If I would have posted this thread a month ago it would have worked, despite the fact that BSSM was released in the fall of '91: Under The Bridge didn’t become a big hit till January of '92.
It’s about the only musical time period I remember that specifically: December of '91 was all about Smells Like Teen Spirit and I expected grunge would dominate the buzz in the new year as well. But you couldn’t get away from Under The Bridge in January '92.
All Lit Up ties with Silent Lucidity for The Song That Sounds Most Like Another Band in the Past 20 Years: in this case, AC/DC.
GnR sort of count. To me, you get major Classic Rock points for not only sounding like classic rock but also being the type of music you wouldn’t be surprised to hear on a classic rock station. GnR passes both tests.
Examples of bands that fail one but not the other: Alice In Chains, which doesn’t sound like classic rock but nonetheless gets airplay, and Coheed and Cambria, which totally has the classic rock sound but is too new chronologically to get airplay (but their Favour House Atlantic has enough of a sound to get my vote)
AC/DC. No wonder I didn’t recognize it. I dump them and GnR and Van Halen with all the other metal and hair bands and general detritus that makes up post-Zeppelin hard rock.
I get what you mean, though. There’s a classic rock station locally whose programming is always Zeppelin junk junk junk Pink Floyd junk junk junk Zeppelin junk junk junk Pink Floyd junk junk junk Zeppelin … Floyd… Zeppelin… Floyd.
If that’s what you mean by classic rock I see your point.
The problem is that I lived through the 60s and for me the definition of classic rock songs is melody and distinctiveness, not a continual guitar drone.
Know who’s classic rock? John Mayer. The Bird and the Bee. Outkast’s “I Like the Way You Move.” Smashing Pumpkin’s “1979.” And, yes, KT Tunstall and RHCP. Melodic songs by groups that nobody could mistake for one another. Or for AC/DC.
