# Under 38? Over 23? Read this! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097 "2001-07-11T15:19:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/41 "2001-07-12T12:59:04Z")
I’ve got 80s compilation CDs and there’s a new station in town that plays 80s music (or so they say). All of them can come back and talk to me when they play: A 'til tuesday song that’s NOT “Voices Carry” (or Gang Green’s version, hee hee) A Smiths song that’s not “How Soon is Now” A Howard Jones song that’s not “Things Can Only Get Better,” “You Know I Love You,” or the incredibly sucky version of “No One is to Blame” with Phil Collins on drum mach - errr, drums. A Violent Femmes song that’s not “Add it Up” A Simple Minds song that’s not “Don’t You Forget About Me” or “Alive and Kicking” A Level 42 song that’s not “Something About You” A Peter Gabriel song that’s not “Sledgehammer,” “Steam,” or “In Your Eyes” A Men Without Hats song that’s not “Safety Dance” A Berlin song that’s not “Take My Breath Away” A Prince song that’s not any of the billion rdio pieces…“Little Red Corvette” - “1999” - “Raspberry Beret”…I mean when was the last time anyone heard “Pop Life?” A Depeche Mode song that’s not “People are People” A Tears for Fears song that’s not “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” or “Shout” A Crowded House song that’s not “Don’t Dream It’s Over” (or a Split Enz song that’s not “I Got You”) A New Order song that’s not “Shell-Shock” A Suzanne Vega song that’s not “Tom’s Diner” or “Luka” You get the idea. When I listen to 80s CDs and radio stations, what stuns me the most is that, with ten solid years of artists and tunes from which to choose, they STILL play the same solid bullshit (excuse me) over and over and over and over… ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/42 "2001-07-12T12:59:53Z")
**Sweet Dreams** by the Eurythmics **Out of Touch** by Hall and Oates **Wake Me Up Before you Go-Go** by Wham! **Karma Chameleon** by Culture Club **I Just Called to Say I Love You** and **Part-Time Lover** by Stevie Wonder **I Want to Know what Love Is** by Foreigner **One Night in Bangkok** by Murray Head ---
**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/43 "2001-07-12T14:49:18Z")
(server timed out, if this doubles, sorry…) > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > **Only if they did 80’s cartoons 24/7/365.** Cartoon Network is as close as it gets: [http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/](http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/) rooby-roo! ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/44 "2001-07-12T17:53:37Z")
“Pleasure Victim” and “Riding On the Metro” by Berlin. Anything by the Primitives. The Bangles’ first two albums. These are a few of my favorite things. ---
**Author:** ![Tattva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@Tattva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tattva)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/45 "2001-07-12T20:33:23Z")
Ooh, now there’s something else for me to listen to when I go visit my parents! One can only handle so much 101.1 the Fox. Now, if only there was a network TV station that would play 80’s music videos non stop… Mmmm. ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/46 "2001-07-12T21:03:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sdimbert \* > You know of any others? Well, there’s me. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/47 "2001-07-12T21:31:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jayjay \* > \*\*Nothing has shocked me more in the past week or so than actually realizing that my teenage years are retro now… > \*\* _:::Puts a comforting arm around jayjay:::_ Aww, jayjay, there, there, would you like swig of my Geritol? 😉 Yeah, nothing to make you realize you’re **OLD** like being somewhere they’re playing Muzak, you hear a song, you vaguely know it but can’t quite place it, and then…Oh, my God, it’s _Can’t Get No Satisfaction/Dirty White Boy/Freebird/Kharma Chameleon/Working For The Weekend/Let’s Get Physical_, something you never thought you’d hear in Muzak form. [Indignent] Hey, I like _Safety Dance_ !! It has a cool video! But what a “safety dance” is, and what is has to do with that Renaissance-y video, I’ll never know. {/Indignent] ---
**Author:** ![MordantCarnival](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@MordantCarnival](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MordantCarnival)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/48 "2001-07-12T21:33:23Z")
Thank you, thank you all for reminding me what a joyous thing it is to have put a decade between me and that culturally and morally bankrupt slice of the previous millenium tha was the ninteen eighties. Come on, seriously, the music was purely pants. No, all of it. 80’s music was bobbins from start to finish. It was 57 flavours of pure drivel. Well, except Souxie. I mean, obviously I didn’t mean Souxie. And some of the Smiths’ stuff, that was alright. Oh, and maybe the odd Pet Shop Boys number. They were sort of fun. (Darn- where’d I put that Depeche Mode album?) ---
**Author:** ![deepbluesea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ba9def/32.png) [@deepbluesea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deepbluesea)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/49 "2001-07-12T21:59:42Z")
Sigh. We, in the LA area, used to have two really good '80s stations. One went Christian and the other one went, ummmmm - Spanish, I think. KROQ is wonderful ‘n’ all, and I’m glad to have it, but must my only alternatives to it be the dreaded Star 98.7 (“the same seven songs played every hour until you get home or throw up or both”) and 104.3 (“sometimes we play good stuff but if you don’t recognize the song, switch fast - it could be Britney or Backstreet Boys or something equally god-awful”)? Please, all I ask is one _decent_ '80s (and '90s) station. Please. OK, now I’m really depressed. Thanks a ton, **sdimbert**. ::sniff:: ::sniffle:: :😭: Anyone have a tissue? ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/50 "2001-07-12T23:31:51Z")
