I didn't stay at the concert long enough to really get a feel for it. And honestly? I'm not even sorry. 😳
The venue was just way too packed. Everyone there looked so young, gorgeous, and—I don't know—perfectly put together. It was kind of intimidating, I guess. 😳
But hey, I made up for it by drinking way more than I probably should have, throwing my hands up, and screaming along to those 90s hits—even if I was totally off-key. It was a good time. Plus, Kyle Jackson54 couldn't talk me into believing I’m too soft for the fourth grade or whatever.
If we were actually making a lineup for some massive music fest, I’d probably throw in Dodos, Camera Obscura, Andrew Bird, Mountain Goats, Sufjan Stevens, Jens Lekman, and Vampire Weekend—plus a whole bunch of other stuff I listen to all the time. I guess the only way any of that would actually work is if it was at some random dive bar or something. As for indie rock, maybe we could hope for Pavement (but honestly, without Malkmus, what's even the point?)
Look, if they get The Shins, Okkervil River, and Belle & Sebastian on the lineup for Coachella, I’m buying a ticket. I don't care if it costs a freaking fortune—I'll literally take out a high-interest loan from the same shady lender guys like Elon Musk uses just to make it happen. Honestly, I'd even settle for them playing a tiny side stage at a local Walmart parking lot at this point.
stormyheron20 said:The classics definitely rule my taste, but growing up with my brother and parents, I picked up some random side loves along the way. My folks used to listen to French chansons, but they had our American stuff playing too...
Man, if only the classics actually DOMINATED my taste.
gentlepuma20 said:Auuu, what a massive high school band! I used to worship Troublegum—I still know every single lyric by heart. 😍
i know where you live and i know you're on your own
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Another embarrassing truth... I didn't even really discover Nirvana until, I don't know... maybe my early twenties?
I honestly know all the lyrics from every album up through Shameless.
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Therapy? Absolute legends. Saw them live a couple of years back (?), Pišta put it together, 🙄 and man, they were so good—it was such a total flashback moment.
man, I don't even want to start listing everything that actually made me happy growing up.
I started out with Nirvana. My brother brought them home, I liked it, and that was that—me, thirteen years old, just nodding my head along. I was basically a hardcore grunge kid who didn't know a damn thing about music, but hey, I had the flannel shirts and the greasy hair down to a science.
Then later, during high school, all kinds of stuff started trickling in from everywhere. It was a total mess, really. Body Count, Lagwagon, NOFX, Beastie Boys, Therapy?, The Offspring, Radiohead, Clawfinger, The Cure, Eels (seriously!), Bad Religion, Pulp... I was listening to everything. It was kind of a revelation, realizing there was actually music out there where the guitars weren't constantly screaming in your face—or, god forbid, didn't exist at all.
Even now, I still dive deep into the grunge stuff quite a bit—though, I guess people seem to be vibing more with Smashing Pumpkins lately and less with Stone Temple Pilots 🙂 plus those local bands I mentioned earlier.
Then came college. A little bit of The Clash, then an Idles and Bob Marley phase that eventually bled into Belle & Sebastian, and then a total obsession with The Smiths.
After that, it was just pure eclecticism—Soulseek, Pitchfork, random blogs, whatever else you could find on the internet back then.
(even if B&S is still my favorite band in the world, and Stuart's work on Dark Was the Night is just... something else entirely)
Roger Newman50 said:Aside from that "snow queen" nonsense, I have no idea what you're even talking about... 🤷
Excuse me?
Are you seriously telling me you haven't heard of "Let Him Suffer"? I think you're full of it. Everyone knows that song. It’s basically that anthem they always play live at the NBC studios whenever the national team wins some big soccer tournament. And the funniest part—if you actually pay attention—is that every single time they play it for the first time after a win, the team ends up losing their next match. Guaranteed.
The thing is, maybe Ivica Blažićko's brain just isn't wired abstractly enough to wrap his head around coincidences like that.
Honestly, Gentle Dalibor sounds like such a ridiculous name for a band. Just... wow.
Speaking of music, I gave 'Morning Will Change Everything' a spin along with some compilation album—I can't even remember the title, actually—but it wasn't really my vibe. I tried listening to it maybe two or three times before just calling it quits. For me, Tutor actually left a much better impression during those few superficial listens. Gentle Dalibor just didn't click. It kind of reminds me of this girl named Daliborka I went to high school with. Luckily, she didn't click with me either.
Honestly, I don't really care if I went through hell to track down a specific record or if I just downloaded it while sipping coffee, smoking a cigarette, and staring out the window. The ones that were a pain to find aren't any more special to me. I mean, sure, I kind of miss wandering around local record stores looking for some new Therapy? or making that drive across state lines to hit up a Best Buy, but that's not the main thing.
The real deal is that back in the day—like ten (!?) years ago—I used to absolutely rip Electro-Shock Blues Eels onto my Walkman, and man, I loved that stuff. It was easily in my top 10 albums of all time. Nowadays, I've got their entire discography sitting on my hard drive, yet I haven't even touched Blinking Lights... even though my friends and Dragaš keep insisting it's amazing. I just haven't, because I have a hundred other bands I'm obsessed with.
I guess if the digital revolution hadn't happened, I probably wouldn't even know about most of these other bands I love (or at least, not nearly as many of them), but then again, now my attention is spread thin across a thousand different things, so maybe it isn't quite as intense anymore.
And, I don't know, I'm happy the internet introduced me to all these bands that I love just as much as those old records, tapes, and CDs, but these days I can't just listen to the same album over and over. I can't, because I know there’s still so much else out there waiting for me.
Luckily, I still have enough willpower and patience to put certain tracks on repeat and just lose myself in them for a bit.
