Oh wow - a Troll a Troll a genuine Troll on the interwebthingy quick look before he burns in eternity
Dang Punchdrunk, take a chill pill. Tune your wireless to another station fer Pete’s sake!
Still, I’m now listening to “God” and chums play Badge so you’ve brought a smile to a middle-aged Kiwi’s face.
Aaahhhh…now for Anarchy In The UK - YES!!!
Heh, I did the same thing last weekend. That stuff really needs remastering, sounds a bit thin to my ears nowadays.
Isn’t ‘classic rock’ by definition older songs that a large enough number of people still like to hear, enough people that the songs have held their own over the years?
A pretty broad sweep, it seems. So, op, you don’t like older music that a lot of other people like.
So what? What makes your artistic opinion so important to be throwing it around like this?
One thing I can’t stand, when someone likes a certain form of art, and some overbearing snob comes along - not to say they don’t prefer that form of art - but declares indignantly “you shouldn’t like that! because I said so!”
So I conclude: Do Not Feed The Troll
This is the main problem with every oldies station I’ve ever heard, churning out the same few songs which have had the last bit of interest and nostalgia milked out of them many years before.
Why is it I can’t hear some of the truly great, underplayed blasts from the past like “The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati” or “Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)”*?
It’s raining inside a big brown moon
How’s that mess your baby up leg
Eating a Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut
Don’t stop now,
Let it all hang out
*the Los Hombres version.
Maybe I was just in the right kind of mood when I read it, but I liked the OP. I give it a 7. Sure, it would have been fairer and more accurate to say, “Some classic rock is good, some is bad, some is overrated, some is overplayed, I prefer other genres, and this is all just my opinion…” but, fuck it, this is the Pit. I enjoy a good over-the-top rant. “Classic Rock” can take it; it’s a big boy.
And “No one ever needs to hear “Born to Be Wild,” ever again, for the rest of human existence” is perfectly accurate.
So I take it the OP is a huge fan of Yngwie Malmsteen, then?
To paraphrase Stephen Crane, which I kinda did in your punk thread: It is clear you have a strong POV about music. However, that doesn’t fill me with a sense of obligation.
The stuff you want to hold out as “better than” classic rock is, in the overall scheme of music, part of the same basic music category. In other words, you’re passionately splitting hairs.
Fine - you don’t like Baby Boomers and their Canon of Taste™. Great; be happy. But using that as a rationale to state, apparently, that there is no value in understanding music history sounds silly.
Not sure what else to say - you’re full of sound and fury, but you haven’t said anything interesting about music yet.
Yngwie who?
Now that was a good album.
That’s a much more defensible position than the OP, I think.
Baby boomers are so fucking self-satisfied, and think that because they have a plurality of the population it gives objective credence to their taste. It doesn’t.
But most classic rock songs are good. Classic rock *stations *suck, and classic rock station *audiences *suck, but classic rock itself does not suck.
Free Bird!
The perception that classic rock sucks is because it is overplayed. I stopped listening to music on the radio about 10 years ago because I’d heard it all before: one hundred thousand times before. The thing is though, I don’t like any of the new stuff at all. There’s undoubtedly stuff out there that, given the chance, I would enjoy, but I just don’t care. I don’t care what some pimply-faced 22 year old has to say about love, sex, or the world in general. It would be like going on a date with a 22 year old, I wouldn’t know how to connect on the same level.
So, from time to time, I’ll still crank up “My Woman from Tokyo,” or “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” or “Sympathy for the Devil,” etc. because it’s like comfort food for the ears.
Listen to this man, OP. He knows his stuff.
Hey - when it comes to talking a lot without really saying anything, I’m your guy. 
Well, I do agree with that. A little goes a long way.
I for one don’t buy that you’re merely here to express your opinion that you don’t like certain kinds of music. I base my conclusion on statements like this:
It sure doesn’t seem like you’re just saying “I don’t like x, but that’s just my opinion.” It sounds a whole lot more like “All y’all are idiots for liking x.”
Plant does ruin a lot of Zep for me, though. I don’t listen to them anymore, even though they may have had the best drummer ever along with a guitarist and bass player who are probably in the top 20 all-time on their instruments. Subjective? Sure, but damn.
Whether Classic Rock sucks or doesn’t suck isn’t really up for debate, because it’s entirely subjective. However, what is not up for debate is that none one single person sought punch line loser’s endorsement of their music choice prior to this thread.
That not only makes him a wanker, but one who overestimates his importance to boot.
This isn’t quite right, though. ‘Classic rock’ stations have moved away from the canonical stuff they used to play (Stones, Springsteen, early Zep) into the lesser lights (Boston, REO Speedwagon, Steve Miller, later Zep). This is probably an effort to “keep things fresh” (which is very, very odd if you think about it), but it’s had the effect of turning me off to the format. The radio is a very barren place for me these days.