Right?!? I’m 53. My first concert was a Grateful Dead show, and the last big one was Fallout Boy, Green Day, & Weezer. In between? So many… Bowie, Laurie Anderson, the first Lollapalooza, Arlo Guthrie, so many local bands, Ziggy Marley, Journey, Jefferson Airplane… people can like lots of things!
But yeah, the list is long and varied here too. NIN, Lisa Loeb, Ministry, OK Go, The Shamen, Lionel Richie, Billy Joel, Front 242, Anything Box, Steve Miller, Judas Priest, Pet Shop Boys, BEF, VNV Nation, Assemblage 23… it’s hard to pick a genre I haven’t been to a concert for.
It’s just wild to pretend otherwise! “No true Nirvana fan would like Stone Temple Pilots” is also not true, but I would at least understand the point they were making.
In the garage
I feel safe
No one cares about [whatever other bands I might be listening to]
In the garage
Where I belong
No one [polices my music tastes]
In the garage
i yearn, i say YEARN to call one another posers, and have our biggest problem in life be which friend's parents were going to drive us all to that VFW hall 40 mins away for the $7 punk rock show with 15 bands on the flyer
I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I have to reply to this idiot - Blue Album came out a month after Kurt died, but I heard Dave, last year, *raving* about Pinkerton and how great it is.
Probably much later. I recently saw that people are STILL playing ‘real fan vs poser’ on Reddit. In the real world, fans of alternative rock stopped having these dumb arguments with each other by 1995-96.
Yes, this stuff was so overwhelmingly popular among people 10-25 (or whatever) that even if you didn’t like all of it, you were probably familiar with most of it.
These bands were all on the mainstream radio at the same time. To me they are all the same genre, “90s alternative radio.” And I loved them all! Also an emphatic thumbs down to musical gatekeepers. Listen to what you love.
Came here to say this. Also, they’re probably not of the time either. Those bands were always in the same radio rotation. People always had those albums together.
Cute it roughly translates from German to English to something like little rascal. Not German myself, I only know a handful of words in German. I just really like the word schnickelfritz it’s a lot of fun to say.
It is. I used to think it was just a word she had made up, but later actually looked it up, and there ya have it. She was of Dutch/German descent. I've just never heard anyone else use it. All that to say, your fun li'l user name gave me a flood of good memories on a cloudy morning, so thank you.🥰
Weezer's blue album debuted when I worked at the record store, and honestly it was a very unifying album.
Punks liked it, hippies liked it, shoegaze girls liked it. Our assistant manager who was EXACTLY LIKE the character Dick in High Fidelity, he really liked Weezer too.
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But Weezer?!?
so rando is wrongo
Oh you liked 2 bands who were popular at the same time in the same genre? What a poser
https://www.91x.com/top-91/top-91-1994/
[chuds] HOW DARE YOU, SIR!,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1984
Also, I was in junior high like "I mean, I still like Warrant tho"
I feel safe
No one cares about [whatever other bands I might be listening to]
In the garage
Where I belong
No one [polices my music tastes]
In the garage
🥲🥲🥲
name albums
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
: )
Fun fact: there is a conspiracy theory that Kurt Cobain faked his death and reinvented himself as Rivers Cuomo...
Punks liked it, hippies liked it, shoegaze girls liked it. Our assistant manager who was EXACTLY LIKE the character Dick in High Fidelity, he really liked Weezer too.
If you have eclectic taste that seems like you're more authentic not less
A gatekeeper seems the more likely poser because they are denying good art to fit an image of what is correct
this relates to one of my takes: a lot of ppl into music don’t actually like music