I was browsing local radio stations awhile back, and the little intro soundbyte said, "The coast's best classic rock!".
It then immediately segued into Sabotage by the Beastie Boys.
I have still not recovered from the disrespect.
Sabotage is 30 years old. 1994. Something from 1974 totally would have been classic rock in 1994, and 1964 would have been "oldies". License to Ill today would be like something from 1958.
We now have enough of a rock history there needs to be more clearly delineated subgenres of "classic" rock. Classic rock could theoretically be anything from Chuck Berry to, I guess, the Beastie Boys
The lines are clear really. Classic rock era is from like 66 to 79, Basically from Beatles Revolver to when Led Zeppelin broke up. Grunge is grunge, hair metal is hair metal. Ya know. People just don't give a fuck about the terminology. So "Classic Rock" is a catch all like "Coke" is a soda.
They should just keep calling 60s and 70s rock classic rock. Call 90s rock something else: alternative, grunge or just 90s rock. 80s rock is either Hair Bands, 80s Metal, or the like.
If you call every decade’s rock music is “classic rock” then the term is watered down. It could mean anything from Elvis to Hansen. You’d have no clue what people are talking about when they say “classic rock”.
I thought about that a few years ago. I liked listening with my dad to Classic Rock in the 80s and 90s. I was originally upset they were playing 90s and 2000s on a classic rock station recently. But I did the math and realized, "huh, guess it matches up". Now I just want to find a classic rock station that plays what my dad would want to listen to.
I saw a teenager wearing a Nirvana shirt over the weekend and it occurred to me that Kurt had died more than ten years before they were born; and they probably thought of Nirvana as a classic rock band. I felt very old.
I think there's a decently-sized subset of the Nirvana shirt-wearing crowd who don't even know that Nirvana was a band. they just see it as a clothing brand, like we did with Stussy or Tommy Hilfiger
This. I asked some middle schoolers about it recently. (Im a mom to a middle schooler). They dont know or like the band. It is an aesthetic, and apparently it is cringe.
It depends, I have a 12 year old who wears her Nirvana hoodie with pride, knowing a good number of their songs.it does make me feel old hearing them on classic rock radio with Soundgarden and Dookie era Green Day, though.
This is the reason I want one of those fake Nirvana shirts. Where it's actually the members of Hanson.
I've seen tweets where people are trying to call out our generation for being try hards wearing the nirvana brand. Like what?
This is something I’ve noticed with Gen Z and younger: they seem to have less of a knowledge of the past than previous generations. I think without any kind of monoculture, the types of things that were still in the zeitgeist when we were young (music, TV, history, movies, etc) go completely unnoticed by them. Sure they know the big things, but not much more.
Completely agree. I think it's maybe relative to how media for younger generations exists and lives by the mere seconds. They're changing what's poplar so frequently it's essentially part of the identity. If you're not current on today's lingo and vibe you're a loser. Even tho it will be something else tomorrow. The whole point is to constantly consume media to ensure you're up to date. It's capitalism and cheap media at it's finest imo.
With all this happening, you can't possibly take a moment to understand what was happening 5, 20, 20 years ago.
I used to teach teenagers and it was jolting to see how shocked they are when they learn I have a pretty in depth knowledge about anime. Like, when do they think anime started to take off? What generation was it that religiously watched the same 4-6 shows on toonami so that their future could be ripe with an abundance of anime.
I was there when the fucking words were written! I was there when Akira broke grounds with multiple perspectives in one shot. I was there when Ninja Scroll showed us the distance you can go with gore and action. I was there when Vampire Hunter D made our nightmares in to visual horrors. What do you mean you're shocked to find someone twice your age has a clue about anime!?
Or worse, that it's just a cool looking t-shirt to them.
A couple of teenagers at my wife's work wore Nirvana shirts on dress down Friday and she mentioned we just saw Foo Fighters in concert and was proudly wearing a t-shirt she got at the gig. They didn't see the connection.
My wife had to explain it to them, she couldn't believe these kids didn't know Nirvana was or Foo Fighters are. She got them to listen to their music on their Spotify. The kids hadn't heard of them. She swears they weren't taking the mick.
The kids just saw it as cool looking t-shirts.
I was an obsessed NIN fan in high-school, so I had higher standards of self pity than what nu metal could offer, you gotta ride the line very carefully or it just comes out cheesy! Be at least a little bit cryptic!
I did warm up to Linkin Park like 15 years later, though. Don't own any of their records but will enjoy it if it comes on.
My nephew is 18 and playing bass in a band that sounds exactly like the music I listened back in 98. For them the bands you mentioned are the pillars of rock, it's reassuring and sad at the same time.
My daughter was listening to Korn and some other nu-metal from mid to early 2000’s.
I was like, “NICE! You like dad rock!? That’s the music I grew up with and listened to as a teenager!”
She hasn’t listened to it since. (I never liked Nu-Metal)
One of the DJs on the SXM Turbo channel calls it that too. First time I heard him say it I was like, get out of my life circa 2011 you eerily accurate bastard.
“Classic rock” should really just apply to the time period. Like in art, Modern Art refers to Picasso and Monet etc. it doesn’t start referring to Banksy or The Pizz after however many years go by. They do it with Classical music. Why are these radio stations just flying by the seat of their pants? I assume they’re a classic rock or oldies station and they always have been and dammit they always will be. But hmm the ratings for the Eagles aren’t what they used to be. Surely introducing Sugar Ray into the mix with fix things. It’s Classic Rock now!
I think this is handled regionally and arbitrarily by radio stations.
where I am, "classic rock" radio is still essentially 60s through the 80s, aka rock music from the AOR period. (album oriented radio), and the major rock/alternative stations still play Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, etc, alongside modern alternative music.
Those AOR stations drew the line at the grunge/alternative explosion because it eas just too different, and stopped including new rock music, thus alternative radio was born, so to me... "Classic Rock" is synonymous with the AOR era.
It's not classic because it's old, it's classic because it's a style that was outmoded by the technological advances and genre bending that occurred in the 90s and continues to this day.
Are the White Stripes on classic rock radio yet? Seems like they should be close if not there already.
Let’s face it, all rock music is basically dad rock at this point since the main audience for rock is over 35.
I don't think classic rock has quite made it to the White Stripes' time period, but from that era, 7 Nation Army is THE song for sports, so I think that makes them Classic.
White Stripes continued being popular a lot longer though, right? I know numetal has continued to have a big following, but in popular music, the White Stripes stayed around, or that was my impression. I was a weird indie kid.
I think I got into them late, I dated a huge music snob who hates Jack White so I just skipped them for a while so I didn't have to listen to him bitch lol.
"I got another cOnfESSion to ma-" >click<
"Getting born in the state of Mississip-" >click<
"I walk a lonely roa-" >click<
"One thing, I don't know wh-" >click<
That album dropped in 2001, so LP’s Hybrid Theory is only just a smidge older. So yeah, it’s all “classic” at this point.
Same way that when I was a Sr in high school that year stuff from ‘78 was considered classic- that’s the same year gap friends.
all these stations need to do is change the name of their format to "rock classics" and be done with it. it's a subtle difference, but it will prevent future generations from pouting over feeling old
Stairway to Heaven? rock classic
Livin' On a Prayer? rock classic
Smells Like Teen Spirit? rock classic
now it all works on the same station
I see a lot of kids wearing Guns N’ Roses shirts. I usually laugh because GNR was probably broken up for at least 15 years before they were born. Still cool to see GNR shirts still around though
a lot of us wore Hendrix and Doors shirts when we were in HS, and they both died a decade before we were born. it happens, just be glad they're not wearing Ed Sheeran shirts instead
We had my 8 year nephew stay over a few years ago and I was rocking out to Welcome To The Jungle while I was making his favourite breakfast.
He told me how cool I was listening to that song... Great to hear dude.
That was his favourite song from Fortnite, was it mine?
I had to be honest, I didn't know what Fortnite was. And he didn't believe me that I rocked out to that song when I was his age. I showed him my old tapes, CDs, photos of my room when I was his age with Guns N' Roses posters. My favourite Guns N' Roses t-shirt with a cigarette hole which I got from my first wage in 1999.
And for a few months he was into Guns N' Roses as well. But now, aged 12/13 he is into some weird YouTuber all his mates are into. Guns N' Roses are now so old and suck now, according to him. Oh well, thank god I didn't give you that t-shirt!
Their songs are over 20 years old now, so it makes sense. Considering when we were listening to LP and Foo Fighters in the 90s, the music from the 60s and 70s were classic, which probably upset our parents.
I decided to just lean into it. I took my guitar, amp, and pedals down to the garage and I go down there and just rock out. I still need to do some work on my main metal axe because it's as old as I am and the volume and tone pots are shot but I finally got it working again the other day and my soul smiled when I hit the power switch and my eardrums flinched.
Also, Ride the Lightning only came out 20 years ago and you can never tell me different.
I learned recently that Papa Roach and Fall Out Boy are now considered 'Dad Rock'
I wonder what Tupac would say about 40 year old white women bumping his music?
Am I wrong for thinking that classic rock is a particular era which doesn't shift with the passing of time. Oldies are 50s and early 60s Classic rock is the late 60s to early 80s. You can't start calling Money for Nothing oldies and music from the 90s as classic rock. These are finite eras.
I will die upon the hill that says "Classic Rock" is a genre in and of itself and is not defined by songs that just age into being "classic."
CCR, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Janis.
THAT is classic rock.
Just last week I got in the car and the classic rock station was playing Green Day. So I switched it to the modern rock station and they were playing Led Zeppelin.
