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Offer expires 3-31-96 Page 4 • The Battalion Actcttft iff Wednesday • February 7,1?| New music ain't got the same sou I t has finally hap pened. I’m an old fogey. Washed up. Past my prime. Pull the plug. All this at the ten der age of 22. But before I present my final will and testa speeding-out- of-control journey from youth to se nior citizen is when I turn on the radio or even MTV. These young kids probably ment, I must explain how I came to this discovery. A commercial, of all things — the Totally ’80s and Everything ‘80s compilation albums that litter the commer cial wasteland once dominated by Time Life’s book series and miracle car wax/hair gel. The annoying “Square Pegs” reject guy and gal with badly feathered ’80s hair and even worse, ’80s clothes, introduce music mainstays like Vanilla Ice as “legendary artists.” Vanilla Ice was a stereotype waiting to happen. But how is it that the music I heard at my first dance, a sock- hop if you will, is now infomercial fodder? This was the music that gave me the first opportunity to slow dance with a girl despite the 12-inch rule of separation en forced by metric rulers held by the principal and faculty. We swayed to the sounds of Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away” and “Can’t Fight This Feelin,” by REO Speedwagon while we tried to avoid the stem faces of the au thorities and keeping our under developed bodies from getting too close to each other, eliminating the possibility of doing something we had no idea how to do anyway. And what does today’s youth have? Raves, with techno songs that last for three days. Violent rap and fluffy country. And no matter how much Nirvana saved rock and showed Weirrant, Winger and Poison the door, I can’t help believing that young ones today missed out on a lot in the ’80s. I suppose what puts the ex clamation point on my rapidly- don’t even remember when MTV began. They have no true recollection of The Clash and LondonCalling. Prince, despite being the most influential and eccentric artist of the ’80s with his masterful Purple Rain and Sign O’ theTimes al bums, is now known more for a weirdo name change to an unpro nounceable symbol. They don’t re member him destroying the barri ers in music by combining rock, soul, jazz, gospel, funk and punk. Thriller is just some big al bum they hear about on one of MTV’s many Michael Jackson- til-ya-puke-even-though-he’s- not-black-anymore weekends. They don’t recall his days in '83 when he made music that actu ally mattered. Rap has become a mere mon eymaker, having been reduced from the political rage of Public Enemy to the played-out gangsta rhymes of Tha Dogg Pound. U2’s monumental status as eloquent-yet-enraged protest leaders, gained in the early ’80s by War and The Unforgettable Fire , has had its role replaced by any of a number of cyber bands. They don’t remember “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “New Years Day.” The lone mainstay, of course, is the Material Girl. Madonna will be around long after the nuclear holocaust, gyrating along with the cockroaches and showing them some skin in the hopes of capturing that last elusive Cheeto. She alone is a marketing machine, somehow finding a way to keep people in terested in her overtly sexual bonehead behavior. But they don’t remember her early days of “Holiday” and “Borderline; And they don’t remember when Marvin Gaye and John Ijennon died. My life has become a bad dream. Like some nightmarish replacement of Richard Sim mons by Casey Kasem — as I toss and turn in my slumbertiir land of "Sweatin’ to the ’80s,’ the children of MTV, Ronald Reagan and New Coke move rhythmically to Duran Duran’s “The Reflex,” the next genera tion looks on in wonder. “Did they really dance like that?” “Look at that hair!” “Where’s the flannel?” “And what’s the deal with those parachute pants?” Of course, a lot of what they don’t know won’t hurt them, Blessings in disguise come in the form of missing out on Whitesnake, Jermaine Stewart and The Hooters. And today’s music stalwarts like Smashing Pumpkins, Tori Amos and Nine Inch Nails are infinitely more interesting daring than Rockwell, Aha and The Outfield. But I have to wonder if my kids will whine when I turn the channel to an “oldies” station just to hear Sheila E. sing “The Glamorous Life.” And will I si lence them in the hopes of them gaining an appreciation for mu sic before their time, just as my parents forced me? Granted, my words will sound just as full of it as theirs did, but will the youth in 1999 hear 1-Vinee’s apocalyptic anthem of the same name and wonder what it means? And will my brain ex plode from my skull in aneffortto explain its significance? Probably. But then, I’m probably exag gerating. Rob Clark is a senior journal ism majoi EarthArt: shop offers unique art Continued from page 3 Erin Seales, a senior psy chology major, visits downtown Bryan often. “There are so many cool shops and restaurants in Bryan that many people don’t know about,” she said. “I think EarthArt has some great stuff. I like all the ex otic gifts you can buy.” Todd said she doesn’t mind when people come in and browse, because that is a com pliment in itself. “We just wanted somewhere that was a nice place to shop with a peaceful atmosphere,” she said. “We wanted a place where people could come in and feel really relaxed.” “People have spent two hours just looking, and I don’t mind if they don’t buy because it’s a compliment for them to just be here,” she said. The Todds feel lucky they were able to start this store because they enjoy the work so much. “I tell my friends that, a lot of times, I really feel guilty be cause I don’t feel like I’m work ing at all,” Todd said. “I’m very, very fortunate.” Amy Browning, The Battahos The owners of EarthArt in downtown Bryan intended to create a store with a peaceful atmosphere and unique art objects. Tell your love just how you feel with a message in our Valentines Day Greetings. For just $10. you can tell that someone special just how you feel about them. 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