by deethelurker » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:34 pm
Uh, yeah. I didn't even enter the double digits age-wise until 48 hours before 1990 and even *I* recognize the incredibly stupid nature of those "I Love The '80s" programs. Though they've not been even 1/200th as inane and pointless as the "I Love The '90s" programs, where a bunch of people who were TOO F***ING OLD FOR THE DECADE "reminisce" about their post-VH1 view of THAT decade. I mean, look at how they handled grunge, i.e. perhaps the most important musical revolution of the '90s. Nearly every single one of those talking idiots were spewing badly aged stereotypes that showed them to be completely clueless about that whole genre -- except for one. And he was DEE SNIDER, you guys. Dee Snider from Twisted Sister, i.e. the leader of one of the groups that grunge sought to destroy!! DEE SNIDER f***ing got it in a way that that lobotomy subject Hal Sparks, for example, never could. But anyway. The sentiments to stick to VH1 Classic are definitely repeated on my corner. You want to get the '90s? Watch "The Alternative" and see the videos I grew up on, from Catherine Wheel, Blur, Beck, James, Porno For Pyros, and so many more. When I want to get my '80s fill, there is nothing better than "We Are The '80s". And that request hour used to be supercool too, up until a few months ago. So yeah, VH1 Classic = awesome, and all those "I Love The ____" programs ought to be flung into a landfill post haste.