I think I hate my Generation

[the_joker]

Bring Back the 90s

I miss pop. And MC Hammer.

 

[Palpadious]

I don't listen to music that came out after '97

 

[Green Lantern]

I don't know what the disconnect is from me and my peers at college is exactly, I mean assume we all had comprable upbringings and surroundings. But this was a few weeks ago. Me and 13 friends celebrated beach weekend by renting a beach house. Me and 4 other guys (all of them I am pretty tight with...or so I thought) rode down together. When they first hopped in the car I had a CD playing, the most masculine music I thought I had to play, House of Pain (famous for "Jump Around" "Put on your sh** kickers" and "Top of the Morning to Ya"..)...Ya know music that makes you wanna kick a$$ and take names. Not only had they never heard them before at all, they did not like it (c'mon I remember growing up on that stuff)

Next from my selection of music I suggest Rage Against the Machine, which they counter is terrible music ...that was my reaction too.

Next we put in the far less abrasive Hobbastank, which I admit is far to tame...they get board with it fairly quickly.

I suggest Snoop Dogg: NO, Run DMC: NO, No rap, No Korn, No Hard Rock, No mild Rock (apparently they have a problem with Rock)....No to Rolling Stones, No to my Seether CD, No to Kanye West, No to Tupac, No to Bob Dylan...

I think we end up listening to John Mayer and Gavin DeGraw for a while...both CDs I burned for girlfriends to listen to while I drove places.

Finally I get them to agree to Red Hot Chilli Peppers, a crowd pleaser you'd think. We listen for a while, but they get tired of it and suggest that we plug in their IPOD.

What is on their IPOD you ask. Oh its bands like Postal Service, Some techno-emo BS, this techno instrumental music that sounds like its from romantic comedies, singer songwriters like Wheat and stuff like Verticle Horizon.

The next day we get in a friend's car (who had met us down there) and he is listening to (get this) Jimmy Buffet and Music Man (yes the showtunes). What happened to my Generation...they even scoffed at me when I pointed out "Music is about rebellion"

God help us all if this is our future.

F**k that noise. My car, my f**king music, UNLESS it's a lady friend in the passenger seat, then she can pick and choose from my iPod. And with my girl, I know she'll pick good stuff, being as thats what got me talking to her is her great taste in music.

Don't hate on our whole generation, just cause half of us have bad taste in music though... the other half of us like quality rather than pre-packaged bubblegum punk and emo.

 

[Green Lantern]

*edit* Double post...

 

[Green Lantern]

Van Halen + DLR =

Van Halen + Hagar =

You know, until you see Sammy front them live, you really don't respect him... I know I didn't, but when I saw them with him on vox, he was the chillest mother f**ker of all time. He went out of his way to sign anything that made it to the stage, and pass it back to the rightful owners. The guy won me over that night.

 

[chamber-music]

Bring Back the 90s

I miss pop. And MC Hammer.

90's pop music sucked ass. Well it did in the UK anyway. We had to Listen to Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and Micheal Jacksons slow descent into madness.......

 

[the_joker]

90's pop music sucked ass. Well it did in the UK anyway. We had to Listen to Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and Micheal Jacksons slow descent into madness.......

Psssh , and you think it's any better now?! I'd say 90s stuff is better than what we have now. Plus you are forgetting great bands like REM, Blur, the Verve etc

By the way, Michael Jackson is cool. Fact.

 

[deemar325]

I don't know what the disconnect is from me and my peers at college is exactly, I mean assume we all had comprable upbringings and surroundings. But this was a few weeks ago. Me and 13 friends celebrated beach weekend by renting a beach house. Me and 4 other guys (all of them I am pretty tight with...or so I thought) rode down together. When they first hopped in the car I had a CD playing, the most masculine music I thought I had to play, House of Pain (famous for "Jump Around" "Put on your sh** kickers" and "Top of the Morning to Ya"..)...Ya know music that makes you wanna kick a$$ and take names. Not only had they never heard them before at all, they did not like it (c'mon I remember growing up on that stuff)

Next from my selection of music I suggest Rage Against the Machine, which they counter is terrible music ...that was my reaction too.

Next we put in the far less abrasive Hobbastank, which I admit is far to tame...they get board with it fairly quickly.

