I don't listen to "classic" rock much anymore. Heard it enough when it came out and have plenty of it on vinyl. But there's so much new music out there......amazing. And then we have some of the "classic rock" guys putting out solo stuff, think Gilmour and Plant for example, and the selection gets even bigger. We have 2 things that are better now than they've ever been......music selections and beer.
As for Sirius/XM.......it's ok. Just ok. Sound quality is god-awful. The hosts, DJ's, presenters, whatever they want to call themselves are a damn nuisance. All they want to do is hear their own mouth. And "commercial free"? I don't think so. A commercial for yourself is still a commercial. Add in the mundane playlists and the overlapping stations.......no thanks. Wife likes it and has a lifetime script in her car but I'll let the trial expire in my truck.
I tried satellite radio for a few years. The playlists are not very "Deep" as you guys say. For one example, I know no one who likes Kansas, unless they have albums. Just how many times can you only hear Dust in the Wind and Left Overture without learning to hate them? There are way too many really good, complete albums by many rock groups to give up, but jazz and classical have multitudes of varying music. Of course, you need tone controls for all the above, or like me, matching amp and preamp pairs to keep things in phase. Yes, I do measure my sub driver depth to align them with my 803's.
Tired of "Classic Rock"? Yes, and no. I still listen occasionally as it is the audio of my youth, but it's not all that otherwise, IMO. I listen to music that I would have hated in my youth quite often now. I like big band, Sinatra, some swing I suppose, some classical, and various other things. Listening too much to the same thing is like watching the same movie or TV show over and over again without a break. YMMV
Yes for the most part,today I was listening to some 70s MoTown,I like it...Bob Marley,George Jones Frankie....ya I have About out grown classic rock...butt never will.,it is just another form of music,like Blues or Jazz,as I get older rock n roll gets played less...
There’s too much good stuff out there to abandon any genre, especially if it holds sentimental value. Those of us who saw the Dead or Pink Floyd live or got into hijinx while listening to classic rock as kids know it’s a time capsule to some mighty good times. I might not ingest the chemicals I did back then anymore, but the music still gives me a buzz!
In Saint Louis there is a station, KSHE 95. On Sunday mornings they play four hours of mostly good classic rock tunes, not the stuff you hear over and over on other stations. I don’t live in STL anymore but they’re online now, but I try to tune in when I can.
Oh boy, some of you are starting to show your age now! Classic Rock is great but the radio stations seem to play some songs to much and other not enough!
I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning of XM. You are mistaken. If you did listen to SiriusXM, you’d know what I’m telling you is there truth
You are completely mistaken to state:
... each channel plays the same 50-ish songs in rotation for very long periods ...
I have an XM sub, but wouldn’t need it to know how wrong you are. If you were correct, the decades channels would be repeating content less than every three hours, which of course they don’t. There’s lots of discussion on SiriusXM playlists on xmfan, and you can track the actual playlists on dogstar. (Some of the playlists are also curated on xmfan. For example, the Deep Tracks playlist is here and was updated last month.)
Just to be clear, I wish the typical SiriusXM channel had a much deeper playlist. But to claim that they are as short as 50 songs is just absurd.
I don’t listen to "commercial" radio much so when I do I don’t mind the popular classic rock songs when it comes on. I prefer to play classic rock albums (not often) at home, then I can hear the songs I want to hear, not the same old, same old.
Umm, I don’t think so. I’ve been a subscriber since the beginning of XM. You are mistaken. If you did listen to SiriusXM, you’d know what I’m telling you is there truth.
... each channel plays the same 50-ish songs in rotation for
very long periods ...
That's incorrect, and you're not even close. There's lots of discussion on this over on xmfan.com by people who actually listen to Sirius/XM. Even the deepest radio playlists pale next to a decent LP collection, though. It's for that reason that I can say, yea, I still love listening to classic rock.
