod. Man, I miss the 90's."

Simply flabbergasting.

let Freedom ring

with a shotgun blast

Machine Head nostalgia

POG rock revival

the best are the ones from young kids who begin by saying "I'm only ___ years old but...", and then go all misty-eyed about how they wish they could've grown up in the 90s listening to REAL music like Tupac/Nirvana/Green Day/whatever instead of that manufactured pop GARBAGE all the other kids at school are into...

shit cracks me up every time

Well, what it reveals is that it's possible to be nostalgic about anything. "How I long for that golden age of Reef, Terrorvision and 3 Colours Red!" etc.

you're forgetting that every youtube ever has comments about Justin Bieber and how ____ was better than Bieber and 19__ had no manufactured acts like Bieber and so on

"Listening to this takes me back to my childhood. Before Lady Gaga. Before shitty music was played repeatedly over the airwaves.

"A life without Lou Bega"???

Which will come first, the hit cover of "You Ought to Know" or "What if God was One of Us"?

I still get "I Want it That Way" stuck in my head

the youtube posts by old farts on hair metal acts and how grunge killed fun are ubiquitous and hilarious.

Also; complaining about Bieber is crazy...this is no different than the Backstreet Boys/N*Sync thing, I mean they all have good, enjoyable tunes that have been way overplayed. I would imagine kids who are 10-12 now will probably be playing nostalgia mixes at parties with Bieber in 10 years and reminiscing about how good pop music was then too.

bieber is not as good as backstreet boys or nsync tho

Nostalgia at aged 20 just seems so wrong though

It's just a weird cross section of tunes that seems to trigger it in myself and some people I know...like "One Week" and "Tubthumper" and other gimmicky stuff doesn't really hold up, but stuff like "Kiss From a Rose" or "Too Close" or "Please Don't Go" or "I Want You" does.

You can find "this is when they made REAL music" in the comment section of any 90s one hit wonder.

there's nostagia on youtube now for 2000-2005 too

i think this is a p natural & obvious phenomenon to accompany old youtube radio singles and about the last thing on earth i could ever let myself get flabbergasted abt. also i'm under 20 & still have mad nostalgia for corny radio jams i heard on the school bus on the way home, songs on high rotation i heard a million times on road trips with my parents, songs i knew all the words to and sang with my sisters. i still love a lot of it unconditionally & although i still engage with pop music it's on a different, much more detached and self-conscious level

there's a ice cr?m comment on the 77 thread on this abt how nostalgia gauzes up & glorifies mediocrity which is a good point, but i feel like it has more to do w/ changes in how people have become more or less receptive to new music than them just having wack taste and shitty lives

I've been finding that if it's over 5 years old, there's bound to be nostalgic comments about it. Which is sad when I start seeing nostalgic comments on Chingy music videos like "man chingy was a good singer now we have to listin gay ass lil wayne".

nostalgia is a constant in human psychology, seems kinda pointless to get upset about. it hasn't ruined human culture yet, it isn't likely to do it now either.

bieber is not as good as backstreet boys or nsync tho

can't even fathom what criteria could be used to make this distinction

it has more to do w/ changes in how people have become more or less receptive to new music

this is basically it. the nostalgia doesn't have anything to do with the artists in question, it has more to do with how people's relationships to artists have changed over time (ie, "I wish I still felt as deeply excited about something musical as I did about _____", which is more a complaint about changes in hormone levels and brain chemistry than about anything having to do with music)

Well the Backstreet Boys did have more vocal harmonies than a solo artist like Biebver.

That being said, I do come from the opinion that there still was a whole lot of worse music to come out of the late 90s/early 00's boy-band/pop explosion than what Justin Bieber putting. Ecpecially when you consider the stuff that was coming out of Canada at that time.

I always kind of wondered if there would be a 90's revival in pop music and fashion the same way we have kind of an 80's revival going on now. Were the 90's just not as iconic?

uh it's kind of happening now?

on Macho - 'I'm a man'

THANKS A LOT! SUPER!! ITS FULL OF MEMORYS 70's OF PUBERTY!!!!!

Geez--content-free nostalgia is my entire m.o.

Nostalgia at aged 20 just seems so wrong though

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, February 23, 2011 1:14 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

When I was in college I heard a lot of people talk about how when they were 13-15 they had it made and things were simpler. This of course made no sense since they were 18 years old.

Also, a lot of these people would refuse to listen to newer music and were stuck on Usher "Yeah" and Justin Timberlake albums way past their pop expiration date. God forbid they would listen to LCD Soundsystem or whoever debuted during the mid-200s.

Only the people who had radio stations would know what was going on the latest in music. And yes I was one of those people who had a radio station. :/

nostalgia is a constant in human psychology

One can experience feelings of nostalgia, while at the same time recognising that it is a delusion. What strikes me most about the youtube commentboxers is the sheer creativity of the irrationality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9kKf7SHco

this thread is dumb as shit btw

I wasn't meant especially seriously, you sneering cunt.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=67428

ah shit, forgot that's on 77

the opposite kind of post

@jiggarypokery LMAO the 90s was full of a shitload of bad music. I grew up in it around the spice girls (yes I did love em) nysnc and mindless others that sung songs with no deepth written by others. - fuck the last five years of current music is so much better - bands actually playnig instrument again singers writing there own songs - and yes Lady Gaga writes ALL her own songs - she is not over rated. Music is having a comeback - 95 to 2005 was basically shit
LLROXNZ 2 days ago

comment from http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FtTu0OniZg&feature=channel

I've grown tired of the premature nostalgia a lot of my peers are having about the 90s. Nickelodeon this, Spice Girls that, blah blah blah. For a long time on YT I used to post little tidbits about songs I'd remember off the top of my head, such as what else was playing in the radio landscape, similar artists that came out at the time, ect. but real discussion would just get drowned out by "the 90s were so grand" stuff so I stopped.

