Bands

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch.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.

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.

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.
Unfathomable to an Australian, Ackadacka is a band that Crosses generations here.
relatively unknown
Relatively to your friend circle they were unknown.
I mean, you were right in a sense. But otherwise wrong

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

This is the way.

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.'

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?"
- Tony Hawk Syndrome
- Supposedly, Charlie Chaplin once came in something other than first (I think I read sixth, but wouldn't swear to it) in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.
- pretty sure that has happened to a lot of famous people

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!

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?" 🤦
- I’m genuinely curious how many have looked into the bands on their shirts. Most of the ones I’ve seen represent some genuinely good stuff.
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.
At least you can always tap their shirt to learn more though!

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.

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?
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.
I was goth. We never listened to The Smiths.
This whole thread is bullshit.
- I had goth friends, but was more into emo/screamo. THEY'RE NOT THE SAME THING OKAY.
  Your haaaair is eeeeeverywheeeere!
They're the definition of I am 14 and this is deep
- Nah, Morrissey was always a know-it-all prick and a lot of the lyrics are dripping in irony. “Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose because Wilde is on mine” - Really, Steven?
- 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 😅

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

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

I’m excited for when this happens to my. My wife is super close minded about music and won’t listen to anything not on the radio and I’m the opposite. My hope is at least one of my kids will be into weird stuff. If I’m lucky it’ll be both.

IME it only takes one music loving parent genre blind parent to get kids who are eclectic listeners.
TikTok, oddly, has also gotten them into a lot of old music. I'll come home and they are listening to Depeche Mode or Boz Scaggs.

"Go back to listening to your old man bands like The Normal and Alien Sex Fiend or whatever."

The Cure has been around for several decades. Only way not to hear of them is to be neck deep in country or bluegrass

I never heard of them, and I very not 11, and deeply into Belakor, Breakdown of Sanity, Inflected Mushroom
- Inflected Mushroom
  I love this typo/autocorrect. In fact, I think it's a better name for the band. They should definitely add that "L".
- You seem Deeply Disturbed. Like the kind of person who would be caught Converting Vegetarians.
Or 11

Some things never change

Obscure band from arcane times

Arcane?! I'll have you know those were the best of times.
Obscure band from Arcane times is Linkin Park.

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 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?
- Check out Tiny Towns
- 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".
- 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)/¯
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.

My sweet daughter you should dig pornography!

Porno for pyros?
- The singer is a dick but his songs are fire.
- The New Pornographers

"Tell me tell me tell me..."

Headphones or did she just assume you didn't know because you asked what it was?

Emo is 20 years old get olded idiots

Didn’t Trent Reznor have a cooking show? That sucked. Which makes sense.

Kids don’t listen to the cure or anything real anymore. They listen to electronic computer music that has weird anime like singing

Nu metal got popular again a couple of years ago, teens are literally making tiktoks about Deftones.
- They’re also making TikTok’s about the kind of music i just mentioned, it’s also why baby metal is so popular, because they appeal to both. I have kids and they all listen more to the stuff made on programs and apps. Mostly small self hosted stuff and that’s great. I’m not trying to hate, i don’t know why everyone is so offended because most kids don’t listen to the cure, which is a true statement
They listen to electronic computer music that has weird anime like singing
Neurosama cover of "Friday I'm in Love": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0qV8SOW-24
- Yeah see that sounds more like what I hear coming out of their room, im not trying to hate but I have kids and this is what they and they friends listen to