Me, returning to likes and comments. I am…not responding to all of this.😂

You’re on the right side of history.

I hope you've learned a valuable lesson, young lady.

Hey 👋

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Damn, this blew up 😂

See what you started? 😂

Nah. Late 60s (*maybe* 66, def 67) to "mid" 80s (certainly 84 has to be, cos: 1984. I mean, Jump's dire, but Hot for Teacher & Panama 10/10 ; Eat 'em & Smile ditto).

Did they have music in the 80’s and 90’s?

They did until they became all about fashion.

This gif is amazing lol

Only the best music.

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I don't know but if you find out please report back. I was pregnant nearly the entire decade, and when not knocked up, I was chasing kids.

Oh goodness.

Metallica came out 80's 90's. But I do agree with the op

Ha...good one

Mostly remixes and rap. Not real music (runs and hides).

Obviously you weren't alive in the 80's and 90's.

Nope. I was born in 1960.. loved the 70s. Slept through the 80s and 90s. My wife who was born 5 years after me would agree with you. 😀

Well my 90's were spent listening to Grunge and I can tell you there were no remixes or rap present.

there was a lot of great music in the 80s & 90s..but it wasn`t "classic rock"..tho some of it was "rock"

Most definitely NOT classic rock lol!

Sedimentary, Watson!

No.

I heard a portishead song today!

def not rock!

Ah,YEA...

There was still some in the 80s but a trickle thereafter

Hey hey hey hey hey! Yes, we did. Let's not start playing that game 😂

to add to the posts below: dead kennedys, soundgarden, pearl jam, guns-n-roses, u2, r.e.m., the cars, social distortion, pj harvey, portishead, afghan whigs, stone temple pilots, alice in chains, flaming lips and uh there was a band called nirvana. i'll stop there to avoid embarrassing a member of

also rage against the motherfuckin' machine bitches and the fuckin' beastie boys. i mean, "bodhisattva vow." beat that. and if i wasn't a punk/grunge dude, i'd have probably mentioned NWA, tupak, outkast, public motherfuckin' enemy bitches, jay-z, wu-tang, tone loc (whom i met once and was rad)...

yeah-but that`s not "classic rock"

sure, steve. but i was responding to the dumbass who asked if there was "music in the 80s and 90s." gotta get wit the context, man!

you want context at this time of night? Ok, fair enough...

peace out, man.

I am quite relaxed now-listening to Free at the Isle of Wight. Have a great eventide

Yes-& some really great stuff-it was just different from the 60s & 70s

Black Sabbath, Def Leppard, Anthrax, Poison, Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, KISS, Rolling Stones, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Van Halen - when musicians still used musical instruments to play music. 🎸🥁🎹🎻🎺🎤🎼🎵🎶

It’s worth mentioning that many of the groups you listed still performed (and composed) in the 80s and 90s.

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Let's see...Joy Division, Bowie, Queen, Depeche Mode, New Order, Tears for Fears, Pet Shop Boys, INXS, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, R.E.M, The Stone Roses, and Madness. Some spanned decades, but all of the above put out seminal music in the 80s. Happy to take the bait. 🎣

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Joy Division really only makes the ‘80s by like 5 months And you left out the Cure, Smiths, and Pixies And like JD sliding in with limited ouvre at the end of the decade, Operation Ivy

Not even going for (undeservedly) more obscure like Throwing Muses

No idea why you're still posting about this.

am I though?

Are you though, what?

Not "classic rock"

Replying to this. 🙄

Yeah, I don't really care as it was an example of good music in the 80's, not name all good music. Do your own list. And fuck Morrisey.

All good bands, but you seem to have missed the 'classic' bit in 'Classic Rock'. (And Queen did all their best work in the 70s.)

Again, the gentleman asked the question "Did they have music in the 80's and 90's? You're the 2nd person to miss what I replied to, and I said spanned decades. Sigh...

Bowie 70s. Queen 70s. also Tears for Fears. Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys certainly ain`t rock. Neither are Madness, who are great. you are not understanding "classic rock". Stone Roses, INXS, nor RHCP neither.

