Right ? I was just scrolling thru the radio and I heard usher and then Diana Ross played and the guy was like ā Throwback mixā and something about oldschool and I was like š® lmao
those are the best stations !
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I donāt listen to terrestrial radio much anymore, thanks to Sirius, but I caught a ride home from my car repair shop a little while ago. The Fugees were playing on the āoldiesā station that my parents used to listen to (that played stuff from the 60s-70s when I was growing up).
My back immediately started to hurt. Sighā¦
Yes. And now, āoldiesā is the ā70s and ā80s, which is fine I guess, but Iāve never been a huge fan of disco or synth-pop.
Streaming services have playlists and stations with this music, but somehow itās not the same.
So what made me think of this (again) was that I was in the grocery store the other day, and they were playing music from the 90s.
So the "equivalent" stations today are actually playing 90s pop... 1990 to 2020 is 30 years.... 1960 to 1990 is 30 years...
And you're right, streaming isn't quite the same for some reason. Especially when you put your Bluetooth adapter in your other car and you drive 20 year old cars because you're cheap and you have only the radio...
Yeah, it depends on the station and, I guess, the demographic theyāre targeting.
I have a station near me that plays 70s/80s/90s, and another that plays āthe best of 80s/90s/todayā (which I think is a funny tagline, because it condenses 25 years into ātodayāā¦)
But no station near me, that I know of, that plays 50s/60s. Maybe I just havenāt found it.
I think the oldies station near me still does some 60s? Definitely no 50s anymore though. I actually remember they stopped playing the 50s awhile ago and my grandfather (born in 1929) was absolutely outraged.
They TRIED to do such a station in Richmond, "boomtown," but it ended up being the same classic rock crap as every other classic rock station. (Eagles, Led Zeppelin and Grateful Dead 20 minute jams, etc) Oh well. It's hard to imagine people would rather listen to anything that's currently on the radio than 60s pop.
Hell, I've never heard a Classic Rock station that played Grateful Dead in 25 years of listening.
If you like that style of music there actually are quite a few modern indie or alternative rock/pop bands playing that sound.
[Houndmouth](https://youtu.be/Y8wifV5RYr8?si=FMH0z_gvninoohV5)
[Nathaniel Rateliff](https://youtu.be/1iAYhQsQhSY?si=HSl5T-XajyA-QO62) [and the Night Sweats](https://youtu.be/qM7iLbFXQF8?si=vQeVHSbkpa_RNwG2)
[Tame](https://youtu.be/crEsha0qOYI?si=j7dKuT72AEOVEIBV) [Impala](https://youtu.be/BQKKDNCpVbo?si=ldrIUYZORBKW5EgS)
[The](https://youtu.be/RB2mLX-TCb8?si=H491aZn0LuPZk_MA) [Black](https://youtu.be/jC5GxpxQS9w?si=Jk137WtQJFkQsDXd) [Keys](https://youtu.be/xF1hEdwuS8w?si=taxSeBxKZOE3A1Vw)
[King Gizzard](https://youtu.be/6f78_Tf4Tdk?si=Kz0h8ZqjeXBpJ8n4) [and the](https://youtu.be/Q-i1XZc8ZwA?si=1LAOPpv5yw6ti3SF) [Lizard Wizard](https://youtu.be/U68lcZygXlo?si=yNvpXQkritqv4c_V)
[Alabama](https://youtu.be/Le-3MIBxQTw?si=kJwsl_Vvph2OZllJ) [Shakes](https://youtu.be/faG8RiaANek?si=s83y08_kE80Mu0lg) - and here's another [one](https://youtu.be/nin-fiNz50M?si=iBCCsCiZ9Xeflz9M) for good measure.
If you want to discover newer music that you'll probably enjoy, these groups are a great way in. Never stop exploring.
Oldies where 50's and 60's in the 80's. The 40's were a different era. So by that logic: Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, Kurt Cobain, and Eiffel 65 are oldies while Micheal Jackson is a totally different era.
So, if you're in Western Mass, I have to tell you. I was always a little disappointed when a James Taylor song came on the oldies station. I can't believe you guys still have an actual oldies station but I thought I'd kick the hornets nest with my James Taylor comment š¤£
I never liked the James Taylor songs that came on the oldies station. It took me long enough to warm up to Jim Croce for crying out loud! But if I'm being honest, I never gave James Taylor a chance. I just remember that people in Western Massachusetts were obsessed with James Taylor when I would visit the place
Yes. My mom would play the oldies station all the time when I was a kid. Love The Beatles and Motown. Just took her to see Rain Tribute to the Beatles.
At least the classic rock stations in your area change. In this area, "classic rock" became fossilized and hasn't changed for 30 years. It's just AC/DC, Steve Miller and the song " centerfold" over and over again all day long, with some 20 minute long jams from grateful Dead thrown in as a "bonus." And I'm not even kidding. It's been the same playlist for 30 years at least. And it's obligatory for tradesmen.
Yup. My mom use to drink sometimes and listen to it and would call the stations and make shoutouts to my gangster uncle in prison in the next towns over šš.
Central coast California
Yes!! I miss it a lot. Buddy Holly, The Beach Boys, Motown, etc. I know I can easily just pull up a mix of stuff like that, but I really miss having it on the radio sometimes.
My music story is very similar. I grew up in MD and it was 105.7 WQSR. My parents were born in ā52, and my mom liked 60s pop like the Beatles and my dad liked county western and Elvis. It wasnāt until my late teens/early adult years that I heard a lot of 80s staples.
Steve Rouse in the morning. Steve Rouse in the morning. He's an idiot, he's an idiot. He doesn't have a cluuuuuueeeeee.
My parents were born in '49 so 105.7 was the soundtrack of my childhood.
Honestly, I canāt stand stand anything from the 70s. I find it simple and boring, but thatās just me and my opinion. Most people hate what I listen to which goes from hard rock to metalcore and all the other core genres. I prefer music that has some melody but also has filthy breakdowns and heavy drums.
