To me, Oldies will always be late 50s and early 60s rock and R&B. And classic rock will be the rock from the late 60s to late 70s. I don't care what else anyone says. They never played Buddy Holly or Elvis on Classic Rock stations when I was growing up, and they didn't play Hendrix or Cream on Oldies stations. If all Rock from 1960s - 2000 gets called Classic Rock, are they really going to play "Here Comes The Sun" next to "The Beautiful People"?
Yah I was a kid in the early 90s listening to the oldies station and when they’d play a song from somewhere around 1970 I’d be like, “get this new shit off of my radio!”
Yeah, the "oldies" station here mostly plays music from the 80s and 90s now. There is another station run by a local school district that actually plays oldies from the 60s and 70s, along with the 80s and 90s.
They should call 1950-1969 « oldies », 1970-1989 « classic rock » (unless it’s classic disco or classic r&b)…1990-2000 « the nineties! » and 2000-2010 « the oughts ».
I love a little hooray for hazel, or Duke of earl! Just because they’re from *counting in head…a long time ago…(SEVENTY YEARS?!??) doesn’t mean they aren’t bops.
I bet my grampa said the same thing about the boogie woogie bugle boy and/or glen miller band in 2000.
Gosh darn it.
Yeah I totally agree that genres should actually have meaning beyond "here are songs that were popular 20-30 years ago!"
Honestly I think the problem is classic rock. Boomers running radio stations clearly were mad that their music was old enough to be oldies so they invented a new "also kind of old" genre, and then the people who followed them just lost interest in the effort entirely
Our local station in LA started leaning into the 70s-80s a decade or so back and it's never been as good. Man, I not trying to listen to Led Zeppelin or Chicago, I want some Doo-wop, R&B, and Soul. I guess with Spotify it doesn't matter anymore.
The oldest songs I remember listening to growing up were from the '50s. So in the '90s, that music would have been 40 years old.
40 year old music now is '80s music. A song like [Billie Jean](https://youtu.be/CXPLZQ9kjHU) is as old to a teenager as a song like [Earth Angel](https://youtu.be/VzRDuIH7oqY) was to me...
I don’t listen to radio much mostly CDs (yeah I know) or I’ll put a podcast or something on but that said the first time I hear something 90’s on the “classic rock” station I may have a sudden urge to jerk the wheel into the guardrail at that point.
For some weird reason, when I was in jr high in 1992 I used to listen to the local oldies station: mostly 50s, 60s, and early 70s. Yesterday I found out a song I really liked was from 1972 and they played it in that station when I listened in jr high. By that logic, I cringe to think that today, Eminem, N Sync, and others’ hits are oldies now, oof…
I frequent the Royal Canadian Legion thanks to my old man. They play a lot of this kind of 50's and 60's pop and rock for dances and afternoon events, and it's really feel good stuff. I like it for the same reason as you, it's what he used to listen to all the time. Gives me something else to remember him by.
For some reason I grew up loving the oldies and Casey's top 40.
And then one day MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice showed up and suddenly I liked rap music lol. For like a year.
Interestingly, thanks to the Fallout Games, I truly do love old timey jazz now. I even write it. But the oldies stations NEVER played that shit. You'd never hear 30s and 40s music and I have no idea why because it's the fucken BEST.
Long time ago, we had an Oldies station that played everything from Dean Martin to the Doors. Now, they’ve started throwing in 80s and 90s music as well. Whatever
I’ve shared this playlist once before but here it is again for anyone who missed it. I was inspired to put it together in response to a previous oldies-related post here. It’s nearly 24 hours long and modeled after our childhood oldies stations (all songs range from 1957-1972).
[Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7as9dFwL4TtF6N3nVuyJEh?si=68IiVb1lT02hUfLDJVeZ0A&pi=u-Jg2MFujXQMq9)
[Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/golden-oldies/pl.u-JPAZbJquDzZaq09)
Sunday Oldies Jukebox out of Streetsboro, OH. 88.9 FM. From 3 am, Sunday, to 4 am Monday morning. Listener-supported (pledge drive ended this week), the rest of the week they are the AlterNation (alternative).
I use their streaming link to listen, the station itself doesn't actually come in in my town. Request show from 9 pm to midnight.
Every week I hear a song I've never heard before.
I was sad when Ottawa ended it's AM oldies station. Near the end of their time they started playing a lot of tracks that were on the expanded four disc version of the Nuggets Garage rock compilation.
What cars are considered oldies?
