Classic Rock

[Tinkerbell33]

Any other fans out there?

I like:

AC/DC
Led Zep
GnR
Aerosmith
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bachman Turner Overdrive
The Who
Rolling Stones

Going to see AC/DC in June, I can't wait.

 

[Good King Edward VI]

Good gravy ... if Guns 'N Roses is "classic rock" you've just made me feel as old as the most rank Baby Boomer must feel right about now on his much-deserved death bed.

On another note, there is good Genesis and bad Genesis. Good Genesis is their Abacab-era stuff: a cool mix of New Wave and "art rock" (not good art rock like "Walk Away Renee" but bad art rock like ST's Rock And Roll Creation or any Pete Townsend cocainceconceptalbum) that somehow worked. Exhibit for the prosecution: "Me And Mary Jane" from said album.

Yours,
Jeff

 

[Tinkerbell33]

Good gravy ... if Guns 'N Roses is "classic rock" you've just made me feel as old as the most rank Baby Boomer must feel right about now on his much-deserved death bed.

Oops

 

[Truffle]

I like it. My parents listen to it so it's grown on me! On your list I like ACDC,Aerosmith. Queen and Def Leppard are favorites too.

 

[Good King Edward VI]

It's just strange to know that music you listened to in high school is now considered "classic rock". Kinda like "I Am The Walrus" was when I was a sophomore.

Whew.

Yours,
Jeff

 

[white dove]

It's just strange to know that music you listened to in high school is now considered "classic rock". Kinda like "I Am The Walrus" was when I was a sophomore

It's funny... I listened to Aerosmith when I was in middle school and high school, never realizing the band had been out since before I was born. I just thought Steven Tyler was simply not attractive to me - and not that he was old enough to be my dad. Yikes...


Aaanyway...


I love that your brought up this thread, Becky! I kind of thought that other one in Singles was heading this way, but I guess not. Here's a list of - what I deem as - classic rock faves:



Aerosmith (the Pump album is still my favorite from them)
Jimi Hendrix
CCR (it would be sacrilege not to mention them)
Blondie
Led
Ted
Kinks
AC/DC (if we're including Aerosmith...)
The Doors
Boston (I loooooove Boston!)
Van Halen
Genesis (someone else mentioned them, so I guess it's ok to include them)
Sabbath?

 

[RedNoma]

Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Who
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
Black Sabbath
Foghat
Bad Company
AC/DC
Boston
Aerosmith
Ted Nugent
Jimi Hendrix
The Eagles
The Beatles

 

[TheDarkestHour]

I love CCR!

 

[Tinkerbell33]

I love CCR!

Great!
I only discovered them about a month ago because I asked for some music suggestions. "Run Through The Jungle" is my favourite song of theirs so far, have you heard it?

 

[Tinkerbell33]

Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Who
The Rolling Stones
The Doors
Black Sabbath
Foghat
Bad Company
AC/DC
Boston
Aerosmith
Ted Nugent
Jimi Hendrix
The Eagles
The Beatles

You have great taste!

I bolded all the bands in that list that I like.

Still need to listen to some of Ted Nugent's material.

 

[Tinkerbell33]

It's funny... I listened to Aerosmith when I was in middle school and high school, never realizing the band had been out since before I was born. I just thought Steven Tyler was simply not attractive to me - and not that he was old enough to be my dad. Yikes...


Aaanyway...


I love that your brought up this thread, Becky! I kind of thought that other one in Singles was heading this way, but I guess not. Here's a list of - what I deem as - classic rock faves:



Aerosmith (the Pump album is still my favorite from them)
Jimi Hendrix
CCR (it would be sacrilege not to mention them)
Blondie
Led
Ted
Kinks
AC/DC (if we're including Aerosmith...)
The Doors
Boston (I loooooove Boston!)
Van Halen
Genesis (someone else mentioned them, so I guess it's ok to include them)
Sabbath?

Hey White Dove

By the way its great to see that you came back to CF.

Which thread in the singles forum are you talking about?

 

[white dove]

Thanks, Becky


It was the one with "Classic Rock" somewhere in the title... perhaps it is lost now lol.

 

[Tzaousios]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Yes
Rush
Genesis (Peter Gabriel, early Phil Collins-era)
King Crimson
Rick Wakeman
Kansas
Alan Parsons Project
The Nice
Deep Purple
The Who
Cream
Moody Blues
Uriah Heep
Chicago
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Styx
Van Halen
Triumph
Asia
James Gang

 

[Qyöt27]

It's just strange to know that music you listened to in high school is now considered "classic rock".

So-called 'hard classic rock' stations are probably the biggest culprit. They seem more than willing to include Hair Metal and Grunge in their definitions of 'Classic Rock' - and the thing is, they were doing that 9 years ago*, not to say anything of today.

*In 2000, the local 'hard classic rock' station was playing Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, and Stone Temple Pilots, even though those songs had come out between 1990-1994. 6 years is much too soon to start calling something classic in the sense of 'classic rock', especially when most of the contemporary rock music is still played by the same blueprints. The same station was also playing GnR, 80s Aerosmith, Ratt, and Poison, but those were somewhat forgivable as Grunge had pretty much killed those off instantaneously back in 1992 or '93.

