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.

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.

Cite not the deep lore to me, I was there when it was first recorded on LP.

Hey, you heard of this of this new guy, Sinatra? Music is slow and sad, really fits the mood.

you are now so old that south park seems mild, yet its silly cartoons continue to annoy the president and his sycophants.

is this what you want for the youths? an economnomic model based on collecting underpants!? Step 2 is just A QUESTION MARK?

Just keep laughing, holding those tears in your eyes, because boys don’t cry…

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.

Had this happen with my teenage nephew. He was talking about how’s really getting into this band that I’ve probably never heard of called Deftones. He seemed really disappointed when I showed him a high school picture of myself circa 1999 wearing a Deftones t shirt.

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.

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

Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.

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.’

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 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.