I suggest Snoop Dogg: NO, Run DMC: NO, No rap, No Korn, No Hard Rock, No mild Rock (apparently they have a problem with Rock)....No to Rolling Stones, No to my Seether CD, No to Kanye West, No to Tupac, No to Bob Dylan...

I think we end up listening to John Mayer and Gavin DeGraw for a while...both CDs I burned for girlfriends to listen to while I drove places.

Finally I get them to agree to Red Hot Chilli Peppers, a crowd pleaser you'd think. We listen for a while, but they get tired of it and suggest that we plug in their IPOD.

What is on their IPOD you ask. Oh its bands like Postal Service, Some techno-emo BS, this techno instrumental music that sounds like its from romantic comedies, singer songwriters like Wheat and stuff like Verticle Horizon.

The next day we get in a friend's car (who had met us down there) and he is listening to (get this) Jimmy Buffet and Music Man (yes the showtunes). What happened to my Generation...they even scoffed at me when I pointed out "Music is about rebellion"

God help us all if this is our future.

Your buddies are tools.

 

[chamber-music]

Psssh , and you think it's any better now?! I'd say 90s stuff is better than what we have now. Plus you are forgetting great bands like REM, Blur, the Verve etc

By the way, Michael Jackson is cool. Fact.

I did say 90s POP MUSIC was rubbish. Not all 90s music was bad but on average it was a hell of a lot worst than whats out today.

Micheal Jackson was never cool. Infact he was the least cool one in the Jackson Five, even Tito was cooler than him!

 

[sinewave]

shadowboxing, are you on steroids? i know you work out and all that so that's why i ask. because it seems like you've got an excess amount testosterone. why do you think it's wussy to listen to the postal service and wheat and anything other than lame, bland classic rock, nu-metal and crap like hoobastank? some people actually enjoy creative music, other than jock-rock. hell, i enjoy listening to soft stuff like elliott smith and hard stuff like minor threat, it has nothing to do with masculinity and everything to do with diversity and good taste. you prefer boring corporate rock and others prefer quality, original music.

man, i've seen you around the boards a lot and i've enjoyed what you've had to say in regards to politics, and i know you're a really smart guy. so it kind of disappoints me to hear you act like a typical, jockish meat-head.

 

[Tsunulia]

You know, until you see Sammy front them live, you really don't respect him... I know I didn't, but when I saw them with him on vox, he was the chillest mother f**ker of all time. He went out of his way to sign anything that made it to the stage, and pass it back to the rightful owners. The guy won me over that night.

Woah. That's sweet of him. The guy's nice, I'll give him that, but I'd rather listen to Roth than him.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

shadowboxing, are you on steroids? i know you work out and all that so that's why i ask. because it seems like you've got an excess amount testosterone. why do you think it's wussy to listen to the postal service and wheat and anything other than lame, bland classic rock, nu-metal and crap like hoobastank? some people actually enjoy creative music, other than jock-rock. hell, i enjoy listening to soft stuff like elliott smith and hard stuff like minor threat, it has nothing to do with masculinity and everything to do with diversity and good taste. you prefer boring corporate rock and others prefer quality, original music.

man, i've seen you around the boards a lot and i've enjoyed what you've had to say in regards to politics, and i know you're a really smart guy. so it kind of disappoints me to hear you act like a typical, jockish meat-head.

I believe you should catch on that there is a certain degree of facetious-ness to this whole thread.

 

[Sarge 2.0]

I don't know what the disconnect is from me and my peers at college is exactly, I mean assume we all had comprable upbringings and surroundings. But this was a few weeks ago. Me and 13 friends celebrated beach weekend by renting a beach house. Me and 4 other guys (all of them I am pretty tight with...or so I thought) rode down together. When they first hopped in the car I had a CD playing, the most masculine music I thought I had to play, House of Pain (famous for "Jump Around" "Put on your sh** kickers" and "Top of the Morning to Ya"..)...Ya know music that makes you wanna kick a$$ and take names. Not only had they never heard them before at all, they did not like it (c'mon I remember growing up on that stuff)

Next from my selection of music I suggest Rage Against the Machine, which they counter is terrible music ...that was my reaction too.

Next we put in the far less abrasive Hobbastank, which I admit is far to tame...they get board with it fairly quickly.

