I. Hate. These. Videos.

[The Curmudgeon]

I'm not sure if any of you have seen these videos, but they do the rounds on Facebook a lot, where young, stupid kids try to use the technology we grew up with hilarious consequences. LOL, they don't know how to put a cartridge into a Gameboy. ROFL, they don't know how to rewind a cassette tape. Fucking LMAO, look at them trying to play a SNES. Oh, we're sooooo old.

Ahem.

You get the idea.

This time though, the kids are older, I'd say 13-15 years old, and they're hearing 90's music for the very first time.

Little 6 year olds not sure how to put a cassette into a Walkman? Fair enough, it's old tech they've never used. But this mentality fucking infuriates me. Oh, music made before I was born, HOW COULD I POSSIBLY KNOW WHAT THAT IS? And trust me kids, if you're entire musical knowledge is based on the shit that's out now? How fucking cheated are you being right now?

I used to hear it a lot ("oh, it's before your time") and it used to piss me off. When I was the same age as these little fuckers I was into Prince, Sly and the Family Stone and Nirvana. I bought "Never Mind the Bollocks" and "Pet Sounds" when I was 15. Obviously I was into stuff that was actually around at the time, but how old it was never bothered me, it didn't even register.

And that was before the internet, when you actually had to read magazines like NME and Q to find out about older bands, to read the liner notes on albums to find out maybe who influenced the band or what other bands were thanked, going to gigs and finding support groups that stole the show.

Now? Kids have access to almost every song ever written on their fucking phones. So that "oh, it was before my time" bullshit infuriates me. OK, not knowing who sung MmmBop or All the Small Things isn't a crime, but will-full, casual shoulder shrugging ignorance sure is.

Gaaaah.

[trashcanman]

Why is he singing Blink 182 with a bad British accent?

"This is what I picture every 90s girl looks like".


The look of sheer confusion when Alice in Chains comes on. Sad.

I totally forgot the Verve's name. Nothing is as bad as "Rolling Stones/Coldplay: same thing" though.

Hanson commentary was priceless. I'll give the brats that.

[The Curmudgeon]

I got Mrs C to watch this and the "oh, Rolling Stones. Coldplay, same thing" comment got her to look up and ask "will you miss this phone if I break it in half?"

So were the Verve a thing in America? The album "Urban Hymns" that it came from was huge over here.

[trashcanman]

The Verve were the very definition of a one hit wonder in America. And since their one hit apparently had its music lifted straight from the Stones, I have no idea what they even sound like. I know the Coldplay comment was an off the cuff remark meant to be ironic and silly, but some things you just don't joke about. That was -as the kids say- "cringe".

And whoops, one of my lines (regarding their reaction to AiC) in my first response got covered over by the gif somehow. Fixed.

[The Curmudgeon]

The only song I'd never heard was that terrible "Pony" song that was on the Magic Mike soundtrack. A quick search shows it was a fairly minor hit in the UK before disappearing, so that explains why I'd never heard it. But yeah, no love for Alice in Chains from the young 'uns, and Mrs C didn't know it either. She was like "Oh.. right, yeah I wouldn't have known that." In her defence AiC didn't really set the UK alight, so I'll let her off.

The Verve were never really my thing either. I didn't mind some of their songs, but.. eh. And their fanbase was entirely made of Oasis fans. Ya know - pricks.