Always remember: talking about 90’s grunge bands today is the same as talking about the early Beatles in 1996 💀
Never Gonna Give You Up
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meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
architect@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Yes but our 90s bands are popular with the kids, at least.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Nooooooooooooo
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t mind because I see more kids wearing clothes with “classic” bands like Sublime and Soundgarden and Nirvana and Biggie than bands that were “classics” when I was in high school
People thought I was weird for liking Zeppelin in the 90s.
hdsrob@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I see a ton of kids wearing Nivrana shirts, but not sure if it’s actually because they know who they are, or they just like the shirt (it’s always the same shirt).
BooBees@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
Most kids are slightly smarter than you think. Some kids are dumber, a lot dumber.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Even if they don’t know what it is they keep it alive, which is the true importance.
jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I think you’re weird for liking Zeppelin, in 2026.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, they had teenage girls on their plane.
And, yeah, The Kinks are better in most regards.
But I’ve moved on and honestly don’t listen to much Zeppelin anymore.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Red Hot Chili Peppers, the band, has existed for 44 years.
I’m reminded of this every time I spot Flea in Back to The Future (Needles), which itself is 41 years old.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
What do you expect, listening to music from the previous century?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To be fair, the 90s were awesome.
This whole century has sucked since 9/11
OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
The 90s weren’t awesome – they just didn’t suck. (For most people.)
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I love using this phrase like so. You might even say, “the previous millenia”!
AmyAye@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
My daughter has a vintage clothing store.
Early 2000s is considered vintage.
Just pull the life support plug now please.
Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Well in the 90s, the 70s were vintage as well. I think 20 years is starting to get pretty vintage, maybe going back 100 years is also vintage? It’s not ancient tho
tomato666@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Is 100+ years not antique?
dkppunk@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That was me watching that Apple TV show Invasion. In the first episode, a kid has headphones on and someone asks what he’s listening to. He says something like “oh just some classic music”… and it’s Green Day..
But then I remember Dookie came out over 30 years ago and I cry again lol
Ertain@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
Some say it’s old, but it’s still gold. Dookie was a classic when it was released, and people nowadays have realized that.
dkppunk@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Agreed! I 💚 a good Dookie 🤣
clifmo@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
She’s breakdancing, as is tradition
whoneedsgravy@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
A kid once said to me “well you were born in the 1900s…”
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’ve seen some people also refer to 90s as 1900s. But maybe we’re a 100 years old vampire, we never know.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
it’s like the 20th century
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
blink-182 is dadrock now. has been for a few years actually
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Nobody likes you when you’re 53.
h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
blink 182 has always been dad rock lmao.
Lennny@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Converge is Dad rock. Fucking Dillinger Escape Plan is too. Thank God our Dad rock isn’t just yacht rock, that shit blows.
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sailing by Christopher Cross slaps
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
hey put some respect on jimmy buffetts name
58008@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was there when Siamese Dream was released. I was there, man.
Photonic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Looks like gramma is trying to break dance .
Hums: “it’s like that~It’s just the way it is~”
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Auntie about to do a flair transition to a head spin.
runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m 2023 I turned on the radio for the first time in years and the DJ says “now for a throwback song, Thrift Shop by Macklemore” and that made me (1) feel old because that song came out while I was in college, and (2) realize the song was over 10 years old at that point.
UselessAsshole@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hear he barely finds time or energy to mackle at all anymore.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Not a teenager. If you’ve kept up at all on music and listened to the stuff we did in the 90s, yeah it holds up great, but holy shit does a lot of it sound old in comparison. Like bowling for soup’s 1985 released in 2005 was only 20 years, but it has been 21 years since 2005. Time goes on, the pile of backlog gets taller.
Watch, read, listen, do as much as you can in this life you have, it’s the only one you get. Even if you’re religious and believe in an afterlife… You don’t know you’re right, you have to take it on faith. So hedge a little bit and live your damn life like there’s no afterlife.
…That doesn’t mean fucking dead deer, though.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Watch, read, listen, do as much as you can in this life you have, it’s the only one you get
Imagine saying that in a shitpost community
hakase@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Like ten full years ago I heard someone refer to Chevelle as “dad rock” and I think I aged twenty years in the span of about five minutes.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m in my 40s, and last time when I was at McD I saw some 20-somethings sitting at their table, looking at the liner notes of an AC/DC CD they had no doubt grabbed from the second hand store one block over.
