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Post by SharksFan99 on Dec 12, 2017 15:04:55 GMT 10
I was listening to a radio station as I driving home earlier today and the station happened to be playing a "classic rock"-themed playlist (since it is a rock station). Anyway, I was driving along and then "Freak" by Silverchair came on. I couldn't believe it! "Freak" was only released in 1997, yet it's now regarded as being a "classic rock" song. It got me thinking about the term "classic rock" and how it's applied to songs. I mostly think of "classic rock" as being from the 60s-80s, not from the 1990s.
What do you consider to be "classic rock" and where would you draw the boundary between what is and what isn't a "classic rock" song?
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Post by Mibblez on Dec 13, 2017 6:42:02 GMT 10
Well the 90s are starting to get older and older. I do kind of consider silverchiar to be classic just like nirvana and Alice In Chains, but not as classic as rock from the 60s-80s. I keep forgetting that the music of the 90s was when a lot of people on this forums parents were teens or young adults and all and thinking about that does make the 90s kind of feel a bit old now.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Dec 13, 2017 10:02:34 GMT 10
Well the 90s are starting to get older and older. I do kind of consider silverchiar to be classic just like nirvana and Alice In Chains, but not as classic as rock from the 60s-80s. I keep forgetting that the music of the 90s was when a lot of people on this forums parents were teens or young adults and all and thinking about that does make the 90s kind of feel a bit old now. True. I don't know if you've ever viewed the decade in the same way, but I find it really hard to view the '90s as being "old" or "retro", even though they were well over 20 years ago now. Maybe it's just the fact that I was born in 1999. To me, the '90s still feel modern and not far removed from today.
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Post by Mibblez on Dec 13, 2017 11:38:12 GMT 10
Well the 90s are starting to get older and older. I do kind of consider silverchiar to be classic just like nirvana and Alice In Chains, but not as classic as rock from the 60s-80s. I keep forgetting that the music of the 90s was when a lot of people on this forums parents were teens or young adults and all and thinking about that does make the 90s kind of feel a bit old now. True. I don't know if you've ever viewed the decade in the same way, but I find it really hard to view the '90s as being "old" or "retro", even though they were well over 20 years ago now. Maybe it's just the fact that I was born in 1999. To me, the '90s still feel modern and not far removed from today. True but I guess for me the fact that I was born in the late 90s makes me feel this way with it. though since this decade has a huge nostalgia for the 90s I can see why it feels recent, no one won't stop talking about it XD
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Post by RockyMountainExtreme on Dec 21, 2017 10:29:43 GMT 10
'50s & '60s = Golden Age of Rock
'70s & '80s = Silver Age of Rock
'90s & '00s = Bronze Age of Rock
That's how I think they should be referred to as, time wise.
The term "classic rock" is an awful term, because it's way too inclusive. Rock music from the '60s and rock music from the '80s have a way different vibe from one another, I'd even say that rock music from the '80s is more similar to rock music from the '00s than rock music from the '60s.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Dec 21, 2017 11:23:53 GMT 10
'50s & '60s = Golden Age of Rock '70s & '80s = Silver Age of Rock '90s & '00s = Bronze Age of Rock That's how I think they should be referred to as, time wise. The term "classic rock" is an awful term, because it's way too inclusive. Rock music from the '60s and rock music from the '80s have a way different vibe from one another, I'd even say that rock music from the '80s is more similar to rock music from the '00s than rock music from the '60s. I agree with the points you raised. I think the main difference between rock music of the '60s and '80s (apart from the style of music and overall vibe, of course), is how commercialised the music was. Mainstream music in the '60s and '70s was much more "organic" and "raw". There was a change in the way music was produced around 1978/1979. I know a lot of people like to pinpoint the launch of MTV as being evolutionary in the way music was produced and while it was definitely influential in it's own right, music was already becoming much more commercialised prior to that. "Video Killed the Radio Star", "My Sharona", "Heart of Glass" are good examples of music becoming more commercialised at that time. In fact, a lot of people mistakenly think that they are "'80s" songs.
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Post by #Infinity on Dec 21, 2017 12:03:56 GMT 10
I always sort of considered the classic rock era to span roughly 1965 to 1980. That's probably in part due to age bias, but it just feels like that stretch of time was when the genre most fermented its general identity, when it mattered the most. It was always the beardy, angsty, counterculture-associated stuff that my parents' generation grew up with that seemed to earn the classic rock label most, while everything from the MTV onwards is categorized as snottier, flashier, more casual, more post-modern, or just reflecting an entirely different spirit from what the Rolling Stone Magazine crowd idolized. 1965 was when the British Invasion kicked into high gear and rock became significantly more political and lyrical, while 1980 was a brutal year for rock-related deaths, including Ian Curtis, Bon Scott, John Bonham, and of course John Lennon, not to mention the final year before MTV debuted and basically redefined the basic qualities of rock culture.
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