| Originally Posted by adrift /img/forum/go_quote.gif In the early 90s, with the death of glam metal, a lot of metal stations changed format to "Classic Rock" stations. I can't stand that stuff. At first I didn't mind it much, but over time the constant rotation of Southern/Country Rock, Progressive, and Arena Rock, and the almost complete lack of any interesting 60s stuff that we haven't already heard a billion times just really grates on me. In my neck of the woods Classic Rock stations are the epitome of sort of a good ol' boy thing. I'd much rather the Oldies stations over the Classic rock ones now. Odd thing is happening now though, a lot of the Classic rock stations are now playing later and later music. Its not too surprising to hear early 80s rock on a Classic rock station... I'm wondering if that means we'll be hearing later 60s stuff on the Oldies stations then... |
| Originally Posted by Uncle Erik /img/forum/go_quote.gif But today, I see people referring to 1990s music as "old school," whick kinda freaks me out. It wasn't that long ago, was it? |
| Originally Posted by Uncle Erik /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'd also go with anything much before the Beatles. They changed everything. But today, I see people referring to 1990s music as "old school," whick kinda freaks me out. It wasn't that long ago, was it? |
| Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich /img/forum/go_quote.gif The early 90s was before the loudness wars. Of course that sound sounds dated and old school to the young'ns. |
| Originally Posted by Ham Sandwich /img/forum/go_quote.gif I consider "oldies" to be a static genre. There are no more songs with the oldies sound being made. Classic rock, on the other hand, is a growing genre. There continues to be music made that fits with the classic rock style and sound. So the genre continues to grow. For example I would consider The Allman Brother's album "Hittin' the Note" to be classic rock even though it was released in 2003. I wouldn't be surprised to hear it on a classic rock station. I don't consider the classic in classic rock to mean that the music has to be a certain age like the classic in a classic car. |
| Originally Posted by blackbird /img/forum/go_quote.gif You know, I've always wondered who and what exactly started the loudness war... |
| Originally Posted by adrift /img/forum/go_quote.gif I never realized there was a "loudness war". What does that refer to exactly? |
| Originally Posted by blackbird /img/forum/go_quote.gif You can always refer to good old Wikipedia! But in case you don't want to, I'll tell you a summary. It has been known that artists increasinlgy make their music louder in order to compete with each other. However, in Rock and Pop music, the Snare drum/drum effect is always the loudest sound, at 0. In order to increase the loudness of the track, you must decrease the dynamic range of the song, that is, making everything quiet loud, so that there is no difference between the twio. However, when listening to the music, the brain automatically because bored of it, and all the intricacies of music is lost. You can no longer tell one drummer from the other, and evertyhing is just loud and obnoxious. Many have begun to digitally clip their music, which is unobservable in lossy, but sounds horrible in lossless. Many albums are great musically, but just suffer in their dynamics(Death Magnetic comes to mind). |
| Originally Posted by Justin Uthadude /img/forum/go_quote.gif I just thought of another turning point, kinda like the Beatles mentioned several times. Get ready, 'cause this will scare some of you. I grew up in SoCal near the beach. The only radio was AM; what we're now calling the "oldies". There were 3 at the time - KRLA, KHJ, and KFWB (now all news, actually the first all news in LA). After that came "underground" radio (FM). They first started playing 'rock', as opposed to rock and roll. They had few if any commercials, and played no more "oldies" . . . |
