I mean, it seems pretty obvious that anyone old enough to be releasing albums in 1977 would have to have been born during the baby boom or earlier, unless they were a child prodigy, perhaps.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkKt6zz6mws
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago) link
Nevermind came out my senior year of high school
Albums released during Barak Obama's senior year of high school:Love Bites - BuzzcocksRoad to Ruin - RamonesNever Say Die! - Black SabbathBlue Valentine - Tom WaitsMusic For Films - Brian EnoNervous Breakdown - Black FlagNot Available - The ResidentsOutlandos d'Amour - The PoliceGive 'Em Enough Rope - The ClashThe Scream - Siouxsie and the BansheesGerm Free Adolescents - X-Ray SpexMidnight Oil - Midnight OilFirst Issue - Public Image LimitedD.o.A: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle - Throbbing GristleThe Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle - Sex pistolsLive at the Witch Trials - The FallRemote Control - The TubesIt's Alive - RamonesThree Imaginary Boys - The Cure
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
Obama freshman year = 75-76senior year = 78-79
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
I totally want to send this thread to the WH and see if we can get some clarity on Obama's HS listening favorites
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
obama was only listening to hawaiian and indonesian music during that period of his life
― iatee, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
gen x-y hawaiin music
― iatee, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
god that is a horrible word to spell aiia
― iatee, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Probably just sermons from an Indonesian madrassa
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
and spoken word tapes of the wasteland
― iatee, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
Ha ha! I read about that.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
Choom gang totally smoked a b
― buzza, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
What he liked about conservative Eliot...
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
Oops Bowl to the fountain of lamneth
― buzza, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Guys, I got addicted to this. This is my last list of Albums that came out while Obama was in school:
Albums that came out Obama's Senior year of college:
Garlands - Cocteau TwinsPeter Gabriel - self-titledForever Now - The Psychedelic FursA Broken Frame - Depeche Mode1999 - PrinceFriend or Foe - Adam AntKissing to Be Clever - Culture ClubShabooh Shoobah - INXSThe Sky's Gone Out - BauhausA Kiss in the Dreamhouse - Siouxsie and The BansheesOh, No! It's Devo - DevoSweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - EurythmicsThe Art of Falling Apart - Soft CellWhat Makes a Man Start Fires? - MunutemenPorcupine - Echo & The BunnymenWar - U2Confusion Is Sex - Sonic YouthQuick Step and Side Kick/Side Kicks - Thomson TwinsWhen the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going - Bow Wow WowThe Hurting - Tears for FearsMurmur - R.E.M.Whammy! - The B-52sHootenanny - The ReplacementsViolent Femmes - self-titledPower, Corruption & Lies - New OrderWith Sympathy - MinistryFeast - The CreaturesSpeaking in Tongues - Talking headsSynchronicity - The Police
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
Multiple songs from the Reality Bites soundtrack originally came out while Obama was in high shool or college.
Dazed and Confused is set in the summer of 1976, the summer after Barak Obamna's freshmen year of high school.
http://www.zuguide.com/image/Wiley-Wiggins-Dazed-and-Confused.4.jpg
<drops mic>
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
I'm convinced
― iatee, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
New ILM poll coming in 3...2...
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
this totally needs to be a poll
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
Were those lists supposed to prove that Obama is Gen X??
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
I like that the Peter Gabriel - self titled could mean that obama graduated at any time you want
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
OTM
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
SHOW ME THE DIPLOMA
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Diplomers!
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
it seems pretty obvious that anyone old enough to be releasing albums in 1977 would have to have been born during the baby boom or earlier, unless they were a child prodigy, perhaps.
Actually, I don't know if British people count as baby boomers in the same way? I think of the 'baby boomer' demographic in the US/Canada as one that was shaped and partially defined by the unprecedented prosperity in the postwar era, owing to the double advantage that we were on the winning side of WW2 and the war was not fought on our soil. Seems like things would have been different in a country that actually had to rebuild while losing all its colonies.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
The Sky's Gone Out - Bauhaus
Can't wait for our first goth president!