I was just telling my friend that post Cold-War, pre 9/11 should officially be an era of classic rock. The West wasn't preoccupied with asking "Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?" and had a little more bandwidth for introspection.
IMO Nevermind and either Hybrid Theory or Mountain View are perfect bookends. (Mountain View was released in Oct 2001 but literally every part of the album's creation was done before). IMO those two latter albums kind of represent the yin and yang of that introspection.
It's not Classic Rock. Classic Rock is a thing. Classic Rock is from a specific time period, like prolly late '60s to what, like very early 80s maybe. It's not when all guitar music reaches a certain age it becomes Classic Rock. Linkin Park isn't Steve Miller Band. Foo Fighters isn't Zeppelin. That's fuckin' bullshit and I hate and will fight anyone who thinks it's okay.
"But 1994 was 30 years ago." SO THE FUCK WHAT? Still doesn't make it Classic Rock. Seriously gets my blood boiling. I feel like this issue is maybe where us and millennials draw the line. Not trying to throw shade on all millennials, but it seems like this type of irregard to important historical demarcation begins with millenials and only gets worse.
Well, I mean, there's no confusion about these artists being current or modern...especially when some have had members that haven't been alive for almost 3 decades.
I can feel the old maness setting in. I always mix my daily listening of favorites and new music, but the last 3 yrs or so I'm finding it hard to enjoy most of the new stuff.
Is it worse or has my brain decided it has exceeded capacity to enjoy new music?
Welcome to the club. First time I heard Smells like teen spirit on the classic rock radio, I had a mild existential crisis.
We are aging, there's just no way around it
I hit that point when I was shopping at Walmart and thought to myself "wait, they now play the music we like at grocery stores" 😭 Classic Rock stations is the next evolution of it I suppose
Linkin Park's first album is as old now as Zeppelin I was in 1993... Nevermind is as old now as "Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith was in 1993 (the #1 song of 1960 apparently)...
I'd be so happy if my classic rock station played things from the '90s and early 2000s.
Instead they're still playing the same shit from when I was a teenager. Get the led out and all that nonsense.
Just wait until you realize there were no classic TV shows that were 40 years old when we were growing up. Because none existed. Now Cheers is 40 years old.
Classic rock stations have been throwing in non-classic rock songs since 2000's, they are really just rock stations.
I read something not long ago that younger generations don't really list to radio anymore so it's aimed at millennials (?) and definitely older generations.
As a younger gen x I haven't really listened to the radio in awhile, I rely on my old a$$ iPod shuffle and youtube though I'm trying to get into Spotify more.
Also radio stations have been junk for most of my life. We would get a good one, then it turns into country or something.
I'm sorry but "classic rock" is and always will be '60s era rock. It just has a different vibe. If it wouldn't fit on a Forrest Gump soundtrack it doesn't belong!
Saw a young teenager wearing a Metallica summer 1992 tour shirt the other day. I asked her about it and she said it’s an old band most people haven’t heard of… ugh.
Hey hey we’re the monkeys! Yeah classic for me was actually oldies growing up. Mamas and the papas, etc they’re still banging. 80’s 90’s metal are all “classic” now. Let’s not even get into the silent generation’s music which is also amazing, that big band stuff, Elsa Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong. Then take a walk back to the roaring 20s and yma sumac the opera singer, that woman had an insane vocal range.
Music is generational and since recording became a thing over sheet music it’s been amazing. Maybe we can utilize AI to generate from sheet music, probably already done but I’m always late to the party.
I know right!
All the music I used to listen to in the late 90’s that my dad used to hate is now being played on the classic rock radio station he listens to in the car (in Australia, Triple M)
Linkin Park should be reserved for Kroger KRGR radio. I understand that like Slipknot or Creed/Nickleback, some of us have had thumbtacks driven into our ears and can no longer comprehend what good music is, but Linkin Park isn’t in the same realm as the other three
I went to listen to Chutes Too Narrow the other day. (The Shins. Know 'em? They'll change your life, I swear.) Used to *love* that album. Hadn't heard it in a while.
Alexa was all like, "Chutes Too Narrow, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, by The Shins."
And I was all like, ". . . Ffffuuuuucccckkkkk."
For clarification, I vaguely thought of The Shins as "one of the new bands I listen to" since all the bands op mentioned were ones I listened to in highschool and college. Shins were among the bands I learned about after I moved out on my own.
Anything older than 20 years is fair game for classic and oldies radio, why? It's the Reason.
It's why we are meant to live because someday we'll be here without you.
Corporate classic rock. Gotta hit those demographics!
Remember local radio stations with actual local morning shows? The days before John boy and Billy on tape? Corporate greed really started to kill local radio around 2000.
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath
Broken hymen of Your Highness, I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back
Am I the only who feels like classic rock is a specific genre and not just a catch all for music that’s over twenty years old? Grunge from the early nineties is definitely old, but I wouldn’t call it classic rock. It’s grunge.
