You know your getting old when ...

[Reece]

Hi, some of you might fall off your chairs when you realize how old some are on this forum, for example I usually play my Dean Martin records but lately I find I enjoy playing the SHIII gramaphone tracks!:smug: Go figure eh!:oops:
Are there any other old fossils out there!:lol:

[GoldenRivet]

im 28

the most "current" music i listen to is

Nirvana (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUUHNf0S5cA)

red hot chili peppers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kID5W9k-Zw)

Audioslave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfMtivHV47A)

but MOST of what i listen to is Benny Goodman thru to Rolling Stones, the first three stations programmed into my XM radio presets are "40s on 4", "60s on 6" and "70s on 7" followed by Cinemagic (movie music all the time) and Fox news.

A majority of my musical preference is two or three times my age. I find that like many people these days, most of the current music of today is "detached" and "immoral"... simply anthems with themes rich with selfishness, Boastfulness, excessiveness, Ego, arrogance and sexual vulgarity.

Therefore SH3 is sort of an escape from reality... my gramophone plays period tracks only

[CapZap1970]

Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Bellamy Brothers, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner.... you name it. When you read the last 3, please don't think I am a fossile :rotfl:
I am 37 but I love all kinds of music, except modern jazz :up:
CapZap

[Reece]

Lets just say I have past that half way point long ago! but I haven't gone as far as wearing gold medalions like Mr T yet! Ahhhh Woodstock! ..... those were the days!:yep:
When I play my Dean Martin records my kids make a quick exit!!:lol:
please don't think I am a fossile :rotfl:
You don't even get close!!

[johnno74]

Heh when I'm programming (most of the day, except when on subsim... ) I listen to hardhouse/trance/hard trance music pretty much all of the time... I picked up the taste when I lived in london 2000-2002, and I haven't gone clubbing for years but I still listen to the music...

Infact i'm now pretty much dependant on it, if I leave my headphones at home I find it very difficult to focus without the music!
:rock::rock:

[Canovaro]

Some of those old gramophone tracks are actually not that bad to listen to.
They just have to grow on you :-?

It's foolish but it's fun! :p

[Reece]

Some of those old gramophone tracks are actually not that bad to listen to.
They just have to grow on you :-? Ah ... I see your old at heart!;)
@ Johnno - What's a "hard trance music"???

[nikbear]

Some of those old gramophone tracks are actually not that bad to listen to.
They just have to grow on you :-?

It's foolish but it's fun! :p

That song will haunt me to my grave;)I'm not far of 40 and listen to all sorts but the jimbuna pack I listen to on mission produces some funny looks:doh:singing away to german marches(I don't even speak german)gets some strange results.had the window open the other day and was happily singing away when glanced out of said window to be confronted by some blokes digging up the road outside thinking they had disturbed a branch meeting of the national front:nope:on with the headphones and off with the speakers after that;)

[ichso]

Hm, I don't think that I'm falling out of any chair while reading this ;)

But I suddenly feel as being one of the younger kind of forum members here as being only 24 :roll:

[Mush Martin]

Classic Career play.........Count Bassie Cab Calloway Glen Miller
Tommy Dorsey etc

Uberplay..........Good Rock n Roll. From A to Z (AC/DC to Led Zepplin)

[Canovaro]

Some of those old gramophone tracks are actually not that bad to listen to.
They just have to grow on you :-?

It's foolish but it's fun! :p
That song will haunt me to my grave;)I'm not far of 40 and listen to all sorts but the jimbuna pack I listen to on mission produces some funny looks:doh:singing away to german marches(I don't even speak german)gets some strange results.had the window open the other day and was happily singing away when glanced out of said window to be confronted by some blokes digging up the road outside thinking they had disturbed a branch meeting of the national front:nope:on with the headphones and off with the speakers after that;)
:rotfl:


Uberplay..........Good Rock n Roll. From A to Z (AC/DC to Led Zepplin)
Sounds good to me :yep:


Ah ... I see your old at heart!;)


Only 27 ;)

[johnno74]

@ Johnno - What's a "hard trance music"???

