I've honestly never heard anyone praise anything but Lush's early releases.

A - The Advantage
Z - The Zs

You're probably a lot happier, but you won't be giving any unintended reports on the current state of pop music.

Tips for people who don't pay attention to popular culture:

I'm not even going to dignify that with an answer.

I don't know, why do you? I certainly don't believe I'd know as much as I do if I didn't have an above average interest in music. Certainly wouldn't expect my 20 year old self to be as knowledgeable.

No, not really. I retain interesting bits of information when I read about things, but just knowing trivia, nope.

It's trivia because it is information that has no consequence or use. Or in other words it's trivial.

I totally agree with her, I wouldn't expect anyone to know random songs that were only getting airplay when they were 4. It's just not reasonable.

The video for Sober was fairly ubiquitous when it was released and Prison Sex would have been as well if it wasn't banned from daytime airing (at least on Much). I don't believe it was every played on the radio, but I did win a copy of Undertow from the local radio station.

I'm in my 30s and couldn't tell you the names of the Backstreet Boys, and probably couldn't tell you the names of the New Kids On the Block despite dating a woman who was obsessed with them less than 5 years ago. It's just not important information to most people. When I got into my 20s I was more interested in…

I wouldn't even go that far. They'd probably have a really hard time with the folk and blues singers that directly inspired the Beatles

I advise teenagers to always tell middle-aged adults that they've never heard of the Beatles.

Yes, it is trivia.

It's almost a right of passage to turn 12, hear an amazing song by a new band on the radio, and then eventually find out that it was a cover of a song that was popular a decade and a half ago.

I don't really understand what's unfair. Unless of course you're actually judging them, which you shouldn't. It's the older generations that are being humbled in these videos. We all make assumptions about how ubiquitous The Sign is and tend to forget that was a stupid pop song that was on the radio for 2 years and…

The song had about 2 years of popularity before basically disappearing into nostalgic obscurity. Just about anybody born in the 80s would not have been around to experience the song. I've bought a lot of records from the 70s where someone has pointed to a particular song saying "you have to know this one" and it will…

It says that you're more enthusiastic about music than the average person. You sound like you're exponentially more knowledgeable about music than most people in their 40s that I've met.

You should try playing the definition game with actual definitions:

Pete's an entitled sore loser. Pete gets far more out of life than he's earned but still thinks he deserves more. Pete believes everybody should be in awe of him because he won a big account, but since they're not hanging off his every word he feels neglected instead.