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In Yet Another Sign That I Am Ancient, Blink-182 is Now Considered Classic Rock
Where did the time go?
In most states, for both registration and insurance purposes an automobile is classified as a “classic” at 20 years old. As I learned in the early 2000s, the same is true of music; when I turned on the oldies radio station I was shocked to hear them playing Huey Lewis and the News (that one hurt, didn’t it Buddy Gott?). And even though I still firmly believe that 1990 was ten years ago, time continues its ceaseless march forward.
The reason I bring this up now is not because November is the month in the Catholic Church when we’re all supposed to contemplate our own death (or at least not totally because of this). It’s also not because my last article on Martin Scorsese’s underrated film, Silence, threw me into an existential crisis (though it did). While searching for a Rate-A-Record topic this week, I stumbled upon a pop punk playlist and noticed the date one of the songs was released and was sure it had to be wrong.
It wasn’t. God help me, it wasn’t. Just like it wasn’t just a couple of years ago that I first went to Warped Tour with my daughter; it was ten years ago next summer. Damn it.
Thus, for this edition of Rate-A-Record, I have chosen three pop punk songs that are 20 years old or older…
