I'm on vacation this week gang, spending most of my time doing a little yard work and reading before heading off for some backpacking and camping in the Ozarks tomorrow. But today I have spent most of my time listening to 80s radio on the net, and I realized something rather profound about myself, and our generation in general. I have become my older siblings!!

I can remember all the pining away for the great music of their youth, and how "today's crap just doesn't compare" -- today, at that time, being the early 80s. Then came the oldies stations playing nothing but late 50s and 60s pop and rock, and the boomers were all ecstatic that "their" music had returned to the airwaves.

Well, today it is this generation who calls most of today's music "crap" and pines away for the music of our youth. And now we are getting the 80s stations on the radio and internet, experiencing the same feelings of nostalgia that our baby boomer siblings felt when the oldies stations went on the air.

But we have some advantages over the boomers. First, our wave of nostalgia is still in its infancy. There are years and years of 80s radio to come, and many of the oldies stations will probably be a casualty of this as stations change formats. And second, they didn't have the internet. We have great sites like this one to share our 80s moments, in addition to all the 80s radio available online.

35 is approaching fast, and it never looked so good

Firstly...enjoy your vacation, Lester.
I have to agree with you there pal....unfortunately though, what are they gonna say in the next generation? Not even those young today will want to look back with warm thoughts to the 'Good old 90's' I fear. So what then for radio? A ten year silence?...or maybe more of the 'Good old 80's'!!
Finally, 35????...let it come...it just gives you a bigger nostalgic field to trek over.
Enjoy.
Slainte mhath