Ever feel like you born in the wrong generation?

[kanonfodr]

I feel like I was born 10-15 years too late. I'm just not much impressed with this current generation I live in. I don't like the cars, the houses, the wars, it's just not my thing. I do love things that are 10-15 years old, they just appeal to me. Granted, I do like a lot of modern music, and the world's current state of interconnected-ness makes my spiderwebbing tastes available, but I love older metal and such anyways. Not to mention I've got a thing for older women, too. Values, I guess??

Peace,
Greg

 

[curandero]

Born in 71. Musically speaking it was pretty cool to be a teen in the 80's. Got to see tons of hardcore punk and thrash bands in their prime. Good times.

I don't think I'd trade my experiences for anything, as they've made me who I am, but I think being born in just about every decade in the 1900's has it's bonuses. So many cool things happening. Except maybe the 90's. You guys born then definitely got the shaft!

 

[jonathan_matos5]

i would have loved being my same age in the 60's but instead i was born in 83. oh well.

 

[JNowiski]

what if we wish we weren't bored at all? where does that fit in?

 

[spencer]

i always feel like I should have been born about a couple centuries ago. Seems like values these days are just wrong and we find silly ways to waste time.

 

[Rocker949]

But information available to us is rapidly increasing. We live in the "information" age, which surely will be nothing compared to the instant delivery available to the populace generations from now.

And for every technology that might be used to create war, there will surely be another that will protect the people from war.

I think with an increase in communication through technology between humans across the world, and a shift towards internationalism we'll see less conflict to begin with.

Communication doesn't always solve problems. Improved communication in the period prior to the Civil War, for instance, didn't always make things better. In some cases, it actually increased tension that had been building for years. Once again, though, I hope you're right and I'm wrong.

 

[MJ5150]

Nope, never felt that way. I don't know how productive it would be to lament how I wished I lived in a different generation.

-Mike

 

[IconBasser]

It probably woulda been cool to be born 50 years from now. Reason: Whenever I read any kinda tech or science magazine, I see all these crazy awesome innovations that won't become available to the average consumer for another 20 years or so.

 

[Trapezius]

I wish I could grow up in the 70's and experience all the amazing hard rock and progressive music when it was new. When I tell people at my age about the music I listen to, few know what I'm talking about. Wish I could be there and experience Rush, Zappa etc.. But no, I was born in 83.

 

[jrthebassguy]

I was born in 1986.


Without medicinal advancements not around til around the time I was born, I'd likely be dead long before now had I been born before then, possibly even the 70s. So, I'm cool with being a mid 80s baby and growing up in the 90s.


There's no time like the present.

 

[MakiSupaStar]

Born in 1970. I think I timed it pretty good.

 

[mattsbass]

Shouldve been borin in the 70's. Looks like such a simple time.

 

[Stumbo]

A lot of things sucked before the internet. No way to find out much of anything. Basically the yellow pages or the library or word of mouth. Everything took way too long. Be glad that you can learn about and enjoy any time period you like.

 

[RyRob813]

A lot of things sucked before the internet. No way to find out much of anything. Basically the yellow pages or the library or word of mouth. Everything took way too long. Be glad that you can learn about and enjoy any time period you like.

Good point, although I think the internet has as many disadvantages as advantages. For one, I think things like Instant Messages and social networking sites, (I guess you could throw text messages into this category too,) are keeping younger people from learning to really communicate, and have basic, human interaction.

Again, I was born in 90, so I was the first generation to experience AOL Instant Messenger and such, around the age of 12 or so. I think we were the last ones to escape the "technological age." Kids that grew up chatting online at 5 or 6 years old, (yes I've witnessed it ), are going to be much less social IMHO.

Also, I think the internet is as bad for music as it is good. Obviously the rantings of "the internet allows people to steal music" in the late 90's by Lars Ulrich and company are false, but I've seen bands on Myspace that have never played a show ever, but have 1,000 plays a day on their myspace. They sell t-shirts, cd's, and stickers, and make a decent chunk of change through their "devoted fan base," all online.

When you see one of these bands finally play live, they don't move, they watch their hands, and they're just complete statues. There's no showmanship at all.

So while the speed of communication provided by the internet is great, I think it has it's downsides too.

 

[zombywoof5050]

I was a 70's teen and look back with fond memories, but sometimes wish I'd been born 10 years earlier. I was glad to have missed the draft, though.

 

[tplyons]

My best friend figures he was born at least 50 years too late, should have been born in the '20's or '30's. Loves big band and swing, despises technology, and misses the days of old.

I figure I should have been born in the mid to late '70's. Should have been a teenager in the '90's inspired to play by Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Soundgarden at their prime. Instead of seventeen and strapping on a guitar in teen angst, I was seven and didn't know the difference.

Not too much new these days to inspire me musically.

 

[bobba66]

Born in 1960. I was pretty sure the Russians would kill us all.

 

[Alan Vorse]

I was born in 1974. I personally think everything went downhill after the late 60s. Especially the very plastic and fake 80s and the "Whoa-is-me, I'm a victim boo hoo" 90s.

To be able to see the jazz greats of the 50s and 60s live in a club setting would have been great. And the incredible revolutions in music that took place in the 60s like The Beatles on Ed Sullivan and Miles Davis' quintet with Tony, Wayne, Ron and Herbie coming out the same year. Would have been great.

I've recently become a big classic film fan, and I really love the films of the 30s through the mid 60s. I would have loved to see those movies on the big screen for the first time.

I'd also throw in the 60s were the era of Johnny Carson, Jack Paar and the beginning of Dick Cavett, when talk shows were actually about talking about something and not promoting your inane movie/TV show/record.

Of course we are overlooking that while the pop culture of these eras would be cool, you'd have to go through the Great Depression, World War II, Viet Nam. No thank you.

Oh and I think the internet has done more harm than good. Like right now, I should be working.

 

[lousybassplayer]

All the time. I hate my generation as a whole, and I can't think of any I would have wanted to be a part of since the 50s. I could have been a 1950s greaser or an 1850s pioneer. Not much else.

 

[Thunderscreech]

Since I am chief of the Time Police, I can visit all generations. They are just like the one before, but with different hair.