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Classic Rock is my favorite music genre! There really isn't any substitute for it, especially with today's awful, horrible, despised "rap-crap, teen pop" style music, which takes no kind of talent to produce whatsoever. Anyone else agree that Classic Rock is the best, and if so, what's your favorite band?
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My favourite classic rock bands are, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Juthro Tull, Thin Lizzy, Yes, CCR, and The Who.
Evidently, some Zeppelin, DP, and Lizzy can couunt as early Metal pioneers B-)
Instead of getting all misty-eyed listening to old classics, I actually feel a little disappointed that they don't sound as good as I remembered. I was all ready to go on a long journey last week with Bat Out Of Hell in the player. Ended up skipping about 3 songs. Just wasn't the same. I really struggle to look backwards in anything
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I grew up in a very conservative area where the worst insult possible was that a thing or person was "weird". People lived in terror of being labeled as such. Of course, what was not weird was very narrow. Liking any music other than classic rock, liking food other than fast food or steak or pizza, liking movies that weren't action films (or were more than 20 years old), liking books and reading - all these things were seen as proof that a young guy was homosexual, leading to him being a social outcast and teased constantly (and often beaten up). Of course, the great irony was that all those things would make a guy more appealing to women - and much more successful with women than the guys beating him up because they thought he was gay!
Anyway, I used to work at a place where the only radio station they would play was the classic rock station. I was then older and more confident so I asked the manager if we could put a different station on. She refused, saying that a Top 40 station just played the same songs over and over again. I tried explaining to her that the songs change every month but she still refused. What was funny is that there is a limited number of classic rock songs and no new ones being produced (or else they would be just rock, not classic rock). So instead of listening to the same songs for a month we listened to the same songs for two years! No matter how good a song is listening to it constantly will lessen its appeal.
I'm always excited about the new things we can do so I like hearing new and different music. I find it exciting when someone comes out with a new song or a new style. With all the years of listening to the same classic rock my response is now more of a "Meh - been there, done that".
But you'll get these great bands on there too that I do like:
The Who, TRex, Led Zep, The Beatles, Kinks, Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Credence...
Guilty Pleasures: AC/DC, Wings,
But again, those stations play the same damn songs over and over...if I have to here "Carry on My Wayward Side" one more time, I'm gonna...eh...probably just change the station (but I'll likely have a temporary fit!)
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Blue Oyster Cult
Jimi Hendrix
David Bowie
Led Zeppelin
Bob Marley (not really classic rock, but still...)
The Beatles
Boston
Alice Cooper
The Doors
AC/DC
Pink Floyd
Queen
Elvis
The Moody Blues
but i'll go back a little further as well... often times (and with some weird looks from my friends) i like listening to old doowop or Motown...
The 5 Satins
The Temptations
Richie Valens
The Delfonics
The Isley Brothers
The Righteous Brothers
Brothers Johnson
Zap and Roger
Smokey Robinson
i can really listen to just about anything - except for Pop/Dance garbage, or Country.
Fan of:
Pink Floyd
Rush
AC/DC
Deep Purple
Metallica
Tom Petty
Who
Hendrix
Led Zepplin
Just to name a few.
The first song I heard when entering the place? Guns n' Roses - It's so Easy. Wow, it just blew me away and from that moment on GN'R have been my favourite band and still are.
That obviously got me interested in rock music and I went out buying what I would now consider classic rock.
Bands/artists such as Whitesnake, Poison, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Skid Row, Kiss, AC/DC, Iron Maiden and Motorhead among others still have pride of place in my vinyl/cd collection. I still find it amazingf that some of these bands are still going.
My favourite era is probably the 80's and I was gutted when Nirvana and grunge came along and the popularity of 80's rock dropped.
I'm still always on the lookout for new vinyl - charity shops are where I spend most of my lunch breaks flicking through the records - and I have found a lot of bargains along the way.
1. Foreigner
2. Aerosmith
3. Van Halen
4. Boston
5. Styx
6. Rush
7. Chicago
8. The Rolling Stones
9. The Who
10. The Steve Miller Band
Seriously, I was dragged along to see them in the late `80`s and hated every split second of it. Give me 3 chords and an attitude any day over Neil Pearts "math" drumming, and did Geddy Lee really lose both balls to sing that high? Classic rock ain`t really my thing, though I reckon AC/DC and ZZTOP fit this catagory, and they certainly do the job! (Sorry)
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I can't see Bond playing classic rock when wooing a woman so maybe that's what's throwing me off.
"I can't see Bond playing classic rock when wooing a woman so maybe that's what's throwing me off."
Perhaps if Bond tried this classic rock song.
Now everyone stop bagging on Rush.
For me RUSH is the essence of music.
I prefer the term hard rock;
The Who
Zeppelin
Black Sabbath
Jimi Hendrix
AC/DC
David Bowie
The Kinks
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Oasis
REM
Nirvana
Guns n’ Roses
Ocean Colour Scene
Neil Young
The Doors
Bob Marley
The Yardbirds
The Small Faces
The Cult
Deep Purple
Tom Petty
Madness
ect...
I also feel like this is the stuff you need to be on a road trip for to really rock out to - this is what my Dad and I do on long car trips. So much fun :) I'm sorry its crap like this that really annoys me. Yeah, there is a lot of junk out there but there is some real good stuff there as well. Get off your high horse. You remind me of Indie kids ... god I hate Indie kids.
Guns and Queen are my favourite bands.
That said, I have an insane urge to listen to some old ACDC and Rose Tattoo lately!