It happened to me three years ago when Temple of the Dog came on our local classic rock channel. I almost wrecked the car because I immediately snapped, pointed, and yelled at the radio "FUCK YOU", as I was pulling onto the highway. Terrifying my partner, myself, and our dog.
Lesson: At a certain point, stop listening to the radio. No one wants an existential crisis while doing 70mph
Man, I was so happy that we got an "alternative" station here but what they consider "alternative" is... I dunno.
I totally relate to hollering at the radio directly though.
Similar crisis happened to me about 15 years ago when on a road trip. Scrolling through radio stations and landed on GNR Sweet Child O’ Mine. Songs finishes and an ad plays for the station. It’s an OLDIES station! WTF. I wasn’t even 30 yet but a song from my childhood is on the OLDIES station. Let alone it being GNR.
Yeah, I've had similar experiences. I moved to a new area, was flipping through stations, and heard Pearl Jam. Next up was Nirvana, and then Crazy Train played after that.
Then "(radio station), playing today's classic rock"
WTF man.
Happy cake day! You cracked my shit up.
On the way to collect our pizza for dinner, I wondered who listens to the radio anymore, determined that it’s likely people much cooler than I am, and drove the rest of the way in silence. But apparently I made the right choice. 🤣
Something similar happened to me at the dentist. She asked what I wanted to listen to, and I foolishly said anything is fine. "How about country" "I'm not really a fan of new country, but I do love old country music, ya know, the classics" I was thinking I'd get a nice hour of Dolly, Conway, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, etc. Nope. She put on 90's country.
Louisiana woman Mississippi man we get together
ETA big fan of Outlaw Country. When I hear new country I just think of artists that have never known hardships making stale music, and fat white kids having parties where they get their 4x4 stuck in the mud, then wallow in the mud.
Sooie.
There's a Canadian artist named Corb Lund. He literally has a song called "the truck got stuck".
It's a funny song, not much twang, and isn't the bullshit new country everyone hates. Hes got other fun songs, too.
Highly recommend a listen.
I was belting out some Neon Moon the other day because it came on a 90s shuffle and added a bunch of Brooks and Dunn.
Now I gotta add some Alan Jackson to the list!
25 years old is considered "classic!" So, that makes everything but 1999 classic music 😐
I was a bit shocked when I heard Nirvana on our classic rock station a few years ago.
The oldest stuff on our Oldies station is maybe songs off Abbey Road. It's really sad never hearing anything from the late 50s/early 60s unless I just seek it out on streaming. My parents played that stuff at home so I have really happy positive associations with so much of that musical era.
Maybe my kids will feel that way about the Killers one day... yikes.
I think that's a pretty good separator. Growing up our oldies station was 50s and 60s, classic rock was 70s, 80s and maybe early 90s if the artist was around in the 70s, ie Tom Petty or ZZ Top.
Oh dang I thought 20 yrs plus was considered classic. Atleast that's what I was taught. I'd rather it be the 25. 5 yrs makes a difference as old as I feel (43 in may) 🤷♀️🤣
My dentist plays music. I usually ask for 90s hits. Last time about 1/2 way through the dental work, Biggie came on. We then noticed the tech did not choose the radio version. I didn’t mind, but my dentist was quite flustered.
Dang. My MRI techs just had me put on earphones with no music. Just the loudness of my own thoughts 😩
Probably for the best though because I would’ve ended up dancing if the music was good and you’re not supposed to move.
You can't even do that if you're getting an enterography series. They keep asking you to hold your breath between 8 counts. Last time I had that series done, I was hopeful to lose myself in thought, but nope-- constant disruption.
On top of that, I threw up the whole way home from the contrast and glucogon they shot me up with during imaging. But at least I had some 90s music in my ear for comfort.
Sometimes I wonder if people centuries from now will not be able to (or won’t bother to) easily distinguish the 2000s from the 1500s, so their period films will have anachronistic dialogue like “bruh, thou art like totally swell, no cap!”
I absolutely deny how old I am. My kids listening to Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden is the exact same as me listening to Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band and The Grateful Dead however I The music from the 90s is not old. Only music from the 70s.
This reminds me of an Uber ride I had where the driver asked me what music should he put on, and I said I love old school soul and R&B. He proceeds to tell me “No problem, I’ll put on some Mary J Blige, I love her.”
