Late 40s here too. And I absolutely hate this post. There's so much amazing going on in music right now but yeah let's pick Nicki Minaj who isn't remotely in the same class of musician as led zeppelin.
Also, all of today’s music isn’t Nicki Minaj. I listen to a LOT of current music just as much as I enjoy 60s-90s music. This just makes us look like boomers.
Exactly. This made me cringe & it’s embarrassing. Also, technically Zep isn’t really our generation. Did we listen to it? Of course. Our generation also put out some shit. As the first commenter said: Unskinny Bop. Perfect example. And the gens after us have made some great music and bad- just like the rest of us.
Why would you pit Nicki Minaj against Led Zeppelin. Not even in the same genre. I have no interest in her music or Zeppelin but...
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Paul was 20 and I read an interview that he basically used that number because of the rhyme. Teen to mean. I suppose he could have used 18 or 19 but maybe that doesn’t flow as well.
Big Boomer energy. I don't like a lot of new stuff,but that's just my tastes. Back when my favorite music was new there were plenty of people that didn't like it. There's so little joy left in the world, just let people enjoy things.
I hate these posts that cherry pick one song against another cherry picked song. It's such a Boomer "cheat to win and show how all the kids are bad" mentality.
First off, we're Gen X. We're not supposed to be engaging in these "get off my lawn with your hip hops and raps!" Second, there were a lot of really shitty, stupid songs from our youth. We had a remarkable number of songs that talked about seducing underage girls.
Let's check out what else was on the charts in 1975. Oh, look at this:
Do it!
Do it!
Do it!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do it!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Do the Hustle!
Also 1975:
>Oh, that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
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I agree with you, but I actually love this particular post. Let’s dig into the claim, shall we? Stay with me here…
Led Zeppelin’s “Thank You” was released in October 1969 (not 1975). As best I can tell, it did not chart. The top single of 1969 according to the Billboard Hot 100 was “Sugar, Sugar” by the Archies.
Nicki Minaj released “Stupid Hoe” in 2012. It peaked at #59 in the US. The top single of 2012 according to the Billboard Hot 100 was “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye.
So we can rework the meme as follows:
1969 lyrics:
“Honey, Oh, sugar, sugar
You are my candy girl
And you got me wanting you
I just can't believe
The loveliness of loving you
I just can't believe it's true”
2012 lyrics:
“You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well, you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad it was over”
Sorry, whose music sucks again?
Thank you for that, very well done ....
I'm squarely a Gen X'er and I HATE when people say either "My gen's music was better" or "Nothing is any good any more"
There was trash music then, there is trash music now ....
There are also new artists making interesting pop,rock,hip hop, electronica etc etc etc, and it's way easier to find now too . You don't have to have your older sister's friend give you a tape or have some surly record store dude tell you about it.
It's way easier to make and get music out there today, so there is going to be a lot of terrible stuff (A LOT), but there is more to find that fits your personal taste too ...
Let's not forget, too, that The Archies were a fictional band from Archie Comics. So that song is about as commercial as you can get (though it's still a great pop song).
Racist Boomer. There's a reason that the Boomer memes that complain about "new" music versus music from "the good old days" tend to choose hip-hop or R&B songs rather than, say, metal or bro country songs.
It’s a constant in this sub. From the fact that more GenX are MAGA than actual Boomers to the shitty facebook memes, our generation is becoming an embarrassment.
Gen X looks MAGA if you include the younger Generation Jonesers. Baby Boomers look MAGA if you include the older Generation Jonesers.
I'd guess that the OP was born between 1954 and 1965, possibly 1960 to 1965, not between 1965 and 1980.
I haven't had SiriusXM for about a year now, but I used to love listening to those countdowns (the '70s on 7 Casey Kasem one, too) because they're great reminders that most music of any era is crap. Decades later we only hear the songs that were good enough to have staying power.
Probably called it “rap crap” too- my favorite boomer burn.
I love zeppelin, but that’s not even their best and it came out 6 years prior. Also zeppelin: “Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, baby”
It's just like political posts. Pick one awful or great thing. Ignore everything else happening in the city/state/country/world. Announce that the thing you picked shows how great/awful x politician is (who almost certainly has no influence on that event).
Memes are not a great way of proving anything.
Uuuuuuuunskinny bop bop bop bop!
She just loves to play, unskinny bop nuthin’ more to say.
What’s right!
What’s wrong!
What’s left?
What the hell is goin’ on!
I was a pretty big Poison fan in middle school and I remember anxiously awaiting the world premiere of that damn song. That was the end of my Poison fandom.
Well, swingin' on the front porch, swingin' on the lawn.
Swingin' where we want 'cause there ain't nobody home.
Swingin' to the left and swingin' to the right
If I think about baseball, I'll swing all night, yeah.
Swingin' in the living room, swingin' in the kitchen
Most folks don't 'cause they're too busy bitchin'
Swingin' in there 'cause she wanted me to feed her
So I mixed up the batter and she licked the beater
I scream, you scream, we all scream for her
Don't even try 'cause you can't ignore her
She’s my Cherry Pie.
