Today's classic rock | TheaterFire

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BumbleTeacup@reddit

Both my kids (17 and 22) listened to Nirvana and Green Day for a while. 90a music is definitely the new classic rock.

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CrotalusHorridus@reddit

Classic rock is a specific genre of rock (the 60s and 70s rock that boomers grew up on).

It is NOT just rock that’s 20 years old or older

Hair metal/Alt/grunge are their own genres that are also now out of date but have some real bangers.

I’ll die on this hill

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TraditionalTackle1@reddit

Tell that to all of the rock stations that are now playing grunge music.

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llamadramas@reddit

Exactly this. Greenday is very common on those.

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tacosandtheology@reddit

And oldies are 50s and 60s rock and pop. Not just pop from 20 years prior

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Chemical_Butterfly40@reddit

Agreed, classic rock is specific to 60s and 70s!
According to the girls in the salon I frequent, 80s to 00s rock is "dad rock".

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BumbleTeacup@reddit

Except they didn’t call it classic rock until the 90s. Saying this as someone who delighted my parents by listening to classic rock as a teen.

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no1nos@reddit

Funny, mine are about 5 years younger, and they've landed on more early 2000s, post-grunge acts. Linkin Park, Incubus, Strokes seem to be their faves.

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prstele01@reddit

My high school kids are on Paramore and My Chemical Romance.

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Revolutionary_Gas551@reddit

Stepson is a senior and really likes Eminem. His friends listen to a lot of 90’s rock too.

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Responsible-View-804@reddit

Top 40 is basically dead with the dawn of streaming, since everyone can get customized music tastes

I know a DJ that unless specifically asked, he plays pop music from the 2000s because that is to him, the newest music everyone in the room is guaranteed to know.

Radio safe rock if it exists today, I haven’t heard it. Newest groups I can think of would be like, the pretty reckless or Volbeat? From 15 years ago probably. It’s why they killed the edge fm station in the 2010s. It switched from alt to pop (mostly stomp clap hey music) then more or less became identical to their big sister station Kiss.

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derfzinkerbelle@reddit

I can tell you it sure as fuck isn't Limp Bizkit, Nickelback, or Linkin Park.

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Bob-Dolemite@reddit

the stuff we listened to and thought was cool when we were kids is being rebranded as the “first generation of classic rock”

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Charger2950@reddit

All 90’s rock and alternative rock.

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YourGuyK@reddit

90s grunge, maybe, although if we're truly being equivalent it would be something from the Teens.

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stealy_darn@reddit

My 11 year old son has a buddy who talks about Nirvana the way I talked about Zeppelin when I was his age.

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YourGuyK@reddit

My kid digs a band, and he said, "You might like them because they sound like old music." They sound much more like 1940s music, which I do listen to a bit of (thank you, Fallout), but I gave a little back on that one.

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MCA2142@reddit

I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit on a classic rock station a couple years back.

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Full-March-4700@reddit

They’ve been playing smells like teen spirit, Pearl Jam and the like on classic rock stations since the early 2000s!

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burjja@reddit

Seeing as rock, as a mainstream genre, essentially died in 2015ish, does that mean that the classic rock catalog is set in stone with no more entries? I hadn't thought about that aspect.

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Loocha@reddit

Music from the 70s when we were in high school is the equivalent of kids listening to Green Day, Nirvana, Blink 182, En Vogue, Tupac, etc. it’s painful to think about.

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Staggerlee024@reddit

Your timing is way way off lol

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59apache01@reddit

I hate to say it, bit kids listening to Nirvana, etc. today would have been the equivalent of us listening to early '60s doo-wop and surf music in high school. It's a 30+ year gap either way.

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JeffTS@reddit

They play 90s rock now on what used to be the classic rock station. So, I’d say that’s the equivalent. Lol

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Chemtrails_in_my_VD@reddit

It was grunge, but in recent years I'd say nu has entered the conversation.

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GaSc3232@reddit

Saw a lot of kids with their parents at Breaking Benjamin

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mrossm@reddit

I heard Freak in a Leash playing in a grocery store the other day. I was visibly upset.

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GaSc3232@reddit

Here’s hoping my local Food Lion gets in on this action. I’ve never headbanged around frozen peas, but I would be happy to start.

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Z0na@reddit

Tangentially, I was listening to SiriusXM the other day and the song "1985" by Bowling for Soup came on, and I realized that if the song was written now it would be called "2007" 💀

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GaSc3232@reddit

I might need a stiff drink after learning that

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UbiquitousBot@reddit

If you were listening to early 70s rock in the late 80s you're looking at a 15ish year gap? So thats like...Imagine Dragons "Radioactive" is to now.

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Geoff-Vader@reddit

I've heard kids reference The Killers, The Strokes, etc being 'dad rock'. Which for a kid that's probably 10-12 the math maths.

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red286@reddit

The Killers took their name from the name of the fake band in New Order's video for Crystal.

And now The Killers are as anachronistic today as New Order was then.