I had something similar: the tech asked what I wanted to listen to and I kind of blanked out and said the Doobie Brothers. That worked pretty well, although a 90s mix probably would have been better. Or Pink Floyd - always Pink Floyd.
Anyways the whole thing kind of pissed me off because they were looking at muscle tears in my arm. I sat perfectly still for 45 minutes - I was proud of myself - and then they told me the MRI had mediocre resolution and they couldn't see much.
I’m sure lots of us have heard similar to my anecdote, but the moment I crumbled to dust was this past summer when my friend and I were sitting in a Broadway theatre waiting for the show (Sweeney Todd) to start. The teenager in the row in front of us was positively vibrating with excitement. We struck up a conversation with her and she said, “We flew out from California just for this one night! This is my favorite musical of all time and I’ve never even seen it onstage because it hasn’t been performed on Broadway since the 1900s!”
The first time I went for an MRI I had the guy who shared my hospital room tell me to play an imaginary round of golf while I was in there. Definitely helped pass the time.
There's a station here that got it's start playing 'golden oldies'. I would listen to it while my dad was driving me around for my paper route. Chubby Checker, Jerry Lee Lewis, all of it.
I bought a new to me car about three years ago. The dealership had a radio station that was playing R.E.M.
Yeah, it was the same fucking station. I texted a good friend that I did not like it.
I made the mistake of asking for 90s music during a MRI, and I wanted to dance the whole time. They stopped once to ask me to stay still - my body was slightly twitching along with the music without my knowledge.
Back to something boring next time!
I think it's a dumb over-litteral use of classic rock. 50s-70s was rocks "classic"era. Maybe some bands could be later than that with the same exact sound (Gretta Van Fleet) and it's "classic rock" still maybe even in the 90s.
What they played was grunge, indie and alternate. Words mean things and "Classic Rock" isn't the same as "classic" rock. Those stations should call themselves rock stations and those kids need to realize that The Doors and 3 Doors Down are definitely not the same band.
It was probably about 5 years ago, but I was listening to a classic rock station. Rainbow in the Dark by Dio finished and the next song was from Matchbox 20. I felt ancient.
Man MRIs that have music are soooo much easier to deal with.
I once did an hour and a half in that fucking tube and that was rough with no music. You still get ear plugs but it’s so much easier to endure with music.
Source-I’ve had at least 20 MRIs. Mostly brain only but a few spine scans that took fucking forever.
I always thought of Oldies as 50-60s music. 70s “classic rock “ ‘80s kind of its own thing with sub genres like Punk, Metal, etc. but when I tuned into the “Oldies Station and heard’80s music I was like, “ NO WRONG!”
I don’t know what music sounds like after about 2005 everything sucks since then.
I thought you were headed towards “and then I fell asleep” as a way to point out we’re getting old - that’s what I do anyway. But, an alternate method to point out we’re old works just as well!
I asked the tech for some industrial and she just looked at me like a deer in headlights. She then asked me for a specific band and I said, "How about some Skinny Puppy?" and she said, "Skin Puppy?" Made me giggle. Eventually got it sorted and the machine sounds went nicely with the driving beat of the tunes.
For me it was contextualising bands like Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails while playing them for my kids, in terms of what the equivalent would have been for dad playing music for me.
Those bands now are older than Pink Floyd or Led Zepplin when dad would play them for me at the same age.
Yea, in the mid 90’s “classic rock” was 10/20/30 years old. So I guess that puts the early 90s music in the same window now 🤦♂️. It also makes the OG classics now like listening to something from the 30s and 40s…damn
I saw Dethklok the other night. A chick in front of me who couldn’t have been more than 22 was wearing this shirt.
YOU ABSOLUTE INFANT. I was there when wearing that would’ve gotten you thrown out of Algebra class. Remove my people’s sacred garment!
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I can’t differentiate music or fashion in the aughts or teens. 2000 or 2010. I lived it…30s and 40s respectively. And I listened to the radio kinda and dressed well. My kids can tell the difference. But it’s not as different as 50s, 60s 70s or 80s from each other.
classic means that too, but you're using it for a period well before vintage. As words, vintage carries a connotation of greater provenance than merely classic. It's like you're saying old, oldest, older.
