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Goatman264		2002-01-17 07:36:03 AM

I'm so cool polar regions ask me for advice.

mr.snrub		2002-01-17 07:45:12 AM

BooHoo. My heart bleeds.

Time to get out of the way and retire you old bastards.

Then maybe there will be some more jobs.

chemmie		2002-01-17 07:49:27 AM

No matter how bad music has been lately... THERE WILL ALWAYS BE KISS!
Im 24, and I am embarrassed of other young adults that are my age. I hate the music of today, well, besides The Dismemberment Plan. I hate the people of today. I hate the movies today, well, except The Big Lebowski. And I hate the Television of today. Friends sux. Freddie Prinz Jr. Sux. Limp Bizkit sux. You sux.

Hagbard23		2002-01-17 07:54:02 AM

He's Hip...He's Cool...He's 45

Rebbic		2002-01-17 07:57:55 AM

I must say I did not grok this article. I have never kept up on the latest stuff, even though I was born between 55-64, and thus fell into the later boomer demographic where I should. I wonder if this reporter is making a VAST generalization based on something he feels himself. I know this is something reporters NEVER do, but I wonder none-the-less.

Tricky Chicken		2002-01-17 08:01:31 AM

I am sick and tired of everybody bending over backward to kiss the @ss of the baby boom generation! They have got to be the most pampered, self centered, spoiled generation ever. They have produced very little of value yet they destroy almost everything they touch (social security, patroitism, morality et al). Now they are crying because the younger generation is getting fed up with them and they are loosing their spotlight. Well I say good riddance to bed rubbish. The greatest gift generation X will make will be a legasy of cleaning up after the generation before them. Big props to gen X.

Cluck!

meshman		2002-01-17 08:17:29 AM

"They have got to be the most pampered, self centered, spoiled generation ever."

Ahh... the ignorance of youth. Your time's coming junior.

tostfeld		2002-01-17 08:55:21 AM

Hagbard: Nice Kids in the Hall reference!

tostfeld		2002-01-17 08:57:28 AM

BTW. Listen up you little pimply-faced kids! Your "gods" in Radiohead ripped off everything from the band in my posting up above.

So bite my geriatric ass!

Scoots		2002-01-17 08:59:49 AM

Someone said earlier that if you are "cool" by today's standard you're not actually cool... So, so true...

hoosier_daddy		2002-01-17 09:13:00 AM

George Carlin said it best about boomers: ..from cocaine to Rogaine

Tricky Chicken		2002-01-17 09:32:04 AM

My time is coming to be pampered and self centered! I can't wait.

Scrotar		2002-01-17 09:33:05 AM

Horseshiat. You don't need to wait for middle age to ignore pop culture, you just need to have seen some of it.

Radio Boy		2002-01-17 09:45:43 AM

The greatest gift generation X will make will be a legasy of cleaning up after the generation before them. Big props to gen X.

Tricky Chicken: I suggest you go to Deadkitty.org and read the "Rules to survive in life" I posted on the front page. Pay special attention to numbers 6 and 7.

defender		2002-01-17 09:58:34 AM

Tricky Chicken: Right on! I'm tired of hearing the baby boomers whine and needing psycho-babble self-help books for every conceivable life event.

Tucci: I have to disagree---jazz, swing, bluegrass, even Mozart--all beats rock'n'roll anyday

Torgo		2002-01-17 10:20:56 AM

Hey, stop the kid bashing here. I'm definitly a child of the eighties, I bought "Daydream Nation" by Sonic Youth when it came out, I watched Ferris Bueller in the theater.

However, I can safely say that kids these days are not brainless morons. At least no more than my generation. I've gotten to know a lot of them on the net. Truly cool kids don't listen to crap like Korn Linkin whateverthehell, just as truly cool kids from the eighties didn't listen to Kajagoogoo and Taco. Truly cool kids listen to everything from Roxy Music to Cibo Matto to Coltrane, just like every other truly cool kid from every generation. LOTR is just as good as my generation's version, Star Wars. Cool kids are still reading interesting books and such. Basically nothing has changed.

Kids these days have to deal with all the crap every generation has had to deal with and they are doing just as well as we did. Every generation bashes their kids. What else is new?

johnny cash		2002-01-17 10:40:42 AM

Yeah what Torgo said. I've resigned myself to knowing that I am not hip and any attempt on my part at 34 years old will only make me look ridicules. But my advice is to relax and be your self no matter how geeky you are, that is of course you're not an asshole.

The Hare		2002-01-17 11:14:22 AM

Boomers don't need our sympathy. Look at what they turned the world into. They took their idealistic views of the sixties and twisted them into the yuppie ideas of the 80. They used heavy amounts of drugs and then suddenly decided that the younger generations. What's worse is that the Boomers older children have sold out too. If I see another SUV in a sub-division with their 2.5 children going to soccer practice and some soft rock (or Backstreet Boys if the kids are around) I will go criminally insane.

