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Darn, teenagers today dont know who Pearl Jam or Nirvana are? Well, heck I guess we are getting up there. I still cant believe that they dont know any of those bands, seems like only yesterday for me.
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That all feels like YESTERDAY for me too.  It seems like yesterday that people were bitching about Pearl Jam and Nirvana for deviating too much from the "80s sound".  It feels like yesterday it was like 1995 and all of that was all raw and cutting edge.  It feels like yesterday that Snoop Dogg and Tupac were brand new controversial rappers.

I'm just a few years younger then you Michael.  I graduated high school in 1996, and it's a shame that some kids today don't know any of that.  Though the bizzare thing is, it's not like what children and teenagers are listening to today are so different from the early and mid 90s.  Creed IS Pearl Jam.  Creed is a total wannabe Pearl Jam.  Lot of these post grunge bands are outgrowths of the early-mid 90s.  Lot of the fashions of today have kinda stayed the same too.

But being old school, darn that was inevitable though.  It happened to our stuff from the 80s, and now it's happening to the 90s.  The early and mid 90s anyway.  All of us that grew up in the late 20th century, during that time of the 80s and 90s are definately old school now.  And I like that phrase Mike, "the NEW Old School", as if we who graduated high school in the 1990s have replaced the previous people who used to be the old school.  It's true though.

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Darn, Im so darn sorry! I wont say that darn word again! :)
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Much better.  :) :) :)

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Okay so I graduated in 1995! In 2 years it will be 10 years out of high school for me! WOW time has really flew by me fast! Anyways I felt old when 2 things happened to me.
1st: my cousin and I (we are the same age) were talking about Wham and how we use to love them so much back in the day. My other cousin (who is 16) overheard our conversation and was like "who is Wham?" We were like OMG she doesn't know who Wham is OMG are we that old?? We were totally freaked out by this. Now I laugh at it.
2nd: Is when I went to visit friends where I grew up we were at a grill and bar. I ran into a couple that I use to babysit for. 2 of the 3 kids were there eating pizza. They were so BIG!! I remember when they were babies/toddlers! The 3rd (the oldest) of the kids' was out babysitting that night. She was babysitting!! OMG she is that old already?? I remember when I was that age..wow that really hit me: I WAS OLD!!!
Okay so there is my thoughts. Enjoy! LoL TTYL :)
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Keep in mind the situation and reverse it.  When you were 16 years old in 1993, and if some 25 or 26 year old back then brought up some song from 1975, how likely were you to know what they were talking about?  (like you did bringing up WHAM from 1985 to this 16 year old)  

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Gee I grew up with Nirvana apparently. I never knew they existed until Kurt Cobain killed himself. Funny how one event can change things. It was I believe the first I had heard of Courtney Love.....
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I was the same way!!!  I graduated high school in 1995.  And I had NEVER heard of Nirvana until Kurt Cobain killed himself in 1994.  That's when I heard of Courtney Love for the first time too.  I remember thinking back in '94 that this famous band was around for a couple of years, yet I had never heard of them until Cobain killed himself.

The thing was, the grunge rockers were notoriously anti-fame.  They courted fame and shunned it at the same time, so a lot of us that were not into them back in the early or mid 90s, would not have heard much of them.

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These farthest back these kids today seem to know about are the very late 90s.  It's like nothing ever happened before 1999 to them.
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Hey, come on - give some of us 'kids' some credit! I'm 18 and much prefer older music ( late 70s to mid 90s) than some of the crap that's around today. Maybe there arn't a lot of people in their teens who know a lot about music from the past, but its not because they're naive, they just haven't experienced it yet. I know quite a few people who are stuck in a certain era (I'm an 80s gal ;D), but just as many who think that todays 'pop' music is the be-all and end-all.

My friends think I'm stuck in the past, but I don't care. Everyone appreciates different music, and I'm proud that I like such a variety of styles and am not as narrow minded as some.

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I think theyre more talking about kids who are HS freshman today, since theyd be like 2 years old when MC hammer came out, and like 3 when Nirvana came out. I know us mid 80's born kids have the advantage that 80's music videos were always on Vh1 in the early 90's, and same with the radio. I agree about kids our age, most of them know about old Green day, or Nirvana, Alanis, Tupac, Kriss Kross, Fugees, etc...

However i disagree about early 90's music being very much alive, i think its very much dead, and to me its pretty apparent everytime i so much as turn on the TV.
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Well, especially those of us that graduated high school somewhere in the early-mid 90s.  I think late 90s high schoolers are still slightly fresh....though barely.

I'm 27 years old and I graduated high school in 1993.  10 years man.  10 freaking years.  

Darn I am old school.  

Stuff I hear from teenagers and children these days---

"Pearl Jam?  Who are they?  Whose Eddie Vedder?"  "Nirvana?  Isn't that a religion?"  "Whose Tupac?"  "I remember watching Beverly Hills 90210 when I was in pre-school".  

I am OLD SCHOOL.  I mean I know what I thought of people who graduated high school in 1983 back when I was a punk kid in '93.  I thought they were super old school with their Duran Duran and Air Supply vinyls, and now the tables have turned so quickly.  :(
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Hey!  We're not really that old!  ;D

Seriously, I know what you mean. It's true. We're becoming the older generation now.  :-/  ;)

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I was the same way!!!  I graduated high school in 1995.  And I had NEVER heard of Nirvana until Kurt Cobain killed himself in 1994.  That's when I heard of Courtney Love for the first time too.  I remember thinking back in '94 that this famous band was around for a couple of years, yet I had never heard of them until Cobain killed himself.

The thing was, the grunge rockers were notoriously anti-fame.  They courted fame and shunned it at the same time, so a lot of us that were not into them back in the early or mid 90s, would not have heard much of them.
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I graduated in 1992.So,that would make me OLD SCHOOL.
I think???

howard :)
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I also graduated in 1992 and was 17.  In 1995, when I was 21 a co-worker thought that I was 28 or 29.

In 1999, when I was 25 a person came up to me and said hey do you remember me? I said no. His response was we used to work together 10 years ago at some place I never heard of. He was in his 40's. That would mean I worked when I was 15.  ::)

Damn I'm old!

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One of the young girls that worked there came up to us and asked us who pacman was!!!!!!!!

omg!! :o
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:o

Even I know who pacman is....

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On other side when I say I like Molly Ringwald, they go "who?". And I don't know ANYONE offline who did not watch Not another teen movie and NONE understood half of it. I mean I watched it with my bestfriend and I was like "omg john hughes highschool" "oh that's molly!" "shit thats pretty in pink on the wall" and she would look at me with this weird expression on her face and ask "what are you talking about?".

C'mon..
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I didn't really know who Molly Ringwald was until a few years ago. I saw  "The Breakfast Club" a few years back and then watching all those VH1 shows I made the connection between Molly Ringwald and the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club came out in what 1984 or 1985? I was 6 years old at that time so I was kinda young to remember something like that.