Halfway between hard house and trance. sometimes known as uplifting trance :cool:

You can listen to a bit here if you are curious http://www.twisted.co.nz/djdb/viewfile.php?file_id=164

Trance/house music is rarely commercial. You won't hear it on the radio or in many pubs etc. The only tune I can think of that has crossed over to the commercial world is Sandstorm.

Anyway, thats about the only music I listen to nowdays.

The gramaphone in SH3 IS cool tho. Really sets the mood. somehow plotting torpedo solutions to soem banging house music wouldn't work :lol:

[ichso]

The gramaphone in SH3 IS cool tho. Really sets the mood. somehow plotting torpedo solutions to soem banging house music wouldn't work :lol:

When attacking anything the grammophon has to shut it's mouth. There's no time for fun then :nope:

[ichso]

Just hearing Ramones but not in SH3. That would destroy the atmosphere there;)

[soma]

I like (some) of the grammophone tracks also, and I just turned 21 :)

[Puster Bill]

Get off of my lawn you whipper-snappers!

I listen to "Brian Boru's March" (oldest piece of music I know how to play).

[Sailor Steve]

I saw A Hard Days Night and Help! in the theater, when they were released. I missed Woodstock, mainly because I was in boot camp at the time. In the 80's I complained about what a young friend was learning in history class regarding the 60's, because they got it wrong; I should know, I was there.

No, I'm not an old fart, I just play one on television.

I like the German period tracks on my gramaphone because it makes me feel like I'm there.

[Hitman]

I will be 35 in September, (Well I hope so) though my favourite music is classical one, preferably the romantic composers. I listen regularly to Rachmaninov, Tschaikowsky, Brahms, Chopin, Beethoven, etc. when playing SH3 and when not. However I had my younghood in the 80s -that was the golden era of Disco here- and I love the music of that time U2, Simple Minds, Bolshoi, and such, yet I do not listen much at them lately. Inherited from my mother, who listened also classical and music of her era, I also like much the music of the 70s and 60s. The Rock bands of the 60s and specially 70s (Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and such) are simply AWESOME, no comparison posible IMHO with anything that comes later :|\\

In spite I do not like at all most of 1995 onwards pop music:down:

[bigboywooly]

Diverse taste at 44
Was around in the punk era so still play a lot of that
Like a lot of heavy too mostly Metallica,Late G&R and the ole fave of AC\DC
Listen to a lot of Trance too
Euphoric mainly but takes what I gets
:rotfl:
Dont mind Dance either but NO pop

Nice link johno
Listening to that now :up:

[papa_smurf]

Im not that old - only 26. But I do admit that I do like the period Gramaphone tracks. Whats happening to me!?!?!

[ichso]

Whats happening to me!?!?!

I know. Suddenly you like to listen to Hans Albers which you would never listened to in real life.
I asked myself this question a bunch of times :D

[Hitman]

Im not that old - only 26. But I do admit that I do like the period Gramaphone tracks. Whats happening to me!?!?!


Well that's what the 26 year old men of the 1940s did listen to, so no wonder that when going back to that era in your gameplay you feel like that:yep:

[SleazeyWombat]

And some of the gramaphone tracks are actually from the 50's. I know, because I listened to that stuff, at the time it was popular. I have always liked big band music, swing music, etc.

And, as I child growing up in the 50's, watching a lot of old movies from the 20's, 30's and 40's, I became very familiar with the stars and entertainers of those eras. Warner Brother cartoons also parodied a lot of those stars and singers, so I grew up whistling a lot of those old tunes, even a lot of WWI stuff. WWII was as familar to me as Vietnam, even though WWII ended 7 years before I was born.

Now, I have a complete collection of music covering every era from the mid-30's up to now. I have something like 2300 CD's, 145GIGs of harddrive space in my iTunes library, for about 94 days worth of continuous music.

The various grampahone collections for SH3, added a lot of stuff I didn't have, but it took me a few weeks to get all the dates and artists corrected (or even discovered) for some of them. Once I had all the dates corrected, I spent some time copying gramaphone tracks into SH3 Commander's date directories, so songs would start playing in the correct years (and months, if I could find that). That was a lot of work.