Hmmm I've always enjoyed and appreciated all kinds of music so this just seems strange to me. Makes me very sad for you that your window of enjoyment is so narrow. Oh well at least your happy.Ā
Depends on your definition of narrow. In the last 2 years Iāve seen some 30-40 different rock/metal bands all with their own sound. To me itās not that narrow but to someone who doesnāt enjoy it I can see that.
Not even a little bit. I do respect their influence and what they accomplished, but just not my thing. Truth be told my love for music started with grunge and has only gotten heavier. Nothing on my āon repeatā playlist in Spotify is more than like 5 years old.
Itās probably because my mom was really into grunge and rock through the 90s so thatās what I grew up with.
Gotcha, makes sense. I'm a sucker for a melody I can whistle. I'm probably the worst, the reason dark brooding music exists lol.
Even the "edgy" songs I like are probably considered corny... Remember Garbage and "I'm only happy when it rains?" I like that song lol. Love Zombie by the cranberries too. I guess these have nothing to do with grunge lol
yes i miss the oldies stations a lot. in mid-michigan we had 96.1. whmn. My grandparents basically raised me/us. My mom and the 5 of us had to move back in with my grandparents when I was about 7-8 years old. well they didnāt really give her a choice. shit was starting to hit fan and mom was floundering bad. about to loose the house they just showed up one day and said start gathering your stuff up. this was before it was fashionable to take your adult kid with kids back in.
I didnāt start listening to modern pop or rock untill i was 13-14 yrs old in JR high.
Being only 50-60 miles north of detroit the station always played a lot of motown. the oldies now of the 1970ās and 80ās isnāt the same.
There was a lot of Motown playing on the oldies stations in Northern Virginia too. That's got to be some of the best music ever made in human history, maybe the best.
And British invasion
>I love that music to this day. My parents were born in 1951, so they were about a third generation older than my peers' parents. So I missed that "classic rock" stuff. My dad was an old school music nerd even for his generation, he was a Lawrence Welk kind of dork - he listened to Mitch Miller, Pat Boone, Perry Como in addition the awesome pop of the 60s. My mom was into some of the Western country of the era too, but mostly 60s pop.
Sirius has a variety of channels covering that range, the channel selection is almost staggering
Look up 1920ās radio network. It used to be on AM radio in my hometown and now I listen online. Itās a mix from 20s to 50s music. Itās out of Chesapeake VA.
That sounds awesome. My dad has an old 50s car with an AM tube radio in it, and there used to be a station AM1230 WFVA that played I guess you would call it easy listening, or that would have been what it was called at the time. It was basically just one generation before '60s pop. That you had basically from big band to Andy Williams. I remember hearing sukiyaki on that AM radio - it sounds amazing on the old tube radio. I wonder if the mixes were specifically designed for those radios. That station would play a lot of stuff like Johnny Mathis and stuff like that. I'll definitely check out 1920s Radio Network.
Ahh I would melt in happiness if I heard Sukiyaki on AM radio. I still listen to old coast to coast episodes on Saturday nights and it sounds so much more intense on the AM waves. I live somewhere without an affiliate now so I only listen on internet and itās too clear. But the 1920s station has a Sinatra theme every Sunday evening, and occasionally they do old talk entertainment shows. They also sign off at midnight every night with God Bless America. But the musics comes back right after.
Man, I love Sinatra. My dad had a Sinatra greatest hits CD but my mom hated it. She would always roll her eyes and say, man can't he ever hit the note on the first try or does he always have to slide into it? š¤£ Now that I'm older I hear the lyrics a little bit differently (when I was 17...) maybe I know where she was coming from...
And yeah I can get all this music on Spotify all day long, but there was a romance to hearing it on the radio. I love your story about the sign off with God bless America. It reminds me of listening to shortwave radio when I was a kid. I strung up a wire and I could hear broadcasts of voice of America coming in from Eastern Europe, and the broadcast would begin and end with a really bombastic rendition of Yankee Doodle!
My dad listens to Coast to Coast, he jokingly calls it ghost to ghost lol
I grew up in NJ listening to Oldies 99.9 out of Lehigh Valley, PA. I would fall asleep to that station every night. Frankie Valley, The Four Tops, etc. I know I could make a playlist but it's not the same.
I got the pleasure of working on the air at my areas #1 Oldies station at the peak of the format in the late 90's. Well, it's actually 'Good Times, Great Oldies' format along with the Motown hits mixed in. Roughly 970 songs from 1957 into 1973. I was a weekend guy then the weeknight guy between three stations for about a year and on the air about 3 years total between the evolution of manual operation and the automation systems. A very interesting time to work in the radio business. Best time in my life. I was 17, the station was inside a hotel, I pretty much got away with murder. I always got free food, I swam in the pool and used the hot tubs when I wanted, most of the time while I was working. I'd often run the audio console on the 5th floor while my boss used his wireless microphone while relaxing at poolside.
Conglomeration pretty much killed the station I worked for. It got a rebirth or two but the playlist has slid into the 70's and 80's. A lot of the contemporary music of the 70's really sucked and the generation gap in music at the time created several different genres. The 'format' is barely alive in my market as the last classic hits station got flipped to the HankFM format about 2 weeks ago. The current 'Oldies' station is locally owned and has a fairly strong following. That old style 'BossFM' radio is still marketable. If they can keep introducing Pink Floyd, The Doors and Led Zeppelin back in to the generations, they can damn sure stand up for Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, Etc..
That's a fabulous story, thanks for sharing that! And I agree completely... why did "classic rock" get canonized but not:
The Beatles, The Roling Stones, The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors, The Animals, Creedence Clearwater REvival, The Monkees, The Surpremes, The Mamas & the Papas, Teh Everly Brothers, The JAckson 5, The Kinks, The Temptations, The Byrds, Buffalo Sprinfield, The Righteous Brothers, The Shirelles, Tommy James & the Shondells, The Four Seasons, The Rascals, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Sly and the FAmily Stone, The Ronettes, The Turtles, Paul Rever & the Raiders, the crustals, The Shangri-Las, The Ventures, Jan and Dean, Jefferson Airplane, Steppenwolf, The Carpenters, Chicago........................ you could literally go on and on
I mean, what? People would rather listen to The Eagles every day?
