You know you're old when....

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
09/06/2020 at 22:32 • Filed to: None

....t he radio station brags about playing classic rock, and then plays a song you listened to in high school.

And to make it even worse, it’s not even “rock.” It was Hungry Like The Wolf by Duran Duran.

DISCUSSION (72)

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 22:41

“Girls on Fi lm” was better anyways.....

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 22:42

My cousins kids couldn’t understand roll down windows and unlocking a car with a key. We have apprentices at work and some are just out of school and the shit they say or don’t know... old we are. Or they think a cover of a song is the original...

The Ghost of Oppo > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 22:43

When did Motley Crue become classic rock?

wafflesnfalafel > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 22:43

ha - my wife was/is a HUGE Duran Duran fan. I’ve had to explain the genius of Van Halen to her.

ttyymmnn > themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
09/06/2020 at 22:43

Back in the day, I was listening to a lot more Led Zeppelin and CSNY and The Doors and Uriah Heep and stuff like that. I thought Duran Duran sucked. Now that I’m older, I think they were actually a pretty good band, and maybe even one of the great bands of the era.

CB > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 22:45

I’ve heard Green Day on classic rock stations. Congrats on becoming classic.

ttyymmnn > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/06/2020 at 22:45

I can’t remember what it was, but just the other day I was explaining something to my boys that they had absolutely no frame of reference for. I was teaching a trumpet lesson to a sixth grader, and I made a reference to a typewriter. I got a blank stare until I said “keyboard.”

dogisbadob > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 22:49

still old enough tho lol

When they start playing Green Day , then it’s time to get a Buick! :p

Khalbali > CB
09/06/2020 at 22:51

Pearl jam too.

ttyymmnn > wafflesnfalafel
09/06/2020 at 22:53

My wife likes to watch cooking shows on Saturday morning before I get up, including the one with Valerie Bertinelli. She had Wolgang (“Wolfie”) on the other day. I had no idea he was playing with Van Halen now. Also, Eddie Van Halen is really old now.

CB > Khalbali
09/06/2020 at 22:53

You mean “Ten” isn’t a classic rock album?

ttyymmnn > Khalbali
09/06/2020 at 22:53

I had that one Pearl Jam CD back in the day...

onlytwowheels > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 22:54

Was waiting for my physical the other day. Radio in the lobby was playing a local oldies station. K C & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight comes on. Brought a smile to my face and conjured up memories of holding hands with a girl skating at the roller rink, wearing bell bottoms and one of my satin shirts . Although it was 45 years ago, it s eemed like yesterday for just a brief moment.

Urambo Tauro > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 22:55

On a similar note, I’ve noticed that the radio stations in my area that used to play oldies are now primarily playing ’80s tunes. Which is great and all, but there’s nobody left broadcasting The Beach Boys, Temptations, Supremes or even The Beatles (well, except for Live and Let Die ).

ttyymmnn > onlytwowheels
09/06/2020 at 22:57

Oh, man, love me some KC and the Sunshine Band. Back in about 1989, I spent a summer working for Kline Chevrolet in VA. I wore a Kansas City ball cap, because the blue matched the Kline work uniform and I figured KC = Kline Chevrolet. There was one guy in the garage where I detailed my cars who always called me “KC and the Sunshine Band” because of my hat. Good times.

onlytwowheels > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 23:00

KC& The Sunshine Band had so many great songs. My all time disco favorites.

WilliamsSW > dogisbadob
09/06/2020 at 23:07

Pretty sure Dookie qualifies...

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 23:10

That song is quintessential MTV to me.

subexpression > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 23:10

Yeah it’s only a matter of time before it’s the oldies station.

But maybe I’m immune to that because so much music was so awful when I was a kid.... If the old music was better when I was a kid , I won’t feel so bad about the stuff I remember being called old , right?

zipfuel > CB
09/06/2020 at 23:15

I was really glad when the local alt rock station finally figured they had to stop playing all 90s all the time and push some of that shit down to their classic rock associate. I do not need to hear teen spirit multiple times every.fucking.day.

I doubt anybody misses the 70s psychedelic shit they bumped off to make room.

CB > zipfuel
09/06/2020 at 23:16

I could probably be okay without hearing Smells Like Teen Spirit for the next year or two of a genie wanted to curse me with that or something.

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW
09/06/2020 at 23:18

Back when they used to show videos. When I started watching, it was Blue Oyster Cult and Joan Armatrading. Now it’s unrecognizable.

Svend > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 23:19

You know your old when anything from your childhood is classed as ‘old’, ‘old school’, ‘classic’, ‘back in the days’, etc...

