Are there things you really enjoy mainly for nostalgic reasons even though they generally run counter to your normal tastes. For the most part, I do not enjoy country or folk music, yet I love John Denver. If I'm honest, its just because I grew up hearing his music on variety shows in the 70s. I've been strapping on a bib and eating up episodes of The Powers of Matthew Star even though its pretty bad. I think I'm enjoying high school in the 80s again. These things are like a beat-up, dirty old blanket that keeps you warm despite its holes, cat hair and faded pattern. Or like that friend you've known since 2nd grade. Yeah, you have little in common anymore and he's even a little ******-y, but he's our ******. Are things you probably wouldn't like if it weren't for nostalgia?
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It's not so much that I enjoy things for nostalgia's sake, it's that I've not "progressed" a lot in my pop-cultural preferences. As for taste, I've always thought mine was good lol. There's no disputing taste.Last edited by PNGwynne; Sep 30, '20, 2:53 PM.WANTED: Dick Grayson SI trousers; gray AJ Mustang horse; vintage RC Batman (Bruce Wayne) head; minty Wolfman tights; mint Black Knight sword; minty Launcelot boots; Lion Rock (pale) Dracula & Mummy heads; Lion Rock Franky squared boots; Wayne Foundation blue furniture; Flash Gordon/Ming (10") unbroken holsters; CHiPs gloved arms; POTA T2 tan body; CTVT/vintage Friar Tuck robes, BBP TZ Burgess Meredith glasses. -
Folk music really isn't my thing but I have no problem with John Denver. He is a talented performer. So it's not just your nostalgia. Nothing to feel guilty about.You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
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No guilt. I love my love for John Denver. I just know he kind of sticks out from my usual tastes. Maybe I'm just open-minded I think he's just that warm blanket I like to wrap myself up in.WANTED - Solid-Boxed WGSH's, C.8 or better.Comment
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It's not only nostalgia for me. I just have certain tastes.
There's plenty of pop cultural stuff from the 70s and 80s that didn't click with me at all. Like disco and the urban cowboy fads. I don't get it. But I'm still lucky enough that I grew up an era were a lot of pop culture converged with my tastes. Since I was small I've loved fantasy stories and imagery. Castles, wizards, dragons and unicorns. It's kind of my thing. My favorite Fisher Price Little People set was the castle. I adored that pink dragon. So was lucky I grew up in an era with a resurgence of Tolkien style fantasy and the birth of Dungeons and Dragons and RPGs. So I don't still like D&D or MOTU just out of nostalgia. Then and now it just hits everything right for me.You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
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I like John Denver, too. But generally not folk stuff. Lawrence Welk is one of those that I stop and watch if I still find it while channel surfing...not much these days...because my grandma used to watch it so much.It's all good!Comment
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I'm with you. I don't really like country music either but I do like John Denver. I even have kind of learned to appreciate Willy Nelson. it's kind of nostalgia for a simpler time in my life, growing up in the 70'sComment
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John Denver was awesome, I still listen to him occasionally. His holiday specials with the Muppets was a big hit with me as a kidComment
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Are there things you really enjoy mainly for nostalgic reasons even though they generally run counter to your normal tastes. For the most part, I do not enjoy country or folk music, yet I love John Denver. If I'm honest, its just because I grew up hearing his music on variety shows in the 70s. I've been strapping on a bib and eating up episodes of The Powers of Matthew Star even though its pretty bad. I think I'm enjoying high school in the 80s again. These things are like a beat-up, dirty old blanket that keeps you warm despite its holes, cat hair and faded pattern. Or like that friend you've known since 2nd grade. Yeah, you have little in common anymore and he's even a little ******-y, but he's our ******. Are things you probably wouldn't like if it weren't for nostalgia?
Its funny in retrospect that it wasn't KISS, Ozzy, or Alice Cooper that was the most hated Anti-Christ it was John *Freaking* Denver.Comment
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Funny story about John Denver. Growing up a Jehovah's Witness he was public enemy #1. The legend goes he was very pro military and didn't like that Witnesses didn't stand for the national anthem. And he told Witnesses to leave his concert.
Its funny in retrospect that it wasn't KISS, Ozzy, or Alice Cooper that was the most hated Anti-Christ it was John *Freaking* Denver.
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