What's your personal definition of classic rock?

Your definition can be as long or short as you want it to be.

I've found that recently the classic rock station that i listen to has been playing a lot of modern stuff (Blind Melons, Collective Soul) so it seems like we all have different definitions of classic rock. What's yours?

Bryttni&Sean鈾G: 1995! Wow! That's really recent.

Rock music from the early 1960's to the late 1980's, not including rock 'n' roll artists that started from the 1950's and went into the 1960's. However, I don't think it includes all of the genres of rock music during that time. It's mainly hard rock (The Who), heavy metal (Black Sabbath), blues-rock (Cream), psychedelic rock (The Doors), progressive rock (Pink Floyd), and pop rock (The Beatles). Other genres are rare unless they're associated with very popular bands. I'm not too sure why I've never heard a punk rock song before in a classic rock station though.... I thought punk rock was a pretty important genre.

The Doors, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, etc.

Generally the idea of classic means it is 25 years old. I used to work at a radio statin and that was the requirement. So anything before 1982 right now should be considered classic rock.

I would say music from 20-30 years old

classic rock is.. pink floyd, since they are the greatest band of all time, they are the definition of classic rock.

Classic rock.
I guess I would say maybe rock music that was made BEFORE 1995?
Something like that.
ACCD. Led Zepplin. Poison. GNR. The goods =).

It never dies.

Mine consists of music from the fifties on. Music chamges with the times.

I think that classic rock would be anything that
focuses more on instrumentals than vocals,
although not in all cases, of course.
It uses electric guitars a lot,
and maximizes bass and drums.
It should be at least....20 years old, I'd say.

1960's and early 1970's.

Rock n' roll has been around a long time....so long, that it can be divided into periods, just like highbrow music.
Doo Op/A genre that gets short shrift on radio
Early Rock/Elvis, Chuck Berry, etc.
Pre-Beatles/Stuff like Roy Orbison, early Beach Boys, Surf, Twist, early Motown, etc., before the Beatles were around.
Merseybeat/The British Meseryside sound that dominated the mid-1960s, before the Beatles soaked up a lot of Bob Dylan and became really creative and artistic
Classic Rock/Anything from say 1968 to 1974 or so, when rock was an art form and bands tried their best to make really good music; "you could be a musician, if you could make it sound sort of mellow," as BTO said.

bands like AC/DC, The Doors, Led, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, The Allman Brothers Band (I look at them as classics lmao)......etc...and it never dies either!!

60's to 89'. Although I consider Nirvana and RHCP as well as others classics too.

Classic rock speaks to your soul and emotions. It is rock which has stood the test of time & hasn't been overly corrupted by record labels. Simple lyrics which say a lot.
Contains vocals, guitar riffs and drum solos which seem not humanly possible. Songs which you can hear over & over and never tire of.

music that defines what rock is today, hence "classic" rock. many classic rock bands are very influencial to other bands, because they sort of layed down the rules for rock music (not that there are any rules, but you get the idea) also many classic rock bands are very skilled as far as instruments go, not everyone, but most classic rock musicians are really talented.

EDIT: supercell: how dare you!!! that's horrible!

I'm going to say that Classic Rock (which itself is a term I hate. I just call it "rock and roll") begins with Heartbreak Hotel and ends with Smells Like Teen Spirit, although I don't consider the latter in the vein of Classic Rock. I'll also occasionally lump in other genre's like hair metal, metal, some punk, and some blues.

Somebody told me that anything 20+ years is considered a classic. However, that would make Nirvana and Guns N' Roses classic rock and I don't consider them such. To me, any sub-genre of rock coming out of the 60s and 70s can be categorized as classic rock. Now, this is a broad genre...covering everybody from Bob Dylan to Pink Floyd to Elton John.

Though, come to think of it I don't really label anything classic rock. On my iTunes I have Bob Dylan as folk-rock, Pink Floyd as progressive/psychedelic rock and Elton John as rock...

63-89

Excluding ALL hair metal; That doesn't count.

any rock from '89 and before

Anything my dad recognizes! He grew up in the seventies and went to a lot of concerts... Bad Company, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen... I'm so jealous!

There is no such thing,its all music that is reproduced over and over.The Stones,Clapton etc,stole their style from the likes of Robert Johnson,John Lee Hooker etc,and todays music is from the era I grew up in.It might be grungier,techno,or anything else,but it still comes back to its roots.

Released between 1967 & 1990
Not easy listening or country

vintage songs ranging from the 60's to 1989.

Well, for me, Classic Rock means any Rock band or artist who originated in the 1960's and 1970's.
I usually include Prog Rock and Glam Rock from those years as 'Classic'.

If a band started in 1980 or the 80's, then it's 80's Rock.

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My definition of classic rock is music that the baby boomer generation wont let go! They're stuck in the 60's and 70's and hate anything recorded after 1979. I HATE those people!