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re: Why is Classic Rock so Much Cooler than Modern Rock?
Posted on 2/11/14 at 10:31 am to Ace Midnight
Posted on 2/11/14 at 10:31 am to Ace Midnight
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Probably a fair redirect. Just like me, though, you're showing your age when you call QSA/NIN (and I'll throw in RHCP) as "new" or "modern".
Homme is in his 40s, Trent will be 50 next year and all the peppers (well, not the scab) are in their 50s.
I don't think anyone considers QOTSA and NIN as "Classic Rock", at least not yet. NIN may be on the verge though. I consider bands of the last 20 years that have been successful and established themselves in the rock world to be "Modern Rock."
Posted on 2/11/14 at 10:37 am to SUB
First off, classic rock isnt "so much cooler than modern rock". I love Boston, Journey and Van Halen as much as Incubus, Pearl Jam and Tool.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 10:39 am to SUB
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I consider bands of the last 20 years that have been successful and established themselves in the rock world to be "Modern Rock."
Well, that's sort of why I came into the thread - at some point, we just called it "music on the radio" - Top 40 stations played primarily pop (and really a ton of disco) in the late 70s, but if you wanted some rock music, they played it. AOR stations really focused on the core of what would become "Classic Rock" - and that was a format known by that name as early as the late 80s/early 90s (as we progressed into Grunge). "Modern" rock, is today's version of things like what were played on College FM stations in the 1980s - including U2 and Kafka's boy, EC. Of course that movement ended up pushing Korn and 311 (to name a few) more in the mainstream by the 1990s.
We used to call it "Alternative" - but "Alternative" to what? Grunge relatively briefly resided there before Nirvana blew up - is Nirvana "classic rock" yet? I occasionally hear their stuff mixed in with Queen, Def Leppard, Motley Crue, etc.
These labels are mainly, just that, to me. Rock is rock. I wasn't crazy about the Seattle sound (grunge and non-grunge) right at first, but it quickly grew on me.
Now - we're all old as hell.
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