Are we really THIS old?

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bjgrem01@reddit

In the 90s, they called The Wall by Pink Floyd classic rock. These songs are more than a decade older now than The Wall was back then.

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Imaginary_Attempt_82@reddit

This is what I try to keep in perspective when my first reaction is “wait a minute this isn’t classic rock!”

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

I’m honestly more cheesed at what songs and artists they pick and choose because it always seems like they choose the wimpiest music from any artist they deem “classic”.

Like they wanna play Green Day - you’re gonna hear Lonely Road or September, not Basketcase or Longview.

Or Offspring - you’ll hear garbage off of Americana but you’ll never hear Come Out and Play.

So much other amazing 90s music they won’t even go near. Primus? Nope. Smashing Pumpkins? Maybe they’ll play tonight tonight but you’ll never hear Cherub Rock or Bullet with Butterfly Wings. Tool? No fucking way.

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pancakesausagestick@reddit

Who is THEY here?

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

If you have to ask you'll never know

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imhereforthevotes@reddit

Oh man we have a new "Alternative" Station in my small-mid market and for the 1st week I was like "this is nice" and then... they started cycling through exactly the same kind of stuff you're talking about over and over.

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ThresholdSeven@reddit

It's not classic rock. It was classic rock. Now it's the oldies.

Pearl Jam is as old now as the Beatles were in the 90s. How am I still alive?

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BlueViper20@reddit

sticks fingers in ears lalalalalalala I can't hear you.

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kg51113@reddit

Pearl Jam is as old now as the Beatles were in the 90s.

I've had to remind myself of this a few times. In the 90s, the oldies station played a lot of 60s music. Starting in 2020, the 90s music was hitting the 30-year mark.

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ThresholdSeven@reddit

We're archaic relics from a different century to people who are already out of college and living adult lives in their twenties.

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Soszai@reddit

Those songs are all “classic” and “rock,” but they’re not “classic rock.” That’s a specific sound from the 60’s and 70’s. Just because Nirvana and Pearl Jam are old - that doesn’t mean they belong in the same genre as Deep Purple and Creedence

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bjgrem01@reddit

We have a radio station here that refers to them as "classic alternative"

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nvmls@reddit

Now we are lumped in with the 60's and 70s.

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RotrickP@reddit

I went to Great Adventure a few times this year, 80% of the music they piped in through the speakers was from 92-2008. Our music is classic rock now

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JimMcRae@reddit

Meh, Pearl Jam was on classic rock stations 20 years ago

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Middle_Aged_Insomnia@reddit

Runaway train

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HalfHorseDover@reddit

Well, I saw something recently that said it was the 40-year anniversary of John Waite's "Missing You" reaching No. 1. That was hard to accept since he was out touring this summer.

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HermaeusMajora@reddit

Smashing Pumpkins "Soma"

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Monstrita@reddit

Yes. As soon as they start play your music on the oldies radio station, it's a done deal.

I remember in the 90's the oldies played used to be from the 50's/ 60's....so 30 to 40 years prior

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T-Bombie@reddit

The first time I heard Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit on the classic rock station it stopped me dead in my tracks....I had to sit down and ponder my existence

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Nightstands@reddit

Heard it in the Food Lion yesterday while grabbing some diapers (not for me… yet)

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imhereforthevotes@reddit

oh my favorite is hearing hardcore nasty Guns N Roses off Appetite for Destruction in the middle of the produce aisle. Like, do you people KNOW WHAT HE'S SAYING?

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redditprofile99@reddit

So hear me out. I don't think you can call these "classic rock". I know people do but the classic rock era was the 60's and 70's. These are from the grunge era. If everything just gets grouped into "classic rock" when it ages, then there really is no "classic rock" genre. Every rock song ever made will end up being classic rock. The point is to group songs into a common genre. Grunge is old AF now too, but it's not "classic rock".

