Oldies

[msmemory_archive]

I have no problem with the oldies station playing "California Dreamin'," but I find it really disturbing that they think "Hotel California" is an oldie.

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[rufinia.livejournal.com]

I heard "867-5309" on the Oldies station in Minneapolis last weekend.

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

Well, it's over 30 years old (HC). I have no idea what would be a sensible cut-off date. Oldies to me will probably always mean stuff from the 1950s.

[kimberlycreates.livejournal.com]

I consider the 50s to be "oldies" and the 60s and 70s to be "classic" rock -- probably mostly because that's what was playing on the stations that called themselves the oldies and classic rock stations. It's still disturbing when I hear stuff from the 80s (when I was in high school) played as classic rock though.

[hfcougar.livejournal.com]

My coworkers mocked me when I gasped in horror at hearing The Romantics' "What I Like About You" on an oldies station. The nerve!

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

The historic costume list decided some 6 years back that the 1970s was aged enough to count as "historic."

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

That might just be for the "those who don't recall history are doomed to repeat it" angle. :P

Just PLEASE PLEASE

[ramblingmom.livejournal.com]

OKAY PEOPLE. I'm assuming that most (if not all) of you are friends of Jane and I'll cut you some slack BUT

Using "70s"
"historical costuming" and
"repeating history"

Re: Just PLEASE PLEASE

[ramblingmom.livejournal.com]

sorry -- "sent" too soon ...

I mean, I'm allergic to polyester.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Hon, ANYTHING from the 80s is an oldie.

All that "revolutionary music to piss off our parents" stuff? We are all of an age to be parents now, even of teen agers.

We are the establishment. We are old. We are over the hill. We are the problem. And our music is BORING.

I like the Dresden Dolls, White Stripes, Fountains of Wayne and so forth. :-)

Nirvana is old stuff.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

pppthhhbbttt! I know, I'm old enough to be a grandmother. (If I'd had a child when I was evilnicola's age, she'd be evilnicola's age by now.)

My taste tends to run more toward Guster, though.

[lisagw.livejournal.com]

A girl in my sophomore (high school) English class this year has a mother that is a whole four days older than me. I nearly choked when I found that out.

Of course, one of the other girls in the class had a father the same age as mine, so that tempered it a small amount.

[be-well-lowell.livejournal.com]

What is an appropriate lower limit on the age of a song to be called an "oldie?"

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Good question! At least released before I entered high school, I think.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Of course, that answer can't work, because it's static. The definition is, of necessity, dynamic.

I think it was Mary Radich (Mistress Aravis Del Clare) who, long ago, pointed out that when our generation is ready for the nursing home, the muzak will be Ozzy and Jimi Hendrix. To a certain extent, it already is....

--- Steve
who's old enough to remember when Fats Domino was the hot new thing and
"oldies" meant Rosemary Clooney and Mel Torme.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll throw out this as a possible criterion: acts aren't eligible for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame until 25 years after their first release.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

I'm wilfully ignoring the 25-year criterion, since Hotel California was released in 1976!

Point well taken on the Muzak. I'll be listening to AC/DC, James Taylor, Led Zeppelin, and the Beatles in that nursing home.

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

AC/DC? I wouldn't have picked you as an AC/DC fan. Cool!

"Wanna tell you a story
'Bout a woman I know
When it comes to lovin'
Oh she steals the show..."

Flat-out rock 'n roll just doesn't get better than that....

[jducoeur]

Partly my fault, I think -- I've got nearly every AC/DC album...

[johno.livejournal.com]

A few months back, was was flipping channels and came across a Rod Stewart song and spent the next 2 minutes rocking out to it.

The song ended and the announcer came on with the station ID. It wasn't just the oldies station, but the area's moldy oldies station.

"Wait, wait. That was Rod f***ing Stewart. That's not a moldy oldie. It was popular when I was in High School. .... Oh wait, that was nearly {choke, sob} 30 years ago now...."

[kimberlycreates.livejournal.com]

I'm almost willing to consider Hotel California an oldie, because that was on the radio when I was in the 5th and 6th grade. It's when they play the stuff that was popular in high school as an oldie that I start to worry. And then I start to do the math and realize that's it's been almost a quarter century since my freshman year. Oh god...

[tomspisak.livejournal.com]

since the Hotel California is now part of the Cal State system (Cal State University Channel Islands or CSUCI, pronounced either CEE-SUCKEE or SHUSHI depending), unfortunately the song is now out of date and would qualify;
many of the buildings date from the campus's days as a mental hospital; wandering campus during the local Jewish festival can be very strange indeed

[rosinavs.livejournal.com]

Funny - Hotel California was my first earworm of the morning. IMO, it is an oldie, because I was too young to remember it coming out (I was four). And by the way, I'm old enough to be a grandmother too, if I had a kid at the same age my best friend's mother had her and said kid did the same.

[peregrinning.livejournal.com]

The first time I was disturbed about something being labeled an "oldie" was for Ghostbusters.
... that was fifteen years ago.

We have no power over people who deal with pop music all the time. I get the feeling, if they haven't played it in 10 years, it becomes an oldie.

[artisticphoenix.livejournal.com]

Let's face it. We are in the age of geezer rock and just have to come to terms with it. :-)