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⌈ Secret Post #5898 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

HONESTLY!

(currently on s13 on our rewatch)

[(Anonymous)]

Under the circumstances I probably agree with you. (Haven't seen the show so I can't say for sure.)

Personally the music that makes me the most nostalgic is the stuff I listened to as a pre-teen. I don't have nearly as much nostalgia for the stuff I listened too in my actual teens. However, my preteen/very-early-teens era was 1998–2001, a time when hanging out at the mall and blowing your allowance on CDs was pretty standard tween behavior. I don't imagine music was nearly as accessible to a tween in the early-mid 50s.

And if the show was specifically depicting songs from the early 50's as being songs this character danced to at social events five-plus years later, then I agree that they probably could've picked better songs. I mean, it's entirely reasonable to assume that not all of the music played at these social events would've been brand new. But if you're telling a story you really want your pop-cultural references to be as smooth as possible, and not trigger a mental math session for your audience.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. In Stephen King's book 11/23/1963, young people still swing dance with live bands.

[(Anonymous)]

Swing dance isn't really the same as WWII era dances though, is it? I dunno, it just doesn't feel like the right era.

[(Anonymous)]

thanks for reminding me I’ve been meaning to rewatch Midsummer Murders

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, no problem. I got bored a couple weeks ago and found bunches of episodes on Youtube, just played one and then got pulled in again.

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhhhhhhhhhh. Eh. I don't know. I mean, I haven't actually gone and looked at what records were being purchased at what times in what places and locales (I assume that none of us have). So I really don't know for sure.

But... I think it is generally the case that the things we think of as "the 60s" came along a lot later than we think of them, and were less far-reaching than we assume, and were layered on top of a lot of other existing strata of music and culture rather than replacing them. People - especially people who were older - didn't suddenly stop listening to older kinds of music. And the really radical parts of the 60s, the truly out-there experimentalism, was often only appealing to a relatively small minority.

And Barnabas was born in mid-1943; he was 16 in 1959, 21 in 1964. That's definitely after the heyday of big band proper, yeah. But not that long after; all of those bands were still around. and it doesn't seem out of place at all that Barnabas would have been dancing in a village hall to live bands - maybe a little more "hot" than the classic big bands, but still pretty much the same style of music - and listening to pop records with lush orchestral arrangements and so on.

So yeah, IDK if all the details are exactly right, but the basic idea that someone whose late teenage years were in the late 50s-early 60s could still have a ton of nostalgia for jazz band-style music definitely holds up IMO.

[(Anonymous)]

Ehhh, I suppose you're right. It just... doesn't feel right to me regardless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hKTxJ3csv8

[(Anonymous)]

Is the character from a rural area? Because if so, his radio listening and social activities are indeed going to be a decade or so late. I think I'm probably the last generation that's true for, due to the internet, but there's a lot of late 70s/early 80s mainstream stuff that is very nostalgic for me just because it's what my parents had on, or was on in the car, even though I was not yet a teenager. And in my early teens I thought I didn't like popular music at all because my main exposure was the one local radio station which was honestly shit. When I was 16 more radio stations started broadcasting to the area and it turned out I like grunge a lot!

[(Anonymous)]

That's a good point, I think he did grow up in the English countryside as opposed to a major city.

[(Anonymous)]

Doesn't work like that in the UK.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Anybody care to explain how it does work in the UK?

I've never been there, so I might need some info on how the music scene back then was like.