Damn im old

snow
snow Posts: 4,337
edited March 2010 in The Clubhouse
I was flipping through the local cable companys music channels and stopped for a minute on the Classic Country channel and I quickly realized they were playing music from the early to mid 80's and I thought to myself that cant be Classic Country.

I was expecting to hear Hank Williams SR or Little Jimmie Dickens and the like then I noticed that the artists all looked different then I remembered them, hell half the men were bald and the women all had wrinkles and thats when it struck me im old :eek:

It just kinda snuck up on me I guess because I didndt think of myself as being old :p

REGARDS SNOW
Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • Polk addict
    Polk addict Posts: 558
    edited March 2010
    Yah, that oughta getcha... LoL, I know that I've always been behind by about 12 years in my music selections though...
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  • warren
    warren Posts: 756
    edited March 2010
    Born Nov. 1938 The big bands were great.... then... I heard Bill Haley and the Comets, Shake Rattle and Roll...
    That was so great... I cant explain it....and it just keep's getting better..
    Some final words,
    "If you keep banging your head against the wall,
    you're going to have headaches."
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited March 2010
    My moment of realization happened back in the mid 90's when a local radio station called the Doobie Bro's song "China Grove" a golden oldie.
    My equipment sig felt inadequate and deleted itself.
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  • warren
    warren Posts: 756
    edited March 2010
    Yeah those Doobies were, and still are great!!!
    Some final words,
    "If you keep banging your head against the wall,
    you're going to have headaches."
    Warren
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited March 2010
    Join the club Snow. Is this great or what? :eek: :confused::D:):p;)
    Michael ;)
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,141
    edited March 2010
    warren wrote: »
    Yeah those Doobies were, and still are great!!!

    :rolleyes:Yup, I played some tonight.
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited March 2010
    AudioBliss told me tonight that he didnt know where "Too legit to quit" came from...
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    Music is like candy, you have to get rid of the rappers to enjoy it
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited March 2010
    janmike wrote: »
    Join the club Snow. Is this great or what? :eek: :confused::D:):p;)
    Well it's not all that an exciting revelation to me :D I should have realized it earlier though, little things should have clued me in, I have a nephew thats getting ready to retire from the Marines it seems like just yesterday he was sitting on my knee. Or the fact that every time I look at a girl thats under 40 I feel like a pervert :p



    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited March 2010
    A few years ago I heard Cyndi Lauper and Madonna on the Oldies station. In the 80's I only ever heard stuff from the 50s and early 60s (you know like Rock Around the Clock, etc) on the Oldies stations.--I was shocked to say the least and suddenly my back started hurting and joints started aching. Uhg

    I think Oldies should be oldies and Classic R&R should be Classic R&R--it shouldn't change as time goes on. The Big Bands of the Big Band Era are still the same Big Bands, the term hasn't morphed over the years to suddenly mean something else. So why should 'Oldies' or Classic County"?
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2010
    There's a club of old farts?

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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited March 2010
    snow wrote: »
    Well it's not all that an exciting revelation to me :D I should have realized it earlier though, little things should have clued me in, I have a nephew thats getting ready to retire from the Marines it seems like just yesterday he was sitting on my knee. Or the fact that every time I look at a girl thats under 40 I feel like a pervert :p



    REGARDS SNOW

    Well, I'm glad others feel like that, especially when my wife is present.

    PS - I need to get to Alaska before I leave the North.
    Michael ;)
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited March 2010
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    There's a club of old farts?

    Yes, and you are either the VP or the Assistant VP. :D :cool:
    Michael ;)
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  • bsoko2
    bsoko2 Posts: 1,449
    edited March 2010
    The song "put another nickle in, in the nickle odie in". I remember when it came out. It was by Teresa Brewer, right?

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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2010
    janmike wrote: »
    Yes, and you are either the VP or the Assistant VP. :D :cool:


    Gee, not sure whom to thank for this... You????????

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  • Kex
    Kex Posts: 5,162
    edited March 2010
    disneyjoe7 wrote: »
    There's a club of old farts?
    I don't know anything about the club, but there is a wine for Old Farts (and Old Gits, depending on the country), and it's actually quite decent (for its price) the last time I tasted it.

    http://www.oldfartwine.com/
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited March 2010
    How about the latest "time travel" movie (a hot tub time machine, no less) going "way back" to the '80's? Good grief! I was just there, that's not "way back"!
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited March 2010
    Kenneth Swauger wrote: »
    How about the latest "time travel" movie (a hot tub time machine, no less) going "way back" to the '80's? Good grief! I was just there, that's not "way back"!
    I feel your pain thats exactly how I felt when I heard the music that was being played :)

    But hey someday the kids of today will be listening to classic Rap and feeling old too :p

    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2010
    It's funny 80's music is oldies, funnier I like it.

