Classic rock hate thread
Classic rock hate thread
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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I like a lot of the stuff but the 2 minute chorus lines and the "end the song by way of a minute long fade out" is grating.
That said I see a lot of use of the word "overrated" in this thread. [Band] isn't overrated, you just don't like them. Like I don't like Bruce Springsteens music, but there's a reason why he's called The Boss.
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.
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.
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.
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Love the level of discourse in this thread.
"Classic rock" isn't an actual genre of music so much as it is a format for a radio station that mostly plays adult adult alternative pop music from the 60's - 00's and I will stand by this. I miss the old classic rock station we had around here, it got bought out about five years ago and it's really just not the same as it was back then. Now it really is the same 40 songs with no actual dj, back then they would pull out some deep cuts about every hour or so to keep things interesting but now it blows chunks. You can say what you want about them as a news source but NPR affiliates have some awesome music programming.
Back on topic, yeah supertramp sucks so much ass it's not funny, Lynrd Skynyrd's value as a band is entirely contained within the guitar solo in Freebird. Jack and Diane got mentioned already in this thread, and that's a good contender for the worst but Free Fallin' by Tom Petty is so fucking maudlin and the way he draws out his words just aggrivates me.
[Angel in the] Centerfold is a song I hate on a personal level, it's so agressively cishet it makes me wanna puke, the character guy gets all upset that his old crush is a beautiful woman who does nude modeling and he conspires to get her all to himself and its like... thats so creepy? Like can he really not stand the idea that other men might look at/interact with the girl he never made a move on in highschool? It's so wild that this is played on a daily basis given how he describes exactly how hes going to try to seduce her the next chance he gets.
Overrated: Eric Clapton. Probably stole all his material, let his kid die while on cocaine and then made a weepy song and a lot of money from that. Also shit politics.
And all the creepy ass sweet 16 songs that were ever made by all rock/metal bands that might now be considered "classic".
Never got Springsteen, The Rolling Stones or Aerosmith either.
But songs like Carry on my wayward son and Stairway to heaven are the good stuff. The more prog stuff often is.
Is Bob Dylan considered classic rock? because if so, then I can't stand his god awful voice and music even in his album recording days. I also had to listen to him at a festival I was volunteering which made me question why he hasn't retired then and was looking around for a pair of ear plugs (this was like in 2005 or 6).
Ice cold take but I can't stand styx. I like prog a lot but they are garbage.
You will take my Creedence Clearwater Revival from my cold, dead hands. You're welcome to do whatever you want with Dave Matthews Band and Aerosmith, but I want custody of ZZ-top every other weekend.
Once I listen to Van Halen I'm sure you can have it, but I gotta get around to it first. I'd say the same for Dave Matthews and Aerosmith, but their vibes are just awful.
Now I'd let you have the Stones, but they've been devoured by a pack of wild car commercials before I could get to them.
Guns and Roses though... Is there a way where we get rid of them but still keep Appetite for Destruction?
Also we are going to have to pretend that The Who isn't classic rock because I have fond memories of watching Tommy with my dad and I don't have a lot of those memories. Pinball Wizard is a bop.
Dire straits are completely non-negotiable especially Money for Nothing.More like classic cock
Really early Grateful Dead is the shit. Like Live/Dead era when they were tripping balls and absolutely shredding every night.
Everything by Jefferson Airplane sounds like they were trying to make music as repulsive as humanly possible.
MC5 was pretty based
i have always been kinda snobby but i detest basic bitch rock. verse chorus verse is an acceptable structure, but for like five straight decades we got music that was mostly about materialistic excess, and anything deeper was usually on the periphery - if you didn't want more music about girls, cars, sex, having a good time then I have bad news.
But I like everything that rose to technically and lyrically interesting heights, and i hope someday rock and roll can reinvent itself from the old and ossified thing it has become.
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As a radio programming format, yeah.
As music it’s pretty good. Even the band I bounce off of the most, kiss, has some cool stuff that never made it big and is fun to listen to.
Weirdly the thing that saves the music from the terrible clear channel/I heart radio format is the other stuff on the format it was released as.
Where does New Wave fit into this? Cause I LOVE new wave
when it comes to mass media, 90% of everything is shit. across all genres and forms of media. i love post-punk psychedelic rock type stuff but a lot of it is also about how great it is to be an alcoholic womanizer. i like a lot of electronic music of various kinds but i cringe whenever i hear an anime girl infant voice. i like a lot of rap and hip hop type stuff but a lot of it is just glorifying wealth and full of toxic patriarchal platitudes about dominating and winning. I absolutely adore a lot of jazz but at least half of the songs with lyrics are overly horny and sappy and slow for my taste. i almost exclusively hate classic rock but there are a handful of songs and bands i like, i somehow enjoy the Horse With No Name song and some songs by The Doors for example.
semi related mecha rant
this holds true even for other media, like i am straight up weirdly obsessed with mecha, but the vast majority of mecha media, shows games comics or movies, make design and worldbuilding choices i dislike, such as making the mecha impractically large (gundam, many others), or giving the heavily armored military vehicles exposed glass canopies instead of armored cockpits (mechwarrior, hi-vis cockpits work as a specialized design for like civilian or aerial/deep sea mecha, but not on LITERALLY EVERY MECH), or not giving the mech useable arms or hands (older mechwarrior games and star wars and many other generic mech games are bad about this, how are the mechs supposed to get up if they fall over with no arms? why build weapon mounts into the sides of a mech like they are arms and not house them in the armored interior or a turret like a tank? the entire advantage of a mech is that it can handle weird terrain with their ability to change posture and use their limbs, having no arms on a bipedal mech means the mech can't climb up slopes or crawl on the ground or get up after falling) or making all the mechs spider-tanks or otherwise multi-limbed (this is ok as an option or specialized type but when its the only kind of mech i think its lame imo, half the fun of mechs is that they let you do Humanoid Character Design free from some of the specific constraints of human anatomy without breaking verisimilitude)
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Couple years ago I listened to Eric Burdon Declares War. Album was alright, but Tobacco Road was a stark reminder of why punk rock had to happen.
Fuck Journey.
Just remembered, Rod Stewart sucks. Just a newer generation of Elvis that sadly didn't die young.