I think that was Limp Bizkit doing the cover. If you want to talk about stupid names for bands…
This has got to be the most depressing thread I’ve read in years. “Never heard it”? “Lame hippie band”? SUCK?!? Settle?!?
Damn kids today. Damn stupid kids don’t know jack shit about jack shit. Talk about gleefully wallowing in ignorance. Fucking morons. I’m outa here.
'Scuse grandpa while he kisses the sky.*
*That’s a song reference, ya dumb kids.
She’s right, though.
That’s my take too.
For the record, I teach the high school class at my church, and those punks don’t know anything about good music. Of course, I don’t know anything about the crap MTV shows they all watch either (Laguna wha?), so it works out fine. 
She’s from Jersey, actually. It’s those country singers from Jersey who went to Brown, man, always lending their names to poorly conceived advertising copy that does not read quite true.
VCO3, you may also like to know that the pieces of paper you get inside those little folded cookies in Chinese restaurants may not actually presage the future for you, and that string of numbers may not actually be of any particular utility. A word to the wise is sufficient.
News flash! Opinions are like assholes… and yours stinks… 
I was recently music shopping at Best Buy with “B”, the 11 year-old daughter of two two Thai immigrants at whose restaurant I play music.
“B” is very Americanized – her tastes run to hip-hop and country. She is also very observant and remembers everything.
Since the Beatles were my first major music influence, I was very pleased when “B” noticed Paul McCartney’s records.
“Oooh, Paul McCartney. I’ve heard of him. Do you play any of his songs?” (She had seen a sitcom that made a joke about a mother’s mistaking her daughter’s interest in Jesse McCartney).
“Sure”, I beamed. "Remember hearing me play ‘Yesterday’ and “Blackbird’? Those are Paul’s songs. He also wrote part of ‘Hard Day’s Night’, along with John Lennon, when they were both in the Beatles”.
“B” looked puzzled. “Paul McCartney was in the Beatles?”
She had heard of Paul, and of the Beatles, but didn’t know he was one of them.
When I tell people about this incident, it is definitely not to belittle “B”. Rather, it’s to observe how long ago that all was, how old I’m getting and how fleeting even the greatest fame is.
You went shopping with an 11 year old girl?
>insert bluetooth thread joke<
There was a 20 year old at my work (she has since moved on to bigger and better jobs) that decided that I wasn’t a complete loss, being over 40 the way I am.
So, we used to chat at work and she would share her “music” with me–sorry, I don’t recall any of it–it was loud and hard and rock-ish. I, in turn, brought in some CD’s of my own. She ended up liking the Beatles (not the early stuff, but I also am only fond of the early stuff from nostalgia and an awareness of what a phenomenon they were). One day I brought in some Led Zeppelin. I cannot recall the actual song at present, but she listened to it and exclaimed,“oh, that’s the song from that car commercial!”
Yeah-that’s it. :rolleyes: And then I thought, who am I to roll my eyes–that IS the context of that song for her. I should be rolling my eyes at the marketer’s.
By the time she left, I had turned her on to Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Talking Heads, Stones, and I don’t know who all else.
I kinda wish she had been able to do the same for me–but maybe there comes a time when you don’t “get” music anymore. I do know that she liked harder rock than I do, so maybe that’s all it was. I say this so that it is not assumed that I didn’t want to learn from her–I did. I just didn’t find anything to my taste. It’s not something I spend alot of time on, anymore.
I think we should sentence her to reeducation camp. That would involve tying her to a chair, propping her eyelids open, and forcing her to watch all 5 disks of The Complete Beatles.
There is hope for the future, however. Long long ago I asked my niece what music she liked. “New Kids on the Block. Duh!” I gave her my nastiest disapproval look. She looked back at me like I was not, um, groovy. The next year I asked her if she still liked New Kids. “Duh, no, they’re lame. I like Marky Mark.” Oh. Who? Some other dumbass punk moron? The after that I asked the same question. “Him? No way! I like this new guy. His name is Jimi Hendrix.”
The human race may have a future after all.
I think the OP is upset because Mary Chapin Carpenter is smart, educated, literate, talented, hard-working, successful and gorgeous…and the OP isn’t.
Great band name!
And adaptable to other genres (Lame Hillbilly Band, etc.)
This is why you video tape kids. So much fun to watch them squirm about what they use to like.
My teenage daughter was way, way into the Backstreet Boys when younger. Then a while back she asked if she could borrow my Pink Floyd CDs. At that point, I started to cry and promised to pay for her college.
Oops. Like I said, I had no idea what Strawberry Fields Forever was. I assumed it was a band since that’s the context the quotation gave me. The Beatles are alright.
I agree…I get really annoyed by anything which tries to capitalize on the notion that “if x < age < y then music-listened-to=z”. So people get the idea that kids have never heard of the Beatles, or that Led Zeppelin music must be played on Cadillac commercials, because their potential buyers stopped listening to new music in 1975.
It’s just coincidence that 1975 is the last year they made decent music. 
I suppose “from” was not precise enough.
From an on-line biography:
Here’s the quote, in its entirety:
“I was in a local national coffee chain a couple of years ago. It begins with an S. And I was eavesdropping on the conversation between the cashier and the barista. And one of them said to the other, “Yeah, yeah, I’ve heard that song Strawberry Fields, but I don’t know the band.” And I remember standing there and looking at them and sort of gauging, okay, I think they’re both maybe about 23, 24, how can this be? What the conversation illustrated for me was, there really is a generation gap. There really is. And until that time, I didn’t believe there was such a thing. But there is.”
Oh sure, hijack a perfectly entertaining rant with facts. :rolleyes: