just overheard Lauryn Hill and Amy Winehouse referred to as OLDER MUSIC so anyway bye I’m gonna go dig my own grave and lie down in it
@Annie I was in a coffee place semi-recently and they were playing the Vampire Weekend debut. I suddenly realised that both of the people working there were infants when it was released, and they probably considered it hip 'classic' music. I immediately turned to dust.
@Annie You'll like it here in the ground, the company is quiet and the temperature is always the same.
@Annie Haha, I read a Mastodon post a few months ago where someone (a thirty- or forty-something academic I think) had worn an Arctic Monkeys t-shirt to campus, and had one of their students exclaim, "Oh! They were one of my dad's favourites when he was young!" I can't believe how time moves on, smh...
@Annie Watching Season 2 of a Discovery of Witches, the referred to New Order as old-man-dance-music. So yeah, I’ll join you in laying down and letting the rest of me turn to dust
@jayeless oof yes when the youth call something I grew up with vintage or retro I just melt into a little puddle.
@Annie My skeletal fist pushes its way out of the ground and shakes at the youths, “One day it will happen to youuuuu!”
@Annie I regularly remind myself that all the music I loved in college and tend to still think of as contemporary is now older than the stuff that played on the oldies station when I was a kid.
@petebrown Due to various life changes I pretty much stopped listening to contemporary pop in the mid-1980s, so I'm frozen there forever. I still think of the Pretenders and Motels as cutting edge.
@Annie Reading this makes me feel as though I need to lie down… and just think about the passage of time a little.
@SimonWoods Also my kid: "Hey mom have you ever heard of a band called Nirvana? I think they were pretty popular back in the day."
@petebrown That's the math I try to avoid. I actually turned on the oldies station in the car the other day and, yep, it was 90s music.
Ow...ow, my brain...it hurts...
Then I remember that I missed a chance to see Mad Season before their album came out in '95. Turns out it was the show at The Moore that was later released on video. Yes, video. And for anyone wanting more maths, that was my senior year of high school.
@Annie One of my mentors is a guy in his 70s who ran radio stations nationwide. One day I was particularly upset because Motley Crue was on the oldies station. He said that their stations track 30 years ago as oldies. Makes sense as a mid-90s HS kid, I think of oldies as 60-70s. So I have XM. 😂
@Annie Now show them a CD and just how quickly non-streamed music plays — it might break their world!
@jessekelber @petebrown @Annie I was in the balcony at that show! I traveled a long way to get there, but it was worth it. I've tried to see myself in the video but not enough resolution. Layne Staley was mind-meltingly great. I was lucky to see AiC a few times in the Staley days too. I'm old. Sigh.
@Annie let me help you, I need a hole to hide too. Yesterday was the birthday of a coworker and it marked the day when I realized that I work with people half my age.
@eumrz a sobering realization. At least they can keep you updated on …. Whatever we need to be updated about these days.
@clorgie I wouldn't say that much, but I could definitely be the father of several of my coworkers. And I realized that very few days ago, so I'm still mourning with the realization.
@eumrz I hear you. I had a conversation last weekend and recommended Amy Winehouse's Back to Black album to a friend who said "she loved hearing about albums from when she was a baby." Blurgh.