Billy Bragg told a story last year about being in a clothing shop somewhere in the southern USA, and when the salesperson discovered his name and that he was a singer/songwriter, she told him there used to be a Billy Bragg back in the '80s who was ‘pretty good.’
Bobcat Goldthwait has a joke about someone coming up to him and saying “No offense, but has anyone ever told you that you look like Bobcat Goldthwait?”
Tony Hawk Syndrome
I wonder what he’s up to now.
Eating and sleeping, I bet.
At the same time? Can that man fail at anything?
He’s taking a fridge around Ireland.
he just sold one of his skateboards for several million bucks.
I saw this on Colbert last night
Supposedly, Charlie Chaplin once came in something other than first (I think I read sixth, but wouldn’t swear to it) in a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest.
Yeah Dolly Parton lost to a drag queen in a Dolly Parton lookalike contest 😂
Thou shalt not publish an article about looks without including a photograph.
Snopes includes a photo but there is no confirmation it is THE photo.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/03/11/dolly-parton-lookalike-contest/
Haha thank you! even if that’s not from the contest, it’s a great picture nonetheless.
pretty sure that has happened to a lot of famous people
Yes, but how many of them named an album after the incident?
Not knowing who Bobcat Goldthwait is, I would take offense at the “no offense”.
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.
Some Christian Metal group already took the name, “Azlan”. At least the name, “Shadowfax” was taken by an 80’s instrumental band that just rips.
If this ever happens to you, it’s important that you act clueless and wary.
But then find your ticket stubs from the Curiosa Festival tour in 2005. The night your got daughter was conceived.
As a kid I thought AC/DC was a relatively unknown band based on the fact that only one or two of my classmates had heard of them.
I mean, you were right in a sense. But otherwise wrong
relatively unknown
Relatively to your friend circle they were unknown.
Unfathomable to an Australian, Ackadacka is a band that Crosses generations here.
Had this happen with my teenage nephew. He was talking about how’s really getting into this band that I’ve probably never heard of called Deftones. He seemed really disappointed when I showed him a high school picture of myself circa 1999 wearing a Deftones t shirt.
I’m pretty sure my uncle had never heard of Suicide or Neu!
If I were your uncle, I would have. (Great bands, both of them.) In truth, the weight of history just gets heavier all the time with new great bands coming along as we type. I bet it wasn’t as bad when the Sonics, the VU or the 13th Floor Elevators roamed the Earth…
Some things never change
Obscure band from arcane times
Obscure band from Arcane times is Linkin Park.
Arcane?! I’ll have you know those were the best of times.
Honestly, this is a tale as old as time.
Back in the 90s, I remember the one and only time a teacher ever “embarrassed” the son of the richest family in town. He was one of those kids that thought he was God’s gift to the Earth, and pretty much every adult in the school system treated him as such.
Then one day he was loudly raving about “this new band called AC/DC” and the 6th grade teacher had an absolute blast telling everybody how hilarious that statement was.
For those not in the know, AC/DC was incredibly famous, basically a household name, and had been so for literally decades at that point. And this kid acted like they were brand new up and coming band that nobody had ever heard of before.
Anyway, I had no empathy. He was a shithead bully of the worst kind, so I’m sure that one time he got made fun of really stung and he fucking deserved it.
I swear that, on top of dressing exactly like we did in the 90s, most of my college students are into the exact same music we were: Metallica, Nirvana, RHCP, Smashing Pumpkins, Gorillaz, are all bands they actively listen too, amongst others. I even had a punch of Primus obssesed dudes once.
What did you teach and when?
2008 was Mew, Mogwai, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Andrew Bird, Menomena, The Flaming Lips, Spoon, and Godspeed You Black Emperor among others.
…I studied social sciences.
@Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works @Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net yeah but primus sucks
I guess there aren’t any Primus fans here.
Well, Primus is Billy’s favorite band. He was a racecar driver. Also, there’s Wynona.
So, funny story, but I did almost exactly this. Highschool me came home super excited about this new band I heard called Black Sabbath. Dad started pulling out vinyl.
And then you instantly lost interest?
No, not at all. We listened to Sabbath, and Budgie, and King Crimson, and Rainbow. Dad’s record collection was pretty epic.
Now you, not sure about. Your dad, we could hang. /s
I found The Smiths insufferable when I was young and I still find them insufferable.
Still like a few of their songs, but fucking GROW UP, JESUS CHRIST.
I was goth. We never listened to The Smiths.
This whole thread is bullshit.
I had goth friends, but was more into emo/screamo. THEY’RE NOT THE SAME THING OKAY.
Your haaaair is eeeeeverywheeeere!
Screaming infidelities.
How about Against Me! - Baby I’m an Anarchist
There’s Dashboard, then there’s 3 Days Grace. They are not the same.
