Do YOU define classic rock bands by their sound, or their age?!
Question: sound for me, like i consider Airborne classic rock, because they sound like it, even though they're a new band
Answers: sound for me, like i consider Airborne classic rock, because they sound like it, even though they're a new band
classic rock becomes classic rock when it still sounds excellent at least 10 years after it's release.
usually by their age, because some bands now a day that are younger still have somewhat of the same sound. just my opinion though.
i would have to go by age...anything before 1990 to me is classic
Both, I guess. I consider "classic" to be music that people wil be singing/covering/playing 20-30 years after it's release. Stuff like Zepplin,The Who,Skynnyrd...etc
Definitely by their sound.
Classic Rock is even up to the point of Def Leapprd, Iron Maiden......you could say upto Iron maiden. I'll leave the obvious choices such as Led Zeppelin & Pink Floyd out. But say you compare the sound of Iron Maiden vs Linkin Park. Personally I'm a huge classic rock fan, and you can easily tell the difference in music between the two bands. Maiden still had that hint of classic rock within them, linking themselves to bands such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Scorpions etc etc, whereas Linkin Park can be considered New Rock.
So yes, to me, classic rock is defined completely by the sound.
sound. age does not matter as long as the music is good
Yeah, I think classic refers to an older band though the band you mentioned may have a classic sound which means they sound like an older band. give me Bon Jovi any day!
Sound not by age. GNR is considered Classic Rock and none of them are even 60 yet. REM in my opinion is classic. Fall Out Boy on the other will never be inducted to the RNR Hall of Fame. You see, it is if the bands music is legendary and sounds great. Some new great bands in the future will be considered Classic Rock down the road in 30 something years. It is just that we are used to the older bands being Classic, but that doesn't mean other new bands that sound great will not be Classic as well.
This has been a long debate here.
Ultimately, classic rock is 2 things:
-a time frame (roughly 1967 - 1980)
- a sound. (emulating the rock sound of the above time frame)
There's "Classic rock" (mainly the *original* wave of bands & acts from the time frame mentioned) & there're classic rock BANDS. (which is what guys like Airbourne are)
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It's definitely a time frame thing as well & Airbourne is proof. Everyone is calling them AC/DC soundalikes. Ok. & AC/DC's 1st album was what decade? The 70s!
Wolfmother- everyone cite's their Black Sabbath/ Zepp sound. Those bands got their start & reached their peak when? Right. The 60s & 70s!
See the pattern/connection?
I agree with you, I go by sound.
Time frame
The eagles, zeppelin, Floyd anything along that line.
GnR is not classic rock it is considered hard rock and REM please not even close
Classic: a writer, artist, etc. or a literary or artistic work, generally recognized as excellent, authoritative, etc.
To be generally recognized as such, in my mind it would have to be a little older to have the number of people necessary feeling this way. Because I am older, it speaks not only of a sound, but a time, too. The passage of time really is the determining factor for music.
For me, a Classic Rock band or artist has to have originated between 1960 - 1979 {possibly 1964 - 1979} to get that title.
Anything before 1960 is Rock 'n' Roll.
Anything from 1980 onwards is 80's Rock and 90's+ Rock.
Strangely, most people my age {25}, think of the 1980's as also being Classic Rock. Sorry, I'm with the previous generation on this!
age i guess.
how can they be "classic" if they're new and relatively unknown?