Was going to post the very same comment. Not being with it is the one fad that will never go out of style!

Yeah, also "it" is usually really stupid and superficial.

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Things were always weird and scary.

There were a couple times in my life when I was a little bit with it, but the closer I got the more I started attracting the worst sorts of people. All things considered, it's better when I'm not with it.

I went and caught a free show the other night from one of my favorite bands, Pierced Arrows, and it was weird. I was the only person wearing bright clothing in a sea of black leather and skinny jeans. And I was totally punk back in the 90s but I was just wearing a Got Milk t-shirt and chuck taylors

I remember when punk wasn't about any particular style and was, in fact, about not being locked into a style then it became a style in and of itself.

And now Iggy Pop shills for Cadillac.

I think I punk rock died for me when I was at the Safeway and their little Safeway-made radio station played The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket, next to Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift and whatever else. Because supermarket? In a way though, I think Mr. Strummer would think it was pretty funny.

I first started paying attention to punk near the end of 9th grade, so early 1992 and it was already long dead and buried at that point. Even at 14 that was obvious.

Well, it's like evolution. You never see a cat turn into a dog, but sometimes you see a salamander give birth to a slightly more advanced salamander, and sometimes that more advanced salamander likes to wear flowers on its head but the parent salamanders don't know what the big deal is, and then that salamander's offspring is slightly more advanced but spends all day posting photographs of moebius strip kittens to Tumblr and so on

Yay! I totally stole that and put it on my okcupid. I hope you don't mind fluffy

A lot of people feel punk was born and died in the same month.

I'm 35 and I haven't quite given up, but I'm getting tired of trying to keep up.

I have been to so many places around the world I can't be bothered to keep up with much of anything besides who is throwing bombs at what patch of sand.

Did any of you read this article?

http://www.avclub.com/article/new-study-shows-people-stop-list ening-new-music-33-218752

I'm 33 and someone put it on my facebook. Music died with Deerhoof in the best possible way. Milkman was what music was supposed to sound like in 2015, but came out in 2004.

Meh, one of my best friend is in his 50s and he listens to more new music than I do.

I just turned 30 in March and I have to admit I find myself listening to less and less new stuff. I have Sirius XM in my car and I find that when I turn to the top 40/modern pop stations half the names of the artists that pop up I've never heard of.

I think it has more to do with me being too damn busy to listen to much music these days, new or old, than anything else.

I've kind of promoted it before, but every time I put on xray.fm it reminds me that music is great.

Thanks for that.

Now playing: Judee Sill


Sold.

xray.fm is the absolute shit. The Melted Radio show is a godsend.

I was with it from 2003 to 2005.

And then again in a much shittier way around 2009-10.

I think a lot of America is still scared of rap stars.

The most disturbing thing about being a parent these days is the fact that your children listen to watered-down corporate versions of the music you listened to at their age and play crappier video games. I'm raising my boy on a steady diet of Autechre and From Software RPGs, but I know he'll probably go through a rebellious phase where he listens to dubstep and plays MOBAs.

As I get old I'm supposed to be shocked by the next generation being too dangerous, loud and destructive. The only thing I'm shocked by is how safe and boring everything is now. Feels like we're overdue for the cycle to switch back to rebellion from safe pop. Or pop culture has Balkanized so much there is no shift coming.

Actually, I'm sort of a hybrid Moe/ Lisa/ Comic Book Guy. You're more a Hans Moleman mixed with Crazy Cat Lady.

I don't understand the point of hulu or hulu plus. It's like netflix with ads. No thanks.

Well, there's no denying the crazy cat lady thing. But constantly talking in pop culture references like this is what makes us comic book guys.

I grew up a few blocks from the real Evergreen Terrace, and frequent the bar that Moes is based off of. But I don't like Donuts. I think I'm Mr. Bergstrom.

I'd say I'm more of an Ed Grimes.

Id define myself as a lisa / otto blend

I'm Frostillicus.

what a time to be alive

I don't know enough about the Simpsons to know who I am.

OZ - that makes you a Grandpa Simpson. Although knowing you, I'd wager you're more of a Bleeding Gums / Ham / Lisa / Millhouse.

Gmork is obviously Herman.

I would probably have to have one arm out of my posession and at least one gun in my posession to qualify for Herman. I'm actually Gil.

I'm some combo of millhouse, groundskeeper willy and comicbook guy.

Meh, they aren't any worse than my generation, I don't think (my generation being...hell, I don't know what we're called. I was born in 1985.) They're merely a product of children growing up with all the modern conveniences (and perils) that the internet has bore.

Bruno Mars sucks because his music is either sappy as shit or irritating as hell. Taylor Swift sucks because I am not a teenage girl so her music isn't intended for my ears. I actually think they're both talented though.

It's funny that you chose those two artists though, seeing as they're two of the rare exceptions to modern musical acts who haven't touched auto tune (yet).

Aren't Taylor Swift and Bruno Mars from, like, ten years ago?

My generation gave the world "Punky Brewster" so I don't think I should start chucking around stones.

A good portion of music for every generation is designed and manufactured for teenagers (pop, nu-metal, nu-rap). It stops being "these guys -so- get me" once you move out of your parents house and the lyrics stop applying to you.

My dad loves Taylor Swift. I got him he CD for his birthday. Upon listening to it with him, I found (to my horror) that I like Taylor Swift too.

When I was still in service, a bunch of my redneck Christian farmboy battle buddies were into Taylor Swift. I never really liked her music, but god damn she was cute.

Given that music is as much about the experience as it is about the sound, I can see why people are into her.

You're a millennial, DQL. The generation starts in eighty-two and doesn't have much of an end point. I suppose once we get old enough we'll start writing books purporting to explain and define the next generation and we'll be able to say exactly how young a person has to be to be completely incomprehensible and entitled. Until we become crotchety enough to birth a new generation, anybody under thirty-three is lumped together.