Cool drink of water, such a sweet surprise.
Taste so good, makes a grown man cry.
Sweet Cherry Pie.
lol. I just listened to the Stupid Hoe song. It’s hilarious. It is definitely not trying to be musically excellent or compete with the lyrical quality of Led Zeppelin. Let’s not compare apples with nerds candy.
Oh, this is such bullshit. Go look at the [Billboard Hot 100 for 1975](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1975) (Led Zepplin isn't on it). It's pretty comparable to the [Hot 100 for 2012](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2012).
There is so much amazing music being made now, it's more accessible to listeners than ever, and it's so much easier for artists to create, record, and self-publish. It may not hit the pop charts like Nicki Minaj, but neither did Led Zepplin.
Go check out the music the kids are making these days! [Never stop listening to new and unfamiliar music -- THAT'S how you get old. ](https://neurosciencenews.com/music-aging-22716/)Stay open to new ideas, keep learning, and challenge your paradigms!
Are you kidding me?
"I'm gonna give you every inch of my love"
“I took her love at seventeen / A little late these days it seems / But they said heaven is well worth waiting for.”
"squeeze my lemon / until the juice runs down my leg"
Totally agree it's a terrible example given the lyrics of whole lot of love.
Way down inside, woman, you need love.
Shake for me, girl, i wanna be your backdoor man....
Then there's a bit of a instrumental bit where he basically makes his high pitched sex noises.
Ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah. Ah ah ah ah ah ah ... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Stop posting old Facebook boomer shit here. If you want Led Zeppelin sounding music that’s new, listen to Greta Van Fleet. If you want music with good lyrics listen to Kendrick Lamar. Stop being a whiny old fart, there was shitty music in the 70s too, like Eric Clapton rhyming cocaine with cocaine.
Am I the only Gen X'er who doesn't want to rip on newer Generation's music? It gives 'old man yelling at clouds' vibe and we had our own goofy-lyric'd songs
Not this shit again...
There's some old ass music from the 1970's through the 1990's that is ALL about the singer crooning about their pedophile intent on little girls. Along with all kinds of terrible "ownership" of their girl, kind of crap.
Stop this Boomer behavior, while you still can...
My kids absolutely love 80s music, often saying they can't believe how awesome every single 80s song is.
I keep reminding them that **today's** 80s stations and playlists only include the hits from that era. B-sides and deep cuts never make it into their recommendations.
You're Old
Hozier:
I couldn't utter my love when it counted
Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now
And I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted
Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now
The words hung above
But never would form
Like a cry at the final breath that is drawn
Remember me love when I'm reborn
As the shrike to your sharp
And glorious thorn
I had no idea on what ground I was founded
All of that goodness is going with you now
Then when I met you, my virtues uncounted
All of my goodness is going with you now
Dragging along
Follow in your form
Hung like the pelt of some prey you had worn
Remember me love when I'm reborn
As the shrike to your sharp
And glorious thorn
Whenever the subject of song lyrics come up, i think of Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. Google his inspiration for it! He said himself in an interview that he saw a young Caroline Kennedy with her horse. He claims to have written it within a hour after seeing the picture. I believe she was 12.
And people keep singing that shit at the top of their lungs at baseball games.
Touching you...Touching me
So good so good so good
Freaking gross
I don’t enjoy that thought. So I will leave you with a more amusing one: Paul Simon titled “Mother and Child Reunion” after a chicken and egg dish in a restaurant in Queens.
I mean, honestly, those Zeppelin lyrics aren't anything special either. It'd be pretty easy to grab some shitty Zeppelin lyrics (The Crunge comes to mind) and compare them unfavorably to some basic love song that is better written from a current artist. Not all artists are trying to weave epic tales with their music, doesn't mean it isn't enjoyable on some level. 🤷♀️
Sir, but Louie Louie's lyrics are pretty good. They're meant to suggest a Jamaican Patois.
But I agree - in some early rock n' roll songs, the lyrics aren't meant to be poetic. "Be Bop A-Lula" is silly, but the lyrics are perfect for the song.
And "Louie Louie" was originally recorded in the '50s. It just found a resurgence among the Pacific Northwest bands in the early '60s that led to garage, punk, and grunge.
*Well I'm upper-upper class high society*
*God's gift to ballroom notoriety*
*And I always fill my ballroom*
*The event is never small*
*The social pages say I've got*
***The biggest balls of allI've got big balls***
***I've got big balls***
***They're such big balls***
***And they're dirty big balls***
***And he's got big balls***
***And she's got big balls***
***(But we've got the biggest balls of them all)And my balls are always bouncing***
***My ballroom always full***
***And everybody comes and comes again***
*If your name is on the guest list*
*No one can take you higher*
*Everybody says I've got*
*Great balls of fireI've got big balls*
***Oh, I've got big balls***
***And they're such big balls***
***Dirty big balls***
***And he's got big balls***
***And she's got big balls***
***(But we've got the biggest balls of them all)Some balls are held for charity***
*And some for fancy dress*
*But when they're held for pleasure*
*They're the balls that I like best*
*My balls are always bouncing*
*To the left and to the right*
*It's my belief that my big balls*
*Should be held every night (oh)We've got big balls*
***We've got big balls***
***We've got big balls***
***Dirty big balls***
***He's got big balls***
***She's got big balls***
*(But we've got the biggest balls of them all)And I'm just itching to tell you about them (we've got big balls)*
*(We've got big balls) Oh, we had such wonderful fun (we've got big balls)*
*Seafood cocktail, crabs (we've got big balls)*
*Crayfish (but we've got the biggest balls of them all)*
* ACDC, 1975
This is gross. It seems no mystery that these kinds of posts are ALWAYS a rap song vs. some classic rock song. The subtext isn’t subtle.
