We've done this before, but...

[Janik]

Nevermind - Nirvana: released 24 September 1991. That is 30 years ago this Friday.
Please, Please Me (album) - The Beatles: released 22 March 1963. So this album was only 28-and-a-half years old when Nevermind was released.

Nevermind is older now than Please, Please Me was then.

F8ck.

[Jah Womble]

(Cue whoever-it-was to come on and moan about the premise of the thread…)

When we did this a year or two back, I was struggling with the premise that ‘now’ (ie, ‘then’) more time had passed since Gary Numan was at number one with Cars than had since that time and the start of WWII.

Or similar.

[longeared]

We've now reached a point where the release of Karma Chameleon is closer to WW2 than it is to today.

[3 Colours Red]

The release of Never Mind The Bollocks is now closer to the invention of cat's eyes and Monopoly than is it to today.

[Sean of the Shed]

The release of (Sitting on) The Dock of the Bay in January 1968 is closer to the start of World War ONE than it is to today's date.

[Janik]

This is all horrifying.

Keep going.

[Jah Womble]

Ghost Town - which I heard on Pick of the Pops recently, sounding as majestic and relevant now as it did then - was at number one just over forty years ago. Go back another forty years and, well, you know…

The release of (Sitting on) The Dock of the Bay in January 1968 is closer to the start of World War ONE than it is to today's date.

But (to me, at any rate) that ‘does’ feel like a lifetime ago.

[Janik]

It's all very egocentric, isn't it? "Before my time" = completely ancient, however relatively recently it might actually be. And in one's own lifetime/engagement with culture = modern.

I was trying it with things like the Rite of Spring, but that was obviously way before I was born (or any of us, assuming we have no Centurions). So the fact that 108 years before that Beethoven was debuting the Eroica is much less of a jolt.

[Sean of the Shed]

The release of Wham!'s debut album Fantastic is closer to VE day than the present day.

[WOM]

I read yesterday that the Stranglers' replacement singer was with the band longer than Hugh Cornwell was.

[Duncan Gardner]

Cornwell 1974-90
Roberts 1990-2006
Warne 2000-21?

[Amor de Cosmos]

I'm the same age as Bizet's Carmen was on the day I was born.

[matt j]

Coincidentally, Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 was released on September 19th, 1989, 32 years ago.

The 'real old' drum sample that served as the backbone of the title track was Sly and the Family Stone's Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), released in... 1969, only twenty years before that.

[Gangster Octopus]

I'm the same age as Bizet's Carmen was on the day I was born.

Surprised by that; I thought that Carmen was younger than that. Er, in that I thought that it was a twentieth century opera.

[Jah Womble]

It's all very egocentric, isn't it? "Before my time" = completely ancient, however relatively recently it might actually be. And in one's own lifetime/engagement with culture = modern.

True, although Dock of the Bay was nonetheless very much ‘in my lifetime’.

One oft-referenced fact of this nature is that both John Lennon and Elvis Presley have now been dead longer than they were alive.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Surprised by that; I thought that Carmen was younger than that. Er, in that I thought that it was a twentieth century opera.

I was a too. But nope, the premiere was March 3, 1875 at the Opéra Comique in Paris. Bizet died three months later, to the day.

[ursus arctos]

Surprised by that; I thought that Carmen was younger than that. Er, in that I thought that it was a twentieth century opera.

Why it scandalised its initial audiences in Paris

[WOM]

Elvis Presley has been gone for two years longer than he was here.

[Jah Womble]

For the completists:

Elvis Presley
Alive: 42 years 243 days
Dead: 44 years 34 days

John Lennon
Alive: 40 years 60 days
Dead: 40 years 282 days

(So, yes, it’s been the case since early Feb.)

[Bruno]

YouTube is 16 years old (as of February 2021) which means no entering college student can remember it not existing.

[Bruno]

YouPorn was launched in 2006, so there's that too.

[Satchmo Distel]

Stevie Wonder has been alive a year longer since Live Aid than he was before it (born 13.5.50); the equidistant date would be 7 May 1949; 36 years, 2 months, 6 days.

[Amor de Cosmos]

YouPorn was launched in 2006, so there's that too.

There's something called YouPorn. For real?

[Jah Womble]

'Entering college students' has a different meaning on that, I'd imagine.

[3 Colours Red]

There's something called YouPorn. For real?

Porn? On the Internet?