I actually like a lot of classic rock (yes even Hotel California, that solo kicks ass) but there is a lot of bad classic rock too. What do you think the worst classic rock song is? What is the most overrated band or artist? I think Supertramp is mid at best, but Bob Seeger is truly dreadful.
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The Rolling Stones suck so much. They got two good songs to be sure, but they’re aggressively mid more often than not. Hell, there earlier stuff just reminds me that I could be listening to far better black artists who were their contemporaries.
Paint it Black is the only song of theirs that I still listen to regularly and enjoy
Beast of Burden and Mother’s Little Helper are pretty good
“(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” would have been an infinitely better song if it were about Keef wanting to have a pistol duel at dawn with random people from the ad industry
Nonsense. The Stones are the shit and I will die on this hill. Have you ever listened to Exile on Main Street? I guess you never got your rocks off.
They have some good stuff, but most of their tunes have me thinking, "damn, I’d rather listen to some Link Wray or Lead Belly.
I’m assuming one of the two good songs is Dancing In The Street ft. David Bowie?
They’re fairly mid, but I gotta respect how long they’ve been going.
AC/DC? trash. Aerosmith? disgusting. this one’s low-hanging fruit but obviously KISS sucks ass. oh and Guns N’ Roses. I can’t name a single Mötley Crüe song but I can’t imagine they’re any good
actually all of them are bad except for Waters-era Pink Floyd
I was in rehab with Steven Tyler. At the time Applebees was using Sweet Emotion in an ad. When I bumped into him in the chow line I was like “holy shit, you’re the guy from the Applebees commercial!” He didn’t think it was as funny as I did and refused to talk to me for the next two weeks.
Lmfao you rule, I bet he still thinks about that and gets mad
The funniest part was that right before he checked himself in, he tried to pivot to country music. The song was called Red White and You or some dumb shit. I have a feeling it didn’t go well.
but hey, at least we still have White Snake
Sweet Child o’ Mine is great though.
An ex of mine asked me when we were still together that if we broke up for me to show up to her funeral riding a hog and play that on a stereo outside her service. She probably forgot she told me that but I’m gonna do it.
calling your girlfriend your “sweet child” is fucking weird, I don’t like that at all
edit: to be clear I mean Axl Rose not you
No worries. I called her “bitter baby”.
There’s a band I listened to in high school with a really good song (not really rock though) that heavily sampled the opening riff from Hell’s Bells. AC/DC grinds my gears in general, but Hell’s Bells still hits for me. I’m like 50/50 on whether I’d still have any appreciation for the song if I hadn’t heard that great pseudo-cover.
Isn’t Aerosmith a one-hit-wonder? I actually do think Dream On is a good song, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard a single other thing they’ve done.
“Love in an Elevator,” “Water Song/Janie’s Got a Gun,” the song from Armageddon, the one with Run DMC, “Dude (Looks Like a Lady),” “Toys in the Attic,” “Pink,” “Sweet Emotion” all had to have at least hit gold/top 40 given how many times I’ve heard them played ad nauseam during various summer and from teenagers’ bedrooms over the course of my life. Also they have a roller coaster at Disney World.
Please teach me your secret ninja wizard ways of going through life without hearing any Aerosmith.
Please teach me your secret ninja wizard ways of going through life without hearing any Aerosmith.
Well for me it’s pretty simple, don’t have friends and don’t have social hobbies in real life. Nobody’s blasting any aerosmith at you in the grocery store or in a video game, and nobody’s blasting aerosmith at you while you go for a walk or plant tomatoes or read a book.
I’m sure I’ve heard an aerosmith song or two but probably no more than that, and definitely couldn’t identify even one.
Haha! You wanna know how bad off I am about this (and probably my whole generation)? As soon as you mentioned “video game” I immediately remembered Revolution X, the Aerosmith video game where you went from place to place shooting fascist super cops while being blasted with Aerosmith music as you save band members and “music and freedom as a whole.” It was at every skate rink and pizza joint. Help I’m drowning!
Dude Looks Like a Lady is horrific and I hate hearing that come on the radio but I had no idea it was Aerosmith. I’ve heard Jamie’s Got a Gun too but not enough to have a reaction, also did not know that was them. I might recognize the others too but not by name and I’m now thinking maybe I’ll keep it that way. Dream On is still pretty good though.
