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I feel very attacked here. I can't help it that I like sandals, but sometimes my feet get cold. And and and I like my khaki cargo shorts and... You know what, you guys all suck.
The majority of my wardrobe are funny tshirts I get for father’s day… wouldn’t tuck them in.
Shirts that say things like:
I do what I want
When I want
Where I want
Except I gotta
ask my wife
…
one sec.
Wait, are khaki shorts not ok anymore?
Serious question, because I'm wearing some right now and nobody told me. If I'm allowed to just wear basketball shorts all summer now then someone needs to let me know, because they're way more comfy.
I mean, the 1990s are as far away from the 2020s as the 1960s were from the 1990s so I honestly can't blame them
I'm just wondering if songs from the 90s feel as wildly different to kids these days as songs from the 60s felt to us in the 90s. Because to me it feels like music styles have changed much less drastically
Technologically speaking, the 90s are far closer to us than they were to the 60s. A lot of music was still recorded in mono back then (stereo was just becoming a "thing"). And even producing music by recording each instrument in its own track was still very rare. (There's a reason why Specter's Wall of Sound was so impressive.)
A lot of the music got remastered in the 90s, and that stuff still sounds great today. Whereas a LOT of the original stuff from the 60s still sounds like it should be played on mono AM.
Counterpoint: we had a tape cassette deck in our car in the 1990s. It was very exciting when your favorite song from one side lined up such that you could flip to the other side and hear your favorite song there, and then repeat. My niece and nephew do not fathom the novelty of their on-demand world (and how impatient it makes them).
But really all of recorded music is only 150 years old. The difference between that and most of human history is enormous.
Seriously, it's hard for us to fathom how wildly different our experience of music was before recording. We're so used to being constantly surrounded by a massive variety of high quality recordings, and having one definitive version of a song in our heads.
But 150 years ago, and for all human history prior, more or less the only way you heard music was if someone was performing it live.
It's a little like how us older generations remember having to use a reference book or to the actual library to look up some information that now we can just Google.
In terms of audio quality, 90s music (especially late 90s) holds up pretty well.
In terms of style, it's dramatically different. Even music from the early 2010s sounds very distinct from music today, with the exception of intentional throwbacks.
But that's the thing is, the audio quality isn't a barrier to people "discovering" 90s music. And because the styles are so different from what's currently popular, it can open up a new realm of music for people who realize they *like* those styles. (Which is why when that music gets featured on shows, they can hit the charts. see, Kate Bush of all people.)
The sound quality was a BIG barrier to enjoying 50s/60s music in the 90s. It's flat and tinny. The very popular stuff got remastered, but a bunch of music from that time has been pretty much forgotten.
It also helps that music was recorded digitally once CDs came out, so no natural degradation of the original tapes.
Maybe I'm getting old, but I hear way less differences between music styles in the past 3 decades than in the 3 decades prior. Music seems to have gone through a rapid evolution between 1950 and 2000 and then slowed down significantly to an almost complete standstill. I just don't hear any geniunely new ideas or new sounds in music any more.
I think there’s a more “ethereal” vibe to a lot of indie pop songs. AJR, Half Alive, Jazz Emu, Good Kid. (Does Billie Eilish count? If she doesn’t this might be a weird mix of early 2000s to 2010s music).
I can’t really describe the tone because it is still similar, but they sound different to me.
They've changed just as drastically, maybe you just haven't noticed as keenly.
Rap in the 90s sounds completely different to modern day rap. Listen to Dr. Dre, Tupac, or Biggie and compare their flow, production, and beats to someone like Drake or Travis Scott.
Rock has dropped considerably in popularity so literally any rock music from the 90s will sound retro just by virtue of being Rock.
Dropping even harder in popularity is Jazz. Remember when smooth Jazz was all the rage in the 90s? It's all but extinct now.
Electronic Dance Music also used to be a completely seperate genre of music dominated primarily by Europeans. But in the last 20 years EDM beats and sounds have seeped into every other genre and become a global staple.
