Classic Rock

[B.cereus]

Southern rock is where it's at, especially Molly Hatchet and Lynard Skynard. I grew up on the Doors. Call me a heathen, but I think AC/DC is a bit overrated. they don't suck, not by a long shot, just overrated.

 

[Cliff_m85]

If you don't want to hear my opinion, don't respond. The Doors made tepid and boring music with no real artistic flair. Add that Jim was pretentious as well, thinking we was awesome when he obviously was only mediocre. He made about 3 good songs, at best. I'd rather listen to The Who, who actually had artistry in their music and didn't have a douche frontman.

You already showed us with your first reply and it's still bad. The Doors didn't make boring music, they did something different and clever inventing amazing riffs and instrumentals with a passion. They all went crazy on stage like no other, unfortunatly no one can do it like they did anymore, something really special like Jimi Hendrix, well not exactly.

Now when you say 'Jim', do you mean The Doors only had 3 good songs at best? They had a big list of great songs, greater than alot of legendary bands back then.

Yeah, clever and amazing riffs. Bleh. You want clever and amazing riffs then listen to some Frank Zappa. You want pretentious boring music, stick with the Doors. Yes, The Doors only had about 3 good songs. The rest were complete rubbish.

If I want Rock And Roll, The Doors are one of the bands that are last on my list. I'll stick to Zappa, Led Zep, The Who, and other legendary bands that didn't rely on a pretentious boring lead man.

 

[Nazulu]

Yeah, clever and amazing riffs. Bleh. You want clever and amazing riffs then listen to some Frank Zappa. You want pretentious boring music, stick with the Doors. Yes, The Doors only had about 3 good songs. The rest were complete rubbish.

If I want Rock And Roll, The Doors are one of the bands that are last on my list. I'll stick to Zappa, Led Zep, The Who, and other legendary bands that didn't rely on a pretentious boring lead man.

Ha, I listen to just about every band from those days. The Doors I recently discovered 3 weeks ago and they are great!

When you have songs like Light my Fire, LA Women, The End, Riders on the Storm, People are Strange, Roadhouse Blues, Touch Me, etc. You know they are a great band!

I don't like every song I hear for the first time but I know I will come back to it later and I might then. If you dislike their music then say they don't interest you, not fly of the handle and say they overrated or some crap. There is no denying they are easily better than most of the shithole new bands you hear today!

 

[Robyrt]

Granted, classic rock doesn't have that enormous, heavily normalized "punch" that all modern rock and rap records are designed to give you - it doesn't come out of your tinny iPod speakers with the volume already at 11. The kids who are mocking you probably don't listen to music as a primary entertainment activity - it's just something to play in the background while you're traveling in a noisy environment, or doing homework, or whatever. Bands like the Doors, Pink Floyd, or Supertramp aren't built like pop music, so it takes a little while to figure out why people like it.

Just be glad you're not into jazz. That stuff's got a stupidly high barrier to entry.

 

[Cliff_m85]

Yeah, clever and amazing riffs. Bleh. You want clever and amazing riffs then listen to some Frank Zappa. You want pretentious boring music, stick with the Doors. Yes, The Doors only had about 3 good songs. The rest were complete rubbish.

If I want Rock And Roll, The Doors are one of the bands that are last on my list. I'll stick to Zappa, Led Zep, The Who, and other legendary bands that didn't rely on a pretentious boring lead man.

Ha, I listen to just about every band from those days. The Doors I recently discovered 3 weeks ago and they are great!

When you have songs like Light my Fire, LA Women, The End, Riders on the Storm, People are Strange, Roadhouse Blues, Touch Me, etc. You know they are a great band!

I don't like every song I hear for the first time but I know I will come back to it later and I might then. If you dislike their music then say they don't interest you, not fly of the handle and say they overrated or some crap. There is no denying they are easily better than most of the shithole new bands you hear today!

Sure, but a fart is easily better than most of the shithole new bands I hear today. I still think they're overrated, but that's just my opinion. The three songs that are good imho would be Riders on the Storm, People are Strange, and The End. The rest I can't really stand.


To the dude who mentioned Jazz, I love me some Sun Ra.

 

[Cliff_m85]

Granted, classic rock doesn't have that enormous, heavily normalized "punch" that all modern rock and rap records are designed to give you - it doesn't come out of your tinny iPod speakers with the volume already at 11. The kids who are mocking you probably don't listen to music as a primary entertainment activity - it's just something to play in the background while you're traveling in a noisy environment, or doing homework, or whatever. Bands like the Doors, Pink Floyd, or Supertramp aren't built like pop music, so it takes a little while to figure out why people like it.

Just be glad you're not into jazz. That stuff's got a stupidly high barrier to entry.

We keep getting new forms of music that helps my generation have 'background noise' instead of music.

Vinyl is the best medium for music, it sounds fresher. Then we came to cassettes for walkmen, CDs for portable CD players, and Ipods. They even came out with mini-chips you plug into your cellphone to listen to. Each time the quality suffers and each new form focuses on portability rather than listenability.