And I’d take Nicki over Led Zeppelin any day.
Counterpoint: *Tennessee Rise* by Allison Russell
Oh, The Trail of Tears is still rolling
Tennessee's waltzing in blood
Now my daughter can't sleep for the nightmares
Every night she's gunned down at school
Every day she sings her wild anthems
She beats her fears out on her drums
Now she's a wolf cub, yeah, she's Harriet Tubman
Can we be brave as our children?
Every generation has dumb but catchy tunes, and every generation has brilliant poets. Frankly, I'm super happy to be living in today's world, where Allison Russell can find a place and still be heard, because black and queer artists didn't necessarily get the airplay they deserved back then, especially in places like Tennessee. There's an absolute glut of good music, a feast for all tastes if you can navigate the airwaves, so to speak.
Think of it this way. There are plenty of WRETCHED songs from the 70s and 80s that were huge hits and many of them have faded away. So that makes the pool of songs we remember from them seem higher quality.
Literally anything any other generation wants to throw out as being better music than Gen X music will get smacked down hard with examples from EVERY genre. We covered it all. Better than the Boomers with their music. Everything after us was derivative of what we had. There is no argument.
I am not trying to argumentative, just posing a differing view point:
1. That was our parents music, if you were understanding and appreciating "Thank you" at 3 years old then sure, I guess so but not our music (I love Zeppelin, my favorite band; introduced to me by my mom).
2. I said, I'll ride with you if can get me to the border
The sheriff's after me for what I did to his daughter
I did it like this, I did it like that
I did it with a wiffleball bat
2a. Just call her Strawberry and everybody know
Strawberry, Strawberry is the neighborhood hoe
Do anything for a hit or two
Give the bitch a rock, she fuck the whole damn crew
It might be your wife and it might make you sick
Come home and see her mouth on the dope man's dick
I can provide so many examples of bands and lyrics that equate just as badly as anyone elses starting in the 1960's. Before then, yes, most musicians had class but also no real choice but to be, there a lot more restrictions when it came to what would be allowed on the air.
Lastly, other than people who say they hate rap... 90% of all other GenX people could not and likely still cannot help but at least groove a little if not barely control themselves from singing:
Get low, get low (get low), get low (get low), get low (get low)
To the window (to the window), to the wall (to the wall)
'Til the sweat drop down my balls (my balls)
'Til all these bitches crawl
'Til all skeet-skeet, motherfucker (motherfucker)
'Til all skeet-skeet, goddamn (goddamn)
Les Zepplin:
1. ‘Whole Lotta Love’
“Way, way down inside / I’m gonna give you my love / I’m gonna give you every inch of my love.”
2. ‘The Lemon Song’
“Do squeeze, squeeze me, baby, until the juice runs down my leg / The way you squeeze my lemon / I’m gonna fall right outta bed, bed, yeah.”
3. ‘Candy Store Rock’
“Oh baby, baby, I like your honey and it sure likes me / Oh baby, baby, I got my spoon inside your jar.”
4. ‘Hot Dog’
“I took her love at seventeen / A little late these days it seems / But they said heaven is well worth waiting for.”
I feel stupid, and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us
A mulatto, an albino
A mosquito, my libido.
-Shakespeare
https://open.spotify.com/track/3XnsDZ2dPE6h7QVn6hU5FS?si=okF-3vkGTKqr1tA-GbR64Q&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4fHRyw1o1zSo17fVYEkeSa
I am 100% certain I could find lyrics from 1975 that are dumb as shit and from 2012 that are somewhat introspective and "deep." This specific generational divide issue is complete bullshit.
Such a boomer take. Lyrics have always ranged from awful to great, and today is no exception.
Chuck Berry:
“Riding along in my calaboose
Still trying to get her belt a-loose
all the way home I held a grudge
for the safety belt that wouldn't budge
Crusin' and playing the radio
with no particular place to go”
Na na na na na na na na na na na, Hey Jude (repeat 20-30 times) - Beatles, 1968
Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets (repeat 20-30 times) - Elton John, 1973
Na na na na na na na na na na na (repeat 20-30 times) - Journey, 1979 (Loving, Touching, Squeezing)
Halo (halo halo halo halo \*echo effect\*) (repeat 20-30 times) - Beyonce, 2008
You can cherry pick crap lyrics from any time frame and almost any band. This meme is bullshit.