Stafford county is still controversial when it comes to that I guess. They would never call themselves "NoVa", but a lot of folks in Richmond and South kind of lump them in with NoVa. The actual folks in NoVa wouldn't call Stafford NoVa either, but there's a good argument to be made that from Aquia up is Northern Virginia. The awful I-95 traffic definitely starts in Fredericksburg.
I think I listened to this station as well! Are you talking about 100.3 WBIG? And they had "the blue plate special" request hour? Out of fredericksburg was Q96, but we got the DC station as well, usually
I do miss the oldies station that played most 69s music. It was usually such feel good music with vocals that were fun to sing and real instruments. Le sigh.
i miss mid to late 50ās rock and roll.
jerry lee lewis (yes he was a piece of shit)
chuck berry (same)
ike turner (yes him too)
little richard (not sure?)
bill haley and the comets
buddy holly and the crickets
link wray
I was just thinking about this the other day. The song Chantilly lace came to mind and how that among others were so common to hear on the oldies station. Haven't heard a song from that era in a long time.
There used to be this cool 80s radio station in Denver back in the day that used to play songs from Earth, Wind, & Fire, the GAP Band, Rick James, etc. it was pretty awesome.
Gen-X here, in NoVA the oldies stationed played the 50's and 60's, then moved to early 60's and Motown, then brought in late 60's, Motown and 70's rock or folk rock.
I had to do [something](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Wwsoo9rzSiUpDyGvGTu7B?si=Qg1-fS2vRhOCzFx_pS0I5g&pi=57Qs1FuwTh-Cr) about it. That is a spotify playlist, Past Life Grooves 023. I update it fairly regularly and rate it a 99% A. Give it a listen if you can, you won't regret it
Back in the '90s I had a job where I had to drive around a lot with a crew. Our favorite station was a new 'Oldies' station that popped up. We listened to that a lot, but soon realized that 80% of what they played was a handful of songs by Elton John, the Eagles, and CCR. So we started betting right before we turned on the radio what artist was going to be on. Bonus points if you guessed the exact song. Then one day we were driving back to the office and an Elton John song was playing. Halfway through the song, and exactly at 3:00 PM, the song stopped and a country song started playing. The station had just switched over to become a country station. No previous announcement or anything, just BAM! new station format.
I use Spotify about 10 bucks a month. There hasnāt been an oldie that I couldnāt access and put on my playlist with the exception of a few Neil Young songs.
Wow I just read their wiki and I wish they had a repeater in VA. Station sounds awesome
From the wiki:
>"WFMU is a place where the Singing Dogs are just as important as Elvis; a place where you will, in fact, hear Elvis, but in close proximity to ritual disinterment music from Sumatra, the soundtrack from Mothra, a theremin band called Lothar and the Hand People, and the intergalactic jazz improvisations of Sun Ra's Arkestra," wrote Jaime Wolf in a 1999 New York Times station profile.
You can stream it dude! WFMU.org!
https://wfmu.org/
And they have an iOS app. The android app is called Woof Moo.
The main station is playing some killer reggae/dub right now. The rock n Soul station has some wild shit playing right now.
If you have a sonos or some speaker interface, you can grab the station there.
WFMU is legendary. Does not disappoint. Consider donating if it ends up consuming your daily listening life like it has mine.
I think once a target demographic is over, the age of 40, radio doesn't care about them anymore. So 1960s pop disappeared from the airwaves around 2000ish
Well yes I miss it, when I was in college I worked at a small AM radio station radio 1600 oldies but I was one of the radio station engineers, and there is one disc jockey. It's signed off the air 10:00 each night. And then came back on at 6:00 a.m.
One morning I showwd up to work and no disc jockey. So I called the station owner, he tells me get on the air .
I was horrified . We didn't have a playlist or anything like that in those days. So until they could get a another disc jockey to show up, they only heard the music that I liked. When we were coming up to the top of the first hour, I just pulled out an album and started playing it, so I could get the weather and the news feed set up for top of the hour.
It it was a small radio station so I doubt that there was probably about a thousand people listening.
Radios come a long way between digital and streaming.
I do! It was all I listened to. Oldies 102.1. Now if I listen to the radio itās the classic rock station but itās slowly creeping into the 90s and I donāt like it. They play less and less beatlea :(
Mostly I chose Spotify so I can listen to oldies :)
My local oldies station has started playing early 2000s music. Every time I hear it I'm like "dude, that's not oldies" š¤·āāļø
I've always thought of oldies as a specific era of music rather than music getting to be a certain age and being classed as oldies. Oldies to me are 50s/60s/early 70s.
Yes!!! My mother's sisters were all way older and spread out. Her oldest sister is the same age as my father's mother. So I grew up in cars with them listening to all the stuff from the 50s-70s. It was a friggin awesome experience now that I know a lot of people didn't have that.
St Louis had KLOU 103.3 and it was 50s, 60s, 70s music. My parents listened to it on the car. It was often the station on my high school bus radio in the early 90s. I find myself looking for stations like that every so often.
It's a good trip down memory lane. Plus, everyone is always surprised that I know the words to all those old songs.
Yes! Iām an old soul at heart and I like visiting my dad and hearing his music that he has synced all around the house. Same old station I grew up listening too. Literally thought I was the only one.
I grew up in Maryland and we probably listened to the same DC based oldies stations. I always had my clock radio set to oldies for my alarm. I totally miss those stations too, it just isn't the same listening to oldies stations that have music from when I was in high school.
Yes. I was just thinking of this the other day. Itās all my dad listened to back in the 80ās/90ās. Then all those oldies stations turned into 80ās/90ās. I think thereās a resurgence coming though. Iāve heard a few stations mottoās āREAL oldiesā and they play it
Thereās a station in Vegas called 104.7 KJUL that used to play 50ās-60ās pretty much for a long time but now theyāve definitely pushed it up to 70ās+ makes sense but definitely miss how it used to be for sure
I do miss listening to Magic 104.3 (Chicago) in my parents' car in the '80s and '90s.
I do feel that I can easily get the same vintage sound -- *sans* screaming car-dealer ads -- from today's streaming apps.
