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.
  • Confused_Emus@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 year ago

    I like to shit on things people enjoy, too. Don’t you love being among the privileged few whose opinions are objective vs subjective?

  • kalkulat@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    Most of everything is dated, cheesy, lame, unintelligent and sexist. Doesn’t have to stop us from pointing out what isn’t.

    Music that was really good at any time – not just trendy or popular or part of some scene or fronted by some teen idol – will always be really good music. That’ what a classic is. Nothing to do with age of the artist or of the listeners.

    • orphiebaby@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Okay, you move the goalposts completely and then get upvoted by the mindless drones here. You’re not here to argue that Fall Out Boy is classic rock just because you think it’s good, right? I’m out.

  • mogul@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • orphiebaby@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      That one’s both good and timeless, but that doesn’t make the whole genre age any better than other genres.

      • yata@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 year ago

        Nobody is claiming that it does. The classics are precisely the select few good and timeless songs out of a mass of mostly (rightly) forgotten music. That is how all genres work.

        Your take isn’t as controversial as you think, it is mainly just not very well thought through.

  • ClydeT1984@lemmy.world
    2·
    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.

    • Pasta4u@lemmy.world
      2·
      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