When You’re Too Old for Old School
Hubby and I went dancing Sunday night. We don’t do ballroom. Or swing. So we hunted down a club where we thought there might be music we could move to. They were having “Old Skool Sunday” at the Subterra. Great, we thought. They’ll be playing the music we used to dance to when we were kids. It’ll be kinda nostalgic and romantic since we began our relationship in a disco in 1980.
Um, no.
They played techno-stuff all night long. We had to call our son to ask how you dance to it. He told us it was kind of complicated, but if we jumped a lot we’d be fine. There was nobody else on the dance floor and we haven’t jumped in twenty years. So we halved the beat and danced like we would’ve if Bon Jovi or Steve Nicks had been blasting the speakers. It was great. Except for the fact that we now know we are too old for “old skool.” Yipes.
So when you think of old school, what comes to mind?
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March 2nd, 2010 at 11:49 am
Old school to me means; the waist band of your pants actually went around your waist (not the bottom of your butt), to see a new movie at the theater only cost a dollar, and being excited to see the new episodes of Rocko’s Modern Life and Ren and Stimpy!
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:14 pm
I’m with you on the music Jen. Bon Jovi especially but also Fleetwood Mac, Alice Cooper and Pink Floyd. We also have a CD entitled ‘The Best Disco Album in the World…Ever’ which always sends our sons screaming for the door! No bad language or nudity on TV.(Although for me it depends on who’s getting naked – yes double standard I know) No ‘reality TV’ (yay!)No yukky soy this or tofu that.
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:39 pm
I have CD’s of Old School music and I was born in 1981 this includes M People, Moby & N-Trance. I guess it all depends on when you were born what you define as Old School.
The really crazy thing is my brother who was born in ’92, listens to music I consider purely noise.
I have a large spectrum of music I love all the way from Elvis Prestley & T-Rex; to Linkin Park and E.S Posthumus…I know I was brain washed by my parents.
Just please don’t ask me to like Abba, Bee Gees yes Abba NO Thanks
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Old School for me – mostly to do with music and tv as a kid. My parents raised me on Beatles, Billy Joel, Elton John, Kenny Rogers, Linda Rondstat, etc.
As far as television went… Fraggles, late night Zorro, and Gummi Bears, anyone?
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Eeekkk, its silly things for me. I still think of Nirvana as new and yet its known that the guy who was the baby on the cover of Nevermind has come of age. I feel pretty damn old.
The eighties are more my musical era and I’ve got loads of stuff from back then bought first time round including some original CD’s. Old school for me is stuff like the original Goth music, so Bauhaus to Sisters of Mercy, from The Cult to Fields of the Nephilim. I also have a good number of “I Love the 80′s” CD’s.
Currently I’m getting ready to put together a whole new selection of stuff for my MP3 so I do have some stuff from a number o era’s. Usually I prefer to stick to the original release rather than a current rerelease for example I don’t think you can beat Simon and Garfunkel’s Sound of Silence yet Sharleen Spiteri has a cover of it out and I don’t like it.
Now I feel really old. Thanks gen
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Old school is The Breakfast Club and Back to the Future with walk on roles by Bogey and Bacall. It’s the music of Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo accompanied by clips from Captain Caveman (and Blue Falcon & Dynomutt). But it’s also the music of Sinatra, scores by John Williams, plus Iron Maiden (and Motorhead). It’s hair metal and the Lord of the Rings in a pair of parachute pants with a Swatch on each wrist. Old School is Tron, the Blackhole and Disney Wildlife film crew running lemmings off of a cliff to their death. But mostly it’s reading Shakespeare and Roger Zelazney for the first time and going, “Wow!” then walking down to the local comic and gamestore to read the new comics and check out the dice.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Personally I love Bon Jovi but only his old stuff. and when I think old school “American Women” and “Old time rock n’roll” come to mind. Its not my generation of music but the people I know tell me I have an old soul.
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Old school always makes me think of classic rock and glam for some reason! Theres nothing better to dance to than that! Expect for wuthering heights by kate bush, nothing will clear a dancefloor quicker but its brilliant!
If we’re going by the music we grew up with, it would be the boyband filled nineties, and they definitely shouldn’t make it to being old school!
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Being an Aussie raised in the 80′s old school music to me means John Farnham and Jimmy Barnes.
Silverchair got me through my teenage years.
I have to say I’m feelin kinda old now that you mentioned that techno is classed as old school. (Are 10yr olds d.jing clubs these days?)
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Ahhhh….this is why DH, Lady K and I stay home and turn on Sirius/XM radio on the TV and dance our booties off to 70′s Hits, 80′s Hits, Classic Rock, …..
