Mechanized
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This is why there are 60s, 70s, and other time genre catch all stations. Oldies isn't specific. 60s is. If you just want 60s music listen to a 60s radio station. It's not a difficult concept to grasp.
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Oldies stations are playing 80s music now
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Smiles and Cries
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I remember during the 90s oldies stations playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvFyCGiNWPQ
It's these kind of things that really force you to take a look at your sense of time and how old you are.
I find its easy to just coast along and know in the back of your head that you were born 30 or 30+ years ago, but you don't really connect it to anything so you can feel like, oh I was playing Zelda on SNES not so long ago and that music I liked isn't that old, just a few years ago really.
But then after seeing stuff like this, you realize "ooooooooooh stuff I like is 20 to 30 years old, and I am also getting to hate age"
I can only imagine what a ton of bricks it is when you are like "boy when I was a teen.... 60 years ago!"
I find its easy to just coast along and know in the back of your head that you were born 30 or 30+ years ago, but you don't really connect it to anything so you can feel like, oh I was playing Zelda on SNES not so long ago and that music I liked isn't that old, just a few years ago really.
But then after seeing stuff like this, you realize "ooooooooooh stuff I like is 20 to 30 years old, and I am also getting to hate age"
I can only imagine what a ton of bricks it is when you are like "boy when I was a teen.... 60 years ago!"
CarpeDeezNutz
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I never got how the gold curtains made Obama a Muslim.
Well "how the gold curtains made Obama a Muslim" was a pretty esoteric band back in the 80's but they were ahead of their time for sure.
DeaconKnowledge
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Radio will be even more prominent as the world transitions to driverless vehicles.
Monochromaticx
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Lmao
I have bad news for you. Nick at Night shows Friends and The George Lopez Show these days. The oldest shows they play are Full House and Fresh Prince.
Rend your garments in despair.
TemplaerDude
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The "classic rock" station in Vancouver has been playing everything from the 60s to the 90s for a while now. It's mostly an excuse to play Nickleback (fun fact, they formed in 95).
Oh and by "everything" I mean the same fucking singles you've heard 5 billion times by now. Because Led Zeppelin never did anything other than Stairway to Heaven didn'tyaknow.
Oh and by "everything" I mean the same fucking singles you've heard 5 billion times by now. Because Led Zeppelin never did anything other than Stairway to Heaven didn'tyaknow.
Now that's a scary thought... even more so that I'd still be alive then.
Jay Shadow
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Alternative music has been Classic Rock for a while.
New Wave and whatnot still has blocks on your local alternative station. Just heard 'Ask' by the Smiths the other day.
teruterubozu
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Skiptastic
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I heard Enter Sandman on the "classic rock" station and I damn near cried.
Nope its not the classic rock station. It's the oldies station. The one that slowly phased out the old 50s jams and now plays less and less Beatles.
Into the Light
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K Earth 101 in LA has been playing 80's for years
It's an oldies station that used to play 50's
It's an oldies station that used to play 50's
This was the station I was talking about. The big change happened when they started playing The Eagles and then the Police and now they're totally don't play stuff like Chubby Checker etc.
stuminus3
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Enter Sandman has been on classic rock stations for years.
Classic rock Q107 here in Toronto started playing Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve last year. From 1997. It's barely even rock.
MrCunningham
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This image is perfect, the Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd posters behind Grandpa Simpson only added to the message. They are bands that Homer listened too when he was a teenager that became classic rock when this episode was put into production back in the '90's.
stuminus3
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Homer was in a grunge band in this teenage years.
In an episode that aired in 2008.
MrCunningham
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Well yeah, that's because the Simpson's don't age. Their back stories constantly change to reflect the current time period that they live in. The episode "Homerpalooza" is where that image came, and it was produced in 1996 when Grunge was still a mainstream thing (though this is also when Grunge started to die). The episode itself was about Homer coming to grips with the 'modern' music of the '90s such as grunge and alternative and how he is now out of touch with pop culture. Homer is in his 30's and would have been a teenager in the 1970's for that particular episode.
In the current episodes they depict Homer as being a teenager in the '90s now.
It is pretty funny that Homer was like this n 1996:
But in 2008, his flashbacks to the '90s are like this:
Scary fun fact: When The Simpson's first aired in 1989, I was about the same age as Bart Simpson and would have been born roughly around the same time frame. Now my date of birth is getting closer to Homer Simpson's.
ryutaro's mama
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Bluekaveli
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They always do
styl3s
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Yeah the oldies station here has been playing 80s since the 90s. I can't remember when they started playing 90s but i hear Nirvana and Pearl Jam all the time of the time on the oldies now.
Rhomega Beta
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For years, I had never heard of Grand Funk Railroad outside of the time Homer talked about it.
CarpeDeezNutz
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Lmao did not realize I posted in the wrong thread haha.
MrCunningham
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"for more information on Grand Funk, consult your local library!"
I had no idea who they were either before I saw that episode.
Darklor01
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Lol, here in New York, they've been doing this since the 2000s.
WaffleTaco
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I think we will mostly be using our phone for music then in the far future.
I got Apple Music and it just isn't the same.
Hmm i don't know
stuminus3
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Yeah, depends on what you want to consider "oldies". Is it just old music or a genre?
Classic rock has always played music from the 80's.
stuminus3
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You weren't even born when 39/Smooth smooth came out. You have no idea how that makes me feel.
friskykillface
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Hall & Oates will dominate the oldies stations now B^)
sf2fanatic
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You must be listening to K-EARTH 101 like Ryutaro said
They play 80's on that station now. I feel old
One Eyed Willy
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This has been a thing for at least 5 years. KEARTH 101 in the LA area has been nothing but oldies from the 50/60s until 5 years ago. Its 90% 80s New Wave now. KEARTH is maybe the quintessential oldies station as far as LA culture has ever been considered. Also, they played Ace of Base this week.. so they're already bridging into 90s music as "oldies" now.
Welcome to being old. Start setting goals, next thing you know you'll be 50. *blink*
Welcome to being old. Start setting goals, next thing you know you'll be 50. *blink*
MrCunningham
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RumblingRosco
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Hasn't that been the case for a few years now?
Different than the oldies station.
Norris1020
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I wish my area still had an oldies station 
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