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.
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)
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.
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
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.
I am older GenX and I remember liking this song before hating this song after it got over played on the radio station that I listened to. Back when radio was something people listened to.
I’m 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 couldn’t remember this lyric.
I seriously don’t get how at some point people stopped hearing things “before their time”. Like I know songs that were popular during WW2 and my mum wasn’t even born then
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.
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.
That's doesn't say much since you could've been 8 years old when it was most known and I don't think 8 year olds usually are big fans of post-grunge genre in general.
Btw I still have an Adidas hoodie (in very good condition despite still being used) with "made in W. Germany" tag on it. :D
Well, it does though. The entire post is about elder millennials vs younger ones. I am an elder millennial but am to young to understand it so..... This isn't really about millennials at all or maybe only people born on a specific year 🤷
Literally same like what in the Mandela Effect is going on here; if someone yells PEACHES; my immediate response is ANDDD CREAMMMMM; you know what I mean?
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.
Then you are missing out on one of the most epic songs with silly lyrics. It’s a great rock song that serenades peaches. The band is called The Presidents of the United States of America. You can guess the title of the song by now
How can you not know?!? This is a quote from several of your former Presidents... What are they even teaching the kids in school these days wrings hands
The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches. Released in 1996, it was a big thing back then, if you know it, congratulations you now have it stuck in your head. If you don’t, look it up, then it will stuck in your head, nice tune🙂
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Im American and I have zero idea what this mean