When was classic rock

It's a frenzied, lightheaded trip that only slows down for a second in the middle. Maybe it does so to allow listeners a chance to breathe.

We've forced ourselves to pick just one Stones song, and it gave us about 19 nervous breakdowns. But few songs capture the essence of the Stones' at full power quite like "Sympathy. Keith's sloppily perfect guitar solo. Mick starting off with feral yowls and only escalating the sexual deviousness as the song climbs to crescendo.

Don't be fooled by the undemanding funk of that notorious two-tone bass line, this baroque and passionate plea for love from sorcerers Bowie and Mercury still sounds like they might beat you over the head with the mic stand if you don't listen up. We may never know if Pete Towshend wrote the massive all-downbeat riff specifically so he could windmill-strum it, but it worked out perfectly that way.

The godfather of grunge comes out swinging on one of his most intense tracks, with the first Bush administration, American malaise and drug addiction catching jabs, all while Young's fierce, fervid guitar work capitalizes on his titular promise. This epic track from their magnum opus is a distillation of everything Floyd — swirling, psychedelic organs, a doom-laden narrative of druggy madness and multiple heaven-scraping solos from David Gilmour, endlessly searching for some redemption through the haze.

It's a moment of calm amid the constant storm of Floyd's landmark double album. Joe Walsh gives a clinic in guitar hooks on this gritty, crunchy fist pumper, following that signature intro lick by howling "I sleep all day, out all night" with the conviction of a rock star who had just done both. The song rips from front to back. No wonder Walsh looked so bored plucking away with the Eagles. This pinnacle of party songs is a few parts leather either pants or boots , a smattering of coin-operated jukebox and a splash of bar fight, topped with raucous guitar-monies.

Mixes well with people you haven't seen since high school. Ozzy's lyrics are mostly nonsensical — he's a time-traveling revenge robot? The LA rockers are more at home with the psychedelic denizens of Jefferson Starship and Donovan, but when they let loose on the blues, they made a massive crater in the soundscape.

That's no more apparent than on "Roadhouse Blues," a droning, repetitive, swampy wallow through bar debauchery in which Jim Morrison — vocally pushing 50 by the time he was 26 —screamed about roadhouses as Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger filled the empty spaces with so much sonic bravado it felt like getting hit by a truck on a lost highway.

The Canadian rockers entered the riff-rock hall of fame with "American Woman," but "No Sugar" is their magnum opus, a two-parter combining melodic harmonies and staccato vocal explosions, with precision guitar and keyboard work serving as the stadium-ready glue that holds the whole chaotic thing together.

Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Dave White. Log in or Sign up. Steve Hoffman Music Forums. What years were the Classic Rock Era? Location: GA. I figure it spans possibly I arrived at that because although many notable acts debuted in'64 the music started to take a less old time form by What do others feel the time span is?

Mike Campbell and mlew like this. Rosskolnikov , Feb 2, Location: Paradise. JohnnyQuest , Feb 2, Doug Sclar , andrewskyDE , pearljam and 2 others like this. I agree with the cut-off point.

Although I liked some songs by these artists at the time, I felt the classic rock band era was over. The synths at the time sounded so thin and A little goofy compared to the Hammond, Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes pianos. But the 80s produced some great bands likeU2 and REM but were not really representative Of their era.

Szeppelin75 and colgems like this. Location: Lake Tahoe, NV. Whenever I was 15 was the height of the era. Billy Infinity , broccolid , Blastproof and 1 other person like this. A huge part of this work entails placing artists into genres. Radio stations figure this out based on interviews and music tests.

In order to define a genre, first McDonald has to find out the relationships among different artists. To do that, he relies on a mountain of data that The Echo Nest collects from users and elsewhere. These inputs are then interpreted into a relational map among artists showing how similar each is to another — essentially a map of the musical universe.

For example, if each artist was a point in space, McDonald would know how close that point is to every other point. In addition to the web-crawlers and listening histories, The Echo Nest uses sophisticated music-analysis software to figure out the qualities of different songs. McDonald looks at 13 dimensions when evaluating genre: tempo, energy, loudness, danceability, whether a song is more acoustic or electric, dense or spare, atmospheric or bouncy, and so on.

Some genres are defined by one of these dimensions in particular — electronic music with a very finite range of beats per minute, say — and some are painted in broader strokes, like classic rock. Classic rock, McDonald said, has a much wider range of tempo and rarely is powered by a drum machine. As baby boomers and Gen X-ers age out of the key advertising demographic over the next five to 10 years, one of two things will happen.

Either advertisers will chase them, or classic rock will start to skew younger. I located the classic rock station in each of the 30 largest metropolitan statistical areas as determined by the U. Office of Management and Budget. I was able to locate a devoted classic rock station in all of them except Riverside, California, and Orlando, Florida.