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You know you're getting old... We were talking guilty pleasures at work. When I said I like the song 'Dream Police' by Cheap Trick and the associates said who are they? New Band? (confused looks) So I said, how about 'Babe' by Styx? They replied, I think I have heard of them. Even Cameo's 'Word Up' did not ring a bell.
Whoa! I found out that Will Smith is about as far back as they go. I am so old  ---------------------------------
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don't feel bad,it's fun being "old school"  | |
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Will Smith or Fresh Prince? 'Cause Fresh Prince is relatively old school. When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. Regardless of the day, I'm glad you were born. | |
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What used to trip me out in the 1990s, was that people did not know that Lionel Richie was in The Commodores before he was a solo artist. These people did not even know who The Commodores were. Now, they don't even know who Lionel Richie is.
Also, a lot of people do not know that The Isley Brothers used to do some hard driving funk. They think all they ever did was ballads. [Edited 11/1/04 6:55am] Andy is a four letter word. | |
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I felt old when a girl on another message board said she picked up No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom when she was eight or nine years old!
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DavidEye said: don't feel bad,it's fun being "old school"
we can teach the babies dave  | |
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I also enjoyed another Thread; 'list the first album you bought'
Mine was an actual vinyl LP of Kiss 'Destoyer' but I did look at all of the responses to see if they were vinyl albums or cd albums
And its also funny that when I traded bootlegs back in the day we tried to get the best cassette or vhs copy we could get. Nowadays, they are trading digital formats, dvd concerts, etc. Some have great quality and multi camera angles and people still complain that they rate 'only about a 8+' I was so happy to get a crappy cassette of a song (even with tape hiss) and a video that was not complete and a little blurry.  ---------------------------------
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I just turned 24 this month.
There is this new guy at work who started last week and I was saving a document for him to use on the network, which I confirmed with "Whoomp. There it is." 
And this prompted him to ask how old I was like I was soooo old school.. and he's 22! Some people just don't have obscure humor.  | |
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You are not alone.
Shh... I'm OF this generation and I can barely find a muthaf***a that remembers rap before 2Pac, Janet's career before Control, Queen Latifah when she was afrocentric, and a time when MTV played real videos all day. | |
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JANFAN4L said: You are not alone.
Shh... I'm OF this generation and I can barely find a muthaf***a that remembers rap before 2Pac, Janet's career before Control, Queen Latifah when she was afrocentric, and a time when MTV played real videos all day. Hey, did you see her performance on the In Living Color dvd for Season Two. It was right at the end of Episode One... a verse from "Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children".  | |
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CinisterCee said: JANFAN4L said: You are not alone.
Shh... I'm OF this generation and I can barely find a muthaf***a that remembers rap before 2Pac, Janet's career before Control, Queen Latifah when she was afrocentric, and a time when MTV played real videos all day. Hey, did you see her performance on the In Living Color dvd for Season Two. It was right at the end of Episode One... a verse from "Mama Gave Birth To The Soul Children". I don't have the ILC DVDs yet (man, everybody has those). But I remember that performance! Plus, I remember Black Sheep, and I remember when Marlon & Shawn Wayans were trying to rap. LOL | |
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| Y'think that's something , how do you think I feel? I grew up when there was no hip hop on the radio--- and I remember the exact moment (as a freshman in high school, back in the fall of '79) when Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" hit the airwaves...Man , it was like a bomb going off! (that, and Fatback Band's "King Tim III")Everybody was like, " man, have you heard this?" " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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JANFAN4L said: You are not alone.