And I can’t pretend Dashboard Confessional is/was less whiney than The Smiths. Most of his/their stuff is also pretty hard for me to listen to these days with a few exceptions. He really shouldn’t be singing most of that music anymore, at his age, and that’s been true for awhiiiiiile. Kinda weird. I prefer his tenure as lead singer of Further Seems Forever.
While that is true, The Cure are goth. And that’s what the post talks about.
Oh fuck. My 13 year old says to me just a week ago “the Smiths are my absolute favorite band dad.” Fuck me. Where did I go wrong?
that’s because Morrissey is an insufferably pretentious douche. you can tell he was to blame because he went solo and continued torturing eardrums.
Johnny Marr did okay when he went solo. a little uneven, but better than Morrissey.
They’re the definition of I am 14 and this is deep
Are they really? I have to admit that I do like them, but I was under the impression that their lyrics where mostly meant to be funny. But then again, I don’t always pay attention to the lyrics 😅
Nah, Morrissey was always a know-it-all prick and a lot of the lyrics are dripping in irony. “Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose because Wilde is on mine” - Really, Steven?
Pretty much the only band that I’ll switch off the satellite radio early 80s alternative station for.
I thought ahead, and started making my daughter listen to Bauhaus at six months.
Just be careful, I started mine on Radiohead from birth and now she’s allergic to 4|4
This is the way.
Were I cursed with a child, I would request the vessel to speaker fuck the hifi once a day.
Bella Legosi’s dead.
/S
Just keep laughing, holding those tears in your eyes, because boys don’t cry…
My sweet daughter you should dig pornography!
Porno for pyros?
The singer is a dick but his songs are fire.
The New Pornographers
I don’t get it. Young people are listening to our music it is odd.
Because there hasn’t been an alt-mainstream since the rise of the internet.
Mainstream did survive (e.g. Taylor Swift), but apart from that there hasn’t been any of these huge not-quite-mainstream bands for people who don’t want to listen to mainstream.
In the 70s, if you didn’t want to listen to mainstream pop, you’d listen to one of the handful non-main-mainstream bands your small record store had in stock. That was e.g. AC/DC, Metallica, Deep Purple, that kind of stuff.
But since the rise of the internet, MP3, Spotify and all that, people really have choice. If you want to, you can listen to an obscure little band producing professional quality music from a bedroom somewhere in the mountains of Bolivia. That means, if you don’t want mainstream, there’s a lot of really-not-mainstream easily accessible, and thus there’s not a lot of non-main-mainstream bands that a lot of people actually know.
That’s why all the old stuff gets recycled endlessly. Because it’s recognizable.
I don’t agree that there isn’t an alt-mainstream. Wouldn’t stuff like Magdelena Bay, Japanese Breakfast, 100 gecs, Ghost, and Sleep Token qualify? Stuff that you’ll find on the album charts or the genre charts, but not in the top 40?
That’s the thing: Even in the 80s and 90s everyone has heard of Metallica or ACDC.
I might not be the measure of things, but I have never heard of any of the bands you referenced.
You’ve never heard of Ghost?
Treat yourself.
i mean there’s also the fact that it’s been probably playing in the background for all of people’s childhoods and they eventually get nostalgic and drift towards that kind of music…
even if people don’t listen to it actively/all the time, it’s still pleasant to people, because they’re used to it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I agree but disagree. Just go to any genre that isn’t Pop/Country/K-Pop and look at the largest bands there.
Many people that never listen to metal have heard of parkway drive, rammstein, disturbed, Lorna shore, bring me the horizon, etc.
Last year gojira played during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. How is that not “not-main-mainstream”.
Rammstein and Disturbed were founded in 1994, Gojira in 1996, way before music over internet became a big thing.
I haven’t heard of the others.
Check out Tiny Towns
I grew up listening to my dad’s music (eagles, Steve Miller, Blue oyster cult etc…) so it’s not that unusual that your genetic offspring might gravitate towards certain tastes in music. That said I mostly embraced punk music and my daughter has embraced Sabrina Carpenter and the likes… Not that I want her to enjoy my music, but the stuff these days is largely trash and covering topics that are hollow and pointless. And yes I know not all modern music is that way, but the stuff being shoved in their faces through multiple media sources largely is.
I’m no pop-music apologist, but I sincerely doubt that Sabrina Carpenter’s music is any more hollow and pointless than the average generic Top 40 hit from the '80s.
For instance, here are the lyrics to Manchild by Sabrina Carpenter, which is #2 on the charts right now.
And here are the lyrics to I’m Alright by Kenny Loggins, which was #10 on the charts at this point in the year in 1980.
Pop music is pretty much still pop music. There are some analyses that say it’s getting simpler over time, but I don’t think it was ever all that complex to begin with.
