Time is cruel

I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was.
Now, what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary.
It’ll happen to you!

I think about this concept whenever I see the things kids are into and think "that's stupid."
It bothers me because I felt the same way when I was a kid and saw the things that kids were into then.
But now it's supposedly because I'm old and not because kids are fucking stupid.
- But now it's supposedly because I'm old and not because kids are fucking stupid.
  As the saying goes, two things can be true! 😆
  Source: Am old, and but I've thought kids are stupid since I was a kid, myself.

"All the Small Things" came out 24 years ago, in 1999. Meaning it came out last millennium!

I remember getting this CD at a virgin records store. We're getting old, you fuckin whippersnappers.

in the 1900s?!?! 🤯
- Saying that All the Small Things came out in the late 1900s gives this a different feel
- Welp, I knew it would happen sometime. I'm outta here before I miss the 4:30 auto-gyro.
The album with the song talking about being 23... is now 24 years old. Ouch.

By textbook definition, we can consider stuff like Gorillaz, Linkin Park, and Panic! At The Disco as “retro” if the song or album came out 15-20 years ago.

1999 was 24 years ago. 24 years before 1999 was 1975, when Wish You Were Here, Physical Graffiti, and Toys in the Attic all came out. Those were definitely classic rock then.

But here's the gut punch. If you were listening to Physical Graffiti in 1975, 24 years earlier was 1951.
That was the end of big band music. You know, oldies.
About a quarter century ago
Fuck
Classic, sure. But not oldies, which were generally 50s-60s, 35 years before 1999.

"All the Small Things" is as old now as "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind, and Fire was when "All the Small Things" came out

Oooh, I like this one. Like Smashing Pumpkins - 1979. The equivalent song today would be about 2007, I think.
- A song as iconic as "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins that came out in 2007 would be "Thnks fr th Mmrs" by Fall Out Boy.
- Ouch this example hurt more than all the others for some reason…
- We've crossed the line where "1985" is as far back as 1985 was.
  I'll have to ponder this in my yellow SUV.

I still remember a few years ago when my local Clearwater Classic Rock station started playing Green Day, Red Hot chili peppers, Weezer, Death Cab, Arcade Fire... as... classic rock?!

My head spun.

Wait death cab and arcade fire are classic rock now? What does that make Arlo and Zep?
- classic-er
- Classical

Mark of Blink 182 is 51

That episode is 27 years old.

And the album Homer was referring to was a Styx one, which likely came out in 84 at the newest, 12 years before the episode.
Like, you know, whatever.
I was gonna say, isn't the hullabalooza or whatever supposed to be '94. The episode is an oldies

Isn't it technically consider an "Oldie" at 20 years?

Hey, we're closing in on a quarter of a century with enema of the state.
- This state needs an enema.
"technically"? aint some wizard in the clouds making rules here. we could call anything older than 2018 an oldie if we wanted and be "technically correct"

I don't mind being called old because 1. I am kind of old and 2. I feel it.

However, it does really suck when your favorite bands/musicians are considered old because they are forever young in our minds.

Also, over-explaining a meme with unnecessary analysis is a sign of being old.

Well I appreciated your analysis, gramps.
- Get off our lawn!

Even this picture is an oldie now.

That's fucked up.

What are songs from the 50s and 60s called now?

Boomer radio
- Boombox?
Classic
- That's 80s. 70s didn't happen, 50s-60s are certified geriatric®
  Source: I've been hearing ACDC on the classic rock station for the last 10 years
History? Feel like the only people listening to the songs of the 50s exclusively are almost dead and gone. You tend to spend your years listening to the songs of your youth (teens-20s) so people who were coming of age in the 50s would be in their 90s now since 1950 was 74 years ago.
I’m counting ‘23 as done, idc about 20ish measly days
- My folks are in their 70s and still listen to stuff from Elvis, The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, etc. I think you're off by at least 15 years as to who's listening to what.
- I tried listening to the 50s and 60s stations on SiriusXM in the car when driving with the kids, because those songs should have safe language, but foul language is a lot better than what I was hearing in those songs (blatant sexism, borderline racism, love songs for underage girls, and so on). I decided Liquid Metal is just fine.
"What I listen to far more than modern pop garbage."
Golden Oldies
Still oldies

Its a new day, but it all feels old. Its the good life, that’s what I’m told. But everything it all just feels the same.

Good Charlotte

21 years old

Aging is cruel.

Time......you fucked me again, you bastard.

Get off my lawn.

[off topic] From 'Cheers' Same and Woody are discussing music. Sam says that sometimes he'll rock out to the real old time rock and roll; the Marvelettes; the Four Tops; The Temptations. He asks Woody if he's ever heard of any of them. Woddy says no, but sometimes his Mom would have him listen to Devo.

Woody: It always made me sad to think of what Mom gave up for us.
Diane: What was your mom's dream?
Woody: To be a drummer in a power trio.

Say it ain’t so!

Am I so old that I'm not surprised this is oldies? Or maybe I've just came around to the slowly creepy idea that not everything is about Boomers. Idgaf what they call oldies any more Idgaf about their christmas music either

I like how Nine Inch Nail poster stuck there like a sore thumb.

As a blink-182 fan, growing older is a must, but growing up is optional ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

The new album is actually pretty good and has a good mix of classic blink and about getting old. Fair few songs hit me hard and asking why blink would do this to me

I'm in this meme and I feel personally attacked.

All the kids listen these days is The Doodletown Pipers.

You know the worst part is: I don't know enough about modern pop culture to say for sure that this isn't true...
- Groups I have noticed in the past few months, who have released something in this past year
  Post Malone
  Doja car
  Billie Eilish
  Rum Jungle

TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING TIME IS PASSING

Thank you, TimewornTraveler

I never it was over when I started hearing Nirvana on classic rock stations over a decade ago...

Mondo frowno ☹

I'm from a small-ish English town. In the early 00s it seemed like every weekend there was an alternative band playing at either the one dedicated music venue we used to have, in the civic hall or just in a pub/ working men's club that all the local goth, metalhead and punk kids would go to.

The quality of the local bands varied a lot. Most did covers, some did their own stuff but some "big" bands came from out of town at the start of their careers. I saw Enter Shikari here one weekend then Crystal Castles the next.

We always had fun though. Well, as much fun as a goth is allowed to have and still seem cool.

Is that still a thing? It certainly doesn't seem to be here. I still check local gig listings. The only bands who come here now are tribute acts or still 90s/ 00s nu-metal, emo and pop punk cover bands.

Some local bands play the few pubs we have left but they tend to be "Dad rock" bands, people from my parent's generation or older covering pop and classic rock.

This post started out all melancholy but changed completely when I realised that either I'm so totally out of touch with "the kids" I have no way of finding out about gigs they're playing or the whole concept of grass roots live music is dying out.

If so the younguns can tik their tacs and snap their chats or whatever the hell it is they do to listen to music and I'll enjoy my admittedly more sedate mosh pits before the hip operation comes and I have to move a bit further back.

What are those albums in the oldies section? The one on the right looks like Boston's self-titled. I'm guessing the left is Kansas's The point of no return, but idk

Dang you’re young