Which version do you sing?
Posted by adze thuggery on 20 July 2008 - 10:26am.
Just had one of those moments. Vanilla Fudge comes on, and I sing along to 'You Keep Me Hanging On', with all the correct phrasing, background vocals, instrument breaks and so on. Yet I spent my earlier formative years (I seem to be somewhat older than the median age of the Word Massive) dancing to the Supremes at Nuneaton Coop Hall. OK, Vanilla Fudge was the first 'heavy' LP (!) I bought, previous ones being the Beatles and the Stones, but why does that version stick? Anyone else have a particular version of a song that springs into their head, rather than another? Does everyone sing all the bits of the record, not just the main vocal, or is it just me? And for those who've never been there, here's the Fudge.
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On medians and means
You're probably right, because there are a few whippersnappers among the irregulars keeping things fresh, but the average/mean age is probably mid-to-late 40s, I reckon.
I've also noticed that those of us who post most are from the upper end of the age range. (I'm 50.) But whether this is because we have more free time, have nothing better to do, or are simply more efficient at pretending to be working, I have no idea.
You've made my day Archie
37 years old and a whippersnapper!
Simply more efficient at pretending to be working.
In one, Archie.
51 1/2.
(Sod Peter, Bjorn and Johns* "Young Folks", lets hear it for the Old Folks.....)
*The Rod, Jane and Freddy of the noughties, oui?
I win so far
Well, thanks for the responses, you guys. I'm 58, early retired, and a grandad (best job of my life). I do a bit of consultancy but work from home and do it when it suits so I don't even have to pretend to be working if I don't want to!