I admit it. I ...

[SFIND]

... am scared ****less that I'll spend the rest of my life alone.

 

[albert77]

......even having worked in the radio industry for over 10 years, I apparently don't know what the definition of "Classic Rock" is.
I just heard Black Crowes on a "Classic Rock" station.

As a big classic rock fan, I'll try to help you there.

Classic rock is like the proverbial definition of obscenity; you can't define it, but you know it when you hear it. Classic rock transcends dates and eras. You can have classic rock that predates the Beatles (Green Onions and anything by Chuck Berry) and you can have classic rock that was released last week (Drive-By Truckers' new record). The heart of the classic rock genre, though, runs from about 1966 through 1995.

It's generally guitar-driven, with a fairly standard format song-wise; that is, 2-3 verses, a guitar solo for the bridge, then a closing verse and maybe a closing solo. But, again, there is enormous variance in the song structure of a typical classic rock song. A classic rock song doesn't necessarily have to be electric either. There are plenty of classic rock songs that are totally acoustic (LZ's Going to California and Traffic's John Barleycorn being two examples off the top of my head). There is jazz-oriented classic rock (much of Steely Dan's repertoire) and country-flavored classic rock (much of Southern rock), and the blues are a major foundation for what we now consider classic rock.

I'm sure the music lovers on the board may have their own view of what is and isn't classic rock, but that's how I see it.

 

[I Should Coco]

Classic rock: Layla, Magic Man, More than a Feeling, Sweet Emotion, Runnin with the Devil, You Can't Always Get What You Want, Lola, Get Back, Freebird.

Mix in a few commercials and repeat. Hour after hour after hour ...

 

[TigerVols]

As a big classic rock fan, I'll try to help you there.

Classic rock is like the proverbial definition of obscenity; you can't define it, but you know it when you hear it. Classic rock transcends dates and eras. You can have classic rock that predates the Beatles (Green Onions and anything by Chuck Berry) and you can have classic rock that was released last week (Drive-By Truckers' new record). The heart of the classic rock genre, though, runs from about 1966 through 1995.

It's generally guitar-driven, with a fairly standard format song-wise; that is, 2-3 verses, a guitar solo for the bridge, then a closing verse and maybe a closing solo. But, again, there is enormous variance in the song structure of a typical classic rock song. A classic rock song doesn't necessarily have to be electric either. There are plenty of classic rock songs that are totally acoustic (LZ's Going to California and Traffic's John Barleycorn being two examples off the top of my head). There is jazz-oriented classic rock (much of Steely Dan's repertoire) and country-flavored classic rock (much of Southern rock), and the blues are a major foundation for what we now consider classic rock.

I'm sure the music lovers on the board may have their own view of what is and isn't classic rock, but that's how I see it.

This is fabulous.

 

[Chef2]

This is fabulous.

No ****. Very well done.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

... am listening to the new Rick Astley CD.

 

[swingline]

You Rickrolled yourself. Outstanding.

 

[Buck]

Classic rock is not a genre, it's a marketing and programming classification.
If you are a white male who falls in the Boomer or Gen X segments, any music you like is classic rock.

 

[HC]

Go on...

Yeah ... I phrased that badly.

 

[YankeeFan]

I failed out of college twice.

Been there.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I'm not a fan of Bob Dylan.

 

[Chef2]

have a beer fridge that consists of Genesse and High Life.
I love cheap beer.

 

[justgladtobehere]

look down on people who profess their like of cheap beer.

I'm joking. Kind of. It's almost an objective fact that cheap beer is ****. It's not really beer. It's full of corn and rice, which in the European/American tradition wasn't used widely in beer until large scale brewing started and brewers started cutting costs. Rice and corn are just a cheap way to get get fermenatable sugars and provide a sweetness that drinkers like. There's a reason the big guys promote drinking 'ice cold' beer. The colder the beer, the less flavor for the drinker.

Not everyone has to like stouts and huge double IPAs, but there are good pilsners and pale ales that are real beers and aren't overwhelming.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Enjoy "Friends" more than "Seinfeld."

 

[Spartan Squad]

Enjoy "Friends" more than "Seinfeld."

I think because of my age, I'm in this boat too. I was a little too young to really appreciate Seinfeld (I was 6 when it debuted). Started watching Friends a couple of seasons into its run so I was just hitting my teens and understood a little more. That and Rachel was hot and Joey's maturity was right on my level as a 13-year-old.

 

[Buck]

I can understand a child liking a show that is more popular rather than a show that is better.
A child lacks the capacity to judge the intrinsic value of one over another without being unduly influenced by factors such as popularity.

But a child grows up, and, as an adult, despite that fondness recollected from childhood, should be able to distinguish that Joyce's 'Portrait of the Artist' is superior to RL Stine's 'Goosebumps' series, as an example.

 

[Buck]

That post came out with all of the condescension and none of the humor.

 

[Key]

I felt the condescension enhanced the humor.

 

[Fly]

That post came out with all of the condescension and none of the humor.

I admit I have condensation on my glass of iced tea.

 

[Liut]

While a student at Missouri, I ate a girl out in the parking lot outside T Bakers to the amusement of a few onlookers.