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Queen Greatest Hits’ on Course to Reclaim Number One Spot for the First Time in 40 Years

Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ on Course to Reclaim Number One Spot for the First Time in 40 Years

July 11, 2021

What Year Is It? The Number 1 and 2 Albums on iTunes Are 40 (Queen) and 50 (Joni Mitchell) Years Old

July 4, 2021

What year is it again?

Over the weekend, Queen’s Greatest Hits went to number 1 on iTunes. Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” is number 2.

Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ Set to be Crowned Again on U.K. Albums Chart

Excerpts:

by Lars Brandle

The British rock legends’ Greatest Hits package is on pace for No. 1, thanks to a surge of activity around its 40th anniversary reissue.

According to the Official Charts Company, the collection leads the midweek chart by over 4,000 combined sales, with physical formats accounting for 86% of the tally so far.

If it keeps its momentum when the weekly chart is published this Friday, it’ll mark the album’s fifth week at the summit, and its first stint at the top since the LP ruled the chart for four straight weeks in November and December 1981.

With more than six million copies sold, Queen’s Greatest Hits is the best-selling album in the history of the U.K.’s recorded music industry.

Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ on Course to Reclaim Number One Spot for the First Time in 40 Years

The album was first released in 1981
By Charlotte Krol
5th July 2021

Queen’s ‘Greatest Hits’ is eyeing up its return to the UK Number One spot on the Official Albums Chart this week.

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The Sudden, Lucrative Gold Rush for Old Music by Andy Greene and Kory Grow

The Sudden, Lucrative Gold Rush for Old Music by Andy Greene and Kory Grow

The Sudden, Lucrative Gold Rush for Old Music

Excerpts:

As the giants of classic rock contemplate retirement, music execs are dreaming up increasingly bold new ways to eke value out of their brands, images, and back catalogs

June 8, 2021

….Up till now, living, breathing classic-rock icons like the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, and Bob Dylan haven’t had to worry much about tending to their respective flames. Touring, merch, and clever marketing of their catalogs have sustained them for well over six decades.

But the pandemic has kept them off the road for more than a year, and several of them are reaching an age where road work won’t be possible much longer. “Mick Jagger is 77,” Jampol says [Jampol has managed the estates of the Doors, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain, and Tupac Shakur] “At some point you’ve got to go, ‘I’m going to enjoy my grandkids.’”

It’s at that point when a band or artist, and the team around them, faces a crucial question: How can the afterlife of a career in rock maintain, or even surpass, what that act achieved in their prime?

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Funny And Too-Real Tweets About Gen X by Caroline Bologna

Funny And Too-Real Tweets About Gen X by Caroline Bologna

May 18, 2021

“I’m not going to look up why ‘Gen X’ is trending I’ll just assume it’s because we died.”

There’s been much ado about the differences between Generation Y (aka millennials) and Generation Z. But considerably less attention is paid to the folks who were born before them ― the oft-forgotten Generation X.

And Gen Xers might be just fine with that. At least many of the funny ones on Twitter seem to be. We’ve rounded up 45 hilarious and relatable tweets about Gen X. Enjoy!

[Here are just a few examples from their article; I won’t be sharing them all below]

If you ever got an actual physical mix tape from someone who was in love with you, you're Gen X.

— Summer Brennan 🌈 (@summerbrennan) February 27, 2021

I’m enjoying this new thing where Gen X doesn’t exist in any generational analysis. It’s like we’re a bunch of gloomy, curmudgeonly ghosts, which feels accurate.

— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) January 26, 2019

Gen Z: lol fucking millennials

Millennials: lol fucking boomers.

Boomers: Fuck all y'all kids

Gen X: pic.twitter.com/1eAZr1NGKB

— Cool Shade Stunner 👉👈 (@fiddleyoumust) June 14, 2020

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American Girl Doll Company Releases a 1980s Doll

American Girl Doll Company Releases a 1980s Doll

In some of the promotion or marketing for this doll, the American Girl Doll Company has referred to the 1980s as an “historic” time or decade – which doesn’t go over with a lot of Gen X very well.

The 1980s were not that long ago.

It’s not as though the pyramids were built during the 1980s. We did have computers, phones, movies, cars, and television sets in the ’80s.

I remember in the early 2000s, driving to my job daily, listening to the Top 40 radio station D. J. start referring to 1980s songs they played as “golden oldies.” I couldn’t believe it then. I was thinking, “Is this station serious? The ’80s were only ten years ago, not 500 years ago…”

Anyway, here are some links about the 1980s themed doll:

There’s really a 1980s American Girl doll and she’s totally rad

Excerpts:

She comes with a mini Caboodle, Lip Smackers lip gloss and Care Bears pajamas.

…American Girl announced the launch of their latest doll on the TODAY show. Courtney Moore is a video game lover who spends her time playing Pac-Man inside the arcade at her local shopping mall, looks up to the astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger and lives with her blended family.

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Say Something by Kylie Minogue – Music Suggestion for Gen X

Say Something by Kylie Minogue – Music Suggestion for Gen X

If you’re Gen X (and American in particular), you may remember Kylie Minogue for her 1987 remake of a 1960s Little Eva song “The Locomotion” (personally, I prefer Little Eva’s version).

Of course, Kylie Minogue went on to release many more good songs, such as Come Into My World and Can’t Get You Out of My Head (released in 2001).

But Minogue has a new album coming out, entitled “Disco,” to be released in November 2020.

