good classic rock songs

[Leto Atrides]

You'd think the title "Prince of Pop" would be a giveaway.

Even barring the pop versus rock distinction, "Classic Rock" is an actual definition, it's late 60s and 70s hard, psychadelic, and progressive rock. It's Deep Purple, Jimi Hendrix, Allman Brothers, Heart, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Zep, Alice Cooper, CCR, the Doors, ELP, Cream, Yes, Rolling Stones. Maybe GnR or something if want to push it. Even people who are "classics" and important like Elvis or Chuck Berry or even a lot of the Beatles stuff (don't get me wrong, some of they're heavier stuff is) aren't really "Classic Rock" in the sense that that's not what the phrase refers to.

It's hard, often drugged out 70s music.

 

[danoyse]

Other good stuff would be early Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street band stuff....The Wild, the Innocent and the E-Street Shuffle, Born to Run, Greetings from Asbury Park and Darkness on the Edge of the Town are fantastic. Born to Run is downright epic.

 

[Motown Marvel]

Chuck Berry = Elvis. Without either of them or Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Bill Haley, Roy Orbison or Carl Perkins, we wouldn't have rock and roll. It's silly to compare.

chuck berry had hits before elvis. chuck berry is essentially single handedly responsible for rock and roll, and his influence on the genre is far more widespread than elvis' (not to diminish elvis' success). elvis is responsible for making rock more acceptable to the white community, which prior to him it wasnt. Sun records saw the success of guys like chick berry, ray charles, and little richard. they knew if they had a white dude putting out this R&B music, they'd have a huge success. so along came elvis. rock and roll was suddenly acceptable in white communities as well, which really caused the genre to take off. but chuck berry is the one responsible for the genre.

 

[vertsk8er419]

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