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RaphaelSolo@reddit

I find Bowling for Soup's 1985 helpful for maintaining perspective on the passage of time. But yeah, we old.

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mem1003@reddit

Today that song would be 2005 which is after when 1985 was released.

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RaphaelSolo@reddit

I know, I watched the Parody. Wasn't bad but could have been better.

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no____thisispatrick@reddit

I stand on my principle that classic rock is a genre defined by its sound and time

Just because something is 25 years old does not make it classic rock.

Jimi. CCR. Janis. Skynyrd. The Doors.

That's classic rock.

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spinereader81@reddit

Is Black considered that sad? I think Jeremy is far sadder.

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t0msie@reddit

I'm 74 vintage, so maybe too old for this sub.

Hearing "hey yaa" on the old person radio station did hurt.

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im_a_picasso@reddit

We experienced the last act of rock n roll in the 90s. After growing up on our parents, and older siblings rock n roll tapes, we got our own punk rock version in the 90s, and then the century turned. And I feel like we're far enough from it now that the 60-90s is already being seen as a the same musical movement historically. The straight line from Beatles to Zep to Van Halen to Nirvana if you will.

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NonCorporealEntity@reddit

Classic rock is a genre that covers radio rock from the 60s - 70s.

Calling these bands classic rock is like calling Garth Brooks old school country.

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_MistyDawn@reddit

Agreed. If they're lumping these in with classic rock, they're working from a bad definition.

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Underfyre@reddit

That's what I was coming here to say. "Classic Rock" is a specific era of music, not just music that's more than a decade old.

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superschaap81@reddit

When I was a kid, the local classic rock station playing "Hits from the 50's, 60's and 70's!" then I was 20something and it was 60's, 70's and 80's. Now it's 70's, 80's and 90's.

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cjmar41@reddit

When I heard Gin Blossoms *Hey Jealousy* playing in the grocery store last year, I had the sudden urge to purchase a bottle of Centrum Silver

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blue_suavitel@reddit

Hahhahaha I love that song

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TerrorGnome@reddit

If you get a chance to see them live, absolutely do so. We caught the New Miserable Experience anniversary tour a few years ago and they were fantastic live. And the concert experience itself was so much more chill since basically everyone in attendance was 40+.

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Makotroid@reddit

Oof

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Exotic-End@reddit

Oh man, Nutshell.. Aic is so underrated

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Ambitious_Jelly8783@reddit

So if our songs are now classic rock, what do we call songs that were classic rock???

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Gwilym_Ysgarlad@reddit

Oldies

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Ambitious_Jelly8783@reddit

Golden Oldies

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Gwilym_Ysgarlad@reddit

Nirvana's first album was released 27 years after the release of the first Beatles album. That was 35 years ago.

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UpkeepUnicorn@reddit

I remember several years ago, 12+ at this point, I was at a park with my son, and there were some eleventeen year old girls talking about music, and they were asking each other if they heard this "new" Goo Goo Dolls song. I thought to myself, man I have been listening to them since I first heard them on the Twister soundtrack with Long Way Down. That was like 1996. All that to say I felt very old that day.

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kg51113@reddit

I've heard songs in the grocery store and other places that I couldn't believe were allowed! Then I remembered that those songs are old now and this is probably how our parents felt about 60s music.

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idog99@reddit

My fave band in the 90s was Led Zeppelin that "classic rock" was 25 years old at the time. Now 25 year old music is Nickelback and Green Day.

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Prossdog@reddit

I thought it was crazy hearing Pearl Jam and Nirvana on classic rock radio. But then I started hearing Weezer, Foo fighters, and (get this one) Three Doors Down. And I was like aright, c’mon now, this has to stop.

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2099AD@reddit

When I was a teenager in the 90s and asked my aunt for some "Classic Rock" CDs for Christmas, I started listing off 70s bands. She responded with, "That's what I used to listen to at your age."

I'm about the same age now that she was at the time, so... yeah, that tracks.

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