126 – Classic Rock
By Irma on March 23rd, 2009Posted In: comics
So guess what? I’m going to go to my very first con! And not just go, but have my very own table! Let’s all squee! *SQUEEEEEE.* (okay, you didn’t HAVE to squee…). I’m going to write more about that tomorrow (below under the “news” section.)
Speaking of the “news” section, did you see the AWESOME bookmarks?
And on a side note, this weekend I saw Franz Ferdinand. SO COOL. They sound so great live! And they did all the songs I wanted to hear, especially Lucid Dreams off the new album. I’ll definitely see them again when they come back. I have a nasty bruise on the back of my shoulder from being pummeled by an over-excited jumper int he crowd, but it was definitely worth it 
My husband wrote a great review with our pictures here.
Ouch… that hurts =/ What’s worse is when you get waved into a venue and they don’t even ask to card you anymore. Oh no, please, just suck my soul out at the door. Stupid bouncers *grumble*grumble*
*SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
good for you irma!!
:O imy is not getting old! its just that the styles of music and their popularity is changing now. people only like the new and (in my opinion) terrible singers who sound like pigeons being run over with a bulldozer in slow motion!! well some of the stuff is good but the most populaar stuff makes me want to puke because it’s so boring!
that happened to me the other day with the Foo Fighters! I still listen to the Colour and the Shape and it still feels like it just came out.
the world is a cold place when you realize your “old.”
(gives the world the “finger.”)
SQUEEE!
Ah yes, I remember that moment! Sigh.
You know, I have had a similar experience… Was talking to some younger women (I think they where like 18 or 19) and they referred to music from the 70’s as ‘Oldies’. Now, I am only 31, but still, they are saying I am old!
No! Don’t speak the truth like that. No warning or anything…
(Great strip again, though)
Here’s old for you, boys and girls! When I was in high school the new bands making their mark were Cheap Trick, Def Leppard, Boston and Dire Straits, among others. Of course, concert tickets ranged from $5.00 to $15.00 for a headliner and up to three opening acts so there were benefits. Being old is not that bad..
Oh, I had this realization YEARS ago when I started hearing songs from my high school years (1971-1975) on the OLDIES stations near Chicago.
I actually had an employee ask me “Who’s Bachman-Turner Overdrive?” when I played one of their songs one day. WHAT?! BTO!! Yes, I’m old too….
Ain’t that the truth, It is even weirder to hear an oldies station say that it plays all the hits from the 60’s 70’s and 80’s. So what is Buddy Holly now? Old timey music? Great comic today!
I’m getting in this situation more often lately. So sad. I’m already confused when I turn on the “oldies” station and it’s songs from the 80s. It’s just not right.
That “old” feeling hits me all the time. I wish it wouldn’t, now that I’ve recognized the fact — but no, it’s a constant surprise. Guess the memory is going…
Great comic!
IT ISN’T FAIR! We’re all old if the current 16 year old demographic declares it! And they don’t know nothin’!
That day of realization does suck, though.Well comedically captured.
I have that “I’m OLD!” moment every time I talk to people MY AGE. I’m 18. I want to be time warped to ACTUAL oldness (which in this case is actually midlife.
) just so I’m not grouped in with my age group.
But, I like country. They group old and new on 2 of the 3 country stations over here so every once in a while, I feel REALLY young (or at least my age) when I hear a song that sound like it’d be old, and isn’t.
As soon as I hear them call “Honkeytonk Badonkadonk” a “country classic” I’m gonna retire and make a hobby out of trying to kill Trace Atkins (or however you spell it) for disgracing country. >_>
BWA-HA-HA-HAAA!
For me, this moment came the first time I heard the local classic rock station DJ introduce Aerosmith with “Livin’ on the Edge.”
LMAO… Imagine how I felt when I heard the same thing about Motley Crue… or the time I heard a couple of tweeners talking about how he was listening to his dad’s old albums & the other kids says he doesn’t know what those are and the response was… ya know, they’re like a CD but really really big & black… sheesh…
and we now all officially sound like our parents…
I still own some albums… and learned to play 8-tracks on the record player in the basement when I was a kid. I’m suddenly feeling rather ancient =(
Funny, I read panel one and had Imy’s exact reaction from panel 3 – then I read the rest of the strip and realized I’m a comic strip character.
