Do modern teens know 90's music? (vid)

[t_smitts]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1a4gmuCiqU

(If anyone knows how to embed the clip, I'd appreciate it).

I love this series and loved their reactions. I haven't heard some of these in years.

They've also had other vids where teens react to the music of Nirvana, watch "Saved by the Bell", or play Mario and Punch Out on the 8-Bit NES!

If you can overlook how old this makes anyone born in the mid 80's or earlier feel, check it out.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Not if they have any sense.

 

[t_smitts]

Not if they have any sense.

Them's fightin' words!

 

[Kor]

I think the 90s was the last decade of good rock music.

Kor

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The local high school radio station here plays nothing but songs from the last few years and 80's tunes. Going to work the other day they played Train followed by "I Would Die 4 U" by Prince.

 

[RoJoHen]

The 90s was a unique era of music, and I think you had to be the right age at the time to really appreciate it. If your post-school routine did not include rushing home to catch Total Request Live on MTV, you will probably never love 90s music the way that I do.

 

[MacLeod]

Go forward another 10 years and ask kids about the music of the noughties and you'd get a similar reaction. Our music taste can be largely influenced about the era in which we grew up in.

 

[Pingfah]

Green Day are surprisingly well known among teenagers. And along with Tool are the only two tracks on that list I think of when I think 90s. I definitely agree it was the last decade of amazing rock music, as it stands. And that's not an old fogey thing, I like modern rock bands, there's just not many of them doing very well.

I hope for that to change though.

 

[USS Triumphant]

The 90s was a unique era of music, and I think you had to be the right age at the time to really appreciate it. If your post-school routine did not include rushing home to catch Total Request Live on MTV, you will probably never love 90s music the way that I do.

(I graduated high school in '93.) Yeah... so... I HATED TRL, because I'm a purist and I hated the way they cut the music up and talked over it. But I love a LOT of 90s music - including pop, and I'm a Top 40 archivist. No snobbery here, ever. I still listen to Jagged Little Pill, Ace of Base, and even Achy Breaky Heart - WITH PRIDE.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

The other day, I was watching 24 Hour Party People. It's one of my favorite films, and it involves some of my favorite music ever. During the commentary, actor and comedian Steve Coogan shares a story about how he talked to the actress playing Sousie Sioux. She looked perfect. Was she a fan? No, she had never heard of Sousie and the Banshees before taking the job. He said he realized that punk was now just old people music.

It reminded me of a few years ago when I was visiting friends and one of my friends had a teenage nephew now old enough to play guitar and start a band. She tried to get him to listen to The Pixies, but he didn't really get it. It's not ground breaking or different or underground any more. It's just old people music.

 

[Taylirious]

The 90s was a unique era of music, and I think you had to be the right age at the time to really appreciate it. If your post-school routine did not include rushing home to catch Total Request Live on MTV, you will probably never love 90s music the way that I do.

When I think of TRL I think of Britney Spears & Eminem.

 

[EnriqueH]

I graduated high school in 1994, and can't stand much of the music from the era. It all brings bad memories.

I especially can't stand all that grunge shit that I listened to in my first year of college.

I had it right the first time I got into rock music in the mid to late 80s. Bands like Motley Crue, Van Halen, Cinderella, AC/DC. Those bands had it right: it was about parties and fun.

Then Kurt Cobain shows up with all his angst like a splash of cold water, seething, determined to party poop all the 80s joy. And all that disgusting grunge stuff just killed rock music.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

^^
Applause!

I was in highschool in the late 90's, and that was actually when I first started to listen to music as I finally had a car and that's what I did while driving. I never really listened to music before that, it was never a big part of my life, but I "discovered" how great the music was in the 70's and 80's and couldn't understand how everybody else I knew was so into what was contemporary when it wasn't that good at all.

 

[JoeZhang]

The other day, I was watching 24 Hour Party People. It's one of my favorite films, and it involves some of my favorite music ever. During the commentary, actor and comedian Steve Coogan shares a story about how he talked to the actress playing Sousie Sioux. She looked perfect. Was she a fan? No, she had never heard of Sousie and the Banshees before taking the job. He said he realized that punk was now just old people music.