The Hare		2002-01-17 11:16:36 AM

I meant to say that "They used heavy amounts of drugs and then suddenly decided that the younger generations couldn't, because drugs are bad."

Stile4aly		2002-01-17 12:00:26 PM

"It's like, who's Ja Rule and what does he rule?"

I've been asking myself that question for months

Tricky Chicken		2002-01-17 12:03:35 PM

I checked out deadkitty.org. That guy must live on halmark cards or that 'lifes little instruction booklet'. Not an original idea in the bunch. Just another mindless zombie floating along in the wake of the boomer juggernaught.

Hisey		2002-01-17 12:53:05 PM

I failed the quiz!!

Does _that_ make me cool?

fumanshu		2002-01-17 12:54:00 PM

Torchsong: That was beautiful, *sniff*. Tucci, Boppsta, Torgo, same goes for you guys. Nice to see other folks enjoying the Youth (Sonic Youth) out there! I just picked up Daydream Nation this past summer and I fell in love with it.

I loved this quote from the article:

"As payback, parents share their cultural landmarks with their children. Cohn recently put on 1970's "Live at Leeds" album by the Who and watched his family rock out to "My Generation."

"It has the same kind of energy as today's rock," he says. "We were all kind of dancing and running around."

A-farking-men. That album IS rock. There is hope for the future. If I could make love to an album, Live at Leeds would be it.

WoodyTX		2002-01-17 01:00:18 PM

Yuppies. Fark them all.

This is the generation that thought image is everything, and brought you Starbucks, Nike, Bill Clinton, the current shiatstorm that is Hollywood, "Info-tainment", and anything else created entirely by Marketing.

Go away Baby Boomers. You're irrelevant, except to soak up our Social Security taxes.

I read a 'news' story about marketing written by a 'boomer; his final wrap-up went something like this: "If you can package originality and authenticity, you'll have an edge on the competition." Made me want to barf.

meshman		2002-01-17 01:05:17 PM

"Go away Baby Boomers. You're irrelevant, except to soak up our Social Security taxes."

heh... Kids... In 20 years, you'll be hearing the same tripe you're spouting directed at you. Some things never change.

Strider		2002-01-17 01:16:24 PM

bah I hate being stuck in the middle. Baby boomers trying to be "cool" again and the new brat generation bombarding us with crap music and culture. Bah, a double edged sword it is to be a GenXer.

Radio Boy		2002-01-17 01:19:38 PM

Tricky: they read that on a local radio station the other morning. I thought it was funny so I posted it.

tostfeld		2002-01-17 01:20:54 PM

WoodyTX By providing all those things, Baby boomers have ensured that you children need never have an original thought in your pathetic lives.

You should be thanking us.

mawam		2002-01-17 01:21:51 PM

great article!!

zoomie		2002-01-17 01:41:51 PM

As a boomer, I can say that the things the Xers are whinning about are things MY generation whined about.

I think the reason that boomers get so many things our way is our sheer numbers. We are the biggest demographic group right now.

My parents went through the depression, out of that came social security, we paid for them to get it, most of us don't think it will be around to give us any money back.

Life is one big circle, enjoy the ride!

Zoomie

Undertoad		2002-01-17 02:32:07 PM

The coolest guy on earth is Tom Jones, and he's even older than the boomers.

Tom Jones, man, at age 60, I hope I can be as cool as that guy. He's so cool that if you took a movie of him, and examined every frame, he's be cool in every single frame. Anyone else and you'll find that frame where they have their eyes closed and they're picking a booger. Tom Jones, you won't find it cos he's just too damn cool.

Tricky Chicken		2002-01-17 02:36:27 PM

I have to agree with undertoad about Tom Jones.

Tucci		2002-01-17 02:46:07 PM

It's funny how icons of the past get revived and become 'cool' again when they appear on the Simpsons.

Barry White
Tom Jones

Any one else?

Leopold Porkstacker		2002-01-17 03:11:51 PM

I am fortunate enough to have a gap between generations. I was almost a gen-x-er. Glad I'm not. I'm not into always trying to be in fashion to appeal to my baggy-pants-wearing-shaved-headed-goatee-faced-listen-to-gay-rap friends.

Hey Gen-x-ers: Thank the Baby Boomer generation for every modern novelty and electronic gizmos that you take for granted every day.

Hey Baby Boomers: Thank you for the excellent foundations of rock music, but unfortunately thanks to the gen-x-ers, it is sort of dying out because the youngins have no taste.

-he who stacks pork

Esoha		2002-01-17 03:49:28 PM

In case no one said it yet: If this article is true, baby boomers are the most pathetic generation ever. Jesus farking Christ! Someone tell them to get over themselves. You get old, have kids, and you stop being cool. That's just how the world works. When I get old, I'll be more dignified about not being cool.

