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I actually like a lot of classic rock (yes even Hotel California, that solo kicks ass) but there is a lot of bad classic rock too. What do you think the worst classic rock song is? What is the most overrated band or artist? I think Supertramp is mid at best, but Bob Seeger is truly dreadful.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago

Came here to post this

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The Rolling Stones suck so much. They got two good songs to be sure, but they're aggressively mid more often than not. Hell, there earlier stuff just reminds me that I could be listening to far better black artists who were their contemporaries.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Paint it Black is the only song of theirs that I still listen to regularly and enjoy

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where's that tweet about being pumped to see KISS with their badass facepaint and them going "I WANNA ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT 😜AND PARTY EVERYDAY"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

God that song fucking sucks

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

I like a lot of the stuff but the 2 minute chorus lines and the "end the song by way of a minute long fade out" is grating.

That said I see a lot of use of the word "overrated" in this thread. [Band] isn't overrated, you just don't like them. Like I don't like Bruce Springsteens music, but there's a reason why he's called The Boss.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The absolute worst is when the ending is the clear best part of the song, but the band doesn't know how to end it so they just fade it out. Fading out the climax of the song! Wtf

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (11 children)

The Beatles. I actually love a lot of their B sides and early material, but I think I’ve just been over-exposed to their “main” catalogue. Although, truth be told, I could probably say the same for almost any classic rock band, except for maybe CCR. Classic rock bands just get over-hyped as the most amazing band in the world, but when you don’t feel the same, it ends up creating a huge disconnect.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There used to be a pub near my house with the entire White Album on the digital jukebox thing they had.

I used to request Revolution 9 every single time when I'm walking past or leaving the pub.

It took them 4 months to remove it from the system.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

number 9

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Let's agree: Carry on Wayward Son is the best classic rock song. Like all good classic rock it also falls on the proggy side of things.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

The guitar players in Kansas were cool. They couldn't afford guitar straps so they stole horse halters and used those.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The horse with no name song is straight up torture.

Also, I don't get classic rock radio. I know every song and I hate the genre. My entire passenger experience in an automobile has had a classic rock soundtrack. The same 100 songs everyday for like 25 years caused me damage.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

This is an unspoken drawback of car culture.

Terrible CDs or terrible radio.

For the longest time I was ~9 minutes away from work by foot and I guess I can't relate to people who have to commute twice that long in a car.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (7 children)

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Damn, Gen X is getting blown the fuck out

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The least loved people of history

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have faith in the power of Don't Stop Believin' but I heard it at the wrong time a couple of days ago and I wanted to rip the walls apart. It's just not a breakfast before work type of song.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What do you think the worst classic rock song is?

Jack & Diane

What is the most overrated band or artist?

I’ve never liked Van Halen

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The day that I stopped listening to commercial radio was the day I was driving a delivery van, and Jack & Diane came on for the millionth time. Out of song fatigue, I hit a preset button to switch from the classic rock station to the adult contemporary station, but the song just kind of skipped a few seconds. Weird.

Confusion turned to horror, as I realized the truth: The adult contemporary station was also playing Jack & Diane almost in sync with the classic rock station.

That's it. I'm done. No more commercial radio, with 7-minute ad breaks, and 40-song playlists, if they can't even manage a different 40 songs on different stations.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I hate that period when the entire music industry got a yacht fixation. Come Sail Away, I'm Sailing Away, I'm Getting Closer To The Shore, I've Been Capsized By An Orca And Totally Deserved It.

Conceptually relsted: Jimmy Buffett. You built a cult out of aspiring to be a useless beach drunk. I guess it's what you do after your fourth OUI and they take your boating licence.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Jimmy Buffet built a cult out of aspiring to be a useless beach drunk.

Whomst amongst us?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (34 children)

If Oasis is classic rock I'm going to need some clarification on what people think it is exactly

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I really dislike that classic rock band called Imagine Dragons. Shit sucks

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

They used to be my favorite band in the world, but nowadays I think that Led Zeppelin is way, way overrated. IV is their best album and probably the only one that nowadays I can still listen to without skipping any songs, even Four Sticks (eh, actually, I'll skip that one I think). When the Levee Breaks is the best song they've ever made.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The more and more I think about it, the more and more I think it's John Bonham that's the most important aspect of Led Zeppelin. Fool In The Rain, No Quarter, Kashmir, Moby Dick

Which is truly amazing because he was self taught on funk and jazz.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (5 children)

smoke on the water is horrible shallow kitsch..

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (16 children)

When a somebody says rock is the best music you just know that, consciously or not, they're putting "white music" above the rest

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Narrator: "Early rock songs were stolen from Black people."

[old footage rolls]

Presenter: "My next guest has been accused of stealing from the ethnic community, but I think that's wholly unjustified. Elvis, everybody!"

Elvis [singing]: "♫ Me and my brothers run away from the cops, from the way we look we know they're gonna stop us... ♫"

Presenter: "Well, that could mean anything..."

Elvis [continuing] "♫ Cause we're Black, Black, Black! ♫"

[presenter groans]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most of it is trash, but I hope we can agree that Rush is pretty good. I listen to 2112 every few months. It slaps.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Love the level of discourse in this thread.

"Classic rock" isn't an actual genre of music so much as it is a format for a radio station that mostly plays adult adult alternative pop music from the 60's - 00's and I will stand by this. I miss the old classic rock station we had around here, it got bought out about five years ago and it's really just not the same as it was back then. Now it really is the same 40 songs with no actual dj, back then they would pull out some deep cuts about every hour or so to keep things interesting but now it blows chunks. You can say what you want about them as a news source but NPR affiliates have some awesome music programming.

Back on topic, yeah supertramp sucks so much ass it's not funny, Lynrd Skynyrd's value as a band is entirely contained within the guitar solo in Freebird. Jack and Diane got mentioned already in this thread, and that's a good contender for the worst but Free Fallin' by Tom Petty is so fucking maudlin and the way he draws out his words just aggrivates me.

[Angel in the] Centerfold is a song I hate on a personal level, it's so agressively cishet it makes me wanna puke, the character guy gets all upset that his old crush is a beautiful woman who does nude modeling and he conspires to get her all to himself and its like... thats so creepy? Like can he really not stand the idea that other men might look at/interact with the girl he never made a move on in highschool? It's so wild that this is played on a daily basis given how he describes exactly how hes going to try to seduce her the next chance he gets.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

>ctrl+f "Black Sabbath"
>0 results

There may be 250 posts in this thread with 62 upvotes, but at least none of you are unreasonable.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (6 children)

If i never hear another Fleetwood Mac song again I'd be fine with that

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Okay, sorry but I'm gonna defend my girl Stevie Nicks. I will die on this hill.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You will listen to dreams and you will enjoy it

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What is the most overrated band or artist?

Every shitty hair metal band that only sings about misogyny and doing drugs lol

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Aside from Hotel California, I really dislike The Eagles. Also Led Zeppelin's music is good, but half their hits are basically covers. Also while I really like the music from Red Hot Chilli Peppers, their vocalist and lyrics seriously suck.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It would be a cover if they paid royalties. But they straight up stole a crapload of songs from known blues musicians without ever giving a cent back. Culture vulture shit. And yeah fuck RHCP, their lead singer is a know sex pest and its the dumbest band on earth.

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