Music and Growing old: Classic story - FML

Classic story

By Anonymous - 06/04/2021 16:00 - United States - Wilton

Today, I’m getting so old that the local radio station that plays the “old classics” is playing songs I listened to in high school. FML

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By lukey101 - 17/05/2023 12:00

Today, the song “Highway to Hell” played on the radio while I was driving on the highway to work, which accurately predicted how the rest of my day would pan out. FML

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By Anonymous - 17/06/2022 18:00 - United States - Allentown

Today, I was listening to my favorite albums by the Prodigy. Most are from the '90s, with one from 2015. I caught myself thinking about how much better it is than what's out now. It was then that I realized that I AM the old curmudgeon who complains about "today's music." FML

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By NotTalented - 16/12/2013 03:44 - United States - Colorado Springs

Today, I played in a high school concert. Some alumni of the band were sitting in the audience and were brought to tears. Not because it was beautiful, but because they were sad to see how much the music program had declined since they left. FML

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By CakeForBreakfast - 01/11/2019 02:00

Today, I asked my father if I could have my grandfather's old vinyls, record player, and vintage tube radio. He told me he threw those out years ago because, "Who listens to that crap anymore, now that we have mp3s?" FML

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By Shodan2112 - 18/02/2011 15:25 - United States

Today, as I go to a small private Christian college, the academic dean came up to me and asked me to put some old records on CD, since I have a record player that can do that. I had to listen to eight records of old students from the 1970's singing bible thumper Christian hippie music. FML

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This is our song

By Anonymous - 08/02/2023 22:00

Today, I got caught singing '80s hair metal love ballads to myself in the car by the object of my affection. FML

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By The song is "Excitable Boy" - 02/01/2023 20:00 - United States

Today, I've been trying to find and revisit a song that my dad listened to all the time when I was a kid, and I finally found it. Except now I'm old enough to realize the lyrics are about a psychotic man who gets put in a "home" for things I cannot put in here. FML

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By nowhereman1990 - 03/08/2010 04:23 - Venezuela

Today, I heard on a local radio a song I wrote almost 2 years ago. Apparently, after my family and I moved away, my former band found a new guitar player, and that song is now the first single of their debut LP. FML

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By Anonymous - 16/10/2017 23:15

Today, I was blaring the radio to drown out the sound of the kids in the apartment upstairs. They then started jumping in time with the music. FML

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By Gizu - 10/12/2024 09:00 - United States

Today, I realized that I’ve been using the same alarm clock ringtone for so long that I now associate it with pure dread, even when I hear it being used in movies. FML

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J15237 25

Wednesday 7 April 2021 0:04

Welcome to the club, but there is nothing wrong witht the classics from high school. Just embrace that we actually listened to good music and not the crap of today . Then 20 years from now another generation can say the same thing.

cuz803 44

Tuesday 6 April 2021 23:07

"That's life! That's what all the people say! You're riding high in April, shot down in May." - Frank Sinatra

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cuz803 44

Tuesday 6 April 2021 23:07

"That's life! That's what all the people say! You're riding high in April, shot down in May." - Frank Sinatra

DrSamba1 8

Wednesday 7 April 2021 6:08

That song was out when I was in sixth grade. I was over at a friend's one day and just singing it to myself while he worked on something. He thought it was a cry for help.

rainbowdonnareed 18

Tuesday 6 April 2021 23:32

Oh I get that! I nearly drove off the road when I heard GNR on an oldies station.

J15237 25

Wednesday 7 April 2021 0:04

Welcome to the club, but there is nothing wrong witht the classics from high school. Just embrace that we actually listened to good music and not the crap of today . Then 20 years from now another generation can say the same thing.

DrSamba1 8

Wednesday 7 April 2021 6:05

Back in high school, I was playing some music one day. My dad came home and said, "This music makes me want to shit!" I wanted to tell him, "Well, I just saved you money on laxatives, didn't I?" but I kept my mouth shut.

DrSamba1 8

Wednesday 7 April 2021 6:00

I have turned on my 16-year-old to my music (I'm 64). Someone asked them, "Do you listen to any music from this century?"

Jonkbaby 22

Wednesday 7 April 2021 13:28

Growing old is a privilege denied to many

Zebediabolical 39

Wednesday 7 April 2021 23:29

Wait until you start hearing it in elevators. :(

DanielleinDC 33

Thursday 8 April 2021 13:08

Just wait until you hear them in the grocery store.

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