I'm not replying to that. Read the above post. I know my genres, thanks 🙄

I also said "spanned decades". Wow, you really couldn't wait to wade in there. I knew someone would, which is why I clarified.

not really the point

Sigh ..admitting you're wrong...not something you've attained as you've aged...

oh dear...

I know...it's a concern...

None of it 'classic rock'.

Replying to this

Please keep up.

No thank you.

You missed a comma.

Sure, sure

Or a full-stop.

Oh, and just to throw fuel on the fire, The Scissor Sisters version of comfortably numb is by far superior to any other version. Enjoy!! 👹

Disco and then 🙃

Honestly Except for a handful of bands I don't know what that was

"You ain't seen nothing yet “B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-n-nothing yet…”😂

You can turn off interactions

I told her!!

Listen to Chloe is what I always say

Oh my god there is so much activity on this

And neither should you. You’re correct.

Drop that bomb and off you go…the genres (and sub-genres) will remain the same…? 🤔🤓

Thanks, Teddy! Always happy to learn something new.

Well, I graduated from high school in the 80s and I’m sixty years old, so rock songs from that era would be considered classic at this point.

Every 10 years, the definition of “Classic Rock” shifts forward 10 years. Prepare to hear songs from your teenaged years as elevator music. One day, maybe not for a while, but one day.

Correct!

I'll alert Iron Maiden.

Exactly! I expect to hear the 70s 80s 90s and today every time I turn on the radio and I am sadly disappointed.

I never heard a whole lot of 60s music on the radio considering when I was born, but that’s what records were for. I had plenty of those.

And some of it is aging hella good!! youtu.be/vOfUQS2UZBM?...

Thank you! Although a few 70s artist, like the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac, did record a lot of classically rock hits in the early early 80s.

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It’s all relative to your age. Lol

Some legends of 60s & 70s retain classic rock title as they continue producing gems. Stones, Crosby, Stills, Young, Little Feat, Bruce Springsteen, CCR, Tina & Mitchell. Missed dozens more. RIP Crosby & Tina.

Tell that to the supermarket and elevator music scene. We have been assimilated.

the 80s definitely are lol, maybe the late 90s aren’t?

Truth!

spit yo shit

They’re playing Pearl Jam on the classic rock station. Now what?

They’ve been playing Pearl Jam on Classic Rock at least 15 years.

I'm willing to accept 80s rock but I draw the line at Nirvana. Nothing Nirvana or later is classic rock no matter how old it gets

Agreed

While I mostly agree, one could argue that the 80s should be included too.

But the 80s/90s do qualify as oldies now.🤷‍♀️

Shut your mouth. 😁 lol, oldies still defines a period and not a date or time. It would be chaos to keep changing stuff every year because it is now 25 years or 30 years old. The 80/90's are "modern rock" or "metal" Twisted Sister, GnR, Slayer, Danzig etc.

I don't think your argument is with me.... It's with the radio people who keep screaming it at me....ok...they might not be screaming, but they're definitely saying it in a tone.....🤔

There's no right answer, this is totally opinion based so your totally wrong opinion and my totally right one are equally valid. Did I mention you're totally wrong? 🤣

Your open-mindedness astounds me!😂😂😂😂

Facts

Agreed. If there's synth on it, it's not classic rock. It's a different thing.

The day just started and you are already so right

The slow-moving arm of time comes for us all.🤷🏽

That could be a Rush lyric. 😂

Well, I did listen to a LOT of Rush growing up!😅

I have found my people. 😂

Right? A youth referred to Jimmy Eat World as classic punk recently, and I was taken quite aback lol.

Ugh, I hate it.😅 The classic rock radio station here in Portland, OR, played 'Balck Hole Sun' by Soundgarden the other day, and I was like, "EXCUSE YOU?!?!" Then I think my bones turned to dust.🫠🤣

I had that exact same experience when our classic rock station started playing U2 on rotation. Worse than getting grey hairs.

Oof... Soundgarden is classic grunge.

