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.’
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.
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.
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.
People, stop ruining music! Tell your kids you’ve never heard of AC/DC but they have got to hear this band called Nickelback. If they respond “you don’t know good music” then your job is done and they think AC/DC is amazing.
Yeah but who is a snob about AC/DC? Lol
I’m just ragging but I hate cork sniffers
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.
are you the bully from the other comment
You’re probably mistaking me for someone else.
I mean, you were right in a sense. But otherwise wrong
relatively unknown
Relatively to your friend circle they were unknown.
Unfathomable to an Australian, Ackadacka is a band that Crosses generations here.
idk i always felt like that was the case worldwide but maybe I’m in my own bubble.
Some things never change
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.
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.
Cite not the deep lore to me, I was there when it was first recorded on LP.
Obscure band from arcane times
Obscure band from Arcane times is Linkin Park.
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
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.
Pretty much the only band that I’ll switch off the satellite radio early 80s alternative station for.
that’s because Morrissey is an insufferably pretentious douche. you can tell he was to blame because he went solo and continued torturing eardrums.
Johnny Marr did okay when he went solo. a little uneven, but better than Morrissey.
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?
They’re the definition of I am 14 and this is deep
Are they really? I have to admit that I do like them, but I was under the impression that their lyrics where mostly meant to be funny. But then again, I don’t always pay attention to the lyrics 😅
I thought ahead, and started making my daughter listen to Bauhaus at six months.
Just be careful, I started mine on Radiohead from birth and now she’s allergic to 4|4
Were I cursed with a child, I would request the vessel to speaker fuck the hifi once a day.
Bella Legosi’s dead.
/S
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.
I don’t get it. Young people are listening to our music it is odd.
Because there hasn’t been an alt-mainstream since the rise of the internet.
Mainstream did survive (e.g. Taylor Swift), but apart from that there hasn’t been any of these huge not-quite-mainstream bands for people who don’t want to listen to mainstream.
In the 70s, if you didn’t want to listen to mainstream pop, you’d listen to one of the handful non-main-mainstream bands your small record store had in stock. That was e.g. AC/DC, Metallica, Deep Purple, that kind of stuff.
But since the rise of the internet, MP3, Spotify and all that, people really have choice. If you want to, you can listen to an obscure little band producing professional quality music from a bedroom somewhere in the mountains of Bolivia. That means, if you don’t want mainstream, there’s a lot of really-not-mainstream easily accessible, and thus there’s not a lot of non-main-mainstream bands that a lot of people actually know.
That’s why all the old stuff gets recycled endlessly. Because it’s recognizable.
I agree but disagree. Just go to any genre that isn’t Pop/Country/K-Pop and look at the largest bands there.
Many people that never listen to metal have heard of parkway drive, rammstein, disturbed, Lorna shore, bring me the horizon, etc.
Last year gojira played during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. How is that not “not-main-mainstream”.
Rammstein and Disturbed were founded in 1994, Gojira in 1996, way before music over internet became a big thing.
I haven’t heard of the others.
i mean there’s also the fact that it’s been probably playing in the background for all of people’s childhoods and they eventually get nostalgic and drift towards that kind of music…
even if people don’t listen to it actively/all the time, it’s still pleasant to people, because they’re used to it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Check out Tiny Towns
I grew up listening to my dad’s music (eagles, Steve Miller, Blue oyster cult etc…) so it’s not that unusual that your genetic offspring might gravitate towards certain tastes in music. That said I mostly embraced punk music and my daughter has embraced Sabrina Carpenter and the likes… Not that I want her to enjoy my music, but the stuff these days is largely trash and covering topics that are hollow and pointless. And yes I know not all modern music is that way, but the stuff being shoved in their faces through multiple media sources largely is.
I’m no pop-music apologist, but I sincerely doubt that Sabrina Carpenter’s music is any more hollow and pointless than the average generic Top 40 hit from the '80s.
For instance, here are the lyrics to Manchild by Sabrina Carpenter, which is #2 on the charts right now.
And here are the lyrics to I’m Alright by Kenny Loggins, which was #10 on the charts at this point in the year in 1980.
Pop music is pretty much still pop music. There are some analyses that say it’s getting simpler over time, but I don’t think it was ever all that complex to begin with.
