Re: amusing article about 90s oldies

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 03:16 PM 7/22/2002, Donna Halper wrote:
>Umm, 90s music being considered oldies?????  Did anyone read this piece by 
>Joanna Weiss in today's Boston Globe, from whence I quote this little excerpt:
>
>'...A local station, WBMX-FM ''Mix 98.5,'' has a program called ''Nineties 
>at Noon.'' It has been on for a while now, 40 minutes of nostalgia for an 
>era that ended two years ago. It's packed with new-oldie staples, music 
>director Mike Mullaney says: vintage Alanis, early Pearl Jam, ''Groove Is 
>in the Heart,'' that hit [song] by Blind Melon. The trouble is, a part of 
>me likes the idea...'
>
>http://ae.boston.com/music/stories/music_nostalgia_072202.html


I always found it vaguely "wrong" that WWRX (pre-WFNX) was playing U2's 
"Even Better than the Real Thing" (circa 1991-92) as "classic rock" back in 
1997.  Except that all the music that was billed as "classic rock" I liked 
so I suppose it wasn't all bad  ;-)


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