Slipknot audiobiography subtitles definition

Millennials who grew up in the suburbs circa 2004 actively repress their musical heritage more than any other generation I know of. Boomers fifty years ago had the Rolling Stones and Beatles. In fact, the olds have canonized their youthful musical preferences into G.O.A.T. lists and gaudy museums. Did they also listen to a lot of embarrassing music they don’t tell us about? Has it been conveniently lost to the wastes of time? Or perhaps the whole mechanism of cultural authority requires the pure will and bad faith to tell future generations “Things were good then.” Millennials are too self-effacing for that. Regardless of cultural relativism, though, it’s hard to make a case for early-aughts “emo” pop-punk of Avril Lavigne and Good Charlotte– it just kinda sucks.

I’m talking about Hot Topic stores and nasally three-chord anthems complaining about parents. Summers of puppy-love MySpace romances that ended in disappointment and left you wondering why nobody cares about you.

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Merchants of Cool
Program #1911
Original Airdate: February 27, 2001

Produced by
Barak Goodman and Rachel Dretzin

Directed by
Barak Goodman

Written by
Rachel Dretzin

Correspondent and Consulting Producer
Douglas Rushkoff

ANNOUNCER: They want to be cool. They are impressionable, and they have the cash. They are corporate America's $150 billion dream.

NEAL MORITZ, Movie Producer: Teenagers have a lot of disposable income. They want to go spend their money. And you know, we're more than happy to make product that they want to go spend money on.

ANNOUNCER: MTV, Madison Avenue and the dream makers of Hollywood have targeted our teenagers.

ROBERT McCHESNEY, Communications Professor, U. of Illinois: They look at the teen marknad as part of this massive empire that they're colonizing. Teens are like Africa.

ANNOUNCER: They are the most studied generation in history.

ROB STONE, Teen Marketing Executive: If you don't understand and recognize what they'

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List of musician and band name etymologies

You have to remember that we were fifteen-year-old punks–we wanted to piss people off. Anything that might make parents, teachers, and people with authority bristle was up for discussion. We also wanted a name that would suggest a great logo for stickers and T-shirts. Many of the names were compelling but too repulsive. Smegma, Vaginal Discharge, and Head Cheese might make for great logos but were quickly rejected as not representative of our songs. We played around with a lot of names involving the word "bad"–Bad Family Planning, Bad Politics. When we hot [sic] on Bad Religion, it seemed perfect. That year, 1980, was a time of rising prominence for televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart, Pat Robertson, and Jim Bakker. The year before, Jerry Falwell had founded the Moral Majority, which was having a powerful influence on the presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Religion was a hot topic, and those TV preachers seemed