Is This Classic Rock?

why do you hate boston and kansas? WHY?

 

My favorite early 90s album is "New Miserable Experience" by the Gin Blossoms.

Unfortunately, Doug Hopkins, the best writer in the band, got kicked out because of his alcoholism and shortly thereafter killed himself.

They've had several pleasant and utterly insignificant albums since then.

When Hopkins departed, they lost the heart and soul of the band, and the ballsiest writer by far.

 

It wasn't THAT late. A little more than a decade in, right?

A great album (always loved "Ignoreland") but I still think REM was at or near its peak at that point.

 

(not what you think - listen to at least the first two minutes)

 

REM jumped the shark (I hate that term but can't think of one better) for me with Green. I love everything before it, hate it and everything after.

 

There was never a 20-year rule for classic rock. I hate the Eagles, but they were all over the classic rock radio in the 1980s.
People weren't sitting around in the 1970s listening to the Kingston Trio on album format radio.
Classic-rock formatting is the descendent of album-rock format FM of the 1970s.
But nobody was sitting around in 1985 yelling 'This song hasn't been out for even 10 years!' when a classic rock station played 'Hotel California.'
They should have been yelling 'This song sucks,' but that's beside the point.

 

True that. Ditto for Boston, Journey, Styx, Kansas, etc., etc.

 

"And in the master's chambers, they gathered for the feast,
They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast."

This line always made me laugh after I learned that the band Steely Dan -- whom the Eagles are referring to here -- apparently named itself after a dildo.

Don Henley, you need to get yourself some better eating utensils, my friend. Or at least date less beastly women. ;D

 

Many, many bad songs of the 1970s were rampant on classic rock stations in the 1980s.
But these that we name - Eagles, Boston, Styx, Journey (still sucking and more popular in the 1980s), Kansas, etc. - suck classicly.

 

We now know what Zeke has been doing with his spare time ... creating another handle.

;D

 

"Green" blows, but "Automatic For the People" is fantastic.

They've been hit or miss since then, though, and the last four bored me to tears with just one or two bright spots per album.

 

I challenge you to a duel.