Young kids with baggy jeans and chains in town centres around the UK

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You know-all those kids hanging around town centres at the weekends with "linkin park" or "korn" etc.. black t-shirts,with chains,skateboards,spikey hair....

Are we ever gonna see them turn into little "rock&rollers" are we gonna see them swap: skateboards for skinny ties, chunky trainers for slim sneakers, spikey coloured hair for dark mops, baggy jeans for drainpipes, baggy black t-shirts for slim bright ones, black hooded tops for jackets & blazers, imaginary fetish for leather for worn leather jackets, low slung backpack for low slung holdalls, big fat "drinking is worse than dope you know" joint for a "chic" slim ciggarette. (what they call)hip-hop for raw RnB etc.....?

I hope we do,..it'd be great! And it would finally put the nail in the coffin of Nu-metal.very past its time.(and think of papa roach during "oh so sad" period of "Mourning" -"she loves me not,Im a jerk"- poor dears.)

― Myles, Saturday, 8 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

post-Str*k*s, I have actually seen it happen in a sizeable minority of places.

― jamie, Saturday, 8 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

People who think its cool to smoke tobacco are scum

― marinecreature, Saturday, 8 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this is a very sad thread for so many reasons...

― jess, Saturday, 8 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"post-Str*k*s, I have actually seen it happen in a sizeable minority of places."

this is true for the university age human. it seems that the baggy metallers just tone down the clothing slightly on reaching 18 or so and wear the slightly baggy jeans and un-band hoodies and stick with that through until they get a job

― sam, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

''I hope we do,..it'd be great! And it would finally put the nail in the coffin of Nu-metal.very past its time.(and think of papa roach during "oh so sad" period of "Mourning" -"she loves me not,Im a jerk"- poor dears.)''

I see these kids all the time in UK shopping centres and...so fucking what?! Why sneer like that at other peoples music. I also don't like nu-metal but its the music 'those kids' like.

''Are we ever gonna see them turn into little "rock&rollers"''

But rock n'roll is dead! And so respectable! You must abt 80! That's it! maybe the streets would be safer for you.

― Julio Desouza, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, post-st*o*es.

when i say rock and roll i mean detroit cobras,von bondies,come ons,yeah yeah yeahs type of rock.

you must have noticed a shift in the media from the nu-metal to "rock&roll" in the media.and it's through the media all those little kids are influenced.

i'd just think it'd look nicer seeing loads of kids going about town dressed up as the st*o*es or whoever,wanting make bands and thrash their guitars still,but to a different beat,and without all the bass and scratching.

i dont know what a lot of you are getting wound up about though?

― Myles, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What 'media' would that be, then? Current circulation of NME - 34,000

― marinecreature, Sunday, 9 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Interesting thing - The Strokes have still not had as many top 10 singles as Gay Dad.

― Mr Swygart, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gawd. Just because you like it doesn't make it any better or worse than anything else. I do like the strokes better than Linkin Park and their vile pepsi max drinking ilk, but PLEASE, thye are no less manufactured. I hope the kids start their own bands and end up selling lots of CDs.

― Andrew, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Myles (Myles!) - your perceptions are acute; perhaps you should make a concept album out of them.

― the pinefox, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"without all the bass"

As long as driving is cool, this seems unlikely.

― Tom, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Personally I wear loose jeans, a chain and a black Tshirt and I am an overenthusiastic prog fan. Admittedly I don't live in the UK but have in the past seriously considered moving there, and will for uni. And I am never going to smoke (my grandpa died a couple of years ago from emphysema due to smoking).

― Anna Rose, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm, it would be cool to see all the kids dressing like rock & rollers etc, but to be honest some of them round here are starting to do it anyway - and good luck to them :). I think it's a much better- looking 'style'...but what would the girls wear? At the moment it's all pretty much a unisex style, anyone can wear baggy trousers and a hoody. Personally I wear big jeans and hooded tops (and i'm 20, HAH!) cos i like the way it looks...but what would I wear if i were to suscribe to the strokes-esque fashion as a girly? Just wondering...

― Ilona, Wednesday, 12 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Have you seen the Banbury Masive? www.banburymassive.tk

― James, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

hello

I'm edward. I'm from Argentina and think that korn is the best.
I'm a harcore. goodbye

― edu, Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

I hope something ran over the person who started this thread

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

This thread needs avatars.

― dave vire think (dave225.3), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

hello

I'm edward. I'm from Argentina and think that korn is the best.
I'm a harcore. goodbye

HI DERE.

I hope something ran over the person who started this thread

Well, it seems to have come true, anyway.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

What he predicted has become true, only so far the musical tastes have changed more than clothes trends have.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

outside the corn exchange, leeds on a saturday is an insane place...literally 100s of kids looking like hipsters but kinda done worse (lots of eye make up -a throw back to nu metal?)

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

wait ... corn exchange as in a market, or as in a conversation about Korn?

― dave vire think (dave225.3), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

this one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/images/2004/08/09/cityviews_cornexchange_360_350x240.jpg

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

only so far the musical tastes have changed more than clothes trends have.

Well:

Skinny ties, slim sneakers, dark mops, drainpipes, slim bright t-shirts, jackets & blazers, worn leather jackets, "chic" slim ciggarette.

Pretty much sums up the current Brighton look at least.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

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