Nostalgia was 70's crap

andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Fri Jul 11 12:12:00 CDT 1997


Harrison Sherwood writes:
> And the more I think about it, the harder it is for _me_ to tell a
> Seventies record from a Nineties one, or a book or a film or a dance or
> a haircut or a shirt or a...a...thought.

That's because you aren't listening to the right 70s or 90s records/
books/films etc I doubt you could confuse `Firestarter' with `Bela
Lugosi's Dead'. But is it surprising that you confuse 70s pap with 90s
pap? Quality invariably transcends age, style and context.


Andrew Dinn
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