Well, you have to go after the all important 18-34 male demographic.

Asshat marketers.

w00t! im in the 18-34 male demographic! i can control the world!

um, yeah, that's why they call them oldies.

ouch.

that's the music of my childhood.

so what's the music of the 50's called now?
oldie-oldies?

I am in the baby boomers, we currently control the world
but I must admit, I prefer current music

I predicted this years ago.

I cant wait for death metal to be known as "Easy listenins'"

spakster they call those oldie goldies or golden oldies. I guess they use the same format as comics, golden age, silver age, etc...

I'm 36 but have been listening to 70s for a long while. I actually haven't listened to current "pop" radio in 4 or 5 years. While changing cd changers, I'll hit a station and be like, what? When did they start playing this? Stations change formats like clothes.

I can picture my self shuffling around the dance floor to Deep Purple's "Highway Star" when I'm in assisted living.

"I'm a white male , age 18-49.Everyone listens to my ideas, no matter how dumb they are."


.....Nuts&Gum.

I knew my day in the sun was over when the local high school had an '80s day. God help me.

I'm with Wil on the pants and hat thing. Sheesh.

So they will stop playing Franky Valley and the Four Seasons?

Rock on, oldies stations.

I, for one, welcome our recycled Bee Gee overlords.

The 70's is the first decade that has become retro that I remember the first time around. For some reason, everyone thinks that all 70's were about was bell bottoms and disco, thanks to shiatty "I Love The 70's" type specials on VH-1!
No one wants to take a realistic look at what that crappy decade was really all about! For example;

*The left-over 60's drugheads who got into much harder stuff than smoking pot and ending up ODing!

*Richard Nixon (self explanitory)and the whole Watergate fiasco that resulted in no one ever viewing the office of President of the United States with the same level of respect ever again! (of course, George W isn't doing much to help repair that, either!)

*Inflation, the gas crisis, air pollution, Kent State, the last years of Vietnam....

*Ugly-ass farking clothes! (yea, you trendy youngsters think it's cool to slap on your bell bottoms when you get a whim, but having to wear those godawful things every day because that's all there was absolutely sucked! To this day I only buy tapered leg jeans because I was so traumatized by bell bottoms! And just to let you know, people who wear them today look just as ridiculous as they did back then!)

*With some exceptions, a lot of the music in the 70's sucked ass, too! There were some great groups that were around in the early 70's, such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, FZ, and others, but you had to look to find them. Disco was the biggest abomination to music that ever came down the pike! When it started out as funk in the early 70's, it was cool...then the European producers turned it into mainstream disco and the vomiting began! Oh, and regarding the "Punk" movement that supposedly saved music...at the time it was happening, NO ONE listened to it! Sure, there were lots of articles about it in Cream and Rolling Stone, but unless you lived in NYC, no one listened to it! Punk never really got off the ground..it was more influential after it was dead and gone, not while it was happening!

I do have some fun memories of the 70's, but the clueless trendiness of a decade that wasn't all that great is a drag!

70s music > 60s music > 50s music
I can't complain.

The problem with most of the oldies/classic rock stations is that they only play the stuff that was a hit back in it's day, so you hear the same crap over and over. Here in Indy on 101.9 they have the pop and scratch show where they go back and find stuff that was good but never made it on the charts.

In fifty years well all be in some senior citizens center going, "Oh, put on Hungry Like The Wolf again!

-Margaret Cho

Hearing stupid seventies music makes me want to drill out my eardrums, especially the top 40/pop drivel.

The only good thing to come out of the seventies is Steely Dan!

Fark the rest!!!

I knew my day in the sun was over when the local high school had an '80s day. God help me.

Finally my clothes are back in style!

The times, they are a changin. . .

And would you put your farking hat on straight and buy some pants that fit? You look like a jackass.

Christ Wil, you sound like an adult back in the late 70's, look at the crap we wore back then. And don't get me started on that whole Michael Jackson parachute pants look in the 80's.

We all have our fashion skeletons in the closet.

heh

Still waiting for butt rock to go the way of the dinosaur...

You know you're in trouble when the local rock station hasn't changed it's play list in 15 years. If it wasn't for a local indie station, I'd hang up rock for good.

2003-11-01 12:30:09 PM optikeye

If oldies rock stations ever play a side of a Zappa album them we can talk.

I just have one Zappa album, Strictly Commercial, you know, one of those best-of albums. No, I don't claim to be an expert or anything. I like the more rock-oriented songs, San Ber'dino, My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama, Trouble Every Day, and the sort of rock-oriented songs, Dirty Love, Dancin' Fool, Peaches en Regalia... but I hate some of the songs, the slower/jazzier ones and the ones with the very childish lyrics... Don't Eat the Yellow Snow, Disco Boy, Cosmic Debris... I'll tolerate Valley Girl and Let's Make The Water Turn Black because they're sort of catchy but I'm embarassed that I like Let's Make The Water Turn Black.

Does he have a lot of rockin' songs? If so, what are they/what albums can they be found on?

Steely Dan is good, but how about Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Jethro Tull? Of course, they won't play these groups, though. They rarely play them on our local classic rock stations (we have two: one owned by clear channel, one not. Take one guess at which is better).

I'm sorry, but if a radio station says they're playing 'oldies', they better be playing stuff from the late 40's through the early 60's. After that, the music is named for the decade. 70's music can't be called oldies, because it already has a name -- '70's music'!

"You know you're getting old when the little subtle things hit you, like when you're driving along and hear something like this on the radio: 'That was an oldie from The Clash.' NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
-Dana Gould

People still listen to the radio? On purpose?

elchip, "Joe's Garage" (all acts) is pretty rockin' IMO. Plus it's timelessly funny.

What fzumrk said.

Even though oldies are way before my time, I recognize every tunes because they play the same farking song rotation on the radio, in the elevator, at the mall, and when you're passing by some old fart's cubicle.

I graduated HS in 1978. I was kind of hoping I could forget the entire decade, polyester leisure suits and all.

Yes, 70s disco sucked. But remember that there's pretty much no difference between 70s disco and modern rap.

Both considered themselves artists when the stuff is popular.

And with any luck, rap will die a similar death.

It sure would be interesting seeing old timers in retirement homes listening to Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir and such 50 years from now.

InternetSecurityGuard

I graduated in '79. You should have seen my dark blue polyester big belled wide lapel back ribbed graduation suit.

elchip
Zappa has all kinds of great stuff. I think my personal must have list would be:
Apostrophe/Overnight Sensation (although I think you have to buy this as two seperate albums now, also Apostrophe has don't eat the yellow snow on it, but even if you don't like that alot of the other tracks a quite a bit different)
One Size Fits All
Hot Rats
Wakka/Jawakka
The Grand Wazoo

I'm echoing some sentiments here when I say my oldies would be Gang of Four,The Buzzcocks,The Mekons,Joy Division and Ultravox.I would listen to that station.

2003-11-01 12:24:44 PM wil
And if I could just biatch about those damn kids today for a moment: when you put on the "flashback" hour, 1995 is NOT A farkING FLASHBACK, GODAMMIT! And would you put your farking hat on straight and buy some pants that fit? You look like a jackass.

See, that's why I love my local (not-Clear-Channel) modern rock station. They play stuff from 1995 (and before!) in their regular lineup. Their "flashback" hour is '80s stuff.

In fact, they have a certain amount of overlap with my local (also-not-Clear-Channel) classic rock station, which plays rock fromn the '60's, '70's, '80's, and even early '90's (it's the only station I've ever listened to where Jimi Hendrix was immediately followed by Nirvana).

And both of them take requests.

Dear "Bob", I may hate my shiathole town, but I love the local radio.

And BTW, I don't wear a hat and I wear pants that fit (a bit loose for comfort, but not baggy).

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire

2003-11-01 12:49:01 PM TappingTheVein

It sure would be interesting seeing old timers in retirement homes listening to Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir and such 50 years from now.

Yeah, but I doubt there will be many of them, since there aren't that many fans of those bands now. Not that that's bad; I'm just saying, how many 40 and 50somethings do you hear listening to The Fugs?

My local "Classic Rock" station is '70s and '80s mostly, but they also occasionally play The Tragically Hip. For some reason, they're "classic."

As for oldies, we have an AM oldies station which plays actual oldies.

elchip
2003-11-01 12:30:09 PM optikeye
If oldies rock stations ever play a side of a Zappa album them we can talk.
I just have one Zappa album, Strictly Commercial, you know, one of those best-of albums. No, I don't claim to be an expert or anything. I like the more rock-oriented songs, San Ber'dino, My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama, Trouble Every Day, and the sort of rock-oriented songs, Dirty Love, Dancin' Fool, Peaches en Regalia... but I hate some of the songs, the slower/jazzier ones and the ones with the very childish lyrics... Don't Eat the Yellow Snow, Disco Boy, Cosmic Debris... I'll tolerate Valley Girl and Let's Make The Water Turn Black because they're sort of catchy but I'm embarassed that I like Let's Make The Water Turn Black.

Does he have a lot of rockin' songs? If so, what are they/what albums can they be found on?
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A few suggestions about what to purchase on Zappa;

*Either the "Shut Up And Play Your Guitar" set or the "Guitar" two CD set. They are nothing but edited guitar solos, and they are great. One thing FZ has never really gotten his props for was his guitar playing. I saw the man live in 1980 and the guitar solos are the part I remember the most about the concert!

*One Size Fits All-the original home of San Berdino...other great ones on there, too!

*Sheik Yerbouti...his biggest commercial success as far as an LP goes

*You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore...look for the volume that says "The Helsinki Concert". It's the 74 band, the same one that did the One Size Fits All Lp. Also, disc two of YCDTOSA Volume five featuring the '82 band is good, too.

Some of my fondest memories of the 70's involve listening to Frank Zappa albums!

BTW, Disco never died, it's called "Dance Music" or even "Trance" now.

So to all you Clubbers and Ravers, Disco Owns You.

dewars-rocks - Leisure suits are like a lot of things. They seemed like a good idea the time.