Those magnificent musicians from the Postmodern Jukebox have been expressing their delight at the arrival of the New Twenties. And if the new decade inspires them to even more wonderful cover versions, I am not complaining.
I’d be inclined to suggest that Scott Bradlee and his colleagues never left the 1920s. They are the perfect houseband from one of Jay Gatsby’s parties, and have just been waiting for the return of the flappers.
So what, if anything are the new 20s like to have in common with the 1920s?
Personally, I would be very happy to see a new Jazz Age and Weimar Republic.
A decade that started full of promise but later went very pear-shaped….
Kaisfatdad says
A couple more treats from PMJ..
Aerosmith
Abba
Sewer Robot says
On New Year’s TOTP tonight Fearne Cotton told us (perhaps anachronistically while wearing a pervy shiny black PVC Mac) that we were about to enter the “roaring twenties“.
Kaisfatdad says
Who coined that term?
Roaring is most certainly the adjective used for the 1920s in the US: economic boom, flappers, automobiles, grammophones, Prohibition and gangsters, F Scott Fitzgerald…
But were they also roaring the UK and the rest of the world?