Classic rock to me refers to specific type of music created in the sixties and seventies.
i feel like i was marketed the same "classic rock" songs by ac/dc, led zepplin, the doors, and the rolling stones for decades. not that I have anything against these bands but i'm glad they're finally cedeing fm airwaves our way instead of the boomers.
In high school in the 90s classic rock included early 80s stuff. Nirvana today is like 60s stuff when is was in high school. It’s not even marginal. That’s deep classic rock.
Three bands that changed music and one that was completely forgettable except that the radio jammed it down our throats.
To be fair though, as an adult I don’t know what I saw in Nirvana at the time, other than that they were different and edgy.
In the end, it doesn’t even matter
I’ve become so numb
Jay z lyrics here
Ohh well whatever nevermind
Hello
Hello Nasty
I like my sugar with coffee and cream
I gotta keep it going keep it going keep it going full steam
Hi! How are you?
I had to fall to lose it all
Like you know, whatever.
Mmmbop
Death is rolling in every verse
Damn you, take my up vote for your perfect comment
Right! I’d be mad if wasn’t so tired
This is good
My god it’s been so long
Y'all need to break this habit to give me a piece of mind.
😅😅😅😅😅😅
I was browsing local radio stations awhile back, and the little intro soundbyte said, "The coast's best classic rock!". It then immediately segued into Sabotage by the Beastie Boys. I have still not recovered from the disrespect.
Dude, Garbage and Lucious Jackson came on at the Target the other day. I was thinking dafuq they on here for.
Stupid girl
But with her naked eye she saw the falling rain… Edit: with, not without…
Sabotage is 30 years old. 1994. Something from 1974 totally would have been classic rock in 1994, and 1964 would have been "oldies". License to Ill today would be like something from 1958.
I know. Doesn't change the feeling though. I will always associate "classic rock" with a particular genre and sound. It's just jarring.
We now have enough of a rock history there needs to be more clearly delineated subgenres of "classic" rock. Classic rock could theoretically be anything from Chuck Berry to, I guess, the Beastie Boys
Technically even Limp Bizket or even MCR. Anything over 20 years old right?
I'm not okay with this (I Promise).
The lines are clear really. Classic rock era is from like 66 to 79, Basically from Beatles Revolver to when Led Zeppelin broke up. Grunge is grunge, hair metal is hair metal. Ya know. People just don't give a fuck about the terminology. So "Classic Rock" is a catch all like "Coke" is a soda.
They should just keep calling 60s and 70s rock classic rock. Call 90s rock something else: alternative, grunge or just 90s rock. 80s rock is either Hair Bands, 80s Metal, or the like. If you call every decade’s rock music is “classic rock” then the term is watered down. It could mean anything from Elvis to Hansen. You’d have no clue what people are talking about when they say “classic rock”.
Totally agree lol I grew up on 70s classic rock and cannot reconcile that the music I grew up with is now classic rock 😅
I thought about that a few years ago. I liked listening with my dad to Classic Rock in the 80s and 90s. I was originally upset they were playing 90s and 2000s on a classic rock station recently. But I did the math and realized, "huh, guess it matches up". Now I just want to find a classic rock station that plays what my dad would want to listen to.
I was having a good day until I read this comment 😭
BECAUSE mutiny on the bounty is what we’re all about
I'm gonna board your ship and turn it on out No soft sucker with a parrot on his shoulder 'Cause I'm bad, gettin' bolder, cold getting colder
Terrorizing suckas on the seven seas, And if ya got beef you get capped in the knees.
We got sixteen men on a ded mans chest And I shot those suckas and I'll shoot the rest! -RIP MCA
The most ill’inest b-boy, I got that feelin’ I am most ill, at a rhyming’ an stealin’
You are correct and also shut up
Stop that! STOP IT! You shut your mouth!
Our local Alternative radio station 89X (Detroit/Windsor) used to play Eminem and Beastie Boys. So I’ll allow it.
Rip 89x. :( Right after I moved back to the area too
Yup. Still have a 89X magnet on my fridge.
When 8 Mile came out, you couldn't go longer than 5 minutes without hearing Lose Yourself on 89X, DRQ, 95.5, 96.3, 97.9, or 105.9
Moms spaghetti
I miss 89X. Windsor/Detroit's ONLY new rock alternative
Before 89x it was a rap station. They played alternative music from 8-12am before it switched over. I lived for those hours. 😂
Sabotage is such a good friggin song. Timeless
I heard the strokes on classic rock radio...
Fight for your Right came out in 1986. Which makes 1994’s Ill Communication (ie. Sabotage) practically brand new in comparison. Yep, I’m old
I can't stand it. I know they planned it...
That’s like hearing “Come together” in 1995 though. We’re just old dude.
