millennial stuff
January 5th, 2024 @ 12:27 am
as i’m sitting here listening to nofx (malachi crunch), it struck me funny about how we had such a lack of information until the mid to late 90s. we didn’t have google, we had chat rooms, tv/the news, teachers, friends and relatives to school us. websites and search engines started popping up soon after the mid 90s, but it was very hard to obtain information (about basically EVERYTHING) before then.
finding out info on the ‘net as it was getting built up were magical lil moments. my faves were when i’d stumbled upon info on my fave musicians/bands.
some examples:
pretty hate machine came out when i was like 9? my mom’s weird ex used to listen to it, and my sister and i used to make fun of him while listening to “head like a hole”. i guess our palettes hadn’t fully formed for industrial music yet, bc not 4 years later, i fell in love with NIN and i had no idea it was the same group… until i did.
i knew the song “mother” by danzig bc it was on mtv all the time. it came out when i was about 7 or 8 and when i finally hit my teen years and got into punk and the misfits, i put two and two together when i learned glenny ol boy was the lead singer of the misfits and the same dude that performed “mother” anddddddd i was MIND BLOWN.
as a teenager, and the reason why i thought to post this, is bc when i met my first love, i was 15 going on 16. he had just introduced me to punk rock proper, including NOFX. i listened to some of their first albums here and there, but my favorite was always “i heard they suck live!!“, which is a live album. when i got older and napster, kazaa and limewire surfaced, i became more familiar with their entire discography. the first time i ever heard “el lay” vs. “east bay”, i was VERY confused. they’re the same song but different lyrics on two different albums and exist simultaneously in the nofx world. do you understand how confused i was with zero googling ability at age 16 or 17 trying to decipher that information? lol.
nofx also has different lyrics on IHTSL vs their actual studio albums and i STILL get all fucked up depending on which version i’m listening to.
it’s rare when i get to still have those discovery moments, but i do cherish all of em whenever they do happen. 🙂