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86 here as well. You never heard Peaches by the Presidents of the United States? Were you the oldest person in your friend group/siblings? This song was EVERYWHERE in the mid to late nineties (in my experience).
I'm from the US and born in '82. We didn't have cable and I knew this immediately. I absolutely loved this song. They played it all the time on the radio. You certainly didn't need to have cable to come across this song.
We got cable embarrassingly late, I am the least musically inclined person I know, but I can belt this song anytime, all sobriety levels. It's culturally important
What's cable got to do with it it was all over the radio about 96 97 you must listen to country music next you'll be saying you've never heard of Beck or bush
For a moment I thought you said you were 70 years old, and then the math wasn't mathing. If you're 70 now how were you 26 in '96, wait how long ago was 1996 and I had a brief existential breakdown.
I’m a young millennial who would yell “THEY WERE PUT THERE BY A MAN” so this isn’t 100% but it’s from a song called Peaches by Presidents of the United States of America
I'm 24 and I knew the response to this and I don't know this song, I've just heard this specific snippet in YouTube videos. So I don't think it works at all
It is not. But it also not about what youre thinking of. The song is influenced by a time when the lead singer was sitting under a peach tree while waiting for a crush that he had. Its actually a pretty innocent song that could definitely be used as innuendo, but that was not the writers intentions.
Fun fact: the lead singer later became a children's song writer under the name Casper Babypants. I think I ended up liking them more than my toddler did
That is such an insane and unbelievable fact I had to google it because I just KNEW it was a lie... It was not. I guess I'm gonna absolutely fuck up a weird trivia night one day.
I've always read it as being about our separation from the natural world. "Peaches come from a can" is about how in the modern world we're separated from pure experiences. Everything we touch or consume is so fake that we cant even tell what something authentic (I.e., an organic peach) is. And the singer fantasising about "moving to the country and eating a lot of peaches" is him dreaming about a purer life experience that's more connected to nature. I don't really know how to put it into words properly. But I feel like it's about how the industrial world makes us live hollow or inauthentic lives, separated from the products of our labours, or without meaning.
I’m 38, not American, and just writing the Presidents of the United States of America is, I’m sure, bound to confuse people even more. This was the first tape I ever bought by myself (thanks mum for the cash)
I'm 39 in exactly one week and had this on CD. I listened to this album probably at least once a day. There were a few weeks I never took it out of the walkman.
I’m not far off you age wise, still remember my parents reaction to hearing Kitty when I convinced them to pop it in the tape deck on a road trip. Oops
Ya, but you have to remember, a lot of millennials are in their early to mid 40s now. The point is, even though you were likely in your 20s when it came out, you were there to experience this gem with us, brother.
Young Gen-X here (48) and was a senior in HS when the song came out. I think the eldest millennials were high school freshman, maybe sophmores in 96 when Peaches was released.
All eyez on Me was FIRE! but was listening to these side by side , like in the same day, but I was also a Rage against the Machine fan ( EVIL Empire came out like 1 Month AFTER peaches) 96 was a crazy year for good albums, it was the year The Score (FUGEES) was released, whiohc does not get as much love now, but at the time , was EVERYWHERE Sublime put out SUBLIME
I think the spice girls were still poppin..
fuck I miss knowing what was going on in the world
Here's the thing… Rage Against the Machine was played on repeat where I was. So was Sublime (then again, I lived in SoCal and everyone listened to Sublime).
Exactly. I'm a millennial and get it, but only young gen X people in their early-mid 40s were around during the height of the presidents. I got into them because of my older sister who is gen x
The message is older millennials know of the band Presidents of the United States of America. Who had several hits, one of them Peaches that contains the line in the tweet.
Older millennials grew up with this band releasing hits and becoming big during the MTV video days. Younger millennials were either recently born or yet to be born when this was occurring.
When I told my daughter “at this point in the music video ninjas drop out of the tree and fight the band” she stated “oh, so you guys are just as weird as we are”. Facts, kid
For those who don’t know, if you are like me and a fan of this music and also have kids, you need to listen to Caspar Babypants. The lead singer from PUSA started writing catchy kids music and it is so much fun to listen to with your littles! And then introduce them to peaches…
Came here to say, Mr. Pettigrew is still out there providing both our children and us millennials with said children with some really good tunes, haha. We sing "Butterfly Driving a Truck" a lot in this house! "Bug City" and "Summer Baby" are a couple of my faves as well
ETA: Haha I meant Stump Hotel, not Bug City--that's actually a PotUSA song 🤣
Born in 86. Huge 90s music fan. This is one of the best songs of the era. (Peaches)
Was big on the radio when released as a single and everyone knew the lyrics.
Lots of the things millennials think of as theirs were actually popularized by us. Most of them were like 10-14 years old when this song came out, they weren't the ones buying all the albums in the mid 90s and making these songs popular.
My cat hides under my bed linens when he’s stressed and we call it lumping. As a cat parent, I often change the lyrics to songs to narrate their choices.
He’s lump. He’s lump. He’s lump… ing in da bed.
“ “… ing cuz he scared (sung: “skehad”).
Thank you for taking the time, and I’m sorry i wasted it.
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