I suggest Snoop Dogg: NO, Run DMC: NO, No rap, No Korn, No Hard Rock, No mild Rock (apparently they have a problem with Rock)....No to Rolling Stones, No to my Seether CD, No to Kanye West, No to Tupac, No to Bob Dylan...

I think we end up listening to John Mayer and Gavin DeGraw for a while...both CDs I burned for girlfriends to listen to while I drove places.

Finally I get them to agree to Red Hot Chilli Peppers, a crowd pleaser you'd think. We listen for a while, but they get tired of it and suggest that we plug in their IPOD.

What is on their IPOD you ask. Oh its bands like Postal Service, Some techno-emo BS, this techno instrumental music that sounds like its from romantic comedies, singer songwriters like Wheat and stuff like Verticle Horizon.

The next day we get in a friend's car (who had met us down there) and he is listening to (get this) Jimmy Buffet and Music Man (yes the showtunes). What happened to my Generation...they even scoffed at me when I pointed out "Music is about rebellion"

God help us all if this is our future.

John Mayer's radio stuff might be kind of underwhelming, but I saw him open for the Rolling Stones, and he was actually a killer blues guitarist. I think he went to Berklee or something.

 

[The Squirrel]

Two 16 year olds I work with didn't know who Nirvana was. I was pissed

Why? Nirvana was before their time.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

John Mayer's radio stuff might be kind of underwhelming, but I saw him open for the Rolling Stones, and he was actually a killer blues guitarist. I think he went to Berklee or something.

John is actually quiet a talented guy....

 

[sinewave]

I believe you should catch on that there is a certain degree of facetious-ness to this whole thread.

it doesn't translate well via the webernet.

 

[deemar325]

John is actually quiet a talented guy....

I like the guy's music also.

 

[Addendum]

I don't know what the disconnect is from me and my peers at college is exactly, I mean assume we all had comprable upbringings and surroundings. But this was a few weeks ago. Me and 13 friends celebrated beach weekend by renting a beach house. Me and 4 other guys (all of them I am pretty tight with...or so I thought) rode down together. When they first hopped in the car I had a CD playing, the most masculine music I thought I had to play, House of Pain (famous for "Jump Around" "Put on your sh** kickers" and "Top of the Morning to Ya"..)...Ya know music that makes you wanna kick a$$ and take names. Not only had they never heard them before at all, they did not like it (c'mon I remember growing up on that stuff)

Next from my selection of music I suggest Rage Against the Machine, which they counter is terrible music ...that was my reaction too.

Next we put in the far less abrasive Hobbastank, which I admit is far to tame...they get board with it fairly quickly.

I suggest Snoop Dogg: NO, Run DMC: NO, No rap, No Korn, No Hard Rock, No mild Rock (apparently they have a problem with Rock)....No to Rolling Stones, No to my Seether CD, No to Kanye West, No to Tupac, No to Bob Dylan...

I think we end up listening to John Mayer and Gavin DeGraw for a while...both CDs I burned for girlfriends to listen to while I drove places.

Finally I get them to agree to Red Hot Chilli Peppers, a crowd pleaser you'd think. We listen for a while, but they get tired of it and suggest that we plug in their IPOD.

What is on their IPOD you ask. Oh its bands like Postal Service, Some techno-emo BS, this techno instrumental music that sounds like its from romantic comedies, singer songwriters like Wheat and stuff like Verticle Horizon.

The next day we get in a friend's car (who had met us down there) and he is listening to (get this) Jimmy Buffet and Music Man (yes the showtunes). What happened to my Generation...they even scoffed at me when I pointed out "Music is about rebellion"

God help us all if this is our future.

**** what your Generation listens to. You listen to what you like, they listen to what they like.

That's what music is about.

 

[jaguarr]

I don't know what the disconnect is from me and my peers at college is exactly, I mean assume we all had comprable upbringings and surroundings. But this was a few weeks ago. Me and 13 friends celebrated beach weekend by renting a beach house. Me and 4 other guys (all of them I am pretty tight with...or so I thought) rode down together. When they first hopped in the car I had a CD playing, the most masculine music I thought I had to play, House of Pain (famous for "Jump Around" "Put on your sh** kickers" and "Top of the Morning to Ya"..)...Ya know music that makes you wanna kick a$$ and take names. Not only had they never heard them before at all, they did not like it (c'mon I remember growing up on that stuff)

Next from my selection of music I suggest Rage Against the Machine, which they counter is terrible music ...that was my reaction too.