Its 31 years old. Lol

Like oldies, the classic rock demographic is literally dying out. KGON, The Brew,etc, need to move with the world. My own cover band has mostly phased out classic rock in favor of 90s/2000s and remakes of older songs. Now, our audience actually grows as the night goes on instead of going home at 10.

I'd say it's a little extreme to say that the demographic is "dying out." There will always be an audience for it. I'm only 37, and I'd listen to classic rock over pretty much anything else. But I personally think KGON is okay most of the time in terms of song choice.

I'm 62. I'm a KNRK guy. I can't believe musicians still play the same 40 and 50 year old shit they've been playing their entire careers and never learning anything new. I'll quit first. But my point is that classic rock audiences leave the bars early, but club owners are afraid to move from it.

Well, given my personal experience. I'd say leaving the bar/show early is more of an age thing. I don't like staying out late like I did in my 20s. Even if I liked the band, I don't have the energy for late nights and hangovers anymore.😅

Yes, it's an age thing. Classic rock's general demographic is 60+. Since switching to 90s alternative, we still have at least 2/3 capacity crowd of 40-somethings at midnight.

Black hole sun by Soundgarden is a great song but I do agree with you 😭😭😭

When I was a kid in the 1970's, my family would shop in the local grocery store that would play classic jazz while you shopped. Today, the same store plays music from the 1980's and 90's. They are keeping 35 years behind perfectly.

I remember as a kid in the 90s, my local grocery store played a lot of Chuck Mangione's 'Feels So Good' album! My dad told me cause he had it on cassette. I now own it on vinyl and still love it!

Land of Make Believe

Chuck Mangione would definitely be good shopping music. I love it 🙂

That was a huge hit. I haven’t heard it in 20 years, and I’m okay with that.

That sound particularly fitting and poetic for the US.

'Classic' in popular music usually just means 'the stuff my dad/grandad was into'. That's a moving target by definition. 'Classic Rock' is a period: roughly 1966-1976, or 'Fresh Cream' to 'Presence'. To people who were alive then, Van Halen isn't classic rock: nor is Iron Maiden. They are new.

#sad

When Black Hole Sun was first released classic rock stations were playing songs by the Beatles and Stones from 30 years prior. Black Hole Sun was released in 1994. 31 years ago.

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They'd qualify as classic Emo, no question

Lol really?! Wow, I would not have had words smh.

Gave him a good slap, did ya?

I genuinely like Jimmy Eat World, but, punk? I kinda thought they were more emo rock.

you meant to type classic pop, righ?

29 here and I consider Green Day nirvana and Pearl Jam classic rock 🤣

You keep that to yourself, young Padawan...😑

Before you know it they'll be playing Arcade Fire, King Gizzard and Mac Demarco between ads for index funds and boner pills. Tick tock.

60's and 70's best rock music ever, hands down, no debate, end of discussion. Thank you for your attention to this matter, lol.

I like making my grandsons jealous with all the concerts from the 70s. "Oh, yeah. Eagles? 1972. $4. Front row" 🤣

The Doors, 1969, CNE ground, Toronto. $3.00 Cdn, second row. Right under Jim Morrison’s leather pants. Oh, there was music too.

My favorite is still Zep. Front row. Did have to pay $20 scalped ticket. My friends boyfriend didn't buy me one. Thought they'd g w/o me. She ordered him to find me a ticket or he'd watch from the parking lot. 🤣🤣

70's & 80's

close, Pretty sure ROCK started in the 50's. Chuck Berry, Elvis, Little Richard, Dion.. so YEAH IT'S certainly not the 80's and 90's.

I feel seen.

I think the designator in the radio industry where such things were invented is that the music has to be over 30 years old to be considered "classic rock" and in that case, I have some terrible news 🤣

I had to chuckle. It reminds me of the radio station that I normally listen to. It is supposed to be rock & roll, but they have started filtering in country.Makes me want to tear my hair out!

Born in 69. So grew up with both 60's and 70's on the radio. My choice to listen as a teenager to 80's music, somewhat 90's. Definately 60's and 70's over the latter. And yes definately classic rock.

