How do you define "classic rock"

Anything released before 1990.

Tomous wrote:
rinks wrote:I’d say pre-80s. After that, everything splintered into genres with their own specific names.

EDIT: Not saying all pre-80s rock is classic rock. Obviously there was punk etc. Classic rock is a catch-all for everything not otherwise defined.

Agree with this. It's basically a genre/style of music in itself.

Exactly, classic rock was probably talked of as a genre in the late 80s so it isn't as simple as saying x years ago is the boundary.

I would say it's more about the sound. Like you could start a classic rock band today. Blur are more if a pop band than any kind of rock band.

floydfreak wrote:Someone i know was at work one day and he got chatting to one of the new guys who started working with him. My mate likes rock music Guns N Roses, Iron Maiden Queen, Samson, etc this guy late teens early 20's. Anyway he turned around and said to my mate he likes classic rock. I think of Classic Rock as between 60's-80's for classic bands and acts. The Who, The Rolling Stones as "classic rock" This guy turned around and said to my mate "Green Day, My Chemical Romance" as classic rock.

I work with a guy like this, thinks Modern Warfare is retro gaming, and it boils my piss like nothing else.

Lex-Man wrote:I would say it's more about the sound. Like you could start a classic rock band today. Blur are more if a pop band than any kind of rock band.

Britpop is a subgenre of rock music - if you consider a drummer, two or three guitarists and a singer to be the 4-4-2 of rock then a lot of Britpop bands don't stray too far from that. If Coldplay can call themselves a rock band then Blur/Oasis/Pulp/Suede definitely can!

I don't think "Classic Rock" is a genre to be honest. You wouldn't have this discussion about classic pop music being pre-1990, so Kylie and Jason count but Take That and the Spice Girls don't.

First persom bad mouth oasis in here gets a paddlin'.

Metal is better anyway

Zilnad wrote:Metal is better anyway

I prefer classic metal, like System of A Down, or Papa Roach.

Knoyleo wrote:
Zilnad wrote:Metal is better anyway

I prefer classic metal, like System of A Down, or Papa Roach.

Fallout Boy :datass:

PostRe: How do you define "classic rock" by **Pedz** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:32 pm

Zilnad wrote:
floydfreak wrote:Someone i know was at work one day and he got chatting to one of the new guys who started working with him. My mate likes rock music Guns N Roses, Iron Maiden Queen, Samson, etc this guy late teens early 20's. Anyway he turned around and said to my mate he likes classic rock. I think of Classic Rock as between 60's-80's for classic bands and acts. The Who, The Rolling Stones as "classic rock" This guy turned around and said to my mate "Green Day, My Chemical Romance" as classic rock.

I work with a guy like this, thinks Modern Warfare is retro gaming, and it boils my piss like nothing else.

Tbf, a ton of people think ps360 backwards is retro. I think there was even a poll in the game section that a few said the same.

Moggy wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:
Zilnad wrote:Metal is better anyway

I prefer classic metal, like System of A Down, or Papa Roach.

Fallout Boy

Please, that's classic emo.

PostRe: How do you define "classic rock" by **Pedz** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:34 pm

Pedz wrote:
Zilnad wrote:
floydfreak wrote:Someone i know was at work one day and he got chatting to one of the new guys who started working with him. My mate likes rock music Guns N Roses, Iron Maiden Queen, Samson, etc this guy late teens early 20's. Anyway he turned around and said to my mate he likes classic rock. I think of Classic Rock as between 60's-80's for classic bands and acts. The Who, The Rolling Stones as "classic rock" This guy turned around and said to my mate "Green Day, My Chemical Romance" as classic rock.

I work with a guy like this, thinks Modern Warfare is retro gaming, and it boils my piss like nothing else.

Tbf, a ton of people think ps360 backwards is retro. I think there was even a poll in the game section that a few said the same.

https://grcade.co.uk/t:jawa-asks-which-gaming-eras-are-now-quotretroquot?f=2&hilit=Retro

I always thought it's like a catchment that will grow over time. I would put music from the early 90's in the category. It's over 30 years ago.

PostRe: How do you define "classic rock" by **Qikz** » Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:51 pm

Squinty wrote:I always thought it's like a catchment that will grow over time. I would put music from the early 90's in the category. It's over 30 years ago.

It's weird, I see that with gaming but I don't see it with classic rock like this as it feels more like a specific genre.

Knoyleo wrote:
Moggy wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:
Zilnad wrote:Metal is better anyway

I prefer classic metal, like System of A Down, or Papa Roach.

Fallout Boy

Please, that's classic emo.

Did someone say emo? Loved My Chemical Romance back in the day, great band.

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Dowbocop wrote:I don't think "Classic Rock" is a genre to be honest.

It is, though. Characterised by light- to heavily distorted guitar riffs, with occasional but generally modest solos (compared to shredding); minimal keyboards; heavily influenced by blues; male-dominated lead vocals, often with harmonised backing vocals; tempo usually from 90-120, in 4/4 time; lyrics focused on relationships and raucous behaviour.

Obviously a generalisation, by definition.

Anything released before the classic tv series 'Neighbours' stopped being aired.

Sprouty wrote:Anything released before the classic tv series 'Neighbours' stopped being aired.

Neighbours is coming back though.

Vermilion wrote:
Sprouty wrote:Anything released before the classic tv series 'Neighbours' stopped being aired.

Neighbours is coming back though.

I don't count 'Neighbours: A New Chapter' as classic Neighbours. I define classic soaps as those which first aired prior to 1987.

Neighbours The Next Generation.

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