Next we put in the far less abrasive Hobbastank, which I admit is far to tame...they get board with it fairly quickly.

I suggest Snoop Dogg: NO, Run DMC: NO, No rap, No Korn, No Hard Rock, No mild Rock (apparently they have a problem with Rock)....No to Rolling Stones, No to my Seether CD, No to Kanye West, No to Tupac, No to Bob Dylan...

I think we end up listening to John Mayer and Gavin DeGraw for a while...both CDs I burned for girlfriends to listen to while I drove places.

Finally I get them to agree to Red Hot Chilli Peppers, a crowd pleaser you'd think. We listen for a while, but they get tired of it and suggest that we plug in their IPOD.

What is on their IPOD you ask. Oh its bands like Postal Service, Some techno-emo BS, this techno instrumental music that sounds like its from romantic comedies, singer songwriters like Wheat and stuff like Verticle Horizon.

The next day we get in a friend's car (who had met us down there) and he is listening to (get this) Jimmy Buffet and Music Man (yes the showtunes). What happened to my Generation...they even scoffed at me when I pointed out "Music is about rebellion"

God help us all if this is our future.

I will pray for the return of the Lilith Fair Festival so that you and your friends will finally have an event you can bond together at.

jag

 

[DBella]

I will pray for the return of the Lilith Fair Festival so that you and your friends will finally have an event you can bond together at.

jag

OMG!! Those girls totally rock! I get so darn high listening to their melodious music. It makes me wanna fly like an angel.

Hey, SB... are you like... totaly serious with your first post on this thread? I can understand how unbearable it must be for you to have to listen to something you don't enjoy for over an hour but to hate a whole generation just because you and your pals don't share the same interest in music, that's just... like what sinewave said... jockish meat-head-y.

Oh, and saying that you have good taste in music is good and theirs isn't... is just arrogant. That said... Long Live Rock 'n Roll!

 

[jaguarr]

Here is the problem. Somewhere allong the line my generation thought by listening to sensitive stuff and not rocking out they'd attract more women because they figured they must hate all this alpha male stuff. So they start listening to Verticle Horizon, The Postal Service and techno intrumental to show they are in touch with their feeling and don't like abrasive rebelous music.

Alpha male's ALWAYS get the women. Period. The *****fication of the average young American male has gotten ridiculous. With our schools being overrun by BS feminist teachings where they want little boys to act like good little girls instead of recognizing that little boys have more energy and are more rambunctious, and stuffing them full of Ritalin when they don't comply, it's not a huge surprise. It's fine to be sensitive and capable of being a good listener for a woman or even your friends and all, but it doesn't mean you have to be a milquetoast.

jag

 

[Addendum]

OMG!! Those girls totally rock! I get so darn high listening to their melodious music. It makes me wanna fly like an angel.

Hey, SB... are you like... totaly serious with your first post on this thread? I can understand how unbearable it must be for you to have to listen to something you don't enjoy for over an hour but to hate a whole generation just because you and your pals don't share the same interest in music, that's just... what's the word? Can someone help me with the word? Thanks.

Oh, and saying that you have good taste in music is good and theirs isn't... is just arrogant. That said... Long Live Rock 'n Roll!

It just shows that in some areas, ShadowBoxing is just a petulant 4 year old who whines when people don't like his stuff

 

[Holly Goodhead]

Alpha male's ALWAYS get the women. Period. The *****fication of the average young American male has gotten ridiculous. With our schools being overrun by BS feminist teachings where they want little boys to act like good little girls instead of recognizing that little boys have more energy and are more rambunctious, and stuffing them full of Ritalin when they don't comply, it's not a huge surprise. It's fine to be sensitive and capable of being a good listener for a woman or even your friends and all, but it doesn't mean you have to be a milquetoast.

jag

I disagree.

 

[jaguarr]

John Mayer's radio stuff might be kind of underwhelming, but I saw him open for the Rolling Stones, and he was actually a killer blues guitarist. I think he went to Berklee or something.

I can't stand his solo recordings, but check out his John Mayer Trio blues stuff. Outstanding.

jag

 

[jaguarr]

I disagree.

Good for you.

jag