It should also be listed as an alternative religion.

And early 70s, at that!

I remember the first time I heard Motley Crue on the classic rock radio station. I wanted to call in, and ask what the heck they were thinking.

This is not the gutter I will die in.

I agree but I think and I'm not gonna look it up. The classic age is 25 years old. So, technically it is. To us {gen x} it's 80s and 90s music, respectively. Hahahahah

Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley… The 50’s were not Classic Rick?

I think they were what spawned rock. I would put those two in the “oldies” category.

Truth

We should just go by decade or genre, I dont know, its too confusing otherwise

I feel this in my bones. Played the "Rock Classics" playlist on Apple music the other day and it included such classic hits as: Offspring - Self Esteem Oasis - Wonderwall White Stripes - Seven Nation Army Soundgarden - Spoonman Sublime - Santeria

Yes. You are correct. I listened to a Senior Project in high school, which compared such schools of music. The example of “classical” music was The Beatles. Nearly bit my tongue through.

Bingo

And also, Genesis from the 1970’s, yes. Phil Collins from the 80’s/90’s, hell no!

If they had radio hits in the 60s or 70s, then hits from the 80s from the same band should count as classic rock.

If classic rock in the nineties was stuff from the 60s and 70s it stands to reason that the minimum threshold for classic status must only be around a ten year gap. So I'm afraid the foo fighters, strokes, arctic monkeys, blink 182, the white stripes etc are on nostalgia radio

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Sorry to burst your bubble, but they consider Classic Rock any "Rock" 20+ years old. That said, I was dismayed the first time I heard songs from my youth (1990s) on the Classic Rock station or used as elevator music. Although I didn't entirely hate a Metallica song as elevator music...

I get sad whenever I hear some Thomas Dolby or Thompson Twins in my local grocery store.

The 80s are back, you know! I hear them a lot on our”indie” station and I’m not mad about it.

I knew I was a codger when I did some renovation work at an old folks home in Northern Virginia, and the lounge across the hallway was playing Black Album Metallica...

If I am ever trapped in an rehab or Senior facility, you better believe I will be having my Metal music playing as often as I can get away with.

Don't forget AOR.

Yes. Correct.

I would like to add that "Oldies" are also pre-1980s. I was quite unhappy to hear Nirvana on an oldies station recently.

Incredibly succinct!

U B correct

Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Toto... giving Michael a pass because he was in the Doobies, but those are 80s. ✌🏾n 🫶🏾

More precisely: From the mid 60's to the mid 80's

That's funny. I lived in Dallas for 30 years and I would occasionally listen to the oldies radio station. At first it was 60s, then it became 70s, finally ended up 80s. That's when I discovered, shit I'm an old fucker.

Soon that will also be the 00s. Classic rock in America is usually defined by the advent of such music around 20 years prior.

Arcade Fire - the new classic rock

I think I puked a little in my mouth

When i heard Firewoman on Classic Rock Radio I was devestated.

True

Depends on how old you are.... Classic rock could be from the 50s, or 80s if you're 20 years old or 70 years old😎

Thank you very much

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I never listened to classic rock until I entered the workforce 37+ years ago Classic rock back then was as old as the Beatles and as new as Led Zeppelin. Now it’s as old as Def Leppard and as new as Uncle Cracker. I can’t stop the march of time, but goddamnit.

1800's or 1900's!!

Agree!

I always thought that was obvious. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Down with this. And I claim boomer immunity

They don't call New Wave New Wave anymore?! They call it "first wave." What?!

Agreed.

Talk amongst yourselves: loudwire.com/what-is-clas...

The Tragically Hip had no business being on classic rock radio in the 90's, because they'd started in '84. 54-40 was older than they were.

Man I used to love seeing 54-40 when they played at our campus. Regularly. The 80's really were the best time for indie college rock in Canada.

"Since When" is such an underrappreciated gem of a song.

Oh the nostalgia! I was also into Sons of Freedom, another hugely underrated Vancouver band.