Well regarding your last point: maybe I didn't notice as much because I'm from Europe? But to be clear, I'm not saying nothing changed, just that it feels less drastic in how different it is, and that I have no way of knowing if that is real or if it's a "frog being boiled too slowly to notice" kind of thing.
You think that's bad? I had to explain to a kid that ***9 fucking 11*** wasn't just a "meme people of his dad's age had". First I got angry that the kiddo thought that it was "just a meme" but then I realized: Damn, I'm old.
For something to end up as “history” it needs to be at least 2 decades old. Although Nine/11 is old enough for that, it probably won’t be in many text books as of yet. Give it a few more years I guess.
If you think about it, listening to 50’s doowop in the 80’s is the same as listening to Nirvana now.
Now to make you feel even older. Nirvana’s first album was released in 1987. So if you listen to that, it would be like still spinning Bing Crosby in the 80’s.
That’s funny because I was just at a brewery and this woman in her 60s complained to have the “heavy metal” station changed. It was linkin park lol. Made me feel a bit younger if there are still people my parents age complaining about our music
I felt like those college-rock bands like Greenday and Foo Fighters were "Dad-rock" even back when they were popular.
Now if kids said that about something with a little more edge like Nirvana or Soundgarden I might get a little upset.
Tangentially, "Good Riddance," sounded to me at the time like a "Farewell, we've had a great career, thanks for all the memories," song, but that was almost 30 years ago and Green Day is still putting out new stuff (whether you like the new stuff or not is a different conversation).
i'm a 90s kid, but they're right. when i was growing up, 70s music was oldies, and the 70s were about 20 years old then. the 90s are 25-34 years old. they're older than the oldies i grew up with.
I'm asking you with all the sincerity in my heart if you have any decency at all... delete this.
Please.
I'm begging.
I've talked to other people and they agree, you should delete this. Its making a lot of people very upset. I'm told some people have been vomiting they are so very upset.
Please do the right thing.
I recently saw a YouTube comment on a la dispute video about how they loved the song and all Midwestern emo music. Now I'm not usually one to gatekeep music genres, and while I vibe with Midwestern emo playlists at times, there's no way songs like king park or Edward benz, 27 times should be classified the same genre as songs from bands like modern baseball(no shade I love em).
That's my big issue with the modern broad categorization of music.
Strawberry Fields, Kashmir, Don't Stop Believin', Smells Like Teen Spirit and Black Parade are all "Classical Rock".
Nah, mate I don't think so. That's like grouping Baroque, Gregorian Chant and Vivaldi. Completely different stuff, it needs to be broken up.
Golden Oldies 1950-60ish, Classic Rock 1960-75ish, Hard Rock 1975-1990ish, Alternative Rock 1990-2005ish, Mostly Crap 2005ish to now.
(If you're taking this seriously, you're missing that I'm mostly joking and ignoring like 80 more categories of rock music...)
So, internet or no internet?
Which world was better?
I remember the introduction to internet. I preferred the starting days of it. The wonder.
Internet still existed but we still didn’t text yet. Also porn was still magazine, Howard stern shows and girls gone wild commercials.
What a wild time for you to have lived 60s-now.
It's the principle, humans are self-centred and crave control of their environment by nature.
_"My liege, the audacity of a peasant to station their carriage before your illustrious noble kingdom, without seeking your gracious royal consent, is nothing short of egregious insolence, and can only be construed as the utmost impertinence! A blatant disregard for the respect owed to your esteemed sovereign authority and dignity, sire!"_ - Our brains, probably
Your favorite song was on the oldies station
Push on through
You have it down, that old fight for survival
Push on through
- Oldies Station, Twenty one pilots
Had this exact experience at the gym the other day. Usually they play recent pop stuff or electronica but they had on Blink 182, Lit, Green Day, Sum 41, Linkin Park, etc… I complimented the music on my way out and the young guy at the counter says “thanks I love classic rock” 🥲
I heard Green Day at the grocery store the other day. I was pleasantly surprised and said to myself “that’s a change, usually they only play music for…
…Old people….
