It's not cooler. Classic rock is such a give up.

Now, let's be clear, there are plenty of older bands who are great. I love the Stones and have a lot of their old records. Big fan. I'm not saying older rock music, I'm saying identifying as a "classic rock" fan is a complete give up. It's saying that you just take received wisdom and accept it. It's like saying you'll just wait for other people to tell you what is good.

I like rock n roll. Old, new, whatever. Doesn't matter. There is no genre of classic rock. That's just repackaged oldies. There's plenty of great bands throughout history. Go find them. It will be a lot of fun.

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Posted by CXSteve

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Posted on 2/10/14 at 9:34 am to Baloo

Classic Rock can cherry pick from 50 years of songs. Modern Rock gonna have some duds with playing whatever the newest stuff is.

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Posted by SUB

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Posted on 2/10/14 at 11:02 am to Baloo

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It's not cooler. Classic rock is such a give up.

Now, let's be clear, there are plenty of older bands who are great. I love the Stones and have a lot of their old records. Big fan. I'm not saying older rock music, I'm saying identifying as a "classic rock" fan is a complete give up. It's saying that you just take received wisdom and accept it. It's like saying you'll just wait for other people to tell you what is good.

I like rock n roll. Old, new, whatever. Doesn't matter. There is no genre of classic rock. That's just repackaged oldies. There's plenty of great bands throughout history. Go find them. It will be a lot of fun.

Well said

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 2/11/14 at 7:39 am to Baloo

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It's saying that you just take received wisdom and accept it.

Unless you're old like me and filtered that stuff in real-time.

When I started listening to the radio, what you kids call "Classic Rock" - we called AOR.

I listened to Van Halen, Boston, Heart, Queen, etc., while they were making that stuff. The fact that it rose to the top and remains a viable form of music today isn't necessarily cloud computing, as much as the artists back then had to rely on this thing called "talent".

There are young groups with talent, I'm sure, particularly local acts who develop their skills by playing tons of stuff live. However, the market has changed so much - the music industry has always subsisted on the backs of the artists -just like Hollywood - they want a "brand", an "image" or a "style" to sell and they really don't care about (nor would they recognize) legitimate musical talent - that's how you get the Justin Biebers, Britney Spears, Lady Gagas of the past 15 to 20 years - far more the Madonna model, and not so much the great AOR artists of the 70s or even hair metal of the 80s (which was sort of a disconnect - many of them were talented, but, due to MTV, they had to pursue a particular style to differentiante them from other heavy music).

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Posted by lsu2006

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Posted on 2/11/14 at 10:12 am to Baloo

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It's not cooler. Classic rock is such a give up.

Now, let's be clear, there are plenty of older bands who are great. I love the Stones and have a lot of their old records. Big fan. I'm not saying older rock music, I'm saying identifying as a "classic rock" fan is a complete give up. It's saying that you just take received wisdom and accept it. It's like saying you'll just wait for other people to tell you what is good.

I like rock n roll. Old, new, whatever. Doesn't matter. There is no genre of classic rock. That's just repackaged oldies. There's plenty of great bands throughout history. Go find them. It will be a lot of fun.

Do you ever post anything that isn't extremely well thought-out and worded perfectly? a-hole.

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