Well, we’re all blessed with there not being anymore song from them now that Steve Tyler’s vocal cords exploded on stage a few weeks ago.
Mötley Crüe
They’ve got a couple bangers but like a lot of bands they had their best ideas early on and got more mainstream friendly/boring over time.
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Where’s that tweet about being pumped to see KISS with their badass facepaint and them going “I WANNA ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT 😜AND PARTY EVERYDAY”
God that song fucking sucks
It’s a fun chorus but then it’s just that chorus for the entire song
The Beatles. I actually love a lot of their B sides and early material, but I think I’ve just been over-exposed to their “main” catalogue. Although, truth be told, I could probably say the same for almost any classic rock band, except for maybe CCR. Classic rock bands just get over-hyped as the most amazing band in the world, but when you don’t feel the same, it ends up creating a huge disconnect.
There used to be a pub near my house with the entire White Album on the digital jukebox thing they had.
I used to request Revolution 9 every single time when I’m walking past or leaving the pub.
It took them 4 months to remove it from the system.
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The only album of theirs I really like is Rubber Soul, the rest is mostly overrated.
I used to feel like Rubber Soul was their best album, and their later albums were overrated.
Then I stopped listening to them for a long long time. And after revisiting their discography I’ve come to appreciate Abbey Road more and more.
Even Magical Mystery Tour that I hated I kinda like now tbh.
I still hate Sgt. Pepper’s tho.
Let’s agree: Carry on Wayward Son is the best classic rock song. Like all good classic rock it also falls on the proggy side of things.
The guitar players in Kansas were cool. They couldn’t afford guitar straps so they stole horse halters and used those.
Is progrock just classic rock that’s good?
Nope. Punk came around for a reason.
I think you’re on to something
Have to disagree. “Rock Band” killed that one for me.
DUH NA NA NA. DUH NA NA NA, DUH NA DUH DUH DUH DO, DO, DO, DO, NUH
CARRY ON
The horse with no name song is straight up torture.
Also, I don’t get classic rock radio. I know every song and I hate the genre. My entire passenger experience in an automobile has had a classic rock soundtrack. The same 100 songs everyday for like 25 years caused me damage.
This is an unspoken drawback of car culture.
Terrible CDs or terrible radio.
For the longest time I was ~9 minutes away from work by foot and I guess I can’t relate to people who have to commute twice that long in a car.
That’s my experience with most radio. Same 20 songs repeated forever.
and some people like my partner LOVE it. She refuses to like anything that hasn’t been played to death on the radio.
Yup Horse With No Name is on my job’s playlist (retail), I hate when that comes on.
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Damn, Gen X is getting blown the fuck out
The least loved people of history
Nah, most people seem to find Gen X weird and cute. Everyone hates millennials the most. Even millennials hate millennials.
What do you think the worst classic rock song is?
Jack & Diane
What is the most overrated band or artist?
I’ve never liked Van Halen
The day that I stopped listening to commercial radio was the day I was driving a delivery van, and Jack & Diane came on for the millionth time. Out of song fatigue, I hit a preset button to switch from the classic rock station to the adult contemporary station, but the song just kind of skipped a few seconds. Weird.
Confusion turned to horror, as I realized the truth: The adult contemporary station was also playing Jack & Diane almost in sync with the classic rock station.
That’s it. I’m done. No more commercial radio, with 7-minute ad breaks, and 40-song playlists, if they can’t even manage a different 40 songs on different stations.
Doesn’t help that Clearwater or Clearchannel or whatever bought out every station in America.
Oh yeah Jack and DIane has strong highschool fascist energy.
I have faith in the power of Don’t Stop Believin’ but I heard it at the wrong time a couple of days ago and I wanted to rip the walls apart. It’s just not a breakfast before work type of song.
oh I hate Don’t Stop Believin’, I remember its resurgence around the mid-to-late 00s and it annoyed the shit out of me
I was a bartender and we did karaoke and I heard that fucking song probably 3+ times a night and it’s even worse when the people can’t sing
It was because of Bones. I can almost guarantee it.
Gravity Falls had a fantastic in-show parody that Mabel sings at karaoke called “Don’t Start Un-Believing”.
I hate that period when the entire music industry got a yacht fixation. Come Sail Away, I’m Sailing Away, I’m Getting Closer To The Shore, I’ve Been Capsized By An Orca And Totally Deserved It.
