Posted on 05/04/2025 7:01:31 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Not much goes on forever as it was. And it's even harder to recreate, ask the Woodstock II promoter.
Classic Rock has had legs like no other
It’s the new “Classical Music”, a hundred years from now, they will still be listening to The Beatles, Stones, etc. But there will be very little from 1980 on, that people will listen to.
100% accurate..The list of great bands begins and ends with the Sex Pistols and maybe The Ramones
Get yourself some good hearing aids with Bluetooth. You can ALWAYS listen to your own energizing music the gym. I often have thatsoundtrack of my life overriding my tinnitus at home or out shopping as well.
The Barleycorn you heard was probably by Traffic, a song nearly as old as USA itself. They have plenty of great tracks besides that, especially the 1972 live version of Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.
Favorite, and only Dead I’ve owned, is Terrapin Station.
Whenever I have set up a new stereo, automatically the first song played has to be Babe Ruth’s Black Dog.
He said it pretty well in The Ballad of Donald Trumpkinhead, too!
My main response is the same, and is a rebuke of the current music scene... Pop Muzik came out in 1979, soooo... what minor one-hit-wonder is out right now that will be part of a viral social media craze in the year 2071, 46 years from now, since Pop Muzik debuted 46 years ago. I cannot think of anything now that would have that kind of staying power.
(80s music rules!!)
First video on MTV!
Grunge rock in the 90’s was Rock and Roll’s last stand.
My choice as well, might as well go with the Deluxe extended version for the extras like Naked Eye, Water, demos and live versions.
The live versions they did at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival were fantastic. Especially “Water”.
Alice Cooper was the first punk.
Flash is Back.
Between The MC5, Iggy and the Stooges, and Alice, Michigan was the birthplace of punk.
Technology allowed the dumbing down of music and thugs who embraced the rap and hip hop lifestyle cashed in on it. The trend lines show. 80s to 90s pop exploded from names like Michael Jackson and Madonna. But they actually used instruments and their own talents. Rock required musical and lyrical talent. But look at hip hop. After 90s with groups like NWA, Tribe Called Quest, etc brought it in to mainstream . Then technology allowed every babbling grunting thug with autotune to produce the most idiotic garbage to the masses. Kids play video games and are saturated with their screens to care. Rock still requires musical skills which are very hard to acquire and most youth are too lazy to master an instrument so no new marketable garage bands are making waves. There’s still plenty out there but it will never be marketed by the record labels.
80s had some good mainstream rock. It wasn’t for everyone. But hair bands got big and actually played their own music. Lots of the heavy metal rock bands started to break out big time like Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Aerosmith, AC/DC after Bonn, and hair bands and thrash metal got big.
What is interesting to me is the inversions in the 80s with the popularity of the video game consoles. Now, what kids wants to learn guitar when they can plant their asses on the couch and play Mario brothers. Why learn a real guitar when you can play guitar master video games with a stupid plastic guitar shaped object? Once the technology got cheap every thug could become a rapper and it required no skill aside from grunting some profanity to ripped off MP3 samples. No musical instruments required.
Why learn a real guitar when you can play guitar master video games
Because you can’t get chicks by just playing video games.
I thought I’d smoke pot forever too
Life got busy lol
Back then, KSHE played 7 albums in a row on Sunday evenings. The show was called “The Seventh Day”. They covered a lot of ground (and it was great if I didn’t have homework to do).
Oh, golly, both Dark side of the Moon and Tales of Mystery and Imagination are GREAT albums, and were both engineered by Alan Parsons, too, but:
A) You gotta have a GREAT stereo hi-fi system to truly enjoy them (on a deserted desert island???)
B) Even if you have “A”, by the conditions set by Diana, there’s no one else around to show off your great stereo system to! ;-)
C) (Most important) The subject matter(s) are NOT conducive to keeping one’s sanity while marooned!
Ok, it could be worse - I’d REALLY not want to saddle myself with some of the (also quite good) tunes by “The Call”, like “Waiting For The End”! And if it really is a desert island, “White Hot” by Red Ryder might be a little TOO appropriate...
I’d want something more along the lines of a “Never Say Die” attitude to keep me going. Closest might be Russ Ballard’s album “The Fire Still Burns”, but I’d prefer an assortment album so I could throw in some others...
As for Rock’s death (a slightly different thing than “Rock and Roll’s death”), there is still a LOT of “Classic Rock” on OTA radio, but good newer material (or even slightly less well known “Classic Rock”) seems to never make it onto most OTA radio. (There are still some exceptions with the newer material, on some stations in college towns.)
But..., where would one go on OTA to hear Parsons’ tunes from “Tales...”, just for one example?
The OTA classic rock stations all seem to utterly crush the sound anyway, which IMO is another factor, as the music become rather lifeless, unlike those great original Parson’s (and many others’) recordings!!!
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