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LoveBandit · July 4th, 2009, 12:24 PM

Here's yet another amusing attempt to simplify the unsimplifiable:

http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news...u-get-old.html

-LB (1992 for me)

Derek McNelly · July 4th, 2009, 01:13 PM

I was never really "hip", per say, but I'd say this summer really did it, outside the realm of that article.

I kinda gave up on the whole punk rock scene this year, after realizing what a bunch of hapless tools make up the Detroit area scene.

Grew into some blues rock though. Not all is lost.

Also, I could hum every song on that list but 1988.

Fendrcaster · July 4th, 2009, 02:01 PM

I guess around 1986, when I was 36, for me. I know some of the tunes after that, but not many. I was pretty much listening to country by then.

dan1952 · July 4th, 2009, 02:10 PM

1997, when I was 44. After that, I only recognized the Fergie song.

yegbert · July 4th, 2009, 02:53 PM

Based on that : 1989, the year I turned 35.

Brad Pittiful · July 4th, 2009, 02:57 PM

according to the directions...a song i cant hum the melody to

August 1963 -- "Fingertips Pt. 2" Little Stevie Wonder

which puts me at middle age at 2 years old...wtf?

Slow Reflexes · July 4th, 2009, 03:04 PM

I guess my disdain for all things Fergie means I became unhip a couple years ago. Either that, or 20 years before I was born.

Actually, I don't think I've ever been "hip." Unless it was in the '80s when it was hip to be square.

bluesfordan · July 4th, 2009, 03:06 PM

forget humming the melody to it, last song on that list that I could say I've heard and liked was "Roll with it" by Steve Winwood. 1988. I was a mere 30 years old.

I've always thought I stopped listening to radio in the '92 election cycle, now looking at the forensic evidence, it might have actually been the '88 election cycle.

Parma_TeleMon · July 4th, 2009, 03:23 PM

I guess it was '89. I agree with Bluesfordan, "Roll with it" was the last one I really liked.

And all this time I thought it was when waitresses started calling me, "sir"

Kebmel · July 4th, 2009, 03:29 PM

1993, I was 33, far too young!

jazztele · July 4th, 2009, 03:42 PM

well, according to that test, when i was one year old.

i've always prided myself in never being "hip," but since unhip is the new hip, i'm pretty damn hip. unless of course, the current "hip" unhipness comes from actually trying not to be hip and not the effortless unhipness i exude, in that case, i'm just unhip. dig?

Brad Pittiful · July 4th, 2009, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jazztele

well, according to that test, when i was one year old.

i've always prided myself in never being "hip," but since unhip is the new hip, i'm pretty damn hip. unless of course, the current "hip" unhipness comes from actually trying not to be hip and not the effortless unhipness i exude, in that case, i'm just unhip. dig?

im hip im hip

musicalmartin · July 4th, 2009, 03:55 PM

1992 it seems though there are maybe a couple that didnt make it to the UK earlier than that .That would make me 46 when I lost my hipness.Not too bad for an old fart .I can do with all the hips I can get lately

Tdub · July 4th, 2009, 04:03 PM

If these songs are hip, I'm fine with being unhip.

stevieboy · July 4th, 2009, 04:07 PM

Macarena--hip? Gilbert O'Sullivan? The Year 2525? Close To You?

I could go on and on. I'll just say their idea of hip and mine are not quite the same.

Not saying I don't like the Carpenters. I do, didn't say I was hip!

ibobunot · July 4th, 2009, 04:24 PM

Well... these are the only songs that were on albums that I paid for and chose
to listen to...

August 1963 - "Fingertips Pt. 2" - Little Stevie Wonder
August 1964 - "A Hard Day's Night" - The Beatles
August 1966 - "Summer in the City" - The Lovin' Spoonful
August 1967 - "Light My Fire" - The Doors
August 1968 - "People Got to Be Free" - The Rascals
August 1978 - "Miss You" - Rolling Stones
August 1983 - "Every Breath You Take" - The Police
August 1988 - "Roll With It" - Steve Winwood
August 1994 - "Stay (I Missed You)" - Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories

Which only proves... I have no life and nothing to do but look at this idiotic poll...

LoveBandit · July 4th, 2009, 04:39 PM

I think "hip" was my (the OP's) word. They bill the test as when you reach "middle age" or something like that....LB.

ibobunot · July 4th, 2009, 04:47 PM

Ironwolf · July 4th, 2009, 05:03 PM

Puts me in '89 at age 33. I only recognise 3 or 4 songs after '88.

maestrovert · July 4th, 2009, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tdub

If these songs are hip, I'm fine with being unhip.

Amen...

apart from certain PBS programs, i don't listen to commercial radio

CVTele Dan · July 4th, 2009, 05:37 PM

I was country when country wasn't cool, all 3 or 4 times. I guess Huey Lewis was right, "It's hip to be square!"

