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the decline of western civilization (1981)

a documentary about the punk scene of 1980s LA with lots of interviews and music performances. a snapshot of the attitude of the cool kids who weren’t cool

@obutor

Jan 23, 2024

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1977-84

I think I am on board with your assessment @ACTUALLYASLEEP Four reasons: * stylistic diversity: punk was born and commercialized at one end, hip hop at the other. We take this for granted today but at the time the jaggedness of going from the Clash to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the Treacherous Three, and ESG (all of whom they collaborated with at one point) was exhilarating. The sheer confluence of everything was unprecedented. * MTV as a cultural force: I mean, it was called Music Television 😉 and this was its finest hour. The assumption was that music mattered more than everything else, otherwise why would you watch it? * legacy icons: Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Bruce, Bowie. I could go on. You may not like them all but you’ve gotta respect the bodies of work over decades. * the roots of indie culture were born then: bands like R.E.M., Husker Du, Replacements, the Smiths and a million others were blazing a trail (radio, live DIY tours, etc) that created “College Rock” and ultimately indie and here we are today staring in awe at what they made from scratch. The Reagan era sucked to live through but a lot of great music came out of the struggle. 💞

@coreydubrowa

Mar 14, 2025

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WOKE UP THINKING ABOUT THIS SHOW

Ultimate hipster millennial derpcore faux-reality MTV show. I honestly had to google it to see if it existed or if it was an amalgamation of the 2010 vibe that turned out to be my own fever dream. It came out when I was a freshman in high school. this was pre-smartphone and i spent a lot of time watching MTV in the morning before school. My husband is a couple years older than me and was also a MTV kid, but he’d never heard of this show. I made him watch the clip of the titular Liz covering “The Funeral” by Band of Horses and he couldn’t stop laughing. It is just SO 2010, if you weren’t there, this will put you there. For today’s kids, it sounds like that one clip on instagram live of that child singing that british tiktok song (M to the B?) in cursive and the other girl on the live is smiling with tears in her eyes from trying not to laugh. This is the environment where that voice started lol I am genuinely curious if anyone else remembers this show or if I was the only one that watched it and somehow didn’t realize it was entirely scripted.

@worldonfire

Apr 8, 2025

Top Recs from @dakotablue

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telling yourself you’re living the dream

promotes positivity pro tip, dreams don’t always make sense - so when weird/bad stuff happens, you can shrug it off and be like wow what a weird dream bro 🤷

@dakotablue

Feb 6, 2024

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blaming everything wrong in your life on “the man”

@dakotablue

Jan 30, 2024

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CENSORING YOUR NEGATIVE SELF SPEAK

been extra conscious of it this week and have been feeling better than ever. be nice to your brain and your body

@dakotablue

Apr 4, 2025