Oh god”
For some reason, millennials in particular seem to have a problem with being perceived as old
I think we kinda internalized teenage rebellion and overall change of everything far deeper than other generations did, so becoming The Ancient who listens to NOFX and Offspring kinda doesn't compute
I think that's because we had dating/relationship/reproductive crisis. If you don't have children, you still have milestones to do typically done by young adults.
I’ve been playing every console post DS since I was 4, and I was late to the party. As of now I do truly think it is considered “retro” now, as well as the Wii, as much as it hurts.
I go out dancing regularly to this place that has a 90s night once a month.
Right after I finished talking to the bartender about remembering when S Club was a thing (S Club Party was playing), I walk by a group of girls doing shots, and talking about how much their moms love this song...
The other day, I heard the radio call Boulevard of Broken Dreams retro.
Anyways.
*grunts as I get out of bed because I was at a Pennywise show 2 days ago and I still hurt*
I expect the music I listened to in the 90s to be called "oldies." What I didn't expect is to hear that Post Malone is considered "oldies" as well. I'm starting to think the word has no value anymore in this age where we can listen to any genre from any period at any time through our phones. It used to be called oldies because the radio stations said they were, not because we called them that.
One of my favorite local stations was one that played a lot of 90’s/early 2000’s rock music. I was disappointed when I turned it on one day and they had rebranded as “classic rock”, but I was shattered when I realized the music hadn’t changed 💀
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"Ye-Yeah, oldies" I realized I don't relate to this generation despite being born in 1999
Taylor calls it the eras tour because she’s been touring for several generations.
She’s toured longer than the Beatles, pink Floyd, nirvana, elvis.
She is to us millennials what rod steward was to pensioners.
Love story is a classic song now.
Anything from the time taylor started is classic genre.
Ie system of a down, blink 182, bloc party
>Motley crue still tour smh.
You have to hand it to them - Nikki Sixx had been dead, what, 4 times now?
Besides what else are they gonna do? They play music.
To paraphrase Willie Nelson when he was asked if he was ever going to stop touring: "And do what? Sit around and play guitar and hang out with my friends? That's what I'm doing now!"
My wife showed me a TikTok of some kid with the caption he likes listening to classic rock, and it was a song from ‘97 or something. I was at a loss for words.
Order in which music is played
* Live
* Radio/streaming
* Popular Movie/TVshow
* Large store
* Tv commercial (popular proudct)
* (Hidaius 5 to 10 years)
* Small store
* Tv commercial (truck)
* Diners and bars
* (Hidaius 5 to 10 years)
* Tv commercial (insurance)
* Oldies station
* Popular Movie/TVshow but ironically
* Tv commercial (pills)
As someone who is 18, I find it really funny whenever someone remembers that 1990 was 34 years ago.
Yes, the new song from your teens is in fact over 20 years old now.
I was driving back from out of town a couple of years ago when the radio station said they played the best classic rock, and then proceeded to play The Offspring
The trick is to just not stop listening to new shit. Got my dad on thr Greta Van Fleet train. Keeps asking me to find him "new" music and asked me about this "new" band Monster Magnet, you are only old when you give up on finding new shit in genres you enjoy. Like Hot Mulligan im probably a little over there standard age demographic but good music is good.
I've barely gotten over hearing the songs I grew up with in the "west coast classics" station in GTA 5. The worst part is that the game itself is now at least 10 years old...
I remember going to a karaoke with some college students a couple of years ago (I was a student mentor for a few months as I was finishing my master's) and putting Human by the Killers on the list thinking that they would know about it.
None did. None knew who the Killers were. It was "old music" according to them.
I felt like an old man and I'm not even in my 30s...
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Apparently my music is now referred to as “Dad Rock”. Sigh… let me get out my khaki shorts…
Hey now, khaki shorts are hot
As long as the t-shirt is tucked in. Right? Right?!?
