Dunno if Green Day is really “oldies”, they are still releasing popular albums.
Not really my bag, but I did find I ended up liking 21st Century Breakdown after a co-worker played it in his lab repeatedly.
Of course, he’s 49 years old. Muwahahahahahahaha!
Where’s my damn eight track?
Girls lets twist again like we did last summer!
My radio is tuned to AM 1480 You’re just too good be to true
what a kick!
I like “Time of the Season” by the Zombies.
Oldies generally refers to 50s/60s and maybe early 70s music. 80s music is often referred to as “retro”.
The Stripper Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
While I don’t disagree, I’ve seen that many “oldies” format radio stations have shifted away from that definition in recent years. IME, most “oldies” stations no longer play anything pre-Beatles, and tend to now focus on the late 60s through the mid-to-late 70s.
Yeah, they seem to be refining it further and further. Sirius/XM even has stations dedicated to one artist, or one particular style, such as disco. “True” oldies stations play nothing but pre-Beatles, or will maybe include a bit of that genre (Stones, Byrds, Hendryx, etc.).
Being a folkie, I consider all the stuff you people are talking about to be quite new.
I used to be a huge fan of groups/artists like The Limelighters, Buffy Saint-Marie, The Clancy Brothers, Ian & Sylvia, etc. That was more of a 60s folk movement, rather than part of the old artists like Guthrie.
That was uncalled for. 
50s = Oldies
60s and 70s = Classic Rock
80s = Modern Rock
90s = Alternative Rock
00s = Indie Rock
at least that’s how I understand it
I was station surfing and heard a U2 song and stayed on that station to listen. Then came a station break - I was listening to “Your Favorite Oldies Station.” I had to pull the car over and let that sink in for a minute before I could drive off.
Classic Rock, as a radio format, spun out of what used to be known as “album-oriented rock”. While most “classic rock” stations do, indeed, mostly source their music from artists from the 60s and 70s, there’s a definite focus on harder and progressive rock, and rarely will you hear “pop” songs from those decades (unless they’re from artists who fit into the previous definition). And, some classic rock stations will extend the time frame for their playlists into the 1980s (but, again, mostly for artists which were already active in the 1960s or 1970s).
Oldies stations, on the other hand, will typically play pop songs (often defined as top-40 hits) from whichever time period they’ve decided to use. 20 years ago, Oldies stations played songs from the birth of rock and roll (mid-50s) through the early-to-mid 70s. As noted earlier, many oldies stations now play little, or no, music from before the British Invasion.
If you’re hearing Tony Orlando and Dawn or The Supremes, you’re almost undoubtedly listening to an Oldies station, not a Classic Rock station. Conversely, if you’re hearing Jimi Hendrix or Rush, you’re almost undoubtedly listening to a Classic Rock station, not an Oldies station.
I agree with “oldies” being '50s & '60s, that’s about all the cds I own (several hundreds), but then, I’m an “oldie”.