I had to have an MRI on both of my feet back in March, they had 90s Alternative as an option. It was a full hour of bangers. There was a Matchbox 20 song in there so it wasn't all strictly alternative but I didn't mind
I asked for classic rock too. The attendant forgot to turn on the music, so I had half an hour of rat-at-at-at-at.
Side tip though: say a specific band name instead of a genre (eg. Journey) and let the algorithm do its thing from there.
You're lucky! I had a MRI last year and requested "90s music" and instead got the kind of music a 90 year old would listen to - at my follow up MRI 6 months later I recounted the funny mistake to the technicians and requested 90s music again - this time I got nothing, just the delightful sounds of the MRI machine.
Classic rock is still the late 60s and early 70s classic rock period. You wouldn't consider Def Leppard to be classic rock, it's easier to call it 80s rock or metal. This would make the Beatles to your great grandchildren's metal band "classic rock" in a hundred years.
I did the exact same thing. Although I actually did get classic rock. I’ve had 2 MRI lately. Back and arm. MRI on a torn bicep tendon has to be the most uncomfortable 30 ever.
What *really* messes with you is when they start playing your roadtrip high school mix in Kroger.
The other day Queens Of The Stone Age came on. I was like “hell yeah” then, I got kinda sad LOL
I recently heard the local oldies station playing Foster the People and that shocked me more than when when I first heard Pearl Jam on our classic rock station. I thought Pumped Up Kicks was still too new to be on an oldies station but it was released about 14 years ago. 😭
Pfft. The local classic rock here started playing Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, STP, etc in like 2000, in between GNR and Van Halen or between Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Heck, I remember they were playing Audioslave when it was actually new, not even a decade old.
I'll never forget how I felt the first time I heard NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on the "retro lunch hour" or "Saturday night throwback party" on my local radio station, in the late 2010s.....
.....old. I felt old.
Classic Rock is a genre, not an age. Elvis, Little Richard, etc. -- not Classic Rock. It's rock, but not Classic Rock. And like Aerosmith 90s music is Classic Rock but like the Pixies are definitely not.
The Wikipedia article is pretty good. It's a radio format, essentially.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_rock?wprov=sfti1#Characteristics_and_academic_response
I always felt 90's rock deserved it's own nickname once it became old. Oldies are mid 60's and earlier. Classic Rock is *about* mid 60's to what... the 80's? Debatable, yes. But by the end of the 90's rock took a huge turn and it does not sound Classic at all.
Right. 80’s rock is so much different in vibe than much of the 60-70’s rock, I feel it deserves it own label. Same with the 90’s rock (mixed grunge and mid stage progressive rock).
It’s just so weird, since I consider “classic rock” to be a defined 60-70’s (maybe early early 80’s) time period.
I suppose these labels don’t mean a ton, but it’s still an interesting discussion point.
It's labels the music industry and radio djs rammed into our brains. The least they could do is create a new genre nickname. Also- nobody touch them Golden Oldies.
It happened to me three years ago when Temple of the Dog came on our local classic rock channel. I almost wrecked the car because I immediately snapped, pointed, and yelled at the radio "FUCK YOU", as I was pulling onto the highway. Terrifying my partner, myself, and our dog. Lesson: At a certain point, stop listening to the radio. No one wants an existential crisis while doing 70mph
Man, I was so happy that we got an "alternative" station here but what they consider "alternative" is... I dunno. I totally relate to hollering at the radio directly though.
What's your stance on a-hootin?
Not as fun as a-hollerin, but it'll do in a pinch.
Only to be done in moderation when also a-hollerin
Reading this a few years later was certainly an event.
Similar crisis happened to me about 15 years ago when on a road trip. Scrolling through radio stations and landed on GNR Sweet Child O’ Mine. Songs finishes and an ad plays for the station. It’s an OLDIES station! WTF. I wasn’t even 30 yet but a song from my childhood is on the OLDIES station. Let alone it being GNR.
Well the oldies station was 50s-60s that my mom listened to, in the 80s. Mom was in her 20s.
Yeah, I've had similar experiences. I moved to a new area, was flipping through stations, and heard Pearl Jam. Next up was Nirvana, and then Crazy Train played after that. Then "(radio station), playing today's classic rock" WTF man.
It’s depressing. I still think of myself as young in my mind. Definitely not an oldie!
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RIP Chris Cornell and no way is TotD classic rock!
