Line Out - Comments on Emo Nostalgia http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia Bow + Arrow 90s nostalgia is undeniably big right now. Having exhausted the 80s with the early 00s’ plundering of electro and post-punk, we've now moved on to New Rave (et tu, Björk?) and maybe even a second coming... Copyright 2008 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:13:02 -0800 Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:45:33 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Blammo! I thought this was going to be a link to Emo Phillips. Thanks a lot! Now I can't get his sing-songy falsetto voice out of my head, saying things like: "My girlfiend said to me in bed last night, 'You're a pervert.' I said, 'That's a big word for a girl of nine'."

]]> Blammo! http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674327 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674327 Last Night Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:04:29 -0800 Comment by Eric Grandy You should see the royalty checks Phillips gets from Dischord. Dude is basically set for life.

]]> Eric Grandy http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674345 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674345 Last Night Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:14:35 -0800 Comment by Eric F Without being anywhere near an expert on the subject, I remember thinking the 90s wave of emo was itself a bizarre retrieval of a dead eighties genre which had itself lasted no more than a couple of years and as many bands (Embrace, Rites of Spring, Happy Go Licky, maybe King Face). As with ska, the revivals were exponentially bigger than the original (and as with ska, you're embarrassed to have ever listened to it from basically the moment you finish school.)

]]> Eric F http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674572 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674572 Last Night Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:41:23 -0800 Comment by Eric Grandy No way, other Eric. I am totally ashamed of having ever liked ska (even Engine 54--ska from Olympia, what was I thinking?), but I will go to the critical mat for Cap'n'Jazz, Promise Ring, and Braid. Yeah, they weren't from the original Revolution Summer in DC, but they still roughly expressed the aesthetic and ideological values of the original movement, which is more than can be said of the current crop of "emo" mtv hair bands.

]]> Eric Grandy http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674584 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674584 Last Night Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:50:01 -0800 Comment by Matt from Denver No one needs to be ashamed of the ska they liked if it was Two Tone era.

]]> Matt from Denver http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674655 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674655 Last Night Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:24:40 -0800 Comment by Fawkes I really do think we have at least half a decade left of the '80s revival, even if it was exhausted ages ago.

]]> Fawkes http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674857 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c674857 Last Night Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:06:49 -0800 Comment by Benji Thanks for the shout out, Eric.

You can put aside the "rumor" status - I'm the tyrannical ruler of the anarcho-terrorist organization, SeattleDIY. Come to our potluck/picnic/talent show on saturday, or face the DIY JIHAD!

]]> Benji http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c675680 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c675680 Last Night Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:27:56 -0800 Comment by PK I just want to go ahead and say Bow+Arrow as a four piece are my favorite local band of 2007. hands down. they put on an amazing show.

]]> PK http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c676186 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2007/03/emo_nostalgia#c676186 Last Night Tue, 20 Mar 2007 23:45:33 -0800