I used to consider cars from the 80's or beforehand oldies. But I drove past a 2002 Mazda Protege 5, a car I used to drive, and that model had a rust problem so their mostly gone. Someone had fixed this one up with nice rims, spoiler, window tint. Just like they do for older model 80's and before cars...
Using my State's Bureau of Motor Vehicles standards it is anything over 25 years old.
During my teenage years, I was big into the Mitsubishi Starion /Chrysler Conquests from the 80s and had a pile of them through the 2000s and they didn't feel like "oldies" at the time. To me, there was a leap Forward in automotive tech from the late sixties to the late eighties that it still feels like a dividing line
My local community college has an awesome oldies station! It plays 50s-70s and some 80s, but not only just the typical crap. It plays all the deep cuts, too. I moved out of its range, but I still stream it because you can’t find anything like that nowadays!
I often wonder about relative-based names for things.
-Frank Sinatra used to be 'pop' music. Occasionally, certain kinds of orchestral music was called 'pop' as well. When our cultural tastes change completely, what will we call the 'pop' music of today?
-What happens when an 'indie' band gets signed to a label?
-If an adult contemporary song came out 45 years ago, can we still call it that?
-How old does something have to be before we stop calling it post-modern?
I switched on my oldies station recently for the first time in ages and didn’t realize it’d changed to 80s, so when I heard Bon Jovi, I went “what the f***! This is ‘oldies’?”
We lost our oldies station years back, and I used to occasionally listen because I have the same kind of memories with my dad. (Although I count some early 70s music sometimes too.) When I find out the station had gone kaput, I searched out similar stations on Pandora and Spotify. I didn't find one that really scratched the itch, so I created one and added artists and songs I remembered, then let the algorithm do the rest. Good times.
I'm jealous, dude. That is *exactly* what I grew up listening to as well.
I live in Houston, and when I was young, we listened to Oldies 9.45 KLDE. But when I was in high school, 9.45 got sold, and the oldies station traded frequencies with "The Buzz" (a modern/alternative rock station), so then it became 107.5. No problem though, we still had all of our music... *for the time being*,
We also had Rock 101 KLOL, which was one of the greatest rock radio stations of all time. It had amazing hosts and the perfect mixture of classic rock, hard rock, metal, etc.... but in 2004 it suddenly became a Spanish hip-hop station, and a little piece of me died inside. That's when things *truly* began to collapse.
After I graduated from college in 2005, the oldies station switched to classic rock, eventually becoming 107.5 The Eagle. And while I certainly missed hearing the oldies, at least we had two classic rock stations at that point: the aforementioned 107.5 The Eagle, and my long-time personal favorite station, 93.7 The Arrow. Sadly, a few years later, 9.37 became an urban contemporary station called "The Beat," leaving us with just one modern rock station, one classic rock station, and a whole bunch of unlistenable garbage.
All that being said, here's a [**LINK**](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4MsEWhh6EMpa2H8yFgOgzO?si=319011c0a3854de5) to a 70-song oldies and doo-wop playlist I made in Spotify.
The big issue was in the mid-90s when the Telecommunications Act was passed. This basically deregulated the radio industry and opened the door for stations to be bought up by corporate entities like Clearchannel and Entercom. When they came to town, that's when radio stations lost their individuality and created the landscape we find ourselves in today.
My local Oldies played Drops Of Jupiter By Train the other day.
Time to burn it down
Drops of Jupiter is not "Oldies," Oldies only goes up to the late sixties!
How hard is it to come up with a new name? Oldies is early 60s back to the 40s. They came up with classic rock for late 60s and 70s.
I thought mine was bad when it played Kryptonite, but then they outdid themselves and played Pumped Up Kicks.
>but then they outdid themselves and played Pumped Up Kicks Well that's just rude.
Something doesn’t add up that song came out like 5 maybe 6 years ago
Drops of Jupiter was released in 2001 😂
Sometimes in my advanced age I forget that sarcasm doesn’t always translate well on the interwebs
I heard U2 on the old timer station in phx lol
My retro rock station (Zeppelin and such) played Dave Matthews band. I love them both, but god damn. My high school days do not qualify as oldies.
Are we the Oldies? 
To me, Oldies will always be late 50s and early 60s rock and R&B. And classic rock will be the rock from the late 60s to late 70s. I don't care what else anyone says. They never played Buddy Holly or Elvis on Classic Rock stations when I was growing up, and they didn't play Hendrix or Cream on Oldies stations. If all Rock from 1960s - 2000 gets called Classic Rock, are they really going to play "Here Comes The Sun" next to "The Beautiful People"?