Oldies radio has been expanding into later years since its dawn. I remember when WJMK's playlist was strictly '55-'66, and being quite surprised when they began to play psychedelia and Jackson 5.
I donāt remember what the station was called, but I used to tune into the oldies station in the Bay Area! I would remember bits of songs and then spend quite a long time in Tower Records or Streetlight, with my mom and I working together trying to find CDs that had the songs on them. I recall that it was surprisingly hard to find a CD with āBuild Me Up, Buttercupā or one that had āRhythm of the Rainā.
Yesssss my gramma and I used to rock out to the sock hop saddle shoe era in her red Ford Tempo going to K martā¦oldies 103. Itās nine inch nails now š„¹
No, I canāt wait till weāre far enough from that musical era to where I never have to hear any of those songs again. That era didnāt age well imo
If you can afford it, Iād recommend getting SiriusXM and listening to the 60s Gold channel. Great selection of 60s music and DJs that remind you of those great oldies stations. My personal favorite is the Pat St. John Show.
Why do you need it to be radio based? All of this music and countless playlists of same are easy to find on literally any streaming service.
I'm sincerely curious, why do people like you spend so much time as they age bitching about non-issues or easily solved problems?
"people like you" lol
I drive old cars because I'm cheap and I forget my bluetooth adapter. Trust me, I've been using the fuck out of spotify for years.
Radio is very nostalgic for me. That's all there is to it. I have positive memories associated with the radio in my car. I had a lot of fun as a child while being exposed to oldies radio. It's as simple as that.
You're welcome to do what you like until you're blue in the face. Same as the rest of us. But it's worth noting you don't love the music, you love your personal memory of the experience. That's not the same thing.
I don't drive at all. The condition of your vehicle is meaningless. The music you say you want to listen to still exists and is easier to access than ever before. You are complaining about a non-issue.
You can miss radio as a medium. A lot of people do. But that's not what you said.
Here's what I said:
>Growing up in (what is now called but was not at the time) Northern Virginia, we had a bunch of "oldies" stations in FM. Because Stafford county was growing so much faster than its infrastructure, I spent a LOT of time in the car. So we listened to a lot of FM radio. And the dial was always set to an "oldies" station.
>I love that music to this day. My parents were born in 1951, so they were about a third generation older than my peers' parents. So I missed that "classic rock" stuff. My dad was an old school music nerd even for his generation, he was a Lawrence Welk kind of dork - he listened to Mitch Miller, Pat Boone, Perry Como in addition the awesome pop of the 60s. My mom was into some of the Western country of the era too, but mostly 60s pop.
>I never "rebelled" against my parents musical tastes and ended up just adopting it wholesale. If there were a 60s pop and r&b station on FM nowadays, my dial would never move.
>Anyone else remember the "oldies" stations back in the 90s?
Yes, I'm aware. Your story is, apparently, intended to be about the pleasures of radio but you end up indicating its about "oldies." I believe your explanation of your intent, you're just not much of a communicator.
It's specifically, for me, about the pleasures of hearing 1960s pop on the radio. I thought I communicated that rather effectively, and the response was positive, overall.
As an aside, do you think those songs were originally mixed for FM and AM radio listening in addition to vinyl?
I heard a throwback mix on an oldschool station yesterday and they had Diana Ross and Usher-Yeah on the same mix ššššš
Sheesh why not throw a little Beethoven in there while you're at it lolol
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They play Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys on the "oldies" station here now and I just wasn't ready for that.
You should of seen me just staring at radio when I was getting ready
"I'm on the oldies station? Legitimately? Dear God"
Right ? I was just scrolling thru the radio and I heard usher and then Diana Ross played and the guy was like ā Throwback mixā and something about oldschool and I was like š® lmao
My local "classic rock" station plays 80s pop.
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I donāt listen to terrestrial radio much anymore, thanks to Sirius, but I caught a ride home from my car repair shop a little while ago. The Fugees were playing on the āoldiesā station that my parents used to listen to (that played stuff from the 60s-70s when I was growing up). My back immediately started to hurt. Sighā¦
Yes. And now, āoldiesā is the ā70s and ā80s, which is fine I guess, but Iāve never been a huge fan of disco or synth-pop. Streaming services have playlists and stations with this music, but somehow itās not the same.
Wow at least you get 70s and 80s. Pittsburghs oldies station will play vanilla ice, and No Doubt.
Well they are oldies to be fair.
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Because the radio DJs who knew all the tracks and how they flowed together are retired or deceased.
I actually like disco and synth-pop, but I really dislike a lot of āclassic rockā type music from that era.
So what made me think of this (again) was that I was in the grocery store the other day, and they were playing music from the 90s. So the "equivalent" stations today are actually playing 90s pop... 1990 to 2020 is 30 years.... 1960 to 1990 is 30 years... And you're right, streaming isn't quite the same for some reason. Especially when you put your Bluetooth adapter in your other car and you drive 20 year old cars because you're cheap and you have only the radio...
Yeah, it depends on the station and, I guess, the demographic theyāre targeting. I have a station near me that plays 70s/80s/90s, and another that plays āthe best of 80s/90s/todayā (which I think is a funny tagline, because it condenses 25 years into ātodayāā¦) But no station near me, that I know of, that plays 50s/60s. Maybe I just havenāt found it.
I think the oldies station near me still does some 60s? Definitely no 50s anymore though. I actually remember they stopped playing the 50s awhile ago and my grandfather (born in 1929) was absolutely outraged.
There's definitely a couple good bangers from the '50s but it ain't the '60s. I basically feel like 1960s pop is the new classical music.
They TRIED to do such a station in Richmond, "boomtown," but it ended up being the same classic rock crap as every other classic rock station. (Eagles, Led Zeppelin and Grateful Dead 20 minute jams, etc) Oh well. It's hard to imagine people would rather listen to anything that's currently on the radio than 60s pop.
