Classic rock

[peewee_RotA]

I find the term "Classic Rock" to be a rather odd concept. When I was growing up and in high school (mid-60's) this was all the new music that was just coming out. And it was just called Rock. Its main essence was it was OUR (young peoples) music. We created it, played it and enjoyed it. It was completely ours and separate from our parents music, which was syrupy middle-of-the road stuff (Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole). And Rock just continued to evolve through the 70's, 80's and 90's as a continuum. So what's "classical" about it? Is that a simplistic term for just those decades or what? At what point does a song become classical (meaning a certain age) versus some other label? Very odd. And of course, there was a whole decade of music before that (50's stuff) that based on rockabilly, Elvis and 4-part harmony groups. Not sure what that's called these days..... 

Although "there is no classic rock" is a pretty good assessment when you also wanted to shove industrial, heavy metal, grunge, and real punk all into the same category. It's mostly just a comment on your age. I mean yes, blade is technically a horror movies. But it's better described as an action-vampire movie lest you draw attention to the wrong fans for the sake of symantics, and was not the term originally rock and roll anyway?

I think it's better not to lump Van Halen and Roy Orbison into the same genre.

[jägermonsta]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_rock

[vibes]

www.rock101.com  LISTEN LIVE

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[Daemia]

classic rock, hard rock, soft rock, rock and roll.... so many genres now

lol @ rock 101, who cares about a vancouver radio station vibes    

[jägermonsta]

yeah but soft rock sucks.

seems every state has a rock101...

http://www.rock101wgir.com/main.html

[metaL]

ACDC is considered classic rock though. I hear it on classic rock stations all the time. 1973.

true, but i think paradise was referring to metallica

[jägermonsta]

ACDC is considered classic rock though. I hear it on classic rock stations all the time. 1973.

true, but i think paradise was referring to metallica

  

[paradisel0st]

Yeah I was...all this time later, realized the quoting screwed up...and some how a double post   

[jägermonsta]

rofl 

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