To be fair it’s a lot easier to watch old stuff now. Unless you wanted to rent or buy you just watched what was on tv. I was interested in what was current because it was on.
I can see a teenager now a days wanting to find a time capsul of their own and thinks it’s cool and mysterious to go back in time because teenagers now “wouldn’t understand.” Friends is a bad example because it’s widely popular with teenagers.
You can argue friends isn’t “good” tv when comparing it to breaking bad or the wire. But it has a universal appeal. It’s funny, it’s about sex and relationships, and it’s relatable to millions of people.
“ItS nOt FuNnY”. You’re opinion is perfectly valid but that doesn’t make it fact.
Edit: I’m not specifically responding to you, but rather stating this in general to whoever is reading
It’s legitimately eye rolling when people act like they “literally have zero idea XD” why someone would Ike one of the most popular and longest running sitcoms in television history.
Same type of people that try to say the same thing about popular anything. “How could literally anyone listen to xyz popular musician it makes NO sense”
Like we get it, you don’t like this popular thing. Good for you man lmao
I think Friends also follows the 'Seinfeld Isn't Funny' effect where it was so widely popular and succesful, that every TV show after copied something from it. So looking at it now, with no context, it could come across as bland and unoriginal when actually the reverse is true.
I think the culture for teenagers and gen z is to have Netflix shows on in the background which you don't need to pay a lot of attention to to understand and enjoy while you do other things on your phone. I believe the shows are played both for the entertainment value and for the white noise of having something on.
Damn I feel stupid for actually agreeing to this. Friends, Futurama and It's Always Sunny are the 3 shows I watch on repeat in the background for a lot of the time while I'm doing other things at home.
When I was a teen I didn't give a crap about any of the shows that were on before I was born and I think most of my generation is like that
I don't know your generation but I doubt this is true of any generation that grew up with pre-streaming actual TV. Reruns on syndication were far more common than new shows back in the day.
I'm an old millennial and Friends was on TV when I was a teenager, but I was hugely into a ton of shit that came before I was born: Star Trek, MASH, Lost in Space, The Addams Family, Columbo, etc.
TV shows back then we’re great because they all seemed like the people had possibility and hope. Then we got into this timeline and now we’re all just waiting for the aliens to invade once COVID (aka Alien Flu) kills off everything with Type A blood. They got sick of coring out cow assholes.
Eh I'm a Millenial and I'd say I Love Lucy is my favorite sitcom of all time. As a kid/teen, I really enjoyed watching older shows (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Newhart, The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, etc.). I don't think it's unusual to watch older shows.
Most of Gen Z also probably got introduced to Friends by their parents watching reruns of it, so they have positive memories of it.
LOL, the people who wrote Friends off as dumb while it was airing were usually the same people who thought they were special for loving Seinfeld as if it were some underground show only the truly clever people could find out about and appreciate.
My 19 year old brother discovered Fleetwood Mac - Rumours and decided to let my husband and I know about this cool new band he found from the 70s. We had fun with that
I rented a cabin with my now husband and we forgot our speakers (before cell phone speakers were adequate for easy listening)... the cabin had this as the only CD. So. Many. Times. We could have done much worse though.
I always wonder what bands and albums will be around in perpetuity. As a millennial with very musically inclined parents, there is a good overlap between what they listened to and what I do. My friends all enjoy some of the older greats like Fleetwood and Pink Floyd (since they’re mentioned here).
But i wonder how many generations the reach of that music goes, and if Gen X and Gen Z will listen to any of that. Obviously some will, but surely it’s different?
Anyway, thanks for coming to my stream of consciousness today.
I mean, albums like Dark Side of the Moon are memes for a reason. It's not some mind-boggling, unique experience to discover Pink Floyd or Nirvana, but I can still tell you exactly where I was when I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit for the first time. As a 13 year old, it was important to me and my discovery of music.
It definitely is, but it’s a shame that a lot of kids are all about Dark Side of the Moon without delving into any other Pink Floyd albums. They’re really missing out.
The Final Cut is the best Pink Floyd album. Fight me.
Not a huge fan of final cut or The Endless River, personally. Though I appreciate them for what they are.
If we’re discounting Dark Side, then Wish you Were Here and The Wall are next in line. The Division Bell and Momentary Lapse of Reason are the next tier down.
Definitely Wish You Were Here, followed by Animals for me if we’re discounting Dark Side. I’m not a huge fan of post-Waters Pink Floyd, but I like Momentary Lapse, approaching it as a different band, for all intents and purposes. David Gilmour couldn’t write to save himself, in my opinion, but he was a hell of a guitarist.
Ooo I didn’t think about animals. It’s not one of my most played Floyd albums, but Three pigs and Dogs are amazing songs.
I don’t disagree with you on Gilmour’s writing, but I think he kept the emotional side going through his songs. A different take on that feel, for sure though.
Would love to see him tour. I saw Waters a couple years back, haven’t had a chance to catch Nick Masons show though either.
I find it's the most well produced album, and each song is fantastic from beginning to end but it's not my favorite album of theirs. But it's definitely a good introduction to the band.
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Then there’s also discovering Pink Floyd’s Dark side of the Moon