Depends.. tucked in shirt is only allowed if you combine with white socks and sandals
I feel very attacked here. I can't help it that I like sandals, but sometimes my feet get cold. And and and I like my khaki cargo shorts and... You know what, you guys all suck.
And a Hawaiian shirt
Grass stained white New Balance if you're going out somewhere fancy for date night
The majority of my wardrobe are funny tshirts I get for father’s day… wouldn’t tuck them in. Shirts that say things like: I do what I want When I want Where I want Except I gotta ask my wife … one sec.
My favorite says: "I'm Just One Big Freakin' Ray of Sunshine"
Paired with socks and sandals then, right?
Wait, are khaki shorts not ok anymore? Serious question, because I'm wearing some right now and nobody told me. If I'm allowed to just wear basketball shorts all summer now then someone needs to let me know, because they're way more comfy.
Tying up the New Balances.
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I mean, the 1990s are as far away from the 2020s as the 1960s were from the 1990s so I honestly can't blame them I'm just wondering if songs from the 90s feel as wildly different to kids these days as songs from the 60s felt to us in the 90s. Because to me it feels like music styles have changed much less drastically
Technologically speaking, the 90s are far closer to us than they were to the 60s. A lot of music was still recorded in mono back then (stereo was just becoming a "thing"). And even producing music by recording each instrument in its own track was still very rare. (There's a reason why Specter's Wall of Sound was so impressive.) A lot of the music got remastered in the 90s, and that stuff still sounds great today. Whereas a LOT of the original stuff from the 60s still sounds like it should be played on mono AM.
Counterpoint: we had a tape cassette deck in our car in the 1990s. It was very exciting when your favorite song from one side lined up such that you could flip to the other side and hear your favorite song there, and then repeat. My niece and nephew do not fathom the novelty of their on-demand world (and how impatient it makes them). But really all of recorded music is only 150 years old. The difference between that and most of human history is enormous.
Seriously, it's hard for us to fathom how wildly different our experience of music was before recording. We're so used to being constantly surrounded by a massive variety of high quality recordings, and having one definitive version of a song in our heads. But 150 years ago, and for all human history prior, more or less the only way you heard music was if someone was performing it live. It's a little like how us older generations remember having to use a reference book or to the actual library to look up some information that now we can just Google.
In terms of audio quality, 90s music (especially late 90s) holds up pretty well. In terms of style, it's dramatically different. Even music from the early 2010s sounds very distinct from music today, with the exception of intentional throwbacks.
But that's the thing is, the audio quality isn't a barrier to people "discovering" 90s music. And because the styles are so different from what's currently popular, it can open up a new realm of music for people who realize they *like* those styles. (Which is why when that music gets featured on shows, they can hit the charts. see, Kate Bush of all people.) The sound quality was a BIG barrier to enjoying 50s/60s music in the 90s. It's flat and tinny. The very popular stuff got remastered, but a bunch of music from that time has been pretty much forgotten. It also helps that music was recorded digitally once CDs came out, so no natural degradation of the original tapes.
Maybe I'm getting old, but I hear way less differences between music styles in the past 3 decades than in the 3 decades prior. Music seems to have gone through a rapid evolution between 1950 and 2000 and then slowed down significantly to an almost complete standstill. I just don't hear any geniunely new ideas or new sounds in music any more.
I think there’s a more “ethereal” vibe to a lot of indie pop songs. AJR, Half Alive, Jazz Emu, Good Kid. (Does Billie Eilish count? If she doesn’t this might be a weird mix of early 2000s to 2010s music). I can’t really describe the tone because it is still similar, but they sound different to me.
They've changed just as drastically, maybe you just haven't noticed as keenly. Rap in the 90s sounds completely different to modern day rap. Listen to Dr. Dre, Tupac, or Biggie and compare their flow, production, and beats to someone like Drake or Travis Scott. Rock has dropped considerably in popularity so literally any rock music from the 90s will sound retro just by virtue of being Rock. Dropping even harder in popularity is Jazz. Remember when smooth Jazz was all the rage in the 90s? It's all but extinct now. Electronic Dance Music also used to be a completely seperate genre of music dominated primarily by Europeans. But in the last 20 years EDM beats and sounds have seeped into every other genre and become a global staple.
