During the 1980s, I was either so besotted with punk and jazz and doo wop and avant garde music or so blotto on drugs that I completely missed out on what is currently known as “Classic Rock”. The hair bands, Yacht Rock, the Bee Gees and like that were all completely off my radar. Today, in my dotage, I find myself tuning into the Classic Rock stations when I’m alone in the truck and screaming along to what was actually a lot of pretty fun music.
So what are your classics? What’s the stuff from your younger days that gets you motoring today?
Jesus, just the fact that you listed GnR and Dokken as Classic Rock makes me feel fucking ancient.
This is Classic Rock.
Does anyone else see the golden arches? Proof that McDonald imprinted on my mind 🤮
lmao…..i do now…had to look for them tho
The one on the right is a little Burger King-ish, I think. Sadly, there’s no Starbucks mermaid.
But didn’t we already cover this not long ago when Lymond asked which was the best musical decade and I raised my desiccated right arm and hoarsely screamed. “THE EIGHTIES!!!”
I will tell you one thing, though. During that decade I was in a supermarket with Better Half and there was E-Z-listening Muzak playing. Something came on and I started tapping my foot and asked, “This sounds so familiar. What is it do you think?”
It was a remastered instrumental version of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car.” It had only come out that year. I think. Who can remember. This is no country for old men.
instrumental fast car?
hows that work?
that song rides on its lyrics
theres really not much else to it…..be pretty boring even as muzak
It was…it was like a slowed-down 1,001 strings version. It was kind of heroic. Lots of violin and cello action. At first I thought it was “God Save the Queen,” which would be strange to hear in an American supermarket, or a British one for that matter, but then I wised up and realized that it was that song. Which everyone we knew played at the time at parties, which ground everything to a halt. I used to demand this, which we all had in one format or another:
i demand naturtrane becomes the default elevator muzak
cannot tell if its beauty or insanity
but my ears love it
Nina Hagen! Yes, of course. I actually saw her in concert…I really need to start living in the 21st century. Although why, I don’t know. Time’s arrow pointing in only one direction, I suppose.
i mean…..im a mellow easy going type
anyways…its about bedtime and im suddenly very awake again
This is about as classic as classic rock can get.
When I was little, my much older brother got me hooked on Hendrix
Then in high school I heard Maiden & Priest & left my hippie ways to become a metal head
Then later in high school, I started hanging out with the members of a ska band
Philly 80’s classics
Robert Hazard
Tommy Conwell & The Young Rumblers
I mean, grunge is now considered classic rock (shakes fist at those darn kids). But these are some of mine:
The Grass Roots – Midnight Confessions
Badfinger – Baby Blue
Faces – Stay With Me
America – Sister Golden Hair
I’m a big Grass Roots fan.