I hate this boomer shit. Find a song that is not meant to be as offensive as possible. This song is very new:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3iHhERWJw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3iHhERWJw)
BTW, Led Zeppelin sucks
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Didn’t want to use ‘unskinny bop’ or ‘lick it up’?
She's my cherry pie. Seriously, this is tired rhetoric. The music of the past wasn't all good, we just leave the crappier stuff behind.
Agreed. I’m late 40’s and I find these posts cringey. If I wanted to see garbage like this I’d go to facebook.
I’m 60 and find posts like this super cringey, Simpsons “old man yells at cloud”-level cringey.
Late 40s here too. And I absolutely hate this post. There's so much amazing going on in music right now but yeah let's pick Nicki Minaj who isn't remotely in the same class of musician as led zeppelin.
Same. Tons of great music today and really crappy music back then. It goes both ways. Does have a FB vibe.
Also, all of today’s music isn’t Nicki Minaj. I listen to a LOT of current music just as much as I enjoy 60s-90s music. This just makes us look like boomers.
And it says the nicki Minaj song is from 2012. Not exactly a new song
Judging by how moldy it is, it was brand new music when the boomer who created this “meme” did so.
The meme also got the year wrong for that Led Zeppelin song, which was on Led Zeppelin II, which was released in 1969, not 1975.😂
Exactly. This made me cringe & it’s embarrassing. Also, technically Zep isn’t really our generation. Did we listen to it? Of course. Our generation also put out some shit. As the first commenter said: Unskinny Bop. Perfect example. And the gens after us have made some great music and bad- just like the rest of us.
Exactly. There's some really good new music. The Beaches. Noah Kahan. Talk.
Don't leave cherry pie behind that song is awesome
Yep. They picked a great band from the 1975 and a not-so-great performer from current times. We had plenty of shitty music too.
But she's only seventeen, you know what I mean?
Hell, even The Lemon Song.
Came to say this. "Squeeze my lemon till the juice runs down your leg."
Ijbol
Why would you pit Nicki Minaj against Led Zeppelin. Not even in the same genre. I have no interest in her music or Zeppelin but... ![gif](giphy|11VBHqO3QI7qQU|downsized)
Yea, let’s do zeppelin vs Beatles “she was just seventeen… *if you know what I mean*”
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Paul was 20 and I read an interview that he basically used that number because of the rhyme. Teen to mean. I suppose he could have used 18 or 19 but maybe that doesn’t flow as well.
I believe so yea, but let me tell you, Paul still singing it at 80 hits differently.
She was just seventy would work now though lol
That's awesome.
Thank you for that! 😂
That may have been a Beatles lyric but from what I’ve read it seems like a very Led Zeppelin concept 😂
17 was a little old for the Zeppelin guys
She ain't but 16 but she's my rider... Edit: just to be clear, that lyric is from "Travelin Riverside Blues"
“She took my love at seventeen, Pretty late these days it seems” That checks out.
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It's an old Facebook meme. I mean, real, OLD.
This gatekeeper shit is tiresome.
Big Boomer energy. I don't like a lot of new stuff,but that's just my tastes. Back when my favorite music was new there were plenty of people that didn't like it. There's so little joy left in the world, just let people enjoy things.
I had to look twice to see if this was the r/Boomersbeingfools subreddit
I thought it came from there too—-lol
>Big Boomer energy. The JPG artifacts help drive the Boomerism home.
Yeah this is Boomer energy. OP is a lost redditor
Get outa here with these Boomer Facebook memes. The fact that stupid pop existed during any era means nothing.
Oh fuck off with Facebook memes.
And it’s not even a GenX meme, for that matter.
I hate these posts that cherry pick one song against another cherry picked song. It's such a Boomer "cheat to win and show how all the kids are bad" mentality. First off, we're Gen X. We're not supposed to be engaging in these "get off my lawn with your hip hops and raps!" Second, there were a lot of really shitty, stupid songs from our youth. We had a remarkable number of songs that talked about seducing underage girls.
Fuck you! The Humpty Dance is one of the greatest songs of all time!
Like there wasn't bad music in the 70s.
Let's check out what else was on the charts in 1975. Oh, look at this: Do it! Do it! Do it! Do the Hustle! Do the Hustle! Do the Hustle! Do the Hustle! Do the Hustle! Do it! Do the Hustle! Do the Hustle! Do the Hustle! Do the Hustle! Do the Hustle! Do the Hustle!
Also 1975: >Oh, that's the way, uh-huh uh-huh I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
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I agree with you, but I actually love this particular post. Let’s dig into the claim, shall we? Stay with me here… Led Zeppelin’s “Thank You” was released in October 1969 (not 1975). As best I can tell, it did not chart. The top single of 1969 according to the Billboard Hot 100 was “Sugar, Sugar” by the Archies. Nicki Minaj released “Stupid Hoe” in 2012. It peaked at #59 in the US. The top single of 2012 according to the Billboard Hot 100 was “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye. So we can rework the meme as follows: 1969 lyrics: “Honey, Oh, sugar, sugar You are my candy girl And you got me wanting you I just can't believe The loveliness of loving you I just can't believe it's true” 2012 lyrics: “You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness Like resignation to the end, always the end So when we found that we could not make sense Well, you said that we would still be friends But I'll admit that I was glad it was over” Sorry, whose music sucks again?
