Boomers vs. Gen X-ers: Middle-aged Faceoff

does jon spenser live in europe or something? i never hear about him. or see pictures of him playing live! i can see him still drawing a big crowd in japan.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:07 (twelve years ago)

Billie Joe Armstrong, aged 40, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99PwfIzMzr0

John Lydon, aged 41, 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhNanlYWWmA

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:07 (twelve years ago)

this thread is truly wondrous

― Butt Trump tweet (Matt P), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:10 (twelve years ago)

Velvet Underground, early 50's, 1993

http://www.badreputation.de/VelvetUnderground19930702_front.jpg

Pixies, early 50's, 2012ish

http://www.licklibrary.com/Images/Resources/The%20Pixies%202(1).jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:26 (twelve years ago)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3uFjaXydPAM/UIA__8xYgnI/AAAAAAAACzY/PwjtvFGSJx8/s1600/billycorgan.jpg

why is this so funny? why?

― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:27 (twelve years ago)

not easy to find a band dressed worse than lou but you did it

― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:28 (twelve years ago)

Public Enemy, early 50's, 2012
http://www.billboard.com/photos/stylus/2606259-public-enemy-treasure-island-festival-2012.jpg

The Monkees, early 50's, 1989
http://www.monkeesconcerts.com/uploads/7/8/9/5/7895731/1085887_orig.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:43 (twelve years ago)

Public Enemy, early 50's, 2012

http://www.billboard.com/photos/stylus/2606259-public-enemy-treasure-island-festival-2012.jpg

The Monkees, early 50's, 1989

http://www.monkeesconcerts.com/uploads/7/8/9/5/7895731/1085887_orig.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:44 (twelve years ago)

2013's thread to beat

― Cunga, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 04:44 (twelve years ago)

J Mascis, 47, 2012

http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style620_413/public/121015-j-mascis-fender-jazzmaster.jpg

Johnny Winter, 47, 1991

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OzFcdtU6kGA/TTS8e10BRMI/AAAAAAAAGxs/tSS45LOnzWs/s1600/Johnny%2BWinter%2BCant%2BLoose%2BThe%2BBlues%2Bback.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:03 (twelve years ago)

Robert Plant, 48, 1996

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2011/08/Plant.jpg

Chris Cornell, 48, 2012

http://grungereport.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/cornellleno2012.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:10 (twelve years ago)

Anthony Kiedis & Flea, 50, 2012

http://stadium-arcadium.com/red-hot-chili-peppers/anthony-kiedis-flea-march-23rd-2012-portland-trail-blazers-lakers-game.jpg

Jagger & Richards, 49, 1992

http://images.gibson.com/Lifestyle/English/aaFeaturesImages/mickandkeith.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:22 (twelve years ago)

damn the cornell/plant one is hard to think about

― vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:23 (twelve years ago)

do one with dave grohl

― vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:24 (twelve years ago)

this thread started off as a great mood enhancer but now I'm left depressed...geez, has it been that long...

― *tera, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:30 (twelve years ago)

Bob Seger, 42, 1987

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=bob+seger+1987&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&sa=N&tbo=d&rls=en&biw=847&bih=474&tbm=isch&tbnid=YZ-7rQEkq61xuM:&imgrefurl=http://atlasicons.photoshelter.com/image/I0000YC1IXNNsDow&docid=VkHCbC1Jl1MvNM&itg=1&imgurl=http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000YC1IXNNsDow/s/500/500/BOB-SEGER-LIVE-1987-NZ-9.jpg&w=334&h=500&ei=XyP-UPyCEqm50QHlooGICA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=231&vpy=80&dur=1409&hovh=275&hovw=183&tx=94&ty=205&sig=113491329581640080299&page=1&tbnh=152&tbnw=90&start=0&ndsp=11&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:90

Dave Grohl, 42, 2011

http://entertainment.blogs.foxnews.com/files/2011/03/davegrohl600.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:31 (twelve years ago)

seger, 42
http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/58/5839/XU5SG00Z/posters/bob-seger-thomas-weschler-1987-detroit-michigan.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:32 (twelve years ago)

Rob Zombie, 48, 2012
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/wennpic/rob-zombie-malcolm-mcdowell-walk-of-fame-01.jpg

Gene Simmons, 48, 1997
http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibtimes.com/files/styles/article_slideshow_slide/public/2011/09/02/153691-gene-simmons-shannon-tweed.jpg

― vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:38 (twelve years ago)

Is it just me, or do the boomers generally look a bit better younger and healthier?