I always kind of wondered if there would be a 90's revival in pop music and fashion the same way we have kind of an 80's revival going on now. Were the 90's just not as iconic?

Feel like 90s revival is in full force around me. 80s revival was petering out at the end of the last decade (00s) so it sort of makes sense. Wondering how you are avoiding a 90s revival. I mean Pavement just went on a sold out global reunion tour WTF.

flopson, how old are you?

i think my favorite vaguely nostalgia-related youtube comment i've seen was something along the lines of "reminds me of losing my virginity! thank you [artist's name] for making girls horny in the 90s!" sadly i don't remember the song and probably wouldn't be able to track it down anyway.

A friend and I are in the midst of a project where we've been linking to a lot of fan-generated YouTube videos. I like nostalgia in almost all its guises--at least when the objects of said nostalgia are in sync with the songs and bands I love myself--so I enjoy a lot of these comments. Best one I've found so far is for CCR's "Ramble Tamble": "38 years ago when I was on a ship in Viet Nam I used to BLAST this song on the mess decks while I was scrubbing pots in the galley." The funniest was for one of the videos somebody posted for Rhythim Is Rhythim's "Strings of Life": "Justin Bieber can't play piano like this." That struck me as a Hall of Fame non sequitur.

The funniest was for one of the videos somebody posted for Rhythim Is Rhythim's "Strings of Life": "Justin Bieber can't play piano like this." That struck me as a Hall of Fame non sequitur.

Haha, particularly good as the pianos in that are presumably sequenced.

Justin Bieber can't program an amen break like this.

I remember the good old days, back when we didn't used to care about nostalgia.

Feel like 90s revival is in full force around me. 80s revival was petering out at the end of the last decade (00s) so it sort of makes sense. Wondering how you are avoiding a 90s revival. I mean Pavement just went on a sold out global reunion tour WTF

Well yeah a lot of those alt bands are getting big again but I mean like, we haven't really seen an upturn in that sort of fashion or had a lot of new music in 90's styles, either that or I completely missed it, and Bop It! is still not cool

are you kidding me? I bet ppl would lose their shit for a novelty dance/rap song that based the hook around "Bop It!" samples

From Sydney Youngblood's 'If Only I Could':

"Love the ball bouncing tempo to this Youngblood track, very fashionable and GQ...used to masturbate to this."

egregious displays of content-free tmi

a heartbreaGQing work of ball-bouncing genius

are you kidding me? I bet ppl would lose their shit for a novelty dance/rap song that based the hook around "Bop It!" samples

I remember some hip hop album (can't remember which) that had a skit asking if the guy wanted to do a novelty rap song based on "Sandstorm" and I was just thinking, whoa, how has that not happened yet??

Is Sandstorm just too fast?

Lots of 90s revival stuff on at the moment: the alt/rock band Yuck, Tensnake and Azari & III recycling Technotronic/C&C Music Factory beats, 90210, countless Britpop and Grunge reunion gigs happening throughout the summertime, Spice Girls being played in clubs again... ummm... maybe we need a thread?

well I haven't heard of any of those bands so maybe I'm just totally OTM (off the mark)

I remember some hip hop album (can't remember which) that had a skit asking if the guy wanted to do a novelty rap song based on "Sandstorm"
--frogbs

Hahaha. I've been waiting for the day for some rapper to sample Sandstorm on a track. It's good to know that idea has been adressed on an album now.

Now, has there been any rap songs that have sampled Robert Miles' Children yet?

Also, it's not "Bop It", but the Books did do the song "Cold Freezin Night" which used a bunch of stuff they found on Talk Boy tapes.

I'm also waiting for a song using the Yak Bak.

Now, has there been any rap songs that have sampled Robert Miles' Children yet?

rollin rollin rollin we aint slept in weeks

Also, it's not "Bop It", but the Books did do the song "Cold Freezin Night" which used a bunch of stuff they found on Talk Boy tapes.

Great tune, fun video too!

I actually had the Bop It! and the Bop It! Deluxe which had FIVE different activities like "twist it" and "spin it". Then they went out of business. Wop wop wop wop Wop wop

I do look back at the 90s myself like every day had bluer skies. Hip music in the 90s was much less image concerned and didn't try so hard to show off their influences as much. Lots of quirky breezy music.

Most radio pop music now is so slick and completely artificial sounding, too.

I can dig the fondness those youtube commenters have for looking back.

she's young and pretty, he's young and handsome, sun is shining beautifully, music is good, pancakes taste great. This. This is the "spring&summer" season of human life. If you're lucky enough to experience it, try to make the most of it. "autumn&winter" comes quickly. I'm 57 years old and this video was unintentionally nostalgic for me because it reminded me of my wife (who passed away 3 years ago). Have fun kids!

I don't know what song this comment is about, but there's overwhelming pathos for me when someone has this kind of nostalgia over a terrible piece of music - a conflict between empathy and my own aesthetic standards. I feel sorry for both of us.