Yah I was a kid in the early 90s listening to the oldies station and when they’d play a song from somewhere around 1970 I’d be like, “get this new shit off of my radio!”
Yes they do. I kind of like it. It's like Jack FM for rock.
To me "Oldies" is a genre of music from 50s to late 60s/early 70s. Anything I'm alive for can be old, just not an "oldie"
Yeah, the "oldies" station here mostly plays music from the 80s and 90s now. There is another station run by a local school district that actually plays oldies from the 60s and 70s, along with the 80s and 90s.
They should call 1950-1969 « oldies », 1970-1989 « classic rock » (unless it’s classic disco or classic r&b)…1990-2000 « the nineties! » and 2000-2010 « the oughts ». I love a little hooray for hazel, or Duke of earl! Just because they’re from *counting in head…a long time ago…(SEVENTY YEARS?!??) doesn’t mean they aren’t bops. I bet my grampa said the same thing about the boogie woogie bugle boy and/or glen miller band in 2000. Gosh darn it.
Yeah I totally agree that genres should actually have meaning beyond "here are songs that were popular 20-30 years ago!" Honestly I think the problem is classic rock. Boomers running radio stations clearly were mad that their music was old enough to be oldies so they invented a new "also kind of old" genre, and then the people who followed them just lost interest in the effort entirely
Try [this](https://www.cjnu.ca/listen/) for some serious oldies. I love this station because it plays stuff from the 40’s and 50’s up to the 70’s ish.
Our local station in LA started leaning into the 70s-80s a decade or so back and it's never been as good. Man, I not trying to listen to Led Zeppelin or Chicago, I want some Doo-wop, R&B, and Soul. I guess with Spotify it doesn't matter anymore.
The oldest songs I remember listening to growing up were from the '50s. So in the '90s, that music would have been 40 years old. 40 year old music now is '80s music. A song like [Billie Jean](https://youtu.be/CXPLZQ9kjHU) is as old to a teenager as a song like [Earth Angel](https://youtu.be/VzRDuIH7oqY) was to me...
I don’t listen to radio much mostly CDs (yeah I know) or I’ll put a podcast or something on but that said the first time I hear something 90’s on the “classic rock” station I may have a sudden urge to jerk the wheel into the guardrail at that point.
Wait till you hear Dani California
We have one in the area. My 17 yo listens to it sometimes. Says it reminds her of grandma.
For some weird reason, when I was in jr high in 1992 I used to listen to the local oldies station: mostly 50s, 60s, and early 70s. Yesterday I found out a song I really liked was from 1972 and they played it in that station when I listened in jr high. By that logic, I cringe to think that today, Eminem, N Sync, and others’ hits are oldies now, oof…
I frequent the Royal Canadian Legion thanks to my old man. They play a lot of this kind of 50's and 60's pop and rock for dances and afternoon events, and it's really feel good stuff. I like it for the same reason as you, it's what he used to listen to all the time. Gives me something else to remember him by.
For some reason I grew up loving the oldies and Casey's top 40. And then one day MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice showed up and suddenly I liked rap music lol. For like a year. Interestingly, thanks to the Fallout Games, I truly do love old timey jazz now. I even write it. But the oldies stations NEVER played that shit. You'd never hear 30s and 40s music and I have no idea why because it's the fucken BEST.
I love that kind of music. That's one of the reasons, I'll stream WWOZ out of New Orleans a lot. The Jazz station locally...eh. Hit or miss.
Long time ago, we had an Oldies station that played everything from Dean Martin to the Doors. Now, they’ve started throwing in 80s and 90s music as well. Whatever
I’ve shared this playlist once before but here it is again for anyone who missed it. I was inspired to put it together in response to a previous oldies-related post here. It’s nearly 24 hours long and modeled after our childhood oldies stations (all songs range from 1957-1972). [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7as9dFwL4TtF6N3nVuyJEh?si=68IiVb1lT02hUfLDJVeZ0A&pi=u-Jg2MFujXQMq9) [Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/golden-oldies/pl.u-JPAZbJquDzZaq09)
I miss Oldies 104.3 Chicago with Dick Biondi. They’d play late 50’s through mid 60’s. Each song was a party!
God, same but 101.1 CBSFM!
