re: help me understand the attraction to classic rock

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Am I missing something? Or should I just stick to my outlaw country and hood shite?

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You definitely are, but most of us don't "get" certain types of music. For me, it's country (Texas/Nashville) and rap.

OP, Classic rock(60's-70's) defines a time that most of us younger peeps wish we could live it. It is music that our parents played when we were driving to school or on a vacation. Life was good in that era and that music ties directly to the good.

However, what is played on the radio is not a indication of the extreme depth the classic rock genre has.

Classic rock era gave birth to so many other aspects of the music we all have come to know and love today.

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but these threads are simply retarded

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How is your own thread retarded?

I actually despise the term "classic rock". Absolutely hate it. It's such a give up. It's like saying "I only like music that's already been codified by other people as being good."

I like rock n roll. Doesn't matter from when. I love Buddy Holly, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Pixies, and Pavement. There is no classic rock. Just rock.

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It's like saying "I only like music that's already been codified by other people as being good."

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eh, i consider classic rock music from the 60's/70's. which happens to be the music I grew up with. I'm sure others have other definitions.but, that's basically what it means to me. And it will ALWAYS be my favorite.

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Go into music with an open mind, and you wont be disappointed.

Go into music with expectations or looking for something and you will never find it.

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I like that philosophy

I know that growing up listening to classic rock radio, it's easy to get burned out on some of the same popular songs over and over again, especially if you didn't grow up with that music "as it happened"

I started listening to music in the 80's, so my exposure to Led Zep, the Rolling Stones, The Doors, etc came through classic rock stations, that would run their hit songs into the ground.

Once I got older, I had more opportunities to listen to whole albums as a complete body of work, instead of just a few singles on the radio.

I wish I could have had the opportunity to listen to Led Zeppelin IV when it was released, instead of being exposed to the hit songs over-and-over again out of context on the radio (I'm looking at you, 92.3 WCKW!)

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I'm looking at you, 92.3 WCKW!)

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106.7 the end was good... its like once we hit 2000 Radio gave up trying to play us new tunes. Classic rock radio is the same way I would agree.

OP ABB cannot be the only classic rock band... I am sure you have to have one more band you like eyyy?

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OP ABB cannot be the only classic rock band... I am sure you have to have one more band you like eyyy?

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they're not. skynyrd, stones, zepllin, ccr, doors, among many others

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I like rock n roll. Doesn't matter from when. I love Buddy Holly, the Rolling Ste is no classic rock. Just rock.

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This is why my thread for Top 10 Favorite Rock Bands is just that...for ALL rock, not any one particular flavor variety.

same reason shitty 80s music is popular, people crave the familiar.

Old people grew up listening to it, and then they listened to it when their kids were growing up and so everybody finds it acceptable. the reality is people like repetition. They like to know the words to the songs, so they can sing along.

Thus classic rock being popular.

Some classic rock is great and some of its fricking horrible. And really bands like led zep, beatles, stones, the who are closer to oldies than they are to classic rock.

I'll add my .02 into the Floyd discussion

Pink Floyd is in my top 5, but "Money" is a song that makes me want to bang my head against a brick wall. It's the only song I skip on Dark Side of the Moon. I flat out don't like the song.