Conceptually relsted: Jimmy Buffett. You built a cult out of aspiring to be a useless beach drunk. I guess it’s what you do after your fourth OUI and they take your boating licence.
You built a cult out of aspiring to be a useless beach drunk.
That would probably be the least harmful cult ever
In another world, I probably would just have no feelings about it either way, but decades of fucking car commercials have made Rock’n Me one of my most loathed songs. Especially that verse. Sweet Child O’ Mine (and anything by Guns n’ Roses) can fuck right off too.
Anyway, here’s Wonderwall
If Oasis is classic rock I’m going to need some clarification on what people think it is exactly
I really dislike that classic rock band called Imagine Dragons. Shit sucks
See I vibe with that, they do suck and they are classic rock.
Classic rock is music I don’t like written before 1996 or, apparently, after 2017.
Idk they call 30+ year old cars classic. Wonderwall is 29
Just enjoying some classic rock bands: Nirvana, The Cure, Bikini Kill, Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine
I remember listening to the local Classic Rock station on the radio on January 1st 2000 and Nine Inch Nails’ Head Like a Hole began playing.
We’re ten years further away from the founding of Nirvana in 1987 than Nirvana’s founding was from that of the Beatles in 1960.
This argument really depends on if we define classic rock as “older stuff” along a rolling timeline, like classic cars, or if it describes a distinct era in cultural history, like classicism.
The only one that has any utility as definition is the latter imo. What’s the use of having a label for any rock act older than some arbitrary date?
I made that same argument about how retro games should be defined as games made before the advert of 3d when arcades were the dominant gaming platform, but people just want a term for “old games” without saying “old games.”
You were right, never back down
finally a classic rock radio station that’s tolerable
Sorry to say, that’s underground kid classic rock.
You’re thinking of The Minutemen
If you’re a college rock dj 34 years ago
That’s right
MBV
I wouldn’t call Cocteau Twins classic rock and they started in '79
Yeah cause they’re club bathroom fuck music. Totally different genre
True, true, I agree with that statement
They used to be my favorite band in the world, but nowadays I think that Led Zeppelin is way, way overrated. IV is their best album and probably the only one that nowadays I can still listen to without skipping any songs, even Four Sticks (eh, actually, I’ll skip that one I think). When the Levee Breaks is the best song they’ve ever made.
The more and more I think about it, the more and more I think it’s John Bonham that’s the most important aspect of Led Zeppelin. Fool In The Rain, No Quarter, Kashmir, Moby Dick
Which is truly amazing because he was self taught on funk and jazz.
I think it’s John Bonham that’s the most important aspect of Led Zeppelin
100%, he was always the soul of the band. He’s, in fact, the reason why When the Levee Breaks is by far their best song.
zeppelin is good
i feel the same, also impressed by how much music they ripped
smoke on the water is horrible shallow kitsch…
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I swear this is the first riff every new guitar player learns (I learned it and I had never even heard the song until that moment)
Guitarists: THAT’S NOT EVEN HOW YOU PLAY THE SONG! IT’S PERFECT 4TH DYADS WITH AN IMPLIED E-G-A ROOT, SO IT’S 2-5-7 BARRED ACROSS THE 4TH AND 5TH STRINGS! 0-3-5 IS A LIIIIIIIIIIIE!
“Well, ackchyually if you watch how Ritchie Blackmore explains how to play it…”
Tony Iommi does it better anyway
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When I played bass that actually wasn’t my first song to learn. It was My Name Is Mud by Primus. But that was probably because I fucking love slapbass.
My friend started fucking around on a bass guitar, and the first thing he learned was the Seinfeld riff.
That’s sort of how it happened for me. I had an idea of how to do the My Name Is Mud riff but it was at downtime during a jam session for the band I was playing guitar in and I was like hey lemme see if I can do slapbass.
The first bassline I learned was a Weezer song…
I think my first full song was probably Big Truck by Coal Chamber or something.
I think my first full song was probably Big Truck by Coal Chamber or something.
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Deep Purple has some actually good songs too. It makes that song’s popularity and the others’ obscurity even more annoying.
Child in time is good
It’s not even their riff. It’s from a jazz song by a band that John Lord briefly toured with before joining Deep Purple.
The lyrics were also written in about 10 minutes because they needed one last filler track for the Machine Head album.
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