Quote Of The Day: Get Off My Lawn, Kid Edition
Doug Mataconis
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Friday, September 16, 2011
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6 comments
“It’s our forebears,” said Malia Alexander, 24, interviewed on a recent night at the Black Lodge, an all-ages club next to Interstate 5. “It’s kind of my dad’s music.”
– From a New York Times article on Seattle 20 years
after the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind
About Doug Mataconis
Doug holds a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University and J.D. from George Mason University School of Law. He joined the staff of OTB in May 2010 and contributed a staggering 16,483 posts before his retirement in January 2020.
Since she was about 5 when it was released, this isn’t exactly a shock. It’s an anthem for the late X’ers, but she’s a Millennial.
@Moosebreath:
Yes, yes, I know. But I don’t need Malia to remind me I’m old, I can just turn on the local “oldies” station and listen while they play music that came out when I was in High School 😀
I’m reminded of the double take I did a while back when I was in the supermarket and a muzac version of “I Wanna Be Sedated” by The Ramones started playing.
Awesome music video apropos to this discussion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K38xNqZvBJI
@Doug Mataconis:
Stop it, punks. I’m old enough to have been there at the birth of rock and roll.
Rock ‘n’ roll? Pshaw. When I was your age, we just banged stones together. We were so poor we couldn’t afford the roll.