Shh... I'm OF this generation and I can barely find a muthaf***a that remembers rap before 2Pac, Janet's career before Control, Queen Latifah when she was afrocentric, and a time when MTV played real videos all day. The memories of my friends don't go back before about 2000. It's really amazing. They have no idea who anyone is. And Janet before Control? All they know is All For You and beyond. | |
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I understand exactly what you mean. I feel old when I read here on the Org "I was born right around the time Purple Rain was released!!" 
btw, Cheap Trick and Styx are cool. I dig 'em too. | |
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I'm 22 years old and folks look at me kinda funny like "Shut up, grandma" 
This ol' co-worker of mine flipped when I brought a Marlena Shaw album to work so I could play it in the PC. "You're a young buck, what you doing with this?" Bitch, please  | |
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I knew i was old when i was telling a friend i remember when Ella Fitzgerald's first album came out. He said "Who?" | |
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SnowQueen said: I understand exactly what you mean. I feel old when I read here on the Org "I was born right around the time Purple Rain was released!!"
Same here. I read on the org how some fans first got into Prince in the mid-90s (or even later!) and I just want to tell them, "Damn, you missed it." | |
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sextonseven said: SnowQueen said: I understand exactly what you mean. I feel old when I read here on the Org "I was born right around the time Purple Rain was released!!"
Same here. I read on the org how some fans first got into Prince in the mid-90s (or even later!) and I just want to tell them, "Damn, you missed it."  | |
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VoicesCarry said: JANFAN4L said: You are not alone.
Shh... I'm OF this generation and I can barely find a muthaf***a that remembers rap before 2Pac, Janet's career before Control, Queen Latifah when she was afrocentric, and a time when MTV played real videos all day. The memories of my friends don't go back before about 2000. It's really amazing. They have no idea who anyone is. And Janet before Control? All they know is All For You and beyond. Typical teenage millennial reaction [people crowding around me at a table]: "You mean to tell us there was music before Britney Spears, Backstreet and TRL?!"
 <-- I get this reaction when I talk about music pre-1992. "OMG! How do you know that?"
I have a pretty pedestrian understanding of music from the '60s, '70s & '80s and mofos look at me like I'm a music scholar: "Wow! Like, you are totally a genius for remembering the original versions of all these [sh*tty] remakes! Patrice Rushen originally did the Men In Black song?! Talk Talk?! The Juice Crew? Klymaxx? Labelle? Whoa?! You must, like, have an OLD SOUL or something?" I remember I was considered square when I was in high school for listening to The Best of Kurtis Blow, Chaka Khan's "Epiphany" collection, Boogie Down Productions, Rodney O & Joe Cooley, Sade's Diamond Life and Whodini's "Back In Black," etc. I kid you not I heard a 17 year old boy say QUOTE: "Who are Janet and Madonna?" I'm so glad high school is OVER. [Edited 11/1/04 14:24pm] | |
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JANFAN4L said: VoicesCarry said: The memories of my friends don't go back before about 2000. It's really amazing. They have no idea who anyone is. And Janet before Control? All they know is All For You and beyond. Typical teenage millennial reaction [people crowding around me at a table]: "You mean to tell us there was music before Britney Spears, Backstreet and TRL?!"
<-- I get this reaction when I talk about music pre-1992. "OMG! How do you know that?"
I have a pretty pedestrian understanding of music from the '60s, '70s & '80s and mofos look at me like I'm a music scholar: "Wow! Like, you are totally a genius for remembering the original versions of all these [sh*tty] remakes! Patrice Rushen originally did the Men In Black song?! Talk Talk?! The Juice Crew? Klymaxx? Labelle? Whoa?! You must, like, have an OLD SOUL or something?" I remember I was considered square when I was in high school for listening to The Best of Kurtis Blow, Chaka Khan's "Epiphany" collection, Boogie Down Productions, Rodney O & Joe Cooley, Sade's Diamond Life and Whodini's "Back In Black," etc. I kid you not I heard a 17 year old boy say QUOTE: "Who are Janet and Madonna?" I'm so glad high school is OVER. [Edited 11/1/04 14:24pm] W-H-O-D-I-N-I  ---------------------------------
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jthad1129 said: We were talking guilty pleasures at work. When I said I like the song 'Dream Police' by Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick was my favorite band in high school. 
So I said, how about 'Babe' by Styx?
