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Oldies stations are playing 80s music now
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The problem I see with the transition from Pop to Oldies and Rock to Classic rock is that nobody is filling the void. With the rise of the digital age and the state of music being entirely throwaway trash, we are going to need a miracle to see some truly strong movements in music because all our heroes are dead or dying or still out there doing their thing.
Ban Puncher
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old manatee
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I don't like when new things become older either. The old things are already the old things. There needs to be new words for things that are old but are still new because they were new at a time when being new meant something and it wasn't all just watered down retreads.
Soapbox Killer
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Feels like getting kicked in the dick. Was playing Run DMC and I was sweet...oh wait.
The Salt Life
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Welcome Back Kotter was not when Nick at Nite changed for the worst. that came when they stopped showing everything from I love Lucy, my three sons, green acres, Happy Days and welcome back Kotter all together.
Edit: I haven't listened to FM since satellite radio, I think today's hip hop sucks so I only listen to the 90's rap station, the Frank Sinatra station and then the 50's, 60's 70's, 80's stations.
lightskintwin
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There are oldie stations that only play 90's hip-hop and contemporary R&B
Yeah I don't get it, in France we have a station called Nostalgie (Nostalgia) which only play oldies, and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun has always been a staple in their playlist for as long as I can remember.
When oldies stations start playing Jennifer Lopez's If You Had My Love or Britney Spears' Baby One More Time, then that will feel a bit weird.
YuriLowell
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Damn that would be nightmare
Rhomega Beta
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Look at TV Land, they've been running Everybody Loves Raymond for a while now. They're also now airing The King of Queens.
UncleSporky
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I always wonder about the people at the oldies stations managing this stuff.
When do they decide to make the transitions?
Every year do they drop their oldest year of music and gain a newer year? I doubt most of them are so organized.
Is it suddenly a big expense when they add the entirety of the 80s to their catalogue?
How do the employees feel about it, not being able to play their favorite music anymore - or possibly starting to play music they enjoy more, for all we know?
One local station near me mostly plays contemporary pop, but every weekend is an 80s weekend...they aren't exactly an oldies station, but does this mean they're morphing into one slowly?
At other times they used to play "70s, 80s and 90s" and at some point that became the "80s, 90s, and today."
When do they decide to make the transitions?
Every year do they drop their oldest year of music and gain a newer year? I doubt most of them are so organized.
Is it suddenly a big expense when they add the entirety of the 80s to their catalogue?
How do the employees feel about it, not being able to play their favorite music anymore - or possibly starting to play music they enjoy more, for all we know?
One local station near me mostly plays contemporary pop, but every weekend is an 80s weekend...they aren't exactly an oldies station, but does this mean they're morphing into one slowly?
At other times they used to play "70s, 80s and 90s" and at some point that became the "80s, 90s, and today."
WaffleTaco
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I kind of can't wait until they play 00's-10's on oldies. Like all of the music you like in one place is a dream. Too bad radio will be dead by then.
Depending on the market, yes.
My argument is more in regards to the talent gap. We don't get lightening in a bottle or huge movements this day and age. Most of the same artists (from the late 60s onward) that have the capability to tour and release records still do. The current (dire) climate in music and how we consume it on a daily basis has kept a lot of new acts from achieving true success.
We don't have many acts stepping up and taking over for Run DMC, The Stones, KRS-One, Nas, The Beatles, Zeppelin, etc. because the talent pool is drying up, music is super derivative and has a McDonald's like delivery only the menu is changing weekly.
How many Lou Reed's are we hearing on the radio today? Prince and Michael are dead and all we have left are Great Value imitators. If this strange gap continues and nobody "replaces" these artists, we're still going to have the same shit from 75 years ago on heavy rotation on our stations.
As long as cars exist radio will too.
lightskintwin
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LOL I think you need to listen to more music. LOL @ Great Value imitators. You have no idea what you're talking about.
Terrorblot
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Ugh not this again. Culture is not decaying, you're just old.
Goro Majima
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Once I heard Nirvana on a classic rock station like 5+ years ago, I figured I should find a nice retirement community.
Gonna be weird when they're playing emo music in a few years
Gonna be weird when they're playing emo music in a few years
Yeah. It's like this in Germany for quite some time. Older than 15 years? Oldie.
I'm sure there is a spotify playlist of music from the 00's-10's that you can listen to right now. What a dream come true
AHA-Lambda
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pfft, I've heard oldie stations play 90s stuff for some time now, where you been OP?
teruterubozu
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People are confused between "Classic Radio" and "Oldies Station" in this thread. They're not the same.
blame space
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i don't even know how a radio works
to be fair, I would hear that song in like 1988 and go "this song is old, play something new'
RedNalgene
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I wasn't listening to a classic rock station yesterday and Enter Sandman came on. I immediately felt old.
CarpeDeezNutz
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80s were all the rage in the mid 00s.
PeskyToaster
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I listen to a 60s, 70s, and 80s station cause they play a lot of Motown and you can't get a lot of the songs they play elsewhere on the radio. I wish they did 50s, 60s, and 70s though. I gravitated away from the 80s rock commonly found on classic rock stations to older stuff.
johancruijff
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Davey Cakes
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I'd rather hear 80s on the oldies stations than 90s on the classic rock stations. And, it's better than oldies stations being replaced outright by Top 40 pop stations.
Not that I even listen to the radio anymore.
Not that I even listen to the radio anymore.
JinjoUnchained
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Clever.
This thread makes me think of a Margaret Cho special from the 90s where she was all "can you imagine when we're 80 in the nursing home and say 'turn up the oldies station, it's Hungry Like the Wolf!'"
So I see where OP is coming from; Cho thought they'd still be playing 80s music on the radio in 2040. That's actually when the oldies station will start playing "baby hold me closer in the backseat of your rover..."
Grizzlyjin
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What fucked me up is when Nick at Nite started airing Fresh Prince and Home Improvement.
If you really want to turn to dust, a time adjusted Wonder Years series would take place in 1997. Also, The Wonder Years was showing events that took place about 20 years previous. Almost 30 years have passed since its premiere.
There are kids about to graduate high school that literally don't remember 9/11. They know about it, but they probably don't remember it because they were infants.
If you really want to turn to dust, a time adjusted Wonder Years series would take place in 1997. Also, The Wonder Years was showing events that took place about 20 years previous. Almost 30 years have passed since its premiere.
There are kids about to graduate high school that literally don't remember 9/11. They know about it, but they probably don't remember it because they were infants.
"Donald Trump? The real estate billionaire? Ha! Then who's vice-president? Rockefeller?"
Hey, that's me! My first memory is my third Birthday party so yeah, 9/11 is not in there at all
I know, right? Oldies was the music my parents grew up with. Oldies stations didn't even play disco which was much of the 70s. They played, It's My Party and Please Mr Postman
Teletraan1
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It's going to be weird when they start playing.....wait I don't know any new music.
lightskintwin
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Well old school hip hop is considered 80's, but the older we get and the more years that separate us from that era; I'm starting to see more people include 90's hip-hop under "old school" now
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