I feel like Rat tested me too. Sigh.
I don’t think I even got into Nirvana until after he died. I didn’t really start getting into music until high school when I was able to buy CDs (or pirate shit) and listen to the radio stations I wanted and not what my mom wanted to. Prior to high school, I only knew Garth Brooks and fuckin’ Raffi songs 😩
Then again, I very much remember seeing his MTV Unplugged set. I just can’t remember if it was live at the time or just a rerun.
It’s my understanding that most people really develop their musical tastes in their teenage years.
“oldies” these days are Avril Lavigne, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Gorillaz. Or as I like to call them: music from the early century.
I felt old when I started hearing Limp Bizkit and Blink-182 on my local classic rock station.
or as I like to call it Classical Music
I remember thinking that I wasn’t happy everyone was comparing him to Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, saying he joined the 27 club. The fact that he killed himself felt like an exclusionary detail.
The others did too, just not intentionally, at least as far as we know.
if Back to the future was made today Marty would go back to 1994 and play smells like teen spirit at the high school dance
… actually wasn’t Kurt already dead? quick who was big in 97? Limp Bizkit?
Marty invents Insane Clown Posse at the prom?
Foo Fighters, Green Day, Weezer,
Damn it!!!.. Fuck you…
He didn’t play music of the era at the dance. He would go back to 1994 and play something from today. But music hasn’t really evolved since then, so nobody would be shocked. He’d end up doing some dance number while lip-syncing a studio written pop song.
Edit: ah you’re talking about when he first starts playing Chuck Berry with the band. I was thinking about the end of the performance when he slips into playing heavy metal and freaks everyone out.
He could go up there and do some Skrillex Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites or Eminem Godzilla. I’m certain everyone in 94 would be like, “Wtf is was that‽”
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You for the Earth Angel, ‘they have to kiss’ track.
Radiohead - Paranoid Android for the track that “really cooks” and goes off the rails.It’s a trip reading through these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_in_music
Rocky Horror was before my time.
What if you were more of an R.E.M. guy than a Nirvana guy?
Then go back to sleep
I remember when Michael Jackson died. Can I be old now too?
I remember when James Earl Jones died. Did I do this right? It doesn’t work, I don’t feel much older now.
No! Get back to class!
Wow, “where were you when Lennon died” too old to make a comic about being old, eh?
where were you when Engelbert Humperdinck died
Where were you when Rudy Valee died?
Ooo, I actually remember this one. Not the death, but the year and month. I was in wine country, drinking my wine.
I actually didn’t realize until I looked it up just now that he died in 1986. I was thinking more like 1956.
That’s where I was with Humperdinck until I looked him up too
Damn reality ruining the joke.
Fuck… guess I’m old too. Not sure when that happened.
Man, I remember being sad when Freddie Mercury died.
Hell, as young as I was, I remember my mom crying her eyes out when John Lennon died.
A friend of mine was such a big Queen fan that she had to take the day off school when Freddie Mercury died.
I remember Freddie too. He hit me much harder then Cobain three years later. Freddie’s death I got from the paper, but for Cobain I was watching MTV’s Most Wanted with Ray Cokes, which was aired live, and he read a piece of news that a dead person was found at Kurt Cobain’s house but that nothing was confirmed.
My younger cousin brought her friend to a family party. The friend was wearing a Kurt Cobain shirt, probably from Urban Outfitters. She said it’s her favorite band along with Panic! at the Disco.
I’m glad his music is popular with the younger generation and I hope it keeps on going.
As long as they aren’t doing the thing a lot of millennials did, aka wear popular band shirts without any clue who the band was.
Before someone gets mad, I am a millennial. I saw this happen a lot growing up, and it was especially common with Nirvana shirts for some reason (I’m guessing hot topic stocked a lot of Nirvana shirts or something). It absolutely drove me up the wall.
Hell, in general, don’t wear a shirt, badge, wristband or whatever if you don’t know what it’s saying; for all you know it could be secretly heiling Hitler and now you’re an unwitting Nazi magnet.