I so far have only listened to two songs off this album, “Say Something” and “Magic” (because those are the only songs to be released so far, at least as far as I am aware).

I didn’t care for “Magic” (you can listen to that on You Tube here). “Magic” is not a bad song, but it didn’t knock me out, either.

However, I did really enjoy “Say Something” and thought other Gen Xers may like it, too.

So, if you are Gen X and still love your 1980s pop, dance and rock songs, but would occasionally like a new (good) song to work out to or listen to in the car, you may want to give this 2020 Kylie Minogue song a try:

“Say Something” by Kylie Minogue – the original version

There is also an acoustic version of Say Something by Kylie Minogue which you can check out here:

Kylie Minogue – Say Something (Acoustic)

The original, disco-fied version of Say Something:

More On This Blog:

Dua Lipa Song Suggestions for Gen X (September 2020)

Vicious by Tate McRae – Music Suggestion for Gen X

Midnight Sun by Miley Cyrus – Music Suggestion for Gen X

World’s Smallest Rubik’s Cube Goes On Sale In Japan

World’s Smallest Rubik’s Cube Goes On Sale In Japan (2020)

World’s smallest official Rubik’s Cube developed by Japanese companies

Tiny but playable Rubik’s Cube, so little it fits on your fingertip, goes on sale in Japan for 198,000 yen, or about $1,900.

World’s smallest Rubik’s Cube goes on sale, with a puzzling price tag

Small Rubik's Cube — The small Rubik’s Cube, on sale in 2020

September 2020, Tokyo — A Japanese company has created what it’s billing as the world’s smallest working Rubik’s Cube.

Measuring a mere 0.39 inches and weighing less than a tenth of an ounce, the “ultra-precision” aluminum toy, which comes with its own pedestal, is tiny enough to fit on a penny or a postage stamp.

World’s smallest Rubik’s Cube measuring just 9.9mm and weighing 2g goes on sale in Japan for £1,480

September 2020

The world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube has gone on sale to mark the 40th anniversary of the original 3D puzzle.

The tiny but playable cube, made of ‘ultra-precision metal’, measures just 9.9 millimetres across and weighs two grams.

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These Stanford Engineers Taught a Self-Driving DeLorean to Drift Like a Professional

These Stanford Engineers Taught a Self-Driving DeLorean to Drift Like a Professional

Stanford engineers teach self-driving DeLorean to drift

Engineers taught this driverless DeLorean to drift and it could make future autonomous vehicles safer

Introducing MARTY, Stanford’s self-driving, electric, drifting DeLorean

Watch a Self-Driving DeLorean Burn Rubber on a Stunt Course

Excerpts:

December 2019
by VICTOR TANGERMANN

“Back to the Future” meets “Tokyo Drift.”

Great Scott! Engineers at Stanford’s Dynamic Design Lab have taught a self-driving DeLorean — the iconic early 80s sports car of “Back to the Future” fame — how to drift around a complex, kilometer-long track that even human drivers would struggle with.

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Animaniacs Cartoon Show to Be Rebooted (2020)

Animaniacs Cartoon Show to Be Rebooted (2020)

I used to watch Animaniacs in the 1990s, when I was a college student. I loved Pinky and the Brain – I think Pinky and the Brain were a spin off of that show?

At any rate, here are links about it:

Hulu’s Animaniacs Reboot Is Coming to Wreak Havoc This November

‘Animaniacs’, ‘Monsterland’ & Other Hulu Shows Set Premiere Dates

The new Animaniacs, from Amblin Television and Warner Bros. Animation and again exec produced by Steven Spielberg, will bow Friday, November 20 — some 22 years after the original wrapped its run.

Animaniacs Logo As announced yesterday by Amblin, the long-in-development Animaniacs reboot/revival slated for Hulu is finally on its way to the wider world.

The classic ‘90s animated show, featuring Warner Sibling, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, oddball parodies of classic animated mascots who refuse to do what anything tells them and generally cause chaos and enact timely pop-culture parodies wherever they go.

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Dirty Dancing Movie Sequel Announced (2020)

Dirty Dancing Movie Sequel Announced (2020)

‘Dirty Dancing’ sequel starring Jennifer Grey announced 33 years after original

Get ready to have the time of your life — again. Lionsgate announced Thursday that a sequel to the hit 1987 film “Dirty Dancing” with original star Jennifer Grey is officially in the works.

‘Dirty Dancing’ sequel with Jennifer Grey confirmed by Lionsgate CEO

by Dave McNary
August 6, 2020

Lionsgate revealed in July that “Dirty Dancing” star Jennifer Grey was

Dirty Dancing Movie Poster — Dirty Dancing 1980s Movie Poster

collaborating with the studio on an untitled dance movie in which she will star and executive produce. But it refused to say if the project was tied to the 1987 hit “Dirty Dancing.”

Feltheimer said during Thursday’s call that it was indeed a “Dirty Dancing” movie.

“And to reveal one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood, we’re pleased to confirm that Jennifer Grey will both executive produce and star in a new ‘Dirty Dancing’ movie for Lionsgate from ‘Warm Bodies’ director Jonathan Levine,” he said.

“It will be exactly the kind of romantic, nostalgic movie that the franchise’s fans have been waiting for and that have made it the biggest-selling library title in the Company’s history.”

A New ‘Dirty Dancing’ Movie Starring Jennifer Grey Is In The Works

by Curtis C. Wong
August 7, 2020

Some 33 years after mastering that gravity-defying lift, Baby Houseman is back to help a new version of the beloved classic find footing in the 21st century.

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