[Reece]

Well then we were born the same year, (52) SleazeyWombat (nice name), when the wife & I go out touring on our BMW K100RT motorcycle we listen to music from the 50's & sixties, have an mp3 player installed (500 random songs) with headphones built into helmets!:up:

[sunvalleyslim]

Let's just say that when "In Godadavida" by the Iron Butterfly was playing in '69, I was off the coast of Vietnam and Cambodia on the USS SEGUNDO SS-398 Keeping the Good Ol' US of A out of harms way. It was playing the real subsim game, virtual reality, wondering if we would get caught.....by God it was real, no restart in real life.....total immersion, flying by the seat of your pants, hoping to have the best Skipper, proud of your crewmates, and proud of your "Boat"......And how sweet the "liberty nights" were, drinking to your luck, drinking to your "Boat", drinking to your mates, drinking your "Dolphins"..............The Best of Best Times.............Thanks

[TwistedFemur]

im 28

the most "current" music i listen to is

Nirvana (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUUHNf0S5cA)

red hot chili peppers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kID5W9k-Zw)

Audioslave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfMtivHV47A)

but MOST of what i listen to is Benny Goodman thru to Rolling Stones, the first three stations programmed into my XM radio presets are "40s on 4", "60s on 6" and "70s on 7" followed by Cinemagic (movie music all the time) and Fox news.

A majority of my musical preference is two or three times my age. I find that like many people these days, most of the current music of today is "detached" and "immoral"... simply anthems with themes rich with selfishness, Boastfulness, excessiveness, Ego, arrogance and sexual vulgarity.

Therefore SH3 is sort of an escape from reality... my gramophone plays period tracks only


Wow there is hope for the younger generation :up:

[HW3]

I'm 56 and like alot of different kinds of music.

[Canovaro]

Wow there sure are some old ;) fellows here, makes this forum kind of special in my opinion :up:

[ichso]

Wow there sure are some old ;) fellows here, makes this forum kind of special in my opinion :up:

Somehow I'm not surprised by this ;).
The first person who introduced me to 'Wolfpack' (the DOS-game) on his black-white mouseless laptop more than 10 years ago was already beyond 40 too.

And what makes those submarine sims so popular among the mature audience ?
The mixture of strategy and simulation ?
Or did they all just liked 'Das Boot' very much ? :D
I would gess it's both reasons :hmm:

[Ryan9118]

I think I've got you all beat. I'm only 18.

I only listen to the gramophone, because I like the immersion and atmosphere of SH3. Normally I listen to rap, but throwing on "Doggystyle" as I sink a cargo ship would just ruin it. I do like jazz and blues (especially jazz and blues) and old music though. I love some Miles Davis just as much as the next guy. I installed a 1939 German tunes sound pack for the gramophone the other day, and I'm actually enjoying it a lot. It's easy though, because it reminds me of jazz, and since I like jazz, I like this stuff. I'm going to install a "Big Band" soundpack that someone made for SH4. I had a quick glance and saw it's got Billie Holiday in it, so I'm sold. :arrgh!:

[Reece]

Ichso said:
And what makes those submarine sims so popular among the mature audience ?
The mixture of strategy and simulation ?
Or did they all just liked 'Das Boot' very much ? :D
I would gess it's both reasons :hmm:
And ... as you get older you get wiser but your reflex's get slower, Subsims are at just the right pace compared to "Top Gun" type sims! My Son always creams me playing those, but I win hands down with SHIII! Yeh!:rock:

[silentrunner]

Classic Career play.........Count Bassie Cab Calloway Glen Miller
Tommy Dorsey etc

Uberplay..........Good Rock n Roll. From A to Z (AC/DC to Led Zepplin) Yeah man Glenn Miller rocks!!! but I'm not getting old I'm 13

[DirtyACE]

Let me tell you something. There's nothing like firing up some DMX and busting a few caps in British asses!

j/k ;)

[Stealth Hunter]

:smug:

[Brag]

Not too long ago, or so it seems:

I walked into The Club Nautique, my favorite haunt in Nha Trang. The aquariums behind the bar been shattered. Bullet holes now decorated the walls. As usual, Pascal sat at the corner of the bar. The barman, waiters and customers were missing.

