I was listening to some cheesy hits show in the radio the other day, playing classic tunes of 'yesteryear', when something came on that really shocked me. I can't remember the tune, but it was some kind of heavy baselined inane dance track that immediately sent my mind racing back to my university days ... or was it my college days...
I got images of myself in my head of me - just the other month ... or maybe a year ago dancing incredibly badly but trying to maintain my cool in some sweaty sticky floored hole of a clubin Leeds .... or was it in Huddersfield trying my luck with everyone that went past. It made me smile.
What didn't make me smile was after the end of the song when the radio DJ announced that what I had been listening to was a track from 10 years ago.... from 1998!
1998 was 10 years ago! Thats 10 years! I am 10 years older than I was when this track was released!
More than once in 2007 when I occasionally listen to some classic chart show, when some Boomtown Rats (don't really know who they are - don't care) hit from the 80's comes on I would think to myself "why don't they play something modern - something good". Then I would be placated by a track from Oasis' latest album ... is it "Whats the Story Morning Glory"? ... or I think there was maybe one after that ... I'm was never sure.
It has actually only just dawned on me, that I am now completely removed from my decade. My decade has not only gone, it went a long time ago. I have also begun to notice that I don't like anything I hear in the current charts whatsoever (except for Ocean Colour Scene - those guys rule).
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By the time you are 35 you will start to like classical music.
I got old once. It's overrated.
I always wonder what stations like Magic will play when we're old. Instead of the hits from the 60s, 70s, 80s, etc - "here's a little bit of Firestarter for all you oldies listening today" perhaps?
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