POLL Current versus classic rock music

[GNG]

I love this...

 

[TheDayMan]

Plenty of "classic rock" from the 80's.


90's would be a better cutoff imo.


People who bitch about "today's music" are lazy in their search.


I have endless GBs of music I haven't even listened to yet.

There’s so much good music out there if you don’t mind getting off your ass and finding it. The “rock is dead” crowd is definitely just lazy, or they want it to be, or both.

The music industry just doesn’t feed it to you anymore, but it’s also never been easier to get your music out and heard. It’s a give and take thing.

 

[Wazmankg]

I first started getting into rock music when I was a kid in 1964. So my musical "coming of age" wheelhouse is roughly 1964-1977. No further explanation should be necessary for my classic rock vote.

 

[GNG]

I first started getting into rock music when I was a kid in 1964. So my musical "coming of age" wheelhouse is roughly 1964-1977. No further explanation should be necessary for my classic rock vote.

I love any rock music from 1955 - 1990. Many folks my age listen to the stuff that passes for music today.

 

[Wazmankg]

I love any rock music from 1955 - 1990. Many folks my age listen to the stuff that passes for music today.

I think that most people like the music that was popular when they were growing up because it's so intertwined with all of those memories. I just happened to grow up during the period of time that's generally considered the golden age of rock music... and I agree of course. If I grew up in the 80s I might think that Bon Jovi or Def Leppard were great rock bands. Many do.

 

[fear and loathing]

I love any rock music from 1955 - 1990. Many folks my age listen to the stuff that passes for music today.

I've been following the more recent trajectories of the founding fathers: mixed bag, but David Gilmour, Steve Winwood, Jack Bruce, Eric Burdon, Jeff Beck, etc., continued making excellent music. Also, Jimi Hendrix' newer (post Foxy Lady) but unknown music is excellent.


Q: Is Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, Steely Dan rock?

 

[fear and loathing]

I love any rock music from 1955 - 1990.

Buddy Holly

 

[GNG]

I think that most people like the music that was popular when they were growing up because it's so intertwined with all of those memories. I just happened to grow up during the period of time that's generally considered the golden age of rock music... and I agree of course. If I grew up in the 80s I might think that Bon Jovi or Def Leppard were great rock bands. Many do.

I was born in 1980 but prefer the rock music my parents love.

 

[GNG]

Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly & The Crickets paved the way for groups like The Beatles.

 

[GNG]

 

[Chewbaccer]

There’s so much good music out there if you don’t mind getting off your ass and finding it. The “rock is dead” crowd is definitely just lazy, or they want it to be, or both.

The music industry just doesn’t feed it to you anymore, but it’s also never been easier to get your music out and heard. It’s a give and take thing.

For me personally, when I call a genre dead, I mean in the mainstream form.

Austin, Texas is currently producing some of the best music ever made, but you have to go out of your way to hear it. I do, but most don't.

 

[GNG]

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers are my favorite rock group. He will be missed...

 

[Chewbaccer]

 

[Chewbaccer]

 

[Eugene Baker III]

Is it a generation thing, or is what currently goes as "rock" actually shitty by comparison?

Scary to tune on "Music Choice" on Cox cable and "Rock" is Death Metal, Thrash, etc....

Lenny Kravitz? Nope. Alice Cooper? Nope. Paul Rodgers? Nope. Robin Trower? Nope.


These are as "Rock" as you can get....but don't make the cut?

 

[Eugene Baker III]

Tedeschi Trucks is a newer blues rock band that I like. Derek Trucks is one of the best guitar pickers of all time, and is the son of the Allman Brothers' drummer.


And I'm a fan of Band of Heathens, personally I consider them alternative country, but technically they're a rock band.


If you know where to look, there's good stuff still out there. I have similar views as @beardown07 in that I love the classics, but I crave things I haven't heard before, so I look for new bands that I like. Outlaw Country on SiriusXM has been a big help.

But what makes my situation different is that for many years I was stubborn and said I hated The Rolling Stones and Neil Young for stupid reasons, and again, thanks to Outlaw Country on SiriusXM, I actually listened and now they're two of my all time favorites, and it's all still relatively fresh for me and not ran into the ground like it is for most.

These are lumped into "Blues" on Music Choice....which I listen to with the "Jazz" version as well....

 

[Eugene Baker III]

My most recent one is actually this:

Here is some stuff I was listening to in 2017:

'tHoop Album of the Year


Obviously classic rock is better but I'm at least open to trying to find new thing to listen to on my commute.

I dug out my "Best of Robin Trower" CD and stuffed it into the CD player in the Mustang GT....can't believe James Dewar passed in 2002...that guy was fantastic.

 

[fear and loathing]

Scary to tune on "Music Choice" on Cox cable and "Rock" is Death Metal, Thrash, etc....


Robin Trower? Nope.

I like the Jack Bruce, Trower collaboration on Seven Moons.

 

[Eugene Baker III]

I like the Jack Bruce, Trower collaboration on Seven Moons.

I saw Trower with Jack Bruce down here quite some time ago...was a great show but Jack ain't James.

 

[williewilliejuan]

I just jerk off to sheet music. Come on, who's going to ever do something better than a Bach fugue? It's the gentleman's playboy.

This guy gets it.