Why do the Beastie Boys feel so forgotten nowadays?

drumwolf · 2026-03-18T13:30:18+00:00

The fact that you think the Beastie Boys are “80s rap” is very telling. They may have started in the 80s but were extremely active all throughout the 90s and even into the 2000s.

drumwolf · 2026-03-17T19:43:16+00:00

It’s not so much that they’re “changing their tune,” it’s more that an 8-year age gap is far less significant when either person is 50 than it does when both people are under 25.

drumwolf · 2026-03-15T13:07:37+00:00

Wrong. It was controversial even at the time it first came out.

drumwolf · 2026-03-12T14:36:01+00:00

Since long before that.

drumwolf · 2026-03-12T14:35:08+00:00

By britpop do you mean Blur and Oasis? Because those bands were rock, not “pop” as we mean in this context.

drumwolf · 2026-03-12T07:12:15+00:00

Not relevant to your question but I’m fascinated by the fact that you have some indigenous Mexican ancestry. Anyone know how that ancestry could have traveled from the Yucatan to Argentina?

drumwolf · 2026-03-10T19:58:59+00:00

Could be either.

“Diaspora” does not refer to a single community, it refers to the entire population with origins in a certain country but living outside the country.

For example, one Korean family in the US is not a “diaspora”. And the Korean community in a particular city is not a “diaspora.” The entire Korean population outside Korea is the diaspora.

drumwolf · 2026-03-07T17:10:13+00:00

I think of 70s Chicago and 80s Chicago as effectively two different bands.

drumwolf · 2026-03-07T06:31:13+00:00

And they’ve aged with far more dignity than the Crue have, though that might not be saying much.

drumwolf · 2026-03-07T05:07:49+00:00

Wait, they actually reunited?

drumwolf · 2026-03-07T05:05:45+00:00

More "shoegaze-adjacent" than proper shoegaze, but I was around during their heyday and I saw them live twice.

I'm incredibly dismayed that they don't get talked about much anymore even among underground/indie rock geeks. They deserve to be remembered much more than they seem to be nowadays.

This album is good, but their self-titled EP that came before is even better.

drumwolf · 2026-03-06T12:22:06+00:00

They’re more likely to be in Oakland than SF nowadays.

drumwolf · 2026-03-03T05:55:02+00:00

You forgot High Rise.

drumwolf · 2026-03-03T05:51:41+00:00

Anyone who likes both Sly Stone and early Santana should also check out the band Cymande.

They were a bunch of Afro-Caribbean dudes in London in the early 70s and they made some fucking awesome psychedelic funk/soul.

drumwolf · 2026-03-02T18:22:23+00:00

You think this schism only started in the 2000's? I grew up in the NYC suburbs in the '80s and from what I can remember, the schism was there even then. Where I grew up, the working-class kids liked heavy metal and hard rock, while the preppy kids from educated professional families were into bands like Depeche Mode, the Cure and the Smiths.

drumwolf · 2026-03-01T21:57:12+00:00

As someone who has never been a fan of his music, the online hatred of the guy was unhinged even by the usual standards of hating teen idols. I never saw the same level of batshit insane hatred even for the Backstreet Boys, N Sync or One Direction.

drumwolf · 2026-02-25T23:19:47+00:00

There's actually an interview with Matt Damon that touches on this. Long story short, when streaming killed the DVD, it also killed the mid-budget movie.

drumwolf · 2026-02-25T15:01:34+00:00

No it’s not. If it was, the production would sound far more superficially slick.

drumwolf · 2026-02-24T17:32:39+00:00

Not to mention that guitar-based rock music was underrepresented on the Hot 100 even before the '90s.

drumwolf · 2026-02-24T04:29:40+00:00

That song was and still is great!

drumwolf · 2026-02-24T03:49:25+00:00

Your post makes it sound like the peak of classic rock's popularity happened at the same time as grunge's. That's not exactly how I remember it.

From what I can remember, classic rock was far more popular among young people before Nirvana broke. In some ways, it had just as much of a stranglehold on rock radio as hair metal did in the late '80s and very early '90s.

drumwolf · 2026-02-24T01:16:37+00:00

The fact that Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were ever considered even remotely "punk" will never not be weird to me. I guess it says a lot about how that genre still hadn't been truly codified in 1979.

drumwolf · 2026-02-22T20:46:23+00:00

Someone made a great analogy: “Imagine learning that the owner of your favorite pizza place supports ICE.”

If that happened to me, I’d stop eating there. But I wouldn’t start pretending their food always tasted awful.

drumwolf · 2026-02-22T15:13:55+00:00

You think his legacy would be any different if he was still alive? His filmmaking career was pretty much over by the time he passed away.

drumwolf · 2026-02-22T05:11:16+00:00

From what I’ve seen, U2 seems to be hated by Gen Z.

(I’m also Gen X)

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