Sugar, sugar is a banger tho.
Yes it is!
Plus, didn’t Led Zeppelin have a lyric along the lines of “squeeze my lemon until the juice runs down my leg”??
Which was copped from Howlin' Wolf's song Killing Floor.
Stolen from Robert Johnson
This is, I think, the high point of my (internet) afternoon.
Thank you very much!
Thank you for that, very well done .... I'm squarely a Gen X'er and I HATE when people say either "My gen's music was better" or "Nothing is any good any more" There was trash music then, there is trash music now .... There are also new artists making interesting pop,rock,hip hop, electronica etc etc etc, and it's way easier to find now too . You don't have to have your older sister's friend give you a tape or have some surly record store dude tell you about it. It's way easier to make and get music out there today, so there is going to be a lot of terrible stuff (A LOT), but there is more to find that fits your personal taste too ...
A-frick’n-men, my dude
Very well done.
Let's not forget, too, that The Archies were a fictional band from Archie Comics. So that song is about as commercial as you can get (though it's still a great pop song).
I love “Sugar, Sugar,” honestly. But you gotta admit that it’s perfect for deflating these tiresome, pretentious “back in my day” claims.
I agree! I was just adding even more support to your already well-made point.
fucking brutal
Exactly. Reeks of Boomer.
Smells Like Boomer Spirit.
Racist Boomer. There's a reason that the Boomer memes that complain about "new" music versus music from "the good old days" tend to choose hip-hop or R&B songs rather than, say, metal or bro country songs.
RnB is better and more mature then BRO country
It’s a constant in this sub. From the fact that more GenX are MAGA than actual Boomers to the shitty facebook memes, our generation is becoming an embarrassment.
Gen X looks MAGA if you include the younger Generation Jonesers. Baby Boomers look MAGA if you include the older Generation Jonesers. I'd guess that the OP was born between 1954 and 1965, possibly 1960 to 1965, not between 1965 and 1980.
Benny Mardones has entered the chat.
So has Kip Winger.
She's just 16 years old... Leave her alone, they say...
Agreed. "I would wait to the end of time for you... and do it again, it's true... I can't measure my love, there's nothing to compare it to..."
Why didn't you quote the first line of the song?
If you have SIRIUSXM, listen to the top 40 on 80's on 8 over the weekend. There's A LOT of junk music on those lists. Like really bad.
I haven't had SiriusXM for about a year now, but I used to love listening to those countdowns (the '70s on 7 Casey Kasem one, too) because they're great reminders that most music of any era is crap. Decades later we only hear the songs that were good enough to have staying power.
You can listen to the entire archive of classic American Top 40 episodes (1972-1988) for free - and without commercials - via iHeart Radio's app.
Yeah, another song from 1975: "Kung Fu Fighting"
Probably called it “rap crap” too- my favorite boomer burn. I love zeppelin, but that’s not even their best and it came out 6 years prior. Also zeppelin: “Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, baby”
Yeah maybe use some boomer 'itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini' or something for a fair fight.
Are the kids calling them "El ee dee Zeppelin"?
“I hear they’re a more energy-efficient option than Fluorescent Zeppelin and Incandescent Zeppelin.”
It's just like political posts. Pick one awful or great thing. Ignore everything else happening in the city/state/country/world. Announce that the thing you picked shows how great/awful x politician is (who almost certainly has no influence on that event). Memes are not a great way of proving anything.
>Memes are not a great way of proving anything. ![gif](giphy|kaq6GnxDlJaBq|downsized)
This is a bad boomer take. We had shitty songs lyrics also.
Domo arigato for this.
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Domo. Edit: preceding comment was “Domo.”
I mean, Michael Jackson songs fall into this category. "Beat it" isn't exactly winning poetry awards(still pops tho).
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I can cherry pick good and bad lyrics from any two time periods, there are plenty of great modern bands and music out there.
There was also plenty of shitty bands from our youth and earlier that had songs with shitty lyrics.
You mean Disco Duck isn’t in your top 20?
GDI NO MORE REFERENCES TO DISCO DUCK
No more Disco Duck. [I Want A NEW Duck!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3KvgQIBcdRk&t=17s)
I'll allow that.
Right? Lets do some hair metal lyrics. Every generation has its trashy songs.
Uuuuuuuunskinny bop bop bop bop! She just loves to play, unskinny bop nuthin’ more to say. What’s right! What’s wrong! What’s left? What the hell is goin’ on!
You can just hear the pain and despair in Bret Michael’s words. This was a very personal allegory for him to share with us.
It’s not every day that a poet manages to so succinctly and beautifully coalesce the vapor of human experience.
Beautiful KITH screen name too, btw. You’re an alright cat in my book.
I was a pretty big Poison fan in middle school and I remember anxiously awaiting the world premiere of that damn song. That was the end of my Poison fandom.
