• squiblet@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    What I’ve noticed is people who think that various 90s bands were from the 80s, or vice versa.

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      11 months ago

      That’s not that weird though.

      The sound or design choices that come to define a decade, often pre-date it.

      Eg. House music originated in the 80s but became mainstream in the 90s. So if I popped on a random 80s house track, if you don’t know your stuff, you’re likely to think it’s 90s.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, often sounds progress over several years and you might have someone from one decade that was a groundbreaker, and then tons of bands 5 years later sound like them.

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      11 months ago

      I am a giant music nerd and it is really weird how often I am completely wrong about the year that bands/albums came out. It’s pretty much just early 80s vs late 80s for me though.

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      11 months ago

      To be fair I’m old enough that it’s all starting to run together now. Just last night my husband and I were arguing about what year the Deftones White Pony album was released. I remembered completely wrong.

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      11 months ago

      The only way I can have any accuracy about a pop culture event is if I can associate that event with a concrete event that happened in my life (and I remember the date of). It makes it fairly easy to remember events that happened when I was in school (what grade was I in? what year was I in that grade?) but harder for things since I have been working (where did I live/work? well that narrows it down to a few years).