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! Go figure eh!
Are there any other old fossils out there!

[GoldenRivet]

im 28

the most "current" music i listen to is

Nirvana ( )

red hot chili peppers ( )

Audioslave ( )

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
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!
When I play my Dean Martin records my kids make a quick exit!!

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!

[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

[TwistedFemur]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

im 28

the most "current" music i listen to is

Nirvana ( )

red hot chili peppers ( )

Audioslave ( )

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

[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

[ichso]

Originally Posted by Canovaro

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

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 ?
I would gess it's both reasons :hmm:

[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

[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

[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!