Funshine Poseur		2002-01-17 03:59:45 PM

I'm 15 and have no farking clue what my generation is called. I am not cool now, long ago stopped my quest to become cool and surely will never be cool. It doesn't matter. I'm starting to enjoy life as a well read, cyber loser with horrible social skills. Torgo is right, truly cool kids aren't listening to Linkinsync and reading Harry Potter. They're listening to obscure music (Japanese thrash/black metal anyone?) and reading the classics. As for the pathetic Baby Boomers who wish to be cool...well let's say they deserve a little bit of "reeducation". They must remember that parents will never be cool in their offspring's eyes. My dad listens to Pearl Jam and Depeche Mode. "Cool!" exclaimed a certain girlfriend. "Meh...it can't be cool, it's my father dammit." says I.

slayerswhine		2002-01-17 04:07:27 PM

I'm 23. I stopped listening to most "popular" music and culture seven years ago. I don't think that's a bad thing.

My mom like Pearl Jam and Collective Soul. I think that's cool. I like them too. Though, I prefer Led Zeppelin, April Wine, and Beethoven.

TiberiumX		2002-01-17 05:54:56 PM

It's really stupid how you baby boomers have to live vicariously through your children. Why don't you get your *own* lives and stop trying to be cool? If you have to try that hard, you have already failed.

Actually, what I mean to say is: Hahahaha, losers!

Tucci		2002-01-17 06:24:23 PM

Slayer's Whine,
You poseur.
But putting April Wine right there.
Dude.

Alphax		2002-01-17 08:31:55 PM

I'm 31 now, and it's been a while since I've seen anything on the album charts that I'd be willing to listed to, let alone buy. I'll stick with Metallica, Iced Earth, Rammstein, Pink Floyd. Some of the newer "alternative" bands are OK, like Tool, Staind, some Tenacious D. On a Pop music station, though, I'd have to ask who's singing on most songs.

Peaceboy		2002-01-17 10:01:41 PM

I'm a 38-year old bastard, on my way to being Peacegeezer, and have always had a pretty good bead on what's popular on the music scene, deservedly or not, going back to my Fischer-Price days. I'm with SLAYERSWINE on the coolness of early FM radio, and that whole free-form approach is pretty much dead, save occasionally for someone like Jim Ladd in L.A. who I believe gets carte blanche on his show's tuneage but still plays it relatively mainstream. Anyone near the (CA) Central Coast may be familiar with KOTR, which seems to still play it by the seat of their pants but in a mellow way. But this whole compartmentalization of music into cute little ready-to-go demographic packages, for me, just reached a new low the other day while reading a USA Today article on Nickelback. It was talking about the big success of their "How You Remind Me" tune (one I admittedly like alot), and pointed this out:

In addition to topping Billboard's Hot 100, Remind Me hit No. 1 on six charts: rock, active rock, alternative, mainstream rock, heritage rock and modern adult contemporary.

When the hell did they come up with all those different damn charts? Do we need all those variations to keep track of a bunch of bands that all basically sound the same anyway? What could possibly be the difference between rock and active rock and mainstream rock and heritage rock? (What the hell is "heritage rock" anyway, do they just play America and Paul Revere & the Raiders?) One cool thing about AM Top 40 in the late 60's/early 70's was how everything was just tossed in together, pretty much regardless of format. Pop, R&B, rock, country, folk, whatever. Now THAT I thought was cool.

Peaceboy		2002-01-17 10:28:26 PM

Ladd wrote a weird semi-autobiography on his 70's radio experiences, and I believe as homage to Waters renamed KLOS as KAOS. I read the book but don't clearly recall. Many other names were changed to protect the guilty.

If anyone wants to see a pretty funny take on early 70's FM radio, check out the restored scene from Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous" Director's Cut DVD involving the non-Jack-Black dude from Tenacious D, playing a DJ hosting some spacy midnight show who's so stoned he falls asleep in mid-interview with Stillwater. Crowe says in the commentary that that actually happened to Neil Young once, who got up and walked out. In the movie, Stillwater seized that moment to grab the mike and drop a few F-bombs out over live radio.

Sweater Girl		2002-01-17 11:31:06 PM

*sigh*
Is it too much to ask of those blessed souls who post pics, that they size them correctly?

When you post a pic too big, it farks up the thread for everyone.
Scrolling for a few words isn't fun.

Sweater Girl		2002-01-17 11:36:38 PM

Oh, and hey SLAYERSWINE!
Thanks for including me in your bio bro!

*Flattered*

I didn't even have to send you an e-mail to be included.

*Even more flattered*

I want an invite to your wedding with FLA Chickie.

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