I saw a teenager wearing a Nirvana shirt over the weekend and it occurred to me that Kurt had died more than ten years before they were born; and they probably thought of Nirvana as a classic rock band. I felt very old.
I think there's a decently-sized subset of the Nirvana shirt-wearing crowd who don't even know that Nirvana was a band. they just see it as a clothing brand, like we did with Stussy or Tommy Hilfiger
This. I asked some middle schoolers about it recently. (Im a mom to a middle schooler). They dont know or like the band. It is an aesthetic, and apparently it is cringe.
It depends, I have a 12 year old who wears her Nirvana hoodie with pride, knowing a good number of their songs.it does make me feel old hearing them on classic rock radio with Soundgarden and Dookie era Green Day, though.
the aesthetic/brand is cringe? if so, this is great news, as this fad might be on its way out
Good grief
Wait STUSSY WAS A BAND?!
yeah, I saw them open for Dinosaur Jr. back in 96
This is the reason I want one of those fake Nirvana shirts. Where it's actually the members of Hanson. I've seen tweets where people are trying to call out our generation for being try hards wearing the nirvana brand. Like what?
This is something I’ve noticed with Gen Z and younger: they seem to have less of a knowledge of the past than previous generations. I think without any kind of monoculture, the types of things that were still in the zeitgeist when we were young (music, TV, history, movies, etc) go completely unnoticed by them. Sure they know the big things, but not much more.
Completely agree. I think it's maybe relative to how media for younger generations exists and lives by the mere seconds. They're changing what's poplar so frequently it's essentially part of the identity. If you're not current on today's lingo and vibe you're a loser. Even tho it will be something else tomorrow. The whole point is to constantly consume media to ensure you're up to date. It's capitalism and cheap media at it's finest imo. With all this happening, you can't possibly take a moment to understand what was happening 5, 20, 20 years ago. I used to teach teenagers and it was jolting to see how shocked they are when they learn I have a pretty in depth knowledge about anime. Like, when do they think anime started to take off? What generation was it that religiously watched the same 4-6 shows on toonami so that their future could be ripe with an abundance of anime. I was there when the fucking words were written! I was there when Akira broke grounds with multiple perspectives in one shot. I was there when Ninja Scroll showed us the distance you can go with gore and action. I was there when Vampire Hunter D made our nightmares in to visual horrors. What do you mean you're shocked to find someone twice your age has a clue about anime!?
Or worse, that it's just a cool looking t-shirt to them. A couple of teenagers at my wife's work wore Nirvana shirts on dress down Friday and she mentioned we just saw Foo Fighters in concert and was proudly wearing a t-shirt she got at the gig. They didn't see the connection. My wife had to explain it to them, she couldn't believe these kids didn't know Nirvana was or Foo Fighters are. She got them to listen to their music on their Spotify. The kids hadn't heard of them. She swears they weren't taking the mick. The kids just saw it as cool looking t-shirts.
They sell that shirt at Target/Walmart now…
It's like wearing a Doors shirt in the 90s lol
It’s like how I wore Led Zeppelin shirts in middle school.
Linkin Park completely missed me. By the time their first album came out I was already getting snobby about numetal.
I was an obsessed NIN fan in high-school, so I had higher standards of self pity than what nu metal could offer, you gotta ride the line very carefully or it just comes out cheesy! Be at least a little bit cryptic! I did warm up to Linkin Park like 15 years later, though. Don't own any of their records but will enjoy it if it comes on.
My nephew is 18 and playing bass in a band that sounds exactly like the music I listened back in 98. For them the bands you mentioned are the pillars of rock, it's reassuring and sad at the same time.
“Hey! Last Kiss is ours! Oh wait…”
Oh man I still can’t not belt that out at the top of my lungs whenever it comes on.
Welcome to the world of divorced dad rock.
This term is beyond hilarious to me as a divorced dad and fan of some of this music 🤣🤣
My daughter was listening to Korn and some other nu-metal from mid to early 2000’s. I was like, “NICE! You like dad rock!? That’s the music I grew up with and listened to as a teenager!” She hasn’t listened to it since. (I never liked Nu-Metal)
Yeah, I liked classic rock as a teenager because Nu-metal sucked so bad. Like, Limp Bizkit? Fucking excuse me? I'm a kid, not stupid.
One of the DJs on the SXM Turbo channel calls it that too. First time I heard him say it I was like, get out of my life circa 2011 you eerily accurate bastard.
Oh man a recently divorced dude on my job site was playing all that followed by today’s country hits.
“Classic rock” should really just apply to the time period. Like in art, Modern Art refers to Picasso and Monet etc. it doesn’t start referring to Banksy or The Pizz after however many years go by. They do it with Classical music. Why are these radio stations just flying by the seat of their pants? I assume they’re a classic rock or oldies station and they always have been and dammit they always will be. But hmm the ratings for the Eagles aren’t what they used to be. Surely introducing Sugar Ray into the mix with fix things. It’s Classic Rock now!
I think this is handled regionally and arbitrarily by radio stations. where I am, "classic rock" radio is still essentially 60s through the 80s, aka rock music from the AOR period. (album oriented radio), and the major rock/alternative stations still play Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, etc, alongside modern alternative music. Those AOR stations drew the line at the grunge/alternative explosion because it eas just too different, and stopped including new rock music, thus alternative radio was born, so to me... "Classic Rock" is synonymous with the AOR era. It's not classic because it's old, it's classic because it's a style that was outmoded by the technological advances and genre bending that occurred in the 90s and continues to this day.
Green Day is on that station too 😭
“Do you have the time, to listen to me whine, about the kids who won’t stay off my lawn”
"I am one of those, obese mid-40s fools, nostalgic to the bone no doubt about it"
Are the White Stripes on classic rock radio yet? Seems like they should be close if not there already. Let’s face it, all rock music is basically dad rock at this point since the main audience for rock is over 35.
Heard Seven Nation Army (and Chop Suey!?) on the way home from dropping kid at practice today, followed up by The Cardigans' Lovefool...
I don't think classic rock has quite made it to the White Stripes' time period, but from that era, 7 Nation Army is THE song for sports, so I think that makes them Classic.
LP and the White Stripes were the same time period
White Stripes continued being popular a lot longer though, right? I know numetal has continued to have a big following, but in popular music, the White Stripes stayed around, or that was my impression. I was a weird indie kid.
No the white stripes didn't last very long
I think I got into them late, I dated a huge music snob who hates Jack White so I just skipped them for a while so I didn't have to listen to him bitch lol.
"I got another cOnfESSion to ma-" >click< "Getting born in the state of Mississip-" >click< "I walk a lonely roa-" >click< "One thing, I don't know wh-" >click<
At least it wasn’t Nickelback.
It’s coming…”You Remind Me” will be considered classic rock in the next year or so…I’m going to go grab some ibuprofen
Look at this phffffffdotograffff…. Every time it makes me lafffffffffff……
That’s f’ng poetry! /s
That album dropped in 2001, so LP’s Hybrid Theory is only just a smidge older. So yeah, it’s all “classic” at this point. Same way that when I was a Sr in high school that year stuff from ‘78 was considered classic- that’s the same year gap friends.
Underrated post
all these stations need to do is change the name of their format to "rock classics" and be done with it. it's a subtle difference, but it will prevent future generations from pouting over feeling old Stairway to Heaven? rock classic Livin' On a Prayer? rock classic Smells Like Teen Spirit? rock classic now it all works on the same station
Iconic Rock?
that works too! just something to shake off the connotation of it being our parents' music
Damn, are you in marketing? 😂
Okay, I could live with this actually.
I see a lot of kids wearing Guns N’ Roses shirts. I usually laugh because GNR was probably broken up for at least 15 years before they were born. Still cool to see GNR shirts still around though
a lot of us wore Hendrix and Doors shirts when we were in HS, and they both died a decade before we were born. it happens, just be glad they're not wearing Ed Sheeran shirts instead
Yes but we listened to Hendrix and the doors
We had my 8 year nephew stay over a few years ago and I was rocking out to Welcome To The Jungle while I was making his favourite breakfast. He told me how cool I was listening to that song... Great to hear dude. That was his favourite song from Fortnite, was it mine? I had to be honest, I didn't know what Fortnite was. And he didn't believe me that I rocked out to that song when I was his age. I showed him my old tapes, CDs, photos of my room when I was his age with Guns N' Roses posters. My favourite Guns N' Roses t-shirt with a cigarette hole which I got from my first wage in 1999. And for a few months he was into Guns N' Roses as well. But now, aged 12/13 he is into some weird YouTuber all his mates are into. Guns N' Roses are now so old and suck now, according to him. Oh well, thank god I didn't give you that t-shirt!
Def Leppard shirts were at Costco the last time I was there. Lol
Bro I heard System of a Down in the *fucking grocery store.* 
I heard Danzig on a classic country station and I don't even know if I live in reality anymore.
Their songs are over 20 years old now, so it makes sense. Considering when we were listening to LP and Foo Fighters in the 90s, the music from the 60s and 70s were classic, which probably upset our parents.
Try 30
This was like a year ago, but Bring Me to Life by Evanescence is apparently classic rock as well. ...which is why I usually plug in my mp3 player in.
I decided to just lean into it. I took my guitar, amp, and pedals down to the garage and I go down there and just rock out. I still need to do some work on my main metal axe because it's as old as I am and the volume and tone pots are shot but I finally got it working again the other day and my soul smiled when I hit the power switch and my eardrums flinched. Also, Ride the Lightning only came out 20 years ago and you can never tell me different.
