I feel like Rat tested me too. Sigh.
My younger cousin brought her friend to a family party. The friend was wearing a Kurt Cobain shirt, probably from Urban Outfitters. She said it’s her favorite band along with Panic! at the Disco.
I’m glad his music is popular with the younger generation and I hope it keeps on going.
My daughter wears Kinks and Ramones shirts and she does listen to the Kinks and the Ramones. She likes 70s music more than modern music. I can’t blame her.
I was watching this comedian on Instagram that showed a study that all modern music is sounding the same. That’s probably why. Your daughter has good ears for music.
Check out Rick Beato on YouTube (if you haven’t already).
Alternatively: don’t
I think the younger generation may appreciate Daniel Johnston too. He was a super weird and awkward guy. He was also Kurt’s favorite songwriter, and biggest inspiration. The Late Great Daniel Johnston is a solid compilation of his work, and there’s a documentary about his life called The Devil and Daniel Johnston.
Also, fuck Courtney Love.
I remember the sort-of joke when Kurt Cobain died was, “why couldn’t it have been Courtney?”
The late Jim Shepard would have been my recommendation, bit I might be biased.
Man, I remember being sad when Freddie Mercury died.
Hell, as young as I was, I remember my mom crying her eyes out when John Lennon died.
A friend of mine was such a big Queen fan that she had to take the day off school when Freddie Mercury died.
I remember Freddie too. He hit me much harder then Cobain three years later. Freddie’s death I got from the paper, but for Cobain I was watching MTV’s Most Wanted with Ray Cokes, which was aired live, and he read a piece of news that a dead person was found at Kurt Cobain’s house but that nothing was confirmed.
if Back to the future was made today Marty would go back to 1994 and play smells like teen spirit at the high school dance
… actually wasn’t Kurt already dead? quick who was big in 97? Limp Bizkit?
Marty invents Insane Clown Posse at the prom?
Foo Fighters, Green Day, Weezer,
Damn it!!!.. Fuck you…
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You for the Earth Angel, ‘they have to kiss’ track.
Radiohead - Paranoid Android for the track that “really cooks” and goes off the rails.It’s a trip reading through these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_in_musicHe didn’t play music of the era at the dance. He would go back to 1994 and play something from today. But music hasn’t really evolved since then, so nobody would be shocked. He’d end up doing some dance number while lip-syncing a studio written pop song.
Edit: ah you’re talking about when he first starts playing Chuck Berry with the band. I was thinking about the end of the performance when he slips into playing heavy metal and freaks everyone out.
He could go up there and do some Skrillex Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites or Eminem Godzilla. I’m certain everyone in 94 would be like, “Wtf was that‽”
That’s heavy!
Marty would go back to 1994 and play smells like teen spirit at the high school dance
That surely would have made for a different vibe…
“oldies” these days are Avril Lavigne, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Gorillaz. Or as I like to call them: music from the early century.
or as I like to call it Classical Music
I felt old when I started hearing Limp Bizkit and Blink-182 on my local classic rock station.
I think this is one of the first generations where kids, in general, listen to softer pop music compared to their parents.
Because there’s more money in it, and everything is all about money now.
I always was about the money. Nirvana even named one of their songs Radio Friendly Unit Shifter.
If all the kids wanted to listen to death metal, there would be death metal on the radio.
It has always been about money for the labels, but they at least used to take risks, and find new talented bands, develop them, and promote them. But it’s riskier and takes a lot more work. An artist needs a minimum of about 10,000 hours of experience before they’re studio ready, and the whole band needs to be at that level. If they find someone new and unique at that level, they still need to develop them as performers, and get them prepared to play big gigs, tour, work together in a studio, etc… It’s much easier for them to find someone attractive who knows some dance moves, and have them perform studio written songs based on proven profitable beats.
It’s much easier for them to find someone attractive who knows some dance moves,
You are describing The Sex Pistols. But they were harder than the music their parents listened to. (In the 1970’s, the parents would have listened to 1940’s music.)
I remember thinking that I wasn’t happy everyone was comparing him to Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, saying he joined the 27 club. The fact that he killed himself felt like an exclusionary detail.
The others did too, just not intentionally, at least as far as we know.
What if you were more of an R.E.M. guy than a Nirvana guy?
Then go back to sleep
Wow, “where were you when Lennon died” too old to make a comic about being old, eh?
where were you when Engelbert Humperdinck died
Where were you when Rudy Valee died?
Ooo, I actually remember this one. Not the death, but the year and month. I was in wine country, drinking my wine.
I actually didn’t realize until I looked it up just now that he died in 1986. I was thinking more like 1956.
That’s where I was with Humperdinck until I looked him up too
Damn reality ruining the joke.
I remember when Michael Jackson died. Can I be old now too?
No! Get back to class!
I remember when James Earl Jones died. Did I do this right? It doesn’t work, I don’t feel much older now.
Fuck… guess I’m old too. Not sure when that happened.
I was pretty young so I didn’t get it, I remember asking my brother what they’re going to do now, who’s gonna be the singer?
Imagine if he said, “the drummer, but he’s going to start a different band.”
