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