I am NOT ok with music in the 90s being refered to as “oldies”. Oasis is NOT oldies!!!

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Oldies is, and forever shall be, music from before the 80s. There are deep reasons I’m not lucid enough to articulate at the moment, but I’m certain of it.

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      3 days ago

      Oldies is 1940s and 50s only.

      Everything else actually has distinct genres that are well defined.

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      3 days ago

      you’ve got the oldies and classic rock pre-80s. the new crap from the 90s and on, and the greatest decade of music ever sandwiched in between.

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      3 days ago

      You must be really old. Oldies is anything from before 1995, grandpa. That’s 30 years if you won’t do the math.

      To put it in perspective, that’s the same time between Joan Jett’s I love Rock n Roll, a 1980 hit and Benny Goodman with his big band music Little Girl Don’t Cry. Elvis wouldn’t become a thing until 1954.

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          2 days ago

          Yeah, totally different. Big girls don’t cry was Four Seasons, 1962. It was also an oldie in 1980. So I’d say the window for oldie is actually 25 years.

          I’m not actually familiar with little girl, don’t cry. I googled 1950 big band music.