Poll of the Day > Why are 30 year olds getting triggered about teenagers not knowing who...

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I didn't know who was until late 90s... I'm 39 by the way.
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

It's not like the thing is unheard of...for the majority of Bon Jovi's "Glory days" , Alec John Such was the credited bassist, because he looked the big hair pretty boy part, but the real guy in the studio and actually playing on tour from the shadows backstage was Hugh McDonald. A session musician born in '51 that obviously didn't fit the bill in the 80's.

Man, I wish he had used someone like that at my concert, I totally believe he did sometime afterwards (Think he did like 2 more come back tours lol) because it was seriously bad.

I wish I had seen him earlier, maybe he was always that bad live? I don't know....but yeah, it's been too long for me to remember specifics but I think people actually left during the concert.

Also, I get that they were basically a boy band, but....yeah, still seems.....wrong...to classify the beatles as such. I mean they did have the whole teenage girls going crazy over them etc, but I wouldn't even consider putting them in the same genre/class as say NYSNC or Boyz2men or whatever other crappy (Serioulsy I have never listed to boy bands) boy bands are/were out there.

I mean, generation after generation of people know and love their music...it's not just that they were the first of anything, much of their music was just that good, or resonated with people or something.

*shrug*

I just can't put the beatles in any box other then Iconic I guess.
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

The Kinks sometimes get mentioned.

I can't imagine why since everything they did was pretty derivative of everything else around them and radio-friendly.
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wolfy42 posted...

Also, I get that they were basically a boy band, but....yeah, still seems.....wrong...to classify the beatles as such. I mean they did have the whole teenage girls going crazy over them etc, but I wouldn't even consider putting them in the same genre/class as say NYSNC or Boyz2men or whatever other crappy (Serioulsy I have never listed to boy bands) boy bands are/were out there.

I mean, generation after generation of people know and love their music...it's not just that they were the first of anything, much of their music was just that good, or resonated with people or something.

*shrug*

I just can't put the beatles in any box other then Iconic I guess.

Pre-Help and Revolver, total manufactured boy band. Once they discovered acid and got way more creative control, definitely iconic. Long hair and nehru jackets, yeah. Mop tops, black suits and "Beatle boots"...not so much.
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I get that metal isn't for everyone, but as it's been said.. practically every metal band was influenced by Black Sabbth in some way. (Unless you count Hair Metal, that's a perversion of Van Halen) Popularity of course also doesn't equal influential (the Beatles were both popular AND influential) Look at Velvet Underground. Did they sell a ton of albums? No, but they influenced a lot of bands. Anyway, Sabbath have sold like 70 million albums world wide, and Ozzy (when you add his Sabbath stuff to his solo stuff) has sold over 100 million albums, so he's had a hell of a career

DeathMagnetic80 posted...

(Unless you count Hair Metal, that's a perversion of Van Halen

I think you misspelled KISS and Bowie...and Mtley Cre...
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

I think you misspelled KISS and Bowie...and Mtley Cre...

Depends on the band. Poison was definitely Van Halen light

Meh. works both ways I guess. I saw the meme.

I haven't a clue who Post Malone is and I can't be bothered to look it up.

CTLM posted...

I can't believe 30 year olds didn't know him. They would have been right in that age group to watch his show when it was on MTV, and their parents would have still listened to his music

Agree. If you lived in America you probably at least heard of The Osborne's. Especially if your in your 30s.
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Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

CTLM posted...

I can't believe 30 year olds didn't know him. They would have been right in that age group to watch his show when it was on MTV, and their parents would have still listened to his music

Agree. If you lived in America you probably at least heard of The Osborne's. Especially if your in your 30s.

Yeah especially if you still listen to the radio. Music that was big when I was a teen often gets lumped in with the "classics" on stations that play that sorta music hear ozzy all the time along with a lot of 80s rock.
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PSA: TC said 30 year olds were getting triggered by teenagers not knowing, not that 30 year olds don't know.
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My real question is how does David Coverdale start with Deep Purple and end up at Whitesnake?
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WhiskeyDisk posted...

My real question is how does David Coverdale start with Deep Purple and end up at Whitesnake?

If you listen to the old Whitesnake albums they were more in line with Deep Purple until taking a more commercial approach on the 80s

It's more fun when kids complain that adults don't know about the latest pointless fad corporate America is trying to generate false profits with. If you own anything from "Supreme", you're a part of the problem.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

It's more fun when kids complain that adults don't know about the latest pointless fad corporate America is trying to generate false profits with. If you own anything from "Supreme", you're a part of the problem.

'eyyyy! mr. purgatory himself is back! how you been?
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To be fair, if it weren't for the TV show "the Osbournes," I wouldn't have heard of Ozzy Osbourne until college.
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