What were the OG wave of listeners/fans of Stereolab (and other bands in the same/adjacent pool/sphere) like, in terms of personality and character? Like the Gen Xer ones, or older/early millennial?
From experiences and (mostly) observations, it seems like the younger listeners (younger/later millenial/zillenial to zoomer) are bitchy, shallow, catty, status chasing, socially transactional aesthetic mean girls/guys. Seems like a contradiction to the ethos associated with that old school of indie.
>IT SEEMS LIKE bitchy, shallow, catty, status chasing, socially transactional aesthetic mean girls/guys OP gets no pussy whatsoever and gets filtered by Stereolab
Isaiah Ortiz
Who cares.
Gabriel Campbell
Homos in the 90s
Andrew Price
>it seems like the younger listeners (younger/later millenial/zillenial to zoomer) are bitchy, shallow, catty, status chasing, socially transactional aesthetic mean girls/guys. Really? Never even met a single Stereolab fan outside myself, and I'm just some dude. But they're starting to become one of my top bands, really dig their sound.
Christopher Gray
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Cooper Hall
People who read SPIN magazine, but never bought it, a subset of the larger alt-music crowd at the time (similar to the ones who liked Pizzicato 5 and/or The Fall), worked at the health food store, but hated hippies. >t. saw Stereolab a half dozen times from '96 - '08
I don't quite agree w/ your characterization. But just yesterday I was at a Magnetic Fields gig, and the median age was relatively high, and the audience very diverse in gender (but not in color LOL). Everybody looked well-adjusted, happy, and normal. Made me think that, in some 20 years, when you see a 100 gecs or Car Seat Headrest reunion or whatever the fuck, it's just gonna be a bunch of middle-aged autistic, lonely dudes in the crowd. Sad!
Caleb King
I'm a zoomie myself and had to introduce Stereolab to my friends, only the nerdier ones liked it
I ran into Tim Gane at a guitar shop the afternoon before the show in '96, told him I was looking forward to seeing them later that evening. He was surprised to be recognized without Laetitia with him. Small, quiet, kinda mousy dude, very polite. The next time I saw them a couple years later, Laetitia was working the merch booth by herself pre-show, bought a 45 and some buttons from her, she was pleasant and chatty. Live shows were different after Mary died, Laetitia played a lot more trombone, the old vocal interplay was definitely missed.
Jason Parker
nice anecdote. i was asking for trhe indie landscape of the 90's
Daniel Jones
I met Laetitia as well, she was very pleasant to talk to.
Josiah Young
Shows were cheap and plentiful, lots of house parties, too. Even successful bands with record deals that played and toured a lot still had day jobs and crashed on fans' couches, people had landline phones, and those few with the internet at home had dial-up. Cd's and records were affordable, and flyers at the record store were how you found out about most shows, also fanzines.
Hudson Garcia
>seems like the younger listeners (younger/later millenial/zillenial to zoomer) are bitchy, shallow, catty, status chasing, socially transactional aesthetic mean girls/guys. The zoomers that just listen to one Stereolab album (usually Dots and Loops) because rym recommended it to them act very much like you describe them to be but actual hardcore zoomer Stereolab fans are a lot more mindful and chill from my experience
Jackson Wood
thanks.
Levi Ramirez
I saw Stereolab live some years ago, ended up meeting and taking some girl home with me. The next morning I found out she's a high end escort, so now I put up the cash to fuck her every once in a while.