When you start making vocal strain noises getting out of a living room chair, car seat, etc... and sighs when getting into a living room chair or into the car and sit. When you get out of low chairs or sofas and move to get up, but don’t then have to plan where best to put your hands and arms to lift yourself out of the seat.

When you walk down the street or through the city, etc... and see a building you never really noticed before, ask how long it’s been there and get the answer, ‘oh, about 15, 20 or 25 years. I’m not sure. I was a kid when it was built’.

When you can actually remember when some areas were fields.

When you start saying stuff like, 'kids these days', 'didn't have that when I was a lad', 'when we were little, we always played outside, had no computers back then', 'when I was young our greatest gift was our imagination, etc...

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 23:23

Blue Oyster Cult and Joan Armatrading

Those are not two acts I’d ever expect to see in the same sentence, nor would I have guessed either ever appeared on MTV.

ttyymmnn > Svend
09/06/2020 at 23:24

When you start making vocal strain noises getting out of a living room chair, car seat, etc...

This was the big one for me.

Also, when you expand that box on an Internet form for the year of your birth, and you have to scroll down farther and farther and farther to find your year.

ttyymmnn > Dead_Elvis, Inc.
09/06/2020 at 23:26

But they did, at least in the first season of MTV. Those were the days of real music music television. 1981, baby.

QCGoose > The Ghost of Oppo
09/06/2020 at 23:28

Funny that BfS’s “1985" was released in 2004, so it’s a song about a time 19 years before it.

In jus t over 2 years from now, that song itself will be 19 years old...

Actually, t hat’s not funny; it’s sad. And n ow I’m sad.

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 23:40

I went to high school in the 90's, and a lot of that stuff is on classic rock stations now too.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Svend
09/06/2020 at 23:40

I answered yes to all and I’m 42.

shop-teacher > dogisbadob
09/06/2020 at 23:43

They do play Green Day.

Svend > MiniGTI - now with XJ6
09/06/2020 at 23:43

I’m 41 next month.

Family members have lived well into their 80s and 90s, at this rate, I don't think I'll make that or want to.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 23:54

I was hit hard by this just today. My son and I were in the truck and we were searching for something on the radio. He found a station playing songs from the ‘80s. When I looked to see the station number, I was slapped in the face by the world “Oldies”.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck
09/06/2020 at 23:55

We’re both oldies, apparently. But that’s okay. I’ll take the wisdom that goes with being old any day.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > ttyymmnn
09/06/2020 at 23:56

That’s just as exactly, terribly ‘80s as I expected. Much of her stuff hasn’t aged all that well, although her debut album is timeless.

MTV was on the air for 4-5 years before I actually saw it. I had to make do with Friday Night Videos & Night Flight , as the extraordinarily rinky-dink, conservative cable provider in the small town I grew up in refused to carry it , and my grandparents on Long Island weren’t about to pay for cable “because of all the smut” (and they were cheap as hell).

Music videos have rarely lived up to what was happening in my brain while listening to music, anyway.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 00:10

I’ll be 52 just after the election this year. I’ll be either celebrating or drowning my sorrows. I’m hoping for the former, dreading the latter.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > The Ghost of Oppo
09/07/2020 at 00:13

That’s fucking harsh, dude.

CTSenVy > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 00:23

Or when Nick @ Night starts showing TV shows that were premiered when you were high school.

ttyymmnn > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
09/07/2020 at 00:24

I’m 53 now, so I feel your pain.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°)
09/07/2020 at 00:28

Or they think a cover of a song is the original...

To be fair , that can happen to pretty much anyone. Hell, I only found out a few years ago that Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” is a cover.

I saw her in ‘83, right before the release of the album with that track, because she opened for The Kinks. That remains the most poorly-chosen opener I’ve ever seen - she got booed offstage (not just boos - lots of morons screaming “whore!” and worse at her, and more than a few beer bottles landed on stage). At the time, a Venn diagram of Kinks fans & Lauper fans must have been two completely separate circles.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 00:30

I wonder what they’d make of a rotary phone.

ttyymmnn > Dead_Elvis, Inc.
09/07/2020 at 00:33

I was always annoyed because my friend had a phone number that ended in -2999. What a pain to dial.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 00:35

The frustration of a mis-dial, back in the day!

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 00:36

Wow, you’re like really fucking old.

ttyymmnn > Dead_Elvis, Inc.
09/07/2020 at 00:54

Even in the days of the touch tone phone, I was proud to still have a rotary phone. Maybe that’s why I make so many posts about history....

ttyymmnn > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus
09/07/2020 at 00:54

Yeah, I am.

