You are totally correct. Keep in mind that punk rock, progressive rock, and other genres were also present at that same time. Classic rock is very much a genre and style.
The police are on a bunch of “classic rock” lists, and they are punk/pop rock.
It’s almost like the specific “rock” genre means nothing to this arbitrary genre…. And trying to define it will just point out all the flaws in trying to define it….
There are still artists making “Classic Rock” today. Its a sound and a style. Look at Tash Sultana. Look at Nick Perri. Look at the Underground Thieves. These are modern artists making classic rock. Johnny Cash. Older than the classic rock genre. Is he classic rock? No he’s rockabilly. How about the Beatles. Also predating classic rock. Also not classic rock. Joy Division, Unknown pleasures, 1979. Effectively the birth of Indie rock. Five years before Van Halens “Hot for Teacher”.
Just because you are ignorant to music history, where and how styles emerge and evolve, and want to lump everything into a definition that’s convenient for you, that doesn’t make it so.
Classic rock isn’t a retirement home for a song that happened X years ago. Its a musical movement that was so dominant when it was at its peak it held the crown of just being “Rock”, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t or isn’t a style with its own sound. There were and are styles of music that came before (and are still being made), styles that were happening during (and are still being made), and styles that came after (and guess what, are still being made). Classic rock probably is the most popular style of rock, but it wasn’t even the only style of rock being made when it was at its peak.
None of those artists are classic rock…. they make music in the same style as classic rock bands. But none of their marketing says they perform “classic” music. And that just more or less proves my point, they do t even call themselves classic, since it literally means older music, and isn’t defined by genres…. And they make modern music in that style, but it’s not “classic rock” and no one calls that.
As I said, older music gets phased out as newer music gets phased in, that’s why Cash is considered by some to be no longer classic.
If classic rock is this defined genre, why is every list different, and why does every list include artists from a wide swath of genres? Not just 2-3 like you’ve claimed?
The only people who would still be considered to make new “classic” rock, would be a heritage band coming back and putting new music out. But even then, they don’t call it classic rock or anything like that.
You are totally correct. Keep in mind that punk rock, progressive rock, and other genres were also present at that same time. Classic rock is very much a genre and style.
You just labeled 2 specific genres that include artists that are considered “classic”.
Classic is an arbitrary genre that has changed every decade to account for newer music becoming classic and older music being phased out.
No.
The police are on a bunch of “classic rock” lists, and they are punk/pop rock.
It’s almost like the specific “rock” genre means nothing to this arbitrary genre…. And trying to define it will just point out all the flaws in trying to define it….
There are still artists making “Classic Rock” today. Its a sound and a style. Look at Tash Sultana. Look at Nick Perri. Look at the Underground Thieves. These are modern artists making classic rock. Johnny Cash. Older than the classic rock genre. Is he classic rock? No he’s rockabilly. How about the Beatles. Also predating classic rock. Also not classic rock. Joy Division, Unknown pleasures, 1979. Effectively the birth of Indie rock. Five years before Van Halens “Hot for Teacher”.
Just because you are ignorant to music history, where and how styles emerge and evolve, and want to lump everything into a definition that’s convenient for you, that doesn’t make it so.
Classic rock isn’t a retirement home for a song that happened X years ago. Its a musical movement that was so dominant when it was at its peak it held the crown of just being “Rock”, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t or isn’t a style with its own sound. There were and are styles of music that came before (and are still being made), styles that were happening during (and are still being made), and styles that came after (and guess what, are still being made). Classic rock probably is the most popular style of rock, but it wasn’t even the only style of rock being made when it was at its peak.
Multiple things can be true in life, and usually are IME.
None of those artists are classic rock…. they make music in the same style as classic rock bands. But none of their marketing says they perform “classic” music. And that just more or less proves my point, they do t even call themselves classic, since it literally means older music, and isn’t defined by genres…. And they make modern music in that style, but it’s not “classic rock” and no one calls that.
As I said, older music gets phased out as newer music gets phased in, that’s why Cash is considered by some to be no longer classic.
If classic rock is this defined genre, why is every list different, and why does every list include artists from a wide swath of genres? Not just 2-3 like you’ve claimed?
The only people who would still be considered to make new “classic” rock, would be a heritage band coming back and putting new music out. But even then, they don’t call it classic rock or anything like that.