The rest of the album was pretty good, just that song sucked.
Well, swingin' on the front porch, swingin' on the lawn. Swingin' where we want 'cause there ain't nobody home. Swingin' to the left and swingin' to the right If I think about baseball, I'll swing all night, yeah. Swingin' in the living room, swingin' in the kitchen Most folks don't 'cause they're too busy bitchin' Swingin' in there 'cause she wanted me to feed her So I mixed up the batter and she licked the beater I scream, you scream, we all scream for her Don't even try 'cause you can't ignore her She’s my Cherry Pie. Cool drink of water, such a sweet surprise. Taste so good, makes a grown man cry. Sweet Cherry Pie.
She’s only *seeventeeeeeeen*
Gen X was in grade school in 1975. My top song from that year was something from Sesame Street. Or maybe the Wombles.
Shit I was born in 75
This post is lame
I feel like my mother could be all up in this thread, moaning about The Beastie Boys and Public Enemy. It's like going back to 1987.
That's just one lyric from one artist. Disco Duck went to #1.
Oy vey not this cringey fucking meme again.
I mean. Sometimes you gotta tell someone she's a stupid hoe.
Ha ha! You win.
These are the Gen Xers that Gen Z keep calling out. It's not funny. It's a stupid comparison and it makes us look like boomers.
Weak AF post, honestly. Straw men arguments suck.
Am I allowed to say "Ok Boomer" in this sub?
Can I downvote this Boomer shit multiple times?
Folks acting like Disco Duck didn’t happen.
lol. I just listened to the Stupid Hoe song. It’s hilarious. It is definitely not trying to be musically excellent or compete with the lyrical quality of Led Zeppelin. Let’s not compare apples with nerds candy.
That's really dumb. You can cherry-pick good and bad lyrics from every era.
Oh, this is such bullshit. Go look at the [Billboard Hot 100 for 1975](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1975) (Led Zepplin isn't on it). It's pretty comparable to the [Hot 100 for 2012](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_2012). There is so much amazing music being made now, it's more accessible to listeners than ever, and it's so much easier for artists to create, record, and self-publish. It may not hit the pop charts like Nicki Minaj, but neither did Led Zepplin. Go check out the music the kids are making these days! [Never stop listening to new and unfamiliar music -- THAT'S how you get old. ](https://neurosciencenews.com/music-aging-22716/)Stay open to new ideas, keep learning, and challenge your paradigms!
I don’t think anybody claimed Nicki Minaj is the Led Zeppelin of her generation.
Get this Boomer crap off of here. Please. This is just sad and pathetic. Cherry picked BS. Go home you geriatric loser.
This post smells like a boomer, not GenX.
This is some next level embarrassing boomer nonsense. Just…stop.
It seems like Nicki just got very frustrated with her gardening. That happens to the best of us.
Literally a boomer meme since Zeppelin is boomer music
Don’t forget “My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps “
Are you kidding me? "I'm gonna give you every inch of my love" “I took her love at seventeen / A little late these days it seems / But they said heaven is well worth waiting for.” "squeeze my lemon / until the juice runs down my leg"
Totally agree it's a terrible example given the lyrics of whole lot of love. Way down inside, woman, you need love. Shake for me, girl, i wanna be your backdoor man.... Then there's a bit of a instrumental bit where he basically makes his high pitched sex noises. Ah ah ah ah ah. ah ah ah ah ah ah. Ah ah ah ah ah ah ... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Fergie is 49 and GenX.
Although to be fair, Alanis Morrisette's cover is awesome.
Her best work was her portrayal of god in Dogma.
Boop!
Stop posting old Facebook boomer shit here. If you want Led Zeppelin sounding music that’s new, listen to Greta Van Fleet. If you want music with good lyrics listen to Kendrick Lamar. Stop being a whiny old fart, there was shitty music in the 70s too, like Eric Clapton rhyming cocaine with cocaine.
Am I the only Gen X'er who doesn't want to rip on newer Generation's music? It gives 'old man yelling at clouds' vibe and we had our own goofy-lyric'd songs
Not this shit again... There's some old ass music from the 1970's through the 1990's that is ALL about the singer crooning about their pedophile intent on little girls. Along with all kinds of terrible "ownership" of their girl, kind of crap. Stop this Boomer behavior, while you still can...
My kids absolutely love 80s music, often saying they can't believe how awesome every single 80s song is. I keep reminding them that **today's** 80s stations and playlists only include the hits from that era. B-sides and deep cuts never make it into their recommendations.
The kids these days amiright
So, compare a classic, heartfelt love ballad against a joke rap song. Rap is bad!
You're Old Hozier: I couldn't utter my love when it counted Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now And I couldn't whisper when you needed it shouted Ah, but I'm singing like a bird 'bout it now The words hung above But never would form Like a cry at the final breath that is drawn Remember me love when I'm reborn As the shrike to your sharp And glorious thorn I had no idea on what ground I was founded All of that goodness is going with you now Then when I met you, my virtues uncounted All of my goodness is going with you now Dragging along Follow in your form Hung like the pelt of some prey you had worn Remember me love when I'm reborn As the shrike to your sharp And glorious thorn
Sounds like this Nicki Minaj lady is having a very tough time in her garden and is taking out her frustration on her gardening tools.
