# Oldies older than you in your MP3 collections **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2008, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldies-older-than-you-in-your-mp3-collections/440307 "2008-03-06T08:24:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldies-older-than-you-in-your-mp3-collections/440307/21 "2008-03-06T22:13:36Z")
Huh…It never occured to me before, but I guess I tend to leave old music behind after awhile. I have nothing older than me in my mp3 directory. I was born in '68, and the oldest stuff in there is some New York Dolls, circa 1971. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldies-older-than-you-in-your-mp3-collections/440307/22 "2008-03-06T23:32:13Z")
I have very little music that is older than me (almost exclusively rock and roll). “Rocket 88” is my oldest. I also have some Chuck Berry and Elvis that is older than I (I’m 50). I was born before the British Invasion, so all of the Beatles’, Stones, Who, _et al_ is newer than I. So are American acts such as the Beach Boys, Dylan, etc. ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldies-older-than-you-in-your-mp3-collections/440307/23 "2008-03-07T01:31:30Z")
I hit on a treasure trove of ultra-oldies a while ago. I’ve got some jazz cds I ripped to mp3, including some Scott Joplin from the 1890s. I’ve got masses of old big-band and swing from the 20s and 30s. And I’m a sixties junkie who was born in '71. Most of my mp3s are older than me. thwartme ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldies-older-than-you-in-your-mp3-collections/440307/24 "2008-03-07T11:19:33Z")
Cab Calloway’s Minnie the Moocher and It Don’t Mean a Thing Spike Jones’Flight of the Bumblebee and that’s it. out of over 30GB. Now I feel old. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldies-older-than-you-in-your-mp3-collections/440307/25 "2008-03-07T14:35:00Z")
Born in 1948. My oldest stuff goes back to Hildegard von Bingen, but she never cut any singles. Also, “covers” of hits by John Dowland, Bach, Mozart, Orff, Moussorgsky, etc. Plus that Medieval guy (or gal): _Anonymous_. (How old are the scary chants those Tibetan monks do?) Original renditions from the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers, Woodie Guthrie. Plus Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Blind Willie McTell & The Memphis Jug Band. (All originally released as singles–78 rpm.) Let’s not forget Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith & [Lil Green](http://prewarblues.org/2005/06/you-had-plenty-of-money-in-1922/). A bit of Glenn Miller–my mom’s fave. Carlos Gardel & other historical tangueros; warning–there’s music [here](http://www.tripsandtours.com.ar/english/ESBA7.2.html)! And the [Quintette](http://www.redhotjazz.com/hotclubfrance.html) of the Hot Club of France… ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldies-older-than-you-in-your-mp3-collections/440307/26 "2008-03-07T17:44:16Z")
I’m forty and a huge big band fan so probably 35% to 50% of my iPod is big band/ forties pop singers. I don’t have much 50’s or 60’s music tho’; the rest of my collection is 80’s (high school nostalgia) or current indie pop. ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldies-older-than-you-in-your-mp3-collections/440307/27 "2008-03-07T20:01:05Z")
I’ve got Benny Goodman’s Carnegie Hall concert (1938) and a bunch of post-war Jazz. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldies-older-than-you-in-your-mp3-collections/440307/28 "2008-03-08T20:52:56Z")
Also born in '77. Sweet - Ballroom Blitz Blue Oyster Cult - (Don’t Fear) The Reaper (Godzilla was released the same year I was so it doesn’t count. \>\_\>) Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson and Clover The Archies - Sugar Sugar Dusty Springfield - I Only Want To Be With You Five Man Electrical Band - Signs The Guess Who - American Woman and Clap For the Wolfman (I need to dig out the cds and rip some more…) Black Sabbath - Iron Man and Paranoid Frankie Vallie - Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You John Sebastian - Welcome Back Dick Dale - Misirlou Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit Plus probably a few I’ve forgotten I had. Bands active before I was born I have significant amounts of - including early stuff if they were active in my lifetime: The Beatles Bee Gees Ramones The Who ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldies-older-than-you-in-your-mp3-collections/440307/29 "2008-03-08T21:00:57Z")
Given my age: Ugg the Caveman: Rock Music. Actually the Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert already mentioned, all my Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Haydn, Schubert, Stravinsky etc. Not on MP3 but on CD I have pretty much all of Spike Jones. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldies-older-than-you-in-your-mp3-collections/440307.md?page=1)