To tell you the truth, I asked her if she listens to Nirvana thinking she really doesn’t. I’m glad she proved my assumption wrong. Shame on me.
That one was always weird to me because most of the types of people who’d wear a nirvana shirt are the type who’d like their music. And this is coming from someone born after Cobain died, and no I’m not young
I was talking more generally about the “younger generation” heh. I was happy to hear that she actually listens to them!
Like, I try not to judge people for their tastes in music; I’m kinda at the point where I’ll listen to anything I find enjoyable. There are genres, themes, etc that’ll increase the chances of me enjoying it, but I just kinda listen to whatever sounds good.
Hell, I unironically think that Super Ghostbusters, a shitty parody album made by a swedish twitch streamer that contains something like 25 variations (plus 10ish remixes that were recently added) of the same terrible Ghostbusters midi with Joel (aka Vargskelethor) babbling about a bunch of different reasons to call the Ghostbusters, is one of the best albums I’ve ever heard. The joke isn’t even that funny, except he drives it into the ground until it comes out the other side and becomes funny again. It’s garbage music, but if you have the same shitty sense of humor as Joel, then it’s hilarious; especially considering it’s backstory (Joel’s internet went out for a week, and being a musician and twitch streamer who relies on the Internet for both, slowly went insane from boredom and made the album to try and keep himself busy).
(I do like good music too though, imo Devin Townsend’s Ziltoid the Omniscient is one of the best albums of all time).
I just feel kinda strongly about not wearing band shirts if you don’t know who the band is heh.
My daughter wears Kinks and Ramones shirts and she does listen to the Kinks and the Ramones. She likes 70s music more than modern music. I can’t blame her.
I was watching this comedian on Instagram that showed a study that all modern music is sounding the same. That’s probably why. Your daughter has good ears for music.
Maybe all modern pop music, but there’s still a lot of good stuff out there. King Gizzard and Shpongle immediately jump to mind as being pretty unique.
I’m looking forward to the day when pop music becomes so heavily manufactured that the music industry ends up killing itself by boring it’s consumers to tears. I’d be willing to bet that if the music industry collapsed then we’d have a year or two without any major releases, and then we’d suddenly have a tidal wave of some of the most unique music anyone’s heard in a long time.
Every now and then I turn it on again but it’s plain to see that the radio still sucks
BUT, Pop music right now is all vibe no hook. Even if you dislike the vibe it’s still heading in an interesting direction.
Check out Rick Beato on YouTube (if you haven’t already).
Alternatively: don’t
I think the younger generation might appreciate Daniel Johnston too. He was Kurt’s favorite songwriter and inspiration. The Late Great Daniel Johnston is a solid compilation of his work, and there’s a documentary about his life called The Devil and Daniel Johnston.
I remember the sort-of joke when Kurt Cobain died was, “why couldn’t it have been Courtney?”
I think this is one of the first generations where kids, in general, listen to softer pop music compared to their parents.
Because there’s more money in it, and everything is all about money now.
I always was about the money. Nirvana even named one of their songs Radio Friendly Unit Shifter.
If all the kids wanted to listen to death metal, there would be death metal on the radio.
It has always been about money for the labels, but they at least used to take risks, and find new talented bands, develop them, and promote them. But it’s riskier and takes a lot more work. An artist needs a minimum of about 10,000 hours of experience before they’re studio ready, and the whole band needs to be at that level. If they find someone new and unique at that level, they still need to develop them as performers, and get them prepared to play big gigs, tour, work together in a studio, etc… It’s much easier for them to find someone attractive who knows some dance moves, and have them perform studio written songs based on proven profitable beats.
It’s much easier for them to find someone attractive who knows some dance moves,
You are describing The Sex Pistols. But they were harder than the music their parents listened to. (In the 1970’s, the parents would have listened to 1940’s music.)
I was pretty young so I didn’t get it, I remember asking my brother what they’re going to do now, who’s gonna be the singer?
Imagine if he said, “the drummer, but he’s going to start a different band.”
