I remember when Michael Jackson died. Can I be old now too?
I remember when James Earl Jones died. Did I do this right? It doesn't work, I don't feel much older now.
No! Get back to class!
What if you were more of an R.E.M. guy than a Nirvana guy?
Then go back to sleep
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.
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.
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.
A friend of mine was such a big Queen fan that she had to take the day off school when Freddie Mercury died.
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 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.
The late Jim Shepard would have been my recommendation, bit I might be biased.
I remember the sort-of joke when Kurt Cobain died was, "why couldn't it have been Courtney?"
As long as they aren't doing the thing a lot of millennials did, aka wear popular band shirts without any clue who the band was.
Before someone gets mad, I am a millennial. I saw this happen a lot growing up, and it was especially common with Nirvana shirts for some reason (I'm guessing hot topic stocked a lot of Nirvana shirts or something). It absolutely drove me up the wall.
Hell, in general, don't wear a shirt, badge, wristband or whatever if you don't know what it's saying; for all you know it could be secretly heiling Hitler and now you're an unwitting Nazi magnet.
Fuck… guess I’m old too. Not sure when that happened.
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?
He 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‽"
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...
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_musicThat's heavy!
"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.
I don't think I even got into Nirvana until after he died. I didn't really start getting into music until high school when I was able to buy CDs (or pirate shit) and listen to the radio stations I wanted and not what my mom wanted to. Prior to high school, I only knew Garth Brooks and fuckin' Raffi songs 😩
Then again, I very much remember seeing his MTV Unplugged set. I just can't remember if it was live at the time or just a rerun.
It's my understanding that most people really develop their musical tastes in their teenage years.
Rocky Horror was before my time.
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."
