Wow, the sheer density of illogic, ad hominem, and goalpost-moving in the comments section.
- The title of the community implies classic rock as a genre is timeless. You know you will make such claims too.
- You can’t go around arguing that anything that’s good is classic rock and anything that’s bad isn’t “classic”, both changing the meaning of your terms mid-sentence AND no-true-Scotsmanning
- Are you really going to argue that anything good is “classic rock” and it’s not about time? Fall Out Boy too?
- You can’t make statements about my tastes. You don’t know my damn tastes. I shouldn’t need to list my tastes to defend my argument. This isn’t about me, it’s about your stupid genre of music.
- Yes, we know that Dust in the Wind and Journey are good. I listen to those and some of the other top classic rock too, because they are good. Most of the genre is not timeless though. I also love Nightwish, Linkin Park, Niel Diamond, Jagged Edge, video game comedy-pop, and orchestral soundtracks. Like I said, this isn’t about me, this is about how Tom Petty, Motley Crue, and Deep Purple are lame and terrible.
In every genre of every generation you’ll have songs that are timeless and will live on for a long time. A song a kid will hear and say “that sounds pretty good” and then there’s the rest.
My nite ore listening son likes some of the music I like that isn’t from my generation but much older (Jim Croche - Operator, The Animals - House of the Rising Sun, pretty much all Metallica, and so on). I dislike Taylor Swift but I can be heard singing some of her songs because it’s an earwig lol.
Truly are the blessed are those who listen to lots of different things and don’t crap on others likes. Except Taylor Swift, crap on her.