This album... is 40 years old today.

[christopherbrown@mastodon.social]

@killyourfm Shut your damn mouth! I am still in middle school it came out last year!!!

@paninid

[wyatt_h_knott@vermont.masto.host]

@killyourfm Thanks, that's exactly what I needed today

[tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one]

@killyourfm MASTER MASTER...
MASTER OF PUPPETS IS PULLING YOUR STRINGS

[killyourfm@layer8.space]

@Wyatt_H_Knott I'm sorry Wyatt! No matter how many of these album anniversaries come and go, the feeling of disbelief at the passage of time... well, it doesn't get any easier to swallow.

[wyatt_h_knott@vermont.masto.host]

@killyourfm I'll never forget the first time I heard Metallica called classic rock. I cried a little that day.

[killyourfm@layer8.space]

@Wyatt_H_Knott *nods in solidarity*
I hear the same about Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden constantly.

[wyatt_h_knott@vermont.masto.host]

@killyourfm jfc that's crazy talk, it was YESTERDAY

[killyourfm@layer8.space]

@Wyatt_H_Knott It feels like time dilation, doesn't it? Like the rest of the world experienced 40 years while we experienced about 5.

(for reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation)

[wyatt_h_knott@vermont.masto.host]

@killyourfm I changed high schools between sophmore and junior year, and that was in 86, and when I showed up at the new school with a mullet and ripped jeans the girls were like "oh my god you're not another one of those boys who likes Metallica, are you?"
And I was like, "well, I REALLY like Iron Maiden, but yeah..."

[wobweger@mstdn.social]

@killyourfm
was this really necessary ?
I feel soooo oooold now. 🤪

[killyourfm@layer8.space]

@Wyatt_H_Knott Fast forward to today: I bet ALL of those girls would go see Metallica live.

[wyatt_h_knott@vermont.masto.host]

@killyourfm Oh, many of them got over their affectations quickly, but I did have to listen to a lot of Smiths and The Cure as well, you know how it is.