I actually like a lot of classic rock (yes even Hotel California, that solo kicks ass) but there is a lot of bad classic rock too. What do you think the worst classic rock song is? What is the most overrated band or artist? I think Supertramp is mid at best, but Bob Seeger is truly dreadful.
Just enjoying some classic rock bands: Nirvana, The Cure, Bikini Kill, Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine
I remember listening to the local Classic Rock station on the radio on January 1st 2000 and Nine Inch Nails' Head Like a Hole began playing.
We're ten years further away from the founding of Nirvana in 1987 than Nirvana's founding was from that of the Beatles in 1960.
This argument really depends on if we define classic rock as "older stuff" along a rolling timeline, like classic cars, or if it describes a distinct era in cultural history, like classicism.
The only one that has any utility as definition is the latter imo. What's the use of having a label for any rock act older than some arbitrary date?
I made that same argument about how retro games should be defined as games made before the advert of 3d when arcades were the dominant gaming platform, but people just want a term for "old games" without saying "old games."
You were right, never back down
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Genre is always messy, tbh. It's the sort of thing that looks perfectly sensible from a distance but begins to break down almost instantaneously upon closer scrutiny. To get a little philosophical about it, it relies on the emphasis of commonality by flattening or ignoring difference. Even going by the stuff that basically everybody agrees is classic rock like say, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, how much do they have in common really? Is it more salient than their many differences?
That said while genre is a fiction ultimately, it should be a useful fiction. And classification by by perceived stylistic similarities, influences or artistic worldviews is more useful than simply lumping together every "rock" (itself a problematic genre) act prior to 1994
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That's the thing, it hasn't always been around. The rock of the previous era like Elvis and Little Richard, was not called classic rock at the time, and generally isn't considered classic rock even now. It's considered rock and roll specifically
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finally a classic rock radio station that's tolerable
Sorry to say, that's underground kid classic rock.
You're thinking of The Minutemen
If you're a college rock dj 34 years ago
That's right
I never really got into minutemen or any of that sst stuff
If you want to, read This Band Could Be Your Life. Admittedly I'm a sucker for oral histories of music scenes
I did when I was like 13 or so.
32 year old burnt out crust punk who is now mostly into the more experimental side of industrial. If there's anything I know really really well it's underground rock
I wouldn't call Cocteau Twins classic rock and they started in '79
Yeah cause they're club bathroom fuck music. Totally different genre
True, true, I agree with that statement
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Well well well, look who's back
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