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:53 (twelve years ago)

i thought the same thing, but it's prolly because they're weren't being shot with super hi-def cameras

― vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:56 (twelve years ago)

Thurston did better than Jerry though. You may have a point otherwise.

xpost

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:56 (twelve years ago)

The Morrissey vs Tom Jones two years after "Kiss" is blowing my fucking mind

― vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:57 (twelve years ago)

susanna hoffs at 50 pwns all tho

― buzza, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 05:58 (twelve years ago)

Whitney Houston, 47, 2012

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/story/cover-story-excerpt-whitney-houston-20120229/1000x306/main.jpg

Marvin Gaye, 45, 1985

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_afHdZu5GQO0/S1xLR6Zp_FI/AAAAAAAAANU/NcplQD4t6YY/s640/Marvin+Gaye-RS+421+(May+10,+1984).jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:00 (twelve years ago)

Bono, 52, 2012

http://fanquarterly.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bono-back-surgery1-275x325.jpg

Van Morrison, 52, 1997

http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000QW.11zLj4yk/s/750/750/Van-Morrison-New-Orleans-Jazz-Festival-1997.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:18 (twelve years ago)

Shane McGowan, 55, 2012(?)

http://themurkyfringe.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Shane+MacGowan+With+Teeth.jpg

Frank Sinatra, 55, 1970

http://shop.legendecelebrityart.com/product_images/e/137/Frank_with_arms_crossed_in_dj__02650_std.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 06:24 (twelve years ago)

^^feeling better about my last birthday now

― screen scraper (m coleman), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 11:00 (twelve years ago)

2013's thread to beat u bet

― screen scraper (m coleman), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 11:02 (twelve years ago)

Jesus Christ what.happened to Shanes teeth?

― how's life, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 11:14 (twelve years ago)

Grohl/Seger matchup is revelatory.

― doug watson, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 13:39 (twelve years ago)

Shane looks like Steve Coogan on a bender in that picture.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 13:43 (twelve years ago)

The Corgan photos have obliterated my ability to comprehend anything else that's been posted to the thread.

― Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 13:43 (twelve years ago)

this may be a good time to post Davy Jones performing on Australian TV in the 80s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRU6hd2kEek

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 13:51 (twelve years ago)

xpost Shane rotted his teeth away and got a shiny new set of falsies.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 14:27 (twelve years ago)

Liam Gallagher, 40, 2012

http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Liam+Gallagher+i_zWcoshxnbm.jpg

Rod Stewart, 40, 1985

http://popdose.com/wp-content/uploads/Rod_Stewart_casual.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 14:39 (twelve years ago)

Axl Rose, 50, 2012

http://c438342.r42.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/axl-rose-2012-e1349103081184.jpeg

Ozzy, 50, 1998

http://cache2.allpostersimages.com/p/LRG/27/2791/7B1OD00Z/posters/ozzy-osbourne-lead-with-rock-band-black-sabbath-sitting-at-home-october-1998.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 14:45 (twelve years ago)

again with Bryan Ferry :

Brett Anderson, 46, 2013

http://www.nickwilsonphoto.com/wp-content/uploads/brett_anderson_08.jpg

Ferry, 47, 1992

http://images.coveralia.com/audio/b/Bryan_Ferry-Taxi-Interior_Trasera.jpg

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:10 (twelve years ago)

Ferry looks better than Anderson NOW, let alone at 47. Cocaine is a helluva drug, etc.

― Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:28 (twelve years ago)

surviving Ramones, early 50's, 2002

http://a57.foxnews.com/www.foxnews.com/images/320274/450/350/0_21_110107_ramones2.jpg

Melvins, early 50's, 2012

http://www.collapseboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/The-Melvins-2012-590x388.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:32 (twelve years ago)

Jay-Z, 44, 2013
http://assets7.gcstatic.com/u/apps/asset_manager/uploaded/2013/03/beyonce-and-jay-z-january-2013-1358786435-custom-0.jpg

James Brown, 44, 1977
http://www.emackandbolios.com/images/jamesbrown.GIF

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:40 (twelve years ago)

OK wow – it didn't occur to me that Jay-Z was in his mid forties.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:45 (twelve years ago)

I just realized that Jay-Z is 13 years older than Beyonce !

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:48 (twelve years ago)

He has aged well. Normal looking dudes in general seem to age better than pretty boys.

― Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:49 (twelve years ago)

Howlin Wolf, 57, Muddy Waters, 54, and Bo Diddley, 39, 1967

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/a6770bf77fc92b15b9224b60abd5023f/44472.jpg

Superheavy, 25 - 69, 2012

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55351000/jpg/_55351095_superheavy_464.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:00 (twelve years ago)

R-Kelly, 46, 2013

http://hiphop2rue.fr/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/af6f7c09ab373aa19bb39a0ae7cb6f36.jpg

Smokey Robinson, 46, 1986

http://images.45cat.com/smokey-robinson-close-encounters-of-the-first-kind-tamla-motown.jpg

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:03 (twelve years ago)

xpost

regarding pretty boys, I suppose it's a bit like for pretty girls : ageing is more painful and noticeable.

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:06 (twelve years ago)

The Corgan photos have obliterated my ability to comprehend anything else that's been posted to the thread.

― Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:43 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah there really needed to be a brief recess after that, for processing and pondering

― here is no telephone (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:11 (twelve years ago)

Something has broken in my brain after those pictures. Not that there wasn't a lot wrong already, but still.

― Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:13 (twelve years ago)

Jonathan Richman, 47, 1998:

http://i45.tinypic.com/zl45q8.jpg

Adam Sandler, 46, 2012

http://i50.tinypic.com/s4v20z.jpg

― naadje draadje (unregistered), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:20 (twelve years ago)

I'm not sure that I like this thread.

― pplains, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:23 (twelve years ago)

yeah, it's both fun and depressing !

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:24 (twelve years ago)

Jonathan is a dude who got better looking with age for sure.

― here is no telephone (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:27 (twelve years ago)

http://www.the80sman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Elton-John-Still-Standing-e1317692818229.jpg

Elton John, 1983

http://static2.refinery29.com/bin/entry/7c5/x/204351/img-9487.jpg

Jenny Lewis, 2012

― pplains, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:32 (twelve years ago)

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pixies/2012/8/24/1345819558533/Damon-Albarn-008.jpg

Damon Albarn, 2012

http://imgc.classistatic.com/cps/blnc/121111/174r1/6943hig_20.jpeg

Cliff Richard, 1984

― pplains, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 16:44 (twelve years ago)

God BLess JOJO richmond - he looks 13

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 17:44 (twelve years ago)

ppains your supposed to list the age fucktard!!!

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:03 (twelve years ago)

He has aged well. Normal looking dudes in general seem to age better than pretty boys.

― Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:49 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

camels are known for aging well iirc

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:03 (twelve years ago)

The water keeps them hydrated.

― Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:04 (twelve years ago)

cliff richard will always be 23 in my mind.

― pplains, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:05 (twelve years ago)

Bryan Ferry still wins this thread.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:06 (twelve years ago)

Someone post more Ferry pictures as a palate cleanser after all of the damage done by the Corgan pics.

― Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:34 (twelve years ago)

https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/images/medium/Dylan-Perf%201.jpg

Bob Dylan, 37, 1978

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Jakob_Dylan.jpg/360px-Jakob_Dylan.jpg

Jakob Dylan, 37, 2006

― pplains, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:34 (twelve years ago)

I'm not sure that I like this thread.

