I shouldn't be surprised because these kind of changes are always happening, but the earth is always moving under our feet and some people accept this quicker than others. Maybe some people were like "Elvis is still important, why don't people care about him anymore?" in like 1991 and really didn't get it.
When I started boarding on somb, it was common knowledge that the Greatest Bands were the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd...and the Ramones and the Clash. And it always felt like status of those last two bands would only continue to grow and eventually overshadow those others that came before them, but I can't be alone in the feeling that our culture, even the music-obsessive sliver of it, has just decided to forget about them?
There's this idea that punk only thrives in oppressive environments but its legacy during the eight years of GW was not much more than this and this (or I'm forgetting something but it had better be at least as big a deal as either of those) and those were the years that everyone who was woke decided to celebrate poptimism, discover dance music, trash conscious hip-hop and celebrate the sound and culture of rap that was about...some other stuff.
People don't even listen to Wire anymore, do they? Talking Heads are cool insofar as they were pioneering electronic beats and African rhythms.
I played guitar for 2 years in high school and could never muster the coordination to play more than like 3 Buzzcocks songs. For most of us, playing instruments is really hard and I guess I can see why nobody who didn't come up through school band and piano lessons when they were really young would even want to try. You can work hard at it and put your ass on the line and it seems like we're in a world where either nobody will care or you'll get called out for trying too hard.
This was a low-effort post but there might be more to come.
When I started boarding on somb, it was common knowledge that the Greatest Bands were the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd...and the Ramones and the Clash. And it always felt like status of those last two bands would only continue to grow and eventually overshadow those others that came before them, but I can't be alone in the feeling that our culture, even the music-obsessive sliver of it, has just decided to forget about them?
There's this idea that punk only thrives in oppressive environments but its legacy during the eight years of GW was not much more than this and this (or I'm forgetting something but it had better be at least as big a deal as either of those) and those were the years that everyone who was woke decided to celebrate poptimism, discover dance music, trash conscious hip-hop and celebrate the sound and culture of rap that was about...some other stuff.
People don't even listen to Wire anymore, do they? Talking Heads are cool insofar as they were pioneering electronic beats and African rhythms.
I played guitar for 2 years in high school and could never muster the coordination to play more than like 3 Buzzcocks songs. For most of us, playing instruments is really hard and I guess I can see why nobody who didn't come up through school band and piano lessons when they were really young would even want to try. You can work hard at it and put your ass on the line and it seems like we're in a world where either nobody will care or you'll get called out for trying too hard.
This was a low-effort post but there might be more to come.