The young people of today have no idea of anything that occurred before they were born. Exhibit A:
Telegraph Road by Dire Straits is 14 minutes long. Also with songs over 10 minutes: Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Guns N Roses, Genesis, Rush, Yes, CCR, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, and more.
Then there is Exhibit B:
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TRX · August 7, 2024 at 7:00 am
Remember in “Demolition Man”, where all popular music was five-second jingles?
Looks like they’re not far off the mark.
A lot of modern “music” is a second or two of musical notes looped over and over and over and over and over and over, with no variation, and chanting (rap) or caterwauling (screechy bitch music) laid on top.
TRX · August 7, 2024 at 7:02 am
> never put a woman as the lead in an action movie
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“Hey Ripley! Get back to the cargo loader; you missed one!”
Divemedic · August 7, 2024 at 8:39 am
Tomb Raider
Kill Bill
Salt
Long Kiss Goodnight
Flight Plan
Double Jeopardy
Mr and Mrs Smith
The entire Aliens franchise
Resident Evil
It's just Boris · August 7, 2024 at 4:22 pm
Terminator
Don W Curton · August 7, 2024 at 7:21 am
Imagine being old enough to tweet but haven’t developed object permanence in your brain yet.
Dirty Dingus McGee · August 7, 2024 at 8:09 am
The first 10 seconds of Telegraph Road has more musical impact than anything Taylor Swift could possibly come up with. Hell, Mark Knopfler has more musical talent in a hangnail than TS has in her entire body.
Boba O'Really · August 7, 2024 at 11:33 am
Time to listen to that 20 minute 33 second masterpiece again. Thanks for the reminder!
Mike Hendrix · August 7, 2024 at 11:49 am
I was gonna say they obviously never heard the first cpl-three Yes albums, among many others, but it’s obvious they have no clue about anything whatsoever that happened before twelve minutes ago.
Boba O'Really · August 7, 2024 at 12:19 pm
I wonder if it is the prevalence of social media/smartphone that makes folks oblivious to the past? Everything is handed to you quick as can be on a phone/PC.. music,information..etc. They don’t have to, I don’t know, work for it? Meaning, not much effort is required these days ..I read a piece a while back about how the optimization of EVERYTHING is the reason everything looks, sounds, drives like every other thing and therefore is not really memorable in any way.
Whereas, like most guys of my generation, I could tell you what was coming down the road from a mile away…Charger, Mustang, Chevelle….and be damn close on the year to boot..not now…everything new looks like,…a car/SUV of some nondescript origin.
Ok Boba, step away from the keyboard….
TRX · August 8, 2024 at 10:09 am
“Social media” operates in an eternal “now.” New stuff is inserted at the top; “old” information is quickly pushed down, until it’s too tedious to even bother to look for it. Even time is twisted; instead of a date and time, many of them just say “ten minutes ago” or “three weeks ago.”
Due to the Newbie Effect, *most* people online are more familiar with “social media” than, say, web forums. The idea that decades of older posts are still sitting right there, organized by topic, is so alien it doesn’t even register with them.
TRX · August 8, 2024 at 10:12 am
Modern cars *do* look mostly alike. The tyranny of fuel economy laws means that designs have iterated down to a common shape; a compromise between packaging and aerodynamics. Styling is just little fillips on the standardized shape.
Chris · August 7, 2024 at 1:07 pm
Iron Maiden’s song “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1984) is 13:40.
Aesop · August 8, 2024 at 10:00 am
Baby Duck Syndrome + ability to tweet + Millennial and post-Millennial Common Core grads = Shit For Brains In Full Effect
The Derp, It Burns Us.
“If we never heard of it, it never happened.” is the motto of anyone under 35, and the reason two entire generations of “teachers,” particularly the public school Marxist variety, should be bitch-slapped and then whipped with a cat-o-nine-tails on the hour, for months on end, on general principles.
Jennifer Lawrence is proof that pretty airheads should be seen, and not heard.
One hopes that Sigourney Weaver meets her some day, and gives her a Buzz Aldrin-worthy ass-kicking, live on camera.
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