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What Makes Rock Music Timeless?

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It Moves With The Times

It is fairly rare I would say for Rock as a genre to stay stagnant for too long. Different ideas, instruments, techniques all move with the times. That constantly evolving not only keeps it relevant but it also keeps things tied to the past. Metal wouldn’t have happened without folk.

Linkin Park – Up From The Bottom (All Rights Are Retained By Linkin Park)

Different Genres Capture A Time Period

Rock as a whole remains timeless by creating mini genres within itself that are timeboxed. Think Punk in the 70s or Grunge in the 80s. These new mini genres give rock new life and keep it relevant.

Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun (All Rights Are Retained By Soundgarden)

Good Music Lasts

Quite simply rock is a diverse genre that has AMAZING songs. The older bands and songs are still talked about well after they have stopped playing shows. I’d be amazed if there was anyone alive over the age of 20 who didn’t know about say Led Zeppelin, The Beatles etc.

Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song (All Rights Are Retained By Led Zeppelin)

Larger Than Life Characters

Being a genre that attracts life’s more interesting characters, it gives rock that staying ability. People like David Bowie or Freddie Mercury give rock that classic feel. Classics never go out of fashion and more importantly find themselves as key people in pop culture!

Queen & David Bowie – Under Pressure (All Rights Are Retained By Queen & David Bowie)
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20 responses to “What Makes Rock Music Timeless?”

  1. richardbist avatar
    richardbist

    This will seem weird, but I think what makes music timeless is that it hits us in the emotions, makes us feel, and emotions and feelings are timeless. We all experience them, we’ve all had those great days and those bad days, and we all relate.

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    1. Fox Reviews Rock avatar
      Fox Reviews Rock

      I could not agree any more than I do right now 🙂

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  2. missparker0106 avatar
    missparker0106

    It definitely stays timeless and relevant because it constantly evolves. It never remained stuck in one style/genre. Rock is a living, breathing entity that will live on forever.

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    1. Fox Reviews Rock avatar
      Fox Reviews Rock

      It really is like an organism isnt it

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  3. rebuilding rob avatar
    rebuilding rob

    I agree that timelessness is at the very heart of rock music. After all, a lot of rock is about rebellion.

    But I worry that the genre has been on something of hiatus for some time now.

    Look at your post, for instance: the LINKIN PARK song is from last year. Under pressure is 46 years old. Black hole Sun is 30, 32 years old. immigrant song is 54 years old. These are all great songs, but what has the genre were really given us lately?

    I’ve always heard that we get better music here in the United States whenever a republican is in office. I thought that we would see some really great stuff in the last few years, instead of reaching back 20 years to use “American idiot“ as a song about political unrest.

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    1. Fox Reviews Rock avatar
      Fox Reviews Rock

      I see that my rock roundup post is not something you’re familliar with then 🙂 I post 7 new songs every week across all of the rock spectrum worth listening to 🙂

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      1. rebuilding rob avatar
        rebuilding rob

        I’ve seen it before, but I’m gonna definitely have to go through and check out the songs, because you actually provide links to them every week right?

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        1. Fox Reviews Rock avatar
          Fox Reviews Rock

          Spotify links 🙂 there is a Spotify playlist which contains them all too. But even if uou don’t have Spotify you can Google search the songs and itl be playable somewhere

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    2. steveforthedeaf avatar
      steveforthedeaf

      There’s loads of new fantastic rock music around right now. What you’re referring to is a records vintage. Songs gather power over years as they weave into life beside us. When I bought the CD single of Blackhole Sun in the 90’s for a quid during a lunch break I didn’t know it would gather the power it has up to this day. I knew it was a great song, but these days it’s a talisman.

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      1. Fox Reviews Rock avatar
        Fox Reviews Rock

        I love this post! 🙂

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        1. steveforthedeaf avatar
          steveforthedeaf

          Hi! Check out my site. Lots of rock stuff

          SteveForTheDeaf.Wordpress.com

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          1. Fox Reviews Rock avatar
            Fox Reviews Rock

            I absolutely will! 🙂

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      2. rebuilding rob avatar
        rebuilding rob

        It’s funny because even back then, I knew we were living in a great moment in the history of rock. But I had no idea that I would still be listening the same music 30+ years later. It has a lot more staying power than any of us anticipated.

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        1. Fox Reviews Rock avatar
          Fox Reviews Rock

          I wish I had been around at the time!

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          1. rebuilding rob avatar
            rebuilding rob

            I was 20 in 1994 when Kurt un-alived himself. Even then, I felt like that was the beginning of the end for that particular moment in music.

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            1. Fox Reviews Rock avatar
              Fox Reviews Rock

              I was 1 years old at that time, but looking back there has been a few similar moments

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  4. Roger avatar
    Roger

    I was watching an old ep of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. (It started with a reenactment of the Hamilton-Burr duel). The music was Under Pressure, which made me a bit weepy because I recognized that both Freddie and David were dead too early. FWIW.

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    1. Fox Reviews Rock avatar
      Fox Reviews Rock

      Much much too early!

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  5. kwholley63 avatar
    kwholley63

    that is what makes it special. The manufacturing of bands the boy bands K-pop etc will fade and b forgotten but you put on some classic rock and everyone knows it.

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    1. Fox Reviews Rock avatar
      Fox Reviews Rock

      EXACTLY!

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