“Safety Dance” goes down a lot easier when you hear Weird Al sing the melody to the Brady Bunch theme. If it doesn’t make your head explode first. Seriously, I got you all beat. I just moved up to the Harrisburg, PA, area, and heard the local station (the River) advertise itself Are you ready? This is a rock music station . . . As “Rock ‘n’ Roll Without The Edge” That’s right! For all those who were scared by the Rolling Stones as a child, who believed that Alice Cooper really did those naughty things on stage, who had nightmares that Jim Morrison was going to be your back-door man, here’s the station for you. “Rock ‘n’ Roll . . . without the edge.” Sheesh. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2001, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/51 "2001-07-13T01:34:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SoMoMom \* > \*\* > Well, there’s me. \*\* Well, well. Welcome to the neighborhood, **SoMoMom**. Or, welcome the the Board. One or the other, since I’ve never “met” you before. Me, you, **Ender** and **Homer** make 4. Ooohh… **Anthracite** lives in KC, also. _5_ of us!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/52 "2001-07-14T00:49:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamadryad \* > \*\* > > A Howard Jones song that’s not “Things Can Only Get Better,” “You Know I Love You,” or the incredibly sucky version of “No One is to Blame” with Phil Collins on drum mach - errr, drums. > \*\* “What is Love?” > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamadryad \* > \*\* > A Men Without Hats song that’s not “Safety Dance” > \*\* ???There was such a thing? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamadryad \* > \*\* > A Berlin song that’s not “Take My Breath Away” > \*\* “No More Words” > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamadryad \* > \*\* > A Depeche Mode song that’s not “People are People” > \*\* “Strangelove” > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hamadryad \* > \*\* > A Tears for Fears song that’s not “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” or “Shout” > \*\* “Sowing the Seeds of Love” Ummm…that _was_ supposed to be a trivia quiz, right? > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pesch \* > \*\*“Safety Dance” goes down a lot easier when you hear Weird Al sing the melody to the Brady Bunch theme. > > \*\* You can watch Barney Miller You can watch your MTV You can watch 'till you eyes fall _out_ of your head That’ll be OK with me… … Why yes, I’m a Weird Al fan…how could you tell? ---
**Author:** ![Or\_n\_ry\_Oscar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9de0a6/32.png) [@Or\_n\_ry\_Oscar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Or_n_ry_Oscar)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/53 "2001-07-14T01:05:27Z")
So, when do we start sounding like those ol’ folks we grew up with, who used to demand: “Have you ever heard the Andrews Sisters?” Then they turned their music up. Are we the ones to say that today’s music doesn’t [b/]ROCK[b/]? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/54 "2001-07-14T04:08:33Z")
Sounds like a winner, thanks for the heads-up on the radio station. My favorite kind of music! And who knows - **Fierra** may be in KC by this time next year… ---
**Author:** ![Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Home_of_the_Braves)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/55 "2001-07-14T04:33:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by katiekilldare \* > \*\*The “Hey Hey Hey Song” from The Breakfast Club **IS** “Don’t You Forget About Me”, isn’t it? > > I wish Tampa had a decent 80’s station. > > Call and request Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Peek-a-Boo” for me. \*\* I’m with you. The closest thing Tampa has is 101.5 – Jammin’ Oldies from the 70s and 80s (heavy on the 70s). 95.7 does the Retro Bistro from 12-1 every afternoon and does Retro Saturday night from 10PM-12 AM. Big whoopee. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/56 "2001-07-14T04:58:56Z")
Oh! ‘The La’s’! There She Goes is playing on Spinner right now. Much better than the ‘Sixpence None the Richer’ version. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/57 "2001-07-14T05:19:35Z")
KROQ, 106.7FM, here in L.A. County, often has 80s flashback shows, usually on the weekends. They do a decent job of playing a wide variety of the songs I remember from high school and college. ---
**Author:** ![katiekilldare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/838e76/32.png) [@katiekilldare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katiekilldare)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/58 "2001-07-14T17:12:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Home of the Braves \* > \*\*I’m with you. The closest thing Tampa has is 101.5 – Jammin’ Oldies from the 70s and 80s (heavy on the 70s). 95.7 does the Retro Bistro from 12-1 every afternoon and does Retro Saturday night from 10PM-12 AM. Big whoopee. \*\* Yeah, I can’t handle the Jamming Oldies station for very long. There are too few "Little Red Corvette"s and too many "Caribbean Queen"s. The Retro Bistro is big fun, though. But only one hour! That’s no good. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/59 "2001-07-14T18:03:39Z")
I’m 32, and I like _some_ 80s music. My personal belief is that we have too damn many of these 80s stations! Most of the ones I’ve heard play the same _ **crap** _ over and over. I had a job where we were forced to listen to the 60s, 70s, and 80s station all the time, and you knew it was 7 PM because that’s when “Stairway to Heaven” came on! **Grrrr.** I have never understood the appeal of listening exclusively to music that came out when you were a teenager. To me, that’s like saying your emotional and intellectual development stopped when you were in high school! **katiekilldare** , you ever hear any of **The Creatures** stuff? Siouxsie and the drummer from the band put out two albums under that name. Great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097/60 "2001-07-14T18:45:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tuckerfan \* > **I have never understood the appeal of listening exclusively to music that came out when you were a teenager. To me, that’s like saying your emotional and intellectual development stopped when you were in high school!** No, that’s saying that you happened to like the music that was being produced at that point in history. It’s not your fault if good music happened to be produced while you were a certain age. I don’t think ABBA sat around thinking “I’ve got a really great idea for a song, but we should really hold off until Tuckerfan hits adolescence.” Personally, I like the classics. Should it matter if my musical tastes happened to peak when I was a fetus? And apparently only Strom Thurmond is allowed to listen to classical stations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-38-over-23-read-this/72097.md?page=4)