Exactly. 👍👍

You are absolutely correct and I've been saying this for years.

For me it’s less than the decade that the music was made and more the band that made it. Not always the case but typically how I view it. Queen, for example, came to be in the 70s and found a lot of fame then. But their last album was in the 90s. That album is still classic rock.

Amen

Oldies? Yeah, y’know like from the 80s. Punk.

I could have done with a little less "I Melt With You" in my life.

Saw something talking about Thomas Dolby as classic rock…

Me the first time I heard Lenny Kravitz on the "Oldies" station.

Even with all the 80s/90s music in my library, the best pop/rock music was made in the 60s and 70s. Once the 80s hit, too many folks started to make computerized music. (Says the woman whose computer will have to play much of the tracks of her first recording.)

100% TRUTH

Thank you!

I INSTANTLY felt old when a Nirvana song played on a Classic Rock station, as I was like, "What that isnt THAT old", did the math, and realized it was

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" is now 34 years old. Damn.

classic alternative

Oh man, I saw them on the small stage at an open air festival in Amsterdam playing material from that album before it had been released. I remember thinking “this ain’t bad”

"Bleach" was my first intro to Nirvana. Blew my frickin' mind!

Same here, which is why I skipped the main stage act (Sisters of Mercy I think) to check them out. They were a 4 piece at the time. Another guitarist. Their Wikipedia page makes no mention of this but I’m here to tell you I saw it.

Could have been a tour addition?

*throws tomato* Booo!!!! Boo this person, I say! 😂

I recently felt the same way when I read that Monty Python and the Holy Grail was turning 50 this year. I wouldn’t consider Nirvana as classic rock like I would Zeppelin, The Who, or The Stones are

Well you did have alot of the 70s classic rock bands continue making music into the 80s...so personally I'd include the 80s or at least the first half of 80s in classic rock category... but 90s for sure not!

Agreed. As a person who gets tired of my 80s/90s music being called classic. Not yet !! No boomer here!! lol

Anyone else in the boat the classic rock is from 70s-80s? 🙋‍♂️

Thank you!!!

So. We all agree most of today's music is shit?

To the kids of today, 60s/70s might as well be classical rock

80's music is in its own crazy, coked out bubble...

The hair sets it apart. 🤣

Yeah thats hair metal

Preach.

Not according my to my 2 local classic rock stations that both play Nirvana.

Lol

I put on BuckCherry the other day thinking "I'll listen to some of my "new" music". I then looked at the back of the CD cover & read that it came out in 2001, so it's damn near classic rock.😣At least everyone in the band is still alive. That can't be said for most of what I listen to.

I’m not holding my breath, but it would be DELICIOUS if Bongo switched sides.

Exactly. Led Zeppelin = Classic Rock Guns N Roses 🚫 Classic Rock

LOL

lmfao, I made this exact same comment. GnR was pretty much "metal" but if they called it "modern rock" I wouldn't have a fit. But classic? Ain't no way.

When we were in high school (class of 86), the classic rock station played late 60s-70s, the oldies station played 50s-Beatles. GnR were hard rock, same with AC-DC, Judas Priest, Def Leppard. Iron Maiden & Ozzy were metal. There was a lot of Rock and Pop, and New Age, and College Rock. Good music!

Priest is metal. They could probably be classified as hard rock up until “Hell Bent for Leather” but definitely shifted with “British Steel”. The rest is correct though.

It depends on the market. There’s a loooong time classic rock station here in Wisconsin that has slowly modernized its format to pull in middle aged white guys who’ve aged out of active/modern rock programming. They’re playing Nickelback and still calling themselves classic rock.

Yeah it’s a generational thing. I don’t expect kids today to look at music the same way I do. Just like when Zeppelin and the Who came out, I don’t think the kids then were calling it Classic Rock.

I feel almost certain that there are large swaths of the planet where referring to Guns N Roses as "metal" might get you stabbed.

Yeah, I always considered GnR hard rock, but were also in a category all their own. They were too gritty and had more of an edge to them than Van Halen, Aerosmith and AC/DC, but I also wouldn’t put them with the metal groups like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Ozzy….

