Not quite deja vu

[thoreau]

I heard a song on the radio that I hadn't heard in forever. Looked it up. It came out in fall 2004. Thing is, I could swear it came out earlier. It has this mood that somehow ties into memories of driving around in like 1999. And I feel like I remember fall 2004. There was a very particular rhythm and structure to that period in my life. 2004 sticks in my mind. Yet this song has me thinking of driving around in 1999 or 2000, a very different phase of my life.

Weird.

What if I'm in a parallel universe and the only evidence is the different release date for this song?

[Shem]

What's the song?

[thoreau]

"I predict a riot" by Kaiser Chiefs. It's not a song I was ever super into, but the radio station in the college town where I went to grad school played it a lot. And it was kind of amusing when I was driving around. So when I heard it by chance all these memories from early years of grad school came back, even though I heard it only when I was finishing up.

[Shem]

It's got a bit of an OK Computer vibe; if you were into that at all could be causing some crossed memories.

[JasonL]

This happens to me with music of the aughts. It's kind of a lost period where I wasn't really very much into music and I also have a sense there was a lot of forgettable things bouncing around. I feel like Killers Hot Fuss was the pinnacle of stuff I listened to at the time. It doesn't help that my most musically aware friends into the era were all emo kids. My sense of the age is a jumble of like AFI and Train.

[Warren]

This happens to me with music of the aughts. It's kind of a lost period where I wasn't really very much into music and I also have a sense there was a lot of forgettable things bouncing around. I feel like Killers Hot Fuss was the pinnacle of stuff I listened to at the time. It doesn't help that my most musically aware friends into the era were all emo kids. My sense of the age is a jumble of like AFI and Train.

That's my sense of everything since 1990.

[lunchstealer]

This happens to me with music of the aughts. It's kind of a lost period where I wasn't really very much into music and I also have a sense there was a lot of forgettable things bouncing around. I feel like Killers Hot Fuss was the pinnacle of stuff I listened to at the time. It doesn't help that my most musically aware friends into the era were all emo kids. My sense of the age is a jumble of like AFI and Train.

That's my sense of everything since 1990.

Lemme guess, you turned 35 sometime between 1992 and 1997?

I say that because I turned 35 in 2007 and 2000-2004 is where I finally lost touch with popular music. Even counting indie stuff (adult contemporary for the non-Timberlake set) I haven't really listened to many bands who released their first recordings after 2010, and only a handful after 2005.

[Eric the .5b]

I was always out of touch with pop (though I still enjoy random bits of it). I've been in very weak touch with the indie scenes these last few years simply because I don't know any good curators there, anymore. I don't actually care much about most music I randomly hear and never have. WOXY and their DJs back in the day were some of the best curators I ran into, and once their last online revival died, I never really found a replacement. Even Google Play's various playlists (much less Youtube Music's half-assed attempts) were only half-decent.

[Warren]

Lemme guess, you turned 35 sometime between 1992 and 1997?

Close but no beer. 99

[lunchstealer]

Lemme guess, you turned 35 sometime between 1992 and 1997?

Close but no beer. 99

Oh I have beer.