Old today

[dvandom]

I've said before, "If the Oldies station plays music that charted in your lifetime, you may be old. If they play music you remember hearing when it first came out, you're probably old. If they play that noise the kids listen to, you're definitely old."

I've been in that first category for a while now. But today I solidly moved into the second, when the local Oldies station played "The Power Of Love" by Huey Lewis. It's not even the oldest Huey Lewis song I remember hearing when it first came out....

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[tvsgrady.livejournal.com]

I remember this one time when I was a senior in college (spring of 2002), and I was riding in my friend's car flipping through the radio stations, and I settled on this one that was playing Pearl Jam's "Daughter". And then the song ended, and the DJ did a station-ID thing mentioning that it was a classic rock station.

[acoustic-rob.livejournal.com]

I realized I was old when the groups on the 'modern rock' station started covering songs that were popular when I was in high school. First realized it when I heard a cover of Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" a few years ago, then last week stumbled over a cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus."