old fartitude

[mmcirvin]

Browsing the iTunes Music Store's (somewhat incomplete) lists of Billboard hits, it becomes clear to me that the moment I entered grad school, a large fraction of the stuff being played on Top 40 radio suddenly became unfamiliar to me; and the moment I got out of grad school, most of what was left disappeared over the event horizon, leaving only persistent annoyances of Celine Dion magnitude to make any impression on my mind.

In the other temporal direction, the charts don't get that alien until long before my birth.