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Linky: http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/9257498/teens_save_classic_rock?rnd=1139974777033&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.872
How many people think this is a major trend? I for one strongly believe so. Almost all of the people in my grade(8th) are big fans of much of the same acts their parents listened to. I for one have more Beatles, Hendrix, Joplin, Aerosmith, AC/DC etc. then anything recent, and many of my friends are the same way. Many teens I have met outside of where I live are the same way. So, what do you think? Is this the same where you live? Does this say something about the quality of current music?

Good music will always be around. It's good that kids (well, I suppose I'd get grouped in as a kid listening to that sort of music, as it's well before my time...) get into classic rock. I mean, look at the current alternatives. Seriously...

I'm 18 and most of my friends and I love classic rock. I'm listening to "The Doors" right now. My whole iPod is loaded with 60s and 70s rock. I can't blame people today. I mean modern rock (emo) sucks and rap isn't music so there isn't much to choose from.

I have tons of AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Simon and Garfunkel, CCR, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Good music will always be around.
But then, teens aren't making mass migrations to Mozart as well.:D

Well, as the article points out, apart from mass produced emo and hip-hop, what else is there to listen to? Modern popular music for the most part stinks. There is nothing that jumps out at people anymore.

The other option is to go for underground bands. Not everyone wants to. That leaves the old stuff.

'sfunny. I remember reading an almost identical article back in '88 which had a title like "Young Listeners Say 'Gimmie Gimmie Jimi'" or suchlike. Nothing new under the sun.

I think it says something about the quality of today's music but it also says something about the timelessness of the music your parents and my parents grew up on. It's just great music.

I grew up listening to Fleetwood Mac and other acts of the '70s and I'm finding more and more kids your age and slightly older who listen to the same kind of music.

One guy whom I've RP'd with occasionally even launched into a whole "and you didn't take me?!" thing when I told him I went to see Stevie Nicks. A guy who was 11 or 12 at the time begged his parents to take him to see Fleetwood Mac but they wouldn't do it. One of my friends was literally crying when his parents wouldn't let him see Fleetwood Mac when they were on their last tour. And, my favourite story of all: I was talking about an old song named "So Begins The Task" by Stephen Stills's side project band Manassas and one dude who was 17 then already knew the song.

I have tons of AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, Simon and Garfunkel, CCR, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

rolling stones isnt classic rock, its just old people that still perform

meh, ive never been a fan of rolling stones

but as for all the other groups you listed, very good slection there.

i love 60's music! its the best

Meh, I listen to some Creedence Clearwater Revival and Led Zepplin, but I like early 90's albums better. :p

Dunno about others, but my love of classic rock is genuine.

it's not neccessarily that today's music is crap. it's just that 'yesterday's' music is still good. i hate it when people tell me that they hate a song because it's "so old" [like, it was in the, like, charts, like four whole weeks ago]. music is timeless.

my favourite bands on the face of the earth, at this particular moment in time [recognising that its probably going to change at some point lol] are silverchair and the beatles.

At 16, my parents think that I'm strange to want to go see the split enz reuinion concert thingo. but six months in a leaky boat is still gonna rock my socks whether or not it was sung when i was alive. :)

& stairway to heaven is one of the most beautiful songs ever sung

I listen to AC/DC, Queen and Styx...

Then again, I also listen to Rammstein.

At 16, my parents think that I'm strange to want to go see the split enz reuinion concert thingo. but six months in a leaky boat is still gonna rock my socks whether or not it was sung when i was alive. :)
Ahh dear. Six months in a leaky boat - what a fuckin' great song. Classic rock is just better music. Too much pop and "punk" rock these days. I'm 16 too and would take Led Zep over anything. I love Beatles/Queen too.

old stuff is just... better music than modern over-produced crap imho

there's just a style, a je ne sais quoi that 60's/70's classic rock has and modern music totally lacks
*is listening to a hendrix cover of a john lee hooker song... doesn't get much better than this :D*

practically all i listen to at the mo :)

Oh, I'm listening to Led Zep - Fool In The Rain. Shit I love this song.

Sometimes you just get somethings spot on. "Classic rock" got it spot on, the attitude and the sound. Im looking forward to a whole new wave of ......modern? classic rock.. from my generation. And let us just forget the majority of 90's music existed, back when boybands roamed the earth. :sniper:

Im listening to Children of the damned, by maiden right now!! i love lots of old stuff, but i am also a listener of new and the such, e.g. rammstein (industrial metal), slipknot, korn, marilyn manson, killswitch engage. i have rather a varied taste. (BTW i am 16 years old)

I know a lot of younger kids (I have friends who became high school teachers) who have interest in music and intruments - they want to play songs they hear and realize the new stuff is crap when compared to the old stuff. My girl's little bro is getting nasty on the guitar- he started playing stuff like 3 doors down and the like and got bored- now he plays Hendrix, Clapton, Zepp, etc.

Rock on

'sfunny. I remember reading an almost identical article back in '88 which had a title like "Young Listeners Say 'Gimmie Gimmie Jimi'" or suchlike. Nothing new under the sun.

I remember the same from about 1996, right before numetal.

Personally, I listen to emo* and hardcore and crust and about a million other genres of music most people think are just made up.

*emo of course being the subgenre of hardcore, not the poppy alternative that's on the radio now.

I'm quiete getting into classic rock now but I don't want end up one of those retro rocker kids who don't go to any shows, don't explore any new music, dismiss it all as shit and live in Daddy's record collection. There is good new music out there, you just have to find it and nothing beats seeing a band in its prime perform.

Yep - we don't listen to much newer stuff when i'm in a group with my mates. One of my mates is really into rap music, which I really don't like, so we have to listen to that whilst in his car though >.<

I hate classic rock.

Of course, let me qualify that: I hate 'standard' classic rock, your typical radio variety. Just like regular radio, most of what they play is extremely mediocre. With the rise of Clear and the fall of any station that doesn't copy their formula everything on the airwaves has become painfully derivative. I also dislike "classic rock" as a label. Where does it start, where does it end? Why is Rush classic rock, but a superior band like the Clash not? They're both from the same time period, and I think I know which one is the more 'classic'. Hell, I've heard U2 tracks on classic rock stations. Classic rock radio is just the repackaging of nostalgia; real quality transcends time periods.

I love plenty of older artists (Beatles, Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Tom Waits, Iggy & the Stooges, Bob Dylan, and lots of punk, post-punk, new wave, hardcore etc...) of that timeframe, but I think it's a sad state of the media that contemporary standards have fallen. Luckily, there's lots of great stuff out there, and the internet makes it easier than ever to find. Even if you don't feel attracted to what you're exposed to, open your range and surely you'll find something to relate to.

The new music out is mostly mind-numbing emo, or single power-chord nonsense with a complete lack of musical talent anywhere to be found. Give me some smoking guitar solo's, holler'n front men, a song about good times and good friends, and a general high level of talent about the band, and I'd listen to new music out there. It just doesn't seem to exist anymore, except for a very few bands. So then, therefore, classic rock is rock, for the most part.

Ah come on now.

There's an awful lot of great modern music about. You just have to put some effort into finding it.

I suppose it's easier to steal your dad's CDs that to go looking for new stuff though...