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This Week In Meta-Nostalgia

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Pitchfork Media has published ”The Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s.”

This nostalgic look back at the videos of the 1990s includes “Buddy Holly” by Weezer (1994), a nostalgic spoof of “Happy Days,” a sitcom (’74-’84) which itself reminisced an idealized 1950s. Count it: 3 layers of nostalgia. And when I look back upon this post years from now, we will have reached Inception-level nostalgia.

SEE ALSO: A compilation of the some of the most 90s stuff ever.

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Written by Moog Rogue

September 3rd, 2010 at 5:57 am

Bill Whittle: “They Stole Our Future, But They Cannot Break Our Will”

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Another excellent installment of “Afterburner,” in which Bill Whittle wistfully recalls his visit to GM’s Futurama exhibit at the World’s Fair in New York City in 1964.

I feel something similar for Disney’s Tomorrowland (probably heir to Futurama), but the nostalgia is balanced out to some degree by a sense of parallel-world eeriness.

(I’m still looking for a great word for “nostalgia for a future envisioned in the past,” but I enjoyed this piece from the Atlantic’s Word Fugitives from a few years back– October 2001, as it turns out– curiously apropos.)

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Written by Moog Rogue

January 5th, 2010 at 7:38 pm

The Best NES (Nintendo) Game Music Ever.

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(This post was a test of Windows Live Writer. Honestly, I cannot tell what the point of it is so far, apart from writing off-line. But I think WordPress has a solution for that also…)

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Written by Moog Rogue

November 22nd, 2009 at 10:25 am

A compilation of the some of the most 90s stuff ever.

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“Reality Bites” illustrates how the 90s was basically the 80s gradually discovering irony. This clip provides some great meta-nostalgia, too.

My So-Called Life, dance sequence: “What is Love” by Haddaway. I barely ever watched this show, but for some reason this scene stuck in my mind throughout the years as way, way 90s.

The Jurassic Park arcade game is way 90s.

Luke Perry “Behind the Scenes” (1993). In the 1990s in America this passed for cool.

Jim Carrey as the Juice Man on “In Living Color.”

Temple of the Dog is in the 90s’ last throes of earnestness in their video for “Hunger Strike.”

Jim Carrey was so 90s, he warrants two videos. “Mockingbird” scene from Dumb and Dumber:

Nothing renders the 90s quite so clearly as 16-bit graphics:

If you have any more, please post a link in the comments.

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November 15th, 2009 at 11:38 pm