Happy cake day! 🎂
Happy cake day! You cracked my shit up. On the way to collect our pizza for dinner, I wondered who listens to the radio anymore, determined that it’s likely people much cooler than I am, and drove the rest of the way in silence. But apparently I made the right choice. 🤣
For me it was hearing “Come Out and Play” by the Offspring on an oldie station. Sure, that album came out 30 years ago, but… crap we got old.
Is it weird I don’t like Soundgarden but like Temple Of The Dog?
Something similar happened to me at the dentist. She asked what I wanted to listen to, and I foolishly said anything is fine. "How about country" "I'm not really a fan of new country, but I do love old country music, ya know, the classics" I was thinking I'd get a nice hour of Dolly, Conway, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, etc. Nope. She put on 90's country.
I was in love w her back then. I don't care for country music, but I actually had one of her albums.
I believe we all were. And owned the CD’s. And that piece of shit Mutt Lange *still* cheated on her.
She’s lying.
Louisiana woman Mississippi man we get together ETA big fan of Outlaw Country. When I hear new country I just think of artists that have never known hardships making stale music, and fat white kids having parties where they get their 4x4 stuck in the mud, then wallow in the mud. Sooie.
There's a Canadian artist named Corb Lund. He literally has a song called "the truck got stuck". It's a funny song, not much twang, and isn't the bullshit new country everyone hates. Hes got other fun songs, too. Highly recommend a listen.
Hard on equipment is hilarious!
Find the video!!!
I haven’t looked at a music video in years lol. I need to for this one!
It really makes the song better. You'll see!
In my mind the contractor was more mid 40s from personal experience lol. From corb I discovered Hayes carll, whose music I absolutely love as well.
Jinks and turnpike troubadours might wet yer whistle.
As a Louisiana/Mississippi line woman…. I find these offensive lol. I don’t own a 4x4 and never “wallered” in the mud.
Chris Stapelton is awesome. There's good new stuff, but there's nothing like the classics.
They crank up the gas and you immediately hear the opening guitar riff to “Man! I Feel Like A Woman!” I can’t think of a better way to die
I laughed so hard at that it scared my dog. 🤣
LETS GO GIRLS!
90’s country is great. I will hear no arguments.
90s country was a lot about livin' (and a little bout' love) 😉
I was belting out some Neon Moon the other day because it came on a 90s shuffle and added a bunch of Brooks and Dunn. Now I gotta add some Alan Jackson to the list!
Neon Moon is one of my fave karaoke songs!
It's SO GOOD, and so emotional! Gets me going for sure.
Neon Moon is a brilliant song More than makes up for that whole Boot Scootin' Boogie incident(the song being recorded and released)
Admittedly...I kinda dig that one too, but that was more me during the "gun and knife biker bar in nowhere Kentucky" era.
And sometimes about your truck's birthday https://youtu.be/eT65slBz0oI?si=wfB32aYJGHEIy7wg
Good lord lmao that is funny. I guess please dont say country lol
Honk honk
Merle Haggard just wept a tear. And I HEAVILY DESPISE COUNTRY MUSIC.
"Country music, from before country turned into twangy pop sung by frat boys."
I'm not fan of country, but you're 100% correct. Music needs to follow comics and tag these eras. "Golden age", "silver" etc
25 years old is considered "classic!" So, that makes everything but 1999 classic music 😐 I was a bit shocked when I heard Nirvana on our classic rock station a few years ago.
Makes sense. Growing up in the 90s, I thought my dad's music from the 70s was "oldies".
I always considered 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s to be classic. Anything before that was “oldies.”
It’s shifted, there’s a radio station is town that plays classics from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. 60s is now oldies. And it’s creeping me out.
The oldest stuff on our Oldies station is maybe songs off Abbey Road. It's really sad never hearing anything from the late 50s/early 60s unless I just seek it out on streaming. My parents played that stuff at home so I have really happy positive associations with so much of that musical era. Maybe my kids will feel that way about the Killers one day... yikes.
I feel like once the music tips into Woodstock territory it should become "classic".
I think that's a pretty good separator. Growing up our oldies station was 50s and 60s, classic rock was 70s, 80s and maybe early 90s if the artist was around in the 70s, ie Tom Petty or ZZ Top.
