Classic rock Categorization on 98.1:

Is 98.1 the station that has "Mandatory Metallica" for like 30 straight minutes or an hour?

and Metallica is metal, not rock.

As much as I love me some 98.1 and how much I grew up listening to it, let's be honest with ourselves. Classic rock isn't a real genre of music. It was made for radio

Nobody hardly listens to the radio anymore unless they're too old to work an iPod, their car is too crappy to have an iPod hookup, or it's providing background music at work

98.1's audience is old people and people who have the type of job that the radio is playing in the background. Those people are all construction workers and stuff

As the blue collar workforce gets younger, so does the classic rock. They play weezer and stuff these days

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it's been 21 years since that song came out. I'd say that counts as classic rock.

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negative. classic rock is a certain period of time. not just cause a song is old.

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you gettin old.

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i'm 29 and classic rock is a period of time

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Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format was originally developed as an oldies format featuring the British Invasion era music of the 1960s.[citation needed] Classic rock stations re-create, in part, the sound of album-oriented rock stations of the 1970s and 1980s (although usually with a much more limited playlist) and appeal mainly to adults rather than teenagers.

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there is a cutoff in style and music

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this

I wonder why live rock stations have never caught on

I know its not for everyone, but almost without exception I have a live version I like better than its studio version. I think partly because with most live music,a band has played it hundreds of times since recording it and play variations with nuance