― pplains, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:23 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, it's both fun and depressing !

― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:24 AM (2 hours ago)

reminds me of this
http://irinawerning.com/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/

― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:38 (twelve years ago)

er this

http://irinawerning.com/index.php?/back-to-the-fut/back-to-the-future/

― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:39 (twelve years ago)

or just go here http://irinawerning.com/ and click "back to the future"

dunno what's up with that site

― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 18:40 (twelve years ago)

Billy Joel, 1995 (age 46)

http://pressthebuttons.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/billyjoel.jpg

Ben Folds, 2012 (age 46)

http://www.benfolds.com/sites/benfolds/files/imagecache/benfolds_620-wide/2012_ben_with_new_cd_packaging.jpg

― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:36 (twelve years ago)

joel really looks like he's thinking "put that shit in a bag, bitches".

― how's life, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 19:45 (twelve years ago)

I was going to say he looks like he's thinking, "I just shit in a bag, bitches."

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:03 (twelve years ago)

http://imageshack.us/a/img842/2766/michaelstipetheyskensth.jpg

Michael Stipe, 52, 2012

http://media.vcstar.com/media/img/photos/2011/04/28/420110428112726001_t607.JPG

Roy Orbison, 52, 1988

― pplains, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:08 (twelve years ago)

brio ask for this thread to be deleted and make money off your idea somehow

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:17 (twelve years ago)

Billy Corgan looks like Humpty Dumpty

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:54 (twelve years ago)

xpost
nice of you to say, I half-thought I should pitch this somewhere before I posted it

but then, not sure this is the next "shit my dad says" really

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 20:59 (twelve years ago)

shit my dad looks like.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:00 (twelve years ago)

put dat monetize in a blog brio

― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:01 (twelve years ago)

maybe, seems like an natural tumblr thing

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:03 (twelve years ago)

blog sounds more like bag tho

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61CYP2nVZQL.jpg

― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:05 (twelve years ago)

Corgan = horror-paycheck-era Donald Pleasence

Damon Albarn looks like Alec Guinness in River Kwai if he'd had a shave

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:08 (twelve years ago)

those billy corgan photos are very 'darth vader unmasked'

― keef qua keef (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:09 (twelve years ago)

Joan Baez, 1988 (age 47)

http://content6.flixster.com/photo/11/04/69/11046912_gal.jpg

Susanna Hoffs, 2011 (age 52)

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/susanna-hoffs-10th-tribeca-film-festival-WfStB4.jpg

― it's all fuck what sit says, we'll do our own thing (Matt #2), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:18 (twelve years ago)

Corgan = horror-paycheck-era Donald Pleasence

What an insult to Donald Pleasence.

― Ulna (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:19 (twelve years ago)

Baez and Hoffs both hot itt

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 21:22 (twelve years ago)

Lemmy, 37, 1982

http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/reading-82-lemmy3.jpg

Jack White, 37, 2012

http://pop10.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/jack-white-SNL-crop1-500x227.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:00 (twelve years ago)

Except Lemmy still looks like that now, 30+ years later. In 30 years, Jack White's going to look like Albert Steptoe.

― pure dressed up like a white ninja (snoball), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:19 (twelve years ago)

Yoko Ono, 41, 1974
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/31326571/Yoko+Ono+yoko.jpg

Kim Gordon 41, 1994
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3ei8vYcqA1qbqb1do1_500.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:43 (twelve years ago)

is kim even part of generation X?

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:43 (twelve years ago)

Yoko Ono, 41, 1974

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/31326571/Yoko+Ono+yoko.jpg

Kim Gordon 41, 1994

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3ei8vYcqA1qbqb1do1_500.jpg

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:43 (twelve years ago)

she's x girl

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:44 (twelve years ago)

she was born in 53, that seems more late boomer right?

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:45 (twelve years ago)

yeah, she old

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:47 (twelve years ago)

wiki sez X = 65-83

― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:50 (twelve years ago)

and yoko's born in '33, pre-baby boom

― brio, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:55 (twelve years ago)

Agreed with whoever said Cornell/Plant was when this broke through somehow. Also Stones, I mean by the time that pic was taken weren't the Stones already a go-to punchline for absurd dinosaur hucksters? Feel like this hasn't ''taken'' in the same way for, say, RHCP.

― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:24 (twelve years ago)

I have a distinct memory of a Mad magazine cartoon depicting the Rolling Stones as geriatrics in wheelchairs, breathing tubes, etc. This must've been right around when Steel Wheels came out, so 1989? Mick and Keith were still in their mid-40s.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:36 (twelve years ago)

somehow i think kim gordon gets honorary gen x status.

there's really no thread that susanna hoffs wouldn't win.

― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:40 (twelve years ago)

she was born in 53, that seems more late boomer right?

Mid-boomer, really. Baby boom was roughly 1945-1965 iirc.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:47 (twelve years ago)

No way does someone who's three years younger than my Mum get Gen X status.

― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:47 (twelve years ago)

was your mom in sonic youth? i'd probably make an exception there, too.

― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:50 (twelve years ago)

sund4r is COCO?????

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:51 (twelve years ago)

Why do you think he knows SY so well

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:52 (twelve years ago)

a workmate of mine has an amusing story of how she left thurston moore stranded at a record store in st paul for 5-6 hours and forgot that he was there, then he wandered off with some college kids and got stoned at an apartment, so she had to babysit coco as penance

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:55 (twelve years ago)

sonic youth is so old

― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 23:57 (twelve years ago)

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/story/george-harrison-gets-back-rolling-stones-1987-cover-story-20110225/1000x306/main.jpg

George Harrison in 1987 (age 44)

http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/88/5f/885fd83d6bbaea7ec69d5a046056e651.jpg

LL Cool J in 2012 (age 44)

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 00:12 (twelve years ago)

we're not seeing george's guns so i don't think that one's fair

― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 00:28 (twelve years ago)

kim gordon being 60 is blowing my mind, then again it was blown when I found out how old she was in the late 80s

do alan vega next

― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:12 (twelve years ago)

didn't kim avoid telling her parents she was in a band for years? or is that some urban legend?

― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:14 (twelve years ago)

suicide featuring alan vega @ age 50, 1988

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Suicide%28band%29crop.jpg

al jourgensen @ age 50, 2008

http://timeoutchicago.com/sites/timeoutchicago.com/files/imagecache/timeout_492x330/images/articles/159/159.x600.outthere.5min.jourgense.jpg

― let's go do some crimes (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:22 (twelve years ago)

Suicide going on that death-defying first european tour at age 40 is pretty amazing.

― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:25 (twelve years ago)

Pete Townshend in 1997 (Age 52)

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/X_ZBGxzW_Tw/0.jpg

Bob Mould in 2012 (Age 52)

http://c438342.r42.cf2.rackcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/bob-mould-2012-e1346886417640.jpeg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:45 (twelve years ago)

bob mould incense holder $49.99.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:52 (twelve years ago)

Johnny Cash in 1982 (Age 50)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CIkBXaKftBo/TjHpM7_7FvI/AAAAAAAAQHc/3RN2Q0nFH6w/s400/The%2BAdventures%2Bof%2BJohnny%2BCash%2B%25281982%2529.jpg

Garth Brooks in 2012 (Age 50)

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Garth+Brooks+2012+Country+Music+Hall+Fame+ZNymPhqH3cjl.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 01:56 (twelve years ago)

Joni Mitchell, 40, 1983

http://media.mtvne.com/manual/intl/warner/2009/USW980401858_640x480_01.jpg

Liz Phair, 40, 2007

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8564/lizphairelizabethphairw.jpg

― pplains, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 02:00 (twelve years ago)

mould looking better at 52 than he did at 25

― son of telegram sam (Edward III), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 02:24 (twelve years ago)

Peter Frampton in 1992 (Age 42)

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/119033214-peter-frampton-poses-for-a-portrait-in-1992-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=oToYvXs3XPbg5%2bsLNpXWIQftOkspkMK92s99AqgsykDCaPpl4Gf1K5V9%2bxood45jKR%2bij0e48ENZKHFqDKFEEg%3d%3d