I saw Pearl Jam in 1990 right before 10 was released (opened for Smashing Pumpkins and RHCP) – even though I didn’t know a single song they had a great show, just rocked. Billy Corgan on the other hand got hit it the face with a shoe 45 secs into the first song and walked off the stage.
What is old? I just bought some Louis Prima and Louis Jordan CD’s the other day. Yet I’m going to see the Bouncing Souls in a month. Gotta keep it wide open.
Wait until you hear REMAKES of songs you grew up with done by new bands. And then you talk to young co-workers who didn’t even know they were remakes of those songs!
Here’s a phrase that made me almost crash my car…”And now, and oldie from the Clash!”
The key is to stay current with music…I used to be a DJ, and I love new music…don’t let yourself get into a rut. Thank goodness for Pandora…it’s re-opening my eyes to new stuff. I hear this Frank Sinatra kid is pretty good….
Just try to explain your friends that ‘Beat It’ is an original song by Michael Jackson and not Fall Out Boy.
Speaking of remakes,,,how about the fact that Flo Rida’s “Right Round” is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10. The moment I heard it…I KNEW he had taken that song from Dead or Alive’s “You Spin Me”.
It also kills me when some stations refer to the 80’s as oldies. During the 80’s, 50 & 60’s songs were considered oldies!
EGADS!
Goodness! I’ve been far too busy working on something exciting for the Expo I’ll be attending to really read on up these, but GAWD. Looks like EVERYONE can relate. What a depressing strip this was!
Oh and I totally KNOW about Flo Rida, Theresa. It’s always on MTV and it bugs the crap out of me!
OK people, if they are starting to call 80’s hits “oldies,” then what the heck are the “real” oldies called now? “Here’s Elvis with this Jurrassic hit, Jailhouse Rock!”
And Tom R., I’m lucky I’m definitely able to keep up with all the new stuff because of my job. In fact, last wee we got a new single from Pearl Jam (inspiration), and I got very excited thinking they were putting out a new album. But it turns out it’s for a remastered release of “Ten” with a new track on it. Doh.
I felt the same way when I heard them playing Pink Floyd over the grocery store sound system one day. It was from The Division Bell, but still.
OMG. In the grocery store? Dear lord.
Simple and Brillinat. I can already get a feel for this charcater. Nice work.
I recalled when certain things likes this happened to me. First off when I 20, I head on the supermarket song speaker,’Tonight and the rest of my life’ by Nina Gordon. Who used to be in of the hard rock band Veruca Salt. I can’t believe at 20 I turned to a real geezer there. But two years later in 2002 when I was 21 a NEW classic rock radio station came in the Dallas/Fort Worth air waves Called 93.3 the Bone. They played classic rock hits from the late 1960’s to the mid 1990’s. However they went under about seven years later and became a top 40 music station. (bleach.) The other classic rock station in the DFW area is ‘Lone star’ 92.5 KZPS. that plays classic rock hits from the late (sometimes mid) 1960’s to the early 1980’s. It’s been around about over 20 years. but for some reason doesn’t play:Rush,Black Sabbath, and all the 1980’s hard ‘pop’ metal. And 92.5 is still on the air in the DFW airwaves. But the real blow came when my top oldies station started playing 1980’s pop songs. The station is called 98.7 KLUV in the Dallas/Fort Worth area . Oldies to me, were always hit songs from the 1950’s to the very early 1970’s. First KLUV started playing more 1970’s from the entire decade. And then pop songs of the 1980’s. I recalled I heard Joan Jett’s song ‘Hit me with your best shot’. I felt like my time of geezerdom has come. What I have noticed that anything popular 20 years ago, will be popular again. And in Classic rock and Oldies radio stations. I loved Imy reacted on her face on the 5th panel.
Hay babe, Motley Crue, Night ranger, Quiet Riot, Kiss and Def Leppard are now classic rock; join the club…