Fig Newtons, Issac Newton, Olivia Newton.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Very few remember that Frank Sinatra used to be called "The Hoodlum from Hoboken" and deemed a bad boy.

He was bad at 65 YO, too. Some poor schmo tried to mug him when he and some friends were out for a stroll in, I believe, Beverly Hills. He knocked the shit out of the would-be mugger with his cane. 

But he was the Acropolis of conventionality by then. Your GreatGrandmother loved him.

[Brian37]

Very few remember that Frank Sinatra used to be called "The Hoodlum from Hoboken" and deemed a bad boy.

One song my mom brought to my attention late in her life, early in decline was this. I had asked her what was popular when she was a kid growing up and she gave me this.

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Oh shit, now I am crying.

In all seriousness, I think my late mother, knowing she was in decline, pointed this song out to try to say she could identify with me being an oddball. "Little Sir Echo"...  Think about being isolated, in a canyon, and you shout and your voice is the only thing that bounces back, and all life seems far away. 

I truly think that my late mother was telling me, despite our differences that she understood what it was like to feel isolated wanting those around her to understand her.

Certainly this is not modern pop. But personally knowing it was a song she grew up with, and went out of her way to point out to  me in her last days, this song really hits home to me and means more than anything in the world to me.

[arewethereyet]

You know what sucks big donkey doo-dahs? What was Top 40 when I was at school is now classic rock.

Boru

Apart from a few exceptions, I really don't like music from the mid nineties onwards.

I'm apparently the only person in the world who loathes Nirvana and Oasis.  Can't stand hip hop/rap and actively cheer when the "singers" blow each other away.

I cannot abide Nirvana.  I thought I was the only one.

 *I am finding my tribe*

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Lets be honest here, I agree with you. I grew up with 70s and 80s music. I tuned out when grunge rock took over.  But lets face it, those into 90s rock and hip hop, look back on the older folks like us, and reject what we grew up with.


I am quite sure anyone born 10-15 years ago isn't going to be into 90s music either.

Older folks like you.

I was born in 84.

OMG - I have two kids older than you.  <sob>

[Brian37]

70's Olivia is the only Olivia.

Thee above  has to pass the Hillbilly Atheist test. That is my best friend from Oklahoma, who "meh"'ed "she's ok" about Margo Price and this song which I love.

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Back before the internet, in the age of cassette tapes  loved Rush's "Tom Sawyer" song, and knew it was on rotation on my local rock station, and stayed up all night to use my tape deck to record it through my stereo. It was actually the first night in my life where I actually stayed up all night. The worst part about getting old though, you want more sleep.

[Brian37]

If it gives any comfort to anyone reading this, I actually sang 3 Olivia songs to my cat, and he actually sat through all of them staring at me. I'd like to believe he was getting into the tune, but late in the last song, he yawned, stood up and walked away. Jerry Seinfeld anyone?

Yes I have a pathetic life, my cat walked away from me.

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Here is my favorite Blondie VIDEO, not song, but VIDEO...........

[Brian37]

If it gives any comfort to anyone reading this, I actually sang 3 Olivia songs to my cat, and he actually sat through all of them staring at me. I'd like to believe he was getting into the tune, but late in the last song, he yawned, stood up and walked away. Jerry Seinfeld anyone?

Yes I have a pathetic life, my cat walked away from me.

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Here is my favorite Blondie VIDEO, not song, but VIDEO...........

My favorite Blondie song of all time is.....

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm totally shocked that the pussy walked away from you.

Totally.

No shit, totally.

Well...

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

70's Olivia is the only Olivia.

Thee above  has to pass the Hillbilly Atheist test. That is my best friend from Oklahoma, who "meh"'ed "she's ok" about Margo Price and this song which I love.

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He was being generous.

Boru

[Ranjr]

Thee above  has to pass the Hillbilly Atheist test. That is my best friend from Oklahoma, who "meh"'ed "she's ok" about Margo Price and this song which I love.

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 She's lacks both the vocal skill the stage presence of Olivia.  I still like her.  But I'm no hilljack.  I'm from the dirty south, Glen Campbell's neighborhood.

Rush hooked me with 2112.  Moving Pictures blew me away.

[Gwaithmir]

I haven't had Fig Newtons for years. I just had to put them on my grocery list after seeing this thread.