Pascal did not answer my greeting, got up slowly, poured me half a glass of Johny Walker Black. No ice. "Edith Piaff?" he asked.

I nodded. He placed an LP on the gramophone and we got thoroughly blasted talking about Paris.

That makes me a fossil :D

[ref]

... as you get older you get wiser but your reflex's get slower, Subsims are at just the right pace compared to "Top Gun" type sims! My Son always creams me playing those, but I win hands down with SHIII! Yeh!:rock:

Talk about yourself :D , just finished stalker, and I'm going for another round in the next difficulty setting...

45 btw.

Ref

[Stealth Hunter]

I know I'm old because my country's military doesn't take 47 year olds.:cry:

[Reece]

@ref, wait and see in another 10 years!!;)

[jwatch]

Fascinating thread. I have something in common with Hitman, also grew up with classical music. I listen to Schumann, Chopin and opera, believe it or not. I'm now 56 and also enjoy cranking up my Les Paul with a little fuzz and compression for some ZZ Top tunes while I'm recharging the batteries or reloading the tubes...

[Sirten Deth]

You guys are a bunch of young punks.. I'm 57 & been playing 'computer' games since before "commador". Dbl 5.25" floppy swapper.. LOL :arrgh!:

[java`s revenge]

Sirten Detph,

I am with you. I started playing pc games when it became possilbe.
I am from the pong generation. (ping pong)

45 years...

[Sailor Steve]

45 years...
Just a kid!:rotfl:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

you cant imagine how much oldie songs i hear... my most favorite is J'attandrai :yep:

and im only 19 :o
seems like dad gave me a bit much of his DNA, or was it mom ? :hmm: mayby both :doh:
(plz.. dont think wrong about this ok... some ppl knowing :shifty:)

[Schöneboom]

"Mohr... I am your father!"

http://pluto.spaceports.com/~lms/v11.jpg

NOOOOOO!!!! :rotfl:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

"Mohr... I am your father!"

http://pluto.spaceports.com/%7Elms/v11.jpg

NOOOOOO!!!! :rotfl:

DADYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :cry:
why did you die in episode 6 ? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Wildhawke11]

You guys are a bunch of young punks.. I'm 57 & been playing 'computer' games since before "commador". Dbl 5.25" floppy swapper.. LOL :arrgh!:


What have i told you SON about trying to cause trouble on the forums now shut up, sit down and behave yourself ------- Danny 4th March 1939

Hell i really do feel my age now Guys :)

[Reece]

I started playing pc games when it became possilbe.
I am from the pong generation. (ping pong)
My first processor was the National SC/MP evaluation kit, after that an Exidy Sorcerer Mk II, damn good for it's time, I had it upgraded to the max ..... 56k Ram!!:oops::88)

[Brag]

I was first exposed to PC games with Elite (was it 1985?). You can display my skin at the fossil museum. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[melnibonian]

I remember games when they were on cassettes and softwere on punch-cards :o

How the years pass :oops:

[Reece]

Still got a few hundred blank cards, I had to fire up the exec (bootstrap) on my old ICL 2903 with cards, each 12" disk held a massive 7megs, the train printer weighed just under 100kgs!:lol:

[Stealth Hunter]

Anyone here ever been in the Iranian military? I might know some of you.

[jwatch]

I used to go out with a girl who was a keypunch operator, how's that for history!! Got my start on a Commodore 64.