In interviews, great artists of any given era will often talk about the artists from the preceding era that inspired and/or influenced he or she. Dylan is viewed as a member of the 1960’s counter-culture generation (some even view him as its’ father), but in interviews he makes it very clear that he feels more of an affinity with artists from bygone eras than of his own. Feeding off each other (their contemporaries) rather than digging down into the roots that lead to the current artistic culture leads to a "sameness" in the music that is popular. I hear a lot of that in 1970’s and 80’s Rock. Record companies are notorious for pandering to the market; many high-profile entertainers are equally culpable. These are gross generalizations; we all have our own exceptions to the rule.
I recently hired a millenial who has a passion for all things music. Her 50’s something parents introduced her to their era of late 70’s classic rock but I have had the pleasure of taking her backward another decade. She is very enthusiastic and willing to put up with my stories of seeing Hendrix, Big Brother, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, the Who, Moody Blues, John Mayall and countless others in concert ( I was the music editor for my high school newspaper) and we have spent hours spinning vinyl together. Not only has this allowed me to re- visit some albums I have not listened to in years but we have dug deeper into some discography I never heard back then. As a quid pro quo, she has introduced me to many new performers she has discovered playing the smaller venues in our area.
It is called Classic Rock for a reason - it can still be new and interesting to an entirely new generation of listeners.
No, never. I'm still "discovering" music that I've never heard or perhaps was dismissive of when I was younger. There's a lot of great music from that era that I'll never get tired of.
There's a great classic rock station where I live that plays a lot of deep cuts and has very few ads that I listen to often. Other than that I don't listen to much music on the radio. The sound quality of Sirius is so bad that I can't stand to listen to it.
+1 sleepy, "The range of Classic Rock is vast and deep"
danatek, What made you change your mind on rock music? Obviously, their is nothing wrong with your decision (it's yours to make) & I can certainly see the appeal of classical & jazz music. Just wondering...
I like "Deep Tracks " on Sirius. Classic but with a twist. If you were an album listener back in the day , and not a top 40 listener, this is your station .
I stopped listening to most of that stuff when I grew up and discovered Jazz and Classical.I
gave away about
1000 'rock' LPs but kept a handful of albums from ELP, Renaissance, Pink Floyd, and Poco.
I think @tablejockey came closest to where I am when he mention the music that inspired it- * the Chicago electric blues and some of the early UK electric blues players (Mayall, or early Peter Green, who turned in a variety of directions, including later, much more famous bands like Fleetwood Mac, Free during the Kossoff era (pre-Bad Company), Cream, and other classic rock staples; * the precursor bands, and those that never achieved the fame or made it onto the classic rock playlist, including a lot of more obscure bands (Blackwater Park’s Dirt Box; Krokodil, An Invisible World; Black Cat Bones, Barbed Wire Sandwich; Atomic Rooster, Death Walks Behind You; Leaf Hound, Growers of Mushroom; Lucifer’s Friend, S/T; Flower Travellin’ Band, Satori; Blues Creation, Demon & Eleven Children); *the proto-bands that were genre defining (early Sabbath on UK Swirl, Tull’s Stand Up rather than Aqualung), genre-blending (Funkadelic- mixing hard psych and funk), or simply time warp stuff (Spirit’s Twelve Dreams). * psych folk (the 3 peak albums by Fairport Convention), Roy Harper’s Stormcock (featuring Jimmy Page), Trees or Comus, deeper prog beyond YES and ELP (Cressida Asylum), Triumvirat, Patto (both albums): Bachdenkel, Stalingrad). There are a million bands that were briefly known or only known in a certain part of the world who were playing during the era and are worth exploring. I will occasionally put on a track from the well-worn warhorses (I prefer Sabbath’s first album over virtually all the others for its slow sludgy grind) or Cream (sadly, the best recording of them live, at the Grande Ballroom, remains a bootleg) or Mountain (great band, now virtually forgotten beyond the radio staple Mississippi Queen). That era - from ’67 to the early-mid’70s (my cut off is earlier than the radio format) was rich with possibility in an era where hard rock was one element of the sound that was not yet hardened into a rigid genre.
I've gotta fever and the only cure is cowbell. Yes of course, who can listen to the same era of popular music over and over. Western culture has create music from the 11th century up till now. Gregorian Chant, Monteverdi, Bach, Zelenka, Handel, etc... I then listened to early Allman Brothers for the first time in 35 years and it sounded fresh.
