re: Why is Classic Rock so Much Cooler than Modern Rock?

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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."

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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.