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“I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.”
Ever wonder what your taste in Classic Rock means? John K. Peck is here to help; a sample:
The Doors: You have been bitten by an animal while trying to get it stoned.
Ted Nugent: Your hair has at some point been caught in a ceiling fan, boat propeller, or lathe.
Led Zeppelin: The first three things you smoked were banana peels, catnip, and poppies, in that order.
The Grateful Dead: Your stories about the ‘70s make your daughter’s roommates at Tufts very uncomfortable.
AC/DC: You only remove your socks to shower, and then only reluctantly.
Kiss: You have partied on a boat in a driveway.
The Byrds: There is a thin layer of sand on the bottom shelf of your fridge.
The Band: You have misspelled your name while carving it into a picnic table.
Slade: You have smoked speed through a TV antenna.
Joe Jackson: You are an excellent speller.
Van Morrison: You have had to use bolt cutters to remove a mood ring.
Don McLean: You have used a lint roller on a dropped piece of toast.
James Gang: You have eaten two consecutive meals in a hot tub.
Vanilla Fudge: You have slept in a bathtub for two or more consecutive nights.
Much, much more: “What Your Favorite Classic Rock Band Says About You,” (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3), from @johnkpeck in @mcsweeneys.
* Angus Young (AC/DC)
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As we stroll down memory lane, we might recall that on this date in 1989 the number on song in the U.S. was soap opera star and vocalist Michael Damian‘s cover of David Essex‘s “Rock On.”
“In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock”*…
Led Zeppelin is classic rock. So are Mötley Crüe and Ozzy Osbourne. But what about U2 or Nirvana? As a child of the 1990s, I never doubted that any of these bands were classic rock, even though it may be shocking for many to hear. And then I heard Green Day’s “American Idiot” on a classic rock station a few weeks ago, and I was shocked.
It was my first time hearing a band I grew up with referred to as “classic rock.” Almost anyone who listens to music over a long enough period of time probably experiences this moment — my colleagues related some of their own, like hearing R.E.M. or Guns N’ Roses on a classic rock station — but it made me wonder, what precisely is classic rock?…
Follow FiveThirtyEight’s deep– and diverting– dive into the data at “Why Classic Rock Isn’t What It Used To Be.”
* Chuck D
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As we roll around in our roots, we might spare a thought for another variety of classic: it was on this date in 1930 that Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington recorded his first big hit, “Mood Indigo.” Ellington was fond of saying, “Well, I wrote that in 15 minutes while I was waiting for my mother to finish cooking dinner.” With lyrics added by Mitchell Parish in 1931 (but credited to Ellington’s manager Irving Mills), “Mood Indigo” became a vocal as well as an instrumental standard, recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and Nina Simone among many, many others.
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