Missing Classic Rock Bands in Today’s Music Scene

What’s Something You Miss From The Old Days?

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11th Nov 2026

So let me caveat this by saying I was born in the early 90s! My old days will NOT match up with yours and that is perfectly ok.

However for me this is the missing classic rock bands in todays music. I obviously know the older bands like Iron Maiden, AC/DC etc are still going. But I feel like their sound has been slightly lost with the passing on time.

In some ways for the better, I love the new styles of rock, but there is something to be said for the time gone by.

I’d love to know your opinion on this and also what you miss too!

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6 responses to “What’s Something You Miss From The Old Days?”

missparker0106

11th Nov 2026

I miss the fearlessness of artists/bands to push the limits of their talents, spinning off and creating their own distinctive genres–glam, punk, metal, new wave, post punk, shoegaze. One thing you would never hear is artificial voice enhancing–that sound is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Very little I hear now excites me like listening to the radio did decades ago. I hate to sound like my parents, but….

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1. Fox Reviews Rock
  
  11th Nov 2026
  
  I agree there is nothing truly groundbreaking at the moment
  
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Greg Dennison

11th Nov 2026

The first thing that comes to mind is MTV in the 80s, when music was less segregated by genre. They played rock, pop, and rap side by side, so I got to know all three kinds of music. I gravitated more toward rock in the 90s as a teen and young adult (I’m 50, a bit older than you, I know), and even MTV in the 80s tended to stay away from country music (and I didn’t listen to country music voluntarily until 2005, my late 20s), but it was nice having a variety of things to listen to.

I wonder, though, if that’s really what was going on. I certainly did have exposure to other kinds of music in the 90s, mostly through a brother 5+ years younger who was really into gangsta rap in his preteens and teens, since that’s what all his clasmates were listening to. I just never really liked gangsta rap. And a few years later, I knew of the existence of the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears and some of the pop stars of that era, and I avoided them like the plague (see DLTDGB #238). So maybe it’s not so much that I enjoyed having music less segregated as it was that I had grown up and my tastes changed…

So maybe what I really miss has nothing to do with any of that… now I don’t know… maybe I just miss the 20th century in general for other reasons.

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RasmaSandra

11th Nov 2026

I still enjoy the oldies and the music of the 50, 60, 70, 80, and some of the music from the 90s but by that time they started to lose me, Still glad to be able to listen to all the great bands from way back when.

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