Bands That You Can't Believe are 15 or More Years Old (The 'Dang I Feel Old' Thread)

Who is Pleasant Plains' picture of anyway. I dont recognize them.

That's Blonde Redhead.

Oh okay, I was like, well that's almost two Beasties and someone from Cibo Matto, but not quite.

A friend of mine was working at a fresher's week event and they were playing Snap's Rhythm Is a Dancer, which made sense to me until I realised it was as old to them as Superstition or Walk on the Wild Side were to me when I was a fresher.

Cat Power
Built To Spill
Palace (Will Oldham)
Guided By Voices
Ween

http://www.musicdirect.com/shared/images/products/medium/nirvana_nevermind.jpg

This guy turned 19 this year.

technically my first cameo was late '88,first release was 1991...umm i cant do th math..so sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy

My favorite album of all time might be Meat is Murder. I think of the Smiths as (sort of) contemporaries, sort of "of our time." That album is the mid-point between now and Bill Haley and His Comets (1960).

Good reference points!!

Spiritualized & Spectrum have been around three times longer than Spacemen 3 was

There are people in high school now that were born AFTER Dookie came out.

How strange it is in retrospect that they had this bizarre second career writing rock operas. I graduated in 2004 but remember these guys from middle school during which they were just another Blink-182/Alien Ant Farm/Everclear type band

That was career 1.5. (Career 0.5 = "We're on Lookout and we have fans!" Career 1 = "So are you and the Offspring the true face of punk in 1994? Do you hang together?" "Um.")

I graduated in 2004 but remember these guys from middle school during which they were just another Blink-182/Alien Ant Farm/Everclear type band

poor green day.

i mean there's no love lost between me and them considering what they turned into this decade, but still..."another alien ant farm"? poor green day.

forgot to mention the Offspring in there

at the time I had no idea that Ant Farm was terrible, in fact I actually thought "Smooth Criminal" was an original and that it was quite good

But see I link Green Day in my mind with the, lol, "neo-punk thing" off 1994 with them and Rancid and Offspring. Alient Ant Farm and Blink were of like a totally different generation.

"of 1994"

Blink 182 was the first time I started to feel scared about "what the kids listen to". I was 19.

I recently had the realization that Phish (yeah, I know, I know, whatever) began playing gigs and writing songs prior to the release of the first Nightmare on Elm Street film. This isn't so much "Dang I Feel Old" moment as "Dang They Are Old".

Hasn't Blink 182 been kicking around just as long as Green Day?

But see I link Green Day in my mind with the, lol, "neo-punk thing" off 1994 with them and Rancid and Offspring. Alient Ant Farm and Blink were of like a totally different generation.

Absolutely. I was 20 years old working at the liquor store and all the cart brats were digging on the Offspring. I was all, you kids and your music and then put in my Dookie tape for the ride home.

green day: 1987
blink: 1992

so not that far apart, but the big differences being that a.) blink definitely formed in the wake of the new pop-punk wave being an established (if underground) thing, and b.) by the time they started getting successful green day had already been millionaires for a number of years.

Fifteen years ago, U2 celebrated their 20th anniversary.

Ah, think they're all around the same age, though.

Ok, wait. U2 are contemporaneous with Boston and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

albums i can't believe are almost 15 years old

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Before_You_Were_Punk_cover.jpg

Check also the Clash.xp

The group was impressed by his work with fellow Californian band The Muffs

haha i love that THE MUFFS helped sway green day to signing with reprise

was feeling this way back in '91, I been old for so long

its weird relistening to Everclear and being in awe of how insanely whiny it is. as a kid it definitely made sense.

the Anthology of American Folk Music is 3 times older today than some of the source material was when Harry Smith compiled it nearly 60 years ago.

When the Rolling Stones recorded "Love in Vain" in 1969 it was like they were digging up an unfathomably ancient blues tune. In fact, the song was 32 years old then. Whereas if a band today does a cover of "Sympathy for the Devil" that's a song that's over 42 years old.

More to the point of the thread, though, it's hard to believe the Red Hot Chili Peppers are a 28 year old band.

so I realized Jagged Edge's "Where the Party At?" was released about 13 years ago this coming October. Random milestone I know, but it just came to me as I thought of the song, which I used to jam to a lot the year it came out.

For perspective, in 1991, Michael Jackson's "Black or White" was released, and 13 years prior, Off the Wall wasn't even out yet and The Wiz had only just came out.

also, Ride the Lightning turns 30 this year. When Ride the Lightning was released, exactly 30 years prior, the #1 album on the Billboard 200 was Glenn Miller Plays Selections from "The Glenn Miller Story"

I got this the other day about Nevermind, which was compounded by the realization that when Nevermind came out, albums that had been released 20 years before included Led Zeppelin IV and Janis Joplin's Pearl, both of which seemed like dusty artifacts to me at the time.

I know that I used to feel this way but somehow, this doesn't seem remarkable to me now; Nevermind DOES feel quite old to me.

I'm guessing that this probably says more about my aging process than about popular culture or history.

"This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"

According to Nietzsche, who in the 19th century somehow predicted the eternal recurrence of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, well into the 21st