Members Alex W Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 I was driving home today and I turned on the local classic rock station. Songs from when I was a teenager came on back to back. Smells Like Teen Spirit and Today by Smashing Pumpkins. It's official, I'm old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Norcal_GIT_r Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 You're kidding..Right?This must make me ancient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members satman Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 damn near every song on classic rock are from my teens, try 44 man.no viagra for me yet,lol ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members diddybow Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 I don't hear too many Elvis tunes on the radio any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members photon9 Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 Agreed. That is so weird. I thought classic rock was from the 60s and 70s. Now they are oldies. So what do we call 50s music now? Golden oldies? I have no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vintage clubber Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 You're kidding..Right?This must make me ancient. me too! I posted something like this on facebook recently: Each generation has their music that annoys their parents. I annoyed my parents with KISS & Ted Nugent. The kids these days annoy me with heavy metal music with cookie monster vocals. I live metal, but put a front man out there who can actually sing versus grunting like the cookie monster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JesusCrisp Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 When you realise that everybody goes Axe-FX instead of good old tube amps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 I've been old for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Help!I'maRock! Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 every so often, radio stations have to change format and beat a whole new set of 100 songs into the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 every so often, radio stations have to change format and beat a whole new set of 100 songs into the ground. Stairway anyone? :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Help!I'maRock! Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 Stairway anyone? :poke: try all of classic rock radio. these days, if i do actually listen to the radio its NPR. at least they have to talk about something new every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cross.bones Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 I've been feeling exactly the same thing recently. Well it was BBC Radio 2 not a classic rock station but nonetheless a similar thing. What was quite funny was the new Foo Fighters record was on Radio 2 before Radio 1. Radio 1 is always bragging about the newest music they can play. Its all utter {censored} the majority of the time too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 It always amazes me that radio stations take these artists who have been around for thirty years, have a dozen records much of which is very good and they distill it down into two or three radio songs and play them to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Woody_in_MN Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 I think "Classic Rock Radio" is a relative term. My Classic Rock station plays zero Smashing Pumpkins. I actually find I am listening less and less to my Classic Rock station. If I hear one more Steve Miller Band "hit" I'm going to hurl. And I like Steve Miller - just heard the same stuff to many times. - w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Poker99 Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 I was driving home today and I turned on the local classic rock station. Songs from when I was a teenager came on back to back. Smells Like Teen Spirit and Today by Smashing Pumpkins. It's official, I'm old. Blaaahh... People feel old once they hit 22 these days. Emo's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faber Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 yeah and apparently 80s clothes are "retro" cool now. Also, the highschool students I help here are all born after the Wall fell - it ancient history to them. Yeah I feel old Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelSaulnier Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 The term "classic rock" is an invention by radio marketers to describe the "hit" music their largest demographic... baby boomer's grew up on. Its static nature is a calculated attempt to "give them what they want"... although they forget about "familiarity breeds contempt". If I were designing a "classic rock" station I would actually care to listen to... it would be more along the lines of satellite radio's version where they don't overplay a small group of "hits", they find lots of "alternative" album cuts from great bands, and really "mix it up" with thousands and thousands of tracks. As a teen, I grew up with a radio station that had one rule for the top 40 hits of the day. Do not play them. It was OK to play another track from that record, but once a track was played, it could NOT be replayed for 30 days. As you can guess, this was a fountain of great and ever changing music, that exposed me to many new artists, and way more material of artists who's albums I didn't own. Sadly, they didn't really make much MONEY with this format, and I learned shortly after I moved away from that area, the station was purchased by another firm and changed its format to the "classic rock" we know today. Sad really. Oh yeah... I'm old. M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Floritar Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 Classic rock is not denoting a time frame of the 60'.70'80's. 90's and very soon to be first decade, the millennium. It is just to denote classic as in the type, like basic classic clothing. Of course Smashing pumpkins, Today and a song like Smells like teen spirit areclassics. Smells like teen spirit is on every best song or best guitar song list anywere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LesPaulCustom79 Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 You know you are old, because you saw Duane ripping it on slide with the Allman Brothers Band at the Atlanta International Pop Festival in 1970 and you saw Led Zeppelin at the 1st Atlanta Pop Festival in 1969. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueHeaven Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 I absolutely positively HATE the classic rock station in Philly. It's is just pitifull. They play the same 50 or so songs day in and day out. They have over 30+ years of music to choose from and play, but they don't dare play anything other than same old super pop songs. Same deal with the Oldies station. They have no freakin' balls. I'd say if your classic rock station actually mixes it up like that, you're lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ComOp Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 You know you are old when your children tell you that you don't get their music. Because you really don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alfsboy Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 Classic Rock stations are Gods way of telling you to prepare ............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goosefartfan Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 You know you are old, because you saw Duane ripping it on slide with the Allman Brothers Band at the Atlanta International Pop Festival in 1970 and you saw Led Zeppelin at the 1st Atlanta Pop Festival in 1969. Did you see Billy Joe South warming up for the Allman Bros. at Piedmont park (I think it was '70). and then the amazing A.B. band after them? Now that I'm ancient, I remember when I was a kid and Frank Sinatra would come on the radio in my parents car. I remember thinking "who would want to listen to horrible crap like this? Why is this on the radio?" Now I know the answer.....old geysers like me:cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members monto Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 It's official, I'm old. ur ugly too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flummox Posted November 5, 2009 Members Share Posted November 5, 2009 I won't say I'm old, but the clothes I wore at 18 are coming back in style - for the third time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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