90s? what about 00s? It’s been 26 years since the turn of the century.
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.
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.
Just a reminder that Super Mario Brothers was released closer to World War II than to today.
Oldies used to be 50-60s music. Then they made 70-80s oldies and stopped playing Billy Holly altogether. I stopped listening to the radio around that time since the halcyon days of AM were over.
blink-182 is dadrock now. has been for a few years actually
blink 182 has always been dad rock lmao.
Luckily dead Kennedy’s is too obscure to become classic 🤣
Nobody likes you when you’re 53.
Converge is Dad rock. Fucking Dillinger Escape Plan is too. Thank God our Dad rock isn’t just yacht rock, that shit blows.
Sailing by Christopher Cross slaps
hey put some respect on jimmy buffetts name
Always remember: talking about 90’s grunge bands today is the same as talking about the early Beatles in 1996 💀
Yes but our 90s bands are popular with the kids, at least.
Nooooooooooooo
Halo 3 came out almost 20 years ago, so did Hatsume Miku
my cousin refused to play MGSV because he doesn’t play “old ass” games. i felt personally offended.
She’s breakdancing, as is tradition
She looks sick af!
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.
What people who were kids in the 70s are still ALIVE?! /s
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.
Now picture 2006. How is the image any different than today, besides the cars today being computers on wheels?
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.
You could really get a home loan too.
Eh frosted tips were around for a good decade by then. Emo is hard to separate from alt. You didn’t name an example of the hip hop from that era so…
Do I have to be an expert in things I dislike? Emo was definitely different to generic alternative, the swoopy hairstyle and dominating MySpace being a factor. If you want the stuff I knew more about, metal core was also big back then and thankfully pewtered out, meanwhile tech death gathered more and more steam and had it’s moment in the sun in the 2010s
That was around the time everyone started using nokias where I grew up. I can find a distinct vibe for 2000s (2006 is 2000s). That’s the time where the distinct SMS writing style was born for teens. That’s something that is long gone nowadays.
Now picture 2006. How is the image any different than today, besides the cars today being computers on wheels?
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.
9/11 killed our culture.
Lmao, I once had a group of students excitedly tell me about this retro band they found, “the backstreet boys”. I wasn’t even 30.
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.
Anyone listening to 90s music today will miss out on an important element that is lost today: the CD skips.
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.
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.
I hear he barely finds time or energy to mackle at all anymore.
When did Vampire Weekend become “classic rock.”
When it was formed
I, for one, like my gray hair. I feel wise.
