Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

I was born in 1969, which is apparently when architectural design peaked.

Puts me in mind of this Paul Alexander piece, "Moon Base Game Room."

Holy "UFO", Batman.

 

[Meech17]

I am a local supporter of MPR (Minnesota public radio) but I listen 80% of the time to 89.3 The Current (stream it you'll love it!). 20 years ago they launched this indie/folk/blues/hip hop format station and Ive been a supporter ever since. Commercial free and never looked back. The mix is truly eclectic and local support for the arts is top notch.

Ever once in awhile I hear traditional format radio and its a trip. The oldies station plays music from the 80's that...yeah... The thing that really gets me though, is the commercials, and im astounded that traditional formats of any kind are still around.

I broke my phone yesterday, so we went out to replace it, and naturally, as I couldn't use my phone for music, we were stuck with the radio. For almost the entirety of the ~10 minute drive to the phone store, it was commercials.

 

[VashVet]

Format slide is real.

When I’m driving my parents around, I mostly tune to a particular “Classic Rock” station (that’s been around since at least the 1980s) when in the car these days, though I occasionally have it tuned to certain rock/metal or alternative stations.

The classic rock station plays new stuff from older acts, of course. So you will hear the most recent stuff from The Rolling Stones, for example. However, they’re now ALSO playing older stuff from U2, Metallica, The Clash, etc.

So on one hand, my Mom is marveling that I know & sing along to these tunes (that’s I’ve been singing along with for decades). But OTOH, she’s learning to sing along with “Santeria”, “My Hero” and so forth.

If I was listening to a classic rock station back when I was a teenager, I’d be getting lots of 60s and 70s with occasional hits as far back as the 50s, but at that point in time, it was only 20 to 30 years prior.

Today, 80s music are the equivalent of my 50s music then. In one sense, the staying power of some of that music is kinda incredible. Of course, no one ever plays the truly bad music that came from each decade either.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Holy "UFO", Batman.

I'm not sure I'm fond of the "bubble" of the bathtub compartment extending into the living room, but maybe people were much more comfortable in Italy in the 1960s knocking on walls to communicate with their roomates? I also question how easy it would be to access the bookshelves above the couch/bed, and whether or not that item had the potential of falling onto sleepers below.

 

[Ryujin]

If I was listening to a classic rock station back when I was a teenager, I’d be getting lots of 60s and 70s with occasional hits as far back as the 50s, but at that point in time, it was only 20 to 30 years prior.

Today, 80s music are the equivalent of my 50s music then. In one sense, the staying power of some of that music is kinda incredible. Of course, no one ever plays the truly bad music that came from each decade either.

These days, when I listen to a Classic Rock station, it feels like watching an episode of "The Orville" and them playing something I think of as contemporary and calling it "Classical Music."

 

[Thomas Shey]

I'm not sure I'm fond of the "bubble" of the bathtub compartment extending into the living room, but maybe people were much more comfortable in Italy in the 1960s knocking on walls to communicate with their roomates? I also question how easy it would be to access the bookshelves above the couch/bed, and whether or not that item had the potential of falling onto sleepers below.

I slept with a hanging bookshelf partly extruding over my bed from my early teens until I went off to college. Doesn't mean you're wrong, though; in the Whittier Earthquake the whole shebang partly disconnected and the books slid down the shelf onto my bed. It was just that I was up and off at school at the time.