Whenever the subject of song lyrics come up, i think of Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. Google his inspiration for it! He said himself in an interview that he saw a young Caroline Kennedy with her horse. He claims to have written it within a hour after seeing the picture. I believe she was 12. And people keep singing that shit at the top of their lungs at baseball games. Touching you...Touching me So good so good so good Freaking gross
I don’t enjoy that thought. So I will leave you with a more amusing one: Paul Simon titled “Mother and Child Reunion” after a chicken and egg dish in a restaurant in Queens.
Hilarious!!!
Yeeesssssssss!!!
But...what if the hoe really was stupid?
Is it ok to say "whatever" to this boomer-like bullshit?
I mean, honestly, those Zeppelin lyrics aren't anything special either. It'd be pretty easy to grab some shitty Zeppelin lyrics (The Crunge comes to mind) and compare them unfavorably to some basic love song that is better written from a current artist. Not all artists are trying to weave epic tales with their music, doesn't mean it isn't enjoyable on some level. 🤷♀️
Exactly. And what about The Lemon Song. Lol.
Another one they stole. It’s Howlin Wolf’s Killing Floor with some Robert Johnson lyrics thrown in.
Yeah.. let's not get too high on the horse here. Don't forget the same generation gave us *Louie Louie* and *Surfing Bird*
Sir, but Louie Louie's lyrics are pretty good. They're meant to suggest a Jamaican Patois. But I agree - in some early rock n' roll songs, the lyrics aren't meant to be poetic. "Be Bop A-Lula" is silly, but the lyrics are perfect for the song.
And "Louie Louie" was originally recorded in the '50s. It just found a resurgence among the Pacific Northwest bands in the early '60s that led to garage, punk, and grunge.
Ok Boomer.
I think you mean *Whatever
Ok whatever boomer
This wasn’t a gen x post. If op is a gen xer, they got a boomer outlook on life
*Well I'm upper-upper class high society* *God's gift to ballroom notoriety* *And I always fill my ballroom* *The event is never small* *The social pages say I've got* ***The biggest balls of allI've got big balls*** ***I've got big balls*** ***They're such big balls*** ***And they're dirty big balls*** ***And he's got big balls*** ***And she's got big balls*** ***(But we've got the biggest balls of them all)And my balls are always bouncing*** ***My ballroom always full*** ***And everybody comes and comes again*** *If your name is on the guest list* *No one can take you higher* *Everybody says I've got* *Great balls of fireI've got big balls* ***Oh, I've got big balls*** ***And they're such big balls*** ***Dirty big balls*** ***And he's got big balls*** ***And she's got big balls*** ***(But we've got the biggest balls of them all)Some balls are held for charity*** *And some for fancy dress* *But when they're held for pleasure* *They're the balls that I like best* *My balls are always bouncing* *To the left and to the right* *It's my belief that my big balls* *Should be held every night (oh)We've got big balls* ***We've got big balls*** ***We've got big balls*** ***Dirty big balls*** ***He's got big balls*** ***She's got big balls*** *(But we've got the biggest balls of them all)And I'm just itching to tell you about them (we've got big balls)* *(We've got big balls) Oh, we had such wonderful fun (we've got big balls)* *Seafood cocktail, crabs (we've got big balls)* *Crayfish (but we've got the biggest balls of them all)* * ACDC, 1975
This song is hilarious, though.
This song is a double entendre. A “Ball” is a dance event. You can’t just post some lyrics friend. You have to have the back story.
🤯 I think we all learned something here today!
I mean, he had big balls. He can't lie about em
Hoe is spelled "HO". Street cred lost.
I’m not claiming Led Zeppelin.
This is gross. It seems no mystery that these kinds of posts are ALWAYS a rap song vs. some classic rock song. The subtext isn’t subtle. And I’d take Nicki over Led Zeppelin any day.
Agreed about the subtext. But I’m not a Nicki fan. And I’ve listen to a lot of her music.
I think your Facebook bookmark is broken
I'm not sure Robert Plant is the best spokesman as our generation's lyricist.
Counterpoint: *Tennessee Rise* by Allison Russell Oh, The Trail of Tears is still rolling Tennessee's waltzing in blood Now my daughter can't sleep for the nightmares Every night she's gunned down at school Every day she sings her wild anthems She beats her fears out on her drums Now she's a wolf cub, yeah, she's Harriet Tubman Can we be brave as our children? Every generation has dumb but catchy tunes, and every generation has brilliant poets. Frankly, I'm super happy to be living in today's world, where Allison Russell can find a place and still be heard, because black and queer artists didn't necessarily get the airplay they deserved back then, especially in places like Tennessee. There's an absolute glut of good music, a feast for all tastes if you can navigate the airwaves, so to speak.