John Frusciante in 2012 (Age 42)

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/80127853/John+Frusciante+JF+2012.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:01 (twelve years ago)

Elvis Costello in 1996 (Age 42)

http://cdn102.iofferphoto.com/img3/item/523/174/303/cd-elvis-costello-live-1996-new-york-algonquin-hotel-dd85.jpg

Rivers Cuomo from Weezer in 2012 (Age 42)

http://media.musicfeeds.com.au/files/fa6cda233652bf414c48aab2bc9a3fd4-576x384.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:11 (twelve years ago)

mould looking better at 52 than he did at 25

Could say the same for Grant Har...oh wait.

― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:14 (twelve years ago)

Kiss in 1983 (Gene Simmons is 34)

http://www.necramonium.com/KISS82.44.jpg

Slipknot live in 2006 (Corey Taylor is 34)

http://www.slipknot-metal.com/photogallery/albums/uploads/live/mayhemfestival2008/Mayhem%20Festival%2C%20Mansfield%2C%20MA%20%2805%20August%202008%29/2760389521_a4c05fc92a_o.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:46 (twelve years ago)

Ted Nugent in 1997 (Age 49)

http://static1.imagecollect.com/preview/560/3b952b9135e8c38

James Hetfield in 2012 (Age 49)

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31200000/2012-Orion-Music-More-Festival-Day-2-james-hetfield-31243520-418-594.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 03:56 (twelve years ago)

Geddy Lee in 2004 (Age 51)

http://api.ning.com/files/klggl9g40O6okRR*BWqmdTlYT3tuxqzMKkA1LYTQ9Gf1ycJwG8FVYe3cF1Ev4ixd2h3J1a0P9pettegyui56594UC22SkFqR/Geddy_Lee_Milan_2004.jpg?width=495&height=600

Tom Araya in 2012 (Age 51)

http://media.classicrockmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/tomaraya.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:03 (twelve years ago)

I wish Ferry and Hoffs had hooked up in the 70s and had a daughter that I could have spent every waking moment since I hit puberty in the mid 80s chasing all over the world...

― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:05 (twelve years ago)

tell us more about this dream...

― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:07 (twelve years ago)

I had way too much fun with that and spent way too much time on it.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:08 (twelve years ago)

http://0.static.wix.com/media/cec8b8_4ae6fcef15f00cb896bf4b7cf7c4bffb.jpg_512

Lynyrd Skynyrd 1991

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01157051f7a7970b-800wi

Alice In Chains 2009

― earlnash, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:25 (twelve years ago)

Geddy Lee being only 8 years older than Tom Araya does not compute

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:31 (twelve years ago)

Weirded me out too... But Geddy was born in 1959 and Araya was spawned in 1961. I mean, I wasn't in the delivery rooms or anything. But that's what Wiki says.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:34 (twelve years ago)

Geddy was 1953, he says without a typo.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:34 (twelve years ago)

You know when you look at alot of metal musicians, they often make it quite a bit older than other rock bands. Ronnie James Dio was 33 by the time Rainbow got popular in the mid 70s.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:36 (twelve years ago)

The first Rush and Slayer records were released 9 years apart (74 and 83 respectively) so it's really not that weird for Geddy Lee and Tom Araya to be 8 years apart.

― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:45 (twelve years ago)

Dio did a lot of things before he did metal though. He was recording doo-wop in the late '50s:

http://ronniejamesdiosite.com/NewsInterviews/articles/Biographys/Ronnie&TheRedcaps/Redcaps.gif

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:47 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, he was playing rock and roll pre-Beatles, definitely an interesting part of his story.

