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pygmy

I have been hearing a couple of DJ's (in and out of the Alb market) say "coming up an old school track" etc. Then they play a song from the mid-late 90's. I'm not saying this is wrong, my question is, what defines "old school" in your opinion? I honestly thought it was the funk era of music not The Fugees or biggie...correct me if I am wrong.
 
What is "old school" depends on when "back in the day" was for you.

To deternmine this use the "Back In The Day Calculator" at http://www.happyrobot.net/robotchow/backintheday.asp

They say this -
People are always talking about how good things were "back in the day". Recently I have noticed people abusing this phrase to describe a wide range of time, almost to the point that "back in the day" seems to be just a good day someone once had.

At happyrobotUSA, setting and obeying standards is important to us, so we have built an official and nationally sanctioned "back in the day" calculator.

Select the year you were born, press submit, and via computers on the "internet" we will tell you your own individual time frame for "back in the day".
 
> What is "old school" depends on when "back in the day" was
> for you.
>
> To deternmine this use the "Back In The Day Calculator" at
> http://www.happyrobot.net/robotchow/backintheday.asp
>
> They say this -
> People are always talking about how good things were "back
> in the day". Recently I have noticed people abusing this
> phrase to describe a wide range of time, almost to the point
> that "back in the day" seems to be just a good day someone
> once had.
>
> At happyrobotUSA, setting and obeying standards is important
> to us, so we have built an official and nationally
> sanctioned "back in the day" calculator.
>
> Select the year you were born, press submit, and via
> computers on the "internet" we will tell you your own
> individual time frame for "back in the day".


I don't know about the calculator, but here in ABQ, I know that the morning guy at Mega does a Old school feature at 9am, and he calls it "Back In The Day"...the songs are usually mid to late 1990's songs. Old achool to me is Zapp and Roger, George Clinton, and other 80's style Funk and old Disco songs. At KISS, they recently added what they call "Throwback Tracks", an obvious follow-up to the "Back In The Day" thing...I'm confused, too!!! From a radio standpoint, I enjoy the listener involvement of the "Back In The Day" feature compared to promoting your "Throwback Tracks" all day. Both KISS and Mega play old songs...we already know that they are old. Just play them!! We don't need to know that you're playing them. When I hear "Big Poppa", I already know it's old school, or wait, uh, I mean Back In The Day, uh, or is it a Throwback... AAARRRGGHHHHH!!!!! Never mind!!
 
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