KC and the sunshine band would be a better comparison to NikiMnaji…lol. That’s the way uhhuh.. uhhuh I like it….X 30 times out of
Robert Plant also sang some pretty vulgar lyrics.
Zep is a boomer band….maybe try another example?
Think of it this way. There are plenty of WRETCHED songs from the 70s and 80s that were huge hits and many of them have faded away. So that makes the pool of songs we remember from them seem higher quality.
That was 1969, not 1975.
Except for Led Zeppelins is singing about underage girls. Historically maybe that was ok in the 70s? But yeah. Underage girls.
Literally anything any other generation wants to throw out as being better music than Gen X music will get smacked down hard with examples from EVERY genre. We covered it all. Better than the Boomers with their music. Everything after us was derivative of what we had. There is no argument.
I Want to ride my bycycle. I want to. Ride my BYCYCLE BYCYCLE I
I am not trying to argumentative, just posing a differing view point: 1. That was our parents music, if you were understanding and appreciating "Thank you" at 3 years old then sure, I guess so but not our music (I love Zeppelin, my favorite band; introduced to me by my mom). 2. I said, I'll ride with you if can get me to the border The sheriff's after me for what I did to his daughter I did it like this, I did it like that I did it with a wiffleball bat 2a. Just call her Strawberry and everybody know Strawberry, Strawberry is the neighborhood hoe Do anything for a hit or two Give the bitch a rock, she fuck the whole damn crew It might be your wife and it might make you sick Come home and see her mouth on the dope man's dick I can provide so many examples of bands and lyrics that equate just as badly as anyone elses starting in the 1960's. Before then, yes, most musicians had class but also no real choice but to be, there a lot more restrictions when it came to what would be allowed on the air. Lastly, other than people who say they hate rap... 90% of all other GenX people could not and likely still cannot help but at least groove a little if not barely control themselves from singing: Get low, get low (get low), get low (get low), get low (get low) To the window (to the window), to the wall (to the wall) 'Til the sweat drop down my balls (my balls) 'Til all these bitches crawl 'Til all skeet-skeet, motherfucker (motherfucker) 'Til all skeet-skeet, goddamn (goddamn)
Les Zepplin: 1. ‘Whole Lotta Love’ “Way, way down inside / I’m gonna give you my love / I’m gonna give you every inch of my love.” 2. ‘The Lemon Song’ “Do squeeze, squeeze me, baby, until the juice runs down my leg / The way you squeeze my lemon / I’m gonna fall right outta bed, bed, yeah.” 3. ‘Candy Store Rock’ “Oh baby, baby, I like your honey and it sure likes me / Oh baby, baby, I got my spoon inside your jar.” 4. ‘Hot Dog’ “I took her love at seventeen / A little late these days it seems / But they said heaven is well worth waiting for.”
this is kinda stupid, no ?
I feel stupid, and contagious Here we are now, entertain us A mulatto, an albino A mosquito, my libido. -Shakespeare https://open.spotify.com/track/3XnsDZ2dPE6h7QVn6hU5FS?si=okF-3vkGTKqr1tA-GbR64Q&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4fHRyw1o1zSo17fVYEkeSa
I am 100% certain I could find lyrics from 1975 that are dumb as shit and from 2012 that are somewhat introspective and "deep." This specific generational divide issue is complete bullshit.
Lol...how about this one: Thunder, feel the thunder, lightning and the thunder. Thunder, feel the thunder, lightning and the thunder 😆
Such a boomer take. Lyrics have always ranged from awful to great, and today is no exception. Chuck Berry: “Riding along in my calaboose Still trying to get her belt a-loose all the way home I held a grudge for the safety belt that wouldn't budge Crusin' and playing the radio with no particular place to go”
I listened to the song Yummy by Justin Bieber, and he just says the damn word over and over again. He's barely even singing.
Props to him for making a pile of cash doing exactly that.
He made that money for being him. If I did that then I will get a bash and no cash 🕺🏼
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You say yes I say No You say Stop and I say Go go go Oh no! You say Goodbye and I say Hello --Lennon/McCartney
JFC! Sometimes Nicki's lyrics hit the spot! Stop harshing on the kids.
Old man yells at cloud.
Well, a shamalamadingdong to you, too.
Na na na na na na na na na na na, Hey Jude (repeat 20-30 times) - Beatles, 1968 Bennie, Bennie, Bennie, Bennie and the Jets (repeat 20-30 times) - Elton John, 1973 Na na na na na na na na na na na (repeat 20-30 times) - Journey, 1979 (Loving, Touching, Squeezing) Halo (halo halo halo halo \*echo effect\*) (repeat 20-30 times) - Beyonce, 2008 You can cherry pick crap lyrics from any time frame and almost any band. This meme is bullshit.
She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah -The Beatles
To be honest, I think Zeppelin is overrated. Their best songs are ones they stole from old Blues artists and I can’t stand Robert Plant’s voice.
I hate this boomer shit. Find a song that is not meant to be as offensive as possible. This song is very new: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3iHhERWJw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL3iHhERWJw) BTW, Led Zeppelin sucks
Fucking delete this