[Growler]

I will be 35 in September, (Well I hope so) though my favourite music is classical one, preferably the romantic composers. I listen regularly to Rachmaninov, Tschaikowsky, Brahms, Chopin, Beethoven, etc. when playing SH3 and when not. However I had my younghood in the 80s -that was the golden era of Disco here- and I love the music of that time U2, Simple Minds, Bolshoi, and such, yet I do not listen much at them lately. Inherited from my mother, who listened also classical and music of her era, I also like much the music of the 70s and 60s. The Rock bands of the 60s and specially 70s (Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and such) are simply AWESOME, no comparison posible IMHO with anything that comes later :|\\

In spite I do not like at all most of 1995 onwards pop music:down:

That's just scary. Really freaking scary.

I highlighted in red the ONLY part of your post that doesn't apply to my own experience. Everything else, I could have written, but you saved me the trouble.:D

[Sailor Steve]

You guys are a bunch of young punks.. I'm 57 & been playing 'computer' games since before "commador". Dbl 5.25" floppy swapper.. LOL :arrgh!:


What have i told you SON about trying to cause trouble on the forums now shut up, sit down and behave yourself ------- Danny 4th March 1939

Hell i really do feel my age now Guys :)
You win this particular contest, pops; but there are a couple of 70+ geezers hanging around here.:rock:

[Wildhawke11]

Steve
This was one race i would have been more happy to finish way down the field. But all my best to the young ones :)

[Morts]

you know you're getting old when you pass 40
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Monica Lewinsky]

you know you're getting old when you pass 40
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

bull crap, 55.

[Biggles]

I'm listening to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, Bruce Springsteen (and the seeger sessions), Bob Dylan, The Queen......and I'm 16. Does that make me wierd, or in any case....wrong?:88) I mean, I'm not old at all! I have all my life in front of me! (and I'm spending it in front of my computer, oh Lord help me!)

[Puster Bill]

Feh. You're all young'uns. When I was a kid I met the guy who wrote Brian Boru's March. The first subsim I played gave you the option of being Cornelius Drebbel, Ezra Lee, or Robert Fulton. Oh, and the computer you played it on was a piece of paper and a pencil, and if you were a good boy they'd let you use a slide rule.

You couldn't use a cheat code, either, because the existential parochial submarine simulation nuns would whack you across the torpedo with that slide rule if they caught you using them. Trust me, a depth charging is nothing compared to the sight of Sister Mary-Otto Weddigen wielding a 20 inch Pickett like a light saber.

Then, you'd get sent to Mother Superior, the Reverend Mother Karla Doenitz. She'd make you sit on a bicycle seat of woven out of thorns in the outer office while she and Torquemada sharpened the shovels and rakes and impliments of destruction in the back of a red VW microbus.

Luckily, though, the bell rang. Unfortunately, that was the signal to let loose the pet Kraken the sisters kept in the moat around the school. There was no bridge, so you had to swim for it. You were luckily if all you got were permanent sucker scars on your back.

Then you'd have to explain the whole thing to your parents when you got home, because the sisters would send out a hunchback with a note to your parents explaining that you got caught using a cheat code, which generally meant a whuppin' with a wooden stick if you told them first, or a whuppin' with a wooden stick that had nails hammered into it half way and then had the heads cut off with a pair of Sears Craftsman diagonal cutters. If dad was in a good mood that day, he wouldn't barb them.

So I don't want to hear anymore whining out there.

[TarJak]

I still think I have more tomorrows than yesterdays, so regardless of my youth being long gone, I'm still young and never intend to grow up.

[FIREWALL]

You know your getting old when... You sit on the toilet more than you Stand in front of it. :p

[Stealth Hunter]

You know you're getting old when you turn on JAG. Most elders really don't pay attention, they just like the noise and the company...

"Hey, how 'ya doin'? How's that hip doin' there?
....
Remember the '40's?"

[silentrunner]

I'm listening to The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, Bruce Springsteen (and the seeger sessions), Bob Dylan, The Queen......and I'm 16. Does that make me wierd, or in any case....wrong?:88) I mean, I'm not old at all! I have all my life in front of me! (and I'm spending it in front of my computer, oh Lord help me!) Well I'm 13 and I listen to Benny Goodman and Tom Jones and often find myself thinking you know what would be cool a Silent Hunter movie I'm weirder than Carlton Banks.

