you ppl
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:28 (nine years ago) link
gen y aka millennial = b.1980-2000 imo
― Mordy, Sunday, June 29, 2014 12:30 AM (49 minutes ago)
Yeah, I think this is the generally accepted bracket. But even though I fall into it myself, I kind of see the question being more interesting answered by those born 1990 onwards. Not saying that you and others born in the '80s shouldn't respond if you want to, just where my interest lies. Also, maybe '80s kids fall into a time where things were changing but hadn't yet changed, if that's not too woolly a statement - I'm thinking like, I had the internet as a teenager, but it came at around 15 and was a very different place to today. A large period of my formative years were pre-internet, never mind pre- youtube, spotify, facebook, etc.
― emil.y, Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:30 (nine years ago) link
Yep. '88 here, and I feel like there's a whole world of difference between people who remember what life/music was like before the internet and people who don't. Where that dividing line is, I don't know. But somewhere in mid to late 80s I'm guessing.
― Dreamland, Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
there is a big cultural/technological/social difference between ppl born in 1980 and 1990, ppl born 1985 and 1995 etc
the real secret the feds don't want you to know about is that the concept of cultural generations is 100% bullshit and shouldn't be taken seriously for any reason
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:36 (nine years ago) link
1 weird trick the generational bureau doesn't want u to kno
― Mordy, Sunday, 29 June 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
also weird: separating history into decades
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 June 2014 01:03 (nine years ago) link
Gen y really should be split pre/post high speed internet
― brimstead, Sunday, 29 June 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
We laugh but it already is in a way
― Dreamland, Sunday, 29 June 2014 01:11 (nine years ago) link
this thread maybe deserves a second chance
― ulysses, Sunday, 20 March 2016 22:58 (eight years ago) link
probably not but still
I keep saying that ppl born b/w maybe like 78 and 85 should be called the "betweenials." Everybody start saying this plz.
― dc, Monday, 21 March 2016 01:20 (eight years ago) link
Googled "betweenials" and found a lone Twitter mention. Shit; I thought I made it up.
― dc, Monday, 21 March 2016 01:29 (eight years ago) link
it's too late now, the millennials are now old and jaded like us
― diana krallice (rushomancy), Monday, 21 March 2016 10:24 (eight years ago) link
did millennials grow up exposed to R&B at all or just hating U2, REM, Pavement, etc?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 March 2016 10:54 (eight years ago) link
why does millennials never want to Weezer??
― bernard snowy, Monday, 21 March 2016 11:54 (eight years ago) link
also, I wish the dumbfuck who hates Pavement would say that to my face while the stereo plays "Grounded", so I could tell him that's exactly what he is. Boyz are dyin on these streets!
― bernard snowy, Monday, 21 March 2016 11:56 (eight years ago) link
and people born in 1976 are "bicentweenials"
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 21 March 2016 14:05 (eight years ago) link
Hi millennials. Are you planning a post-ironic discovery of roots rocks and/or Americana any time soon? It's so uncool now which actually makes it cool.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 21 March 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link
hasn't this already been a thing for a while?
― Mordy, Monday, 21 March 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
uh oh kornrulez, you're even older and more out of touch than you thought.
has there been a critical reassessment of dave matthews yet? feel like that's coming eventually.
― dc, Monday, 21 March 2016 16:01 (eight years ago) link
was I the one who hated pavement? you have permission to murder me as long as my grave says "fuck pavement" and nothing else
― qualx, Monday, 21 March 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link
As someone born in 1985, I consider myself part of "Generation Y", but not really a "Millennial".
― MarkoP, Monday, 21 March 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link
I feel like there's been a bit of Phish reassessment in recent years, but not quite Dave Matthews reassessment.
― MarkoP, Monday, 21 March 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
I'm convinced that his popularity among my generation stems from the fact that nearly half of millennials smoked weed for the first time at a Dave Matthews concert.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 March 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
I'm pretty sure there's been an Americana revival every decade for the past 10 decade.
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Monday, 21 March 2016 18:35 (eight years ago) link
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i'm born in 1988, came to music through my brother who is ~10 yrs older than me so operation ivy, early weezer, dillinger four, catchy pop punk stuff i guess. (this means i like pavement). i think the first CD I had was the first Gorillaz album (stole from my bro)? also a lot of distinct memories of downloading like, 'and out come the wolves' track by track on a 56k modem. you could listen to part of the song if you waited 20 minutes! the whole song would take longer. i bet i still have some of the CD-Rs from that
definitely interested in the perspective of people even younger tho, i definitely feel like i saw the internet *become* a 'thing'. would definitely be a sea change for it to already have been a 'thing' by the time you were scoping out things and forging your tastes
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 21 March 2016 22:16 (eight years ago) link
Young kids don’t understand the old timers never understanding why the young kids don’t know the old stuff
― calstars, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
Yeah old stuff is so much harder to find nowadays
― President Keyes, Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
Heh, I can remember old-timers in the 80s not understanding why I didn't know Camel, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
I don't know where to put this, but I have noticed that younger millenials and zoomers seem to embrace music from all genres, and artists all along the hipness spectrum, equally and unselfconsciously and unironically with little regard to what's "cool" or not. That is amazing and wonderful. It seemed to take some sort of religious conversion to get a generation (or two or three) of corny indie fuxxors there, and it just comes naturally to today's kids.
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
it's one of the best upsides of spotify/youtube/celestial jukebox culture as presumed birthright
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 02:20 (three years ago) link
They're welcome to join the Xenakis listening thread.
― I guess I'd be lonesome (Sund4r), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link