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red286@reddit

My local classic rock station now just plays the music I listened to in high school. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, etc. They also throw in a bit of glam metal for the senior citizens.

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irate_alien@reddit

Fun fact: Jimi's death (1970) is closer in time to Kurt's (1994) than Kurt's death is to today

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bascule@reddit

I see so many kids in Nirvana shirts

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trashpanda6798@reddit

Walmart selling them for like the last 20 years maybe a contributing factor

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ZEEDarkstream@reddit

Maroon 5 yo.

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spinereader81@reddit

Grunge groups, Green Day, Offspring, Nickelback (unfortunately) and Linkin Park. Those are pretty much the only 90s groups I ever hear on rock stations.

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WalterWriter@reddit

There really isn't one, because of how easy it is to find media from the past now versus what classic rock or oldies or whatever gets played on the radio long-term (or movies that were stocked in Blockbuster, backlist books at the bookstore or library, etc.).

Kids these days might listen to grunge, but they might also like post-punk, early 90s shoegaze (having a big moment on Tiktok, which is why bands like Slowdive are bigger than they were 35 years ago), the heavyweights of classic rock like Led Zeppelin, or whatever.

As an active listener who won't ever stop listening to new or new to me music, the above seems like one of the few benefits to growing up nowadays.

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Mackheath1@reddit

I think those sentiments are lost by pure volume of music - just thinking out loud - my goddaughters listen to everything alt, as well as the 80s, 90s, and I listen to everything as well.

I think when we grew up, there were only a few radio stations so the oldies were limited. Now we can YouTube almost anything (or Spotify or whatever).

Imagine their surprise though, when I put "Sandstorm" on in the car. I explained it was why straight people went to the golden age of gay clubs before they were born.

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t-g-l-h-@reddit

The thing is, since radio went full corporate bootlicker, all the good shit isn't played on the radio anymore. So if you're at all interested in music you gotta dig. For example, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Amyl and the Sniffers, Idles, Metz, Mastodon, Chat Pile, Die Spitz, Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol, these "big" bands that get zero corpo radio airplay.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

Classic rock is mostly the same format from our childhoods, though they've added the alternative era and sometimes all the way up to American Idiot.

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AdRadiant9379@reddit

Power metal from the 00’s era

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Dad3mass@reddit

My teens like 90s grunge. Additionally my youngest girl likes riot grrl music of the era as well. Seeing as we also liked grunge this makes it easy for long car rides.

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After_Match_5165@reddit

My 17 year old co-op student is obsessed with Bon-Jovi. As a 47 year old with grey hair, I said to her "oh that was older brother music for us!".

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J_dub5235112@reddit

I would say 90s grunge, but also all the way up to Imagine Dragons? I dunno…I’m biased because I grew up on Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, The Pixies, (of course Nirvana), etc. and I still mostly listen to grunge.

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ShakeItUpNowSugaree@reddit

My 12 year-old is super into grunge. On vinyl.

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YourOwnPunkyBrewster@reddit

Which is such a weird mixing of different eras! The kids need to listen to grunge on scratched CD via a Discman, like a true 90s teen

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CalmTheAngryVoice@reddit

Idk, all the grunge I listened to as a teen in the 90s (and I do literally mean all) was recorded off the radio onto mix tapes.

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YourOwnPunkyBrewster@reddit

Fair, perhaps I was privileged 😅. But records for sure I saw as my parents stuff (besides Disco Duck and my Little Pony 45s I had as a kid, of course)

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edasto42@reddit

In the early 80’s a lot of that was still contemporary rock. I mean I lived across the street from Styx’s producer and would see them hanging out at his place when they were recording-during my lifetime.

So if you’re comparison is early 80’s still listening to mid 70’s-80’s music today todays, then they would be listening to the stuff that’s popular now and from 10 years ago.

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SoftCrave-_@reddit

It's got to be the early 2000s pop-punk and emo scene think Paramore and My Chemical Romance.

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Geoff-Vader@reddit

Yeah this is huge right now. And it's also being cranked out by a lot of young bands that grew up on it. Some great new music out there right now.

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der_innkeeper@reddit

Boston, Styx, Eagles. Its still classic rock.

90s rock is 90s rock. 2000s rock is 2000s rock.

Kids have far more access to music nowadays, and smashing something into a genre because of a specific period of time has passed is not correct.

Just because radio execs made up a genre in the 80s to capture market share doesn't mean we have to roll with it.

/off soapbox

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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

I'd heard a year or two ago that early 2000s pop punk was really popular. Like an old Yellowcard song had returned to the billboard charts or something.

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Geoff-Vader@reddit

I listen to mostly newer music and one of my favorite movements the past couple years is young bands who clearly grew up influenced by that sound as little kids. I jokingly (but also kinda seriously) credit Phineas and Ferb.

I particularly like girl-fronted groups in this space and call them my 'baby Paramore' bands. A lot of them merge pop-punk and grunge and it's an amazing sound. Seeing one of them next month.

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