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msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2007-06-22 02:51 pm

Oldies

I have no problem with the oldies station playing "California Dreamin'," but I find it really disturbing that they think "Hotel California" is an oldie.

[identity profile] baron-steffan.livejournal.com 2007-06-23 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Of course, that answer can't work, because it's static. The definition is, of necessity, dynamic.


I think it was Mary Radich (Mistress Aravis Del Clare) who, long ago, pointed out that when our generation is ready for the nursing home, the muzak will be Ozzy and Jimi Hendrix. To a certain extent, it already is....


--- Steve
who's old enough to remember when Fats Domino was the hot new thing and
"oldies" meant Rosemary Clooney and Mel Torme.