Topic: Dating yourself (Read 11928 times)

Mnementh · « **on:** 15 Dec 2005, 07:41 »

I made a reference to America's Horse With No Name in the picture thread and I was remind of a bit of an incident from earlier this week.

You see, I feel like I'm dating myself by referencing that song. It came out 10 years before my birth and has always fit into that generic "70's rock" catagory to me. I've known the song for as long as I can remember because it was certainly something my parents listened to in their teens and twenties.

So the other day I heard someone younger (18) refer to the same song as an oldie, and then to go ahead and describe most vietnam era music as oldies. This just shocked me, to me oldies to me are really something of the 1950s and early 60s.

I wonder how long it is before I'm not hip anymore...

rive gauche · « **Reply #1 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 07:48 »

There, there. It'll be okay. Just wait until people start referring to the 80s as "oldies".

Mnementh · « **Reply #2 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 07:49 »

The day they do that I'm holing up with a pint of haagen daas and watching Flashdance.

yelley · « **Reply #3 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 07:53 »

i thought you meant dating yourself... like buying yourself flowers and taking yourself out for dinner and junk.

i listen to america on occasion. i wouldn't call it an oldie yet. i have heard some people refer to 80s music as oldies... that's just silly.

i'm still young... 21... and i'm already not hip. ^_^

kikanjuuneko · « **Reply #4 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 08:31 »

The idea that what one listens to will somehow be novel forever is ridiculous.

Reno · « **Reply #5 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 09:40 »

Quote from: toastess

i thought you meant dating yourself... like buying yourself flowers and taking yourself out for dinner and junk.

I thought the same thing

Giantandre · « **Reply #6 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 11:55 »

Well it's sex with someone you love....or loath

Mnementh · « **Reply #7 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 12:07 »

Please...I broke up with myself a long time ago.

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kikanjuuneko · « **Reply #8 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 12:12 »

I am scared now.

HeroX · « **Reply #9 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 13:03 »

the day i heard nirvana on a 'classic rock' station i flelt old. i'm 20 for crying out loud. the music i grew up with should not be labelled 'classis rock'.

Sideways · « **Reply #10 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 13:24 »

Whenever I mention Creedence Clearwater Revival, Electric Light Orchestra or - to a lesser extent - Dire Straits to someone else, and they give me that "Guh?" look.

That makes me feel old.

surgerydrugsnrocknroll · « **Reply #11 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 13:50 »

Quote from: Sideways

Whenever I mention Creedence Clearwater Revival, Electric Light Orchestra or - to a lesser extent - Dire Straits to someone else, and they give me that "Guh?" look.

That makes me feel old.

some people have simply no musical knowledge.

im 16, and i know of these bands,
i especially like ELO.

Willem · « **Reply #12 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 14:32 »

i'm 18 and to me there are 2 degrees of old. old as in, not recent at all anymore, a period that ends around 1995 and an old as in people will have to bring me to the hospital because of the asthmatic response to the dust on that music. a period which ends when the beatles started. ofcourse there's a bit of crossfading but i guess that'd give you a clue.

monkeyangst · « **Reply #13 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 14:34 »

Quote from: Mnementh

I wonder how long it is before I'm not hip anymore...

Heh. If you're over 20, sorry, it's already happened.

Wear the younger generation's cluelessness about your musical preferences as a badge of honor.

Inlander · « **Reply #14 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 14:42 »

I met a bunch of people who had no idea who Duke Ellington was the other day. That made me sad.

However I'm not entirely sure if listening to jazz from the 1940s dates me or not . . . seeing as how I wasn't born until '79.

On the other hand, I've also noticed the embracing of a whole lot of god-awful music from the '80s that people like me who experienced it the first time are still trying to recover from. Such as Belinda Carlisle. I was trapped in a car for an hour with people who thought Belinda Carlisle was good music! Do you realise how horrible that is?!

Tomservo · « **Reply #15 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 15:27 »

Quote from: Inlander

However I'm not entirely sure if listening to jazz from the 1940s dates me or not . . . seeing as how I wasn't born until '79.
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Well, forties music can definitely be considered an oldie, but I don't see how music being considered old that you listen to makes you feel old unless you discovered to it when it was new, and it is the "music of your youth".

Mnementh · « **Reply #16 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 15:37 »

Someone posted a picture of themselves holding a fish, and the first thing I thought was "Ooooo Barracuda"

yelley · « **Reply #17 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 17:09 »

i had that same thought...

rive gauche · « **Reply #18 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 17:36 »

Quote from: Inlander

However I'm not entirely sure if listening to jazz from the 1940s dates me or not

I'm pretty sure that it makes you one of the coolest kids on the block.

blooflame · « **Reply #19 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 19:33 »

Hip is a state of mind... has nothing to do with the age of the music you listen to. If it did, why would the "Grey Album" be hip when it sampled the "ancient" White Album?

And I agree with whoever said listening to Ellingon is cool.. this time of year, listen to his jazzy version of "The Nutcracker Suite"...

pat101 · « **Reply #20 on:** 15 Dec 2005, 20:02 »

Yeah the Nirvana on classic rock stations is beginning to piss me off, though I didn't grow up with it (I'm 18) I still hate it, I mean it's clearly not classic rock. Though I don't really have to worry about dating myself to badly yet.

lastclearchance · « **Reply #21 on:** 16 Dec 2005, 01:34 »

Quote from: pat101

Yeah the Nirvana on classic rock stations is beginning to piss me off, though I didn't grow up with it (I'm 18) I still hate it, I mean it's clearly not classic rock. Though I don't really have to worry about dating myself to badly yet.

It's not a redefinition of Nirvana as classic rock; it's a redefinition of a radio station format still called "classic rock" to include Nirvana so that more younger listeners will tune in. Why do you think one in three songs is always Pink Floyd?

Outshined · « **Reply #22 on:** 17 Dec 2005, 09:13 »

Just be happy that you didn't have to grow up in the musical wasteland that kids today are growing up in (in the mainstream, at least).

Joseph · « **Reply #23 on:** 17 Dec 2005, 10:53 »

Quote from: Outshined

Just be happy that you didn't have to grow up in the musical wasteland that kids today are growing up in (in the mainstream, at least).

They're only growing up with it by choice though... I could be one of those kids, and yet I've branched away from the mainstream into better things, and any of them could do the same. I'm sure there are some who may honestly not know that there is better music out there, but that would be a ver small minority. The rest just tend to be unwilling to go after things not already spoon-fed to them on the radio or MTV/Much Music.

Coonstar · « **Reply #24 on:** 24 Dec 2005, 00:31 »

This may be unrelated, I had just turned 17 this year but I sometimes feel like I know more about 80's music (which I know very little of) compared to some of my late 20-something cousins.

I mention Echo and the Bunnymen, and the Smiths, and what's the first thing that comes out of their mouths?

"What? Is that another one of your anime shows?"

I couldn't react.

Kai · « **Reply #25 on:** 24 Dec 2005, 08:01 »

I honestly should have been born in the 70s so I could have groun up in the 80s. I don't fit with this generation at all.

Not An Addict · « **Reply #26 on:** 24 Dec 2005, 10:19 »

You know, Echo and the Bunnymen does kinda sound like an anime show. "BUNNYMEN TURBOCHARGE!"

I, too, was born in the wrong generation. '80s music is my bread and butter, and I was only alive for half the decade.

Coonstar · « **Reply #27 on:** 24 Dec 2005, 14:41 »

Quote from: Not An Addict

You know, Echo and the Bunnymen does kinda sound like an anime show. "BUNNYMEN TURBOCHARGE!"

I, too, was born in the wrong generation. '80s music is my bread and butter, and I was only alive for half the decade.

Roflmao. Bunnymen turbocharge =/ That's gonna haunt me for life.

I think the 80's were definitely an awesome decade for music, but I'd still prefer living in this era. C'mon man, think of it this way. This era's current music isn't so bad, it's pretty good... AAAAND all the works from the past decades are available to you in various formats! It is rule.

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Author Topic: Dating yourself (Read 11928 times)

Mnementh

rive gauche

Mnementh

kikanjuuneko

Reno

Giantandre

Mnementh

kikanjuuneko

HeroX

Sideways

surgerydrugsnrocknroll

Willem

Tomservo

Mnementh

rive gauche

blooflame

Outshined

Coonstar

Not An Addict

Coonstar