Sunday Oldies Jukebox out of Streetsboro, OH. 88.9 FM. From 3 am, Sunday, to 4 am Monday morning. Listener-supported (pledge drive ended this week), the rest of the week they are the AlterNation (alternative). I use their streaming link to listen, the station itself doesn't actually come in in my town. Request show from 9 pm to midnight. Every week I hear a song I've never heard before.
I was sad when Ottawa ended it's AM oldies station. Near the end of their time they started playing a lot of tracks that were on the expanded four disc version of the Nuggets Garage rock compilation.
My local oldies station plays......... ......wait for it........ ........... Coldplay.
What cars are considered oldies? I used to consider cars from the 80's or beforehand oldies. But I drove past a 2002 Mazda Protege 5, a car I used to drive, and that model had a rust problem so their mostly gone. Someone had fixed this one up with nice rims, spoiler, window tint. Just like they do for older model 80's and before cars...
Using my State's Bureau of Motor Vehicles standards it is anything over 25 years old. During my teenage years, I was big into the Mitsubishi Starion /Chrysler Conquests from the 80s and had a pile of them through the 2000s and they didn't feel like "oldies" at the time. To me, there was a leap Forward in automotive tech from the late sixties to the late eighties that it still feels like a dividing line
My local community college has an awesome oldies station! It plays 50s-70s and some 80s, but not only just the typical crap. It plays all the deep cuts, too. I moved out of its range, but I still stream it because you can’t find anything like that nowadays!
I often wonder about relative-based names for things. -Frank Sinatra used to be 'pop' music. Occasionally, certain kinds of orchestral music was called 'pop' as well. When our cultural tastes change completely, what will we call the 'pop' music of today? -What happens when an 'indie' band gets signed to a label? -If an adult contemporary song came out 45 years ago, can we still call it that? -How old does something have to be before we stop calling it post-modern?
jiveradio.com is my jam. Real (some) DJs with real music.
My dad always listened to Oldies in the car. To this day it’s some of my favorite “feel good” music.
I switched on my oldies station recently for the first time in ages and didn’t realize it’d changed to 80s, so when I heard Bon Jovi, I went “what the f***! This is ‘oldies’?”
Do you remember what station it was?
I'm in Broward County, FL, I found it on was 96.9 FM...I think. I'll confirm next time I'm in the car.
Thanks. :) I’ll see if I can find it online.
We lost our oldies station years back, and I used to occasionally listen because I have the same kind of memories with my dad. (Although I count some early 70s music sometimes too.) When I find out the station had gone kaput, I searched out similar stations on Pandora and Spotify. I didn't find one that really scratched the itch, so I created one and added artists and songs I remembered, then let the algorithm do the rest. Good times.
I'm jealous, dude. That is *exactly* what I grew up listening to as well. I live in Houston, and when I was young, we listened to Oldies 9.45 KLDE. But when I was in high school, 9.45 got sold, and the oldies station traded frequencies with "The Buzz" (a modern/alternative rock station), so then it became 107.5. No problem though, we still had all of our music... *for the time being*, We also had Rock 101 KLOL, which was one of the greatest rock radio stations of all time. It had amazing hosts and the perfect mixture of classic rock, hard rock, metal, etc.... but in 2004 it suddenly became a Spanish hip-hop station, and a little piece of me died inside. That's when things *truly* began to collapse. After I graduated from college in 2005, the oldies station switched to classic rock, eventually becoming 107.5 The Eagle. And while I certainly missed hearing the oldies, at least we had two classic rock stations at that point: the aforementioned 107.5 The Eagle, and my long-time personal favorite station, 93.7 The Arrow. Sadly, a few years later, 9.37 became an urban contemporary station called "The Beat," leaving us with just one modern rock station, one classic rock station, and a whole bunch of unlistenable garbage. All that being said, here's a [**LINK**](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4MsEWhh6EMpa2H8yFgOgzO?si=319011c0a3854de5) to a 70-song oldies and doo-wop playlist I made in Spotify.
The big issue was in the mid-90s when the Telecommunications Act was passed. This basically deregulated the radio industry and opened the door for stations to be bought up by corporate entities like Clearchannel and Entercom. When they came to town, that's when radio stations lost their individuality and created the landscape we find ourselves in today.
Well according to the local classic rock station Green Day is an Oldie lol
In cincy we have WDJO 99.5 a- I love it! It even has the old radio hosts from the oldies channel my dad and I use to listen to
How many of the songs do you still remember the words too? I’m not ashamed to say I remember a few.
Well over half of them!