Microblog Memes

from my friend who's a stand-up

men will criticize women for not knowing the bands on their t-shirts but will wear floral patterns without being able to identify any of the flowers

I work a lot of college events, and I see a lot of vintage band shirts, with Dark Side of the Moon the most common. I always ask if they heard the album, and they say Yes only about 20% of the time, so I tell them that their homework assignment is to go home and listen to it tonight, and that it will change their life.

One girl was wearing a Metallica shirt, and she very enthusiastically said she LOVED them, because her Dad always plays them in the car. I could tell it was a genuine loving connection she had with her Dad over Metallica. Truly beautiful.

To be fair their gen x and millennial parents probably still buy most of their clothes. I buy my son band shirts and he’s college age. He’s got Dropkick Murphy’s, NOFX, RTM, Nirvana and Rancid. He’d recognize their songs but I don’t know if he knows the names of the songs

I appreciate the anti-gatekeeping sentiment here, but I can't reconcile that with the judgment I think we'd have for someone wearing a Che Guevara shirt without knowing who he was.

It's also ok to like a bands visual art even if you are not a fan of their musical art. Or I suppose the other way round too

There's some truth to the joke though - a while ago one of the fast fashion brands, I think it was H&M, created a line of fake bands just to put on t-shirts and other things. It's pretty sad.

"Nirvana is just a state I'd like to achieve someday"

My daughter wore a Motörhead body when she was 6 months old, and couldn't name a single song of theirs. What a fucking poser

And he's mumblin'

And he's screamin'

Cause he can't name

What they're singing!

Let him wear shirts,

They don't wanna.

Even cool bands

Like Nirvana!

Fuck off with this gatekeeping bullshit.

As someone who grew up on Nirvana I'm in no place to gatekeep fashion. My clothes back then were so fucking big that gusts of wind picked me up like a kite. I had an empty wallet CHAINED to my belt for fucks sake.

I can't even name the bands or titles of songs I regularly listen to. Some of us just listen to music to enjoy it, not to score fact points with music nerds.

This type of nonsense actually kills the thing you're trying to protect. What are you trying to prove? That some kid doesn't know the songs? Sure, you know you're right... but why milk it? Just say "come as you are" and share your passions with others.

I would accidently pack a slipknot shirt of my (rather big-boned) classmate after sport. My mother washed the clothes and would wear it in the garden as it would fit nobody else. I had no idea and never told her but seing her gardening even years after my graduation in a slipknot shirt was hilarious.

Easy. Ghosts 1, 2, 3 and 4

Oh, you're a Nirvana fan? Name every person Courtney Love has killed with a Shotgun to the face.

One other problem with naming Nirvana songs is that their titles are often not words from the chorus like most mainstream songs.

I think most people who know Nirvana could name Smells like teen spirit even though it's not in the lyrics. I suspect people could name Come as you are, since it's the first lyric of the song.

But after that, I guess it might be Heart shaped box?

With Nirvana, when you really want to hear that one song and you go look it up, you always think, okay, what's the song name? "Yeah!"? That can't be right. And then you have to go through some process to pry it out of your memory until you remember it's Lithium.

Then people'll be : no one listens to the good old music any more (after shaming every newcomer away).

I'm not going to gatekeep this but I will be sad when the conversation goes "cool {band} shirt! You ever listen to their live stuff?" and they go "what? It's a band?"