― I will transmit this information to (Viceroy), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
the peak baby boom birth year was 1957 - that person would be 18 in 1975. the unemployment average in 1975 was 8.5% and inflation was significantly higher than it is today.
― iatee, Friday, 4 May 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
that's not to say that you can't find some baby boomer who pulled a pretty good hand in terms of economic history but again a lot of the easy narratives are misleading
― iatee, Friday, 4 May 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
except for those dealing w/ gen x, quite simply the worst generation in american history
― iatee, Friday, 4 May 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, inflation went up to 26.9% in the UK in 1975!
2xpost
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njiUFtrFky8
― Nu Metal is the best music there is, the rest is pussy shit. (Eisbaer), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
british boomers who were pissed off b/c the Queen taxed them to death and they couldn't afford dope!
― Nu Metal is the best music there is, the rest is pussy shit. (Eisbaer), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link
well england had a pretty bleak 70s but the 50s and 60s were good there too...same w/ france, germany, japan...
― iatee, Friday, 4 May 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
my mom and my paternal grandmother both left the UK for the US during the early 1950s -- things were pretty bleak over there then.
― Nu Metal is the best music there is, the rest is pussy shit. (Eisbaer), Friday, 4 May 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
it depends how you define bleak. unemployment was about 2% across the whole decade. it still probably seemed bleak...because it was england.
― iatee, Friday, 4 May 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
and everyone was dead and your house was bombed or whatever
but economically...
― iatee, Friday, 4 May 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
Came here to wonder aloud why this threads a 700 post explosion, saw album lists.
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Friday, 4 May 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
OK, a scan of Wikipedia articles seems to suggest iatee is right about the economic boom in Europe in the 50s/60s, although I do think the devastation of the war would make a difference. Was there a baby boom in the same way in Europe?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
(Ha @ SCTV)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
the dates don't always match america's, but yeah much of europe experienced a similar demographic bubble
― iatee, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
she thinks back to the heyday of grunge, when she and her friends all wore baggy, sexless, second-hand flannel shirts and thinks, wow, my own parents lucked out in the kid fashion department
otm. I remember when i first became aware of grunge that some of the kids (we're talking middle school for me, like 1993) were into Grandpa/Grandma styles, which I thought was way cool. Cool Beans, in fact. In fact I still try to rock Grandpa pants, and probably will until I am a Grandpa myself.
As for the internet, I remember BBSes. Where does that put me?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
did u kill the red dragon and score with violet?
― Mordy, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
No, but I did get a Doom II level pack I had uploaded somewhere into the PC Gamer magazine CD! Also downloaded the Anarchist Cookbook, Jazz Jackrabbit, and saw plenty of hentai.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
jazz jackrabbit!
― Mordy, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
Just got done hanging out with a friend whom I share cultural touchstones with who was into the minneapolis zine scene, who dated some local musicians of note who I now know were younger than her, and who's sense of humor is completely compatible with mine, and who I thought was a peer, but I discovered tonight that that she was born in 1962. PS she is looking good. Totally surprised. No idea that she is 50.
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 4 May 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago) link
Born in 1981:Jessica AlbaBarbara & Jenna BushHayden ChristensenChris EvansSummer Glau (Firefly)Joseph Gordon-Levitt (3rd rock, brick)Eric Harris Taylor KitschNatalie PortmanMichael Sorrentino (The Situation)Britney SpearsJulia StilesJustin TimberlakeSerena WilliamsElijah Wood
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 4 May 2012 05:53 (twelve years ago) link
^ obv millenials, one and all
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 4 May 2012 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
+1n
Michael J. Fox & Peter Jackson vs. Julia Stiles & Elijah Wood
In a bro-down, who amongst these are more my people?
I have friends ranging from 23-55 whom I relate to very naturally & I think these generational demarcations are reductive & silly, but I think I am somehow culturally closer to Kim Deal than Britney.
― a la bouquet marmoset (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 4 May 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
Geez I was all 'no way MJF is as old as peter ja... OH SHIT".
― fix it with like some music glue (Trayce), Friday, 4 May 2012 06:06 (twelve years ago) link