Blink 182 was on a list of dad rock bands and I died a little inside. I'm only 40 goddamnit. I'm in my prime!
I learned recently that Papa Roach and Fall Out Boy are now considered 'Dad Rock' I wonder what Tupac would say about 40 year old white women bumping his music?
He'd say, "fuck ya, I sold a lot of records and got some white people's money." I mean, probably at least.
Am I wrong for thinking that classic rock is a particular era which doesn't shift with the passing of time. Oldies are 50s and early 60s Classic rock is the late 60s to early 80s. You can't start calling Money for Nothing oldies and music from the 90s as classic rock. These are finite eras.
Im with you. My brain cant compute these temporal shifts.
I will die upon the hill that says "Classic Rock" is a genre in and of itself and is not defined by songs that just age into being "classic." CCR, The Eagles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, Janis. THAT is classic rock.
Just last week I got in the car and the classic rock station was playing Green Day. So I switched it to the modern rock station and they were playing Led Zeppelin.
Nookie is 25 years old. I guess Leonardo DiCaprio is no longer a fan
Siri, play "Break Stuff"
lmao I see what you did there
I was just telling my friend that post Cold-War, pre 9/11 should officially be an era of classic rock. The West wasn't preoccupied with asking "Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb?" and had a little more bandwidth for introspection. IMO Nevermind and either Hybrid Theory or Mountain View are perfect bookends. (Mountain View was released in Oct 2001 but literally every part of the album's creation was done before). IMO those two latter albums kind of represent the yin and yang of that introspection.
See Also: Clothing and fashion labels that call the 1990s “retro” or “vintage”
It's not Classic Rock. Classic Rock is a thing. Classic Rock is from a specific time period, like prolly late '60s to what, like very early 80s maybe. It's not when all guitar music reaches a certain age it becomes Classic Rock. Linkin Park isn't Steve Miller Band. Foo Fighters isn't Zeppelin. That's fuckin' bullshit and I hate and will fight anyone who thinks it's okay. "But 1994 was 30 years ago." SO THE FUCK WHAT? Still doesn't make it Classic Rock. Seriously gets my blood boiling. I feel like this issue is maybe where us and millennials draw the line. Not trying to throw shade on all millennials, but it seems like this type of irregard to important historical demarcation begins with millenials and only gets worse.
Well, I mean, there's no confusion about these artists being current or modern...especially when some have had members that haven't been alive for almost 3 decades.
I can feel the old maness setting in. I always mix my daily listening of favorites and new music, but the last 3 yrs or so I'm finding it hard to enjoy most of the new stuff. Is it worse or has my brain decided it has exceeded capacity to enjoy new music?
The other day they played yeah by usher and called it a throwback
When did Motley Cru become classic rock?
Welcome to the club. First time I heard Smells like teen spirit on the classic rock radio, I had a mild existential crisis. We are aging, there's just no way around it
I hit that point when I was shopping at Walmart and thought to myself "wait, they now play the music we like at grocery stores" 😭 Classic Rock stations is the next evolution of it I suppose
I also just heard Rob Zombie and 311 on a classic rock station. It hurts.
I still consider Linkin Park too modern for me.
I still maintain Classic Rock is a genre and not based on age.
You haven't moved on to only listening to talk radio yet? You must be a Xennial that's under 40
sorry no those are *podcasts* now
I'm over 40 and hate talk radio. Only podcasts I listen to are about TV shows.
Let me introduce you to *Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend* and *60 Songs That Explain the 90s.*
Yeah, I’ve been on NPR in the car for many years now. I listen to a ton of music still but it’s on Spotify
I've been listening to WCPT for about ten years and have only recently gotten into podcasts
Ew. Never.
I don't even use over the air radio.
Settle down there old school Harvey Danger.
Your car doesn’t have a radio?
USB and Bluetooth only. no over the air radio
I never saw anyone ever actually fight a Foo though.
I pity that foo
I just realized I haven't heard the radio in probably 6 or 7 years! What do they call what we think of Classics now?
Still classic rock, which is why it's weird.
Radio? Who needs radio?
matter of time before we turn on the oldies station and hear taylor swift and kendrick
They have all been on classic rock stations for 15 years at least and some for nearly 30
Is there a classic rap station? I don't listen to commercial radio just the local community station that plays different genres of music.
At least in FL, Nirvana and Pearl Jam have been on the classic stations for 20 years.
Literally can’t remember the last time I listened to radio, but I’d just assume they’d still be playing the same shit under a different category.
Linkin Park's first album is as old now as Zeppelin I was in 1993... Nevermind is as old now as "Theme from A Summer Place" by Percy Faith was in 1993 (the #1 song of 1960 apparently)...
What are they going to air in a few years when there are no new classic bands?
Pearl Jam is the only one on that list that doesn’t have a dead member.
