It has happened, music of my youth sounds like "oldies" to me

[RgrF]

Local "oldies" station has decided that oldies now start with the 80's; seminal 60s and excruciating 70s music is now apparently museum material.

Corporate radio truly sucks!

[Ombligo]

It's not just music -- TCM now considers movies from the 80s' as classics

[RAMd®d]

I bristled when the music of my youth started being played on the Oldies station a few years ago.


That's somewhat tolerable if a misnomer of sorts.

How 'bout when the music of your ute becomes Musak for elevators and supermarkets.

That's bristled^cubed.

[lost in space]

It's distressing to me to hear 80s "oldies" that are new to me.

[$tevie]

I'm so old that there were not decades of rock music to fall back on. Oldies were songs from ten years ago or so. So to me, oldies are anything that are ten years or more. Not that I refer to any music as oldies unless I'm kidding around, since it's kind of a dumb term dreamed up by radio execs.

[AllGold]

We know this--but don't think about it: 1982 was 40 years ago.

When you were 10 or 15 years old, what year was 40 years earlier?

[pRICE cUBE]

$tevie wrote:
I'm so old that there were not decades of rock music to fall back on. Oldies were songs from ten years ago or so. So to me, oldies are anything that are ten years or more. Not that I refer to any music as oldies unless I'm kidding around, since it's kind of a dumb term dreamed up by radio execs.

I heard some teenagers say that the 70's, 80's and 90's are "oldies". Anything older that that are "golden oldies".

[freeradical]

So, "Sonic Youth" is old? Yay or Nay?