Born in the wrong generation
 

Don't you ever feel like you were born fifty years too late?

Yupp, I was born to live through the 60s. The music, the lifestyle, the clothes. Ahh, I'm so jealous of my Mum.

Actually, yeah. I would have loved to go to the first Woodstock, I actually dream it, but what are you going to do.

only if you're cherry picking the aspects of the past you'd like to live through.

yeah the music of the late 60s was awesome, how about the impending recession, unpopular wars, socially acceptable racism, socially acceptable sexism.

how awesome would it really be? ...

Jeez, wet blanket much. But I see where your coming from.. If I was to nit-pick though, I'd go see The Beatles, The Stones and The Kinks all live. Maybe a bit of Otis Redding too :D

if i was born in 1950, sh‎‎it would be so cash

wars which were about to end and racism which was about to be eliminated and sexism which was about to also be eliminated

that's actually really awesome now that i think of it, to have experienced the massive social changes firsthand

Considering that I married outside my race, no.

about being the key word. it's easy to look back and to recognize that those social ills were about to start being rectified, i doubt things were so obvious while rioting in the streets though.

LOL. Yeah, it's pretty awesome how there's no such thing as racism, sexism or war anymore. No poverty either. Woo-hoo!

EXACTLY! now we have cultural bias, gender inequality, territorial conflicts, and social disparity, but definitely no racism, sexism, war or poverty. no sirree those words are GONE!

I'll settle for now because I can get the music from whatever generation free and without having to walk down to the shops.

And it takes up less room to store.

so you disagree that racism and sexism are no longer socially acceptable in most places in the U.S.?
or that the vietnam war is over?
which is what i said
I know it's cool to be a cu‎nt over the internet but when you let that ambition cloud your judgment, that's a bad thing bro

definitely not, but living through it would be pretty cool. given that, you know, you'd then continue living and eventually see today and the repercussions it had
i mean goddamn imagine living through the whole civil rights movement in the 60's and then seeing obama get elected.
who cares if he's a good president THERE'S A BROTHA IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Actually what you said was that, in the 60s, wars were about to come to an end and racism and sexism were about to be eliminated. I don't believe that those things have come to pass so I kind of assumed you were being sarcastic. Are you telling me you weren't?

Good point. Don't be one then. :)

Being born in the 90s was great. living my teenage years through the 00s was great. 60s has a great mystique around it, all the love, change, free speech, drugs (even though I don't partake in them) but it's probably nothing more than mystique, being born in the 60s may have been boring. The 90s and 00s were good enough for me although there are some things about this generation I despise.

Well we can't do anything about it now, but aside from all the events you guys threw out there, I think that the OP was really just talking about the music, and all the breakthrough acts that were popping up.

This isn't LifeBanter.

True. :laughing:

I still don't wish I was born fifty years earlier though, even just in terms of music. That would put my birth year at 1927 so I would have been a teenager during WWII, a time when records were not produced due to a shortage of materials needed for the war effort. Sounds like a crappy time to be a budding music collector. Though it would've have been cool to hit my late teens/early 20s just in time to catch the early years of bebop live.

I think I was born at the right time. I saw the Beatles play at the Hollywood Bowl twice, once in 1964 and again in 1965.

On such television shows like American Bandstand and the Ed Sullivan Show I saw all of the popular bands from back in the day.

I consider myself to be very fortunate and lucky to have been nable to see these bands at the height of their popularity.

I consider you very lucky aswell. Sure, we can listen to the Beatles music nowadays in probably much better quality than before, and there is a very high respect rate for them, but we will never be able to see them live anymore - back in there former glory. Theres Paul McCartney still touring, but its not the same.

I was born in the 90s too, and theres a fair share of good music from the 90s-00s, but then again, theres just as much crap music generated in these last two decades. While The Beatles were the height of popularity even then, the height of popularity for the average mainstream under-20 is Kanye West.

And I hate that.

Not really... I like listening to The Kinks and Jay-Z back to back on my high-tech iPod quite nicely, thank you very much. :thumb:

If it's about the music then certainly not. :confused: we have access to the 60s 70s 80s 90s and 00s, and most of us on here will live to see the '10s'

I'd rather be around now and have access to all of them. Not too fussed I wasn't around bands when they were getting big. Knowing me when Beatlemania was around I would've hated them "Girls, they're so overrated. Just 4 poofs from Liverpool with stupid long hair."

I don't understand people that feel they should have been born in a different era. There are just as many crazy societal issues today. *** rights, the first black president, the advent of the internet, having the entire archive of all human knowledge at your fingertips, being able to store your entire music library in something no larger than a pack of cigarettes...all really crazy stuff to be living through if you ask me.

Plus...there are a ton of bands from the past 20 years that I love too much to be bothered to go back in time when they didn't exist. This is also a great time to be living for music, especially as a collector...as Urban said I can download and listen to anything I feel like in about 2 minutes.

I would've enjoyed being born about 10 years earlier. Today, I'll never be able to see my favourite band live...

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you did a 180 on the correct interpretation

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So you seriously feel that we currently live in a culture free of racism and sexism?

Well hey, not much has changed.

But anyway, I think it's irrational to say any past era was the best time for music for the simple reason that as of today, we have an amazing back catalog of musical history, including the 70s but also all the decades that followed, stuff I would miss out on had I been born earlier.

did you just totally ignore the first part of my earlier post

you thought i was being sarcastic when i wasn't, and you also thought i was saying ALL war and racism had ended
which I wasn't

Well everything MrDave said applies to today, our generation also has unpopular wars and we are also in a recession, and while bigotry isn't as acceptable now as it was then, it's still around in large doses.

I was referring to the original post I responded to, the one that I thought was sarcastic. The one where you described racism and sexism using the word "eliminated". I guess that's where the confusion came in.

I get where you guys are coming from when you talk about all of the racism and stuff. But I think everything back then was much more real.
The music was unbelievable, you know, back when people had a passion for the sound and for what they did. Now it's all autotuned and you can only make it you have a stuffed wallet and a pretty face.
I'd do it for the music.

I feel like even if we lived it up in the eras we idolize, we would feel nostalgic for even earlier eras.
I hear popular songs from the 90s and they make me nostalgic. Maybe I heard them when I was a little kid. Anyone else get that?

Yes. Especially for people who resist what is modern and what is popular. For people who absolutely love 60s music now, could live in the 60s, and think, "What ever happened to the real music? I wish I lived in the 30s." So it's sort of a gamble.

Its weird that society continuously believes that its slowly getting close and close to a utopia. Social change in westernized society is happening kind of rapidly but when you think about ancient greece, how advanced they were culturally, and how they shaped the modern democracy, it kind of makes you feel like your whole world is crap.

yes, because i was saying socially acceptable sexism/racism were about to be largely eliminated

Breakfast at Tiffany's! and There She Goes by the La's, I remember hearing them in a pub and I had apple pie and ice cream.

The La's are one of the best bands of the 90's

Lee Mathers is a tosser, their S/T was fine. The production was fine, why didn't he just stop moaning and make another? :( they could've been brilliant.

S/T=classic

I was lucky enough to see a lot of great bands play at live events.

Amoung the bands I saw were; the Strawberry Alarm Clock, the Doors, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Hermans Hermits.

I think there was a lot of great music from that era. It was a good time to be a music fan.

Thats song is basically my childhood in a nutshell. I loved it. Still do :)

I kind of wish I was born in the late 70's in Southern California.