That song was HUGE in my roller skating days. This thread is making me glad I'm old.  Is 37 old? | |
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JANFAN4L said: VoicesCarry said: The memories of my friends don't go back before about 2000. It's really amazing. They have no idea who anyone is. And Janet before Control? All they know is All For You and beyond. Typical teenage millennial reaction [people crowding around me at a table]: "You mean to tell us there was music before Britney Spears, Backstreet and TRL?!"
<-- I get this reaction when I talk about music pre-1992. "OMG! How do you know that?"
I have a pretty pedestrian understanding of music from the '60s, '70s & '80s and mofos look at me like I'm a music scholar: "Wow! Like, you are totally a genius for remembering the original versions of all these [sh*tty] remakes! Patrice Rushen originally did the Men In Black song?! Talk Talk?! The Juice Crew? Klymaxx? Labelle? Whoa?! You must, like, have an OLD SOUL or something?" I remember I was considered square when I was in high school for listening to The Best of Kurtis Blow, Chaka Khan's "Epiphany" collection, Boogie Down Productions, Rodney O & Joe Cooley, Sade's Diamond Life and Whodini's "Back In Black," etc. I kid you not I heard a 17 year old boy say QUOTE: "Who are Janet and Madonna?" I'm so glad high school is OVER. [Edited 11/1/04 14:24pm] Good riddance to high school, honestly. Anyone who doesn't know what Motown is should be shot. | |
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I was 29 about 1997 or 1998 a young cashier who knew i liked Prince told me she liked Diamonds and Pearls when it came out when she was in the 7th grade.
I felt so old. [Edited 11/1/04 16:09pm] you look better on your facebook page than you do in person  | |
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i forgot the name of those yellow thingys that you put in the middle of a 45. but anyway this girl had a little button with a picture of one of those on there(maybe its a band or something i dunno). but i was tryin to tell her what it was and she was just lost. she didn't know what a 45 was. i felt old then. | |
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Harlepolis said: I'm 22 years old and folks look at me kinda funny like "Shut up, grandma"
This ol' co-worker of mine flipped when I brought a Marlena Shaw album to work so I could play it in the PC. "You're a young buck, what you doing with this?" Bitch, please "I saw a woman with major Hammer pants on the subway a few weeks ago and totally thought of you." - sextonseven | |
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Harlepolis said: I'm 22 years old and folks look at me kinda funny like "Shut up, grandma"
This ol' co-worker of mine flipped when I brought a Marlena Shaw album to work so I could play it in the PC. "You're a young buck, what you doing with this?" Bitch, please
You're ONLY 22??? You GO. . . you had me fooled all this time, you ol' soul.  | |
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paligap said: Y'think that's something , how do you think I feel? I grew up when there was no hip hop on the radio--- and I remember the exact moment (as a freshman in high school, back in the fall of '79) when Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" hit the airwaves...Man , it was like a bomb going off! (that, and Fatback Band's "King Tim III")Everybody was like, " man, have you heard this?" '79-'80, Senior Year in High School.
My girlfriend told me a few years ago that her little boy came home from kindergarden all excited and amazed because the teacher brought out these "HUGE BLACK CDs" that played music on them. | |
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i like old school music. Some poeple today take the music from back then anyway. So it must be nice | |
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I knew Joni Mitchell in person when she was just starting out (she used to play at a small club my friends and I ran~ around 1966~70) ~ and remember watching the actual live performance of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, and seeing Janis Joplin on stage at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit when no one knew who anyone was.(maybe 69 or 70) I'm older than dirt! But I work with teenagers and love hearing them talk about what is important to them ~ especially musically. My friends are of all ages and I am constanly learning from and occasionally teaching some with them all the time. Age truly is a state of mind. | |
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NuPwr319 said: Harlepolis said: I'm 22 years old and folks look at me kinda funny like "Shut up, grandma"
This ol' co-worker of mine flipped when I brought a Marlena Shaw album to work so I could play it in the PC. "You're a young buck, what you doing with this?" Bitch, please
You're ONLY 22??? You GO. . . you had me fooled all this time, you ol' soul. I could be your mother.  | |
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