Alert: The Maps Thread

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  1. luftmensch

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    The radio version of classic rock has expanded to include harder rock from the 80’s and 90’s. And “oldies” now include 70’s and 80’s pop.
     
  2. luftmensch

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    KLOS in LA, I used to listen to their year end countdown of “greatest songs ever” and it was all 60’s and 70’s rock (and Stairway to Heaven was usually #1). But as you say it’s evolved since then.
     
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  3. Quakes05

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    "well I'm going out west where I belong..."



    :cool:
     
  4. Q*bert Jones III

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    There's a station over here that does Classic Rock for Genexxers. So they play Green Day, Sublime, and the Cure.
     
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  5. Pittsburgh Ref

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    But that's my thing though, during the time the music was made, classic rock wasn't a label. It's a retro label.
     
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  6. Pittsburgh Ref

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    Yes yes yes. Sabbath is an edge case for me because they are now seen as folding right in with the stuff they used to sneer at. If you will.
     
  7. bigredfutbol

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    #1307 bigredfutbol, Jun 14, 2025
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    It always amazes me how narrow the playlists are at these stations—never anything resembling a deep cut or overlooked gem from the era. You can listen to one of these stations for years and basically never hear a single song you haven’t heard dozens of times before.
     
  8. Khan

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    Yeah, that looks like bullshyte.

    Coors > Miller in Wisconsin?
    Stella in Nevada?
    Corona > Coors in Colorado?
     
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  9. luftmensch

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    Yep, they’re basically recycling nostalgic songs for a certain demographic to sing along to in the car.
     
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  10. aveslacker

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    Maybe, and I can accept Sabbath as classic rock, but I can't think of Blondie as anything but disco.
     
  11. Sounders78

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    o_O

    Didn't they start out as punk? And certainly more New Wave than disco.
     
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  12. luftmensch

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    They were never disco, they’re new wave and came out of the New York punk scene. They kinda went disco for Heart of Glass but that doesn’t make them a disco band any more than Rapture made them rap or The Tide is High reggae.
     
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  13. aveslacker

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    Fair enough, I was thinking of Heart of Glass and Rapture (which I would also consider disco, or disco-ish). I can see them being all of those things, but the only way I would consider them classic rock is if you consider all popular music from that time period as classic rock.
     
  14. soccernutter

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    What I most remember about listening to KLOS was that, during rush hour, they had the most frequent traffic updates. And when I heard about the disturbance post Rodney King trial, and the exit at Florence Ave being close, I turned on KLOS for the traffic updates, and their updating was better than anybody else (even the AM news stations).
     
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  15. superdave

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    I suspect the Eagles and Chicago represent Pennsylvania and Illinois, respectively, for non musical reasons.
     
  16. superdave

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    They started 100% New Wave. They were my favorite band in high school.

    IMO their first album is their best. The others have too many weak tracks. The first one is really solid, even though it doesn’t have any 10 out of 10 songs like Dreaming or Youth Nabbed as Sniper or Heart of Glass.

    And if you like ironic kitsch, you’ll find it in abundance on that record.
     
  17. superdave

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    They were outstanding dilettantes in so, so many genres. Disco, hard rock, Eurodisco, doo wop, surf music…they literally did it all.
     
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  18. chaski

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    Popularity is based was google searches.
    Maybe many in Pennsylvania searched for “who said ‘I hate the Eagles’”?
     
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  19. luftmensch

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    Yeah as far as the marketing term “classic rock” goes I totally agree. The dudes singing along to Slow Ride or whatever don’t want to hear Blondie.
     
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  20. luftmensch

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    Parallel Lines is the one for me, one of those albums where some of the lesser known tracks outshine the hits (11:59 might be my favorite Blondie song).
     
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  21. russ

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    I would suggest looking at Rapture as cultural appropriaton,but that's just me.
     
  22. superdave

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    Not any more so than when they culturally appropriated SoCal culture for surfer songs, or when they culturally appropriated Motown on their girl group songs, or when they…you get the point.

    Them doing rap is the equivalent of Don Rickles insulting Jews or Italians or African Americans.
     
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  23. soccernutter

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    Are you an Illinois guy? I assume you prefer Chicago. ;)
    In Pennsylvania, that might not be a music question.
     
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  24. Dr. Wankler

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    I live in Northeast PA
     

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