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The Rolling Stones suck so much. They got two good songs to be sure, but they're aggressively mid more often than not. Hell, there earlier stuff just reminds me that I could be listening to far better black artists who were their contemporaries.

AC/DC? trash. Aerosmith? disgusting. this one's low-hanging fruit but obviously KISS sucks ass. oh and Guns N' Roses. I can't name a single Mötley Crüe song but I can't imagine they're any good

actually all of them are bad except for Waters-era Pink Floyd

Where's that tweet about being pumped to see KISS with their badass facepaint and them going "I WANNA ROCK AND ROLL ALL NIGHT 😜AND PARTY EVERYDAY"

The Beatles. I actually love a lot of their B sides and early material, but I think I’ve just been over-exposed to their “main” catalogue. Although, truth be told, I could probably say the same for almost any classic rock band, except for maybe CCR. Classic rock bands just get over-hyped as the most amazing band in the world, but when you don’t feel the same, it ends up creating a huge disconnect.

I like a lot of the stuff but the 2 minute chorus lines and the "end the song by way of a minute long fade out" is grating.

That said I see a lot of use of the word "overrated" in this thread. [Band] isn't overrated, you just don't like them. Like I don't like Bruce Springsteens music, but there's a reason why he's called The Boss.

Let's agree: Carry on Wayward Son is the best classic rock song. Like all good classic rock it also falls on the proggy side of things.

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Damn, Gen X is getting blown the fuck out

I have faith in the power of Don't Stop Believin' but I heard it at the wrong time a couple of days ago and I wanted to rip the walls apart. It's just not a breakfast before work type of song.

What do you think the worst classic rock song is?

Jack & Diane

What is the most overrated band or artist?

I’ve never liked Van Halen

The horse with no name song is straight up torture.

Also, I don't get classic rock radio. I know every song and I hate the genre. My entire passenger experience in an automobile has had a classic rock soundtrack. The same 100 songs everyday for like 25 years caused me damage.

I hate that period when the entire music industry got a yacht fixation. Come Sail Away, I'm Sailing Away, I'm Getting Closer To The Shore, I've Been Capsized By An Orca And Totally Deserved It.

Conceptually relsted: Jimmy Buffett. You built a cult out of aspiring to be a useless beach drunk. I guess it's what you do after your fourth OUI and they take your boating licence.

They used to be my favorite band in the world, but nowadays I think that Led Zeppelin is way, way overrated. IV is their best album and probably the only one that nowadays I can still listen to without skipping any songs, even Four Sticks (eh, actually, I'll skip that one I think). When the Levee Breaks is the best song they've ever made.

smoke on the water is horrible shallow kitsch..

Most of it is trash, but I hope we can agree that Rush is pretty good. I listen to 2112 every few months. It slaps.

When a somebody says rock is the best music you just know that, consciously or not, they're putting "white music" above the rest

If i never hear another Fleetwood Mac song again I'd be fine with that

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There may be 250 posts in this thread with 62 upvotes, but at least none of you are unreasonable.

Love the level of discourse in this thread.

"Classic rock" isn't an actual genre of music so much as it is a format for a radio station that mostly plays adult adult alternative pop music from the 60's - 00's and I will stand by this. I miss the old classic rock station we had around here, it got bought out about five years ago and it's really just not the same as it was back then. Now it really is the same 40 songs with no actual dj, back then they would pull out some deep cuts about every hour or so to keep things interesting but now it blows chunks. You can say what you want about them as a news source but NPR affiliates have some awesome music programming.

Back on topic, yeah supertramp sucks so much ass it's not funny, Lynrd Skynyrd's value as a band is entirely contained within the guitar solo in Freebird. Jack and Diane got mentioned already in this thread, and that's a good contender for the worst but Free Fallin' by Tom Petty is so fucking maudlin and the way he draws out his words just aggrivates me.

[Angel in the] Centerfold is a song I hate on a personal level, it's so agressively cishet it makes me wanna puke, the character guy gets all upset that his old crush is a beautiful woman who does nude modeling and he conspires to get her all to himself and its like... thats so creepy? Like can he really not stand the idea that other men might look at/interact with the girl he never made a move on in highschool? It's so wild that this is played on a daily basis given how he describes exactly how hes going to try to seduce her the next chance he gets.

What is the most overrated band or artist?

Every shitty hair metal band that only sings about misogyny and doing drugs lol

Aside from Hotel California, I really dislike The Eagles. Also Led Zeppelin's music is good, but half their hits are basically covers. Also while I really like the music from Red Hot Chilli Peppers, their vocalist and lyrics seriously suck.

I'm listening to some August '24 tiktok popular songs and a lot of these, despite being current, are candidates for being terrible classic rock songs. Or maybe soft rock? Idk, I've never been able to distinguish rock genres apart.