Defeners/Le 90s Kids

[Dr. Meme]

The thing I don't get about le wrong generationers is how they wanna be born in the 80's/90's. You can still listen to music from the 80's now no ones stopping you, being born in the past just severely limits your musical library.

I go to class with a kid who always requests that we play 80s rock all the time, no specific band, just 80s rock. That's all he wants to listen to and throws a fit when we play rap. It's embarrassing. Limiting yourself to listening to one style of music is harmful because you won't be able to enjoy a large range of music you otherwise would.

 

[ASoulMan]

This mentality is really common amongst "classic rock" fans. Look up any popular rock song on YouTube. You will see a comment just like this, "I love this song and I'm only 15. All the other kids in school are busy listening to Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga. Modern music sucks! The 60s/70s/80s were king!!!!"

I cringe every time I see a comment like that. Not only is it really annoying, but they are so blatantly fishing for a compliment.

"You say [modern mainstream artist], I say [classic rock radio staple artist]!!"

I hate these comments so much, it's so obvious that they want to fit in with the "cool kids".

I'd rather listen to a broad spectrum of music than just one specific genre.

 

[Dr. Meme]

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

I can kinda see myself or at least my 15-16 year old self in that. I was into 60s and 70s music, really like the Beatles, Pink Floyd and the Kinks and didn't get much out of contemporary pop-music. My interests have broadened a bit since then, of yourse, but my taste still owes a lot to these groups. I think its a bit sad that they've become a sign of teenage elitism.

 

[Godjesus]

I think we can all agree they are annoying attention seeking kids but that's all kids... it's nothing. They all say the same thing because it give them upboats. I don't really get this thread because if you post 1 example you have seen them all.

 

[Enig]

I'd also suggest the trend from hand-drawn animation to cgi everything has been more bad than good.

Watching a workprint of Thief and the Cobbler and then trying to choke down the yearly Dreamworks production proves the point.

 

[Honeyrabbit]

The best era of music is any year that Masonna released something

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

I'm a fan of the 80's myself. Love hair metal and synthesizers, the shitty horror movies (...and The Breakfast Club), and my god. The hair. But the thing is, the 80's I've been exposed to tends to be the cream of the crop. Especially with music. For every great song I know, there are about a dozen that are better left forgotten.

 

[Abethedemon]

I kinda want to live in the 70s so I could go to Grateful Dead concerts (a band you don't see praised by defeners that often), play early tabletop rpgs, and listen to obscure blues rock and hard psychedelia, but I wouldn't have internet access if I did.

 

[RecordStoreToughGuy]

Sigh... These are the kinds of people that annoy me when it comes to musical tastes... Here's all I can say to this: "Just because I like something much more than your band of legend makes me an idiot? Huh??? Oh, fuck you and your sad excuse for taste, m8."

It doesn't help that there are people way younger than ourselves who likely think this mentality is OK, which only makes things worse.

Exactly this. Oh, you're in your twenties and you think the Beatles are the be-all and end-all of music and won't shut up about it? What a daring, edgy, unique viewpoint you have. No one, in the history of ever, has come to the conclusion that the Beatles are the greatest band in the history of popular music. Not one single person has ever recognized their significant and revolutionary contributions to the way music is written, produced, recorded, or distributed. You are the first. Berry Gordy, Jr. would have killed to have your musical acumen. If only Sam Phillips had possessed one-half of your insight, why, the landscape of popular music would be so different today!

Do you realize? Do... you... realize something? Let me tell you: In terms of popularity, the Beatles were the Bieber of their day. They were adored and worshipped by thousands of screaming fangirls. Beatlemania ring a bell? Sounds like Beliebers to me.

Liking the Beatles doesn't make you special. Liking the Beatles doesn't make you unique. Liking the Beatles (especially if your favorite song is "I Wanna Hold Your Hand?" Come on, man, you ain't even trying) makes you exactly like millions of screaming teenage girls in 1964.

Now get off my lawn you pretentious jacktwat. The new Foo Fighters is out and I'm trying to listen to it in peace.

 

[Kršćanin Čendlervic]

Too bad these guys weren't born in the 1930's when music had no sexual content whatsoever and was purely fit for fedora-wearing "men of class"

 

[Roger Rabbit]

I was born in the middle of the 90's. I didn't really get into it.

 

[c-no]

I'm a fan of the 80's myself. Love hair \M/ETAL and synthesizers, the shitty horror movies (...and The Breakfast Club), and my god. The hair. But the thing is, the 80's I've been exposed to tends to be the cream of the crop. Especially with music. For every great song I know, there are about a dozen that are better left forgotten.

Yeah, that is the thing with music from the 80's. You only hear the best and like this modern era, it has songs that are better left forgotten. Even the era's before that had singers that are better off being unknown, songs that are just dime-a-dozen in being no different from what we have now.

 

[The Knife's Husbando]

(Beautiful Celtic harp & drum music plays in the background, overlaid with a wonderful women's alto voice, singing in Gaelic...)

Me: "That's lovely honey, it's so pretty and calm, what is it about?"

The Knife: "Oh, that's the ballad of (something unpronounceable in Gaelic), It's about a woman who's man goes off to war, and then she is raped by the king's messenger who brought her the letter about her husband dying, then her kids and her starve to death because the occupying British solders in her house ate all their food."

Me: "Oh, okay."

 

[The Knife]

Too bad these guys weren't born in the 1930's when music had no sexual content whatsoever and was purely fit for fedora-wearing "men of class"

The Husbando and I were just discussing this era with regards to this thread! In addition to there being an artist named Jelly Roll Morton (whose name is the equivalent of a modern musician naming himself Pussy-Poppin' Smith), there's this beautiful thing:

....which is basically just a penis joke from beginning to end.

And this one, which might as well be called "That Girl's Too Young to Fuck":

 

[KingCasio]

Let's see them talk about this shit.

 

[ChameleonBody]

Raunchy old music? OH LEH DO EH

 

[Le Bateleur]

Well, old music might have included songs about sex, but at least the musicians didn't go on and on about their drug habits...

 

[Meowthkip]

Fucking hell, the defeners are the fucking worst. I hate those kids.

Velvet Underground beat out the Beatles any day of the week, and has a much larger impact on rock music. You'd be lucky to find one of these kids who even know who Lou Reed is.

Also, as a Nirvana fan, it is really weird to me how the Classic Rock fandom adopted them, especially since they're usually the only grunge band that they even mention. Is it because Kurt Cobain is dead and in the 27 Club? (Probably) Would they have even heard of any of the bands that were an influence on them, like Melvins, Pixies, The Vaselines, Meatpuppets, Sonic Youth or Butthole Surfers? No, because they only listen to the radio and somehow they think that's something to brag about.

You motherfuckers don't know shit about music, praising fucking arena rock like a bunch of tools. Fuck off.

I realize I'm coming off like a cranky music snob, but whatever.

 

[Abethedemon]

I think we should also mention the defeners that say that they hate black culture but not black people and only like Eminem because he's white.