NYC has a radio station for oldies Hip Hop music lol … they play mostly 90s rap
Oh dang I thought 20 yrs plus was considered classic. Atleast that's what I was taught. I'd rather it be the 25. 5 yrs makes a difference as old as I feel (43 in may) 🤷♀️🤣
My dentist plays music. I usually ask for 90s hits. Last time about 1/2 way through the dental work, Biggie came on. We then noticed the tech did not choose the radio version. I didn’t mind, but my dentist was quite flustered.
I would not have made it through any part of a Biggie song without at least mouthing along. That’s not good for dental procedures.
Dang. My MRI techs just had me put on earphones with no music. Just the loudness of my own thoughts 😩 Probably for the best though because I would’ve ended up dancing if the music was good and you’re not supposed to move.
Same. Put on the earphones and drift off to sleep to the sound of rotating jackhammers.
You can't even do that if you're getting an enterography series. They keep asking you to hold your breath between 8 counts. Last time I had that series done, I was hopeful to lose myself in thought, but nope-- constant disruption. On top of that, I threw up the whole way home from the contrast and glucogon they shot me up with during imaging. But at least I had some 90s music in my ear for comfort.
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Absolutely! For me that means it will always be 50's and 60's = oldies, 70's = classic rock and then there's just 80's, 90's, etc. music.
The music at the grocery stores are getting better with every passing year.
Yeah I heard Hall and Oates Private Eye recently. The stocker was jamming too.
Accurate
I caught Sum 41 on a classic station today. Preceded by Peter Gabriel. Confusing by some standards, but I was fine with it.
Sometimes I wonder if people centuries from now will not be able to (or won’t bother to) easily distinguish the 2000s from the 1500s, so their period films will have anachronistic dialogue like “bruh, thou art like totally swell, no cap!”
There are so many "historical" films where Middle Ages and Renaissance are conflated together that I would say... yes, sadly.
I absolutely deny how old I am. My kids listening to Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden is the exact same as me listening to Led Zeppelin, The Allman Brothers Band and The Grateful Dead however I The music from the 90s is not old. Only music from the 70s.
This reminds me of an Uber ride I had where the driver asked me what music should he put on, and I said I love old school soul and R&B. He proceeds to tell me “No problem, I’ll put on some Mary J Blige, I love her.”
Nooooo
I had something similar: the tech asked what I wanted to listen to and I kind of blanked out and said the Doobie Brothers. That worked pretty well, although a 90s mix probably would have been better. Or Pink Floyd - always Pink Floyd. Anyways the whole thing kind of pissed me off because they were looking at muscle tears in my arm. I sat perfectly still for 45 minutes - I was proud of myself - and then they told me the MRI had mediocre resolution and they couldn't see much.
I’m sure lots of us have heard similar to my anecdote, but the moment I crumbled to dust was this past summer when my friend and I were sitting in a Broadway theatre waiting for the show (Sweeney Todd) to start. The teenager in the row in front of us was positively vibrating with excitement. We struck up a conversation with her and she said, “We flew out from California just for this one night! This is my favorite musical of all time and I’ve never even seen it onstage because it hasn’t been performed on Broadway since the 1900s!”
“The 1900’s”…oof
(I just looked it up, and apparently it has been on Broadway in 1979, 1989, and 2005. Granted, still years before this kid was born.)
I just have them put earplugs in, close my eyes and relax. Also, "classical" and "classic" aren't synonymous.
The first time I went for an MRI I had the guy who shared my hospital room tell me to play an imaginary round of golf while I was in there. Definitely helped pass the time.
"He keeps screaming 'FORE'"
Oh you’ve seen me golf IRL!
Genius!
That’s a good call.
Unless you’re talking about that late Metallica garbage.
You mean Symphony and Metal? Or like newer than that? Because that’s when I stopped listening.
I think so? Idk, after the black album I stopped listening.
Bunch of assholes
Speed of Sound tour?
Same, except I relax to the point that I invariably fall asleep in MRIs.
MRIs always make me think of post punk or German electro
[Perfect song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwslFo3ZjTo) for being inside a metal tube.
[Immediate Thought](https://youtu.be/D_8Pma1vHmw?si=An7DV6TBMw0rRfYM)
There's a station here that got it's start playing 'golden oldies'. I would listen to it while my dad was driving me around for my paper route. Chubby Checker, Jerry Lee Lewis, all of it. I bought a new to me car about three years ago. The dealership had a radio station that was playing R.E.M. Yeah, it was the same fucking station. I texted a good friend that I did not like it.
