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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Jun 1, 2020 16:05:37 GMT
Welcome to old age, Cincinnati Kid! Over the next decade, you'll have friends dropping out of the bar/club scene every year as they get tired of it, get into serious relationships, have kids, etc. It's really funny because at the beginning the dropouts seem lame ... and as the years go by, the ones left in it seem lame, kind of like...
(OK, actually not like that. But just a nice image for all occasions.)
I think we're already kind of transitioning out of the bar scene a bit. Before all the shut downs, we weren't going downtown as much, instead going to places local to us. We don't drink as much either, except for one friend who makes me think of what you just said. Now we're all kind of like, is he just an alcoholic? It's nothing crazy, but he drinks about every day and goes to the bar multiple times a week. Maybe somewhat common in college, but not now.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 1, 2020 16:10:06 GMT
That's how it goes, all right: downtown / central party spots; quieter neighborhood spots; "going out" at night to happy hours; happy hours or weekends at friends' or your own place; being a hermit.
Anyway ... Space Force! I haven't watched yet, but I've read enough good things but I think I'll have to check it out. That and the "What We Do In Shadows" show that was mentioned. Hoping for the best from both, as I haven't watched anything that caught my attention in a while.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Jun 1, 2020 16:10:08 GMT
Oddly enough, at least in my neck of the woods, Kokomo is the only Beach Boys song you'll hear on FM radio when it's not Christmastime. Baltimore hasn't had an "oldies" station in probably 15 years or more. And the classic rock stations in town have never really playing The Beach Boys. But, Kokomo pops up on our various variety type stations. It's funny how some areas still have oldies stations going strong while other areas don't have any stations that play stuff before 1970 (a bit of hyperbole, but still). Our greatest hits station will still play some of their 60s hits. Just the other day I heard Little Deuce Coupe.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 1, 2020 16:12:19 GMT
It does make sense to drop off the old "oldies," though. In the '80s, we weren't hearing 1930s Tin Pan Alley tunes on the oldies stations! And since radio playlists have shrunk rather than grown, they aren't filling up that air time with songs fewer listeners grew up on.
Of course because of internet and satellite "radio" stations, there are channels for everything somewhere anyway.
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Post by kds on Jun 1, 2020 16:27:37 GMT
Oddly enough, at least in my neck of the woods, Kokomo is the only Beach Boys song you'll hear on FM radio when it's not Christmastime. Baltimore hasn't had an "oldies" station in probably 15 years or more. And the classic rock stations in town have never really playing The Beach Boys. But, Kokomo pops up on our various variety type stations. It's funny how some areas still have oldies stations going strong while other areas don't have any stations that play stuff before 1970 (a bit of hyperbole, but still). Our greatest hits station will still play some of their 60s hits. Just the other day I heard Little Deuce Coupe. Our classic rock station has been slowly phasing out 60s music, but when they do play music from the 60s, it's usually very late 60s. Of course, this is since adding music from the 90s, and even some from the early 00s.
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Post by The Cincinnati Kid on Jun 1, 2020 16:57:50 GMT
It does make sense to drop off the old "oldies," though. In the '80s, we weren't hearing 1930s Tin Pan Alley tunes on the oldies stations! And since radio playlists have shrunk rather than grown, they aren't filling up that air time with songs fewer listeners grew up on.
Of course because of internet and satellite "radio" stations, there are channels for everything somewhere anyway.
That's something I wonder about. How long will people continue to listen to the Beach Boys and other groups from that era in large numbers? It seems like 50s music has started to fall by the wayside in recent years, although one could argue it's because those songs have more in common with the music that came before than after. Will anyone (relatively speaking) care about that music after the generation that grew up with it dies off?
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Post by kds on Jun 1, 2020 17:45:55 GMT
It does make sense to drop off the old "oldies," though. In the '80s, we weren't hearing 1930s Tin Pan Alley tunes on the oldies stations! And since radio playlists have shrunk rather than grown, they aren't filling up that air time with songs fewer listeners grew up on.
Of course because of internet and satellite "radio" stations, there are channels for everything somewhere anyway.
That's something I wonder about. How long will people continue to listen to the Beach Boys and other groups from that era in large numbers? It seems like 50s music has started to fall by the wayside in recent years, although one could argue it's because those songs have more in common with the music that came before than after. Will anyone (relatively speaking) care about that music after the generation that grew up with it dies off? We're over a half century removed from the 1960s, but music from that era is still discussed and written about on a regular basis, and the artists who are still around from that era continue to do pretty well in concert. I have no doubt that the music of The Beach Boys, as well as The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, The Doors, Hendrix, Cream, Dylan, etc etc will continue to find new ears for generations to come.
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