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?"
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 😂
pretty sure that has happened to a lot of famous people
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.
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.
are you the bully from the other comment
Some things never change
Obscure band from arcane times
Obscure band from Arcane times is Linkin Park.
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.
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.
I thought ahead, and started making my daughter listen to Bauhaus at six months.
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.
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.
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?
They're the definition of I am 14 and this is deep
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.
As much as this is a trend that has always happened I think it’s much more common now with the prevalence of music streaming and the internet. Anyone can look up any music anytime and listen. This exposes people to way more music than just new stuff or stuff they know from their parents
I actually had that experience with my dad once. Back in high school I was blasting Pornography and he told me that he likes Siouxsie and The Banshees better and by the way Robert Smith played on Hyena. Mind blown.
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.
The Cure has been around for several decades. Only way not to hear of them is to be neck deep in country or bluegrass
"Go back to listening to your old man bands like The Normal and Alien Sex Fiend or whatever."
At least the kid was listening to the music. I’ve lost count of the number of kids walking around in “Cure,” “Def Leppard,” “Poison,” etc. shirts who have NFC about the band. They just think the shirt looks cool. Which… of course it is, but look it up on YouTube or something, FFS!
They just think the shirt looks cool.
This was a normal way for people back in the 90s to be introduced to a band, too.
Perhaps nature is healing.
Hey, you heard of this of this new guy, Sinatra? Music is slow and sad, really fits the mood.
People, stop ruining music! Tell your kids you've never heard of AC/DC but they have got to hear this band called Nickelback. If they respond "you don't know good music" then your job is done and they think AC/DC is amazing.
Cite not the deep lore to me, I was there when it was first recorded on LP.
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