The Glade 4.0

I was at the grocery store today and they, like all grocery stores, were playing music through the overhead speakers. The odd thing today was, I was digging a lot of their song selection choices. Pocket Full of Kryptonite by Spin Doctors, No Rain by Blind Melon, and many more. I then realized to my dismay, "These bands are 20 years old. I am now their middle-age target market."

I've noticed this trend a little in some radio stations too.

To be honest, I don't mind it as much as I say I do. It's nice to hear the music I like more often in public areas.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

This, exactly. I'm reveling in the fact that radio stations are getting better. It's been rough, for about the last decade, getting good airplay for early-mid 90's stuff. It was too contemporary to be on the classic stations targetting the market you mention, but too old to be on contemporary top 40 stuff.

And Jimmy Olsen's Blues is the best Spin Doctors song around.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I saw the Spin Doctors and Screaming Trees in the New Orleans Municiple Auditorium years ago. IIRC. Great concert in a great venue.....balcony setting with about 7500 seats total.

I am right there with you Numbuk. I got irritated the first time I heard Motley Crue on the local Classic Rock station....

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Darksiege
Traveller, Calé, Whisperer
Lead me not into temptation; for I know a shortcut

Heh, I've been dealing with the songs I like being Golden Oldies for awhile now.

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. B. Franklin

"A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone." -- Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones

Think of them as "classics".

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In time, this too shall pass.

I dunno. I really like "Two Princes".

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Two Princes isn't bad, but it's not as infectious as Jimmy Olsen's Blues is.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I also prefer two princes.

I saw Blind Melon at a little club in Seattle just after that one album came out.

As for a REAL proof I'm getting old: the owner of one of the coffee stands I sometimes go to is my first official GmILF. She had a little boy in the stand with her and I said her son was adorable...was her grandson. And she is smokin' hot!

I'm going to see Huey Lewis and the News in less than two weeks. I'm marking myself as old with that.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I met my first GmILF when I was about 23. I was working Christmas season at Kay-Bee and the asst mgr was a hot 35-yr old grandmother. That was the year I abandoned the idea that grandmother = old lady.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Two Princes is a great song, I agree. But one that is slightly overplayed (even though I always sing along no matter what when I hear it). Jimmy Olsen Blues is definitely catchy.

Personally, I like Little Miss Can't Be Wrong, just because I know several women who it's a perfect match for.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

Aye, much <3 for Little Miss Can't Be Wrong.

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister