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OH MY GOD I’M OLD
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What is the accepted year range for classic rock now?
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“Classic”. Not to bag on Weezer at all, they’re good, this is the same crap as Van Halen entering “classic” around 2000. About the same ~15 year lag sort of thing where “classic” really just means “okay, we admit it, these songs aren’t modern anymore”.
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2001
![]() 02/04/2016 at 11:38 |
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Blue album will be 22 in May.
My brother color matched his bedroom’s walls to that CD.
I remember staying up to watch them on Letterman in 94 when the album launched.
![]() 02/04/2016 at 11:38 |
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A while back, Everclear’s Father of Mine came on the local alternative station. Not being in the mood, I switched over to the classic rock station. What was playing? Everclear’s Father of Mine .
![]() 02/04/2016 at 11:40 |
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Say it ain’t so!
![]() 02/04/2016 at 11:41 |
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Buddy Holly? It had to be Buddy Holly.
Oo-ee-oo I look just like Buddy Holly
Oh-oh, and you’re Mary Tyler Moore
![]() 02/04/2016 at 11:45 |
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NOOO!
“Classic Rock” to me is a finite genre based on the time FROM the origins of rock and blues (Call it Bill Halley or Chuck Berry).
It’s a point in the evolution of rock, not a moving target based on where we are today.
Weezer is not — and should never be — classic rock. It was too far down the evolutionary chain to even be considered that.
That is all.
![]() 02/04/2016 at 11:47 |
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I dislike this. Classic rock stations keep changing their playlist, and phasing out older songs. This makes terms like “classic” and “oldies” confusing. Just dedicate the station to a particular decade and be done with it.
![]() 02/04/2016 at 11:48 |
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My local classic rock station played Chuck Berry and Alice in Chains back to back last weekend. I still don’t know what to make of it.
![]() 02/04/2016 at 11:52 |
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“Say it ain’t so”
Yeah, it does make you feel old, doesn't it? Still can't get over hearing Micheal Jackson or Madonna on the oldies station, and those artists are far older.
![]() 02/04/2016 at 11:56 |
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so, Linkin Park Hybrid Theory would classify?
![]() 02/04/2016 at 11:57 |
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In Mexico, they sell a VW Jetta trim called Clasico.
Also, remember the Caprice Classic and Malibu Classic. WTFBBQ?
![]() 02/04/2016 at 11:58 |
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You take your car to work, I'll take my board
![]() 02/04/2016 at 12:01 |
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Hasn’t the radio format always been a moving target time frame though? I distinctly remember calling up and requesting something from Queen’s “The Game” (probably ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’) back in 91 or 92 and being told it was too new. A couple years later that was in regular rotation without much hemming and hawing.
![]() 02/04/2016 at 12:01 |
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Even something brand new can be classic, by definition.
But “Classic Rock” is a genre, not a moving target.
![]() 02/04/2016 at 12:03 |
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I think it’s funny when two stations play the same song at the same time. Even better to switch between the two stations repeatedly during the song :p
![]() 02/04/2016 at 12:05 |
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True, I remember they played rock and Roll Train by AC/DC back in 08? It was a brand new song like you said
![]() 02/04/2016 at 12:09 |
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It was always odd hearing STYX- Come Sail Away right after Ozzy- Bark at the Moon. Hell, hearing Stevie Nicks- Landslide right after Iron Maiden- The Trooper lol :]
![]() 02/04/2016 at 12:44 |
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I also get confused when Paranoid Android from Radiohead plays right after Clapton. I’m old now.
![]() 02/04/2016 at 13:00 |
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So would anything off of Sum 41's All Killer No Filler.
![]() 02/04/2016 at 13:01 |
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dayum
![]() 09/13/2017 at 14:57 |
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And you’re even older now!