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  • dudeinaroom
    dudeinaroom Posts: 3,609
    edited March 2010
    I can't wait for the golden oldies of grunge. Not over the hill yet here( gotta couple few years yet), just the same the oldies stations up here play music I listened to in high school(early '90s). It's crazy hearing that stuff on the oldies station, crap right now they are playing Bon Jovi from the '90s right now.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2010
    Keiko wrote: »
    During that time, a lot of the 80's music I didn't really care for. What's funny now is that I can appreciate some of it. Like, remember when. :eek:

    My passion is still the classic rock from the 60's and 70's though. Now those were the days.



    Well I stated 80's music but the radio station I like plays music for 60's 70's and 80's www.sunny1059.com

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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited March 2010
    Lasareath wrote: »
    I think you're the oldest Polkie!

    My dad was born in 43!
    Lmao. Well Sal I will give you a hint as to my age, my father was born before 1910 so he is or would be over 100 years old.

    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    snow wrote: »
    I was flipping through the local cable companys music channels and stopped for a minute on the Classic Country channel and I quickly realized they were playing music from the early to mid 80's and I thought to myself that cant be Classic Country.

    I was expecting to hear Hank Williams SR or Little Jimmie Dickens and the like then I noticed that the artists all looked different then I remembered them, hell half the men were bald and the women all had wrinkles and thats when it struck me im old :eek:

    It just kinda snuck up on me I guess because I didndt think of myself as being old :p

    REGARDS SNOW

    I remember the day I was driving down the road with my ten year old son listening to the radio. Given the value I personally place upon hearing good tunes, my children were born into and raised within a very musical household. Anyway, I pointed out this one song playing as being great and he floored me by stating "Yea Dad, I like some of these oldies as well."

    "Oldies???" :eek::eek::eek::eek:

    He's now 18 and his sister is 19 and the two often listen to these "oldies!" They not only like them, but the tunes are prevalent within colleges around the nation. :D In the same vein, they have introduced me to some newer stuff that is boss music as well. Stuff that I doubt I would have picked up on on my own or via my peers. :cool:
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  • snow
    snow Posts: 4,337
    edited March 2010
    Hillbilly61 wrote: »
    I remember the day I was driving down the road with my ten year old son listening to the radio. Given the value I personally place upon hearing good tunes, my children were born into and raised within a very musical household. Anyway, I pointed out this one song playing as being great and he floored me by stating "Yea Dad, I like some of these oldies as well."

    "Oldies???" :eek::eek::eek::eek:

    He's now 18 and his sister is 19 and the two often listen to these "oldies!" They not only like them, but the tunes are prevalent within colleges around the nation. :D In the same vein, they have introduced me to some newer stuff that is boss music as well. Stuff that I doubt I would have picked up on on my own or via my peers. :cool:
    Good post!! Yes good music and talent is timeless, I certainly enjoy the older tunes as well as newer stuff.

    REGARDS SNOW
    Well, I just pulled off the impossible by doing a double-blind comparison all by myself, purely by virtue of the fact that I completely and stupidly forgot what I did last. I guess that getting old does have its advantages after all :D
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    To add to my response above, my kids have done a pretty fair job raiding my music collection. CDs just disappear...:rolleyes: Usually, the good stuff. Later on, I spot individual ones in their cars, their bed rooms, etc, etc, etc.

    My take on the entire situation is just to let them have what they want and not to get onto them for taking the liberties one's own child often takes with "borrowing" something of this nature from his or her's parent. They've learned some very good musical tastes from me! :D:D:D

    I'm replacing the stuff I feel that I must personally own.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    warren wrote: »
    Born Nov. 1938 The big bands were great.... then... I heard Bill Haley and the Comets, Shake Rattle and Roll...
    That was so great... I cant explain it....and it just keep's getting better..

    Whew, you just made me feel young again!:eek::D:p
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    As much as I enjoy that some kids today still have respect, I hate being called Sir! or MR. so and so . . . that was my father's name!:eek:
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    As much as I enjoy that some kids today still have respect, I hate being called Sir! or MR. so and so . . . that was my father's name!:eek:

    It's called respect! You've earned your place, :D. Otherwise the younger set, as they get older, will size you up and openly refer to you in a much poorer manner.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Hillbilly61 wrote: »
    It's called respect! You've earned your place, :D. Otherwise the younger set, as they get older, will size you up and refer to you in a much poorer manner.

    Either that or they will see my grey hair and start calling me POP!:eek::D
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  • sandworms
    sandworms Posts: 1,043
    edited March 2010
    funny you bring this up, it hit me just a couple days ago. Our "classic rock" station played VH runnin with the devil and I nearly fainted. Said to myself " damn, wasn't I just hearing that debut"
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  • Hillbilly61
    Hillbilly61 Posts: 702
    edited March 2010
    Some time I have to relate to you a true story concerning teens that blew up an outhouse, with **** flying everywhere, on an the old man was in there when the explosion occurred. It concerned an older man these teens did not respect. Hair color did not matter.

    They never referred to him as "Sir," "Pop," etc, either.
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