“My dad listens to that stuff”
Such savagery
Hell, I’m just glad some of the 90’s stuff managed to make it to that status.
Smells Like Teen Spirit is 35 years old. It’s was incredibly hot at the time, but it felt like a gibberish song. I figured by the time I hit my 50’s/60’s it would just have been looked at as some crazy bullshit.
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.
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.
You don’t sound very Xtreme!
The 90s had a very distinct style just like the other decades you mentioned - grunge. Then going into 2000s it was crap like Pink and Avril
You aren’t seeing the right thing. We just spread out into subcultures
It’s the death of channels like MTV and the emergence of the internet that specific subcultures are not defining the decades anymore. Subcultures still exist they just aren’t shown on mass media anymore since people live in their own bubble on the internet.
And if you think about it the reason why certain styles defined the decades of post war 20th century was capitalism. Certain sub cultures reached mainstream status because marketeers pushed it to the masses to make money. Like grunge or gangsta rap wouldn’t reached the suburban teens if business men weren’t pushing it on mass media.
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?
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.
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
You could really get a home loan too.
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.
No, early 2000s are the classics
what about the 1800s?
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.
90s? what about 00s? It’s been 26 years since the turn of the century.
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.
I didn’t realize my age could physically hurt
She’s breakdancing, as is tradition
She looks sick af!
Some songs just are classics the second they are released
Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!
What do you expect, listening to music from the previous century?
To be fair, the 90s were awesome.
This whole century has sucked since 9/11
The 90s weren’t awesome – they just didn’t suck. (For most people.)
I was born in the early 80s. I was just at the point of being a kid who can remember things around 1990. By 2000 I think I was 16. I was 2 weeks shy of being 18 when 9/11 happened.
So from my perspective the 90s are the only decade I can remember that didn’t suck, which makes it awesome!
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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.
I think you’re weird for liking Zeppelin, in 2026.
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.
I was only half serious. They have some bangers but Robert Plant is not my favourite.
As for the girls, you’d be hard pressed to find a male-dominant band from that time (or now for that matter) that didn’t have young girls hanging around. Brutal stuff.
I tend to dislike the artist without disliking the art, know what I mean?
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).
Most kids are slightly smarter than you think. Some kids are dumber, a lot dumber.
I see a lot of Nirvana shirts on the youth and I’m never sure if they like the band or just the shirt, either.
I did see a blue-haired youth with a My Chemical Romance shirt the other day and I’m pretty sure they were a sincere fan, though.
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, for one, like my gray hair. I feel wise.