Edit:speelling

ole AZ · July 4th, 2009, 06:29 PM

Looks like 2000 for me. I was 13...

Warm Gums · July 4th, 2009, 06:39 PM

Never was...but always will be!

PeteMac · July 4th, 2009, 07:45 PM

Yeah . . . if knowing whats on top of the commercial charts at any given time is hip . . . well !!!

( . . . but going by that list - 1994, I was 32. )

Del Pickup · July 4th, 2009, 09:10 PM

I always knew that I was uncool and have been since I was in nappies!

Like many here 1988 seems to be the cut-off point for me - although I do have to admit to a slight liking for Bryan Adams hit in 1991 and could hum the whole thing if I really had to!

CrazyManAndy · July 4th, 2009, 09:20 PM

I'm not middle aged, but I don't think I could hum anything on that list. lol.

CMA

Lerb21 · July 4th, 2009, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ole AZ

Looks like 2000 for me. I was 13...

Hell, I wasn't even born!

Larry F · July 4th, 2009, 09:30 PM

1978 I can hear it, but not all of it
1979 I remember the skinny ties and basic rhythm
1980 I have no idea of how it sounds

I was becoming a composer during those years. In fact, writing my first piece in 1978. I guess I found listening to the radio distracting, but I don't remember thinking about it.

casterway · July 4th, 2009, 09:55 PM

If knowing Jay-Z and Usher makes me 'hip', then I'm satisfied being an un-hip dork.

Shepherd · July 4th, 2009, 10:04 PM

When hip hop came out all my hipness hopped away too. Do any of the songs after 95 even have a guitar in them?

Tim Armstrong · July 4th, 2009, 10:15 PM

I know exactly what the OP means, this test is one way of zeroing in on when a person quit paying attention to what was on the charts. I thought about it before perusing the list, and it seemed to me that I lost the pop thread in about 1989, and yep, sure enough, that's what I found on this list.

Don't get me wrong, I'm TERMINALLY hip!

Tim

PennyCentury · July 4th, 2009, 10:20 PM

I stopped caring about "hip" when I had my first child.

shades · July 4th, 2009, 10:28 PM

Back in 1981 I had to cut my hair for a new job. It was gettin' kinda long, could have said it was in my (boss's) way...shades of CSNY.
Now that I'm the boss I'd grow it down over my shoulders again but that would look pretty bad with the solar panel on top. Still have the beard though.
And that's as close to hip as I've ever been.

podboy3 · July 4th, 2009, 10:30 PM

If being "HIP" is knowing all the radio friendly, commercial crap that gets pummeled into your head every year then I am very happy to not be hip.

Jahmbie · July 4th, 2009, 10:41 PM

August 2004, the summer before I got married. Sounds about right.

BTW...a pox on Mike Carniello for making me hum "Macarena."

beep.click · July 4th, 2009, 10:53 PM

Apparently, I became un-hip in 1988. But I had a brief relapse of hipness in 1994 -- because I really like Lisa Loeb!

Can I get an honorary "hip permit" now, if I like the Weepies, the Shins, Ingrid Michaelson, Imogen Heap, Lenka, Meiko, and the Submarines? Or does that just make me a little pathetic...?

ibobunot · July 4th, 2009, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beep.click

Can I get an honorary "hip permit" now?

I think after 50 hip is something you break...

Ironwolf · July 5th, 2009, 01:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beep.click

Apparently, I became un-hip in 1988. But I had a brief relapse of hipness in 1994 -- because I really like Lisa Loeb!

Can I get an honorary "hip permit" now, if I like the Weepies, the Shins, Ingrid Michaelson, Imogen Heap, Lenka, Meiko, and the Submarines? Or does that just make me a little pathetic...?

No. That makes you really pathetic.

Westerly Sunn · July 5th, 2009, 01:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Parma_TeleMon

I guess it was '89. I agree with Bluesfordan, "Roll with it" was the last one I really liked.

And all this time I thought it was when waitresses started calling me, "sir"

...and I, also was 30 at the time...

I must add though, that the compiler of this list was listening to the wrong radio station!

studio1087 · July 5th, 2009, 02:20 AM

1997 according to the test.

I am no longer cool because I think texting is silly, video games are silly and I refuse to wear baggy pants that let the whole world view my boxer shorts. If you are younger than twenty and reading this.....don't text while driving and pull your dang pants up. You're making me feel like Hank Hill. Come to think of it, I admire Hank Hill.

