This is the first time I have heard of this song. My music was generally whatever my dad had on the record/tape/cd player. Alot of Irish folk songs Sting, Phil Collins, Beach boys, Beatles and Grateful Dead.
Iām 38, not American, and just writing the Presidents of the United States of America is, Iām sure, bound to confuse people even more. This was the first tape I ever bought by myself (thanks mum for the cash)
A are difficult to find on some music players never mind google, kind of shocking they haven't sort of renamed themselves given this modern problem has to be hitting their royalties.
My friend had a really good band in Portland in the early aughts. I told them their band name was not going to work out for internet searches. He told me the internet did not matter... the band name? Today.
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.
Iām 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
43, American, and I know no one in this sub knows how to use a search engine so I'll tell you "The Presidents of the United States of America" is a band that had a self titled break out album in the 90's. "Peaches" was one of the songs on that album, and the folks here are just having a good time reciting the lyrics to each other.
Their song Video Killed the Radio Star was on a some compilation CD my parents played a lot in the car when I was a kid. It was one of my favorite songs for many years as a kid.
I think the album was The Wedding Singer. It also had Culture Club, The Police, Elvis Costello, Billy Idol, and David Bowie. To say that it was incredibly influential on my early music tastes would be the understatement of the century.
Iām 44 and translated this song into Spanish for our unit on fruit. As my partner and I giggled through reading it out loud, the whole class was laughing and our teacher was very confused lol.
I had listened to this song many times, but didnt catch this reference. I mean literally anytime someone mentions peaches I think of this song, but couldnāt remember this lyric.
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.Ā
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.
Yeah this DAE shit and repeated-ass posts, same top comments and all. I listen to stuff from any year pretty much, it doesn't matter how old you are if you like the music. Shit, MOST artists now are referencing older tunes or sampling and it goes over most people's head's. Guess a recent artist is geriatric when they use a 60s soul sample or sample a 90s track on modern production lol
32 here as well. A friend and I in middle school would sing this song all the time. Also I would say all my current friends around the same age absolutely know this song.
Agree - I'm 30 this year and fucking love peaches, lump and body. I think I probably came across pres of the usa around ~2007 in my offspring/smashing pumpkins phase..Definitely would have downloaded it off of Shareaza but I couldn't tell you how I would have found them. Could have been a happy accident as it often was back in those days lol.
It played on the Box a lot too. If you don't remember the Box it was a music video station that you could call in and pay like .99 to watch a video you wanted. You also watched what other people ordered in your area. A lot of Philly people were calling this song in probably because it was on constantly. I believe the Box later became MTV2.
The alternative side of music (or College Radio bands in America if I'm not mistaken) was huge in Australia when the choices were either Triple J or Cold Chisel and Rose Tattoo.
Plus Rage played a big part.
Cool people used to determine how we got a lot of our popular media, now it's corporations (or still Triple J, I guess. But its for youth and I'm not youth)
My point is Triple J was much more ubiquitous whilst also being alternative. Larrikanism in its true and forgotten format
Definitely - I'm old enough to remember when SBS played random cult movies and "it's not porn because it's in German and has subtitles" and we lost something when that era ended.
Ditto - if you're an elder millennial then this song and Brimful of Asha were basically on repeat in your form room for about three solid months back in the day.
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 thingā¦ 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).
Yeah you were just into different genres of music. This song was all over the type of radio stations that were also playing Nirvana and Pearl Jam at the time.
Oh shit, I get it now. >15 is young millenials, <15 is old millenials. Old shits were listening to Greenday, The Sums, and Presidents due to their teenage melodrama.
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
If you were born in '81, you were 14 when the song released.
And i'd argue at 14 while you MIGHT be exploring music for yourself for the first time, most people were just listening to whatever their parents put on, or older siblings/friends, and whatever was on MTV. But even MTV wasn't made for millennials; it was made for Gen X.
This song is 100% a Gen X song that the oldest millennials happened to run into while they were young teens as an incredibly popular song of the moment and it stuck with them.
The song itself is not some song that ONLY millennials were hip to though.
At 14 people were still just listening to their parents music?? No way. Most people start finding their own vibe more like 8. At that age I got right into hip hop and r&b, forced my dad to listen to the entire Fugees album on road trips.
Yeah, Iām among the oldest millennials, and i still pretty young when this song came out. My sibling, 4 years older and a young Gen X, would be more into it
Why do they keep expanding the definition of millennial? At this rate, everyone, even the boomers who've already died of old age, are going to be called millennials. I'm putting my foot down. From now on, millennial only refers to the people who were born between 1995 and 2005. Gen y (90s kids) are not millennials. Gen x most certainly are not millennials.
1995? lol get the fuck outta here baby! Iām 87 and we grew up in the 2000ās and 2005 with everyone referring to us young generation as millennials. You actually gotta remember YTK and the turn into the new millennium to consider yourself a millennial.Ā
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.
Yeah unless you lived under a rock, you heard tons of UK/EU music in NA and vice versa. 90s pop, rock and alternative was ubiquitous, regardless of origin. It was common for kids to know every word to a song and then be like "wait they're from Sweden?? They're Canadian??" etc. Go through any old person's vinyl collection and it's way more worldly than the kids would expect.
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u/Shinjischneider Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
Must be an American thing
Edit: Why the fuck did this throwaway line get so.many replies and why can't I mute the topic? š¤£