Where has the time gone?

[Slept with ghost]

It was brought to my attention that today marks the 15th anniversary of the realise of the smashing pumpkins album siamese dream. Which is just blowing my mind to think so much time has passed in what doesn't even seem like 10 years. I didn't get the album when it first came out in 1993 but in 1995 when I was 15. Has anybody else here listened to a album that came out after you were born a just thought about how long you have been listening to it? I think its pretty amazing.

[sass_in_the_pants]

Similarly, I was listening to 94.7, the Classic Rock station, and a song from U2's Joshua Tree came on and seriously now, I thought 'Oh, they must have changed format.'

Yeah, um, Sass, that album came out like TWENTY YEARS ago. It IS classic rock.

Yikes.

When Joy Division is played on 104.3, we'll ALL be geezers, talking about how music aint what it used to be...

[creatureofthenyte]

Appetite for Destruction by Guns N Roses came out when I was 12 yrs old.

That was 21 yrs ago

[jynxxxedangel]

I've felt old for the past fifteen years or so..welcome to my world!

I remember the first Smashing Pumpkins song I ever heard was "Rhinoceros," and that was while working in a gentlemen's club somewhere out west back in '91. "Gish" was an awesome album, and very groundbreaking. I've been a fan ever since.

Gangsta rap went mainstream, and there went the "neighborhood." Not that I don't like some OLD SKOOL G rap (such as Curtis Blow, Fab 5 Freddy, Ghetto Boys, etc.)-- I just don't buy white-bread suburban kids who have never lived in the streets noddin' their heads to songs about a lifestyle they have no inkling of. I want to pull a Dave Chappelle and "flour sack" 'em, then drop the little wannabes off someplace off 8 Mile in the 'Tto. I think it would cure most of their delusions of "urban-ness." Now THAT would be funny.

Music television is definitely not what it used to be. MTV used to actually play SONGS, instead of all the inane reality shows currently in their programming. I can remember waiting for MTV to come on-- there was a test pattern up for about a week, and then lo and behold, the screen came to life! The moon-man, and The Buggles singing "Video Killed The Radio Star." I was lucky to have witnessed such a seminal moment in music history.

Top 40 radio was a strange yet pleasing amalgam of musical styles. Gone are the days of variety without genre discrimination on radio stations, unless it's an oldies station. I remember listening to WHYT, and they would be playing Morris Day and The Time one moment, then they would play Def Leppard or the Talking Heads in the next.

Having lived through parts of four decades of music, it saddens me that people are less exposed to different types of popular music, and are unable to sample bits and pieces on pop radio to be turned onto new things. Pop radio, in the way I most fondly remember it, is DEAD.

target="_blank Do YOU remember rock n' roll radio?

[Der Nister]

It doesn't make me feel old to think about how much time has passed since any band or recordings have been around.

It's all relative and I look forward to what new music will soon come to be.

Now maybe - if 94.7 statred playing KMFDM I might feel old.

[n0Mad]

It was brought to my attention that today marks the 15th anniversary of the realise of the smashing pumpkins album siamese dream.

That was the first CD I ever bought. I was a junior in High School at the time and I didn't even have a CD player yet but knew I'd be getting one for Christmas.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

It was brought to my attention that today marks the 15th anniversary of the realise of the smashing pumpkins album siamese dream. Which is just blowing my mind to think so much time has passed in what doesn't even seem like 10 years. I didn't get the album when it first came out in 1993 but in 1995 when I was 15. Has anybody else here listened to a album that came out after you were born a just thought about how long you have been listening to it? I think its pretty amazing.

I saw Smashing Pumpkins at the Phoenix Center about 12 days after Siamese Dream came out. Everybody in the crowd already knew all the words to the new songs...which was good, because the only song they did off Gish was Siva.

...on topic: There are maybe 20 albums that I can honestly say changed my life, and 3 of them will reach the 20-year mark in September and October: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy, Fisherman's Blues by the Waterboys and Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.

jdfu!

[Slept with ghost]

I saw Smashing Pumpkins at the Phoenix Center about 12 days after Siamese Dream came out. Everybody in the crowd already knew all the words to the new songs...which was good, because the only song they did off Gish was Siva.

...on topic: There are maybe 20 albums that I can honestly say changed my life, and 3 of them will reach the 20-year mark in September and October: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy, Fisherman's Blues by the Waterboys and Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.

jdfu!

I've seen them four times and they really do tend to stick to the new stuff.