Dreads and threads Nirvana T Shirts and no clue

[sleaterkinney]

There seems to be a load of millennial and a bit older, with piercings and Dreads and coloured hair and... Absolutely no politics at all, none and like the Ramones T shirt, Nirvana T Shirts and no idea what Sub Pop means! There's a few at the college I'm going to and a lass in a flat below me and... It winds me up! I keep making the presumption that they know about music and politics, it's great that people can express themselves etc but... Baaah! What do Urban people think? @x

What is it about the Ramones and politics you like?

 

[pesh]

This thread was already making me chuckle before I remembered what I had on under me jumper.

Bus 909?

 

[Voley]

Bus 909?

Yes. And I was into "The Bus" (as us afficionados know them) waaaay before the likes of you pesh.

 

[pesh]

pffft, name 3 of their drivers.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I'm knocking on a bit now but I'm definitely not old enough to remember the halcyon days when piercings, dreads and coloured hair were definite signs of political awareness. Signs of a potential anti-vax idiot perhaps.

 

[Raheem]

I have a Dead Kennedys t-shirt and I've memorised Robert, Ludovic and Nigel, just in case I'm ever asked.

 

[Poot]

This thread has given me a chuckle. I didn't realise Name Three Songs Man still existed, but I'm delighted he didn't actually die out in the great self-righteousness explosion of 2018 as I had assumed.

 

[skyscraper101]

While Nirvana/Ramones tshirts are certainly trite AF, they are way less problematic than people wearing the latest Kanye West endorsed trainers. IMVHO.

 

[Dystopiary]

NAME THREE FOUNDATIONAL ELEMENTS OF THEIR ESOTERIC PHILOSOPHY.

Ohwoahoahwoah Mumu Land

 

[killer b]

While Nirvana/Ramones tshirts are certainly trite AF, they are way less problematic than people wearing the latest Kanye West endorsed trainers. IMVHO.

what's the difference?

 

[skyscraper101]

what's the difference?

Well, for one West is a Trump-endorsing anti-Semite.

 

[Steel Icarus]

what's the difference?

About two hundred quid

 

[hitmouse]

One of its legs are both the same?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

There seems to be a load of millennial and a bit older, with piercings and Dreads and coloured hair and... Absolutely no politics at all, none and like the Ramones T shirt, Nirvana T Shirts and no idea what Sub Pop means! There's a few at the college I'm going to and a lass in a flat below me and... It winds me up! I keep making the presumption that they know about music and politics, it's great that people can express themselves etc but... Baaah! What do Urban people think? @x

Who gives a fuck?

 

[hitmouse]

I have a Dead Kennedys t-shirt and I've memorised Robert, Ludovic and Nigel, just in case I'm ever asked.

This post made me look him up to check if Nigel Kennedy had died. Turns out he's still alive, so I think that makes you a fake fan?

 

[Raheem]

This post made me look him up to check if Nigel Kennedy had died. Turns out he's still alive, so I think that makes you a fake fan?

Not at all, I just liked him before he was dead.

 

[WouldBe]

Well, for one West is a Trump-endorsing anti-Semite.

Whose bought a right wing website so he can't be banned from it.

 

[nogojones]

It's only a t-shirt of a middle of the road band. If they like it then why not wear it. Did Nirvana have especially wonderful politics, or was it just run of the mill grungy music?

As for the Ramons IIRC one of them is a right wanker and there music isn't all that either.

In the winter I'll sometimes wear a Selco woolie hat. It doesn't mean I know all their catalogue. Its just a warm hat.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's only a t-shirt of a middle of the road band. If they like it then why not wear it. Did Nirvana have especially wonderful politics, or was it just run of the mill grungy music?

As for the Ramons IIRC one of them is a right wanker and there music isn't all that either.

In the winter I'll sometimes wear a Selco woolie hat. It doesn't mean I know all their catalogue. Its just a warm hat.

maybe if you know their catalogues you can order some other similarly warm gear from them

 

[nogojones]

maybe if you know their catalogues you can order some other similarly warm gear from them

The hat was free. I doubt I'd search it out.

 

[Sue]

I got my nephew an I Wanna Be Adored t-shirt when he was two. And he couldn't name any Stone Roses songs at all at that point.

 

[skyscraper101]

I got my nephew an I Wanna Be Adored t-shirt when he was two. And he couldn't name any Stone Roses songs at all at that point.

I got rid of both my Ian Brown shirts when he started being an absolute knobber during Covid about vaccines and masks. No regrets.

 

[maomao]

Did Nirvana have especially wonderful politics, or was it just run of the mill grungy music?

Kurt was alright actually:

“If you’re a sexist, racist, homophobe or basically an a--hole, don’t buy this CD. I don’t care if you like me, I hate you.”

Johnny Ramone was a Republican arsehole though. And he neverplayed upstrokes on the guitar which is just a waste of fucking energy, who has time for that?

 

[Sue]

I got rid of both my Ian Brown shirts when he started being an absolute knobber during Covid about vaccines and masks. No regrets.

Tbh my nephew's now 10 so I suspect it won't fit him anymore...

 

[Yossarian]

Been a long time since I've seen anybody wearing this Nirvana shirt.

 

[SpookyFrank]

what's the difference?

A bootleg band T shirt is a lot cheaper than a pair of Kanye West trainers.

 

[hitmouse]

It's only a t-shirt of a middle of the road band. If they like it then why not wear it. Did Nirvana have especially wonderful politics, or was it just run of the mill grungy music?

Since no-one else has gone for the low-hanging fruit here, I suppose I might as well: don't you just hate it when you meet someone and you think he's a proper Nirvana fan at first, but then you realise he likes all their pretty songs and he likes to sing along but he don't know what it means?

 

[nottsgirl]

Since no-one else has gone for the low-hanging fruit here, I suppose I might as well: don't you just hate it when you meet someone and you think he's a proper Nirvana fan at first, but then you realise he likes all their pretty songs and he likes to sing along but he don't know what it means?

He’s a 10 but he only knows Teen Spirit?

 

[maomao]

My Nephew is 11 and learning to play Smells Like Teen Spirit on the guitar which is the temporal equivalent of me starting my musical education with whatever the fuck people listened to in 1953.

 

[Yossarian]

My Nephew is 11 and learning to play Smells Like Teen Spirit on the guitar which is the temporal equivalent of me starting my musical education with whatever the fuck people listened to in 1953.

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