When you want time to hit you in the face, listen to music
Tam feeling time go by because Achtung Baby is 20. The other day, I fumbled through the radio and hear Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit. It was on a classic rock station, followed by Welcome to the Jungle.
November 28th, 2011 at 10:07 am
Wait until you’re pushing a grocery cart through the store and hear Led Zeppelin playing “Misty Mountain Hop” over the PA speakers. THEN you know you’re old.
Led Zeppelin has become Muzak®.
November 28th, 2011 at 10:18 am
Yup. When Cadillac started using Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” in their commercials, it wasn’t because Cadiallac’s demographic was getting younger…
November 28th, 2011 at 10:23 am
Honda is now using Ozzy’s “Crazy Train” to sell their Pilot SUV.
Which I think is better than hearing Flock of Seagulls over the Muzak, IMHO.
November 28th, 2011 at 10:25 am
Even worse, they’re using Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” to see Jeeps.
GORRAM JEEPS
mumbles incoherently
November 28th, 2011 at 10:26 am
see=sell, derp
November 28th, 2011 at 10:33 am
I heard The Ramones in the grocery store the other day. Sigh.
November 28th, 2011 at 10:38 am
And I heard “back in black” for a black friday sale. Groan.
November 28th, 2011 at 10:51 am
It’s not only music. I was channel surfing and saw on Spike they had Star Wars – Return of the Jedi on, and I was remembering that I first saw it in the theater when I was in boot camp 28 years ago. ( And the first Star Wars before I even had a drivers license ) Then I felt really old…..
November 28th, 2011 at 11:57 am
“I heard The Ramones in the grocery store the other day. Sigh.”
In a perfect world, Toys’R’Us would use “Beat On The Brat” for a commercial jingle…
November 28th, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Nirvana is “Classic Rock” now?!
Well, thanks for making ME feel old.
November 28th, 2011 at 8:59 pm
the Publix I go to places the best 80s music. That’s an incentive for me to shop there.
November 29th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
I think that Appetite for Destruction is borderline mainstream these days, as is a good bit of vintage hard rock.
I hear the Grateful Dead on the music system at Food City.
I remeber when AM radio stations played the Dead on the radio in the late 1960s.
I feel old because I am getting old and thinking of how long ago certain tunes were released makes me feel even older.