• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Those are dad rock now? I grew up with many of those… I’m a dad now but I thought dad rock is Metallica, ACDC, Led Zeppelin, Hurriganes, et cetera

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      3 months ago

      The unstoppable, never ending march of time is much darker than anyone could sing about.

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        3 months ago

        Pink Floyd did it:

        Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day

        You fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way

        Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town

        Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

        Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain

        And you are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today

        And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

        No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

        And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking

        Racing around to come up behind you again

        Sun is the same, in a relative way, but you’re older

        Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

        Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time

        Plans that either come to naught, or half a page of scribbled lines

        Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

        The time is gone, the song is over, thought I’d something more to say

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          3 months ago

          Yeah agreed, although I would consider Pink Floyd grandpa rock at this point

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        3 months ago

        I saw them open for… Unearth I believe? I had never heard In Flames before that show. LOVED them.

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    3 months ago

    I went to a Sevendust concert a couple weeks ago, i was really surprised that the crowd was mostly old guys like me. They were fucking awesome.

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      Oh man I love Sevendust. When I lived in Atlanta I bet I saw them live 100 times.

      Can confirm I’m an old fuck

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    Static X is the shit. Throw in some Powerman 5000 and I’ll live the rest of my days happy in the nursing home

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    I know In Flames went to shit the last two decades, but listen to their 90s catalogue. It wasn’t mainstream at all, and it was/is their best music by far. It feels wrong as fuck to group them with these other bands. Gothenburg melodeath activated!