But then again hearing the local retro station playing Semisonic's "Closing Time", several entries from the Barenaked Ladies' catalog, and Green Day's "Good Riddance" is also getting under my skin. By those same standards they should also start playing Britney Spears, I just hope it doesn't come to that.

 

[Good King Edward VI]

So-called 'hard classic rock' stations are probably the biggest culprit. They seem more than willing to include Hair Metal and Grunge in their definitions of 'Classic Rock' - and the thing is, they were doing that 8 years ago, not to say anything of today.

But then again hearing the local retro station playing Semisonic's "Closing Time", several entries from the Barenaked Ladies' catalog, and Green Day's "Good Riddance" is also getting under my skin. By those same standards they should also start playing Britney Spears, I just hope it doesn't come to that.

That's exactly right! My sister sells ad time for a "classic rock" station in one of the largest markets in the United States, so I have a direct pipeline for complaint. I have asked her repeatedly why it is that I have begun hearing more and more often bands such as Van Halen/Van Hagar and U2 on a station that, when I was in high school (1986-1990), built itself on Dylan and the Stones and such (you'll still occasionally hear the Stones, but the days of drinking beer in the back acres of the county park listening to "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" are looong gone). She has no answer other than that the Boomers are (finally) starting to die off, and the programmers feel they need to move dating up to keep an audience.

The same thing has happened to 50's and pre-Beatles 60's rock 'n' roll. When I was young there were a number of stations in the city I grew up near that played that era's popular music, and as that was the music my dad danced to in junior high school, my love for Bill Haley and Little Richard and the Everly's has remained, but danged if you hear 'em on the radio anymore.

The world just ain't right. We live in a fallen world, for sho.

Yours,
Jeff

 

[RedNoma]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Yes
Rush
Genesis (Peter Gabriel, early Phil Collins-era)
King Crimson
Rick Wakeman
Kansas
Alan Parsons Project
The Nice
Deep Purple
The Who
Cream
Moody Blues
Uriah Heep
Chicago
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Styx
Van Halen
Triumph
Asia
James Gang

Can't believe I missed those on my first post. Excellent choices. I'd also like to add....

Jefferson Airplane
Allman Brothers Band
The Doobie Brothers
Janis Joplin
Neil Young
Lynard Skynyrd
Santana

 

[Tinkerbell33]

Can't believe I missed those on my first post. Excellent choices. I'd also like to add....

Jefferson Airplane
Allman Brothers Band
The Doobie Brothers
Janis Joplin
Neil Young
Lynard Skynyrd
Santana

How could I forget Janis?????!

 

[AFallingStar]

I love classic rock! My favorites are Pink Floyd, The Who, The Beatles, The Clash, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Costello & the Attractions (basically any British band), Van Halen, Bruce Springsteen & E-Street...

 

[Good King Edward VI]

I love classic rock! My favorites are Pink Floyd, The Who, The Beatles, The Clash, Led Zeppelin, Elvis Costello & the Attractions (basically any British band), Van Halen, Bruce Springsteen & E-Street...

It is so wrong to call Elvis Costello or The Clash "classic rock" ... The Man was essentially (until he became the preening pop queen he was originally out to destroy) New Wave, and the point of New Wave was to kill dead the bloated dinosaur rock represented by Led Zep, E.L.P., etc. I believe it was Esquire magazine that called Elvis' first three albums (paraphrased) the most furious album trilogy in the history of rock 'n' roll.

The "agenda" of The Clash (originally closer in sound to the Sex Pistols) and E.C. (one in spirit with them from the beginning) was summarized by Johnny Rotten's famous t-shirt that read "I Hate Pink Floyd".

Somewhere along the way, though, Elvis lost his little black book ...

Yours,
Jeff

 

[AFallingStar]

It is so wrong to call Elvis Costello or The Clash "classic rock" ... The Man was essentially (until he became the preening pop queen he was originally out to destroy) New Wave, and the point of New Wave was to kill dead the bloated dinosaur rock represented by Led Zep, E.L.P., etc. I believe it was Esquire magazine that called Elvis' first three albums (paraphrased) the most furious album trilogy in the history of rock 'n' roll.

The "agenda" of The Clash (originally closer in sound to the Sex Pistols) and E.C. (one in spirit with them from the beginning) was summarized by Johnny Rotten's famous t-shirt that read "I Hate Pink Floyd".

Somewhere along the way, though, Elvis lost his little black book ...

Yours,
Jeff

Hmm...I don't know. I would definitely consider The Clash to be classic rock. Maybe they're more "punk" or whatever (as I've heard them classified before), but that seems weird to me. I don't know that just because a band dislikes the music of Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin it automatically means that they aren't contained within the same basic musical genre. But I suppose I am basing my reasoning on the fact that I hear both Elvis Costello & the Attractions and The Clash's music on classic rock radio stations, when I also have heard Nirvana and Pearl Jam on the same stations, so yes, you may be right.