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After all these years as (rock-based AC) "River North," has Forever quietly moved 93.7 into a kick-ass metal-based Classic Rock format? Oh, yeah, the liners always said "Classic Rock," but--hey--now they really sound like it. Or did I just catch 'em in a weak moment?
 
Seems to me that classic rock as a format is really oldies witha new name. Think about it -20 years ago you had classic rock stations playing the same stuff over and over, now the listeners that care for that are that much older. Classic hits OK I get it. Nostalgas fans are now, well dead or deaf. Oldies fans moved into that hole. Classic rock, well we are all getting old. YOu cant tell me that fans were just created.
The Bus, sure sounds great and you can hear it blaring from every service center around. If I owned a el camino I would love it too. I enjoy every few songs. I cannot deal with the same 100 songs every day. Look dont get me wrong I am sure that its cool to tap the steering wheel to boston every now and then but it is for most people under 50 a every now and then station. OK rip it up, you are the "expert" I am a mere mortal inn your shadow.
 
> Seems to me that classic rock as a format is really oldies
> witha new name. Think about it -20 years ago you had classic
> rock stations playing the same stuff over and over, now the
> listeners that care for that are that much older. Classic
> hits OK I get it. Nostalgas fans are now, well dead or deaf.
> Oldies fans moved into that hole. Classic rock, well we are
> all getting old. YOu cant tell me that fans were just
> created.
> The Bus, sure sounds great and you can hear it blaring
> from every service center around. If I owned a el camino I
> would love it too. I enjoy every few songs. I cannot deal
> with the same 100 songs every day. Look dont get me wrong
> I am sure that its cool to tap the steering wheel to boston
> every now and then but it is for most people under 50 a
> every now and then station. OK rip it up, you are the
> "expert" I am a mere mortal inn your shadow.
>

I agree. I can't listen to classic rock anymore. The libraries are too shallow. If I have to hear "Spirit in the Sky" one more time, my head will explode. And don't even get me started on Canned Heat. The singer always sounded like Kermit the Frog to me.
 
> > Seems to me that classic rock as a format is really oldies
>
> > witha new name. Think about it -20 years ago you had
> classic
> > rock stations playing the same stuff over and over, now
> the
> > listeners that care for that are that much older. Classic
> > hits OK I get it. Nostalgas fans are now, well dead or
> deaf.
> > Oldies fans moved into that hole. Classic rock, well we
> are
> > all getting old. YOu cant tell me that fans were just
> > created.
> > The Bus, sure sounds great and you can hear it blaring
> > from every service center around. If I owned a el camino I
>
> > would love it too. I enjoy every few songs. I cannot deal
> > with the same 100 songs every day. Look dont get me wrong
>
> > I am sure that its cool to tap the steering wheel to
> boston
> > every now and then but it is for most people under 50 a
> > every now and then station. OK rip it up, you are the
> > "expert" I am a mere mortal inn your shadow.
> >
>
> I agree. I can't listen to classic rock anymore. The
> libraries are too shallow. If I have to hear "Spirit in the
> Sky" one more time, my head will explode. And don't even get
> me started on Canned Heat. The singer always sounded like
> Kermit the Frog to me.
>
Yea, I always thought it was Ernie!
 
No rippin'--I agree. Just seems they've heated it up recently, and yeah--they sound like Classic Rock did 20 years ago. Hadn't heard some of those tunes in awhile, at least not back to back to back. Don't know if it's good programming or not--just different from what they'd been doing for a long time. I suppose if it's a move to "roadblock" the rock segment--with Quick on the younger end and Bus on the older end--it's not bad strategy. Then again, maybe they just thought it sounded stale and needed a shot of Classic Rock That Really Rocks.

> Seems to me that classic rock as a format is really oldies
> witha new name. Think about it -20 years ago you had classic
> rock stations playing the same stuff over and over, now the
> listeners that care for that are that much older. Classic
> hits OK I get it. Nostalgas fans are now, well dead or deaf.
> Oldies fans moved into that hole. Classic rock, well we are
> all getting old. YOu cant tell me that fans were just
> created.
> The Bus, sure sounds great and you can hear it blaring
> from every service center around. If I owned a el camino I
> would love it too. I enjoy every few songs. I cannot deal
> with the same 100 songs every day. Look dont get me wrong
> I am sure that its cool to tap the steering wheel to boston
> every now and then but it is for most people under 50 a
> every now and then station. OK rip it up, you are the
> "expert" I am a mere mortal inn your shadow.
>
 
> After all these years as (rock-based AC) "River North," has
> Forever quietly moved 93.7 into a kick-ass metal-based
> Classic Rock format? Oh, yeah, the liners always said
> "Classic Rock," but--hey--now they really sound like it. Or
> did I just catch 'em in a weak moment?

Are they playing 80's hair band music yet? 'Cause once anyone starts calling that Classic Rock, I may just have consider myself old. I'm still enjoying my unwavering denial about being in my 30's.
 
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