Fun poll

[kellinator]

I was driving through Birmingham a few weeks ago while the DJ was discussing this and I thought it was a pretty interesting question.

[Poll #339825]

(By classics, I mean in the "classic rock" sense, not the "classical music" sense.)

Comments

[twochicsinbham.livejournal.com]

" was driving through Birmingham a few weeks ago..."

?!?!?! when?! why didn't we get to meet you? *pretends to look really annoyed*

I imagine you were literally just driving through, but next time you should let us know so we can treat you to a mocha, at least :-) (or a beverage of your choice, although we do make mighty fine mochas)

Happy Monday! :-)
-amylou

[twochicsinbham.livejournal.com]

A mocha and a smoke-a ;) *giggle*

[madshrubbery.livejournal.com]

For the record, rocketmelee was referring to the 1999 classic, "Smooth," by Santana, featuring Rob Thomas (of matchbox twenty).

[rocketmelee.livejournal.com]

See! This is how you know a song will be a classic. Everyone already refers to it as a classic, and recognizes what song you're talking about regardless of how vague and hurried you are in describing it.

[madshrubbery.livejournal.com]

I would have originally suggested it myself, had I not been beaten to it. Of course, it may be due to the fact that I'm a raving matchbox twenty fan. ;)

[atomicnumber51.livejournal.com]

In addition to what I listed above (Hell, I think Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness will be one of those classic albums that classic rock stations will play in their entirety on sunday nights):

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Johnny Cash – Hurt
US3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Coolio - Fantastic Voyage
Alanis Morissette - Unsent
Lisa Loeb - Stay
Beck - Loser
Live - Lightning Crashes
The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
Fugees - Killing Me Softly
Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)
Radiohead - Creep
Melissa Ethridge - Come To My Window
Fiona Apple - Criminal
OutKast – Hey Ya!
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Snoop Dogg - Gin & Juice
Blu Cantrell - Hit 'Em Up Style

If we can fudge the last-10-years to last-11-years (apparently 1993 was a good year) I'd have to add:
James - Laid
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
Duran Duran - Ordinary World


[I'm leaving out clusterfucks like Barbie Girl, MMMbop, Tubthumping (wow, 1997 was a bad year), the Macarena, and everything Creed ever released that will totally end up on the radio, but will be the cultural equivalent of Stayin' Alive and Aqualung.]

[bouncepogo.livejournal.com]

Don't be dissin' Jethro Tull, now!

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

The Darkness - I believe in a thing called love (already mentioned)
Good Charlotte - The Anthem
um...

fuck... I took too long to think about this... I don't actually consider any song of the last 20 years a "classic" so how could anything of the last 10?

[sujata.livejournal.com]

I answered off the top of my head, and, the more that I think about it, the more I feel I did a disservice to a number of truly gifted artists.

Thus, a more considered response:

Tracey Chapman -- "Fast Car" and "One Good Reason" are both definitely future classics.

Stevie Nicks -- Too many to name, really, but here at least is a representative sampling: "Landslide," "Gypsy," "Rhiannon," "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You," "Stand Back"

U2 -- "With or Without You," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," "Where the Streets Have No Name" (hey, the greatest hits were released in the past 10 years, it qualifies!)

Alanis Morissette -- "Uninvited," "You Learn," "That I Would Be Good"

Tori Amos -- "Girl," "Crucify," "Silent All These Years," "God," "The Waitress" (how can the song that made "I believe in peace, bitch!" common parlance not become a classic? *grin*), "A Sorta Fairytale," "Scarlet's Walk," "Your Cloud"

The Cure -- "Jupiter Crash" and a couple of others from Wild Mood Swings

Pink -- Shows a lot of promise. I daresay "Don't Let Me Get Me" is already destined to be a classic, and I suspect "Just Like a Pill" will be too.

Bruce Springsteen seems to be making a comeback; I expect some of his new work to become classics too.

With even more thought, I'm sure I'd come up with others. ;-)

[madshrubbery.livejournal.com]

Is it almost safe to say that anything played on Adult Contemporary stations (novelty songs excluded) could be classic fodder 15, 20 years from now? Of course, there are many exceptions.

[hooper-x.livejournal.com]

Depends. Keep in mind that the "oldies" and "classic rock" stations these days play the same crap that was overhyped bullshit back in the day (and a lot of it is overhyped bullshit still today). I mean, how many fucking times can you hear goddamned Doo Wah Diddy? C'mon. (which, if 99x is any indication, that "Float On" song is apparently the NEW Doo Wah Diddy.)

Basically I've gone out of my way to avoid the radio since roughly 1996, so I can't really comment. That being said, I can pre-emptively guess that "classic" radio 20 years from now will sound like say, Top 40 today, except a whole lot whiter.

-HX, see again the "oldies" analogy. They play a lot of artists from the 50's and 60's, but how many of them are not white guys? WHAT DID BLACK PEOPLE NOT MAKE ANY MUSIC BACK THEN? Chuck Berry is basically their token darkie and that's it.

[blueingenue.livejournal.com]

Y'know, it's sad that most of the songs that come immediately to mind are just barely older than ten years old.