Oldies

Shit. So, a couple of things have become clear to me recently.

a) I hate the radio but I forgot my mp3 player so I was listening to B101 for like 5 minutes today. B101 is "the oldies station". In the 5 minutes that I listened, I heard the Police, The Romantics and Blondie. Now, when I came to Providence in 1989, B101 was all Bill Haley and the Comets, Nat King Cole and Peter Paul and Mary. It seems like New Wave is now "oldies".

b) When MTV and VH1 first aired, all my friends made fun of VH1 as being the "adult, easy listening" channel. Now, VH1 is having "The Month Of Metal" programming. I told my co-worker, "Hey, remember how when we were kids we thought VH1 was all old and lame? Now they have the Month Of Metal and stuff...". He said, "kids still think VH1 is old and lame". Shit, now Slayer and Megadeth are "oldies".

c) In 1994 I started teaching college classes. I was very young, so my students were my peers. I would reference things like Devo and Atari and everyone got it. Now my students have no idea who Devo is and all pop culture video references today date back to Nintendo and stop there. Erg. Oldies.