 

[properturnip]

Classic rock FTW! I've always been a fan of British and American stadium rock, and in 2006 I saw Bon Jovi at a massive show in Milton Keynes and to this day is the best large show I have ever been to. Other bands to note: The E Street Band (Springsteen), AC/DC, Van Halen, Scorpions, Led Zep, Pink Floyd.

 

[properturnip]

Oh I nearly forgot Queen! Fantastic music, very broad range of genre and saw Brian May and Roger Taylor perform with Foo Fighters back in 06 too. Heart-stopping moment, they did Tie Your Mother Down

 

[Lord George]

Classic Rock makes up the majority of my music collection and is my personal favourite genre, Queen, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Elvis, Meatloaf, Supertramp, America, Thin Lizzy, Velvet Underground all brilliant. People who hate classic rock are usually rap twits who measure music quality by the number of expletives and how many derogatory terms towards women are included.

 

[blankedboy]

On topic: Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Black Sabbath..arg their list is too big...

Yeah, you just listed the worst bands on the planet.
They're good bands, they just don't take advantage of what they can do. It's all just boring, repetitive, mindless rock 'music'. There's nothing new, the riffs and progressions all sound the same, and it's not even very good in the first place.

Don't say I'm wrong and biased, because I have been playing guitar quite well (hate to brag) for over half my life (that's SIX AND THREE QUARTER YEARS TO YOU). I also absolutely despise the new music aswell. You know, P!nk, Soulja Boy, Fiance, none of that is any good either. All they did is play it super-fast and take out everything but the drums, vocals, and synthesizer.

Maybe it's because I have very high standards for music, but I tend to like funk, jazz, post-grunge, because it HASN'T been tried and failed at by about six hundred other bands.

 

[oliveira8]

On topic: Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Black Sabbath..arg their list is too big...

Yeah, you just listed the worst bands on the planet.

Stopped reading there. No really I did.

 

[blankedboy]

Post deleted, forum stuffed up for me ;_;

 

[blankedboy]

On topic: Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Black Sabbath..arg their list is too big...

Yeah, you just listed the worst bands on the planet.

Stopped reading there. No really I did.

That's too bad, you'll never get to see my argument.

On second thought, though, there are worse bands. Hip-hop and rap, any of them. Blargh.

 

[RavingPenguin]

I am ridiculed a lot in my high school for playing video games (nope) for being smart (nope) but actually for liking classic rock...i honestly don't get this. There was a thing we had to do for band (which practicly everyones in) where we write a report about our favorite band. So I wrote about the doors (all time favorite band) and got made fun of for it. so state your favorite classic rock bands and any other stuff youd like to. People just seem to find it weird that im 14 and like bands from the 60s/70s

Dude, thats completely opposite from my high school. You just werent cool if you didnt have a few classic rock bands on your ipod.

 

[Arrers]

The classic rock band I like: The Doors, The Beatles The Who, The Kinks and The Velvet Underground (although I only have one album by the last two bands). I have a lot of Led Zeppelin stuff, but my enthusiasm for them has faded a fair bit (partly because of the hordes of people in the college I go to who wear Led Zepp T-shirts. They sparked a streak of musical elitism in me).

Is it just me that sees the rise of Punk as when classic rock ended? I'm seeing a lot of 80's stuff.

 

[oliveira8]

On topic: Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Black Sabbath..arg their list is too big...

Yeah, you just listed the worst bands on the planet.

Stopped reading there. No really I did.

That's too bad, you'll never get to see my argument.

On second thought, though, there are worse bands. Hip-hop and rap, any of them. Blargh.

So I managed to get past your first line, after I went brain dead and you say that they are "hey just don't take advantage of what they can do. It's all just boring, repetitive, mindless rock 'music'. There's nothing new, the riffs and progressions all sound the same, and it's not even very good in the first place."

Well here my friend I'll post a song from those 5 bands I named and you will try to see if they all the same repetitive and boring.

Led Zeppelin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6L4GixccLU&feature=related Black Dog
The Who: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g&feature=related Baba O'riley
Pink Floyd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntm1YfehK7U Time
The Doors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79gICXBY-O4&feature=related Light My Fire
Rolling Stones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptTTho6A7LY Jumping Jack Flash

Yeah dude totally the same riffs and progressions all sound the same...The Who and Led Zeppelin totally sound the same and so do Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones...*sigh*

 

[THEMANWHOIS]

The Doors, Led Zeppelin, CCR, Pink Floyd, and the Who

 

[blankedboy]

Um...Actually, those DO sound similar. You might notice how repetitive they are. Time is the only one that sounds vaguely different from the others, and once some actual music starts in that one (music being music, not music being a bass riff that gets repeated for an entire minute) it does sound the same.

 

[HPoirot]

CCR is possibly the best band ever. In 4 years they made more hits than most bands ever do.

 

[Misaek]

I'm sad to hear I'm the only one who listed Blue Oyster Cult *sigh* I guess people really DO fear the reaper pardon the horrible joke.