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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 hours ago

Hey, you heard of this of this new guy, Sinatra? Music is slow and sad, really fits the mood.

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

you are now so old that south park seems mild, yet its silly cartoons continue to annoy the president and his sycophants.

is this what you want for the youths? an economnomic model based on collecting underpants!? Step 2 is just A QUESTION MARK?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 points 8 hours ago

Just keep laughing, holding those tears in your eyes, because boys don't cry...

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 24 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, this is a tale as old as time.

Back in the 90s, I remember the one and only time a teacher ever "embarrassed" the son of the richest family in town. He was one of those kids that thought he was God's gift to the Earth, and pretty much every adult in the school system treated him as such.

Then one day he was loudly raving about "this new band called AC/DC" and the 6th grade teacher had an absolute blast telling everybody how hilarious that statement was.

For those not in the know, AC/DC was incredibly famous, basically a household name, and had been so for literally decades at that point. And this kid acted like they were brand new up and coming band that nobody had ever heard of before.

Anyway, I had no empathy. He was a shithead bully of the worst kind, so I'm sure that one time he got made fun of really stung and he fucking deserved it.

[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Had this happen with my teenage nephew. He was talking about how's really getting into this band that I've probably never heard of called Deftones. He seemed really disappointed when I showed him a high school picture of myself circa 1999 wearing a Deftones t shirt.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure my uncle had never heard of Suicide or Neu!

[–] debil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

If I were your uncle, I would have. (Great bands, both of them.) In truth, the weight of history just gets heavier all the time with new great bands coming along as we type. I bet it wasn't as bad when the Sonics, the VU or the 13th Floor Elevators roamed the Earth...

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 22 points 13 hours ago
[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I swear that, on top of dressing exactly like we did in the 90s, most of my college students are into the exact same music we were: Metallica, Nirvana, RHCP, Smashing Pumpkins, Gorillaz, are all bands they actively listen too, amongst others. I even had a punch of Primus obssesed dudes once.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

What did you teach and when?

2008 was Mew, Mogwai, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Andrew Bird, Menomena, The Flaming Lips, Spoon, and Godspeed You Black Emperor among others.

...I studied social sciences.

[–] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

As much as this is a trend that has always happened I think it’s much more common now with the prevalence of music streaming and the internet. Anyone can look up any music anytime and listen. This exposes people to way more music than just new stuff or stuff they know from their parents

[–] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 78 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Some Christian Metal group already took the name, "Azlan". At least the name, "Shadowfax" was taken by an 80's instrumental band that just rips.

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I actually had that experience with my dad once. Back in high school I was blasting Pornography and he told me that he likes Siouxsie and The Banshees better and by the way Robert Smith played on Hyena. Mind blown.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 54 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

As a kid I thought AC/DC was a relatively unknown band based on the fact that only one or two of my classmates had heard of them.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

are you the bully from the other comment

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

You're probably mistaking me for someone else.

[–] adavis@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Unfathomable to an Australian, Ackadacka is a band that Crosses generations here.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

idk i always felt like that was the case worldwide but maybe I'm in my own bubble.

[–] groet@feddit.org 8 points 14 hours ago

relatively unknown

Relatively to your friend circle they were unknown.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

I mean, you were right in a sense. But otherwise wrong

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 154 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Billy Bragg told a story last year about being in a clothing shop somewhere in the southern USA, and when the salesperson discovered his name and that he was a singer/songwriter, she told him there used to be a Billy Bragg back in the '80s who was 'pretty good.'

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 81 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Bobcat Goldthwait has a joke about someone coming up to him and saying "No offense, but has anyone ever told you that you look like Bobcat Goldthwait?"

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 90 points 22 hours ago (5 children)
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[–] barfplanet@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I thought ahead, and started making my daughter listen to Bauhaus at six months.

[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Were I cursed with a child, I would request the vessel to speaker fuck the hifi once a day.

Bella Legosi's dead.

/S

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 12 hours ago

This is the way.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 9 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

At least the kid was listening to the music. I’ve lost count of the number of kids walking around in “Cure,” “Def Leppard,” “Poison,” etc. shirts who have NFC about the band. They just think the shirt looks cool. Which… of course it is, but look it up on YouTube or something, FFS!

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

A few years ago my daughter asked for a Sublime shirt. I jokingly told her to name three of their songs. She replies "It's a band?" 🤦

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

They just think the shirt looks cool.

This was a normal way for people back in the 90s to be introduced to a band, too.

Perhaps nature is healing.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 18 points 17 hours ago (9 children)

I found The Smiths insufferable when I was young and I still find them insufferable.

Still like a few of their songs, but fucking GROW UP, JESUS CHRIST.

[–] Medic8teMe@lemmy.ca 9 points 14 hours ago

Oh fuck. My 13 year old says to me just a week ago "the Smiths are my absolute favorite band dad." Fuck me. Where did I go wrong?

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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 68 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

If this ever happens to you, it's important that you act clueless and wary.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 57 points 22 hours ago

But then find your ticket stubs from the Curiosa Festival tour in 2005. The night your got daughter was conceived.

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