The other day...

[elisi]

Miss M: "This is a voice recorder!"
Me [looks up]: "It's a walkman."
Impish Girl: "What's a walkman?"
Me: *feels about a million years old*

ETA: After I wrote this entry, I [randomly] went to look up Right Said Fred on youtube...

*cue waves of nostalgia*

Still remember sitting up late on a weekend, listening to the official countdown on Longwave Radio 252 (already indoctrinating myself with English culture - and was there ever anything gayer than that band?), to find out if Deeply Dippy was still Number 1. I think it held the spot for... 4 weeks? And oh, 'I'm Too Sexy' was EVERYWHERE, and one of my friends bought their album (it was called 'Up'), and I only much, much later discovered that 'Right Said Fred' was originally a song recorded by Bernard Cribbins. And thus my life is all beautifully circular.

ETA2: OH GOD. Now youtube is giving me links to Ace of Base: All That She Wants. *cries*

Comments

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

*snerk!*

(is a million years old as well)

[elisi]

Sometimes I can hear time rush past...

[camkin.livejournal.com]

hee hee!
I feel your pain.

[elisi]

Plus she wasn't particularly impressed when I explained. /o\

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

*feels about a million years old*

Yah. I can remember when a transistor radio was the coolest thing ever. (Followed in a few years by the portable cassette tape player!)

[elisi]

I remember my father had a calculator when I was little, and it was AMAZING...

[unfeathered]

Oh god, I can imagine having that conversation with my son too.

*also feels a million years old*

[elisi]

Clearly my LJ is now the refuge for million year old parents...

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Well, I only feel about a thousand, but yes, I totally had a walkman.

Honestly, it makes me think of Simon Amstell: "I'm so old. We had this rapper on who was born in 1994. How could an adult human be born in the mid-nineties?"

[elisi]

We must stick together...

And Simon Amstell is a marvel and a wonder and yes, that is a very worrying thought. /o\

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

A colleague - someone old enough to actually have a job - gave me a very odd look the other day when I mentioned owning a Discman. Oh, right, those were made redundant 10 years ago.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Also:

[elisi]

I had one of those too, once...

[promethia_tenk]

God, I remember when I got a Walkman. I was ecstatic.

Was just having a conversation with a friend the other day that people cannot possibly have been born in the Nineties. People walking around like ordinary human beings who were born in the Nineties. How did the universe allow this to happen?

[owlboy]

I realised the other day that one of my friends was born in 1994. o___O

[elisi]

*clings to you*

Also, Miss M was born in 1998... THE WORLD IS GOING TOPSY-TURVY!

[paratti.livejournal.com]

I binned mine a couple of years ago.

Is also Jurassic.

[elisi]

Damn kids. *shakes fist*

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

Since I'm about (I think!) 10 years older than you I regularly feel old these days. I remember my first walkman; I was a teenager. I had about 3 cassettes, and listened to them over and over and over and over... Duran Duran, Billy Joel, and Prince. Oh, and Paul Simon's Graceland that I stole from my dad...

[elisi]

Let's all feel old together...

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Graceland is such a fantastic album. I grew up on Paul Simon, but I don't think I'll ever outgrow that album.

[solitary-summer.livejournal.com]

I had a moment like that when my niece played with an old telephone with a rotary dial at my parents' and I explained to her that this was a phone, and you used to dial like that, instead of pressing buttons.

Once upon a time I made my sister a 'I'm too sexy' t-shirt, complete with the lips — hand-painted of course, because at the time you couldn't get things printed just like that. Oh, nostalgia... (I went on an Erasure binge on YouTube yesterday, because for some reason I always get nostalgic when I'm stressed.)

[elisi]

We actually have an old phone like that, so my children know how they work...

And Erasure. Darn, I'm gonna have to go on a binge too, me thinks.

[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

and for no apparent reason -- the first song I learned to sing:

Knees Up, Mother Brown.

Followed closely by "Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor (on the bedpost overnight)" and "I've got a loverly bunch of coconuts"

I wish the BC version of Right Said Fred was in there, I truly, truly do.

Old Chick RULE.

[elisi]

We're like wine, or mahogany furniture...

[kerkevik.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I listen to so much music from tomorrow right back to early mediaeval, but the 80s was when I stopped listening to the charts about then; they were so marvellously and defiantly Bi, right when 'ol Maggie and her pals were being extra nasty, and all our sorry so-called friends cared about was ripping each other to pieces for the scraps she left behind :-(

Which leads me to this http://kerkevik.livejournal.com/104481.html

Which had me shedding tears in the library this AM.

Still under Willow & Tara's spell,
Ray.

[elisi]

*sends hugs*

I (happily) escaped Thatcher, so I don't have those scars...

[fangfaceandrea.livejournal.com]

XD oh but I get all nostalgic for the times when I used to listen to the radio, fingers at the REC and Play buttons, just waiting for them to play the song i liked and hoping it would play to the end to get it just right.Then Napster came along XD.

...good times !!

Oh and there was that time when my cousins thought it was cool that those guys on the DVD were singing Chicken Little's song AKA We are the Champions ;)

[elisi]

They'll never know how we had to struggle through the snow, uphill, for hours on end... ;)

Oh and there was that time when my cousins thought it was cool that those guys on the DVD were singing Chicken Little's song AKA We are the Champions ;)
*is horrified*