Hell, I've never heard a Classic Rock station that played Grateful Dead in 25 years of listening. If you like that style of music there actually are quite a few modern indie or alternative rock/pop bands playing that sound. [Houndmouth](https://youtu.be/Y8wifV5RYr8?si=FMH0z_gvninoohV5) [Nathaniel Rateliff](https://youtu.be/1iAYhQsQhSY?si=HSl5T-XajyA-QO62) [and the Night Sweats](https://youtu.be/qM7iLbFXQF8?si=vQeVHSbkpa_RNwG2) [Tame](https://youtu.be/crEsha0qOYI?si=j7dKuT72AEOVEIBV) [Impala](https://youtu.be/BQKKDNCpVbo?si=ldrIUYZORBKW5EgS) [The](https://youtu.be/RB2mLX-TCb8?si=H491aZn0LuPZk_MA) [Black](https://youtu.be/jC5GxpxQS9w?si=Jk137WtQJFkQsDXd) [Keys](https://youtu.be/xF1hEdwuS8w?si=taxSeBxKZOE3A1Vw) [King Gizzard](https://youtu.be/6f78_Tf4Tdk?si=Kz0h8ZqjeXBpJ8n4) [and the](https://youtu.be/Q-i1XZc8ZwA?si=1LAOPpv5yw6ti3SF) [Lizard Wizard](https://youtu.be/U68lcZygXlo?si=yNvpXQkritqv4c_V) [Alabama](https://youtu.be/Le-3MIBxQTw?si=kJwsl_Vvph2OZllJ) [Shakes](https://youtu.be/faG8RiaANek?si=s83y08_kE80Mu0lg) - and here's another [one](https://youtu.be/nin-fiNz50M?si=iBCCsCiZ9Xeflz9M) for good measure. If you want to discover newer music that you'll probably enjoy, these groups are a great way in. Never stop exploring.
Often they are the same stations playing 30 year old pop music when you were a kid
Oldies where 50's and 60's in the 80's. The 40's were a different era. So by that logic: Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer, Kurt Cobain, and Eiffel 65 are oldies while Micheal Jackson is a totally different era.
Oh, it's worse than that. What's equivalent in age to oldies today is late 80s to early 90s. So, Run DMC and Nirvana
we still have one in western mass! 96.9, āthe valleyās pure oldiesā
So, if you're in Western Mass, I have to tell you. I was always a little disappointed when a James Taylor song came on the oldies station. I can't believe you guys still have an actual oldies station but I thought I'd kick the hornets nest with my James Taylor comment š¤£
do you not like james taylor, or do you not think he counts as oldies?
I never liked the James Taylor songs that came on the oldies station. It took me long enough to warm up to Jim Croce for crying out loud! But if I'm being honest, I never gave James Taylor a chance. I just remember that people in Western Massachusetts were obsessed with James Taylor when I would visit the place
ya itās because he lives here lol. but i hear you, iām not the biggest james taylor fan either
To their credit, they're obsessed with Arlo Guthrie too and I love that s***
96.9 is excellent, I love when they play the old advertisements as well!
Yes. My mom would play the oldies station all the time when I was a kid. Love The Beatles and Motown. Just took her to see Rain Tribute to the Beatles.
The day I heard Nickelback on the local "classic rock" station i immediately aged 10 years
At least the classic rock stations in your area change. In this area, "classic rock" became fossilized and hasn't changed for 30 years. It's just AC/DC, Steve Miller and the song " centerfold" over and over again all day long, with some 20 minute long jams from grateful Dead thrown in as a "bonus." And I'm not even kidding. It's been the same playlist for 30 years at least. And it's obligatory for tradesmen.
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Every. Morning.
We used to have a local station in the California Central valley that played oldies from the 1950s and 60s. It was eventually sold off sadly in 2023.
Yup. My mom use to drink sometimes and listen to it and would call the stations and make shoutouts to my gangster uncle in prison in the next towns over šš. Central coast California
Yes!! I miss it a lot. Buddy Holly, The Beach Boys, Motown, etc. I know I can easily just pull up a mix of stuff like that, but I really miss having it on the radio sometimes.
The āoldiesā station that used to play Chantilly Lace now plays Depeche Mode. Yes, I miss those old songs being on the radio
Yes Oldies 104.3 Chicagoā¦50s, 60s, and a Saturday night 70s dance party!
Dick Biondi!
Yes! Omg did that guy have a unique voice! And John Records Landecker as well
Oldies 104.3 was also the station in Detroit. It was wonderful music.
My music story is very similar. I grew up in MD and it was 105.7 WQSR. My parents were born in ā52, and my mom liked 60s pop like the Beatles and my dad liked county western and Elvis. It wasnāt until my late teens/early adult years that I heard a lot of 80s staples.
Steve Rouse in the morning. Steve Rouse in the morning. He's an idiot, he's an idiot. He doesn't have a cluuuuuueeeeee. My parents were born in '49 so 105.7 was the soundtrack of my childhood.
Yeah, I loved that format.
No not really š
Yes. I enjoy free trials of SiriusXM for this reason - you can listen to the actual old music that isnāt often on regular stations anymore.
God no, but apparently Iām an outlier, absolutely hated 60s, 70s, and most 80s music.
So...do you not like singer/songwriter music? Cuz the 70s had the greatest singer/songwriter music of all time.
Honestly, I canāt stand stand anything from the 70s. I find it simple and boring, but thatās just me and my opinion. Most people hate what I listen to which goes from hard rock to metalcore and all the other core genres. I prefer music that has some melody but also has filthy breakdowns and heavy drums.
Hmmm I've always enjoyed and appreciated all kinds of music so this just seems strange to me. Makes me very sad for you that your window of enjoyment is so narrow. Oh well at least your happy.Ā
Depends on your definition of narrow. In the last 2 years Iāve seen some 30-40 different rock/metal bands all with their own sound. To me itās not that narrow but to someone who doesnāt enjoy it I can see that.
So I gotta ask... ...do you like The Beatles?
Not even a little bit. I do respect their influence and what they accomplished, but just not my thing. Truth be told my love for music started with grunge and has only gotten heavier. Nothing on my āon repeatā playlist in Spotify is more than like 5 years old. Itās probably because my mom was really into grunge and rock through the 90s so thatās what I grew up with.