Actually, Doug Ingle of Iron Butterfly played not a Hammond organ, but a Farfisa, same as Ray Manzarek of the doors (lower case their choice, not my mistake). That’s one reason they both sound so cheezy ;-) . The drum solo in "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" a good one? Ay carumba!
Forgive me, but I’m not positive what constitutes "Classic Rock". Is it the Rock music that was played on the radio in the 70’s? If so, I’m not sick of it because I never liked or listened to it when it was new. I’m not special in that way; all the musicians I have ever known felt and feel the same way. There are of course exceptions, such as Fleetwood Mac and a few others. I do know what constitutes "Arena Rock" (1980’s, right?), and find that "music" particularly unlistenable. To each his own!
A lot of Rock music is so 1-dimensional that it doesn't stand up well to repeated listenings, and so trendy that it doesn't age well. Music that is immediately assessable tends to wear out its' welcome sooner than does that which takes numerous listenings to fully absorb and appreciate. I won't mention any names here, as the distinction between the two groups are very personal. I have some albums which are still revealing themselves to me, even after many, many listenings. Classical music (and to a lesser extent, imo, Jazz) is inherently music of that sort.
I can't tolerate listening to Sirius very long, since it sounds so...awful. Once in a while, I hit the 60's, 70's, 80's channels and hear a song I haven't heard in 30-40 years. I mostly listen to the comedy channels as spoken voices sound ok.
SiriusXM is the remedy for these ills.....50s on 5, 60s on 6, and 70s on 7. Commercial free and the program directors know their music.
Not quite. SiriusXM playes from a very limited list of artists on each channel. And, each channel plays the same 50-ish songs in rotation for very long periods. This can be mitigated by jumping channels, but that gets as old as listening to the truly pathetic Deejay on 60’s on 6. So no, SiriusXM is not the cure.
Don’t think for a minute that Classic Rock is limited to the narrow and overplayed radio play lists. The range of Classic Rock is vast and deep, well beyond the limits of one person to experience it all. Not that you shouldn’t try, because the journey is full of many great surprises.
Ben collecting vinyl since my teens, now 66. In the 90’s one could hit the weekend garage sales and pick up a big box or entire collections for penny’s on the dollar. Half was junk or damaged, but there were a lot of finds and about 20% were prestine. Through the years my system has been upgraded or modified for improved sound, so they just keep getting better and better. My collection and system will go to my two sons, but until then, they are my treasure second only to my family.
I listen to “Classic Rock” from my collection and avoid the common radio playlist songs. Just heard In a Gadda Da Vida, all 18 minutes with the terrific drum silo, hammond organ, etc. on the way home today in my car.
It is the music of my yourh and there is much to mine in listening to different artists.
I've got 4 local listener-supported stations that I usually hit before I resort to the commercial airwaves, so I don't hear the classic rock over-saturation enough to care. But I get where you're coming from.
It is pretty frustrating that the local classic rock station just plays the same songs people mostly already know over and over and over again. Deep cuts anyone? Live dangerously!
I was tired of classic rock radio when it wasn't classic . There were a few stations back in the 70's around my locale that were allowed to delve deeper into albums late night. One was out of Fort Knox can't remember the station number but they would play whole albums or do blocks by a group. Who can remember hearing Thanks For The Pepperoni from All Things Must Pass on the radio ?
I stopped listening to any station that plays hard rock at least 20 years ago. If I ever have the desire to listen to the old stuff, I just pull out the vinyl and listen. It’s so much more enjoyable when you have not heard it in many years.
Classic rock (from the 60’s and 70’s) works for me. What doesn’t work for me are all the TV commercials that rip off “classic rock” in the hope of snagging viewers for the products they are selling.
Yes I have to be careful....I cannot say...Stair way embodies Classic Rock...I am just tired of the Classic Rock playlists that are all to common be it Radio or streaming....
If you're talking about classic rock radio, yes & a long time ago. It is not because of lack of talent, but the lack of selection they find viable to make it to the airwaves.
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