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Chocoholic
03-23-2009, 04:41 PM
I always thought of oldies music as before 1980. (I was born in '81.) Now, it seems like a lot of 80's and even early 90's music is being called oldies.

If it was around while I was alive, it's NOT old!!!
brie
03-23-2009, 05:22 PM
I would say it's anything before the current decade. I sometimes teach aerobics and people get tired of current songs pretty quickly. The test of a good aerobics song is an "oldie but goodie" - a song that has been around at least 10 years and people still love it.
Yooch
03-23-2009, 05:55 PM
As was pointed out--anything before the current decade. But when I hear the term "oldies", 50s Doo Wop usually comes to my mind first
Faith
03-23-2009, 08:32 PM
As was pointed out--anything before the current decade. But when I hear the term "oldies", 50s Doo Wop usually comes to my mind first

That's what I think of when I hear the word oldies.
brie
03-23-2009, 08:47 PM
I personally think of 50's Doo Wop, but I also think of 60's Motown.
MickeyMac
03-23-2009, 08:55 PM
To me oldies music is 50's rock, doo wop, early 60's stuff, British invasion, Motown, other 60's stuff(not psychedelic so much).


Now oldies radio has pretty much abandoned that format in favor of 70's music. In my opinion people like The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, Bachman Turner Overdrive, and Jackson Browne do not belong on oldies radio. The oldies radio station here now includes Steve Miller, Bob Seger, Eddie Money and Lynryd Skynryd.
browneyes106
03-23-2009, 10:43 PM
I would consider music from the 50's and 60's to be oldies. But I think in ten years music from 70's will be added to the category.
James
03-25-2009, 03:35 AM
To me oldies music is 50's rock, doo wop, early 60's stuff, British invasion, Motown, other 60's stuff(not psychedelic so much).

I totally agree! I don't like oldies being "watered down" to include 1970s music. Granted, I like 1970s music, but I expect to find it on a station that isn't labeled oldies.
Fleet
03-25-2009, 09:23 PM
Hard to define accurately.
'50s and '60s, for sure. Maybe also early-to-mid-'70s. (?)
Sharop
03-26-2009, 01:15 PM
I've always viewed "oldies" to mean 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s music.
MickeyMac
03-26-2009, 01:29 PM
For those of you who think 70's and 80's music is "oldies", you guys are young
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL :D :D
Faith
03-26-2009, 04:04 PM
The classic rock station around here plays Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Foo Fighters.. I always think this is sooooo not classic rock.
Adamantium
03-26-2009, 04:26 PM
For me, "Oldies" is 1950s, 60s and early 70s. I mean that's what the oldies stations used to play when I was growing up. 80s and 90s are not current, but I wouldn't consider them oldies. Maybe we need to make up a new term for those decades.
MickeyMac
03-26-2009, 05:35 PM
The classic rock station around here plays Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Foo Fighters.. I always think this is sooooo not classic rock.



Same here.
MickeyMac
03-26-2009, 05:36 PM
For me, "Oldies" is 1950s, 60s and early 70s. I mean that's what the oldies stations used to play when I was growing up. 80s and 90s are not current, but I wouldn't consider them oldies. Maybe we need to make up a new term for those decades.



I so agree with you.
Cactus Jack
03-26-2009, 05:39 PM
The classic rock station around here plays Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Foo Fighters.. I always think this is sooooo not classic rock.
Its classic, but not classic rock! LOL, well ok, not old enough to be considered classic rock.


I think Oldies is 50s-70s, or more 50s-late 60s. , but even some of the mid 60s stuff sounds new LOL