PEACHES COME FROM A CAN

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For the young ones

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THEY WERE PUT THERE BY A MAN

I'm gonna move me to the country, gonna eat me a lot of peaches.

I thought we were Gen x or y?

Anyway, this entire album is fucking banger.

The generational boundaries are somewhat arbitrary. They were put there by a man who just happened to be the guy who got that particular assignment. In a factory downtown that produces nothing but information for immediate consumption, I’m sure the generational gaps can seem more severe.

If I had my little way, I’d want people to understand it was much more of a spectrum (it still is); we lived in roughly the same world as the kids five grades above us had lived in at our age. I’d eat peaches every day in the lunchroom and didn’t have to defend them because I was sitting with kids two grades above me. And when I met alums from the school who had graduated they seemed like full-on adults, but they were the same culture as me. Didn’t seem like a different generation.

I lived in the country in the 90s, going to a little school. I ran track, and I remember sitting around with the girls waiting for various events, just sun soaking, or sitting on root bulges in the shade, lazing around. No cell phones, forced to socialize though I was terrified of it.

Growing up was roughly the same for us as the kids 5 years ahead of us. Except we were The Class of 2000, and had been raised to subtly believe we were the pioneers of a new civilization based on avoiding endlessly-growing-landfill apocalypse and acid rain.

I dreamed about you, woman

I think this is especially true the older you get, but my experience was vastly different to my husband's who was born 4 years before me, and somewhat significantly different from my brother's 3 years behind. Part of the gap between my husband and I has to do with the large age difference in our parents, but the biggest difference is how quickly technology was changing in our formative years in the early 2000s. I am the youngest of the millennials,, my brother is firmly gen Z (though only born the first or second year of them) and my husband is firmly a millennial

This is according to the US Census

Gen X: (born 1965-1980)

Gen Y is the same as Millennial: (born 1981-1996)

And the album was released in 1995, so lots of gen x would be in their late teens early twenties when it was released, prime audience for it.

Woah. I always thought I was Gen X but TIL I'm probably a millennial.

If you're near the cusp, pick whichever makes you feel better. Generations are a sociological construct and are appropriately applied in the aggregate, not to individuals and they're always fuzzy around the edges. Much like Hari Seldon can't predict specific individual events, sociological generations don't always apply exactly the same to individual people.

If you're born anywhere between around 1978 and 1984, you will likely find at least one sociologist who draws the line on either side of you.

I tend to go with Strauss-Howe, who consider GenX to be 1961-1981 and Millennials to be 1982-2005 -- mostly because I like their idea of turnings and cyclical archetypes.

Theres 5 strings between the guitar and bass and it's still a masterpiece. So much sound for such a minimalist approach to their instruments. Kitty is a supreme banger.

they're fucking ace in concert too. I had zero expectations for the evening and they tore the face off of it, like, goddamned fun show.

Younger millennial checking in, despite the relevance of my username I have no idea what this means.

Here you go

I'd never seen the video. Did not expect to see Ninjas

I didn't recognize it from the image (description of "shriek singing" also had me imagining something totally different) but immediately recognized the song 2 seconds after it started playing. Guess that makes me dead middle millennial

Oh I know that song. I was imaging it was referencing a commercial or something.

Also works for younger X.

Totally. The Oregon Trail generation.

I’m still unreasonably afraid of contracting diysentery.

I will never ever ford a river.

Don't worry, you can get a big wagon, buy tons of ammo and then fill that wagon with just hunted meat (you may never see Oregon, or probably the equivalent of Ohio either).

We found an Oregon Trail card game, and introduced it to our teenage kids. They loved it. The fear lives on.

I have an Oregon Trail 'you have died from dysentery' shirt. I love it.

Look out!

Then the ninjas jump out of the tree.

“Lump lingered, last in line for brains”

Did you know that song was inspired by his brain tumor? Not a joke.

Yep. 1995 here and ive got no idea.

Little blind spider took the wheel

Navigating grass blades completely by feel

For the folks who don't know The singer from POTUSA sings kids music as Casper Babypants and his songs are bangers that my 11 month old daughter and I both enjoy equally.

Any of this posts' targets with little kids looking for fun music check out Caspar Babypants

Wtf does this mean?

Millions of peaches! Peaches for me. Millions of peaches! Peaches for free.

LOOKOUT!

THEY WERE PUT THERE BY A MAN!

I see...

I think zoomers have access to Spotify.

Zoomers won't listen to POTUS by their own accord. DJ X isn't going to serve it to them either.

LIES BECAUSE HOW ELSE AM I SUPPISED TO GET MILLIONS OF PEACHES?!?! SPECIFICALLY PEACHES FOR ME!?

I'm early Gen Z and I know this song lmao. It played here and there on the local alternative rock radio stations.

Seattle area? They are from North West and their songs play fairly often here

Salt Lake City area, actually. Pretty far from Seattle. Peaches is the only song I know off the top of my head though.

Best mosh pit I was ever in, surprisingly enough. That song can hit a properly primed and amped up crowd nicely.

Hwat?

This

Looks like a US-thing. Never heard this song and I'm elder-millennial.

That would make sense. It definitely was big for a period of time here in the US.

It's gonna blow oh whoa oh whoa whoa 🌋

As an elder millennial, that song has always been garbage

As an elder millennial, how does it feel to be so wrong?

I'll let you know when I get a chance to experience it 👍

I played it for my Gen Alpha kids and it's still a smash hit

Your Gen Alpha kids might just be lame.

The future is now old man

Bro, I will remind you that I'm not the one still listening to 1995's most annoying novelty song.

Grew up in 90s. I learned only recently what alternative music actually encompasses, realized I absolute hate it by and large. There was so much shitty music in the 90s and it was the bulk of alternative that sucked so much.

*Edit: to the haters down voting me: all I can say is that my life is pretty plain.

This was never a good song. But I will add that pears in can are better than fresh pears that ain't Asian pears. Those crispy things are delicious

That song sounds lame af

I respect your opinion, but I must now buy the album to compensate for your failure. Good day.

Oh, its an American thing. Guess Lemme's not immune to the "Nowhere else exists except the United States" rule of the internet

Nah, not a US only thing at all. See the charts here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaches_(The_Presidents_of_the_United_States_of_America_song)#Charts

I'm pretty sure I fall under older Millenial (89) and I definitely didnt hear this song enough for the lyrics to immediately bring up that response, but I can accept I'm an anomaly I guess

Edit: Lmao, the other comment I was at least aggressive, but like, this is the most passive agreement I might be the odd one out here, how is this one getting downvoted to oblivion?

I'm the same age and knew exactly which song it was 🤷‍♂️

89 feels a but young you would have been about 8 when it came out. probably just missed it