Well regarding your last point: maybe I didn't notice as much because I'm from Europe? But to be clear, I'm not saying nothing changed, just that it feels less drastic in how different it is, and that I have no way of knowing if that is real or if it's a "frog being boiled too slowly to notice" kind of thing.
Yup lol this happened on Saturday and I still feel like I need a hip replacement
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You think that's bad? I had to explain to a kid that ***9 fucking 11*** wasn't just a "meme people of his dad's age had". First I got angry that the kiddo thought that it was "just a meme" but then I realized: Damn, I'm old.
That goes far beyond bad wtf lol shouldn't that event be in textbooks by now
For something to end up as “history” it needs to be at least 2 decades old. Although Nine/11 is old enough for that, it probably won’t be in many text books as of yet. Give it a few more years I guess.
Nah it was in textbooks by 2006
I had a kid tell me that ‘apparently’ that was the last time the country acted together as a country.
If you think about it, listening to 50’s doowop in the 80’s is the same as listening to Nirvana now. Now to make you feel even older. Nirvana’s first album was released in 1987. So if you listen to that, it would be like still spinning Bing Crosby in the 80’s.
I like calling things like Linkin Park and Green Day "Dad-rock" It really pisses off my older colleagues.
I'm just about to hit 30 and this unreasonably elevates my heart rate!
How do you think I feel in my late 40s?
I'm 35, so my guess would be stiff and sore - because that's how I'm feeling more and more.
That’s funny because I was just at a brewery and this woman in her 60s complained to have the “heavy metal” station changed. It was linkin park lol. Made me feel a bit younger if there are still people my parents age complaining about our music
My son informed me that System of a Down is now “dad rock” and I felt that assault in my giblets
I felt like those college-rock bands like Greenday and Foo Fighters were "Dad-rock" even back when they were popular. Now if kids said that about something with a little more edge like Nirvana or Soundgarden I might get a little upset.
The smiling tshirt brand? they made music? 😏
I'm a little ruffled reading it
Tangentially, "Good Riddance," sounded to me at the time like a "Farewell, we've had a great career, thanks for all the memories," song, but that was almost 30 years ago and Green Day is still putting out new stuff (whether you like the new stuff or not is a different conversation).
You still have working hips!?! Well lah dee dahhhhh
You know you're old when you are the target audience for the music in the store and elevator... 😐
When "classic rock" is younger than you :/
I heard Weezer on a classic rock channel a few years ago. I've never recovered.
I heard nirvana in an elevator
Can you tell the weather with your knees yet?
Aren't you like not even 40 yet?? YOU'RE NOT OLD!
My kids consistently refer to this time period as the 1900s.
I mean, it sounds crazy but… *Ain't Nuthin But A G Thang* is closer in time to Chubby Checker’s *Lets Twist Again* than to today.
i'm a 90s kid, but they're right. when i was growing up, 70s music was oldies, and the 70s were about 20 years old then. the 90s are 25-34 years old. they're older than the oldies i grew up with.
#CRITICAL HIT
90s is the best decade. Fight me.
Look at it this way, at least they're listening to them.
Or “twentieth century music.”
"late nineteen hundreds" music.
and as of next year ALL of the Nineties music will classify as Oldies. Where's my damn cane?
My teenage years have been reduced to "retro" now...
Hey Dad can you put on some Classic Emo/Post-Hardcore ??
MCR and 3DG can both be reasonably classified as "dad rock" now
I'm asking you with all the sincerity in my heart if you have any decency at all... delete this. Please. I'm begging. I've talked to other people and they agree, you should delete this. Its making a lot of people very upset. I'm told some people have been vomiting they are so very upset. Please do the right thing.
When I was... an old man...
My grandson took me into the city to buy some raisin braaaand.
My grand son... took me into the city....
My knees are fucking baaad
"Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were."
