So, funny story, but I did almost exactly this. Highschool me came home super excited about this new band I heard called Black Sabbath. Dad started pulling out vinyl.
And then you instantly lost interest?
No, not at all. We listened to Sabbath, and Budgie, and King Crimson, and Rainbow. Dad’s record collection was pretty epic.
Now you, not sure about. Your dad, we could hang. /s
Just keep laughing, holding those tears in your eyes, because boys don’t cry…
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If this ever happens to you, it’s important that you act clueless and wary.
As a kid I thought AC/DC was a relatively unknown band based on the fact that only one or two of my classmates had heard of them.
Honestly, this is a tale as old as time.
Back in the 90s, I remember the one and only time a teacher ever “embarrassed” the son of the richest family in town. He was one of those kids that thought he was God’s gift to the Earth, and pretty much every adult in the school system treated him as such.
Then one day he was loudly raving about “this new band called AC/DC” and the 6th grade teacher had an absolute blast telling everybody how hilarious that statement was.
For those not in the know, AC/DC was incredibly famous, basically a household name, and had been so for literally decades at that point. And this kid acted like they were brand new up and coming band that nobody had ever heard of before.
Anyway, I had no empathy. He was a shithead bully of the worst kind, so I’m sure that one time he got made fun of really stung and he fucking deserved it.
I don’t get it. Young people are listening to our music it is odd.
Because there hasn’t been an alt-mainstream since the rise of the internet.
Mainstream did survive (e.g. Taylor Swift), but apart from that there hasn’t been any of these huge not-quite-mainstream bands for people who don’t want to listen to mainstream.
In the 70s, if you didn’t want to listen to mainstream pop, you’d listen to one of the handful non-main-mainstream bands your small record store had in stock. That was e.g. AC/DC, Metallica, Deep Purple, that kind of stuff.
But since the rise of the internet, MP3, Spotify and all that, people really have choice. If you want to, you can listen to an obscure little band producing professional quality music from a bedroom somewhere in the mountains of Bolivia. That means, if you don’t want mainstream, there’s a lot of really-not-mainstream easily accessible, and thus there’s not a lot of non-main-mainstream bands that a lot of people actually know.
That’s why all the old stuff gets recycled endlessly. Because it’s recognizable.
I don’t agree that there isn’t an alt-mainstream. Wouldn’t stuff like Magdelena Bay, Japanese Breakfast, 100 gecs, Ghost, and Sleep Token qualify? Stuff that you’ll find on the album charts or the genre charts, but not in the top 40?
That’s the thing: Even in the 80s and 90s everyone has heard of Metallica or ACDC.
I might not be the measure of things, but I have never heard of any of the bands you referenced.
You’ve never heard of Ghost?
Treat yourself.
People, stop ruining music! Tell your kids you’ve never heard of AC/DC but they have got to hear this band called Nickelback. If they respond “you don’t know good music” then your job is done and they think AC/DC is amazing.
Yeah but who is a snob about AC/DC? Lol
I’m just ragging but I hate cork sniffers
Yeah it kinda works if the kids correctly think you’re awful
Now you fucked up your family and manipulated them into liking ac/dc. Where is the win?