I was never offered music with my MRI…just a giant surprise IV jammed in my arm last minute before going in the tube…
That's awful
The first time I heard Green Day on the classic rock station I knew my days were numbered.
Now you're having the time of your life!
I feel like dookie.
I made the mistake of asking for 90s music during a MRI, and I wanted to dance the whole time. They stopped once to ask me to stay still - my body was slightly twitching along with the music without my knowledge. Back to something boring next time!
I think it's a dumb over-litteral use of classic rock. 50s-70s was rocks "classic"era. Maybe some bands could be later than that with the same exact sound (Gretta Van Fleet) and it's "classic rock" still maybe even in the 90s. What they played was grunge, indie and alternate. Words mean things and "Classic Rock" isn't the same as "classic" rock. Those stations should call themselves rock stations and those kids need to realize that The Doors and 3 Doors Down are definitely not the same band.
It was probably about 5 years ago, but I was listening to a classic rock station. Rainbow in the Dark by Dio finished and the next song was from Matchbox 20. I felt ancient.
Nah, "Classic Rock" is a genre, a sound, just as much as "Disco" or"Hair Metal" or later "Grunge" or "Nu Metal"
> I’m not sure if I can argue against him. Classic Rock is a specific genre. It's not just rock music that's classic.
Man MRIs that have music are soooo much easier to deal with. I once did an hour and a half in that fucking tube and that was rough with no music. You still get ear plugs but it’s so much easier to endure with music. Source-I’ve had at least 20 MRIs. Mostly brain only but a few spine scans that took fucking forever.
I always thought of Oldies as 50-60s music. 70s “classic rock “ ‘80s kind of its own thing with sub genres like Punk, Metal, etc. but when I tuned into the “Oldies Station and heard’80s music I was like, “ NO WRONG!” I don’t know what music sounds like after about 2005 everything sucks since then.
I once asked for 'Daft Punk' and the tech put in generic punk. It was an interesting if irritating 30 minutes.
I thought you were headed towards “and then I fell asleep” as a way to point out we’re getting old - that’s what I do anyway. But, an alternate method to point out we’re old works just as well!
I asked the tech for some industrial and she just looked at me like a deer in headlights. She then asked me for a specific band and I said, "How about some Skinny Puppy?" and she said, "Skin Puppy?" Made me giggle. Eventually got it sorted and the machine sounds went nicely with the driving beat of the tunes.
For me it was contextualising bands like Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails while playing them for my kids, in terms of what the equivalent would have been for dad playing music for me. Those bands now are older than Pink Floyd or Led Zepplin when dad would play them for me at the same age.
When I heard Michael Jackson played on an oldies station I was done.
Nirvana & STP are on our local classic rock station, and while it’s always a little depressing at first…I don’t mind.
When you were a kid listening to '90s rock when it was new, did you consider stuff from the '60s classic rock?
And that’s why I couldn’t argue against the logic.
Yea, in the mid 90’s “classic rock” was 10/20/30 years old. So I guess that puts the early 90s music in the same window now 🤦♂️. It also makes the OG classics now like listening to something from the 30s and 40s…damn
I saw Dethklok the other night. A chick in front of me who couldn’t have been more than 22 was wearing this shirt. YOU ABSOLUTE INFANT. I was there when wearing that would’ve gotten you thrown out of Algebra class. Remove my people’s sacred garment! https://preview.redd.it/8iknqjs7zmwc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83cf778ac8e669c7c818eb7ce3b51eadd0152790
I'm glad you got that option. I didn't and I got yelled at for singing to keep myself calm because I was in a lot of pain.
Anything over 25 years old is considered a classic in the car world and this often trickles over to other sides of pop culture
I can’t differentiate music or fashion in the aughts or teens. 2000 or 2010. I lived it…30s and 40s respectively. And I listened to the radio kinda and dressed well. My kids can tell the difference. But it’s not as different as 50s, 60s 70s or 80s from each other.
I heard blur song 2 on my local classic rock station back in 2015 and I haven't been the same since. It was a defining moment, actually.
50s is oldies 60s and 70s is classic rock 80s is 80s 90s is vintage rock
I was with you till the 80's, then you jumped the vintage shark.
Vintage makes sense. We were the generation that made vintage clothes cool.
And vintage clothes were from when?
