Classic rock is wild because every song is either: *uncompromising meditation about depression, addiction and the futility of living* OR... "OOO girl! yea yea yea. We could be IN MY CAR! yea yea yea... If you KNOW what I MEAN...." - ThreadSky

willquinnart.bsky.social • 148 days ago

Classic rock is wild because every song is either:
*uncompromising meditation about depression, addiction and the futility of living*
OR... "OOO girl! yea yea yea. We could be IN MY CAR! yea yea yea... If you KNOW what I MEAN...."

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ryanmcgarry.ca•148 days ago

Is it sex? Does 'in my car' mean sex?

julieofthespirits.bsky.social•148 days ago

These are the two emotions that men have

ok-sure.bsky.social•148 days ago

💀

ksgant.bsky.social•148 days ago

Prog Rock was, well, not quite sure what it was about half the time. Sounded good though.

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Oh, yeah, that was about...um...dunno really.

2112 - Oh that was..uh...

In the Court of the Crimson King - ???

/s

willquinnart.bsky.social•148 days ago

(I think my love/hate relationship with Iggy Pop comes from the fact that he's maybe the only artist who could do both at the same time) -_- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z7OeQAnMJ0

jlrmarin.bsky.social•148 days ago

Iggy is every facet of the ROCK STAR in one guy. I remember reading about him getting hit in the head by a thrown bottle at Rock of Gods 1999/2000, looking at the blood, then yelling into the mic YOU CAN'T STOP ME MOTHERFUCKER". He dove into the crowd to fight the guy (and kept singing afterwards)

steveforthedeaf.bsky.social•148 days ago

Iggy is the best of the best. The chairman of the bored. The Passenger! The Idiot’s Idiot. Mr Loco Mosquito. Old Leather Chest himself James Newel Osterberg. Iggy Pop to his Muthas.

https://steveforthedeaf.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/loco-mosquito-iggy-pop/

woebetide.gay•148 days ago

I always remember him for guesting as a Vorta on DS9 in one of my favorite episodes

berlitzxv.bsky.social•148 days ago

30% chance the girl is underaged

aaronmichaelross.bsky.social•148 days ago

Fun fact: that's practically all popular music, regardless of genre.

essiehellcat.bsky.social•148 days ago

I'm going to to give you love... All of it, by the inch... 👀

moral1sakasergei.bsky.social•148 days ago

Would Fight For Your Right to Party count as an outlier?

bpress54.bsky.social•148 days ago

So you only have a limited exposure to classic rock?

johnlynker.com•148 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2HH7J-Sx80

brianedits.bsky.social•148 days ago

I still have no idea which category Van Halen's "Running with the Devil" falls into.

Sometimes classic rock lyrics are just... kinda silly.

ponytatsujin.bsky.social•148 days ago

That was indeed the style at the time.

The best, most liveliest song you've ever heard...and it's either about what 1 band mate went through (a breakup, a death, etc....) or it's just....straight up sex/salad tossing.

thomasphotoworks.bsky.social•148 days ago

@saintidiot.bsky.social

zeldatles.is.a.cutie.fyi•148 days ago

and it's my favorite :)

marismolotov.bsky.social•148 days ago

oh, the water
oh, the water
oh, the water

highlightnolife.bsky.social•148 days ago

I think it's interesting the way genres compress like this. In its heyday these would have been considered different genres, the same way chamber music and symphony music are both "classical music" to most people.

ghosananda.bsky.social•148 days ago

I mean, you've hit the root of what drives it all. Angst and a yearn for release. I can't get no satisfaction etc.

mynameahchris.bsky.social•148 days ago

OR very specifically about Vietnam for like...an entire decade

hendrixmoskva.bsky.social•148 days ago

Of course the girl’s underage

ichbinfinn.bsky.social•148 days ago

We aim for both.

canadiancreed.bsky.social•148 days ago

Either it's deep introspection to the human condition, or partying, drugs, and women! Sometimes on the same album!

ishkur.bsky.social•148 days ago

One sec. You need to clarify what you mean by classic rock. Cuz in the 80s CR was Chuck Berry and Elvis. In the 90s CR was Led Zeppelin and Boston. In the 00s CR was Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. In the 10s CR was Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Today CR is Nickelback and Fall Out Boy.

Yes, you feel old.

confusedtabaxi.bsky.social•148 days ago

This hurts my soul more than you could ever know. Classic rock to me will always be Led Zeppelin etc... to know that Pearl Jam is now considered classic rock, I think I may go and cry in a corner.

itseperkele.bsky.social•148 days ago

STOP SAYING THESE THINGS

NIRVANA IS THE CUTTING EDGE OF ROCK N ROLL GODDAMNIT I'M NOT OLD

1234sg7.bsky.social•148 days ago

I see.

encoreofkaliska.bsky.social•148 days ago

Eastside meets Westside downtown, no time.
The walls fall down.
Can you feel it coming? (Empire)
Can you feel them calling? (Empire)
Can someone here stop it?

brianedits.bsky.social•148 days ago

I entirely forgot that Queensryche wrote a "Law & order, tough on crime" album that one time, and even went to the effort to include a spoken-word monologue reciting some rather dodgy (even at the time) crime statistics.

And then they threw Silent Lucidity and a BDSM song on it.

encoreofkaliska.bsky.social•148 days ago

wanting to stop crime on the streets. gonna fuck up ur bbyg in the sheets

colinoscarpee.bsky.social•148 days ago

To quote Plant:

"I WANNA BE YOUR BACK DOOR MAN!"

colinoscarpee.bsky.social•148 days ago

*Robert Plant

cpcolella.bsky.social•148 days ago

There’s only like 4 total topics that cover all music: drugs, sex, hometowns, and politics.

mattclay.bsky.social•148 days ago

As opposed to country, which is either 'me, my hot girlfriend and my pickup / life is sweet' or 'I'm going to damage / steal his pickup because I suspect he cheated'.