John

July 4th, 2009, 12:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
LoveBandit Tele-Meister Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Northern Virginia - USA Age: 45 Posts: 311	Test: What summer did you get "unhip"? Here's yet another amusing attempt to simplify the unsimplifiable: http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news...u-get-old.html -LB (1992 for me) __________________ Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. -P.J. O'Rourke Old avatar:

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Fendrcaster Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Frederick, Maryland Age: 59 Posts: 1,126	I guess around 1986, when I was 36, for me. I know some of the tunes after that, but not many. I was pretty much listening to country by then. __________________ I did a Google search of the letter "e". The whole internet froze up.

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Brad Pittiful Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Philly Burbs Posts: 1,159	according to the directions...a song i cant hum the melody to August 1963 -- "Fingertips Pt. 2" Little Stevie Wonder which puts me at middle age at 2 years old...wtf? __________________ *No Signature Required.*

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Slow Reflexes Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Willamette and Columbia Posts: 1,744	I guess my disdain for all things Fergie means I became unhip a couple years ago. Either that, or 20 years before I was born. Actually, I don't think I've ever been "hip." Unless it was in the '80s when it was hip to be square. __________________ The visions that I see believe in me.

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Parma_TeleMon Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: parma, oh Age: 49 Posts: 1,010	I guess it was '89. I agree with Bluesfordan, "Roll with it" was the last one I really liked. And all this time I thought it was when waitresses started calling me, "sir" __________________ ================================ Packin' a Tele, lookin' fer trouble.... ================================

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Derek McNelly Tele-Meister Join Date: May 2009 Location: . Posts: 362	I was never really "hip", per say, but I'd say this summer really did it, outside the realm of that article. I kinda gave up on the whole punk rock scene this year, after realizing what a bunch of hapless tools make up the Detroit area scene. Grew into some blues rock though. Not all is lost. Also, I could hum every song on that list but 1988.

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dan1952 Tele-Meister Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Anderson, IN Age: 57 Posts: 285	1997, when I was 44. After that, I only recognized the Fergie song.

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yegbert Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Clinton, Maryland (US) Age: 55 Posts: 5,676 95 Photos	Based on that : 1989, the year I turned 35.

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bluesfordan Tele-Holic Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Nashua NH Posts: 702	forget humming the melody to it, last song on that list that I could say I've heard and liked was "Roll with it" by Steve Winwood. 1988. I was a mere 30 years old. I've always thought I stopped listening to radio in the '92 election cycle, now looking at the forensic evidence, it might have actually been the '88 election cycle.

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Kebmel Tele-Meister Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: NZ Age: 49 Posts: 213	1993, I was 33, far too young!

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jazztele Friend of Leo's Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: chicago Age: 30 Posts: 4,101	well, according to that test, when i was one year old. i've always prided myself in never being "hip," but since unhip is the new hip, i'm pretty damn hip. unless of course, the current "hip" unhipness comes from actually trying not to be hip and not the effortless unhipness i exude, in that case, i'm just unhip. dig? __________________ "Jazz isn't a what, it's a how" -- Bill Evans

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musicalmartin Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK Age: 61 Posts: 1,150	1992 it seems though there are maybe a couple that didnt make it to the UK earlier than that .That would make me 46 when I lost my hipness.Not too bad for an old fart .I can do with all the hips I can get lately

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Tdub Tele-Holic Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida Posts: 518 1 Photos	If these songs are hip, I'm fine with being unhip. __________________ www.trymungous.com

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stevieboy Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: the valley Age: 58 Posts: 3,385 6 Photos	Macarena--hip? Gilbert O'Sullivan? The Year 2525? Close To You? I could go on and on. I'll just say their idea of hip and mine are not quite the same. Not saying I don't like the Carpenters. I do, didn't say I was hip!

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ibobunot Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Dullsville Posts: 4,905	Well... these are the only songs that were on albums that I paid for and chose to listen to... August 1963 - "Fingertips Pt. 2" - Little Stevie Wonder August 1964 - "A Hard Day's Night" - The Beatles August 1966 - "Summer in the City" - The Lovin' Spoonful August 1967 - "Light My Fire" - The Doors August 1968 - "People Got to Be Free" - The Rascals August 1978 - "Miss You" - Rolling Stones August 1983 - "Every Breath You Take" - The Police August 1988 - "Roll With It" - Steve Winwood August 1994 - "Stay (I Missed You)" - Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories Which only proves... I have no life and nothing to do but look at this idiotic poll... __________________ ... Sorry, I can't use this, it's awash in vaginaism. --Jessa Crispin--

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LoveBandit Tele-Meister Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Northern Virginia - USA Age: 45 Posts: 311	I think "hip" was my (the OP's) word. They bill the test as when you reach "middle age" or something like that....LB. __________________ Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes. -P.J. O'Rourke Old avatar:

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ibobunot Friend of Leo's Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Dullsville Posts: 4,905	__________________ ... Sorry, I can't use this, it's awash in vaginaism. --Jessa Crispin--

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Ironwolf Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Boise, Idaho Age: 53 Posts: 1,379	Puts me in '89 at age 33. I only recognise 3 or 4 songs after '88. __________________ Oderint Dum Metuant - Nero Caesar

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ole AZ Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Verde Valley, Arizona Age: 22 Posts: 1,033	Looks like 2000 for me. I was 13... __________________ "I could listen to Mike Campbell play me the phone book." - Yoni

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Warm Gums Tele-Meister Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Maryland Posts: 387	Never was...but always will be!

