This is the thread where old-timers can ask millenials music-related questions about the recent past

has there been a critical reassessment of dave matthews yet? feel like that's coming eventually.

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.

I'm pretty sure there's been an Americana revival every decade for the past 10 decade.

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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

Young kids don’t understand the old timers never understanding why the young kids don’t know the old stuff

Yeah old stuff is so much harder to find nowadays

Heh, I can remember old-timers in the 80s not understanding why I didn't know Camel, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep.

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.

it's one of the best upsides of spotify/youtube/celestial jukebox culture as presumed birthright

They're welcome to join the Xenakis listening thread.