The New And Improved Fashion Board

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
if you're saying we can just change who we are, cool.

I'm now a really hot red haired chick with 42 DD boobies. I'm very sexually agressive. Plus I have a PhD in Physics.

I did not say that. I asked a question and I stated an assumption that I had. Stop drinking, pull your pants up, and put away the pictures of that Eva chick.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Cuz it fucks with the space/time continuum.

Alternatively, because "Classic Rock" is what happened when someone from a previous generation was asked "why isn't Stairway to Heaven considered an Oldie?" I suspect the next version of same will have the word "vintage" in it. "That was REM's "Radio Free Europe," right here on Sirrus 208173 Vintage Indy Rock. Coming up: Alice In Chains' 'Rooster'!"

Back in the day, I recall driving home from college during my senior year in the 1976 Ford LTD station wagon and listening to the radio (AM/FM stereo was the only option.). I was listening to 99 cbs-FM, the oldies station in NYC, as I drove south on the Garden State Parkway. After a lengthy commercial break honoring Crazy Eddie, they played Meatloaf's 'Bat Out Of Hell' and at that moment my mortality hit me. It's a scary realization when songs you considered popular/classic suddenly become Oldies.

[dtb]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
if people like you keep asking these "why is the world ran this way questions" right out in public like this, and they're questions people like me can't answer, pretty soon Thurgreed is going see the average white man doesn't run the world.

Then Spanky has won. Can you see how you need to drop this now?

This is classic Hank. Do you have a radio station, Hanky?

[dtb]

Originally posted by Fugee

We were horrible horrible children in our persistent torment of the Fugee Sister. It's a miracle my sister isn't a serial killer.

Don't be so sure. You are from Minnesota, are you not?

[SlaveNoMore]

Pretty Little Flower
No need to get all snippy. I was just asking a simple question.

I never really liked them for 30 years or so, but I'm really digging old Dire Straits and anything Knopfler lately.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Do radio stations still advertise themselves as "classic rock"? If so, are they updating their play lists? Each year, another year's worth of "classics" hit the airwaves. Or is it still Stairway to Heaven and Freebird?

(1) Yes, both regular radio and satellite radio stations do, In fact, Sirius has at least two -- Classic Vinyl for the late 60s/early 70s, and Classic Rewind for the mid 70s. Arguably others (the Spectrum and the Vault) qualify as well. Podunkville has one and a half "classic rock" stations on regular radio. The half one calls itself something else that escapes me, and emphasizes the loud and heavier stuff, but if you play a lot of Aerosmith, you are classic rock.

(2) Perhaps I am overgeneralizing, but the "classic rock" playlist on many stations seems to be shrinking, not expanding. It *is* primarily Freebird and Stairway, and God forbid they play a different Skynyd song. Any expansion by a move forward chronologically is very slow -- maybe the occasional Guns and Roses song gets played, but that's it.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Cuz it fucks with the space/time continuum.

Alternatively, because "Classic Rock" is what happened when someone from a previous generation was asked "why isn't Stairway to Heaven considered an Oldie?" I suspect the next version of same will have the word "vintage" in it. "That was REM's "Radio Free Europe," right here on Sirrus 208173 Vintage Indy Rock. Coming up: Alice In Chains' 'Rooster'!"

Sirius calls it "First Wave." A little too MTV-influenced, but okay.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by dtb
Do you have a radio station, Hanky?

66.6 on your FM dial

[LessinSF]

"Classic rock" now goes over 40 years back. Whereas, in 1984, songs just 20 years old were "oldies."

However, this discussion about whether Rod Stewart is OK (not "oldie") or Pat Booney (smoldey) skeeves me out. Pony,

Albert Collins?

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I never really liked them for 30 years or so, but I'm really digging old Dire Straits and anything Knopfler lately.

It's called getting old. From Wolf Mother to Dire Straits -- it's pretty easy to extrapolate where this is going. Let me know when you want a copy of my Steely Dan box set.

Originally posted by ltl/fb
and flinched back into her chair when I walked forward.

Do you actually hit the people you work with? What the fuck?

[nononono]

Originally posted by LessinSF
"Classic rock" now goes over 40 years back. Whereas, in 1984, songs just 20 years old were "oldies."

However, this discussion about whether Rod Stewart is OK (not "oldie") or Pat Booney (smoldey) skeeves me out. Pony,

Albert Collins?

It's hard to look at the post-Faces Rod and then hear now-Rod slinging (real) oldie after oldie now. I mean, even at 40, which didn't seem so long ago, he was still sort of riding on that sex god wave. What's the comparative track for Burning Man attendees and lawyers? :-)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by nononono
It's hard to look at the post-Faces Rod and then hear now-Rod slinging (real) oldie after oldie now. I mean, even at 40, which didn't seem so long ago, he was still sort of riding on that sex god wave. What's the comparative track for Burning Man attendees and lawyers? :-)

Rod's a shrewd businessman. He's trying to morph into Tony Bennett.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Not Bob
God forbid they play a different Skynyd song.

"Play me a song, Curtis Loew, Curtis Loew..."

You can't go wrong with "Needle and the Spoon" either.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I never really liked them for 30 years or so, but I'm really digging old Dire Straits and anything Knopfler lately.

I've been cranking "Cum on Feel the Noize" and Robert Plant's "Big Log" a lot lately.