Fabian GiesenAug 18, 2024

So...

In Back To The Future (1985), Marty McFly travels back to 1955 and refers to the popular music of the time as "oldies".

I'm sorry to do this to all my compatriots growing up in early-90s Germany, but that means Snap, RMB, Haddaway, 2 Unlimited, Technotronic, Rednex, Mark 'Oh, Scatman John, Technohead, Whigfield, Culture Beat etc. are all Oldies now.

Also anyone around Marty McFly's age when the movie came out is now like a decade away from retirement.

Show threadFabian GiesenAug 18, 2024

also, and this is gonna hit some people especially hard come around end of the year, All I Want For Christmas Is You is also an Oldie now

I don't make the rules

Show threadFabian Giesen
In an old folks' home not too long from now: "ah, they always calm down when songs from their childhood start playing" (as Pump Up The Jam comes on the playlist)
Aug 18, 2024 at 10:16pmWeb
Show threadIkerAug 18, 2024
@rygorous Cue the retirement home getting down to some Rasputin
Show threadAlastair ReidAug 19, 2024
@rygorous but it will be “pump up the jam” played on Peruvian pan pipes! Nothing harsh or lively to wake you from your slumber as you sit in the circle of death round the TV in your care home.
Show threadTom ForsythAug 19, 2024

@rygorous Nothing like the old fashioned melodies like Fuck Tha Police.

What's that Mister Flav? Why yes it probably is time for your nap.

Show threadFabian GiesenAug 19, 2024
@TomF say what you want about Flav, he always seems to know what the time is
Show threadFabian GiesenAug 19, 2024
@TomF (it's Time To Jam)
Show threadTom ForsythAug 19, 2024
@rygorous When I lived within earshot of Big Ben, I never needed a watch. I mean I wore one anyways because it was the 80s of course, but I didn't need to check it. Every quarter of an hour, your internal clock was reset subconsciously by those chimes.
Show threadCF Bolz-TereickAug 19, 2024

@TomF @rygorous as a teenager I was always pretty good at knowing the time, to a minute or two of precision. I lost this ability when I moved to uni, but never made the connection to the super audible quarterly church bells in my home town.

A few years later I was at a conference in Austria in a small town and could tell the time again, and then understood how it worked 😅. One of the profs there was from a country without church bells, and super liked the whole concept.