And their look in their early days was very glam influenced, but they definitely don’t belong in same group as Poison, Cinderella and Motley Crue. All in all, I would just say they’re hard rock.

Missed this. I think the only difference is GnR got more radio play because they were more radio friendly. It's hard to draw a line between metal and hard rock. And then you have bands like ZZ Top, not metal but are they hard rock? To me they're more classic rock.

It could be regional but it was the "metal heads" that claimed GnR in this area. They had the shirts and bought the albums. The same goes for Motley Crue. And let's not forget "glam rock".

It's funny, I guess maybe I thought of Mötley Crüe as being a "metal" band back in the eighties but if you had asked me to put them into a category in 2025 before I read this thread, I think there's a less than ten percent chance that I personally would have put them under metal.

Well that's the thing, before the 80's "metal" didn't really exist, at least in terms of the word metal. It was emerging as "heavy rock" and then "heavy metal". But during that time at least where I was anything with a guitar solo or a band member with long hair and make up was "metal"

Legit. Metallica - best rock Motörhead - rock'n'roll

people keep talking about that "hot jazz" and who's charlie "yardbird" parker again?

IKR when did alanis morissette become "classic rock"?

60s/70s is “classic rock.” 90s/00s is “modern rock.” 80s is “80s”

Totally agree.

I think you mean the 50s/60s.

Grew up 60s and 70s and agree. But I was also brought up with classical, opera, show tunes, trad Mex, and the basis for what was considered elevator music at the time. Even country music was sometimes a part of the daily feed, cuz some of it crossed over.

I think that classic rock now is anything older than like 10 years and what we used to call classic rock is now considered ‘vintage” 60-70s now vintage! Sorry, I also feel this very much!

Classic Rock, the stuff my dad grew up with, like Tame Impala, King Gizzard and Ty Seagall?

50s too

I nearly drove off the road when I saw Brittany Spears on a billboard advertising an “Oldies” radio show…

80s - post punk and new wave. 90s - stupid grunge.😑

You're so right. I guess some people aren't tuned in enough to really know the era of Classic Rock, to which was one of the greatest eras and great music.

True, I'm an 80s guy, that ain't classic to me

Word!

True

What if I said Nirvana was classic rock at this point?

Nope sorry. Ted Leo's Hearts of Oak is classic rock. 2003.

So you don’t think Back in Black by AC/DC is classic rock? Wow😁

Exactly! On a short road trip today listening to the Beatles White Album! 😁👏👏

80’s too much except for most hair bands, but yea.

For those people 50 years old +.... 80s and 90s is already classic rock... They still made some decent music. 60s and 70s transformed into OG rock. LoL

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Yeah…enough with that modern stuff, already! Give me some Yes and Floyd, some Zep and a micro dose of Neil Young and Fleetwood Mac…long live the greatest era in music, ever

ELP, Jethro Tull, Moody Blues, Genesis, Renaissance...

Agreed! (But in all fairness, maybe we're getting older).

Thank you.

youtu.be/Z7Nu7vamRCA?...

youtu.be/OZ5C2wSZFEU?...

Facts, lady!

And it's CERTAINLY not the 2000s. So someone please tell my classic rock station to stop playing Linkin Park.

But Linkin Park is classic regardless of decade! 💙

Classic, yes. But "classic rock" is a designation unto itself. CCR, Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Thorogood, I can see those as classic rock. Grouping LP in with them is more painful than... well, getting out of bed these days.

What is rock from the 50s? Maybe fundamental?

Do-wop, Bubblegum, a few other tags have been thrown at it.

And the 50’s. (Says the really old guy in the back)

Agree. 90s grunge was the Renaissance that followed that weird big-hair-tight-leather-80s-rock dark ages. See you at the Merch table...

It’s hard to realize my parents were more “hip” than I am. They listened to music that was relatively current in their lives. I listen to music that is 50-60 yrs old.

