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Starting tomorrow is 90s rock officially Classic Rock?
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Uhhh.... The local classic rock station in Boston has been playing Nirvana for a while now.
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.....oh, for fuck's sake. This is gonna be like when I tuned in to Nick at Nite recently, remembering it being nothing but '50s-'70s classic TV only to find out their definition of "classic" is now Friends and other '90s shit.
That's been the case for a good 15 years. Especially since they spun off TV Land to be Nick-at-Nite 24/7 (and then TV Land was overtaken by that as well, though they still play the 50s-70s classics during daytime slots).
I don't think there's a hard and fast rule like that. Certainly, classic rock stations will play whatever is old enough to make their listeners happy and not new enough to turn their listeners off. In other words, whatever will make them money.
Also, people are older than they realize. It's happened more than once that someone expressed shock that Nirvana was on a classic rock station and I had to point out that Nevermind came out over 25 years ago.
Damn, it's really been that long? When I was younger I used to fall asleep to the old shows or use them as background noise, they were like comfort food. I think MeTV still shows them, but their schedule is pretty random.
Yes, if you don't have satellite (or if you do have satellite but also have an antenna). MeTV is like 90s Nick at Nite, and Laff TV shows the rejects from cable reruns of 80s-00's shows, which can make it pretty good. Late 2016 I went without cable for a while and got into Night Court from Laff TV.
I'll have to look up Laff TV when I get home. I love Night Court so much.
Hell I remember watching The Wonder Years on Nick at Nite when I was a tyke in the 90's, though, given the subject of the show, that might've been a special case.
Depends what you consider "classic rock" I'd say. Personally, I consider any rock before the 90s to be called "classic rock" even though anything from 2000 is technically classic. I consider that an era rather than a definition.
Like the term "old school hip-hop." Personally anything from the 80s and 90s I'd throw in there. I wouldn't throw Nelly in with Country Grammar even though it released in 2000 because he's from a different era than the classic boom bap.
Like the term "old school hip-hop." Personally anything from the 80s and 90s I'd throw in there. I wouldn't throw Nelly in with Country Grammar even though it released in 2000 because he's from a different era than the classic boom bap.
I will never consider 90s rock to be classic rock. Neither will I consider most 80s rock to be classic rock. For me, the standard is still 60s-maybe 81-82? Everything else from the 80s is basically AOR, Alternative and you various sub-genres of Metal. Grunge is Grunge, and will always be just that. Hell, some of the artists in Grunge and Alternative might even take offense in being homogenized into a big banner. Punk, Alternative and Grunge were pretty much a counter-culture musical movement against more mainstream stuff like rock of the 70s and 80s (classic rock, AOR and Hair Metal) and pop. At least that's how I see it.
growing up i kinda internalized "classic rock" to mean "rock from the 60s and 70s." Any more recent than that and I start just calling it by its scene/subgenre. even if classic rock radio stations have started playing different decades as part of their business model, i'd still only ever call grunge bands or hair metal or whatever by those more specific terms.
they play fucking Three Doors Down on classic rock stations now.
here take one of Boise's classic rock stations for a spin https://www.j105.com eventually you will hear 90s and beyond rock on it. At the moment I linked to it it was playing Queensryche.
here take one of Boise's classic rock stations for a spin https://www.j105.com eventually you will hear 90s and beyond rock on it. At the moment I linked to it it was playing Queensryche.
Buddy, I heard Enter Sandman on our local oldies station the other day. It's already classic rock.
I just watched Orange County for the first time since it came out the other night and completely forgot there were 2 separate scenes of girls dancing to this song. I think they really wanted it to be a thing and it backfired.
Nirvana and Pearl Jam been on Toronto classic rock stations for more than a decade now.
Wow, yeah this is a more recent change. Our "classic rock" stations mainly stopped around mid-80s.
I saw a lady driving around in a Firebird with a "Crazy Bitch" sticker on her back windshield and her license plate was "BKCHRRY". She's well on her way to classic status now, fuck...
I was working in the GTA around 2007ish and our classic rock station Q107 was already playing Nirvana and Pearl Jam even then.
In the 90s the classic rock stations were playing way more 70s music than 60s, so starting tomorrow classic rock is Limp Bizkit and Blink 182.
Nah, it's "jobless uncle who spends time alternating between mooching off your parents and spending time in rehab" rock.
So what stations play CCR and Seals & Croft if not classic rock stations, because I'll kill myself if I hear them in the same rotation as Green Day and Tool.
20 years seems to be the amount of time required for a song to be considered "classic". 10 years for "retro".