• anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      50·
      4 months ago

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

    • AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months 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.

  • kamen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    44·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • InvalidName2@lemmy.zipEnglish
    23·
    4 months ago

    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.comEnglish
    20·
    4 months ago

    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.

      • debil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months 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…

  • Pat_Riot@lemmy.todayEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    So, funny story, but I did almost exactly this. Highschool me came home super excited about this new band I heard called Black Sabbath. Dad started pulling out vinyl.

      • Pat_Riot@lemmy.todayEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        No, not at all. We listened to Sabbath, and Budgie, and King Crimson, and Rainbow. Dad’s record collection was pretty epic.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    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.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 months 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.

  • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
    102·
    4 months ago

    I don’t get it. Young people are listening to our music it is odd.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.comEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

        I don’t agree that there isn’t an alt-mainstream. Wouldn’t stuff like Magdelena Bay, Japanese Breakfast, 100 gecs, Ghost, and Sleep Token qualify? Stuff that you’ll find on the album charts or the genre charts, but not in the top 40?

        • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          That’s the thing: Even in the 80s and 90s everyone has heard of Metallica or ACDC.

          I might not be the measure of things, but I have never heard of any of the bands you referenced.

      • 9bananas@feddit.orgEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        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)_/¯

      • groet@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        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”.

        • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          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.

    • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      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.

      • nickiwest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        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.

  • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months 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