Back in the ’80s, when I was young, I would listen to WCBS fm. It’s the big Oldies station in New York. I no longer live in New York, but every now and then I listen to the station again. Still the same music, which I guess is the point of an Oldies station: Buddy Holly, “Hey, Paula,” Herman’s Hermits, Motown, “The Logical Song,” Mr. Mister, Madonna, just about every piece of crap (or otherwise) that moved a lot of units sometime during the past 50 years. Except the ads used to be mainly for cars and household goods and now a lot of them are for cemeteries and funeral homes. That’s the depressing part.
UPDATE: An ad for Honda, another for Coors, even Insider.com and DirecTV. Hopeful signs.
You know what’s really depressing?
I used to listen to an oldies station in the late 80’s-early 90’s, when I was in my teens. Last year I went back to the old town and tuned in again.
It turns out 80’s music now qualifies as “oldies.”
I’m already used to that idea. It’s a generational thing, I suppose.