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Originally Posted by Electronic M
"oldies" and "classic rock" are fairly meaningless words now (many of the stations that use that word have gradually stripped it of much of it's meaning)....When I was a kid first listening to radio they meant Doo-Wop/roots rock of the 50's then gradually pre-brit invasion, brit-invasion, 70's and onward....A friend 1 year younger than me aptly stated in the last year or so "Man, it makes me feel old hearing early 90's Nirvana songs that came out in my lifetime played on 'classic rock' stations".
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Yeah, in my area we had two main stations that played older rock music a "classic rock" station and an "oldies" Station, when I was growing up the "oldies" station played "rock music" from the 1950s and 1960s it was called Oldies 94.3 (now its called something else but they certainly don't play "oldies" music anymore) and the other station was called Classic Rock 97.7 which played rock from the 1960s-1980s (now its called 97.7 "The Stream" and they mostly play 1970s and 1980s Rock music.)
So yeah they definitely don't play the same stuff anymore that they used to back in the 1990s and early 2000s when I was in grade school and Jr. High and High School.