# Classic Rock Song with the lyrics "Now or Never" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854 "2024-04-05T05:03:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2024, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/21 "2024-04-06T02:53:02Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > If Foo Fighters are Classic Rock, I feel really old. It’s not like all the members of that band are now in their fifties. One of them is in his sixties. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/22 "2024-04-07T02:12:31Z")
**Boston** has some song with the insipid line, _“It’s Now or Never, and Tomorrow might be too late”_ Goddamn, that’s bad. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/23 "2024-04-07T08:34:06Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > And thus, a Bon Jovi song in 2000 seems okay to call a classic rock song since they were a big name in what I now consider to be classic rock. This. A hit song from 2000, _by a quintessential 80’s band_, is a-ok by classic rock standards. Everybody thinks about the classic rock era when hearing Bon Jovi, after all. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/24 "2024-04-07T08:41:00Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Simple. Classic Rock is anything older than MTV. Correction: anything older than YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/25 "2024-04-07T18:33:05Z")
TBH, I don’t get what you mean by this. Classic rock lasted until 2005? And then was replaced by what? I do know that 80s New Wave music is not classic rock, and that’s what built MTV until they added Michael Jackson. Despite Eddie van Halen’s playing on “Beat It” Jackson postdates classic rock. And so did Kajagoogoo. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/26 "2024-04-07T19:00:36Z")
I remember being baffled when U2 was played on a Classic Rock station. My gut roughly defines Oldies as 1955-1965\* and Classic Rock as 1966-1976. Everything after that is, well, something else. \*With a special cut out for “Crocodile Rock” and “For the Longest Time” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/27 "2024-04-07T20:30:24Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > TBH, I don’t get what you mean by this. Classic rock lasted until 2005? And then was replaced by what? It was replaced by contemporary rock. What I mean is that “classic rock” is not a musical genre with definable characteristics. It’s just a term that means old rock music, and like it or not, 20-year-old music is old. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/28 "2024-04-07T20:34:35Z")
My proof: the “History of Rock” chart from the movie _School of Rock_: [![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tMKjz.png) ](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tMKjz.png) Do you see the term “Classic Rock” on that blackboard? I don’t. And I defer to Jack Black’s wisdom in all matters pertaining to rock and/or roll. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/29 "2024-04-07T21:53:24Z")
Ah, I see. Fuck Jack Black. I’m right. No compromise. Pistols at dawn. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/30 "2024-04-07T22:34:10Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Fuck Jack Black. I’m right. No compromise. Pistols at dawn. Fill your hand, you sonofabitch! There’s hard rock, soft rock, folk rock, country rock, alt rock, punk rock, funk rock, glam rock, and yacht rock. There is no classic rock. It does not exist except in a purely chronological sense. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2024, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/31 "2024-04-07T22:50:06Z")
That’s like saying that Boomers and Gen X don’t exist except in a purely chronological sense. A chronological sense is what we’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/32 "2024-04-08T11:07:01Z")
Exactly: the key difference between Boomers and Gen X is that Boomers are older. Right now, anyone born in the 1950s and earlier is old; in 20 years, anyone born in the 1970s and earlier will be old. Rock is the same way: right now, any rock from 2000 or so or earlier is “classic”; in 20 years from now, any rock from circa 2020 and earlier will be “classic”. It’s simply a mark of age. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/33 "2024-04-08T17:33:49Z")
Nope. The periods are fixed, just as the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous are. In my realm, we adhere to scientific principles. You apparently are a Spielbergian, putting a T-Rex into the Jurassic just for the sake of euphony. Rank flatlanderism! ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854/34 "2024-04-08T23:39:46Z")
I don’t think the classic rock period will expand anywhere near that linearly. One reason being rock music today (let alone in the next 20 years) is a fringe activity, whereas in the classic rock era it was the most important popular music genre, as far as cultural impact and cache are concerned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-rock-song-with-the-lyrics-now-or-never/999854.md?page=1)