I don’t know about you lot but I am gonna beat the crap out of the next person who calls anything that happened earlier then 1998 “Old Skool”.

I was interested by an article in The NME recently (I don’t read it - I heard about it on the radio) entitled “Nostalgia Is Dead”. It referred to the fact that now so many of us have mp3 players containing thousands and thousands of songs, all of our favourite songs of yesteryear are now mixed up and shuffled out of context with their time.

I well remember in the late 80s and early 90s, the niceness of hearing a familiar song on the radio you hadn’t heard for years that meant something. Instant memories of time and place came flooding back. Now, its pretty much safe to say that all the songs that would fall into that category with me now sit on my Ipod and are heard quite often. The trouble is, the connection between now and times past is usually gone. “The Hurting” by Tears For Fears used to remind me of 1982/83, the third form common room in Wolseley, spending a half term exeat at Sean’s house, playing pool in Wolseley’s lobby etc. Now it just reminds me of about 3 months ago when I had it on endless repeat whilst spending a weekend working on the new forum.

Now, I more than anyone know that the phrase “you can never go back” could apply here. My point would be that I was going back. The music exists 24 years ago and for years and year never left that time. What we have done with our mp3s is drag them into 2007 and sometimes thats a shame.

Categories: Age, Anger, DYRMS, Internet, Memories, Music, My PC, Radio, Web Design
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