Classic Rock is 50 years old or older. For all the boomers who came of age in the 60’s and 70’s, just imagine you’re in your late teens to early twenties again, back in the 60’s and 70’s and half the radio stations are playing music from the 20’s or even older, and old folks are running around claiming that music from the 20’s or even older is the only music, the best music, that everything made after that sucks.
Sounds pretty stupid doesn’t it? Well, that’s how you sound to young people today, music from your heyday is older than their parents. They’re going to have their own music, just as you did. They’re going to think your music sucks, just as you thought your parents’ music sucked.
Time moves on. Get over it, or retreat to riding around in your Trans Am with the t-tops out, 8 track blasting some old, shopworn Top 40, part your hair in the middle, grow it long. Dust off your Member’s Only jacket if you ever stopped wearing it.
There’s liking and appreciating the music of your youth, and there’s being ignorant about it, thinking that nothing else is worth liking because you don’t like anything you don’t know.
Here is the definition of music:
1. an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
2. the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both.
OUCH, and I disagree, I love the big bands of the 20's and 30's, the Black Jazz, I appreciate the crooners, the Sinatra's, the Detroit music, etc. Even The 50's rockers. But the 60's and 70's had the best "rock", folk, new age jazz ( think Jean Luc Ponty) etc. The musicians were awesome. The 90's because femal vocalist one hit wondes with a guitar, and rap is just awful, can't think of a great musical backup for rap. So I disagree that it was only "my" era music that I like.