What will they play in the nursing home when I'm an OAP

[bumblebee50]

This isn't really an AIBU, well kind of. Me and my DH walked past a nursing home last week. They were having an open day and were playing a lot of old songs - think Frank Sinatra etc. I'm curious to know what songs will be played when I get to that stage (currently early 50s) - are we talking Duran Duran, Madonna, Coldplay or whatever? I hate the thought it sitting there will forced joviality forced upon me. is it not all a bit patronising?

bikerunski 'I can do pretty much the entire lyrics to the "American Idiot" album'

I have spent such a long time on the guitar hero GD game, it's so engrained in my brain I can well believe it might be the last thing left in there come 2060...

I have it on my iPod Accio it's my 10K music - i.e.: it takes me about 10 K to hear out the whole album.

I used to think about this when I worked in a residential home at the age of 15. Thought it was mad that I'd probably be playing The Prodigy when at a similar age to the residents. It'll be Die Antwoord and Faith No More, PWEI and NIN blasting out in my ressie room (hopefully😀).

What will we have on the walls for decorations? At my gpa's nursing home it was photos of kittens and Princess Di everywhere and little china dolls. Will we be subjected to Willow Tree ornaments on every available flat space?

It's always been a crushing disappointment to me that Morrissey turned out to be such an utter twat. I've never liked the Smiths in the same way I used to!

It's always been a crushing disappointment to me that Morrissey turned out to be such an utter twat. I've never liked the Smiths in the same way I used to! To be fair, he's never made a secret of it

A friend of mine works in a library and runs the memory groups for older people in the early stages of dementia and he likes to play some music as they walk in and asked the music librarian to dig out something suitable. The music librarian came back with Vera Lynn and Max Bygraves, until my mate pointed out that most of them were in their 70s and were born after the war had finished. That got us talking and we worked out that within the next five years ex-punks will be pensioners.

But somehow people seem to be fixated on the war when it comes to OAPs - 'they fought a war for us' always gets trotted out. Even if they'd joined the forces in the last year of the war, they'd have to be in their 90s to have played any active role in the conflict and would have to be in their 80s to have had meaningful memories of the conflict.

Yes people keep trotting out "they fought the war for us" which is pretty mathematically inept. The Korean War, possibly. A few current pensioners fought to keep the Falkland Islands British. But very few of the people who are the subjects of pension debates will have fought the Nazis.

My dad is 85. He likes Frank Sinatra. He didn't fight in WW2, he was only a child at the time.

I'm 53. If I die on Monday it would be like me wanting the flipping Beatles (yuk) at my funeral. The Beatles (shit as they were), would be my last choice.

I went to my Nan's home today. They were dancing to Oasis and Abba! She is 92!

I would happily listen to Frank Sinatra all day and I'm only 53!

I will be sat there demanding lots of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Yes!

I'm 45 and think Frank Sinatra wasn't fit to turn Fred Astaire's pages . It's George sodding Gershwin and Cole effing Porter Frank. They were some of the greatest musical geniuses of the twentieth century, just stick to the tunes they wrote and don't fanny around with them.

I agree with what you are saying about the war. But of course there will be pensioners in the future who have fought in the war. Gulf War for example.

They better play me a lot of U2.

I agree with what you are saying about the war. But of course there will be pensioners in the future who have fought in the war. Gulf War for example.

Of course, but it will be comparatively fewer, as it was fought by comparatively small proportion of the population compared to the second world war, where there was mass conscription, so there isn't sense there was a generational sacrifice. It is just that they're applying this notion to the generation below the one that actually did the fighting and dying.

Will we be subjected to Willow Tree ornaments on every available flat space?

If I am subject to that and fucking Coldplay in my dotage, you can book me onto the next flight to Switzerland.

Actually, fuck that by the time they've got through the first side of a Coldplay album, I'll be begging the Nurses to crack me in the temples with a sledgehammer rather than listen to anymore.

I used to to get told off when I turned the radio to planet rock when I was working the dementia ward. I mean I was ready to tear my ears off after half a shift listening to vera Lyn etc. The ward was like a separate time era.

you can book me onto the next flight to Switzerland.
Don't worry, they'll be sending the pills round on 70th birthdays before long.

Not sure what will be playing if I ever make it to a care home, but I gave my mum a manicure on her geriatric ward listening to Aerosmith 'walk this way'.