So, last night, my father-in-law picks us up at the airport. I get the luggage loaded in his van (Yay minivans! We got four large suitcases in the very back! Much better than the Sentra we rented for the week where the kids had a bag between them and carry-on bags in their laps...), and climb in for the ride home. All of a sudden, I hear "Sweet Child 'O' Mine" from Guns 'N' Roses start playing on the radio (you all know that guitar riff, admit it...)
The radio was set to "Oldies 103", the local "Oldies" station...
Yep. "Appetite for Destruction", the hard rock/heavy metal opus recorded in the hair band era, is now playing on the local oldies station right along with Elvis, The Beach Boys, and Frank Sinatra. Cogitate on that, Steinmetz... This is how our parents felt hearing The Doors and Jimi Hendrix on oldies. GNR hit the music scene in 1987 with "Appetite for Destruction", making it 25 years old - a genuine "oldie".
To put it in perspective, "Welcome to the Jungle" is as old to my son as "Rock Around the Clock" was to me at his age...
Now where did I put my cane and Geritol?
That is all.
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Heh. Last year I got put on hold while calling the headhunting firm I was contracting for and the hold music was "Smoke On The Water".
I was sitting there trying to figure out when it had morphed from "You kids turn that damned noise down!" to "Please hold"...
And in case 1972 is too far back for you to remember, Jay... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwEIt9ez7M&feature=fvwrel
"This is how our parents felt hearing The Doors and Jimi Hendrix on oldies."
Parents nothing - that's how I feel hearing them on the oldies station. (Although I'm really a child of the 70s, so we mostly poked fun at the stoners who were listening to Hendrix and Morrison.)
What's weird is my fiancee is only 4 years tounger than I am, but she's very much an 80s fan. The music she likes is the stuff that played on MTV while I was waiting for the good music to come on.
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A friend and I were just lamenting last night that we were hearing Pearl Jam on the local classic rocker. Music that hit the radio when I was 10 is not classic rock. I am not that old. I refuse to be, you hear!
And you damn kids get off my lawn!
The entire summer and fall was a parade of, hey, remember this- it's been 20 years since the release date. Metallica (Black), Nevermind, Ten. The guys I work with are of similar age, and we began yelling at the radio daily to get bent.
LOL, how do you think "I" feel Jay? :-) Welcome to my world...LOL
Your Father-In-Law probably just wanted to put on some light, relaxing music.
[ducks]
When I started listening to Hendrix, it was only... 13 years after he died.
The Doors, 10 years after Jim died?
Something like that.
I listened to WBCN and WZLX basically my entire childhood and teenage years (WAAF and WFNX didn't come in very well until 'AAF upgraded in the early 90s, and I was in college soon after that).
Of course, music REALLY REALLY SUCKED when I was growing up, so it's not surprising we were all listening to the music of ten years before we were born...
I can remember hearing 'appetite...' for the first time and being completely blown away by it. I actually remember exactly where I was (in the woods with friends, in Randolph massachusetts, listening to BCN).
Not only is it almost 25 years since appetite, it's now 20 years since Nevermind (released in September '91, hit number one January 11th 1992).
There are kids who will be able to vote this year, who were born after Cobain ate his shotgun.
Oh and it's also 20 years (or will be come november) since "Rage Against the Machine".
Remember the first time you heard "Killing in the name"?
Damn that was a shakeup.
When I heard Ozzie's "Crazy Train" being sung Acappella for a Honda commercial, I knew that I should start looking into the cost of Nursing Homes.
FWIW, Cold Steel makes some damn fine Canes. I should know. : )
My wife had this to say:
"Yeah, but Welcome to the Jungle is still more awesome than Rock Around the Clock ever was."
Iron Maiden released their first (self-titled) album 32 years ago...
WASP's Animal is 27 years old.
Dio's Holy Diver is 29 years old... and has been made into a bigband cover(by a guy who had his first hit singel 57 years ago): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk5yHDXWz5Y
Snot nose whippersnappers.
Rock Around The Clock was #1 the day I was born.
WV = aticia. Someone my age knows the connection between "aticia" and Nelson Rockefeller.
I turned 60 yesterday, so I'm probably one of the oldest here. I remember going to a Doors concert when I was in high school.
UGH. I know what you mean. I was 39 when I decided to go to law school a few years back. Two students behind me were talking about some "old school" music and I thought, huh they are fans of mo town. Nope. MC Hammer! Yikes. When the hell did MC Hammer become OLD SCHOOL!
Feels like only yesterday I saw Metallica and G&R in concert.
In my case, it was listening to "String of Pearls" and "Satin Doll" and "Tuxedo Junction" when my parents had the radio on.
Grandpa Simpson was right: "I used to be with it. But what I'm with isn't it anymore, and what is it looks weird and scary. And it'll happen to YOU!"
We've got a runner!!
"Vaya Con Dios" by Les Paul and Mary Ford was number one when I was born. Elvis Presley had just made his first recordings a couple of weeks earlier. Beatlemania hit when I was ten years old. The music of my youth has been relegated to oldies stations for decades.
I remember a concert at the Swing in San Bernardino Ca. back when It was a good place to grow up. The ticket was $5.00 for 2 little known groups at the time. Led Zeppelin & Jethro Tull. Ever here of them?
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