If you move to the I-95 corridor NY or north you don't need to deal with this. All the classic rock stations play Dirty Deeds and 3 other AC/DC songs and Teenage Wasteland on a loop, and have for 20+ years.
There's this station I've grown up listening to that I associate with where the "old stuff" is played (WSFM 101.7fm in Australia), and the other day I heard Welcome to The Black Parade on it, I almost fell out of my chair.
I do not like this, not one bit!!
Some things never belong on classic rock stations because they're not fucking rock!
Dude, yesterday I heard a radio ad promoting "vintage alternative" music and it was fucking "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers.
Vintage.
I wanted to throw my geriatric elder Millennial ass through my windshield.
I feel you. The local alternative station played a "throwback" of Macklemore's Thrift Shop.
Don't worry, you can consol yourself with all the great new rock music being made
Tbf, even as someone around the same age as you, I can't even make my own. Like, purely as a hobby but it all comes out as like stuff from the late 60s and early 70s. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't make the rock/guitar music i grew up with.
I could always drown it in fuzz or hide the guitars, like everyone else these days I guess.
I'm just having a moan. I think its partly the emergance of rap etc. but also a generation traumatised by covid might not be into the same leary, brash rock sounds others might like. I mean, hearing it live with a huge crown thats full of energy makes such a difference. I'm hoping when there's a higher percentage who experienced it live during those years instead, it might get better.
It sucked the first time music from my teen years made it on to the classic rock station. But it hurt hearing stuff from my 20s on there now.
In the end it doesn’t really matter
In the end, it doesn't even matter
Is this "Um ackchyually" bait? 😅
To be fair, Linkin Park had plenty of popularity into the 2010s. Stuff is moving so fast that Gen Z or A are going hear Post Malone or Billy Eilish as a classic in about 4 to 5 years. Hell, they'll say Billy Eilish is out of gas by the time she's 30. Get ready for the AI avalanche, here's a throwback remake of Harry Styles and Bruno Mars singing "Easy Lover" in the exact same style and audio quality that it was originally recorded in.
Here’s an oldie coming at you fresh out of the Time Machine from 1998…
☠️
“That was All American Rejects. Next up is Death Cab For Cuties and Alien Ant Farm.”
FUUUCK!!
Followed by your grandfather's favorite Nirvana!
It’s so wild to me that Nirvana is old, that I’m old.
I heard the older folks say that I would wake up and be old one day and it would feel like barely any time has passed. “Young people will treat you like a dinosaur and you’ll still think you’re 25.”
I just can’t believe it.
Time has slipped through my fingers. Everything I put off a week ago was actually thousands of years ago now.
30-40 has been a month or so.
I'll give it a shot I guess.
Now where is the Classier Rock station?
You want the Oldies station now. What once was Elvis and Hank Williams is now playing AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, and all your other favorite 70's and 80's rock hits.
If you want Elvis and Hank Williams, you gotta go to the Classical station.
If you want Mozart... I don't know... Find a fancy restaurant or an elevator?
Hybrid Theory was released 24 years ago.
And there hasn't been a better album since
When someone mentions a weird old man bothering people with his weird-old-man music and I expect it to be 70s prog rock but it’s Radiohead or Aphex Twin or something
Classic Rock is an ever expanding black hole of music
Good thing about having a 80s/90s station in the region is that they have to dramatically rebrand before they can branch out to more recent decades.
You mean there are themes besides "the 80s, 90s, and today?"
Because I've been hearing that phrase for twenty-odd years.
Yeah, it's old music, but introduce kids to it and they love it as much as we did.
I remember this type of discussions and the exact same arguments on Reddit, or was it Digg, way back when. Classic rock then was Phish or Grateful Dead.
Well, as a result, I've never gotten into these two particular bands, but I did start listening to music that's like 10 or 20 years older than the stuff I grew up with. In fact, only recently, I've gotten a record player and some vinyl records. Works great for lo-fi rock which is imperfect by design.
I went to a Underoath concert last week (They’re Only Chasing Safety 20th Anniversary Tour) and there was a father with a ten year old child.
To be fair that was also the same exact effect Linkin Park had when it was first on the radio.
Somebody post the Sisyphus meme I’m on mobile
It's like you're looking right at me with these things, damn!
