Sor Eddie
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Post by Sor Eddie on Sept 18, 2007 15:50:48 GMT -5
As a genre, I mean. It's not a genre at all. That's like saying The Ramones, Black Sabbath, Queen, and Pink Floyd are all the same type of music. Classic rock is a radio format, not a music genre.
Anyone else agree, or am I just crazy?
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Sept 18, 2007 16:08:09 GMT -5
Yes, I agree. But it is an excepted radio format and I use it as such. However my personal definition of classic rock is quit different than that of radio.
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Post by mightyjack on Sept 18, 2007 16:11:08 GMT -5
I don't get too wrapped up in the labels. People just need to have some way to define what they are listening to, that's all. I let things like that slide.
So, in principle I agree, but like Johnny, I don't care (or think about it much).
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Post by wilson on Sept 18, 2007 16:34:30 GMT -5
The use of "classic" extends well beyond music , mainstream & otherwise.
Everything is a "legendary groundbreaking classic"
Film-makers / authors / musicians / & TV shows are all " unique & Top of their field"
And I don't dispute many of them. It just creates an overly level playing field when everything is a Smash Hit !
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Post by LetGoOfItSlappy on Sept 18, 2007 16:40:33 GMT -5
The term means different things to different people. I always figured it was intended to mean rock that was apporx 15-25 years old.....which sucks cuz now the classic rock stations are beginning to play the Metallica that I grew up with.
Classic Rock to me will always be many of the bands that Sor Eddie mentioned.....Sorry Eddie...you're right it is not a genre but many my age associate the term with alot of those bands and more.
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Post by solgroupie on Nov 23, 2007 23:50:22 GMT -5
i grew up way back in the ancient '70's, so i listened to pretty much whatever my older sister listened to. and that was what is considered classic rock today. it isn't so much the title that irks me, but the selections most "classic rock" radio stations stick to. they play the same songs over and over again, never venturing into the many, MANY other layers of quote-unquote classic rock. if they say pink floyd is coming up, you can bet it will be comfortably numb. if it is ac/dc, it will be back in black or highway to hell. there were so many more great bands out there who never got the airtime they deserved. and the ones who did get all of the airtime - they recorded other songs that should get attention. i would possibly tune in more to these classic rock stations, if they would veer from the top ten hits of that era.
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Post by Hot*Merging*Action on Nov 24, 2007 0:51:12 GMT -5
^ I guess i'd have to kinda agree w/ Slappy.... I was kinda blown away when i heard Motley Crue on a "classic rock" station...which just doesn't really sit well with me...I think of "Classic Rock" and think of Hendrix or Zeppelin...but then again...maybe i'm just not acknowledging MY aging process...Ramones seem more Punk and Sabbath is just a way of life. period. BUT...i'm not big on radio OR having to fit things into little boxes....so...  ? |
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Post by Bix Dugan on Nov 26, 2007 16:32:28 GMT -5
In the early 80s we called it Dinosaur Rock, so...
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Nov 28, 2007 0:04:06 GMT -5
I guess it doesn't annoy me THAT much, although really the term has no meaning anymore besides being a radio station category that plays no current stuff. It's kind of the opposite of what happened with the term "alternative," which pre-90's used to refer to any music that was outside the mainstream, whether it was Ministry or Poi Dog Pondering. But now "alternative" refers to a specific sound. Weird.
We listen to the classic rock station here at work all the time (because we have no other choices but country and annoying chart pop), and while at first it seemed to be all 70's rock with some 60's thrown in, lately they've been adding 80's hair metal and 90's alt-rock, which makes for a pretty strange combo. But all in all, I prefer listening to Nirvana or Pearl Jam than hearing "Sweet Home Alabama" for the fifty squintillionth time.
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Post by Hugh Beaumont on Nov 30, 2007 3:42:47 GMT -5
It's a descriptor, and I use it as such, when necessary. I don't like excessive genre labels, though.
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Post by (busdrivertohell) on Nov 30, 2007 10:59:43 GMT -5
I don't mind it, except a couple of Tom Petty songs spilled into the Oldies station one day as I was working in a resturant in Minnesota. I equate classic rock as the predecessor, and superior, to the rock today. Now don't get me wrong I listen to some of the newer rock... but I do consider classic rock to be something like Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and the like.
I am also that freak that thinks there needs to be a Rockabilly station.
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Post by bobjohnson on Dec 4, 2007 10:54:01 GMT -5
I don't mind it at all, it is classic rock when these old bands can make better music the bands who are inspired by them.
I do enjoy listening to 70's rock now more these days, the era was the last fun rock period then image and gimmicks took over.
I find the major hypocrisies with modern music is that they talk about love and being monogamist but they womanize when they are back stage or not performing. I call that false advertising.
I know rocks image must be upheld but when is the image becoming the music?
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