toldailytopic: Showing your age. What songs, movies, & TV shows were popular when you

PureX

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To be honest I researched it on google :eek: . I couldn't remember a single thing about the year 2000 other than computers still worked.
Ha! No such thing as 'computers' when I was in high school, except maybe at NASA.

I had to look up the year, too. Especially the TV shows. Most of the music is still being played, today, though.
 

Quincy

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Yea, PureX I totally did the same thing. I kind of remembered a couple movies but that was it. The tv shows I could have looked up but I never watched any of them so it wouldn't have made sense. I don't remember what kind of computer I had in 2000 but I think it had Windows ME on it LOL. That was terrible. It might have been a Gateway. Terrible too :chuckle: .
 

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My school system was one of the first in the country to have computer classes. I remember learning BASIC on punchcards in ninth grade in 1972.

Hated it then, hate it still :eek:
 

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Ha! No such thing as 'computers' when I was in high school, except maybe at NASA.

I had to look up the year, too. Especially the TV shows. Most of the music is still being played, today, though.

Ha! no excuse.
 

Ed Walton

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Movies:
Gone in 60 Seconds
A Man Called Horse
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars
The Bridge Over the River Kwai

Music:
Jessica
Rambling Man
Okie from Muskogee
The Last Farewell
Approaching Lavender
 

steko

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Songs:

To Sir With Love- Lulu
Light My Fire- The Doors
Whiter Shade of Pale- Procol Harem
Brown Eyed Girl-Van Morrison
For What It's Worth-Buffalo Springfield
All You Need Is Love-The Beatles
Soul Man- Sam and Dave
Ruby Tuesday- Rolling Stones
Somebody To Love- Jefferson Airplane
San Francisco- Scott McKenzie
Penny Lane- The Beatles
White Rabbit- Jefferson Airplane
I Can See For Miles- The Who


Movies:

Bonnie and Clyde
Casino Royale
Cool Hand Luke
The Dirty Dozen
The Graduate
In Like Flint
In Cold Blood
The Trip
Wait Until Dark
You Only Live Twice
 

Dena

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I have to google cheat too....

Movies:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (saw this on my first date with my now husband)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Ghost World
Shrek
Ocean's Eleven


TV Shows:
Friends
Will and Grace
CSI
ER
Law and Order


Music:
Lifehouse ~ Hanging By A Moment
Alicia Keys ~ Fallin'
Train ~ Drops Of Jupiter
Staind ~ It's Been Awhile
Incubus ~ Drive
 

Alate_One

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Here's my list, biased towards things I watched/liked, though like some of the rest of you I had to cheat a bit. My high school years especially had a tendency to run together.

Movies

Lion King
Forrest Gump

Shows

ER
Gargoyles
Star Trek The Next Generation (it actually had the 7 year finale that year)

Songs

I almost never listened to popular music at the time, though I liked Ace of Base.
 

keypurr

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TV Shows:
Talk of the Town with Ed Sulivan
Show of Shows with Sid Ceaser
Jackie Gleason
Perry Como
Dina Shore
Archie Bunker
Wrestling with, Mr America Gene Stanley, Don Eagle, Ivan Rasputin, Killer Kowouskie
Boxing with Joe Louis, Primo Canerra, Jersey Joe Walton

Songs to many to mention by Frank Sanatra, Tony Bennet, Dean Martin, Pattie Page, Rosemary Cloney, Patsy Cline,

Movies: Gone with the Wind, High Noon, Sands of Iwo Jima, Hoppalong Cassidy, Whip Wilson, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers Cowboys everywhere.

Thoes were the go old days, you saw one movie, five cartoons and they gave you dishes all for the low price of the ticket. AThat was in the forty's, yep 1940's.

We wore knickers to school, knee socks and the teacher had a paddle. We were given chocolate milk in littles bottles. When the ice man came up the street we raided his truck for ice cubes. The milk man used to bring the milk into the house and put it in the ice box for us. No one felt that they had to lock their doors. We had to have stamps for Gas. Our shades were pulled down before we put our lights on of the air raid warden was at your door. We bought Liberty Stamps at school, and the teacher read the Bible and we said a prayer before we started school.

Yep, thoes were the good old days when the news was shown at the movies, and the first TV came out. The TV store used to put one in the store window for after he closed so folks who could not buy one could sit in chairs and watch some shows at night on the sidewalk. Folks cared in thoes days.
 

sky.

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I remember arguing with a good friend of mine about a Peter Frampton song. We got over it for the most part.
 

Quincy

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I have to google cheat too....

Movies:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (saw this on my first date with my now husband)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Ghost World
Shrek
Ocean's Eleven


TV Shows:
Friends
Will and Grace
CSI
ER
Law and Order


Music:
Lifehouse ~ Hanging By A Moment
Alicia Keys ~ Fallin'
Train ~ Drops Of Jupiter
Staind ~ It's Been Awhile
Incubus ~ Drive

Someone my age :eek: !!
 

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toldailytopic: Showing your age. What songs, movies, & TV shows were popular when you were a senior in high school?

I don't remember. It was 1998-1999 and I wasn't very much into the popular music, movies or TV shows.

I was at the opening of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
You mean the original play, right?

To be honest I researched it on google :eek: . I couldn't remember a single thing about the year 2000 other than computers still worked.
Yeah, I decided not to look it up. I graduated the year before you.
 

PureX

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I remember arguing with a good friend of mine about a Peter Frampton song. We got over it for the most part.
I remember when people were all cooing over Frampton. I though he was a lightweight, and I still think so. Eminently forgettable. In fact, I think he was a harbinger for an era of terrible music that began about the time he came on the scene. But I was fortunate enough to have been born just early enough. The first LP I bought when I was 12 y.o. was the Jimi Hendrix "Are You Experienced" album. I got to see bands like Zeppelin, Heart, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath and Santana play live in the early 70s.

Frampton? pfhhhgh! :chuckle:
 

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You know the popular leads in movies today? I know Glen Ford better, Harrison Ford too. I like westerns, "Shane" and "Red River" being near the best. I like Drama with dialogue more than special effects, although "Top Gun" makes my HT shake the room.

As for music, I am hard to date, liking some atmospheric metal, not so much old school metal much anymore; I like Jazz, jazz fusion and classical music. Popular jazz and pop vocals too.

I did watch " Just Like Haven" and enjoyed it, but I did not care much for "Going the Distance". too much silly sex talk, not as offensive, as much as it seemed unreal and silly.
I tend to watch movies from as early as "Gone With The Wind" to those made in the early sixties, not the late sixties, not much anyway. I also like some of the movies my kids liked, made in the 80s and in the 90s, but few seem of interest after that time.
 

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You know the popular leads in movies today? I know Glen Ford better...
Pa Kent

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