So, the Guardian did an article on “pop tribes” and the sway they have on youth and mass culture:

There was a time when our perceptions of pop were defined not just by the records we listened to, but by the many and varied tribes of young people who followed each of the particular kinds of music, by their clothes, their behaviour – or at least how their behaviour was reported in the press or portrayed on film. Mods would peer coolly over their scooters, braking off for the occasional fight with passing rockers. Punks would spit at gigs and terrorise grannies. Ravers with ski masks and bottles of Vicks would cruise the M25 looking for a soundsystem set up in a field. That seems to be fading: when was a new kind of music spawned by and indelibly associated with a particular youth cult? Does the lack of hugely visible new teenage tribes matter for the health of pop culture?

Not if you talk to the “scene girls”. In a brightly-lit living room in Borstal, Kent, Eve O’Brien, Louisa Burnes and Victoria Gibson, 15, jump up and down in front of the Kerrang! channel on TV. Each of them wears one item of neon blue and has a choppy, layered haircut. They talk excitedly for an hour about bands they all worship, including Paramore, 3OH!3, and All Time Low.

You can read that article here.

However, there is something more important we need to talk about, oh Dangerous Minds group mind. Specifically, this:

Grebos

Golden years: 1989-92

Music: Midlands rock bands such as Pop Will Eat Itself, the Wonder Stuff, Gaye Bikers On Acid and Crazyhead. PWEI are said to have popularised the word with their song Oh Grebo I Think I Love You.

The look: Hair shaved at the sides and long on top – somtimes dreadlocked, rarely clean. Big stripy jumpers, with baggy jeans or shorts.

Deadly rivals: None: most other youth cults considered them ­beneath contempt.

Public profile: Extinct. Greboes came and went, leaving little trace of their existence.

What. The. Hell.

What the hell.

I have been to the Midlands. I didn’t see any of these things. OK, it was about twelve years after the death of this alleged “Grebo” creature. I guess I’m the wrong generation and wrong nationality to be clued in. But this is really wigging me out. I can’t even find pictures or videos of them through Google. Please, Dangerous Minds readers, tell me… WHAT THE HELL IS A GREBO???