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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my favorite band from my teenage years was played on an oldies station on the car radio. To make matters worse, my sixteen year-old niece who was in the car, had never heard of them. I’m only 31, but damn, I feel old. FML
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
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
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
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
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
Today, I got caught singing '80s hair metal love ballads to myself in the car by the object of my affection. FML
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
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
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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J15237 25
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 46
"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 46
"That's life! That's what all the people say! You're riding high in April, shot down in May." - Frank Sinatra
DrSamba1 8
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
Oh I get that! I nearly drove off the road when I heard GNR on an oldies station.
J15237 25
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
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
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 23
Growing old is a privilege denied to many
Zebediabolical 45
Wait until you start hearing it in elevators. :(
DanielleinDC 34
Just wait until you hear them in the grocery store.