What music makes you feel old?

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[Pyperlie]

I actually forget which song it was, but I remember it being Pearl Jam.

IIRC, it's actually Boys of Summer

[Melamphoros]

IIRC, it's actually Boys of Summer

My last reply in this thread was meant to be read as "I forget which song it is (can't even remember the lyrics because my short-term memory is more like swiss cheese these days) but I recognized it to be Pearl Jam."

[Pyperlie]

My last reply in this thread was meant to be read as "I forget which song it is (can't even remember the lyrics because my short-term memory is more like swiss cheese these days) but I recognized it to be Pearl Jam."

My bad.

[SunflowerP]

I actually forget which song it was, but I remember it being Pearl Jam.

Not important, because what I meant was, is the experience (for you) of, "On the radio today, I heard Pearl Jam called vintage," comparable to Don Henley's experience (almost 30 years ago) of, "On the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac."  Doesn't matter which PJ song they were announcing, any more than it matters whether the Deadhead sticker made reference to any particular Grateful Dead song or not.

This whole thread keeps calling that line from "Boys of Summer" to mind, but what caused me to mention it just them was the similarlity between your sentence structure and Henley's - I keep wanting to find a way to tweak the scansion on yours so that it could be sung in the song.

A story relating to that, that fits the thread theme depressingly well:
When I was talking to JPF about this thread, shortly after I made the post, I mentioned that I'd been going to link to the "Boys of Summer" lyrics, except that LyricsWiki got it wrong - somebody, apparently blissfully ignorant about '60s/'70s counterculture, had mondegreened (can "mondegreen" be verbed? apparently, 'cause I just did) it to, "saw a dead head stick out of a Cadillac."  JFP fixed it, but noticed that the edit history showed it wasn't the first time it had been fixed, but the blissfully ignorant person (or a different ignoramus with an IP in the same IP block) kept reverting it .

That caused him to Google "Deadhead sticker" and see hits involving people asking about what this apparently-inexplicable line meant .

That's the kind of thing that makes me feel old.

Sunflower

[SunflowerP]

That's the kind of thing that makes me feel old.

I should probably add that I'm not eyerolling about people who don't have knowledge about stuff from before they were born (or before they were old enough to really notice), because that's just part of not having been born at the time; you can't know, unless and until it comes up and you find out.  I'm eyerolling about youngens who assume that, because they don't know, that means there's nothing to know.

Asking, "I'm pretty sure the reason I don't know this is because it's pop culture from before my time," (as the inquirer in the first hit - Yahoo Answers - asking what the line meant pretty much did) isn't at all objectionable.  But when someone edits your LyricsWiki contribution, that's a hint that there might just be something to be learned (not hard to do in this instance; it's music trivia, and there are a helluva lot of music trivia geeks in the world, and on the 'Net).

Sunflower

[Satsekhem]

It's not any specific song or band or type of music that makes me feel old. In fact, it isn't really music that makes me feel old. It's when teenagers come in and start chatting up about things that I just don't understand. The phones, the MP3 players, the iPad and i-things, the plasma vs. lcd screen... I just don't get it. And in not getting it, I really feel old (and dumb). You know how pathetic I am? Whenever someone leaves their cell phone at the store, I have to ask one of my younger cashiers to text them and let them know where they left it. I don't know how to turn it on, how to text on it, or even how to unlock the keys on one of those touch-screen phones.

But, back on topic: When I was a kid, we listened to the Moody Blues (reunion era). There was some CCR and REO Speedwagon and some other eclectic "oldies" that my mother grew up with. That was all before she went to one of those main-stream "playing the 80s, 90s, and music of today" stations that have recently turned into rap stations.

Oh. And the fact that everyone keeps saying that Nirvana makes them feel old? That makes me feel old, too.

[Thorn]

Oh. And the fact that everyone keeps saying that Nirvana makes them feel old? That makes me feel old, too.

This.

Though, at least I'd listened to some Nirvana.  Blink 182?  So far past my time they were never even on the radar...

[Owl]

When I was talking to JPF about this thread, shortly after I made the post, I mentioned that I'd been going to link to the "Boys of Summer" lyrics, except that LyricsWiki got it wrong - somebody, apparently blissfully ignorant about '60s/'70s counterculture, had mondegreened (can "mondegreen" be verbed? apparently, 'cause I just did) it to, "saw a dead head stick out of a Cadillac."  JFP fixed it, but noticed that the edit history showed it wasn't the first time it had been fixed, but the blissfully ignorant person (or a different ignoramus with an IP in the same IP block) kept reverting it .

That caused him to Google "Deadhead sticker" and see hits involving people asking about what this apparently-inexplicable line meant .


Sunflower

Amazing.  As someone who owns the album, I have to say the words are very clear.  How could anyone get them wrong?  Unless they have no clue what a Deadhead is.....which is apparently a bigger problem than my antique self would have imagined.

[Nitz]

Amazing.  As someone who owns the album, I have to say the words are very clear.  How could anyone get them wrong?  Unless they have no clue what a Deadhead is.....which is apparently a bigger problem than my antique self would have imagined.

I have a painting of Jerry Garcia on my living room wall.

[Satsekhem]

This.

Though, at least I'd listened to some Nirvana.  Blink 182?  So far past my time they were never even on the radar...

I think Blink started when I was in middle school? I don't know. I can't remember. I was still incredibly engrossed in reading and my own misery at that point, so I wasn't interested in what was "popular" on the radio.

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