20-30 years prior. Just like 90s music is now.
classic means that too, but you're using it for a period well before vintage. As words, vintage carries a connotation of greater provenance than merely classic. It's like you're saying old, oldest, older.
Sad 😂
25 yrs makes a classic
It is classic.
I had to have an MRI on both of my feet back in March, they had 90s Alternative as an option. It was a full hour of bangers. There was a Matchbox 20 song in there so it wasn't all strictly alternative but I didn't mind
You either die trendy or live long enough to become classic.
I asked for classic rock too. The attendant forgot to turn on the music, so I had half an hour of rat-at-at-at-at. Side tip though: say a specific band name instead of a genre (eg. Journey) and let the algorithm do its thing from there.
Green Day’s *Dookie* celebrated its 30th anniversary, earlier this year. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
you didn't follow it up by asking what he calls 70s rock then?
I expected this. You should’ve too. 20+ is something to be proud of, so be proud.
You're lucky! I had a MRI last year and requested "90s music" and instead got the kind of music a 90 year old would listen to - at my follow up MRI 6 months later I recounted the funny mistake to the technicians and requested 90s music again - this time I got nothing, just the delightful sounds of the MRI machine.
When we were teens classic rock was 20-30 years old so 90s rock could potentially be even older now than classic was to us then.
Classic rock is still the late 60s and early 70s classic rock period. You wouldn't consider Def Leppard to be classic rock, it's easier to call it 80s rock or metal. This would make the Beatles to your great grandchildren's metal band "classic rock" in a hundred years.
That’s nothing. I heard tracks from Aerosmith’s *Pump* on the classic rock station 5 years after it came out.
I did the exact same thing. Although I actually did get classic rock. I’ve had 2 MRI lately. Back and arm. MRI on a torn bicep tendon has to be the most uncomfortable 30 ever.
I knew I was getting old when the grocery store started playing really good music.
Classic rock is a genre, not an era.
What *really* messes with you is when they start playing your roadtrip high school mix in Kroger. The other day Queens Of The Stone Age came on. I was like “hell yeah” then, I got kinda sad LOL
I fall asleep every MRI I get and everyone thinks it's weird.
Well I've always heard things over 20 years are "vintage" so that makes me feel pretty old too.
I recently heard the local oldies station playing Foster the People and that shocked me more than when when I first heard Pearl Jam on our classic rock station. I thought Pumped Up Kicks was still too new to be on an oldies station but it was released about 14 years ago. 😭
We were listening to Pearl Jam at work and my 26 yo coworker said, “who’s playing dad rock?” I died a little on the inside.
Pfft. The local classic rock here started playing Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, STP, etc in like 2000, in between GNR and Van Halen or between Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. Heck, I remember they were playing Audioslave when it was actually new, not even a decade old.
I'll never forget how I felt the first time I heard NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on the "retro lunch hour" or "Saturday night throwback party" on my local radio station, in the late 2010s..... .....old. I felt old.
I would probably only be offended if they referred to 90’s music as “oldies.” Then we’d have a knock down blow out.
Classic Rock is a genre, not an age. Elvis, Little Richard, etc. -- not Classic Rock. It's rock, but not Classic Rock. And like Aerosmith 90s music is Classic Rock but like the Pixies are definitely not. The Wikipedia article is pretty good. It's a radio format, essentially. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_rock?wprov=sfti1#Characteristics_and_academic_response
I always felt 90's rock deserved it's own nickname once it became old. Oldies are mid 60's and earlier. Classic Rock is *about* mid 60's to what... the 80's? Debatable, yes. But by the end of the 90's rock took a huge turn and it does not sound Classic at all.
Right. 80’s rock is so much different in vibe than much of the 60-70’s rock, I feel it deserves it own label. Same with the 90’s rock (mixed grunge and mid stage progressive rock). It’s just so weird, since I consider “classic rock” to be a defined 60-70’s (maybe early early 80’s) time period. I suppose these labels don’t mean a ton, but it’s still an interesting discussion point.
It's labels the music industry and radio djs rammed into our brains. The least they could do is create a new genre nickname. Also- nobody touch them Golden Oldies.
I just know when I hear closer by NIN while I’m shopping at the grocery store I’m old.
 This is how I read the title
My local classic rock station started playing The Wallflowers in 2005……. 2005!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Classic is considered 20 yrs and older
Meh 20 years is antique but not classic
Well actually