Acting Out of you Generation

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Hello, Does anyone ever feel like they're not in their generation or try not to be. I mean I ask this because I am 17 years old and I still try to live in the 60's and 70's. I only listen to the rock and roll that my parents listened to when they were growing up( I also collect records and singles to play on my Dad's old record player), I love to watch old tv shows especially Bewitched, The Partridge Family, and the Brady Bunch which are my 3 favorites, and I have no desire for modern technology such as cell phones, I-Pods, I-Pads etc. (the computer being the only exception.) I realize that I need to live in my own generation as all of these things happened many years ago and though it has not stopped me from making friends I know that these are not normal teenage fads/behaviors. Are there others that feel like this? Or maybe people that feel opposite?

I wish I was a teenager in the 1990s, not being born in them. Yet I'm grateful I was able to catch me some classic 90s cartoons. Back then nobody gave a @@@@ if you had a computer at home. They still had those brick cell phones back then, so noone's really expecting me to whip out a phone. Back then, they were simply landline phones that you could take and use anywhere. There was no apps no nothing. The 80s seems good too.

PS the music is way better

I watch shows from another generation than my own, and prefer music from another era.

In my teen years (late 80's to mid 90's), I used to listen to mostly stuff from the 1960's and 1970's. I didn't like my generations stuff at all. However, now I love it. Give me some nice, depressing grunge metal any day.

With technology, I do live in the present except for the cars. I really don't like much made after 2,000. Instead, I want a big block 4 speed 1969 Chevelle or a 4 cylinder B13 Sentra SE-R. Today's cars have too many safety features for my taste, and that makes them big, heavy and over complicated. Sorry but I like simple cars I can work on myself and modify to suit my taste.

I'd like to be living in the 60s, 70s and part of the 80s. 1964-1984 to be exact. I'm very nostalgic about the Mick Avory era of The Kinks. I know that someone will contradict what I have to say, like she's done so many times before. Oh well, let her I guess. I'm sure that people closer to my age and older would understand why I like the decades that I do and the years that I do.

I enjoy being 'decade-less', if you will. My decade tended to revolve around the particular obsession I had at that time so now I am a complete mix, I like that. I like that I don't have to worry myself with fears about being 'current'. It's good because I find it easier to speak to people who are older than myself (I am 24) and I always preferred talking to adults as a child.

I still live in the 80s, I listen to 80s music Australian bands from the 80s Noiseworks, Boom Crash Opera, Inxs, Icehouse, Wa Wa Nee, Pseudo Echo, Mental As Anything, The Models to name a few. Im into the 80s computer games, 80s clothes and I go on about the 80s and the memories to friends and family how care free, go with the flow and funny it was. I watch the old 80s TV shows such as Alf, Prince of Bel Air to The Fraggles, The Smurfs, The Muppets, Countdown, Rage, Sweet and Sour. I still watch 80s movies such as Gremlins, The Goonies, E.T. The Neverending Story, Footloose, Top Gun, Tron.

I don't mean to seem rude, but there seems to be duplicates of this thread.

None of those choices aptly apply to me. But I was, and still am, a little backwards.

When I was a kid I listened to 50-60s Rock.

Then I had this routine where I wore a tie to school every Friday. The teachers had casual Friday, while I had formal Friday.

For the longest time I refused to text people, until about two years ago.

But I still refuse to get a smartphone.

I was definitely born in the wrong decade. I wsh I was the same age in 1971. But then I'd probably be dead now.

I like 30s music.

The stuff I listen to is a mixture of underground 60's psychedelic rock, late 80's shoe gaze, 70's 2 Tone Ska and Dub.

I wish I'd lived in Japan, born 1580.

Your poll is skewed, though.
The first option includes technology, the others not. Then the second and third one include tv shows, which the others don't...
The last one is non descript.

So even though I like current music by great artists like Evanescence, Rammstein and Within Temptation, and also the classics from the 80's there's no doubt I'd not choose the first option because the technology is awesome!

It's quite normal at your age to be into 60's and 70's music/culture. For just one example check the early works of Yahtzee Croshaw, he's 28 and quite infatuated with the Beatles and all kinds of older bands.
There have and always will be kids that love a past period.
Plus, current music really does suck; proven scientifically! http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/vi ... -Pop-Music

I am firmly trapped in the fabulas 1980's.

The music & films, the fashion & the sports.

Loved it then, love it now.

I agree with Rattus for the most part. Up until aqbout 5 years ago, I felt as though I was always trailing behind the rest of my generation somewhat, because I wasn't up-to-date on contemporary technology (cellphones, computers), I didn't necessarily get into current music or television shows, usually preferring stuff that had ripened for some years. When I was in secondary school in the early 2000s, I was always listening to 80s pop music- George Michael's and Madonna's 80s stuff. I watched Transformers and other old cartoons. I felt like a kid that was out-of-touch with his generation.

Then in 2007, I read an epic medieval poem in German, called 'Erec'. I absolutely loved it and I was really getting into the sentiments and life of the 12th century and imagined how it would have been for the people to have heard this story being sung by a bard. And I also read a couple more medieval epics in several languages. And it hit me: I was enjoying these stories as surely as I would enjoy contemporary action movies with Van Damme, Stallone, or Schwarzenegger- enjoying them as much as Star Trek or Buffy. And I realised this: art is timeless. Yes, all art is dated, and very much created from the perspective of the artist's time. BUT it can be enjoyed by anyone, living in any time or place. It doesn't necessarily lose its power. And with that, the borders between generations became irrelevant to me.

I should say that I still walk around with a Walkman, and not an MP3-player, even though the latter would probably be more economic and convenient. There's just something I like about the limitations of only carrying about 80 minutes of music, or 17 songs, instead of the decadence of having 1K+ songs with me. I don't need the wealth that modern technology can offer me- honestly, it just floods me.