Another Bizzaro Me

[infanttyrone]

So tonight's overheard bar conversation was lifted from the group who dominated the place all night. Between playing the standard 80's retro butt-rock and taking lots and lots of photos of each other dancing and lip-synching to said BR, two women and two men had a gossipy conversation about an absent friend, at a really unnecessary volume, about

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[lux_et_amor]

what is "standard 80's retro butt-rock"?

[infanttyrone]

The same jive shit every group of twenty-somethings with no actual musical taste of their own plays on our jukebox, the same two dozen songs we hear every night, played under the aegis of "irony" but more realistically headed under "guilty pleasures": your Van Halens, your Queens and your Journeys, with the same Springsteen songs and Tom Petty songs sprinkled alongside.
I know, I know, people really legitimately like that music, and God bless 'em. But the kids come in and play the same tunes over and over, ignoring the hundreds of other songs in the juke, and they think it's all great fun, like they've just invented retro-irony.

[ltmurnau]

As always was, youth is wasted on the young - they spend their juicy years re-inventing sex, irony and coffee.

[the Online Etymology Dictionary places the origin of the word "jukebox" in 1937, from "jook joint", a word invented in 1935. It is Black English slang, from juke, joog "wicked, disorderly," in Gullah (the creolized English of the coastlands of S.C., Ga., and northern Fla.), from Wolof and Bambara dzug "unsavory."]

[infanttyrone]

Oh how I hate the young people. I hated the young people even when I was a teenager.
What's the etymology of "butt-rock"? I'm half-familiar with the origins of "hesch" (to be hesch, to be a hescher, or heschian-- for the floor of your primer-coated muscle car to be ankle-deep in crumpled Marb packs and empty Mountain Dew bottles).

[ltmurnau]

Ooooh, the younguns, we hates them Baggins....

"hesch" is a new on on me. You probably know "hoser" already. A hoser would listen to butt-rock (but they would probably be admixed with 70s Canadian butt-rock groups like April Wine or Trooper).

[infanttyrone]

I might just begin referring to our younger customers as "Bagginses", in case I wasn't already a big enough dork.

I've always had a certain admiration for Canadian hoser-types, probably informed by a too-early exposure to Bob & Doug, and re-enforced by years of the Red Green Show and now Trailer Park Boys...

[ltmurnau]

You know, it's just tragic that Americans form all their stereotypical impressions of what Canadians are like from TV comedy shows.

It's even more tragic that yes,
We. Are. All. Just. Like. That.

[infanttyrone]

Oh, perhaps you forget that I was born and raised in Minnesota-- aka "occupied Canada". Canadians always just seemed like slightly smarter Minnesotans who might know some French and could handle even colder weather.