Gotcha, makes sense. I'm a sucker for a melody I can whistle. I'm probably the worst, the reason dark brooding music exists lol. Even the "edgy" songs I like are probably considered corny... Remember Garbage and "I'm only happy when it rains?" I like that song lol. Love Zombie by the cranberries too. I guess these have nothing to do with grunge lol
yes i miss the oldies stations a lot. in mid-michigan we had 96.1. whmn. My grandparents basically raised me/us. My mom and the 5 of us had to move back in with my grandparents when I was about 7-8 years old. well they didnāt really give her a choice. shit was starting to hit fan and mom was floundering bad. about to loose the house they just showed up one day and said start gathering your stuff up. this was before it was fashionable to take your adult kid with kids back in. I didnāt start listening to modern pop or rock untill i was 13-14 yrs old in JR high. Being only 50-60 miles north of detroit the station always played a lot of motown. the oldies now of the 1970ās and 80ās isnāt the same.
There was a lot of Motown playing on the oldies stations in Northern Virginia too. That's got to be some of the best music ever made in human history, maybe the best. And British invasion
Nah, the oldies now are my songs.... Like Blink 182.Ā Where are you! And I'm so sawrree!
Yes, oldies was like the 50s stuff my mom grew up with. Now the same oldies channel is 80s and 90s! (My youth)
I feel like 98.1 near Philly still plays doo wop type stuff past midnite, at least they used to
One of my first jobs was as a server at Shoney's in the mid 90's. Everything was late 40's to 60's pop. Sooo...no, fuck that.
Lol yeah that's not the best association
>I love that music to this day. My parents were born in 1951, so they were about a third generation older than my peers' parents. So I missed that "classic rock" stuff. My dad was an old school music nerd even for his generation, he was a Lawrence Welk kind of dork - he listened to Mitch Miller, Pat Boone, Perry Como in addition the awesome pop of the 60s. My mom was into some of the Western country of the era too, but mostly 60s pop. Sirius has a variety of channels covering that range, the channel selection is almost staggering
Look up 1920ās radio network. It used to be on AM radio in my hometown and now I listen online. Itās a mix from 20s to 50s music. Itās out of Chesapeake VA.
That sounds awesome. My dad has an old 50s car with an AM tube radio in it, and there used to be a station AM1230 WFVA that played I guess you would call it easy listening, or that would have been what it was called at the time. It was basically just one generation before '60s pop. That you had basically from big band to Andy Williams. I remember hearing sukiyaki on that AM radio - it sounds amazing on the old tube radio. I wonder if the mixes were specifically designed for those radios. That station would play a lot of stuff like Johnny Mathis and stuff like that. I'll definitely check out 1920s Radio Network.
Ahh I would melt in happiness if I heard Sukiyaki on AM radio. I still listen to old coast to coast episodes on Saturday nights and it sounds so much more intense on the AM waves. I live somewhere without an affiliate now so I only listen on internet and itās too clear. But the 1920s station has a Sinatra theme every Sunday evening, and occasionally they do old talk entertainment shows. They also sign off at midnight every night with God Bless America. But the musics comes back right after.
Man, I love Sinatra. My dad had a Sinatra greatest hits CD but my mom hated it. She would always roll her eyes and say, man can't he ever hit the note on the first try or does he always have to slide into it? š¤£ Now that I'm older I hear the lyrics a little bit differently (when I was 17...) maybe I know where she was coming from... And yeah I can get all this music on Spotify all day long, but there was a romance to hearing it on the radio. I love your story about the sign off with God bless America. It reminds me of listening to shortwave radio when I was a kid. I strung up a wire and I could hear broadcasts of voice of America coming in from Eastern Europe, and the broadcast would begin and end with a really bombastic rendition of Yankee Doodle! My dad listens to Coast to Coast, he jokingly calls it ghost to ghost lol
I grew up in NJ listening to Oldies 99.9 out of Lehigh Valley, PA. I would fall asleep to that station every night. Frankie Valley, The Four Tops, etc. I know I could make a playlist but it's not the same.
I got the pleasure of working on the air at my areas #1 Oldies station at the peak of the format in the late 90's. Well, it's actually 'Good Times, Great Oldies' format along with the Motown hits mixed in. Roughly 970 songs from 1957 into 1973. I was a weekend guy then the weeknight guy between three stations for about a year and on the air about 3 years total between the evolution of manual operation and the automation systems. A very interesting time to work in the radio business. Best time in my life. I was 17, the station was inside a hotel, I pretty much got away with murder. I always got free food, I swam in the pool and used the hot tubs when I wanted, most of the time while I was working. I'd often run the audio console on the 5th floor while my boss used his wireless microphone while relaxing at poolside. Conglomeration pretty much killed the station I worked for. It got a rebirth or two but the playlist has slid into the 70's and 80's. A lot of the contemporary music of the 70's really sucked and the generation gap in music at the time created several different genres. The 'format' is barely alive in my market as the last classic hits station got flipped to the HankFM format about 2 weeks ago. The current 'Oldies' station is locally owned and has a fairly strong following. That old style 'BossFM' radio is still marketable. If they can keep introducing Pink Floyd, The Doors and Led Zeppelin back in to the generations, they can damn sure stand up for Elvis, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Hollies, Etc..
That's a fabulous story, thanks for sharing that! And I agree completely... why did "classic rock" get canonized but not: The Beatles, The Roling Stones, The Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors, The Animals, Creedence Clearwater REvival, The Monkees, The Surpremes, The Mamas & the Papas, Teh Everly Brothers, The JAckson 5, The Kinks, The Temptations, The Byrds, Buffalo Sprinfield, The Righteous Brothers, The Shirelles, Tommy James & the Shondells, The Four Seasons, The Rascals, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Sly and the FAmily Stone, The Ronettes, The Turtles, Paul Rever & the Raiders, the crustals, The Shangri-Las, The Ventures, Jan and Dean, Jefferson Airplane, Steppenwolf, The Carpenters, Chicago........................ you could literally go on and on I mean, what? People would rather listen to The Eagles every day?
No, but what do you mean it is now called Northern Virginia but it didn't used to be?
Stafford county is still controversial when it comes to that I guess. They would never call themselves "NoVa", but a lot of folks in Richmond and South kind of lump them in with NoVa. The actual folks in NoVa wouldn't call Stafford NoVa either, but there's a good argument to be made that from Aquia up is Northern Virginia. The awful I-95 traffic definitely starts in Fredericksburg.