I almost went over to say “oh wow, am I ever happy to see you kids enjoy classical music, eh?” but I didn’t, because this is Finland and talking to random people at McD is considered weird, of course.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When did Vampire Weekend become “classic rock.”
inmate_p01135809@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When it was formed
Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
What was the PS2 like?
mrmisses@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lame compared to the GameCube
Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
Both lame compared to NES! I was joshing…am old frfr
Fierro@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
90s? what about 00s? It’s been 26 years since the turn of the century.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I mean, yeah, it’s retro music now. And in my opinion is best played on a retro Sony Discman with appropriate retro headphones. I mean, how else can I best enjoy my For Squirrels CD or Blues Traveler or Local H or… you get the point!
Only problem is the fact my discman is a battery hog.
solarspark@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Anyone listening to 90s music today will miss out on an important element that is lost today: the CD skips.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Had to look up CD skips to be sure we were thinking of the same thing. Pretty sure you can emulate that using a similar setup to what I have: a portable LG USB disc drive and VLC. IDK if this is a me issue specifically, but VLC loves to cause the first few seconds of any song on CD to skip when using that portable disk drive of mine.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand why this is an issue. I refer to it as classics too. It’s all music from my childhood as I’m from the 80s. Modern music can not compete.
Mithre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When I was in high school, the local classic rock station played hits from the 60s and 70s. Now it plays Nickelback.
eggpl4nt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They were playing Viva La Vida in the grocery store. I’m like… Okay, grocery store, I get you’re trying to “cater to my demographic” since we’re the “new olds” who now regularly shop for produce, but who the fuck thought Viva La Vida was a good “millennial shopper” music choice for picking out produce and scrutinizing cereal boxes? I died inside. Sacrilegious.
meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That was at a thrift store today and they were playing Nirvana. I didn’t mind that.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Just a reminder that Super Mario Brothers was released closer to World War II than to today.
Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m 40 and I also do now, just to piss off my peers that turned into their parents, and to remind myself to keep exploring new music so that I don’t become one of these people that get stuck in time and unable to relate to newer generations.
I like ‘90s music (it’s my childhood decade) but I also dislike people who act like things “back in their day” are objectively the best, because I heard all that shit before from old people when I was a kid.
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Some songs just are classics the second they are released
DemandtheOxfordComma@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
When I ask Spotify to play classic rock and it plays stuff from THIS century.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I, for one, like my gray hair. I feel wise.
sploder@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I once heard two tweens in line at target talking and one said what’s your guilty music pleasure?? And she said “ don’t laugh at me but I like matchbox 20 they’re really old my dad likes them “ LMAO I died inside
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’ve accepted hearing rhcp on the classic rock radio station. You can be old, it’s ok. You can’t fight time, but you can damn sure remain immature AF!
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
My local oldies station was playing them and nirvana and pearl jam and similar bands in the late 90s. It was weird, like this song is only 5 years old, why is it an oldie? But since i was a teenager, it qas great for me.
h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
rhcp, cringe rock or rape rock?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Yeah, Anthony’s bio was hard to read as a fan.
stretch2m@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
When I was a kid in the 70s, Grease was huge, glamorizing 1950s “oldies” music like it was from some long-ago era. That’s only 20 years. That’s like glamorizing music from 2006 today. The 90s are definitely “classic rock” now. Trippy.
TrackShovel@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
What people who were kids in the 70s are still ALIVE?! /s
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The only part that makes your comparison absurd is the fact that there’s nothing special about 2006.
In your head, right now, imagine the 1950s. There’s a distinct style you’re seeing, isn’t there?
Now picture 2006. How is the image any different than today, besides the cars today being computers on wheels?
We would be glorifing 2006, if there was anything worthwhile about it.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
emo kids and hip hop of the era. frosted tips, lots of hairgel.
there was a lot of stuff that was different back then. The stuff that was fun was also in its infancy.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re right, the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s all had distinct styles. That started fading in the 90s, and unless you look closely, the nearly three decades since are all very similar.
I think we can rightly blame capitalism for homogenizing our culture, and spreading it around the world. And, even if we can’t, I still will, and also fuck Mark Zuckerberg just because I haven’t said it yet today.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
No smartphones, or at least they weren’t common. (I was a weirdo who carried a PDA everywhere)
Which probably explains why vintage turn of the century tech is becoming popular.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That was around the time everyone started using nokias where I grew up. I can find a distinct vibe for 2000s (2006 is 2000s)
architect@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
9/11 killed our culture.