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Teenagers and 90s music

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mamaduckbone · 21/12/2022 10:08

So, ds13 is playing me his latest playlist, which is full of Oasis, Nirvana, the Pixies, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

It just occurred to me that this is the equivalent of me listening to Jimi Hendrix and The Doors when I was his age.

God I feel old.

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PeekAtYou · 21/12/2022 10:11

My teen is loving the 90s too. He was impressed that I grew up with music from Tupac and Dr Dre.

Daydreamer22 · 21/12/2022 10:15

It’s crazy I remember my dad listening to music from the 60s when I was a teen in the 90s and it seemed like so long ago… my 90s music is now the same time ago. I love that kids can explore music from all decades it’s probably a lot easier with the internet!

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mamaduckbone · 21/12/2022 10:17

Mine have dad 90s music (hip hop) and mum 90s music (indie/rock)!

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plipplopplonk · 21/12/2022 10:18

My teen is a huge fan of the 80s and 90s. We have some epic kitchen discos where I feel like a teenager all over again

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mamaduckbone · 21/12/2022 10:19

Daydreamer22 · 21/12/2022 10:15

It’s crazy I remember my dad listening to music from the 60s when I was a teen in the 90s and it seemed like so long ago… my 90s music is now the same time ago. I love that kids can explore music from all decades it’s probably a lot easier with the internet!

But the 90s was only 5 minutes ago, right?

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TitaniasAss · 21/12/2022 10:20

My DD is 16 and all she listens to is EHCP, Nirvana, Green Day etc. Been like this for a couple of years.

I was a teen in the 80s and used to listen to the Beatles and the Stones so I don't suppose it's any different.

Brefugee · 21/12/2022 10:21

It just occurred to me that this is the equivalent of me listening to Jimi Hendrix and The Doors when I was his age.

I've always listened to a wide variety of music. I was a teenager in the 70s/80s and i listened to modern music, the music of my parents' generation and the music of the older siblings of my friends.

I was talking to an 11 year old at the weekend who said "i love old music, Nirvana are my favourites" - i persuaded her to give Pearl Jam and the Pixies another go. In turn we got onto Bring Me the Horizon who i like, and she was astounded that "old people like them".

My DCs often rifle through our vinyl, and have taken a fair few of our (original, and they are to be returned on pain of death) Led Zeppelin vinyls, alongside Culture Club and Nena. It's great fun.

Singleandproud · 21/12/2022 10:22

Yep the fact that I can rap along to Snoop, Dr dre and Eminem astounded DD, I'm very mumsy and look like Miss Honey lol.

DD is into my 00s music and loves Blink 182, Green Day and Bowling for Soup. However unlike teens of yesteryear whose parents would bellow at them to 'turn down that noise' she listens to then considerately on her headphones and I have to ask her to play them out loud.

Snoopsnoggysnog · 21/12/2022 10:28

My tweens too. They discover so much through tiktok! at their age I would look through my dad’s vinyl and borrow CDs and cassettes of old music from the library

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mamaduckbone · 21/12/2022 10:28

We went to a family wedding a couple of years ago where all the twenty-somethings were astonished that we were dancing to 90s drum and bass and kept asking how we knew the songs...that's OUR music thank you very muchGrin

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Carolservicedeprived · 21/12/2022 10:35

Slightly off topic but my 16 year old asked for a cassette player for Xmas, apparently cassettes are now cool 😂 her fave band have issued a casette special edition album 🤷

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mamaduckbone · 21/12/2022 10:39

Will this mean the return of the mixtape @Carolservicedeprived?
(I feel carol service deprived too...pre-Christmas isn't as much fun with teenagers even if I am enjoying their music)

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mamaduckbone · 21/12/2022 10:42

Snoopsnoggysnog · 21/12/2022 10:28

My tweens too. They discover so much through tiktok! at their age I would look through my dad’s vinyl and borrow CDs and cassettes of old music from the library

The Spotify/TikTok age definitely helps with exploring different genres, although Dh also has a ridiculous vinyl collection with everything from his dad's Steely Dan and Fleetwood Mac via a whole tonne of 90s hip-hop and dance music to 70s funk and soul so there's plenty of rooting to do there as well.

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Singleandproud · 21/12/2022 10:43

@Carolservicedeprived DD asked for a cassette player for her birthday after seeing Guardians of the Galaxy, modern ones had terrible reviews so I went with CDs instead which are almost as archaic to her. MTV Pop Rock Hits lives in our car CD player.

Singleandproud · 21/12/2022 10:45

For similar nostalgia reasons I'd recommend the FBE channel react videos on YouTube. Different generations react to different things, my favourite one was the advert for the Internet and one for Blockbuster, DD was astounded you couldn't just live stream things and went to a physical shop.

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Carolservicedeprived · 21/12/2022 10:47

@mamaduckbone maybe! I could embarrass her by bringing out the smoochy mix tapes me and DH made for each other back in the day!

She asked for this special edition cassette and I pointed out we don't own a casette player so she added that to the list lol.

DaftyInTheMiddle · 21/12/2022 10:53

mamaduckbone · 21/12/2022 10:19

But the 90s was only 5 minutes ago, right?

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10 .. no 20 years…. Wait 30 years go. Now I’m sad.

Everydaywheniwakeup · 21/12/2022 10:59

Carolservicedeprived · 21/12/2022 10:35

Slightly off topic but my 16 year old asked for a cassette player for Xmas, apparently cassettes are now cool 😂 her fave band have issued a casette special edition album 🤷

@Carolservicedeprived to create mix tapes, I found someone on Etsy a few years ago who will load your Spotify playlist onto a tape.

ThanksAntsThants · 21/12/2022 11:18

My mid teen loves The Beatles, The Cure, OMD, The Specials, Oasis, RHCP. He can’t be doing with nowadays pop music, says it’s all Shyt.

Dacadactyl · 21/12/2022 11:21

My daughter is the same. She's 15 and is big into The Smiths, Fleetwood Mac and The Rolling Stones too?!

GasPanic · 21/12/2022 11:32

I like a lot of modern and older music.

I do feel that pop music today lacks a kind of "popularisation focus" that it had in the past.

TV programs like Top of the Pops and listening to the radio charts on Saturday were pretty popular amongst teens and promoting the idea of what popular music was and what was selling. Now the concept of having a number 1 and a pop chart seems a lot more nebulous and various mysterious disjointed stuff promoting pop music seems to happen via the internet.

Or maybe I'm just out of touch.

PlaitBilledDuckyPuss · 21/12/2022 12:20

Proof if it were needed that music since Y2k is a load of rubbish.

Great that today's teens recognise how brilliant the 90s were.

I've still got cassette players from first time round 😅

PriamFarrl · 21/12/2022 12:25

Just a word to people buying tape players. There is only one company that currently makes the mechanism in a cassette player, and they are crap.
So even if it’s badged as Sony/Pioneer or whatever the actual mechanics of it are made by the one same company. Not only is there just one company but they one make one mechanism, every tape player you can buy right now is the same crappy thing under the hood.

Echobelly · 21/12/2022 12:29

@mamaduckbone - I've had very similar feelings, though in my case it was walking around Urban Outfitters looking at all the mesh crop tops, tea dresses and baggy combats and thinking 'This is just like when I'd go around shops in the 90s with my mum and she'd say "Oh, that's just like what we wore in the 60s" at all the retro.' then I thought 'Of course, the 90s are more recent than the 60s were then.... oh hang on, shit, no they weren't' 😭😆