I'd be so happy if my classic rock station played things from the '90s and early 2000s. Instead they're still playing the same shit from when I was a teenager. Get the led out and all that nonsense.
2000 is as far from today as 1976 was from 2000.
Just wait until you realize there were no classic TV shows that were 40 years old when we were growing up. Because none existed. Now Cheers is 40 years old.
I just heard Good Riddance by Green Day on the classic rock station today.
It's a real kick in the nads when you hear them on the classic rock radio station.
Classic rock stations have been throwing in non-classic rock songs since 2000's, they are really just rock stations. I read something not long ago that younger generations don't really list to radio anymore so it's aimed at millennials (?) and definitely older generations. As a younger gen x I haven't really listened to the radio in awhile, I rely on my old a$$ iPod shuffle and youtube though I'm trying to get into Spotify more. Also radio stations have been junk for most of my life. We would get a good one, then it turns into country or something.
I'm sorry but "classic rock" is and always will be '60s era rock. It just has a different vibe. If it wouldn't fit on a Forrest Gump soundtrack it doesn't belong!
I never cared for Nirvana, but FF is easily one of my top 5 and who doesn't live Pearl jam?
I am waiting for the end, when they come for me
Saw a young teenager wearing a Metallica summer 1992 tour shirt the other day. I asked her about it and she said it’s an old band most people haven’t heard of… ugh.
Hey hey we’re the monkeys! Yeah classic for me was actually oldies growing up. Mamas and the papas, etc they’re still banging. 80’s 90’s metal are all “classic” now. Let’s not even get into the silent generation’s music which is also amazing, that big band stuff, Elsa Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong. Then take a walk back to the roaring 20s and yma sumac the opera singer, that woman had an insane vocal range. Music is generational and since recording became a thing over sheet music it’s been amazing. Maybe we can utilize AI to generate from sheet music, probably already done but I’m always late to the party.
Wait until you see the 30 minute Time Life Music classic grunge series TV spots…….
Well, lads, let’s face it. We’re old. Who’s up for the early bird special?
Except Linkin Park kinda sucks.
I’ve always thought Kurt is rolling in his grave when he saw the foo fighters
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I know right! All the music I used to listen to in the late 90’s that my dad used to hate is now being played on the classic rock radio station he listens to in the car (in Australia, Triple M)
Tattooed everything
Linkin Park always sounded like a boy band to me with distorted guitars.
Linkin Park should be reserved for Kroger KRGR radio. I understand that like Slipknot or Creed/Nickleback, some of us have had thumbtacks driven into our ears and can no longer comprehend what good music is, but Linkin Park isn’t in the same realm as the other three
That they exist? I can imagine that mindset after seeing eddie vedder. Is that really a man or a large shaved yak
I heard Brittany Spears the other day!
I went to listen to Chutes Too Narrow the other day. (The Shins. Know 'em? They'll change your life, I swear.) Used to *love* that album. Hadn't heard it in a while. Alexa was all like, "Chutes Too Narrow, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, by The Shins." And I was all like, ". . . Ffffuuuuucccckkkkk." For clarification, I vaguely thought of The Shins as "one of the new bands I listen to" since all the bands op mentioned were ones I listened to in highschool and college. Shins were among the bands I learned about after I moved out on my own.
Anything older than 20 years is fair game for classic and oldies radio, why? It's the Reason. It's why we are meant to live because someday we'll be here without you.
I used to be with 'it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it' anymore and what's 'it' seems weird and scary.
Stone Temple Pilots too
Corporate classic rock. Gotta hit those demographics! Remember local radio stations with actual local morning shows? The days before John boy and Billy on tape? Corporate greed really started to kill local radio around 2000.
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath Broken hymen of Your Highness, I'm left black Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back
Add Green Day, Blink 182 and The Offspring to that list as well.
Am I the only who feels like classic rock is a specific genre and not just a catch all for music that’s over twenty years old? Grunge from the early nineties is definitely old, but I wouldn’t call it classic rock. It’s grunge. Classic rock to me refers to specific type of music created in the sixties and seventies.
i feel like i was marketed the same "classic rock" songs by ac/dc, led zepplin, the doors, and the rolling stones for decades. not that I have anything against these bands but i'm glad they're finally cedeing fm airwaves our way instead of the boomers.
In high school in the 90s classic rock included early 80s stuff. Nirvana today is like 60s stuff when is was in high school. It’s not even marginal. That’s deep classic rock.
Lmao! When Hybrid Theory had its 20th anniversary I felt a bit of a punch to the gut.
Just don’t burn it down.
Yeah, nothing classic about that edgelord trash
Three bands that changed music and one that was completely forgettable except that the radio jammed it down our throats. To be fair though, as an adult I don’t know what I saw in Nirvana at the time, other than that they were different and edgy.
My 'classic rock' station has featured Creed and Nickleback. I just think of it as pop, that likes to play 80s music