2050 is closer than 1990
As someone born in 93 I'm willing to make the argument that 3 Days Grace was always Dad Rock. Leave MCR out of it though, Its not ok, I promise.
>3 Days Grace was always Dad Rock. Like nickleback I was just blindsided that MCR was included here. I'm not ready for this level of... blasphemy
>3 Days Grace was always Dad Rock Butt rock. Truly a timeless genre.
spotify has it all as divorced dadrock
Nah they be asking for Midwestern Emo these days.
I recently saw a YouTube comment on a la dispute video about how they loved the song and all Midwestern emo music. Now I'm not usually one to gatekeep music genres, and while I vibe with Midwestern emo playlists at times, there's no way songs like king park or Edward benz, 27 times should be classified the same genre as songs from bands like modern baseball(no shade I love em).
Alexa, play Deadbolt by Thrice.
Somebody called Halo retro in front of me the other day I damn near crumbled to dust
I spent all my teen years (early aughts) listening to music that was considered retro then. What do you call Led Zeppelin if Nirvana is classic rock?
That's my big issue with the modern broad categorization of music. Strawberry Fields, Kashmir, Don't Stop Believin', Smells Like Teen Spirit and Black Parade are all "Classical Rock". Nah, mate I don't think so. That's like grouping Baroque, Gregorian Chant and Vivaldi. Completely different stuff, it needs to be broken up. Golden Oldies 1950-60ish, Classic Rock 1960-75ish, Hard Rock 1975-1990ish, Alternative Rock 1990-2005ish, Mostly Crap 2005ish to now. (If you're taking this seriously, you're missing that I'm mostly joking and ignoring like 80 more categories of rock music...)
Just remember fellow old people; we are as far removed from the 80's and 90's as we were from the 50's and 60's when we were kids.
As someone born in the 60's I can't see your point ;) I'm just happy that there are still bands out there older than me .
The Rolling Stones are somehow still touring.
So, internet or no internet? Which world was better? I remember the introduction to internet. I preferred the starting days of it. The wonder. Internet still existed but we still didn’t text yet. Also porn was still magazine, Howard stern shows and girls gone wild commercials. What a wild time for you to have lived 60s-now.
If the movie Grease were made today with the same time shift, it would be about the year 2004...
I’d watch *Tokyo Drift Grease*.
We're not friends anymore
*(Aggressively shaking my cane)* Damn kids, get off my lawn!
Not quite the same thing but I'm definitely at the age where I get annoyed when people park in front of my house. That's my curb, buddy!
Yes! Why is it so annoying? I never park there, I have a garage, so why does it bother me?
It's the principle, humans are self-centred and crave control of their environment by nature. _"My liege, the audacity of a peasant to station their carriage before your illustrious noble kingdom, without seeking your gracious royal consent, is nothing short of egregious insolence, and can only be construed as the utmost impertinence! A blatant disregard for the respect owed to your esteemed sovereign authority and dignity, sire!"_ - Our brains, probably
I'm not your buddy, pal!
Your favorite song was on the oldies station Push on through You have it down, that old fight for survival Push on through - Oldies Station, Twenty one pilots
I was looking for this comment XD
I was wondering when i was gonna see the tøp reference
My first thought exactly. I love this song so much.
Had this exact experience at the gym the other day. Usually they play recent pop stuff or electronica but they had on Blink 182, Lit, Green Day, Sum 41, Linkin Park, etc… I complimented the music on my way out and the young guy at the counter says “thanks I love classic rock” 🥲
Classic rock?? Sum 41's In Too Deep only came out... ...23 years ago 😭😭😭
Same year as Halo, GameCube animal crossing, jak and daxter, super smash melee, and GTAIII 😭 I’m old.