It reminded me of a few years ago when I was visiting friends and one of my friends had a teenage nephew now old enough to play guitar and start a band. She tried to get him to listen to The Pixies, but he didn't really get it. It's not ground breaking or different or underground any more. It's just old people music.

I feel the way even though I'm 39 and in theory this was my era - well it was twenty years ago but I now live in 2015, I'd rather listen to whatever is out now that live in some fictional reconstruction of the past in my mind. I react the same way when people say "School were the best times" - my school life was absolutely fine but I never think about it or hanker for it and would be a pretty shitty life if that was as good as it gets.

 

[Gov Kodos]

The other day, I was watching 24 Hour Party People. It's one of my favorite films, and it involves some of my favorite music ever. During the commentary, actor and comedian Steve Coogan shares a story about how he talked to the actress playing Sousie Sioux. She looked perfect. Was she a fan? No, she had never heard of Sousie and the Banshees before taking the job. He said he realized that punk was now just old people music.

It reminded me of a few years ago when I was visiting friends and one of my friends had a teenage nephew now old enough to play guitar and start a band. She tried to get him to listen to The Pixies, but he didn't really get it. It's not ground breaking or different or underground any more. It's just old people music.

I feel the way even though I'm 39 and in theory this was my era - well it was twenty years ago but I now live in 2015, I'd rather listen to whatever is out now that live in some fictional reconstruction of the past in my mind. I react the same way when people say "School were the best times" - my school life was absolutely fine but I never think about it or hanker for it and would be a pretty shitty life if that was as good as it gets.

Sousie and the Banshees, I hadn't thought of them since the 80s. No great need to listen to them again, except for nostalgia. Pop music moves along, there will likely be a resurgence in 90s music in 10 or so years when that decades teens are reaching their midlife crises much as every other generation does. Sure, a few bands will be stand out for some time, but even they will be largely forgotten in the long run except for folks who crave the history of music and the era. Sic transit gloria mundi.

 

[MacLeod]

The other day, I was watching 24 Hour Party People. It's one of my favorite films, and it involves some of my favorite music ever. During the commentary, actor and comedian Steve Coogan shares a story about how he talked to the actress playing Sousie Sioux. She looked perfect. Was she a fan? No, she had never heard of Sousie and the Banshees before taking the job. He said he realized that punk was now just old people music.

It reminded me of a few years ago when I was visiting friends and one of my friends had a teenage nephew now old enough to play guitar and start a band. She tried to get him to listen to The Pixies, but he didn't really get it. It's not ground breaking or different or underground any more. It's just old people music.

I feel the way even though I'm 39 and in theory this was my era - well it was twenty years ago but I now live in 2015, I'd rather listen to whatever is out now that live in some fictional reconstruction of the past in my mind. I react the same way when people say "School were the best times" - my school life was absolutely fine but I never think about it or hanker for it and would be a pretty shitty life if that was as good as it gets.

My music taste is a bit eclectic, if I like a song I like song doesn't matter what era or genre it's from. Sure there are genre's that I prefer than others.

 

[Timewalker]

I recognized a grand total of one of those songs, and only because it's the music used in an e-card by Camilla (she's a smiley artist who also designs e-cards and sets them to music).

 

[JoeZhang]

there will likely be a resurgence in 90s music in 10 or so years when that decades teens are reaching their midlife crises much as every other generation does.

It's already here (well in the UK at least) both in EDM and 90s bands reforming and touring - as for mid-life crisis, it's a myth but that's for another thread..

 

[scotpens]

Go forward another 10 years and ask kids about the music of the noughties and you'd get a similar reaction. Our music taste can be largely influenced about the era in which we grew up in.

Indeed. I think everyone eventually reaches an age where it seems all the new music sucks.

 

[Magellan]

Yup, and that age is about 30 usually. I'm already pretty much there. It's not that I hate all new music but I don't bother seeking it out anymore. If I hear it, I hear it but if I'm going to actively put something on it wil be something familiar.

That said, the 90s were my decade and I'm supposed to be all nostalgic for the music. I do feel a bit of that, but I still don't think the 90's can touch the 80's for awesome music.