Things I Canât Stand Part I: When People Trash Mainstream Music Today and Cherry Pick Great Artists From the Past Who Were Underground Artists That Werenât Even In the Mainstream
This is going to be a series of rants Iâll post on tumblr of things that I canât stand and things I hate, and people will read them. When people read them, they might even go viral and be reblogged and theyâll agree with what I say and maybe even show these rants to people who do these things I complain about.Â
Nowadays, itâs become an all-too-common thing to say that music today sucks, specifically mainstream music.Â
However, one thing that I REALLY cannot stand is when people rant about how todayâs mainstream music sucks and then they cherry pick great artists from the past who were underground music artists that werenât even in the mainstream.
One example of this is I found this video of a teenager on Youtube ranting about âwhy the 90â˛s are lovedâ.Â
Some of the things he praised were things that werenât even from the damn 90â˛s, like âRamboâ and âThe Exorcistâ, and even he admitted to that. So why the fuck is this kid getting off topic by praising how we had great horror movies like âThe Exorcistâ or great action movies like âRamboâ or great music like Led Zeppelin, which are things that werenât from the 90â˛s?
Actually, Iâm getting off topic myself here.
At the end of his âwhy the 90â˛s are loved videoâ, he then started ranting about modern music.Â
He then starting listing all the horrible crappy modern popular singers and groups and rappers like Justin Bieber, One Direction, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, and Nicki Minaj. The ones people always bring up in âmodern music sucks!â rants.Â
Then, he said âBack then, you had some good stuff like Slipknot, Slayer, AC/DC, Metallica, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, many other good stuffâ.
Look, I have nothing against Metallica and Slayer, at least their 80â˛s music, but back in the 80â˛s which was their âgolden agesâ, Metallica and Slayer were bands that werenât even in the damn mainstream. Their music was very heavy and harsh and un-radio friendly.Â
I hate it when people bash todayâs music and theyâre only looking at âtodayâs musicâ as whatâs in the mainstream, and then they vent about how great music was in the past and they pick UNDERGROUND music artists that werenât even in the mainstream. And this kid is a great example of that.Â
 Plus, I thought his video was about âWhy The 90â˛s Are Lovedâ, and then he cherry picks and chooses things that werenât from the damn 90â˛s. While Metallica and Slayer were still making music in the 90â˛s, the 80â˛s are considered their golden years, plus, the 90â˛s was when Metallica started going downhill. And Led Zeppelin, thatâs 70â˛s. AC/DC is late 70â˛s and early 80â˛s. I thought his rant was about why the 90â˛s are loved. Why are you praising things that didnât even come out in or werenât popular in the 90â˛s?Â
Not only that, but that kid is also the pure definition of a cherry picker, someone who cherry picks good things from the past and forgets everything else, forgetting that there was bad shit back then too.
Look, I donât hate old music, thereâs plenty of older music I enjoy, like Pink Floyd who are my favorite band, but there was awful music back then too. The Captain and Tenille, Barry Manilow, Vanilla Ice, Color Me Badd, Limp Bizkit, Air Supply, REO Speedwagon, Stacey Q, New Kids on the Block, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Toto, Survivor, Milli Vanilli, and others all say hi.Â
Thereâs a guy on Youtube known as Filthy Frank or Papa Franku, and arguably his most famous video is his video ranting about these teenagers on Youtube videos ranting about how âthey were born in the wrong generationâ. Theyâre known as âle wrong generationâ kids and teens.
Well, he was posting these various comments that these kids and teens have said, and one of them was this, in his/her own exact words:Â âFUCK THIS FUCKING GENERATION! 60, 70, 80, 90 YEARS WERE THE FUCKING BEST! AND IâM SO PISSED THAT I NEVER SEE NIRVANA, SONIC YOUTH, SEX PISTOLS AND OTHER AWESOME BANDS! NOT LIKE NOW, MILEY CYRUS, Â SELENA GOMEZ, JUSTIN BIEBER AND OTHER STUPID MOTHERFUCKERS!!!â.
Now, donât get me wrong, I love Sonic Youth. Iâve reblogged and uploaded pictures and gifs of them. Iâm supposed to be a famous singer right now, and if I was like Iâm supposed to be, some of the songs I release this year that I imagine would become huge hits would be influenced by Sonic Youth songs and meant to sound like SY songs. I would even induct SY into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame this year if I was a famous singer, and then thereâd be these rumors that Iâm Thurston Moore and Kim Gordonâs daughter.
However, during Sonic Youthâs heyday in the late 80â˛s and early 90â˛s, they were an UNDERGROUND, indie band. I consider Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon to be the King and Queen of Indie Rock.Â
Underground and indie music is music that isnât really in the mainstream.Â
Yes, they did have a few songs that were on MTVâs â120 Minutesâ, which was a show originally showcasing alternative and indie music in the 80â˛s and early 90â˛s before Nirvana made alternative music âmainstreamâ, they even had a few top 40 hits here and there that were on the Billboard Rock Charts, they performed on late night talk shows, they guest starred on âThe Simpsonsâ and were signed to Geffen Records, a mainstream record label, but during SYâs golden age from 1988-1992, they were mostly an underground/indie rock band. Especially in 1988-1990.Â
I wanna ask this kid when he thinks SY were at their best. Thereâs the âno waveâ Sonic Youth of the early to mid 80â˛s whose music was absolute garbage and total noise, thereâs the late 80â˛s/early 90â˛s Sonic Youth which I think is when SY were at their best, specifically 1990, and then thereâs post 1993 Sonic Youth, and a lot of people hate what SY made after 1993.Â
I guess he thinks SYâs best era was in 1988-1992, especially in 1990, because thatâs when SY started sounding like music. If thatâs when he thinks SY were at their best, I agree with him.
Even though they were a great band then, like I said before, they were an INDIE/UNDERGROUND band. Their music was not in the mainstream, for the most part. They mightâve appeared on TV a few times and were on a mainstream record label, but they were an indie/underground rock band then.
On WatchMojo on Youtube, there was a list of the greatest indie rock bands and underground rock bands, and Sonic Youth was on that list.Â
And do you know what WAS in the mainstream back in 1988-1992 during SYâs heyday?
Shit like Vanilla Ice, New Kids on the Block (the American One Direction of their time), Color Me Badd (a group with an appropriate name), Debbie Gibson, Milli Vanilli, C&C Music Factory, Nelson, Warrant, Bon Jovi, Gerardo (the âRico Suaveâ singer/rapper), Seduction (a terrible girl group from the late 80â˛s/early 90â˛s), Wilson Phillips, Poison, some crappy 80â˛s hair metal bands whoâve been forgotten about, there were even bands and singers who decided to turn themselves into hair metal-esque bands like Cheap Trick, etc.Â
These people Iâve mentioned are considered to be music industry jokes and the worst things about music during the late 80â˛s/early 90â˛s.Â
I want this kid to listen to those people, because THAT was what was mainstream during SYâs heyday.Â
And the most ironic thing about this kid is that this kid strongly hates his/her generation, yet in this personâs Youtube avatar image is a picture of Boo, the Worldâs Cutest Dog, who is something from this current generation.
If you hate your generation so much, why do you have an image of Boo the Worldâs Cutest Dog as your Youtube avatar? Boo is something from this current generation.Â
I canât stand people who trash todayâs mainstream music and then they cherry pick good music artists from the past who werenât even in the mainstream. Thatâs so hypocritical.Â
Those types of people need to read this rant and see what big fools of themselves theyâre making on the Internet.Â
If you know someone like who I ranted about, show this rant to them and let them read it and weep.Â