6 Responses to Archie Time Travels to Our Present Day (1972)

1. Blowhard, Esq. says:

   September 22, 2012 at 9:39 pm

   Even Archie — white boy of all white boys — is wondering what happened to the groove!

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2. Zimriel says:

   September 23, 2012 at 3:33 am

   I am guessing that these kids are listening to The Xx or The National – the whining rubbish which coffeeshops pipe at us. (They piped it at us two years ago, anyway. I don’t know what the SWPLs are making us listen to now.)

   Another point they got right – they’re using a vintage tape machine with analog readouts. No mp3’s for these snobs connoisseurs!

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   • Maule Driver says:

     September 23, 2012 at 3:51 am

     and I thought it was just clueless retro imagery, but what could I know about SWPL

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3. Paleo Retiree says:

   September 23, 2012 at 3:34 pm

   The Wife and I were having a decent low-key lunch at a locavore place yesterday … Enjoyed everything but the music on the speakers, which was hiphop (I guess — what do I know?). It was as joyless as a bad drug. Oafish chanting on top of draggy/laggy synthesized beats … It put both of us into a stupor. It really did — we could barely sustain a conversation, not because the music was loud but because it was such a trancey, sullen drag. Exact opposite of dance music, though for all I know maybe kids today dance to stuff like that. Anyway: the Archie cartoon is really prescient. Those synth beats have no spark to ’em.

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4. Fenster says:

   September 23, 2012 at 5:16 pm

   bring back the backbeat

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5. chucho says:

   September 23, 2012 at 10:16 pm

   Clearly Archie did not foresee the greater threat of cutesy ukelele music.

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