[WinOne4TheGipper]

No!!!! The 50's and 60's. THAT was music. Can't stand the "music" of my generation. BTW, does anyone think that rap and hard rock will ever be called "Golden Oldies"?

[Jim Cane]

With the passing of Richard Rogers, George Gershwin, Harold Arlen etc. there's been no good music. The music of my generation (U2 to grunge) just plain sucks and what has come after that is pure aural feces.

I'm in a good mood today.

[discostu]

Hard rock is already being called "golden oldies", at least when it's hard rock by Led Zepplin. Soon the early days of rap will be on the oldies stations, it's hitting that age, wonder if they'll play "Parents just Don't Understand" I always liked that song.

[Dan from Michigan]

Can't stand the "music" of my generation. BTW, does anyone think that rap and hard rock will ever be called "Golden Oldies"?

That's now considered Classic Rock(although Bob Segar is on the oldies station too). I hear Metallica, Motley Crue, and the Black Crowes right along the stanbys of AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Beatles(usually Sgt Pepper onwards) and Rolling Stones.

[Wallace T.]

It will happen. Bet on it. But there will likely be different levels of "oldies," even as there is now. The most ancient "oldies" station in Dallas plays a mixture of '40s Big Band tunes and '50s and '60s pop music, like Pat Boone and Patti Page, and not early rock or R&B. Other "oldies" clienteles exist for '50s and '60s rock, old Nashville country music, etc. By 2025, Sinatra and the Glen Miller Band will be all but unobtainable commercially, but songs by Britney Spears and Cristina Agulera will be regarded as "oldies."

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I was in a Department store a couple of years ago and was humming along to muzak when I realized what was playing...

Sweet Child of Mine by G&R. Had an "how old am I" attack right then and there.

[Elliott Jackalope]

The day they start playing rap music in stores will be the day I either buy everything over the internet, or get some really good earplugs. I can just see trying to buy some clothes in the local mall while being serenaded by "Pimp Daddy Bling Bling and the Hoe Dawgs" playing their smash hit "I'm gonna punk your white @$$, you honky ba$tard!"

I recently walked out of a "hairstyle salon" (remember barber shops?) when they started playing rap on the stereo. I just cannot stand that hateful, racist, degenerate and despicable "music". I go from being in a good mood to being ready to punch people in about sixty seconds flat. Rap is "music" made by and for evil racists who hate music, hate life and hate white people, and I despise it with every bone in my body.

[GSWarrior]

does anyone think that rap and hard rock will ever be called "Golden Oldies"?

Not soon enough!