OLD SCHOOL

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It bugs the shit out of me when I hear pople say..'I like the old school..you know Brandy, Silk,Jodeci,Monica..etc. Someone once recently said to me,'I love old school Madonna' meaning the "Immaculate Collection". I about :PUKE: . I MADONNA But it just sounded so stupid. I can see songs like "Everybody" , "Holiday", and "Lucky Star" which I hear on the a local "old school" radio station right along with Teena Marie, S.O.S. Band, Stacy Lattisaw, etc... But "Vogue", "Like A Prayer" :LOL: Come on now!!!

Anyway, this wasn't meant to be a Madonna thread.

So, I guess my question is what do you consider to be old school?? Is it a term used to define songs from let's say for example 1979 ~ 1986 or can it just be anything that flies out of your ass.. "I love old school Backstreet Boys" And..does it only apply to R&B???

Hi Chico! I personally consider old school
early eighties breakdance era.hip hop,soul & funk
ca.1979-84,but hey that´s just me.
/peace Manki

From the responses of the people who said 'Brandy', 'Jodeci, etc. etc., they must have been real young to consider that old school. I'd stay anything that started it all...maybe going way back to even the 40's...na (that might be going WAY BACK), but I'd say old school is 70's & 80's in the Hip-hop world, like most of the music they sample from, or people who are now in their mid 20's or 30's, or early 40's used to listen to when they were a little younger, or the records that their parents have stored in their collection.....
[This message was edited Fri Jul 18 23:30:17 PDT 2003 by Starmist7]

old skool is 70's funk...PERIOD. You can add some real early 80's stuff to that, but that's a stretch. I remember in the 80's the "golden oldies" were songs from the 50's, "oldies" were songs from the 60's and old school was 70's. It kills me when a radio station will play something "old school" from fucking 1993. Just because it's old, doesn't make it old school. 100.3 the beat in L.A. did that just last week. I'm a have to call somebody at the radio station

Janfriend said:

Ugh, tell me about it. I'm startin to feel old now at the tender age of 21 because all these "Old Skool" compilations are coming out, and I still have the singles from the first time around in mint condition and still on rotation. Spoke to some little 10 year old cousin of my mate's while we were playing music at her family gathering. The bint never even heard of Whitney Houston

Sometimes I truly despair.

The Sugarhill Gang-'Rappers Delight'

"Old school" basically is a colloquial term referring to things of the past. It depends on how you're saying it. You can say it in two senses: some people use "old school" to define something from the past and others use to define a specific time frame (late 70s-80s).

Musically, "Oldies" come from the 50s, 60s & early- to mid-70s. "Old School" is a newer term to define the stuff from the late 70s through the early 90s.

JDINTERACTIVE said:

good one jd

I consider Old School to be the 70s and early 80s...nothing past 1984.

DavidEye said:

Same here.

manki said:

On BETs 106th and Park, they have this "old school joint of the day" segment. For them "old school" is a cut from, say, 1998!? (Guess that's old school if you're, like, 5 years old.)
[This message was edited Sun Jul 20 19:29:40 PDT 2003 by UptownDeb]

Whenever the technology changes and Viacom-drones are able to go into a studio with little or no knowledge of how to make music and "presto-changeo" they are putting #1 hits up on the boards... then the ones who came before them (no matter how short a time period that may be) and knew more about making music are then called Old School