xybert Posted July 15, 2014 Report Share Posted July 15, 2014 (edited) Classic Rock radio is my own personal hell. Over the years I've been subjected to literally hundreds of hours of it, hundreds of hours of the same 40 songs over and over. That shit is programmed by sociopaths. It's pure torture. And most young men listen to it so it's not going anywhere. The death of "oldies" radio is such a shame. As a kid in the early 90s (yeah...) I listened to it for hours on end. No repetition, very deep cuts from the mid-50s to about 1970. Every day at noon they played the Billboard top 10 for that day in a certain year. One weekend they played the top 500 songs of all-time, etc. It was stimulating and educational, programmed by real scholars of the music. But it seems like the format is totally extinct now. Yeah, i loved 'oldies' radio growing up, all that classic Rock n' Roll and whatever label The Supremes etc falls under. Thinking now, there was a lot of it in the air at the time with the soundtracks to Stand By Me, Platoon, Tour of Duty, Goodmorning Vietnam, even watchig Back to the Future etc... loved watching re-runs of Happy Days... loved Grease... But Classic Rock... mixed feelings... loved Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin and all that when i discovered them, but there's this certain section of Classic Rock that was always played on radio stations and looped background music CDs at crappy jobs that i worked at and at supermarkets etc: Steeley Dan, The Eagles, Bob Seger... it's probably not bad music but i associate it with audio death on a loop... elevator (to hell) music for me... Edited July 15, 2014 by xybert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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