When did you get old?

[chiburb]

Stolen from Eric Zorn's blog in the Chicago Tribune, here is a list of the top "Summer Hits" for the last 30 years. The 1st one who's melody you don't recognize is the year you got old. For me it was 1988...(though I do recognize some later hits.)

August 1974: "(You're) Having My Baby" -- Paul Anka with Odia Coates
August 1975: "Jive Talkin'" -- the Bee Gees
August 1976: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" -- Elton John & Kiki Dee
August 1977: "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" -- Andy Gibb
August 1978: "Miss You" -- Rolling Stones
August 1979: "My Sharona" -- the Knack
August 1980: "Magic" -- Olivia Newton-John
August 1981: "Jessie's Girl" -- Rick Springfield
August 1982: "Eye Of The Tiger" -- Survivor
August 1983: "Every Breath You Take" -- the Police
August 1984: "Ghostbusters" -- Ray Parker Jr.
August 1985: "The Power of Love" -- Huey Lewis & the News
August 1986: "Papa Don't Preach" -- Madonna
August 1987: "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" -- U2
August 1988: "Roll With It" -- Steve Winwood
August 1989: "Right Here Waiting" -- Richard Marx
August 1990: "Vision of Love" -- Mariah Carey
August 1991: "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" --Bryan Adams
August 1992: "Baby Got Back" -- Sir Mix-A-Lot
August 1993: "(I Can't Help) Falling in Love With You --UB40
August 1994: "Stay (I Missed You)" -- Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
August 1995: "Waterfalls" -- TLC
August 1996: "Macarena" -- Los Del Rio
August 1997: "I'll Be Missing You" -- Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
August 1998: "The Boy Is Mine" -- Brandy & Monica
August 1999: "Genie in a Bottle" -- Christina Aguilera
August 2000: "It's Gonna Be Me" -- 'N Sync
August 2001: "Bootylicious" -- Destiny's Child
August 2002: "Hot In Herre" -- Nelly
August 2003: "Crazy In Love -- Beyonce featuring Jay-Z
August 2004: "Confessions Part II" -- Usher

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ericzorn/chi-zornlog.story#middleage

[mrboba1]

1. *whew*

I know 'em all still...

I love me some Usher...

[Lavender Brown]

2. I guess I'm still young

I wish I could wipe some of those from my memory though. :P

[demnan]

3. 1979

But just look at the crap that succeded it! I didn't get old at age 21 I merely stopped listening to the radio.

[CO Liberal]

4. 1987

*** sigh ***

[felonious thunk]

5. 96

I'm actually fairly comfortable with that fact that I stopped paying attention after the Macarena.

AAAAIIIIGHT!

[fudge stripe cookays]

6. 97.

Or when I discovered my feet were overrun with arthritis, around 2001. That was infinitely worse.

FSC

[JVS]

7. 4 years before I was born! That's too young to get old

[CanIgonow]

8. Boy, I know I am old.After the 90's I can barely recognize any of the

songs in your list.To add insult to injury, the last runt in my family,my 12 year old daughter came back from middle school about a week ago and told me about an actress in a movie she was planning to see with her friends.Of course I couldn't recognize the name and asked her who she was.My daughter went into a major rant saying" Dad, you are a fossil,you are ancient,you don't know who Lindasy Lohan is?"

I give up.Sometimes kids can be cruel.

[pagerbear]

9. 1987

But then, I was born old.

[terrya]

10. 1997.

I've never heard that Puff Daddy and Faith Evans song.

[Jo March]

15. don't worry - it's a rip-off of the Police

"I'll Be Watching You". Horrible, horrible piece of dreck.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

11. Thats truly amazing...not 1 good song in the bunch...n/t

[Commendatori]

12. 1988, and the only one I recognize from that point on is

that wretched abomination from 1996.

[arwalden]

13. 1997 through 2004.... None of those are familiar AT ALL!!!

[MissMillie]

17. I guess we're about the same "age"

I don't recognize any of those song either.

[arwalden]

29. I'm 44...

and I stopped paying attention to most popular music when the quality started going downhill. It's notable that the year of the Macarena was the LAST year that I do recall.

With a few exceptions, I find that most of the stuff I hear just doesn't appeal to me any more. I attribute it to my good taste and the falling quality of music in general... but it could be that I'm just set-in-my-ways and indeed becoming a Grumpy Old Man.

-- Allen

HEY YOU KIDS! Turn that racket down! Get a haircut! Pull up your pants! Tube-tops are back? Good grief... put on a bra girl! Get off my lawn! I'm calling the police!

[BiggJawn]

14. I'm not "old", I just don't listen to "All HIT Radio"...

S'Yeah, like some Westwood One programmer in Utah knows what I wanna listen to in Northern Indiana....

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. 2000

i was 22 when i got old

[skygazer]

18. Musta been 1988

Thanks a lot! I didn't think I'd been old that long!

[BigMcLargehuge]

19. based on this list...

I can't really say as I've never liked ANY of those songs. I was never a pop music guy. When my high school chums were into Motley Crue and WASP, I was listening to The Who and James Brown.

I can say that I realized how old I was when Mrs. McLargehuge brought home a "Staind" disc and I had to as "what the hell is this?" because every song sounds exactly the same, i.e. crappy.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

20. Looks like '91

I'm sure the later tunes were on the radio at work, but I started to really tune out the music.

[Butterflies]

21. I guess the Macarena did it for me

That dancing was too "youthful" for me. So I guess 1996.

[Dan-W]

22. 1988, also.

Turning 55 next month.

[auburngrad82]

23. 2000 although the last song I liked was 1988

[Dogmudgeon]

24. 1997

Which, incidentally, is around the time my hearing started failing altogether.

I still have enough hearing to listen to music, but it has become much more difficult. It takes too much work to just absorb popular music, and most of the over-produced "urban sound" music doesn't really keep my attention.

--bkl

[XNASA]

25. 1989, but I know the rest up to 1998.

:shrug:

[chiburb]

26. Zorn says you "might" still be young...

Until there are 2 in a row that you don't know.

But that's Zorn's opinion.

;-)

[XNASA]

27. So I only got old 6 years ago, instead of 15 years ago......

What a relief.

:eyes:

[bobbobbins]

28. I think perhaps its not the year you got old...

but the year you started listening to decent music.

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

30. 1988

at the ripe old age of six! (Maybe I've just always had good taste in music.)