Yes. I run the Ruth Walsh Classic Rock Academy for all my grandsons. (4 graduates to date) After oldest graduated he ran in one day screaming he'd found the best music. "The Beach Boys. Ever heard of them?" Told him I grew up on a farm not under a rock. They all have EXCELLENT taste.

Amen

It sounds like you and I are around the same age … and, like me, in denial. 😁

In the 70s it was just rock & "classic rock" was from the 50s. It's funny a similar conversation/friendly argument was going on at the bar I had dinner at. Patrons from old to younger Dick Dale, Hendrix, to Green Day & grunge. As someone who worked in music 70s to now, it was fascinating.

Amen!

Classic rock typically encompasses rock music from the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, according to MasterClass. It's often associated with album-oriented rock, commercially successful hard rock, and bands that gained popularity during this period.

Turn it up, man! youtu.be/P3CnvphQs04?...

When I think classic rock, I think John Dowland and Michael Praetorius.

Agreed. You cant just move the definitions around. We already have descriptors for 80s and 90s rock.

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I think they’re all now under oldies. 😜

The 80s was the golden Era of music. The 90s was the beginning of the end of good general radio. The only thing that redeemed the 90s was it was the birth of Grunge.

Can’t argue with that the 80s really set the bar high. Grunge in the 90s definitely kept things alive, but mainstream radio hasn’t been the same since.

For me it was the late 60’s and 70’s. Some in the 80’s. I was listening to jazz and reggae from the mid 70’s and well into the 80’s. I missed most of the punk era, indie or alternative rock. I will never like The Smiths. Especially Morrissey.

I love 80s music too but I also feel as though if I had told almost anyone I knew in, say, 1993 that I thought that the '80s was a golden era in music that person might still not have stopped laughing about it yet. Like, they'd still be constantly bringing it up in conversations even 32 years later.

I say that's their problem.

I think I need to listen to Benny Goodman now.

Overheard in the grocery store: I hate this oldies station they always play! It was New kids on the block. I felt personally attacked.

My moment was flipping stations on the radio when driving and landing on a station that announced it was a “classic” station..then played “I’ve Had the Time of My Life”. I was enraged, until I did the math in my head.

Well, try to hang tough.

Correct, 60s/70s is the Classic period, while 80s/90s is the Baroque period in rock music.

Baroque and Roll... But when was the Rockoco period?

Instant follow.

During the late neoclassic period. 😁

You mean like The Upper Crust? youtu.be/-8uzQlBQxN8?...

Yeah, pretty much. 😂

this upsets me for one reason: the order is baroque -> classical -> romantic so baroque should come first 😭 or 80s/90s would be romantic rock lmao

I prefer to call it the profane period. Lotta songs just, about sex. Not even a metaphor in sight.

But wouldn’t the Baroque period precede the Classic period? Maybe the 80s/90s would be the Romantic period? 😉

Probably. I prioritized Baroque over historical accuracy because it's a fun word to say. 😂

Fair enough! 🙂✌🏽

Did someone say The Romantics? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqnw...

80's and 90's music is classic alternative.

💯 as the kids say (‘68-73 some of the best music ever) imho respect to current artists who write their own lyrics, create their own music, make a statement, incorporate, melody, rhythm, beat, tempo changes, etc.

It's like the stegosaurus/t rex/modern times debate. 80/90s is closer to 60s/70s than now. I feel old.

*comment, not debate

50s has to count, too.

Went through a drive thru, the other day, and there was a teenage employee with hair like '80s Bono. When we told him, he said, "Who?" There was a girl working with him, and she also didn't know. This is where we are in the journey 😂

If this Yacht’s a Rockin’….

THANK YOU! Spot on!

‘81 is my cutoff… the eagles ‘I can’t tell you why’ closed out the classic rock era

Song was from 1979 but there were a couple of other tunes that get squeezed in 😂

Thanks for this…just added to my 2025 playlist.

Great song, lasting and enduring.

