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

1. Korn

2. Kenickie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvL1sqqvMw8

3. Oasis

4. Stone Temple Pilots (more like 'they're almost 20 years old?????')

5. Modest Mouse

The Prodigy are at least 20 years old!

(more like 'they're almost 20 years old?????')

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.

Tortoise - 20 years
Lambchop - almost 25 years!

10. Les Savy Fav

(numbers adjusted to account for Bunnybrains and Prodigy and Tortoise and Lambchop)

yeah, it's like: 8 year gaps:

17 Beatles Love Me Do Oct 1962
2 Beatles Let It Be Mar 1970
32 Clash (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais Jun 1978
1 Madonna Papa Don't Preach Jun 1986
31 Happy Mondays Stinkin Thinkin Sep 1992
1 Billie Because We Want To Jul 1998
1 Lily Allen Smile Jul 2006

.. or something.

It's October, and I still haven't gotten used to 1970 being 40 years ago.

There is music from 1980 which still sounds like ~the future~ to me. Which I don't imagine anyone in 1980 was thinking about the pop music of 1950.

Maybe I'm wrong, of course. And I like to hope that if I played my forgotten gems of electronic music circa 1980 to a Young Person today they would go "ah yeah, minimal, right" and not "what is this creaky old shit, grandma", but I could very well be wrong about that too.

Weezer's Blue Album is about as old today as The Cars' first album was when the Blue Album came out.

It's October, and I still haven't gotten used to 1970 being 40 years ago.

― http://tinyurl.com/hommphommp (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, October 6, 2010 12:32 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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There is music from 1980 which still sounds like ~the future~ to me

Gary Numan Cars still sounds futuristic.

Neutral Milk Hotel is 15 years old

The distance between "classic" GBV and "classic" Wire is the same as from "classic" GBV and today.

Licensed To Ill is as old today as Bob Dylan's first album was in 1986

yow, that's a good one!

Good thing Licensed to Ill still sounds a fuckton more fresh than Crotchety Old Bob ever has.

justin bieber

loooooooool

a music video from 15 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPT7q825gwI

15 years before that, there wasn't even an MTV to show a video

autechre released their first album 17 years ago, 17 years before that Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys was released

Cake's "The Distance" is older today than Wall Of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" was in 1996.

The Black Eyed Peas were formed in 1995, although Will I Am an apl.de.ap had been performing together since 1988! O_o

For some reason "1970 was 40 years ago" makes me go "yeah, it is, so?" whereas I feel positively gutpunched by "Papa Don't Preach, Evol, Reign In Blood and Graceland are 24 years old, and when you first heard the latter 3 eight years after that, Let It Be and Led Zep III were 24 years old and were ancient history", never mind going back 24 years from 1986 itself and reaching the Everly Brothers and Petula Clark or whatever

xp case in point: peter in montreal just made me feel very old indeed

I still can't quite wrap my mind around the fact that for my son (born in 2008), the 80s are going to seem as far in the past as the 50s were for me.

it was my birthday yesterday too u_u

autechre released their first album 17 years ago, 17 years before that Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys was released

Wrong, the Autechre-BB gap is more like 27 years...?

Replace Pet Sounds with The Ramones' Ramones

or Songs In The Key Of Life

I first saw the Clash 33 year ago - 33 years before that, a 17 yo (as I was then) could have been taking part in the D-Day landings. Which means there were people then who were the age I am now, who had been teenagers during the war, and probably too old for Rock n'Roll by the time it came along. Ouch.

The Negro Problem released their first single 15 years ago.

And I don't live in LA anymore. Then again, neither does Stew.

D. Boon's death will be 25 years ago in December. The #1 single 25 years before that was Elvis' "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"

http://blog.kirkebykvalitet.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Moog-Cookbook.jpg

is as old today as

http://sector2814.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/silicon-teens.jpeg

was in 1995.

Wrong, the Autechre-BB gap is more like 27 years...?

you're right, I am getting terrible at math in my old age

I like the comparative posts ITT because it really defines "how long ago was 15 years really"?

I mean 24 years ago, Reign in Blood came out. 24 years before Reign in Blood, Black Sabbath's early incarnation of Earth wouldn't exist for 6 more years. When I bought RiB, it was a little over ten years old.

btw this thread was inspired by iatee pointing out how old Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience was :/

Snoop Dogg -- been recording major releases for EIGHTEEN years

Today (15 years) Out Come The Wolves (15 years) Sandinista!

I mean we're two years away from a Chronic "20 year anniversary", and 3 from a "Doggystyle 20 year anniversary"

wau @ Rancid

Ready To Die is older today than "The Breaks" was when Ready To Die came out.

Puff's "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" is almost as old as Matthew Wilder's "Break My Stride" was in 1997.

So has the rate of stylistic progress slowed in the last 25 years? I think so, but it's hard to be objective when 1985 was at the core of my aesthetic development.

Sometimes I think it's not really style. It has to do with how major multi-tracking and mic'ing of loud instruments was figured out and broadly deployed by the mid-70s. Seems like Yardbirds has this layer of dust on the sound that isn't the case with Zeppelin. It's like the transition from B&W to color in movies.

So has the rate of stylistic progress slowed in the last 25 years?

u need to hear some witch house

alot of it has to do with technology - digital production has been around for more than 20 years and hasn't really evolved that much since then (besides cost and computing power), so anything that exploits that, esp hip-hop or techno, doesn't really sound that dated compared with earlier analog vs digital.

I can't think of any brand new genre over the past 20 years that's a comparable paradigm shift to MIDI and samples except maybe pure noise but even that dates back to industrial. million sub-genres though

The world has changed a lot more since 1995 than popular music has.

1974 = (Kimono My House, Autobahn, Waterloo, Musik von Harmonia, Pretzel Logic)
Now - 1974 = 1974 - Hitler annexes the Sudetenland

Gonna be up all night going o_O at new ones of these, don't mind me...

I also recently found it strange that Wilco was on Beavis & Butthead.

Weezer's Blue Album is about as old today as The Cars' first album was when the Blue Album came out.

http://i53.tinypic.com/2woapvb.jpg

the last 25 years seem much less dense with invention - which probably means that the invention has been more subtle & technical. or just that it's harder to see the overall shape of trends when you're still immersed in them.

Or that pop music in its current form has run out of gas.

'70s nostalgia : 1990s :: '90s nostalgia : 2010s (when I am tempted to say ______ was better in the '90s, I remind myself of how sad the 1970s-obsessed sounded when I was a kid in the 1990s)

Of course, if you are still obsessed with the '70s now, that makes it the equivalent of stanning for the '50s in the 1990s. And '60s='40s.

As far as time slowing down between Buddy Holly and Led Zeppelin compared to Jagged Little Pill and Jay-Z

????

Jay-Z's first album came out only a year after Jagged Little Pill, while Alanis was still spinning off hits from it.

I am still younger than he was when he did "Tug Of War",

!

That said, pictures like these break my head. What happened?

Broke my head too, cos I thought that guy had three arms.

God bless Grey Greyhead btw.

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

An even sadder game to play than "Where was Paul?" is "Where was John?" because, by my age, John was fucking dead.

When Lennon died, a couple of singles from his most recent album entered the singles charts, along with a reissue of a less than ten years old song that was his most famous solo song.

When Michael Jackson died, pre-teen fans filled the singles charts with re-entering Michael Jackson songs that by 2009 were older than the American rock'n'roll records John Lennon grew up with were in 1980.

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