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

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...

Nevermind's release closer to 9/11 than 9/11 to now.

Given how much U2 and RHCP I've listened to in my lifetime, I'm kind of surprised that I'm basically going Green Day vs Pearl Jam here.

Then again, I don't think it's embarrassing to have a successful Broadway show that incorporates something of your musical message.

"Planet Rock" is older than "Tutti Frutti" was when it came out.

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not entirely wrong thread

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Deerhoof

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"Motownphilly" is as old now as "Get on the Good Foot" was when it came out.

it was my birthday yesterday too u_u

― dro™ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 18:06 (Yesterday) Bookmark

Hey, me too - hope you had a good'un!

Ouch though, I'm 30 now. What happened?

I graduated from high school in 1987, right around the time Sgt. Pepper turned 20, and that album sounded impossibly old to me at the time. Appetite For Destruction was released a month later and is now older than Pepper was then.

Love Shack is as old as Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In was when it came out.

wow, Fine Young Cannibals are thereby ancient as well

I wish this silly 2005-era pic of R.E.M. was showing up on the link below, but Ned's observation has stuck with me after all these years.

REM play wedding with Bill Berry (REM fan geek out thread)

O_O

The birth of rock n roll ---> MTV = 30 years

MTV ---> today = 29 years

Hound Dog to Stairway To Heaven = 15 years

Hootie & Blowfish Cracked Rear View to Tom Petty Mojo = 16 years

xxpost -- haha wow, I'd forgotten that.

Robert Johnson made his first recordings in 1936, 74 years ago.

Or 71 years after the Civil War ended.

This comparison won't mean as much unless you were into music in the 80s, but in 1987 St. Pepper's was issued on CD for the first time and the tagline for the campaign was (of course) "It was 20 years ago today..." (they matched the release date of the reissue to the date of the original release). And I bought it the day it came out, and at that time the 60s seemed like a long time ago and an entirely different world (I was 17). And now the day of that reissue is 23 years ago. And "20 years ago today..." would be 1990, when the Black Crowes put out their first album.

Which now feels like the Dark Ages, or at least pre-Enlightenment.

Did folks who were 30 in 1980 feel the same way, I wonder? Or did they see the spectrum of music they'd lived through I a different way...

The Beatles' reissues charting in 2009 is like if the original recordings of "Over There," "McNamara's Band" and "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" had charted in 1963.

It almost makes it seem like pop music has largely stagnated!

depressed when I learned today that Eminem is 38

haha I bet he's more depressed about that fact than anyone.

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.

― kkvgz, Wednesday, October 6, 2010 9:07 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, this is always kind of disorienting. i said something similar on some other thread a while back. like, when i was a kid in the 1980s, the music of the late sixties and early seventies seemed ancient, though "classic rock" was everywhere, it seemed like the artifact of some vanished civilization. both cool and weird for that reason. but the music in question was only 10-20 years old at the time. and when i think now of the music i loved best in the late 80s and early 90s, it still seems "contemporary" to me. this despite the fact that the distance from here to zen arcade (26 years!) is MUCH greater than the distance from thriller to sgt. pepper's (only 15 years). doesn't seem possible...

Pop culture has sped up, atomized into countless subcultures and perpetually regurgitates itself in the 24/7 media cycle of the Internet age. Welcome to the future!

Very retro of you to say that.

I still remember Madonna as something new that sort of came on the market after most of my (then) favourite acts, so it is kind of amazing she's been having hits for 27 years or so.

I mean, as in, 1985-86 was when the chartpop world I grew up with started tumbling down, and acts like Madonna, Pet Shop Boys, Whitney Houston and others whose breakthrough was after what I still consider to be "the golden age" ("Holiday" didn't do much here initially, so "Like a Virgin" in late 84/early 85 was the first time I heard of her), well, they still feel like pretty much "modern" artists to me.

When I really want to depress myself, I play this little game called "Where Was Paul?" I started doing this when I was 13 and read that Paul McCartney lost his virginity at age 15. So I told myself that I had two more years.

And then, I reached the age he was when he formed the Beatles, when they came to America, when they did Sgt. Pepper, when the band broke up.

Right now, I'm the same age he was when he released "Back to the Egg". I'll tell ya, that one hits like an arrow through me.

I am still younger than he was when he did "Tug Of War", and that remains my fave solo Paul album. :)

As far as time slowing down between Buddy Holly and Led Zeppelin compared to Jagged Little Pill and Jay-Z, it's good to hear I'm not the only one who's noticed this. I couldn't tell whether it was me getting older and it not being 1993 anymore, or if popular music was remaining much more static than when it was first available to the masses.

You younger folks will have to share with me. Do you get all misty-eyed when you think about those halcyon days of 2002, cruising down the highway listening to Rilo Kiley? Does it seem so far away like 1972 does to 1980? To me, it feels like last week.

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

http://rosemaryx.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/blonde-redhead.jpg

Not bands, actually, but it occurred to me a few days ago that the hypothetical children of the people in the cast of The Real World's first season are nearing the age where they can appear on The Real World themselves.

If I keep this up, I'm going to start being the guy forwarding those "Today's college freshmen don't remember the Persian Gulf War!" e-mails.

As far as time slowing down between Buddy Holly and Led Zeppelin compared to Jagged Little Pill and Jay-Z, it's good to hear I'm not the only one who's noticed this. I couldn't tell whether it was me getting older and it not being 1993 anymore, or if popular music was remaining much more static than when it was first available to the masses.

yeah, i'm totally with you there. distance between 1955 and 1985 = 30 years. from ground zero for rock, soul, r&b, etc. to a point where punk, prog, disco, house, rap, minimal, industrial, and just about every other significant contemporary musical form had been invented. 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.

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