[silentrunner]

Or on SH4 you get caught by a destroyer because your playing Sing Sing Sing on the grammaphone.

[Biggles]

Hey, anyone knows what tune they're listening at in "Das Boot", you know, that british song. I think it's catchy!:lol:

[Trad78]

"It's along way to Tipperarry

[Dutchie-one]

Well Guy`s I see a lot of oldies here I was young in the 60 years
I remember Tommy Dorsy, Glenn Miller and ofcourse the Rolling Stones
later The Moody Blues, The Eagles, Pink Floyd and John Dever

My first computer was a TRS 89 model III with a cassetterecorder those where the day`s I am 61 now and love to plag sub games

Keep on going guy`s

Dutchie-one :up:

[Chisum]

Yeah, there is an other fossil lol.
I'm 55 years old but I have a child soul.
I listen Andrews Sister, Vera Lynn, Benny Goodman or Tommy Dorsey, Helen Forrest, Peggy Lee, Mildred Bailey and many other great golden songs of these war years.

But it's only in SH3 or in the others ww2 simulator as CFS for example.
Out of the war time I listen many other and various songs like Led Zeppelin or Deep purple, Janis Joplin or Aerosmith, Slayer or Motorhead, Prince or Ozzy, Queen or U2, ZZ top or Tesla.
Also I be able to listen Jilo(Jennifer Lopez) or Chrrrrristiiina Aguilera, Pink or Madonna, good hip hop, often when I drive in the fabulous simulator "18 wheels of steel "Haulin"(if you don't know 18wos, download and watch my Haulin video here to better understand: http://files.filefront.com/Haulin+Road+to+Cheyenne/;7642081;;/fileinfo.html ).

As you can see this is very various.

And I can say: we never getting old when listen music !

Yeah !
:arrgh!: :rock:

[Reece]

I'm 55 years old but I have a child soul.
Sorry to have to say it Chisum ... but you're an old fart too!:yep:

[Biggles]

I'm 55 years old but I have a child soul.
Sorry to have to say it Chisum ... but you're an old fart too!:yep:


Oi! My ma just turned 55 and she isn't old!:stare: :hmm:

[Sledgehammer427]

well, i feel special

im 16, and, well, i live in a town with too much drama...emo people. im a metalhead and so i of course listen to metallica, and im glad to see that im not the only audioslave fan left. ive been finding myself listening to chemical brothers, and, while riding my bike (its good excercise) ill catch myself singing tipperary, sigfried line, blackout stroll, and well meet again. strange really.
i play guitar, its a must around here, so i listen to practically everything i can play...which is almost everything (fretboard virtuosity rules!!!)

i feel like a fossil anyways lol :arrgh!:
and chisum, i knew you had to be getin there, with a name like chisum (john wayne if im not mistaken, im a jimmy stewart fan myself)

Sledgehammer427

[Chisum]

i feel like a fossil anyways lol :arrgh!:
and chisum, i knew you had to be getin there, with a name like chisum (john wayne if im not mistaken, im a jimmy stewart fan myself)

That's right Sledgehammer427, "Chisum" is for John Chisum as John Wayne my idol for ever.
I like also Jimmy Stewart and watching yesterday "Bandolero". Great !
But my prefered Stewart's movie still..."The Glenn Miller story" with a beloved June Allyson. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047030/ ).
;)

I'm 55 years old but I have a child soul.
Sorry to have to say it Chisum ... but you're an old fart too!:yep:

Sorry, what is a "fart" ?
:-?

Anyway, there is a very great company on Subsim SH3 !!
:up:

[Reece]

Sorry, what is a "fart" ?
:-?
:rotfl::rotfl:

[Chisum]

I don't understand.
Sorry.

Glad you're happy.

[Reece]

@ Chisum, your obviously not Aussie or Yankee!! basically the same as fossil!!:yep:

[Chisum]

@ Chisum, your obviously not Aussie or Yankee!!

Of course, I'm belgian french expression !
:lol:

basically the same as fossil!!:yep:

Oh God !
It was a joke !!

:rotfl:

;)