Poor take ....but go ahead

💯 agree

Sing it, sister

True. But it's hard to beat Wagner for Sturm und Drang. Can I playfully suggest that all that was added in 70's rock was electricity, substituting for huge forces (e.g. notably Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major)

Best music ever, then they started to get some new stuff coming out that was really good, and somebody ruined it. Most lost their mojo because they were afraid they might say something offensive like a girl crush??? Not in my house you don't!

1. AC/DC – “Back in Black” (1980) 2. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll” (1981) 3. Journey – “Don’t Stop Believin’” (1981) And the list goes on

I remember classic rock stations playing seven nation army like a couple years after its release.

If you live in Arkansas, Classic Rock is mostly just Ozzy Osbourne and AC/DC. Every hour of every day. At least that's what the Classic Rock stations here would have you believe.

Then go to I HEART music stations if need be for more variety of classic rock music etc

What's nice is we have an independent network called Arkansas Rocks that plays deep cut album rock. They have a chain of small stations in the central part of the state, but they're not very powerful so in a limited range. But they're online as well. They have all the DJs from back in the day there.

I think one of the ones I just described is an I Heart station. It's Arkansas, dude. They're trying to appeal to rednecks. And to rednecks, "classic rock" is mostly Ozzy and AC/DC.

Do they not play Black Oak Arkansas?

No. Arkansas Rocks does, but not the other "classic rock" stations.

It’s why I subscribed to Sirius practically from the beginning. Hearing the same song multiple times a day and no time to tell the listener who the band is or the name of the song. I’ve always been more focused on talent than popularity.

Oh boy.

Objection! Stevie Ray Vaughn

Somebody had to say it!

Hey kids, get offa my lawn!

It’s as if it means (broadly) specific styles and genres that were not (as much) in the 80s & 90s, which had their own specific styles… And it nicely differentiates between the umbrella “classic rock” and an identification of a song that has remained meaningful over the years (“a classic”)

I regret to inform you that anything recorded before 1980 is now considered ‘classical.’

50s if you include Buddy Holly

Buddy Holly was 1994 :)

You are talking about a different Buddy Holly. The one I am talking about died in a plane craze in 1956 I think it was.

Deep Purple- Highway Star

Maybe a few songs from 1980-82…

I thought only boomers thought this.

Metal, do you consider that rock?

Wow 😂😂 you kids really are trying to bury us or rip it off as "classics" that are part of "culture" 🤨🤔 go make electronic noises, it's all most "artists" do, and that voice vibration thing 😁 I do it on the washing machine in dry spin, gotta sing and hang on tight at my age and remember the lyrics 🤨🫩

Music videos started a landslide into the abyss.

60's 70's music period was the best of the best.

That is a very broad definition.

Are you saying that "Pour Some Sugar on Me" ISN'T Classic Rock? Damn. Gotta change the track list for talent night at the home...

No. Like Guns'n'Roses, it's a reminiscence of what classic rock once was. Classic rock was a period, not a style. Pastiche is not the original.

I was being facetious. I'm old enough to recognize the difference between classic rock, simply old rock music, and the hair "tribute" bands - like GnR and Def Leppard - that tried to imitate them. (whether GnR was a pastiche or a parody remains open to debate) 😉

The mid-50s too. The Everly brothers, for example, Frankie Lyman, The Platters, Dion and The Belmonts, and folk artists, et a,l set the stage for what came after. I grew up with 40s music in my family where dad and uncles had an orchestra. Lots of blends came together. Great music and lyrics.

But England, particularly Northern England, did have a lovely renaissance in the 90s.

you mean like the clash>? ooops. classic.! i thought it was 1980s. no...1979 we're all now lost in the supermarket, crying. youtu.be/KxLM5rKuas4?...

Fact.

Sadness is getting on an elevator and hearing music from your childhood!

Thank you! 80’s is Alternative and Punk.. if I remember correctly.

Music was born in 1965 and died in 1991. And even during the 80s it was mostly wheezing along with bad metal and "heartland" rockers.

Agreed

I’d definitely include the 80s in classic rock

The Police would like a word

Police started in 1977.

Their best albums came from the 80s, so

True, but they are all collectively "the oldies" now