I heard Green Day at the grocery store the other day. I was pleasantly surprised and said to myself “that’s a change, usually they only play music for… …Old people…. Oh god”
IT IS NOT CLASSIC ROCK... I AM 25 AND I GREW UP WITH THOSE BANDS FOR *FUCKS* SAKE
As a high school teacher, I feel this deep in my soul.
fun fact: most 90s music is closer to the moon landing than it is to today
dear lord, thats crazy
Just having that profile picture dates you by at least 10 years at this point
Wow
For some reason, millennials in particular seem to have a problem with being perceived as old I think we kinda internalized teenage rebellion and overall change of everything far deeper than other generations did, so becoming The Ancient who listens to NOFX and Offspring kinda doesn't compute
I think that's because we had dating/relationship/reproductive crisis. If you don't have children, you still have milestones to do typically done by young adults.
Helps that boomers have used Millennials as the term for young people 15 years longer then appropriate.
First time I heard the Foo Fighters referred to as dad rock I nearly had a heart attack. The mid 2000s weren’t that long ago, right?
There are people born after 9/11 who have kids of their own.
I had to reread that.
Two generations who have never know anything but the world after the War on Terror.
Their kids would be starting school next year.
The mid 2000s is almost 20 years ago.
The mid 2000s is 476 years from now.
They have been dad rock for at least a decade
I have heard that about the Killers from a few of my college students.
They kind of are though. Nothing wrong with FFs but they were never as punk leaning as other grunge acts.
I'm still mad at the teenager who said 1900s Mario games were the best Mario games. 1900s... 
I prefer PokeMon from last century.
When 2006 movies are called retro clasics like tf it was only 10 years ago
I think you lost count of time
We all did after 2016 😭 This timeline is so weird
To me it was 2020
I heard kids calling ds's retro NINTENDO DS. ITS SO OVER
I’ve been playing every console post DS since I was 4, and I was late to the party. As of now I do truly think it is considered “retro” now, as well as the Wii, as much as it hurts.
I grew up with the OG gameboy and I’d agree. 3DS has come and gone and switch is on its way out.
I go out dancing regularly to this place that has a 90s night once a month. Right after I finished talking to the bartender about remembering when S Club was a thing (S Club Party was playing), I walk by a group of girls doing shots, and talking about how much their moms love this song...
Push on through...
Then before you know, you lose some people close...
90s era music is to teens today the same as 60s era music was to us in the 90s... Just saying...
STOP SAYIN
The other day, I heard the radio call Boulevard of Broken Dreams retro. Anyways. *grunts as I get out of bed because I was at a Pennywise show 2 days ago and I still hurt*
Nice username
So what was playing? Backstreet Boys or Nsync?
Portishead :(
Dummy turns 30 in just over a month, it’s time to start looking at retirement options and stocking up on prune juice.
You thought you were interesting and alternative? No you're just old! < 3
I expect the music I listened to in the 90s to be called "oldies." What I didn't expect is to hear that Post Malone is considered "oldies" as well. I'm starting to think the word has no value anymore in this age where we can listen to any genre from any period at any time through our phones. It used to be called oldies because the radio stations said they were, not because we called them that.
One of my favorite local stations was one that played a lot of 90’s/early 2000’s rock music. I was disappointed when I turned it on one day and they had rebranded as “classic rock”, but I was shattered when I realized the music hadn’t changed 💀
New coworker referred to my music as "divorced dad rock" and now i want to die
At least that means department stores playing “inoffensive old music” are playing songs we know and like now.
https://preview.redd.it/sbqwi8v7fbad1.png?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f8b46cc9f7e0199b61dca35af430d535bc31449 "Ye-Yeah, oldies" I realized I don't relate to this generation despite being born in 1999
Taylor calls it the eras tour because she’s been touring for several generations. She’s toured longer than the Beatles, pink Floyd, nirvana, elvis. She is to us millennials what rod steward was to pensioners. Love story is a classic song now. Anything from the time taylor started is classic genre. Ie system of a down, blink 182, bloc party
>Taylor calls it the eras tour because she’s been touring for several generations. "Aww, that's cute." - The Rolling Stones
Lol i take it back. The stones had the highest grossing tour in 2021.
Oh sorry I meant Taylor has been relevant for several generations. Motley crue still tour smh.
