Heartland Rock

[uwe]

You said you were just bored with Mellencamp, ie not bored (yet) with Bryan Adams! But I gather now that the Canadian is so beneath you he is not even worth mentioning ...

I did like his Soul Asylum'ish Back to you ...



and if truth be told both his voice and his songs bear similarities to what Don Henley does solo.

[Dave W]

Never listened to any of Don Henley solo. But he's a boyhood pal and longtime friend of Richard Bowden so he can't be all bad.

[uwe]

Even you have heard that one!!!

http://de.musicplayon.com/play?v=809540

It's become a classic:

[Dave W]

Even you have heard that one!!!

http://de.musicplayon.com/play?v=809540

...

Yes, I have, unfortunately. Unless you never leave home, sometimes you just can't avoid listening to a classic rock station. There must be a federal law requiring that song to be played every couple of hours, along with Supertramp and the Allman Bros. selections.

[nofi]

i can't stand classic rock!

[gweimer]

i can't stand classic rock!

Which was once new rock.  Wait until all your favorites from your younger days show up on the oldies stations.  Even Metallica is now an old guy band.

[uwe]

i can't stand classic rock!

Sit down, Nofi, and be quiet. 

[Dave W]

i can't stand classic rock!

Which was once new rock.  Wait until all your favorites from your younger days show up on the oldies stations.  Even Metallica is now an old guy band.

nofi and I can tell you that the songs from our younger days already showed up a few decades ago. 

The local classic rock station I had to listen to at work 25 years ago still plays at least 80% of the same songs it did back then. It's supposedly owned by a media conglomerate but judging from how often they play "Cold as Ice" I think Foreigner must be a major stockholder.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

The local classic rock station I had to listen to at work 25 years ago still plays at least 80% of the same songs it did back then. It's supposedly owned by a media conglomerate but judging from how often they play "Cold as Ice" I think Foreigner must be a major stockholder.

Likewise for the "local" classic rock station here. They've been playing the same songs since they were new. The station actually used to be part of the TV station where I worked but was spun off in the 80's. Several of the engineers I worked with there were former radio dj's/engineers. Evidently for them, time stopped after 1986 until their management's programming consultant forced them to include 90's grunge and metal, making them "harder" rock than the 'hard rock station,' which plays borderline pop-40 autotune crap now.

[Pilgrim]

"Classic" is a moving target.  To me it starts in the 50's and ends somewhere in the 80's.

Now I suppose 50's is "prehistoric rock".

[Dave W]

"Classic" is a moving target.  To me it starts in the 50's and ends somewhere in the 80's.

Now I suppose 50's is "prehistoric rock".

You rarely if ever hear anything from the 50s on the classic rock station here.

[Pilgrim]

You rarely if ever hear anything from the 50s on the classic rock station here.

Not surprised.  The programmers there probably think Carl Perkins must be the guy who started the chain restaurant.

[westen44]

"Classic" is a moving target.  To me it starts in the 50's and ends somewhere in the 80's.

Now I suppose 50's is "prehistoric rock".

This prehistoric rock has human footprints in it 900,000 years old. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10624275/Prehistoric-human-footprints-in-Norfolk-identified-using-3D-imaging.html

[gweimer]