Dust Bin This Post is Brought to You by the Year 1996
posted by on January 16 at 22:00 PM
Monday night, the night it snowed, was the night my boyfriend kicked my ass at air hockey. He really slaughtered me. I think one match was 14 to 6 or something embarrassing like that. Once he let me win, but I’m pretty sure that was just so I wouldn’t feel like such a loser. Anyway, while we battled each other at the otherwise abandoned Game Works, where our air hockey tournament was taking place, I was taken back to 1996, one of the best years of my life.
That was the year I watched Empire Records at least once a week, the year I learned to drive (and subsequently listened to the radio a lot since the car my sister and I shared didn’t have a CD player), and the year I desperately wanted to get my eyebrow pierced.
While we rehydrated with Diet Coke, Goo Good Dolls’ “Name” played over the speakers in the bar. Then after that, they played “Take a Picture” by Filter which wasn’t actually on the radio in 1996, but their song “Hey Man Nice Shot” was. It was the weirdest time warp. At the weirdest place. While it snowed outside. It felt like a dream.
Had I stuck around longer, I’m sure the rest of the soundtrack would’ve sounded a lot like this:
Nada Surf “Popular”
Superdrag “Who Sucked Out the Feeling”
Gin Blossoms “Til I Hear it From You”
Dishwalla “Counting Blue Cars”
I’ll never know, though. There was more air hockey to be played.
Such an ambitious blog entry, Meggers. Approaching some of the better Mudede knockoffs I see attempted on Lineout. My how you've evolved. It's like I was full on watching that totes rad air hockey game between you and the guy way back in the 90s.
I just know Marcy Playground and Fastball and Sneaker Pimps were next on the old timey jukebox.
Wow, I don't get many chances to feel nostalgic, since I'm in my mid 20's and have my whole life ahead of me... but that did it.
Superdrag. Those guys were and still are AMAZING.
nice post..."sucked out" and "popular" are some deep cuts
maybe i'm just not with it, but why do people still care about nada surf? i don't get how some bands can milk 15 minutes for 15 years.
...don't forget Oasis's Wonderwall (I think that was 96)
Phew. I'm so glad you guys got rid of JZ. Now we can enjoy Megan's livejournal worthy posts even more!
the only thing worse than JZ's taste in music is Megan's taste in music. if i wanted to hear about a sad, fat, emo girl with shitty taste in music, i'd return my sisters calls.
Ah, the mid-nineties. The 1996 alterna-single I keep thinking of is that Refreshments song "Banditos" with the Capt. Picard reference (I guess the "cleverness" of which got them the gig of writing the King of the Hill theme song. I think this Rhino boxed set is a pretty good snapshot of the pleasure and horror that was 90's "modern" radio.
Twelve years ago never felt so relevant. Keep your fingers on the pulse, Line-Out.
Hey, dude, those who don't remember the past are doomed to something, something...
To snark it up some more, thank the gods this wasn't my 1996, although some of these were inescapable.
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