>Motley crue still tour smh. You have to hand it to them - Nikki Sixx had been dead, what, 4 times now? Besides what else are they gonna do? They play music. To paraphrase Willie Nelson when he was asked if he was ever going to stop touring: "And do what? Sit around and play guitar and hang out with my friends? That's what I'm doing now!"
Went to a college bar where they were having emo night where all the college kids dressed like me and my friends in high school, it hurt my feelings.
Saw a 1990s Ford Bronco with Classic Car tags: "what the fuck ...."
Nirvana has been playing on classic rock stations for years at this point.
It's a 1000 times worse when music you don't recognize at all gets referred to as retro.
My wife showed me a TikTok of some kid with the caption he likes listening to classic rock, and it was a song from ‘97 or something. I was at a loss for words.
Download is probably classed as a retro festival now
IS THAT O TWENTY ONE PILOTS MENTION???
Oldies Station by Twenty One Pilots is indeed a great song
You're a little late, I'm already torn
And Natalie Imbruglia is almost 50.
You shut your whore mouth. (Jk I’m just lashing out because I’m now middle aged and I SWEAR NATALIE IMBRUGLIA IS LIKE 25!)
20 year olds really need to understand that they will be 40 year olds the next time they blink.
Order in which music is played * Live * Radio/streaming * Popular Movie/TVshow * Large store * Tv commercial (popular proudct) * (Hidaius 5 to 10 years) * Small store * Tv commercial (truck) * Diners and bars * (Hidaius 5 to 10 years) * Tv commercial (insurance) * Oldies station * Popular Movie/TVshow but ironically * Tv commercial (pills)
> Tv commercial (pills) Ah Bob Segar, fallen from truck commercial anthem to background music for a little blue pill.
How to make any millennials/gen Z feels old.
When the local rock station started playing tracks from Nevermind, Ten, etc… a part of me died.
your favourite song was on the oldies station, push on through
\*crumble to dust\*
I saw this post on reddit like last week lol
As someone who is 18, I find it really funny whenever someone remembers that 1990 was 34 years ago. Yes, the new song from your teens is in fact over 20 years old now.
Juuuuuuuust wait.
Psychic spies from China trying to steal your mind's elation.
Was driving, asked YouTube music to play some Classic Rock, it started playing Guns & Roses. I hate YouTube.
When you enjoy the music in grocery store, you're old. I am old.
I was driving back from out of town a couple of years ago when the radio station said they played the best classic rock, and then proceeded to play The Offspring
The author is out there just casually drawing AOE emotional damage
I still haven't recovered from that time a younger coworker referred to Gorillaz as oldies.
The trick is to just not stop listening to new shit. Got my dad on thr Greta Van Fleet train. Keeps asking me to find him "new" music and asked me about this "new" band Monster Magnet, you are only old when you give up on finding new shit in genres you enjoy. Like Hot Mulligan im probably a little over there standard age demographic but good music is good.
I say, good, let the stores cater to me by playing the music I grew up with. Let me sing along like an idiot because I still remember the lyrics.
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Me when I hear the Foo Fighters and Weezer on the Classic Rock station
Where did I put my alzheimer's medication again? Who is the real Slim Shady? Where did I put my alzheimer's medication again?
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It's just a burning memory.
I feel a lot better now since my local radio station hired Ray Cokes.
I had to do a triple take when I heard Rob Zombie’s Dragula on a CLASSIC ROCK radio station last year.
I love those oldie comics
It’s ok to end one of these panels where you “throw” them out of a window from a very tall building
classic rock stations be playing Queens of the Stone Age like:
I've barely gotten over hearing the songs I grew up with in the "west coast classics" station in GTA 5. The worst part is that the game itself is now at least 10 years old...
I remember going to a karaoke with some college students a couple of years ago (I was a student mentor for a few months as I was finishing my master's) and putting Human by the Killers on the list thinking that they would know about it. None did. None knew who the Killers were. It was "old music" according to them. I felt like an old man and I'm not even in my 30s...
Reminds me of when in Futurama Fry is listening to wrap music and they call it classical music.