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:29 pm
I definitely don’t think techno when I think old school. I’m a fan of the 80′s nights.
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:48 pm
OLd skool makes me think of all da awesome old rock bands, and the horrible pants that sit around ur waist and rub ur belly button piercing instead on ur hips.
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:32 am
So you don’t enjoy checking out the dudes’ boxers, Nicole? Me neither.
Ah, Jill, now I know how to get rid of my kids for the evening! Just throw a little Bee Gees on the turntable!
Emma says NO to Dancing Queen. Gotcha. (But I will admit, I knew all these words by heart at one time! http://s0.ilike.com/play#ABBA:Dancing+Queen:12009:s43879.23816.8111746.1.1.79%2Cstd_2110502495a34e7ad220a981c43f3acb)
Rudi! I luuuuurve the Fraggles!! And Zorro? Just the coolest masked ass kicker evah! (Fist bump!)
Aww, Gareth, I’m sorry! You can’t be nearly as old as me. Because I remember listening to Simon and Garfunkel sing “Cecilia” on my mom’s eight-track tape. No, I’m not even kidding a little bit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvlM67QT-4E
Now you’ve got me feeling really nostalgic, J.F. When I was eighteen I could stay up all night playing D&D with my buddies, then we’d run to the Hen House for a delicious breakfast of pancakes, bacon, and steaming coffee. Damn that was good.
I believe in old souls, Caitlin. I think my hubby’s is ancient. Mine, not so much.
Agreed, Sophie! But everybody needs a boyband in their sordid past!
I dunno, Amanda, but I’m still kinda weirded out by the whole deal!
Fun, Vickie!! I’m running for the remote even as we speak! (Oh, wait, Rex Smith is on my IPod singing “You Take My Breath Away”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsmDvhf_h0&feature=related That’ll do.)
Long live 80′s nights!! Thank you, Rachelle. I feel at least a decade younger now.
My daughter calls those old lady pants, Carly. I think I have several pairs. At my age, it’s just better not to risk a public viewing of crackage.
March 4th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
It scares the hell out of me that, one day, the oldies station will play Tupac and Nelly.
I’m going to have The Doors, The Stones, Metallica, etc piped into my radio 24/7.
March 7th, 2010 at 5:56 am
I think of ’80s music – and preppy clothes and Madonna-esque clothes – with the flounces and lace fingerless gloves – and Michael Jackson – and Duran Duran (swoon!) – I loved Jon! I think of dancing with Sr. Pat walking around with a ruler to make sure that we weren’t too close together and staying in packs almost all night – and my parents picking me up. I think of ENORMOUS prom gowns that now make me wince and incredibly hair-sprayed hair (Aqua Net if we’re talking real “old school”) and Cover Girl and Bonne Belle and Skin perfume and rainbow eyeshadow and blue (only blue) eyeliner and lips with several colors on them – and a heart in the middle. I think of 17 magazine, and Jane magazine. I think of the series of high school romance books – maybe called Friends? It’s not made any longer but that’s how I learned to pronounce Phoebe (and not faux – bee like I thought). I think of Keith Flesh and kissing under a pine tree during half-time of the first football game, wearing my awful woolen cheerleader’s uniform in navy and goldenrod! It’s all good – all that I remember about it or want to remember about it now. And it’s funny as hell because my students are wearing some of the same clothes!
March 12th, 2010 at 9:57 am
Journey and Bon Jovi = Love. I may be a teenager, but I can’t say that I like a lot of what people my age like. I’m a huge fan of Broadway, though.
March 16th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Old school to me means actually being able to spell “school” correctly! Old school is black and white TV. Old school is being able to spank your misbehaving four-year old in the grocery store without being accused of child abuse. Old school is regular leaded gasoline (yeah, I know it’s bad for the environment, but what choice did we have?!)Old school is penny gumball machines. Old school was buying a pair of sneakers and still having change left from a ten-dollar bill. Old school was being able to through an entire day at school and not having to worry about getting shot or stabbed just because you were wearing the wrong color clothing or because someone else wanted your shoes! Old school, among so many other things, was about respect and common decency. That’s what Old school to me. By the way, I was born in Sept. of 1957.
March 16th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
You are my kinda gal, Marissa!
Madonna’s pointy bra–I will never forget it Jennifer!!
You rock, Madison!
I have no doubt ’57 was an excellent year, Michael, as proved by the boss cars manufactured then! I can still remember asking my dad for a penny to buy a piece of cinnamon gum from the guy at the soda fountain–whose ice cream has never again been matched!
March 23rd, 2010 at 11:46 pm
old school is the 80′s to me. coz i wasnt alive then, what did i miss? anyone thinking that techno is retro is weird 99 red balloons
(i have it on singstar)