The early 90s, a good time to be a wrinkly half-naked old man

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Serena Z

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Ok, this is kind of a weird topic for a thread but humor me.

It started with me seeing the video for Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box". I was watching the old man walking around in the diaper and I started thinking about Metallica's video for "The Unforgiven" which involves a shirtless old man, and which I think only came out about a year and a half before "Heart Shaped Box". Then from deepest corners of my brain, vague memories of other early 90s videos featuring half-naked old men began to take shape and I started to think "what a weird trend for videos to go through". Of course I can't think of any other examples besides the two I mentioned, but I feel like there were more. Does anyone remeraber any others? Were half-naked old men really a staple of early 90s videos or am I on crack? Maybe it wasn't just videos, maybe it was album art too or something.

For anyone who wants to watch the two videos I mentioned:

Metallica—"The Unforgiven"
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Nirvana—"Heart Shaped Box"
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Holy shit, you're right! And he's shirtless too! I guess Metallica had kind of a fetish for the old men back in the black album era. :laughing:
 
Holy **** I think you just discovered something big, here's another half naked old man....

Pixies- Debaser
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I think it's because alt rock and metal banRAB both have a fascination with things that aren't really aesthetically pleasing to look at.



I don't ever recall Iggy Pop's vocals not being awful.
 
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