Wow, the sheer density of illogic, ad hominem, and goalpost-moving in the comments section.

  1. The title of the community implies classic rock as a genre is timeless. You know you will make such claims too.
  2. 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
  3. Are you really going to argue that anything good is “classic rock” and it’s not about time? Fall Out Boy too?
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  • ClydeT1984@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I agree, the genre is slowly shifting to late 80s early 90s too with deftones and slipknot being considered “dad rock” by a lot of people.

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      1 year ago

      Well that is the demographic that would be commuting to work and likely not subscribe to a streaming service.

      Now about the dated statement the op makes. Well older music will always sound dated to a younger generation that grows up on music that uses that older music as a foundation.

      So many other genres have sampled or remixed this music to become popular now. Future generations will sample this generations music to help make thier new music. You also get artists like the weekend who sounds like a third rate 80s new wave artist. So you have a lot of mimicking too