What music makes you feel old?

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[RandallS]

Considering I watched the Beatles debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show" when I was 6, there's quite a bit of music that can "make (me) feel old" if I let it. :-)

LOL. That's me as well. The funny think is that most of the music from back then makes me feel younger -- not older. It's the memories associated with the music that causes that, I suspect.

[SunflowerP]

The funny think is that most of the music from back then makes me feel younger -- not older. It's the memories associated with the music that causes that, I suspect.

Yeah, that - I get a lot more "makes me feel 16 again" (or whatever age applies) than "makes me feel old".  That tends to be true whether it's stuff from when I was a child, or as recent as the '90s or early '00s.

Sunflower

[catherine]

Yeah, that - I get a lot more "makes me feel 16 again" (or whatever age applies) than "makes me feel old".  That tends to be true whether it's stuff from when I was a child, or as recent as the '90s or early '00s.

Sunflower

Yep, me too. Music doesn't normally make me feel old. The fact that my son tuned 27 over the weekend, that makes me feel old!

[Nitz]

Yeah, that - I get a lot more "makes me feel 16 again" (or whatever age applies) than "makes me feel old".  That tends to be true whether it's stuff from when I was a child, or as recent as the '90s or early '00s.

Sunflower

I should try that... feeling young would probably be better then feeling old.

[Waterfall]

So, what bands/albums/songs/etc make you feel old?

I actually feel young saying this, but Blink 182. Especially the Dude Ranch album. I sometimes drive around my friend's high school aged kids and when Blink comes on, they always comment on how old I am for knowing those songs. Especially because the radio station will play "Dammit" during their "throwback" hour (which is the only way these kids recognize it). But still... it's only from 1996 or something. It's not that old!

[Nitz]

I actually feel young saying this, but Blink 182. Especially the Dude Ranch album. I sometimes drive around my friend's high school aged kids and when Blink comes on, they always comment on how old I am for knowing those songs. Especially because the radio station will play "Dammit" during their "throwback" hour (which is the only way these kids recognize it). But still... it's only from 1996 or something. It's not that old!

I love Blink 182, doesn't make me feel old though.

[victoreia]

I began feeling old when they added 80s music to the local Oldies station.

Yeah, that's my reaction. Mind you, I've been listening to stuff from the 60s since I was a toddler (Dad put all his LPs on cassettes, so we could listen to them when we were in Germany without a T.V.); hearing stuff I listened to in high school following "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" is just too strange.

[Monica M.]

I actually feel young saying this, but Blink 182. Especially the Dude Ranch album. I sometimes drive around my friend's high school aged kids and when Blink comes on, they always comment on how old I am for knowing those songs. Especially because the radio station will play "Dammit" during their "throwback" hour (which is the only way these kids recognize it). But still... it's only from 1996 or something. It's not that old!

My 18 year old sister talks about how she loves old music and doesn't know where she got her taste from etc. Then she lists the songs on her ipod and they are Blink 182 and Offspring and Bloodhound gang and all the stuff I used to play to her when she was a preschooler. That makes me feel really old.

But what is worse is when I listen to some of the stuff I used to love and realised that not only do I not love it anymore but it really sucked to begin with. It's just a bit sad really.

[Nitz]

My 18 year old sister talks about how she loves old music and doesn't know where she got her taste from etc. Then she lists the songs on her ipod and they are Blink 182 and Offspring and Bloodhound gang and all the stuff I used to play to her when she was a preschooler. That makes me feel really old.

But what is worse is when I listen to some of the stuff I used to love and realised that not only do I not love it anymore but it really sucked to begin with. It's just a bit sad really.

That's strange, I've never listened to a song that I've liked in the past and thought that it really sucked to begin with. I've done the opposite, listened to a song I thought sucked when I was a kid, but now I like it.

[harzgeist]

But what is worse is when I listen to some of the stuff I used to love and realised that not only do I not love it anymore but it really sucked to begin with. It's just a bit sad really.

That has happened to me, too. But then again I like to believe I was only into the Backstreet Boys because everyone else was  Other than those boy bands, however, I still like the stuff I liked back when I was younger. Though it embarasses my friends a lot that I can still sing along to all my records of the Kelly Family... 

[Gillyflower]

So, what bands/albums/songs/etc make you feel old?

Or maybe a better question would be what music do you remember from your childhood that makes you think back on fond memories or not so fond memories?

There is video evidence of me belting out 'Barbie Girl' at the age of 3. Beyond the embarrassment factor, I can hardly wrap my head around the fact that Aqua are now considered one of the big iconic names of the 90s, or something like that.

Generally, I feel old whenever I hear retrospectives of the 90s. They make it sound like it was a lifetime ago, while I have memories of most of the artists mentioned in the second half of the decade (if childishly vague).

[stardancer]

There is video evidence of me belting out 'Barbie Girl' at the age of 3. Beyond the embarrassment factor, I can hardly wrap my head around the fact that Aqua are now considered one of the big iconic names of the 90s, or something like that.

Generally, I feel old whenever I hear retrospectives of the 90s. They make it sound like it was a lifetime ago, while I have memories of most of the artists mentioned in the second half of the decade (if childishly vague).

There's a radio station here that advertises music 'from the last four decades, 70, 80, 90, 2000'. I was born in the 70s - that means I'm 4 decades old! 

And no, I don't remember much 90's music - because I'd mostly stopped trying to follow the changes by then. 

[darashand]

There is video evidence of me belting out 'Barbie Girl' at the age of 3.

Oh, that made me feel old...I believe that song came out when I was in high school.

I get that feeling whenever I see t.v shows that I grew up with on Nick at Nite...

[Owl]

Anytime I hear something by AC/DC, Aerosmith or Journey.

And remember all 3 of them in concert.....

[Melamphoros]

I am going to echo many people here when I say that I first felt old when I heard Nirvana on a classic rock station.

And today on the radio I heard Pearl Jam called "vintage."

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