It kind of gets better. In about, hrrm. 2-5 years, depending. Mind, I started feeling all you-kids-get-offa-my-lawn when I was 17.
Being as I'm *from* Seattle, my era actually ended around when your era began, in 1991, when all the things my friends and I listened to and liked (and in the cases of my friends who actually like live music, went to see at small shows) broke, and suddenly the cheersquad was wandering around humming songs from Sub-Pop bands. There's something disconcerting and just plain weird about your niche suddenly becoming mainstream instead of it being a secret handshake into a club of the like-minded.
(My first breakup was the night after the Nevermind record release party at Peaches, and the person breaking up with me was there, so our "this isn't working" talk was a long, weird, friendly discussion punctuated with talk about the previous night at Peaches.)
But, I digress. After a few years of feeling ancient before my time, time started to do something weird, where now five years ago seems like yesterday instead of a long time ago, and nothing seems as far in the past as it used to, back in the day. (I strongly suspect that this makes very little sense outside of my head. Ah well.)
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Being as I'm *from* Seattle, my era actually ended around when your era began, in 1991, when all the things my friends and I listened to and liked (and in the cases of my friends who actually like live music, went to see at small shows) broke, and suddenly the cheersquad was wandering around humming songs from Sub-Pop bands. There's something disconcerting and just plain weird about your niche suddenly becoming mainstream instead of it being a secret handshake into a club of the like-minded.
(My first breakup was the night after the Nevermind record release party at Peaches, and the person breaking up with me was there, so our "this isn't working" talk was a long, weird, friendly discussion punctuated with talk about the previous night at Peaches.)
But, I digress. After a few years of feeling ancient before my time, time started to do something weird, where now five years ago seems like yesterday instead of a long time ago, and nothing seems as far in the past as it used to, back in the day. (I strongly suspect that this makes very little sense outside of my head. Ah well.)