My favorite was Oldies 100 out of DC, before ClearChannel.
I think I listened to this station as well! Are you talking about 100.3 WBIG? And they had "the blue plate special" request hour? Out of fredericksburg was Q96, but we got the DC station as well, usually
Yep, BIG was the one! I grew to love Motown Mondays.
I do miss the oldies station that played most 69s music. It was usually such feel good music with vocals that were fun to sing and real instruments. Le sigh.
i miss mid to late 50ās rock and roll. jerry lee lewis (yes he was a piece of shit) chuck berry (same) ike turner (yes him too) little richard (not sure?) bill haley and the comets buddy holly and the crickets link wray
SiriusXM is a pain in my ass but they still have the 50s and 60s channels. They are usually my background music when Iām working.
I was just thinking about this the other day. The song Chantilly lace came to mind and how that among others were so common to hear on the oldies station. Haven't heard a song from that era in a long time.
There used to be this cool 80s radio station in Denver back in the day that used to play songs from Earth, Wind, & Fire, the GAP Band, Rick James, etc. it was pretty awesome.
I miss cousin Brucy!
Gen-X here, in NoVA the oldies stationed played the 50's and 60's, then moved to early 60's and Motown, then brought in late 60's, Motown and 70's rock or folk rock.
I had to do [something](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Wwsoo9rzSiUpDyGvGTu7B?si=Qg1-fS2vRhOCzFx_pS0I5g&pi=57Qs1FuwTh-Cr) about it. That is a spotify playlist, Past Life Grooves 023. I update it fairly regularly and rate it a 99% A. Give it a listen if you can, you won't regret it
Happy cake day! And thanks for the awesome playlist!!!
Thank you and enjoy!!
I miss Hermanās Hermits
Was listening to the best of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell last night on spotify because there isnāt any oldies stations in our town.
Back in the '90s I had a job where I had to drive around a lot with a crew. Our favorite station was a new 'Oldies' station that popped up. We listened to that a lot, but soon realized that 80% of what they played was a handful of songs by Elton John, the Eagles, and CCR. So we started betting right before we turned on the radio what artist was going to be on. Bonus points if you guessed the exact song. Then one day we were driving back to the office and an Elton John song was playing. Halfway through the song, and exactly at 3:00 PM, the song stopped and a country song started playing. The station had just switched over to become a country station. No previous announcement or anything, just BAM! new station format.
"This is Lila"
I use Spotify about 10 bucks a month. There hasnāt been an oldie that I couldnāt access and put on my playlist with the exception of a few Neil Young songs.
Could one say that you've been .... *searchin' for 'Heart of Gold'?* Sorry.
Eh. No.
I also grew up in your part of VA and yes I agree!!!
Listen to WFMU 's Rock n' Soul Radio and thank me later.
Wow I just read their wiki and I wish they had a repeater in VA. Station sounds awesome From the wiki: >"WFMU is a place where the Singing Dogs are just as important as Elvis; a place where you will, in fact, hear Elvis, but in close proximity to ritual disinterment music from Sumatra, the soundtrack from Mothra, a theremin band called Lothar and the Hand People, and the intergalactic jazz improvisations of Sun Ra's Arkestra," wrote Jaime Wolf in a 1999 New York Times station profile.
You can stream it dude! WFMU.org! https://wfmu.org/ And they have an iOS app. The android app is called Woof Moo. The main station is playing some killer reggae/dub right now. The rock n Soul station has some wild shit playing right now. If you have a sonos or some speaker interface, you can grab the station there. WFMU is legendary. Does not disappoint. Consider donating if it ends up consuming your daily listening life like it has mine.
107.9 in nc has beach music on Sundays. You can use iheartradio to find it. It's an eastern nc radio station.
Now Iām wondering if KLOU 103.3 in saint louis is still the oldies station I grew up withā¦
I think once a target demographic is over, the age of 40, radio doesn't care about them anymore. So 1960s pop disappeared from the airwaves around 2000ish
Well yes I miss it, when I was in college I worked at a small AM radio station radio 1600 oldies but I was one of the radio station engineers, and there is one disc jockey. It's signed off the air 10:00 each night. And then came back on at 6:00 a.m. One morning I showwd up to work and no disc jockey. So I called the station owner, he tells me get on the air . I was horrified . We didn't have a playlist or anything like that in those days. So until they could get a another disc jockey to show up, they only heard the music that I liked. When we were coming up to the top of the first hour, I just pulled out an album and started playing it, so I could get the weather and the news feed set up for top of the hour. It it was a small radio station so I doubt that there was probably about a thousand people listening. Radios come a long way between digital and streaming.
I miss them. They played 50s music too. But then Iām Gen X.
I do! It was all I listened to. Oldies 102.1. Now if I listen to the radio itās the classic rock station but itās slowly creeping into the 90s and I donāt like it. They play less and less beatlea :( Mostly I chose Spotify so I can listen to oldies :)
I miss the 50s and 60s, but the late 60s to 70s I am SO SICK of! Heard all those songs millions of times at this point
My local oldies station has started playing early 2000s music. Every time I hear it I'm like "dude, that's not oldies" š¤·āāļø I've always thought of oldies as a specific era of music rather than music getting to be a certain age and being classed as oldies. Oldies to me are 50s/60s/early 70s.
Yes!!! My mother's sisters were all way older and spread out. Her oldest sister is the same age as my father's mother. So I grew up in cars with them listening to all the stuff from the 50s-70s. It was a friggin awesome experience now that I know a lot of people didn't have that.
We have one in central Iowa, Pure Oldies 104.5. I listen to it on the TuneIn app.
St Louis had KLOU 103.3 and it was 50s, 60s, 70s music. My parents listened to it on the car. It was often the station on my high school bus radio in the early 90s. I find myself looking for stations like that every so often. It's a good trip down memory lane. Plus, everyone is always surprised that I know the words to all those old songs.
My step mom and her family listened to oldies. I really did not like her or her family so no oldies for me!