And proud of it.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 01:01

Me to. Gen X for life!!!

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 01:06

Some of my friends couldn't understand my Johnny Cash shirt. They thought it wasn't very cash money of me.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > dogisbadob
09/07/2020 at 01:08

I’m pretty sure I’ve heard Green Day on classic rock stations before. Fun fact: my mom once was annoyed by them at an apartment party before they were famous. She said they played too loud.

ttyymmnn > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
09/07/2020 at 01:12

Johnny Cash was the shit. I get a Dish channel that replays his variety show. Great stuff.

Kinja'd!!!

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 01:13

One day I'll hear Beyonce on the oldies station. Or maybe Selena Gomez. Iggy Azalea maybe. I do think I once heard Gorillaz on the all eras station when they rarely play stuff that isn't modern pop or classic rock and it reminded me how long ago 2001 was.

Svend > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 01:14

You find your greatest enemy in the automotive world is the low Recaro seat.

A friend had a 3 door Ford Fiesta ST3, I hated getting in and out of that ruddy car especially as at 40 year old, I don’t have a Recaro arse.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 01:20

Yeah they basically thought it was a shirt about the cash money meme. I feel like most of my friends have no interest in having a well rounded musical palet te. There are one or two that are hard into classic rock but few with as diverse tastes as I.

And this is the generation that still remembers VHS. I worry for the generation that was born with an iPhone in their hands. I had to wait until 13 to get an iPod 2 and that could barely run flappy bird. I had no money for songs and of all things I ended up with basically all REM and Band of Horses albums. The more I think about it the weirder that is that I never bought any music of my own but I was broke.

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 01:46

And when you graduated in 2004, but see a YouTube video of kids calling your music "early punk" .

ranwhenparked > Svend
09/07/2020 at 01:47

Hell, when they start tearing down a building that you remember watching get built, or see a ship getting sold for scrap that you read about in a magazine when it was new.

ranwhenparked > Khalbali
09/07/2020 at 01:48

Ive run across Blink 182 on classic stations, WTF, we all swore that would never be regarded as classic in high school.

ranwhenparked > CTSenVy
09/07/2020 at 01:50

Theyve been skewing more and more recent - started off showing stuff that was already 30-40 years old, now, it's like a show qualifies as vintage 6 hours after the finale airs.

Svend > ranwhenparked
09/07/2020 at 01:56

God yes. I've seen Royal Navy vessels being sold or scrapped because they were at the end of their life and I'm watching, thinking, I watched that being built and do sea trials.

Kiltedpadre > Urambo Tauro
09/07/2020 at 08:40

My local classic rock station does a 2 hour block of Beatles songs every Sunday morning that they call breakfast with the Beatles. They’ve been doing it for 20 years though so it’s probably more a nostalgia thing than anything else.

Kiltedpadre > ranwhenparked
09/07/2020 at 08:42

2004 early punk?? Damn kids is confused!

Kinja'd!!!

ttyymmnn > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
09/07/2020 at 11:17

I’m not sure that Selena or Iggy Azalea will have the same lasting power as some others.

ttyymmnn > Svend
09/07/2020 at 11:18

I have a chair in my living room like that. It’s great to sit in, but getting in and out is kind of a pain.

ttyymmnn > Kiltedpadre
09/07/2020 at 11:50

And even before The Clash, there was New York Dolls, Ramones, DEVO, Patti Smith, Blondie, Sex Pistols, and those are just the bands that achieved commercial success.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 16:34

No I wouldn't think so and perhaps that is part of the problem. I'm not sure of any modern day all time greats.

ttyymmnn > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
09/07/2020 at 19:36

Interestingly, the only one I thought of right off the top of my head was Bruno Mars. And that’s because he is such a student of the greats of the past. Prince is another, though sadly, he’s gone.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > ttyymmnn
09/07/2020 at 19:51

I just don’t see a new Prince in this crop of pop musicians. I mean when Post Malone is old I’ll feel it but he isn’t historically significant in what he does.

Bruno Mars has some staying power so I'll give you that. He's not Prince though.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > ttyymmnn
09/08/2020 at 00:00

Or you listen to a station that plays the ‘latest hits’... and you recognize exactly none of them.

ttyymmnn > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly
09/08/2020 at 00:32

This.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
09/08/2020 at 10:08

I know these feels. Even the 90s hits are classic rock now!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn
09/08/2020 at 10:10

Kinja'd!!!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Dead_Elvis, Inc.
09/08/2020 at 10:13

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
09/08/2020 at 15:15

I have no idea how genuine that might be, but it’s pretty funny.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Dead_Elvis, Inc.
09/08/2020 at 15:18