When will we see some more classic rock!?

[funkydunkleman]

For 11 weeks in a row, the closest thing we've had to classic rock has been Jimmy Buffett. For anything pre-1977, you have to go back to April 15th, when we got Simple Man. The stuff we're getting now isn't so bad, but I want to play some classic rock! I don't care who it is. Come on HMX, give us something!

[partyboydanial]

The Cars is classic rock

The Clash ccan be considered classic rock

as Blondie too

same with Judas Priest

all are played on classic rock stations

[BayouBengal032]

i agree with you man. i was wondering this earlier today too. i remember awhile back about ppl complaining about not having more modern stuff and now they have it.

i have liked most of the stuff that has come out recently, even stuff i have never heard of. i have been very pleased. HMX will prolly start going back in time after the pixies or something.

i just want me some more Boston :D

[Hastyl3]

The Cars is classic rock

The Clash ccan be considered classic rock

as Blondie too

same with Judas Priest

all are played on classic rock stations

So are the Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth.

[Dzhokhar]

Classic rock is sort of a moving target. I think of classic rock as mostly stuff from the 70s with a smattering of really great 80s stuff because that's what it was when I was in high school. Now it seems to have expanded to include much of the 90s and a lot less 70s stuff (which has moved into oldies territory).

The OP specified that he considers classic rock to be pre-1977, and using that definition he's right that we haven't seen any in a while. On the other hand, in the first few months of DLC we saw a TON of classic rock (by his definition), so I'm not quite as bothered as he seems to be.

[funkydunkleman]

The Cars is classic rock

The Clash ccan be considered classic rock

as Blondie too

same with Judas Priest

all are played on classic rock stations

I would consider classic rock anything 60's/70's. The Cars is 1978, but it sounds more like eighties music. The Clash is too punk. Blondie is new wave. Judas Priest isn't even close to classic rock.

[partyboydanial]

I would consider classic rock anything 60's/70's. The Cars is 1978, but it sounds more like eighties music. The Clash is too punk. Blondie is new wave. Judas Priest isn't even close to classic rock.

all are played on classic rock stations though

and besides that classic rock is 60's//70's/80's/early 90's

its not even a genre its a radio format and all those are played on tht radio format.

if u were to break it down

The Clash is punk

Blondie is pop-punk

The Cars is early New Wave

Judas Priest is the new wave of british heavy metal led by them and Iron Maiden

but all of them are played on classic rock stations making them classic rock

[wrldindstries302]

I would consider classic rock anything 60's/70's. The Cars is 1978, but it sounds more like eighties music. The Clash is too punk. Blondie is new wave. Judas Priest isn't even close to classic rock.

I would consider modern rock to be music from the 00s that I like. I haven't liked the majority of the songs we've gotten, so we haven't gotten enough modern rock.

[jeccaneko]

Like I've said in other threads, for all intents and purposes, radio stations seem to think that if the song age is > 10 years, then it's classic rock. Except 70s and 60s music is probably considered flat out oldies now instead of classic. But, regardless, it's 2008. That means most of the music released in the 90s is now considered classic rock by a lot of radio stations. So there has been classic rock, by that definition, since Simple Man.

Anyway, I know we'll see it. Just be patient.

[ScottyTheBody]

Yeah I'd love to see more music from the 60's/70's. The Cars was the last great song set for me and before that was Simple Man. More Classic Rock please.

[sandswipe]

Classic rock is a label so wide as to be nonsense, but I agree that we need more music from before 1977. The bands many people, including myself and the OP, think of as classic rock all have a certain sound, something which the Cars were too ahead of their time to hit. The 1980s shifted in a completely different direction then the 60s and 70s, a freshness that I think we need more of in RB.

Where's Dead Pack 02, Rolling Stones pack 01, and Pinball Wizard?

[ScottyTheBody]

Why doesn't everyone here just say it. We're waiting for the Who.

[funkydunkleman]

Why doesn't everyone here just say it. We're waiting for the Who.

I can live without The Who for now, since you'd have to be pretty ignorant to sit around twiddling your thumbs hoping it'll show up every week. Just forget about it and move on. If we get it, we get it.

I just want something from around that era. The Stones, Skynyrd, CCR, Bob Seger, The Animals, Queen, Joe Walsh, Thin Lizzy, Tom Petty, ZZ Top, anything. I'm sure I left out quite a few, but these are all plausible to get. I'm not demanding the huge artists like AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, or The Beatles, just something classic.