First time this happened to me, I was listening absent mindedly to the radio, and Nirvana came on. Then I realized, with horror, it was the Classic Rock station. I grew up being not-yet-cool enough to know who Nirvana was, to them being the in-group, to them reaching their highest point of fame only after Cobain took his own life.
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary.
I miss the days when I despised these young kids for listening to new bands like Blink 182, too commercial. Now I’m this older guy listening to oldies like Blink 182, good old classics.
I’m like “that first Rage Against The Machine album isnt 30 years old. It came out in 1992. Oh…” but it’s weird, because in 1992, I wasn’t listening to 30 year old music. Seems like music has more longevity now.
Every now and then I’ll watch a music video from the 90s, and the comments will be full of stuff like, “See, now THIS is real music! Not like the CRAP they’re making these days!” and it makes me want to cringe so hard that I collapse into a black hole and blink out of the Universe
Yeah had it happen listening to 1985 by bowling for soup, then realizing that the song came out in 2004…which is 19 years ago. And 1985 was 19 years before 2004.
The Xennial and Millennial generations are getting older…
(I’m just a garden variety Miliennial, born in 1987, graduated high school in the class of 2006, the stuff I’ve listened to from 1992 to 2009 is now considered old school!)
It’s not oldies, though. Even in the 90s, oldies was stuff from the 50s. Classics wa the 70s. You could maybe call is classic rock, but that’s still a genre just like oldies.
A couple of days ago, my girlfriend and I were in an uber and they were playing “Oops…I did it again!”. We both said “wow, I haven’t heard that song in a while”. Then the fucking radio host came in and said “And we continue our Retro Friday Night!”.
My wife is in her 30s and I’m in my 40s. One day I decided to ask her if she rememberd Milli Vannilli. No. I played a few of their hits. They didn’t ring a bell. They’ve pretty much been erased from the time line. Ask anyone who wasn’t at least 10 in 1988-89, and likely they won’t have a clue.
That’s going to be a pretty wild time when someone is trying to put on a station with songs by Buddy Holly and gets Weezer singing about Buddy Holly. Heck, for that matter finding a station that plays things like “Mr. Sandman” and getting “Enter Sandman”.
Though in all seriously classifying rock from the ’90s to the early 2000s as “oldies” seems like a great way to mess up tags for songs.
Say it ain’t so!
Knowledge is realizing that no one likes you when you’re 23.
Wisdom is not liking 23 year olds at 40 years old.
Children who were conceived to the sounds of Destiny’s Child’s “Bootilcious” are now old enough to drink.
Welcome to my world, kiddos!
First time this happened to me, I was listening absent mindedly to the radio, and Nirvana came on. Then I realized, with horror, it was the Classic Rock station. I grew up being not-yet-cool enough to know who Nirvana was, to them being the in-group, to them reaching their highest point of fame only after Cobain took his own life.
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary.
**It’ll happen to you!**”
Grandpa Simpson
Of course music from the late 1900’s would be considered “oldies”. Why wouldn’t it???
(And before you start, I pre-date the moon landing. Get off my lawn!)
The nurse with a rubber glove is more relevant than ever.
Nobody likes you when your 43
I mean it’s been 20 years. It’s like when the 80s became “old” in the 2000s.
Screw all of you guys, nothing has changed. Im grabbing my Pepsi Clear and dialing 10-10-220 to call my long distance friends to calm down.
Would “Classic Rock” be more acceptable? hehe
I miss the days when I despised these young kids for listening to new bands like Blink 182, too commercial. Now I’m this older guy listening to oldies like Blink 182, good old classics.
Ironically “MONDO FROWNO” is a reference to ‘MONDO 2000’, a magazine “designed” to be obsolete when the year 2000 hits.
Hard to believe someone 21 wasn’t born in the 1900’s.
Now I know how people felt when I was 21 in 1984 and thought 1940 was ancient history.
“I used to be with it, but then they changed what *it* was. Now what I’m with isn’t *it*, and what’s *it* seems weird and scary to me.”
I’m like “that first Rage Against The Machine album isnt 30 years old. It came out in 1992. Oh…” but it’s weird, because in 1992, I wasn’t listening to 30 year old music. Seems like music has more longevity now.
Every now and then I’ll watch a music video from the 90s, and the comments will be full of stuff like, “See, now THIS is real music! Not like the CRAP they’re making these days!” and it makes me want to cringe so hard that I collapse into a black hole and blink out of the Universe
Waiting for the old folks home to have dance night to the oldies and watching a bunch of silver hairs getting down to Salt n Peppa, and Sir Mix A lot
Yeah had it happen listening to 1985 by bowling for soup, then realizing that the song came out in 2004…which is 19 years ago. And 1985 was 19 years before 2004.
The Xennial and Millennial generations are getting older…
(I’m just a garden variety Miliennial, born in 1987, graduated high school in the class of 2006, the stuff I’ve listened to from 1992 to 2009 is now considered old school!)
Time keeps moving on and on and on, soon we’ll all be gone.
I miss the days when the oldies station were doo-wop groups.
It’s not oldies, though. Even in the 90s, oldies was stuff from the 50s. Classics wa the 70s. You could maybe call is classic rock, but that’s still a genre just like oldies.
When did Motley Crue become CLASSIC ROCK??
That episode is older than homers music was when it aired.
I have noticed that the music in the grocery store is getting better.
I, too, remember the first time I heard Pearl Jam on the “classic rock” station. It’s the day I gave up.
A couple of days ago, my girlfriend and I were in an uber and they were playing “Oops…I did it again!”. We both said “wow, I haven’t heard that song in a while”. Then the fucking radio host came in and said “And we continue our Retro Friday Night!”.
My wife is in her 30s and I’m in my 40s. One day I decided to ask her if she rememberd Milli Vannilli. No. I played a few of their hits. They didn’t ring a bell. They’ve pretty much been erased from the time line. Ask anyone who wasn’t at least 10 in 1988-89, and likely they won’t have a clue.
There’s nothing quite like walking around in the grocery store and realizing that your high school rebellion music is playing on the overhead.
I feel really old now…
That’s going to be a pretty wild time when someone is trying to put on a station with songs by Buddy Holly and gets Weezer singing about Buddy Holly. Heck, for that matter finding a station that plays things like “Mr. Sandman” and getting “Enter Sandman”.
Though in all seriously classifying rock from the ’90s to the early 2000s as “oldies” seems like a great way to mess up tags for songs.