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PeteMac Tele-Holic Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 47 Posts: 933 10 Photos	Yeah . . . if knowing whats on top of the commercial charts at any given time is hip . . . well !!! ( . . . but going by that list - 1994, I was 32. ) __________________ Life is short; play loud! www.myspace.com/theskinnersband www.myspace.com/theboneyarsedboys

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Del Pickup Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: New Zealand Posts: 1,555 6 Photos	I always knew that I was uncool and have been since I was in nappies! Like many here 1988 seems to be the cut-off point for me - although I do have to admit to a slight liking for Bryan Adams hit in 1991 and could hum the whole thing if I really had to! __________________ Someone told me that my tone is in my underpants. I'm not sure if that's good or bad......

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CrazyManAndy Tele-Meister Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: North Carolina Posts: 259	I'm not middle aged, but I don't think I could hum anything on that list. lol. CMA

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Larry F Friend of Leo's Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Iowa City, IA Age: 56 Posts: 3,431	1978 I can hear it, but not all of it 1979 I remember the skinny ties and basic rhythm 1980 I have no idea of how it sounds I was becoming a composer during those years. In fact, writing my first piece in 1978. I guess I found listening to the radio distracting, but I don't remember thinking about it. __________________ larry

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casterway Friend of Leo's Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Aldergrove, British Columbia,Canada Age: 41 Posts: 4,113	If knowing Jay-Z and Usher makes me 'hip', then I'm satisfied being an un-hip dork. __________________ If Meg White can call herself a musician, then so can I.

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Shepherd Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Maple Ridge, Canada Posts: 1,031	When hip hop came out all my hipness hopped away too. Do any of the songs after 95 even have a guitar in them?

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Tim Armstrong Moderator Doctor of Teleocity Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Ocean Pines, Maryland, USA Age: 50 Posts: 13,144	I know exactly what the OP means, this test is one way of zeroing in on when a person quit paying attention to what was on the charts. I thought about it before perusing the list, and it seemed to me that I lost the pop thread in about 1989, and yep, sure enough, that's what I found on this list. Don't get me wrong, I'm TERMINALLY hip! Tim __________________ http://www.moodswingers.org

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PennyCentury Tele-Holic Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: New Hampshire Posts: 850	I stopped caring about "hip" when I had my first child. __________________ Now with whole-grain Telecaster goodness! I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. ~Alanis Morissette

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shades Tele-Afflicted Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Pittsburgh,Pa. Age: 52 Posts: 1,720 8 Photos	Back in 1981 I had to cut my hair for a new job. It was gettin' kinda long, could have said it was in my (boss's) way...shades of CSNY. Now that I'm the boss I'd grow it down over my shoulders again but that would look pretty bad with the solar panel on top. Still have the beard though. And that's as close to hip as I've ever been. __________________ It's 106 miles to Chicago,we've got a full tank of gas,half a pack of cigarettes,it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses...

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podboy3 Tele-Holic Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 644	If being "HIP" is knowing all the radio friendly, commercial crap that gets pummeled into your head every year then I am very happy to not be hip. __________________ "I Ain't Got No Soul But I Got More Than Don Henley" - BHG

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Jahmbie Tele-Holic Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Berea, KY Posts: 918	August 2004, the summer before I got married. Sounds about right. BTW...a pox on Mike Carniello for making me hum "Macarena." __________________ "I'm not responsible for anyone's gruntlement" - Lt. Col. Henry Blake

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beep.click Friend of Leo's Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: California Age: 50 Posts: 3,206	Apparently, I became un-hip in 1988. But I had a brief relapse of hipness in 1994 -- because I really like Lisa Loeb! Can I get an honorary "hip permit" now, if I like the Weepies, the Shins, Ingrid Michaelson, Imogen Heap, Lenka, Meiko, and the Submarines? Or does that just make me a little pathetic...? __________________ "It looked like a giant green gum drop to me."

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studio1087 Poster Extraordinaire Join Date: May 2003 Location: Near Milwaukee Age: 45 Posts: 6,390 34 Photos	1997 according to the test. I am no longer cool because I think texting is silly, video games are silly and I refuse to wear baggy pants that let the whole world view my boxer shorts. If you are younger than twenty and reading this.....don't text while driving and pull your dang pants up. You're making me feel like Hank Hill. Come to think of it, I admire Hank Hill. John __________________ John

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