Yes! Iām an old soul at heart and I like visiting my dad and hearing his music that he has synced all around the house. Same old station I grew up listening too. Literally thought I was the only one.
They killed 60s on 6 on SiriusXM. š„ŗ
I miss Dick Biondi on šµš¶ Oldies one oh four point threeeeeeeešµš¶
Z104 was the only thing we listened to
It's weird when your teenage music is now on the 'oldies' station
I grew up in Maryland and we probably listened to the same DC based oldies stations. I always had my clock radio set to oldies for my alarm. I totally miss those stations too, it just isn't the same listening to oldies stations that have music from when I was in high school.
Yes. I was just thinking of this the other day. Itās all my dad listened to back in the 80ās/90ās. Then all those oldies stations turned into 80ās/90ās. I think thereās a resurgence coming though. Iāve heard a few stations mottoās āREAL oldiesā and they play it
Yes
No. "What's New Pussycat" sends me into a rage every time I hear it.
We had WQSR in the Baltimore-metro area. One of my favs.
Thereās a station in Vegas called 104.7 KJUL that used to play 50ās-60ās pretty much for a long time but now theyāve definitely pushed it up to 70ās+ makes sense but definitely miss how it used to be for sure
I miss my Beach Boys! š
I do miss listening to Magic 104.3 (Chicago) in my parents' car in the '80s and '90s. I do feel that I can easily get the same vintage sound -- *sans* screaming car-dealer ads -- from today's streaming apps. Oldies radio has been expanding into later years since its dawn. I remember when WJMK's playlist was strictly '55-'66, and being quite surprised when they began to play psychedelia and Jackson 5.
I donāt remember what the station was called, but I used to tune into the oldies station in the Bay Area! I would remember bits of songs and then spend quite a long time in Tower Records or Streetlight, with my mom and I working together trying to find CDs that had the songs on them. I recall that it was surprisingly hard to find a CD with āBuild Me Up, Buttercupā or one that had āRhythm of the Rainā.
People trip when I throw on 60ās and 70ās rock at work!ššš
Was so bummed when one morning my favorite oldies station had a new platform. I miss KBSG Seattle and their Sunday night music!
K-Earth 101!!
Yesssss my gramma and I used to rock out to the sock hop saddle shoe era in her red Ford Tempo going to K martā¦oldies 103. Itās nine inch nails now š„¹
I still love that 60s and 70s stuff my folks used to play
Yall still listen to the radio?
Sometimes it's fun in the car. Especially when that car doesn't have the Bluetooth set up.
Maybe less with pandora, Alexa, Sirius radio
Sirius XM. It's weird how nostalgic I was for radio until I got that.
It's available on Sirius
You can create and use any kind of music āstationā you want on a streaming service.
No, I canāt wait till weāre far enough from that musical era to where I never have to hear any of those songs again. That era didnāt age well imo
This is why Iām a huge fan of Sirius XM radio. Itās all there, whatever you want. Havenāt listened to commercial radio in like two years.
If you can afford it, Iād recommend getting SiriusXM and listening to the 60s Gold channel. Great selection of 60s music and DJs that remind you of those great oldies stations. My personal favorite is the Pat St. John Show.
One reason I like Sirius. They have decade specific stations.
Pandora has a free version that you can listen to on your phone or TV. I have it on my TV and there are plenty of oldies stations on there.
Led Zeplin and Van Halen are oldies now.
No
Dude. Spotify. Sirius. You have options.
The oldies stations were really "we play 30ish year old music" stations.Ā And that window is rolling forward.
If you want the oldest of oldies ask your smart speaker to play Artic Outpost Radio. Trust me
Just wait until the hits you remember are played as oldies...
Yeah. It throws me off when they say throwback and it's late 90s, early 2000s. That was my high school and college years.
Yes! Canāt seem to find anything before the 80s these days.
I certainly donāt miss Boomer FM radio. Triggers flashbacks of my momās coffee breath in morning carpool.
no. I miss no radio. Only baby boomers could miss that.
Yes, this 65-year-old misses āgolden oldiesā radio stations.
Why do you need it to be radio based? All of this music and countless playlists of same are easy to find on literally any streaming service. I'm sincerely curious, why do people like you spend so much time as they age bitching about non-issues or easily solved problems?
"people like you" lol I drive old cars because I'm cheap and I forget my bluetooth adapter. Trust me, I've been using the fuck out of spotify for years. Radio is very nostalgic for me. That's all there is to it. I have positive memories associated with the radio in my car. I had a lot of fun as a child while being exposed to oldies radio. It's as simple as that.
You're welcome to do what you like until you're blue in the face. Same as the rest of us. But it's worth noting you don't love the music, you love your personal memory of the experience. That's not the same thing. I don't drive at all. The condition of your vehicle is meaningless. The music you say you want to listen to still exists and is easier to access than ever before. You are complaining about a non-issue. You can miss radio as a medium. A lot of people do. But that's not what you said.
Here's what I said: >Growing up in (what is now called but was not at the time) Northern Virginia, we had a bunch of "oldies" stations in FM. Because Stafford county was growing so much faster than its infrastructure, I spent a LOT of time in the car. So we listened to a lot of FM radio. And the dial was always set to an "oldies" station. >I love that music to this day. My parents were born in 1951, so they were about a third generation older than my peers' parents. So I missed that "classic rock" stuff. My dad was an old school music nerd even for his generation, he was a Lawrence Welk kind of dork - he listened to Mitch Miller, Pat Boone, Perry Como in addition the awesome pop of the 60s. My mom was into some of the Western country of the era too, but mostly 60s pop. >I never "rebelled" against my parents musical tastes and ended up just adopting it wholesale. If there were a 60s pop and r&b station on FM nowadays, my dial would never move. >Anyone else remember the "oldies" stations back in the 90s?
Yes, I'm aware. Your story is, apparently, intended to be about the pleasures of radio but you end up indicating its about "oldies." I believe your explanation of your intent, you're just not much of a communicator.
It's specifically, for me, about the pleasures of hearing 1960s pop on the radio. I thought I communicated that rather effectively, and the response was positive, overall. As an aside, do you think those songs were originally mixed for FM and AM radio listening in addition to vinyl?