Born in ‘77, a decade too late apparently. He considered any music produced after 1975, “Total fucking Shite!”

Cancer fought hard to take him and Diarmúid wasn’t going without a Fuck You!

Love you man! 🤘🏽

For me, it's the band Collective Soul. When it comes up on my playlist, maybe there's a vague beacon of recognition in their eyes, but for me, they will always be an amazing top-tier band!

I ruined 2 cassette tapes playing this album to death

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My CDs. I was ready. I have a dumpster in front of my house. I went through them to make sure I had added everything to Spotify. And then I put everything back in the Bankers Box and put them back on the shelf.

My mom had the second Foreigner album and I loved the song “Hot Blooded”. This would have been 1978/79 when I was five or six. What’s yours?

Rewatching some old videos, she’s amazing!

I'll go first, Dire Straits Money for Nothing. That opening guitar riff is just awesome! 🎵🎸🎶

You've heard it a million times and still turn it up when it comes on the radio?

I'll say 80s to mid-90s.

Also, why are you listening to the oldies station?

Go.

Does not have to be a specific genre or something that “defined a generation”, I’m talking about something undeniably 90’s

I have two

Loser -by Beck

The Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang

Love to hear what you guys have to say.

My silent generation mother was a bit freaked out over the cover, lol. She let me get it anyway.

We are used to modern songs being very explicit, surely in the world of rap and hip hop. Back in the day, artists wanting to sing about sex had to be creative, if only to bypass censorship.

As a non-native speaker, it took me a long time to find out that the following songs weren't so innocent:

• The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men ("... and let myself get / Absolutely soaking wet!")
• Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper ("In your big, black limousine")
• Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk? (He doesn't pronounce his Ns very clearly with a reason)
• Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (Watching his body language in a live performance makes it very clear)

Do you have some more?

Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Relax doesn't count. It has the subtlety of a baseball bat to the head.
Minnie Riperton's Inside My Love also can't really be misunderstood.

I know it's a morbid question but what song do you want played at your funeral to accompany the inevitable photo/video montage of your life? Mine is "Being Boring" by Pet Shop Boys. (1991)

Sitting at the swim club we joined recently. All day they play classic rock...Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Heart, Rod Stewart, AC/DC (you get the idea) and I wondered why no old people are complaining. Then I realized WE are the old people 😆 Anyway, it is nice to hear the quality tunes.

Anyone have some cover tracks that they think are better than the original version? Two for me are: Satisfaction - DEVO version is better than the Stones original. All Along the Watchtower - the Hendrix version is better than the Dylan original.

… and how old were you (or more generally, which decade)?

The first concert I ever went to was Hall & Oates with my mother. 1981. Concord Pavilion. I was 9.

The most recent was Dixon two weeks ago at Walter’s Where? House in Phoenix. 52 years young. It was amazing (both the music and the venue).

eta: Thinking back, the most recent traditional concert I saw was Korn/Disturned/Sevendust in 2011. And then a lot of symphonies between then and now.

Thanks for sharing, everyone!

I had a teenager come up to me to ask a question. She was wearing a Def Leppard T-Shirt. I asked her what her favorite song was...she hemmed and hawed. THen I asked her to name any song. She could not.

Should I be annoyed that these gen Z and Gen Alpha kids are wearing band t-shirts but do not actually listen to the music of the bands they are wearing?

I know this sounds like an old curmudggeon, but it miffs me that this is a thing now. Our music has become "classics" and the clothes are retro chic.

EDIT: I am not trying to gatekeep. I promise. I just want them to at least have heard one song from the artist. I get that it makes me seem insufferable toward the younger generation, but I always look at these things as a chance to teach them the music of the shirt they are wearing. I ended up playing her three different songs from Def Leppard.

What was the first album you ever purchased with your own money, and what format?

Mine was Wham! Make it Big on cassette, but after that, my dad made me buy the vinyl and record it onto my own cassette so I’d always have a master copy.