― earlnash, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 04:51 (twelve years ago)

Rivers Cuomo from Weezer in 2012 (Age 42)

Looking even younger now - but then again hair-regrowth should do that:
http://distilleryimage1.s3.amazonaws.com/a67f595e638a11e2a82422000a9e07ae_7.jpg

― 'Separate Lives', by Phil Collins & Marilyn Manson (PaulTMA), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 05:16 (twelve years ago)

The first Rush and Slayer records were released 9 years apart (74 and 83 respectively) so it's really not that weird for Geddy Lee and Tom Araya to be 8 years apart.

― Oblique Strategies, Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're right of course, i guess now culture & music feels like it evolves so much more slowly in some ways, so 2004 doesn't really feel like a different world the way that 74 and 83 do, if that makes sense

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 16:54 (twelve years ago)

It really is weird how the movement of time and eras have slowed. I can't tell if it's because I'm getting older or if it's because things really haven't changed as much from 2008-2013 as they did from 1968-1973 or 1978-1983.

But yeah, when you think how we're as far apart from Synchronicity being released as Led Zeppelin's first album was from the death of Robert Johnson, it's a bit disorienting.

― pplains, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 17:23 (twelve years ago)

i spend hours pondering this. when i was a kid i remember watching lots of documentaries with my dad celebrating the 20th anniversary of Sgt Pepper's. 1967 seemed like lifetimes ago to me back then, but Nevermind - the landmark album of my youth - just celebrated its 20th anniversary, and that shit still feels like last week to me.

― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 17:30 (twelve years ago)

Yet something like The Matrix already seems from another age: Payphones? Dialup?

― SongOfSam, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:29 (twelve years ago)

The Killers. Franz Ferdinand. Little Jon. Hey Ya.

― how's life, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:35 (twelve years ago)

there's a chapter in RETROMANIA on why this is so.

it's the internet, which never lets us forget

― vagina the escape G.O.A.T. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:41 (twelve years ago)

not to derail this wonderful thread but is retromania worth checking out

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:42 (twelve years ago)

xpost
yeah, technology is what dates things in movies now way more than music or haircuts or whatever

william gibson calls it "the infinite digital now" but I can't remember his whole argument - heard him talk about it in relation to the beatles in this interview:
http://www.cbc.ca/day6/blog/2012/04/06/william-gibson-on-elvis-sonic-youth-and-the-eternal-digital-now/

― brio, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:43 (twelve years ago)

The Killers. Franz Ferdinand. Little Jon. Hey Ya.

― how's life, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 1:35 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"Hey Ya" was an answer in the NYT crossword puzzle today! ("17 Across: 2003 OutKast hit that was #1 for nine weeks.")

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:45 (twelve years ago)

The Killers. Franz Ferdinand. Little Jon. Hey Ya.

― how's life, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 12:35 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not saying things don't change

but it's ridiculous to say that things change as fast as they used to, or as drastically

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:15 (twelve years ago)

No, I do agree: things feel like they've slowed down or stagnated.

― how's life, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:19 (twelve years ago)

I got really freaked out when they released the Nirvana live at Reading 1992 DVD (a show I was at) and realised that for some kids I know it was as far removed as when I heard The Song Remains The Same.

― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:21 (twelve years ago)

agree with the last few posts. can any oldsters comment on this? was the difference between 1968-1973 or 1978-1983 as substantial as it seems now? or is my perception colored from marking time contrasting Dave Clark Five to Mater of Reality

― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:55 (twelve years ago)

Master

― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:56 (twelve years ago)

now i'm imagining larry the cable guy singing "into the void"

― My Lol's Beyond (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:57 (twelve years ago)

not to derail this wonderful thread but is retromania worth checking out

This thread should cover you: Retromania: Pop culture's Addiction to its Own Past. (New Simon Reynolds book).

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 24 January 2013 06:41 (twelve years ago)

why ben folds always gotta curse

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Thursday, 24 January 2013 18:36 (twelve years ago)

Ha! Bob Mould stole my thunder from above by actually posing with the guy:

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/376370_10151408120960699_1094890529_n.jpg

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 2 February 2013 20:09 (twelve years ago)

Don't know if I've ever seen anyone look more smug while taking a picture of Pete Townshend.

― pplains, Saturday, 2 February 2013 20:13 (twelve years ago)

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