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Yeah, I will concede that, I started with a flip phone. Ages like 12-14 or so, I think. Then I got an LG Lucid. Basically just a brick phone with a touch screen and mobile games. Thing's tiny compared to phones these days. I still have it somewhere I think....

“ A lot of it seemed to be based around technological advancements, which was less pronounced as an older-mid millennial. I remember a time before at-home internet (or even realising it existed tbf) and mobile phones etc, whereas a younger millennial (mid 90s) may not.”

Wouldn’t that be MORE pronounced? I’m assuming from everything you’ve said that you and I are roughly the same age and bruh we lived from vhs and movie stores and tape cassettes to dos and floppy disks to flip phones and iPods and Netflix mailing dvds, CDs, blue Ray discs to streaming to fucking ai tech and electric cars. Elder millennials have probably first hand experienced more technological advancement than any other age group in human history….

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yeah I screwed up 😂

for sure man, we’ve seen a crazy acceleration in technological advancement, definitely… I don’t think it’ll ever be replicated

“Yep. Well that illustrates why it’s a load of bollocks then. Everyone’s experience is different / it depends on someone’s upbringing / environment etc.”

Not really (re: bollocks). It’s not like it’s your horoscope trying to describe your character traits based on the stars here. It’s just cultural generalizations based on somewhat arbitrary time periods. It’s broad strokes but there are lots of valid conclusions to be drawn… in this instance the relevance of being gen x or millennial to having grown up with qotsa literally being that you were alive and between the ages of roughly 10 and 30 during their hey-day and peak relevance so obviously the most likely group to be hearing them. It’s not like “ur a millennial so your generational personality type dictates that you’d probably like queens of the Stone Age” lol

"Elder millennials have probably first hand experienced more technological advancement than any other age group in human history…."

You'd have to go back to like, the G.I. generation/silent generation gap where the highways were built and the power grids went up ig? Idk how many generations are even defined before that lol

What was Jesus’s gen called

genesis x

Amat I do not hate your rec

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>What was Jesus’s gen called

i believe it would be anno domini

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I just don’t like being pigeonholed thus ‘bollocks’ okay…

seriously though these terms do seem to generalise and assume person ‘x’ had access to experience / commodity ‘y’ whereas in reality they may not have. Socio-economic factors, upbringing etc. be damned. But yes, in this particular instance (re QOTSA-awareness), it can perhaps be used with more accuracy. Especially as we are on a music website (easy to forget sometimes, lol)

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In terms of QOTSA fanship/awareness, they had their breakout and biggest cultural impact with this in 2002 and their prior one in 2000. Culture wasn't remotely as disseminated via the Internet back then, and bigger acts had a lot more attention and eyes pointed at them via narrower channels.

From here, "No One Knows" and "Go with the Flow" got MASSIVE exposure through MTV2 which I watched every day for hours. The latter was my fave from the album, and I loved the video so much I bought it as a video CD single--point being, labels and culture was very pointed back then, and they were at the cultural forefront for latter Gen X/older Millennial tastes--they were doing their own thing; massive variety, edge, swagger, best lineup at this stage... powerful stuff (nu-metal was still reigning at this point too).

Since then it's been very patchy. The sheen came off, and much of their output seemed kinda dull by comparison. Now Homme's pretty old, nowhere near as cool-seeming (with several controversies relating to... umbrella termed, "toxic masculinity" issues--Oliveri even moreso hence the firing).

So, I suppose if you're too young to have not lived through the wave of them at their height, in real time, they'd probably just come across as just another old guy rock band. I'd get why.

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‘From here, "No One Knows" and "Go with the Flow" got MASSIVE exposure through MTV2 which I watched every day for hours’ (2)

Yep, same here 👍🏻

like I said earlier, I DO remember First It Giveth on music TV as well back when it dropped, but it didn’t seem to ‘hang around for as long’ in a regular rotation (although no idea if it gets airtime these days).

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“ seriously though these terms do seem to generalise”

Yes, Generalizations do tend to generalize 😬

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I do tend to agree

"if you're too young to have not lived through the wave of them at their height, in real time, they'd probably just come across as just another old guy rock band"

Lol that's definitely where they live in my brain- the youngest of the "old guy rock bands"

I love that

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