Reasons Kids Listen to Classic Rock
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I’m in the green one
I’m the blue!
I’m IN THE PURPLE
Im teh blue!!!!
MEEEEEEe 2. Mah Parents got me into it!!!!!
My dad always listened to it, but it took Guitar Hero to actually begin to like it.
I bought my first rock CD sometime before Guitar Hero and my parents hate music.
RED!
Blue FTW!
Deep Purple?
Hush
Pink Floyd is my fave. My dad showed me them years ago.
Pink Floyd is awesome but the Beatles are my favorite. I’m in the green slice!
I’m blue too! Even now, I sometimes get out my parents’ old CCR records…
Me too. While my parents do like a lot of older bands, they didn’t get my into all of the bands that are my favorites.
Also, I suck at Rock Band and Guitar Hero, unless I’m doing voice or drums. No Guitar/Bass for me.
I’m in the green too! It stemmed from the blue though!
Im green. In fact for like, three years the only bands Ilistened to were Queen and the Beatles.
Right on, man…
Yeah dude my all-time favorite band is Queen
1.Queen
2.Led Zeppelin
3Jimi Hendrix(Experience)
4.The Beatles
5.Van Halen
me too
Green/red for me.
I have a seriously uncool friend who got me into it. Does that count?
yaya i iz in teh green
This graph assumes that Classic Rock is good. FAIL.
This person assumes that people actually give a damn about his thoughts (or lack of). FAIL.
Anyways, I guess I would kind of be inbetween blue and red. My brothers introduced me to rock, as well as my friend, and I kind of liked it, but it was only until a while after that I started to really like it, so I guess green too.
its better than all mankind acomplishments rolled into one or should i say rock and rolled into one all acomplishments except the creation of the United States of America that better than any thing
OMG, me too. Well, green and blue.
My parents introduced me to classic rock. I’m also terrible at Guitar Hero.
guitar hero ruins classic rock.
Can I ditto that multiple times?
I’m awful at Guitar Hero too. And I play real guitar. Just goes to show how “great” Guitar Hero/Rock Band are.
They are great because they are fun, nobody said they were accurate. Although, playing drums in rock band can help you learn how to play drums for real.
i hate how ppl act with those games, they may feature awesome bands but ppl seem to only like the one song that was on guitar hero (Ex. Through fire and flames is dragonforces “Best” and they have alot better.) i own guitar hero 2 and it made me realize how horrible they are at choosing songs for the game, only good ones are super classics everyone has heard. the first was perhaps the best of all of them, it had good music (except that they chose infected from bad religion, my favorite band.”
The point is to have fun, not to teach guitar. There’s only one string, and there are only five frets. It’s more to give you the “feel” of an actual guitar, without keeping track of strings or going too far up and down the neck. I play Twilight Princess, too, but I don’t consider it a guide to swordplay.
Plus I’ve heard “More Than A Feeling” on Very Hard mode (original game) is harder to play than on an actual guitar. I can still barely do “Smoke on the Water” on a real guitar, though, so I have no basis for comparison.
Thank you for that.
Ive played GH3, Rockband 1 and 2, and im very good at them id say (i can play expert on most songs on all instruments cept vocals), but i do not consider it anywhere near, or equal to the skill required to play a real instrument. Drums are the closest to a real instrument, and is a good transition between playing music games and playing an instrument, im going to up drumming because of rockband, and if it wasnt for rockband, id never of found out how fun it is. On the note of finding out music from games, who cares? Music games take a good selection of songs of different styles and times, and for me have shown me a lot of new stuff id never of heard before, which is a good thing to me. Music games are great imo, i can listen to music and play a game at the same time lol, whats not to like?
My parents introduced me…first CD was Born in the USA. I’ve brought enough people into the red as well.
Not to say there isn’t good music outside of Classic Rock, there is, but I think it’s the only genre that I can listen to most every song in it and like it.
But why do people say that Guitar Hero/Rockband are a worse way to get introduced to old school rock music? In the end it’s just the same music.
because a lot of the songs are covers, and I am pretty sure that they even sell the Guitar Hero/Rockband songs on iTunes.
Covers, huh? Look at the latest edition of each game… originals all the way. Not a cover in sight.
And no, I’m not counting the Rock Band DLC covers that came out before RB2.
If their so original then why do they have the edited versions? Wait, I know why, idiot parents thinking their kids will curse more because music has certain words in it when really its themselves who are doing the most cursing.
*they are=they’re
Also, some people actually don’t curse around their kids, and don’t want to hear it from them either.
plural 3rd-person possessive = their
nice try, though.
Double sanctimony fail, greatslack. Use it in a sentence.
If they are (they’re) so original, then why do they have the edited versions?
He was probably looking at the second sentence, which does have the word “their” used properly. That was my original reaction too, before I re-read the first sentence.
Those are the exact same edited versions that were played on the radio. They were not re-sung by a different artist, they were simply the original versions with the offensive words (and ONLY the offensive words) digitally altered. A lot of people are offended by those words and don’t like hearing them. You aren’t, and I am not, but we’re certainly not in the majority.
I don’t like the editing of music any more than you do, but so many good songs happen to contain swearing that edited versions of these songs are pretty muich necessary. Otherwise you have two options: make it an M-rated game and upset a lot of parents, or use only about half as many songs and disappoint the fans. Besides, it’s only paying attention to the pitch of the words you sing, not the words themselves, so I usually just sing the original lyrics anyway.
Actually there are quite a few covers in the Aerosmith Guitar Hero
Hardly any of them are covers any more.
True, but there’s a difference between listening to a song because you enjoy the way it sounds, and listening to a song because a video game told you it was cool.
Take “Mr. Tambourine Man,” for instance. Pretend it’s in the newest incarnation of GH/RB. Now imagine three kids who play the game. Kid A decides he likes most of the songs in the game, but isn’t quite sure about “Mr. Tambourine Man.” Kid B likes “Mr. Tambourine Man,” but there are some other songs in the game that he doesn’t much care for. Kid C starts listening to “Mr. Tambourine Man” non-stop because it was in the game SO IT MUST BE COOL.
Kids A and B are evaluating the song on its own merits and deciding that they either like or dislike the song. Kid C is simply accepting that every song in Rock Band must be cool, because it’s in Rock Band. He doesn’t bother to form his own opinions of the music, he simply parrots what he is told to like and dislike.
That is a good point. However, if kid C is parroting what he hears in RB/GH then he will also only parrot what his friends tell him is “cool.” I love classic rock, but also play the games and think they are an awesome way to be introduced to good music. I think we can both agree that kid C is just an idiot anyways, and no matter how he hears his music, he is only going to listen to what he thinks his friends think is cool, RB/GH won’t change that about him. But I believe that majority of people who REALLY (not just as a party game, etc.) play the game do so because they enjoy the music that they can be a part of, even if it only is an illusion of reality.
P.S. Rock band convinced me to buy a guitar and learn to play it. Which, if you read any of the interviews that the creators of Harmonix has done, they all say that the point of RB/GH is to get people to learn to play real music. The plastic instruments are just a stepping stone to spark the curiosity and desire to learn a REAL instrument.
I’m in the green one =p
REASON # 1: They are trapped in the back seat of the car w/ parents at the wheel.
EXCEPTION: They are age seven or under & think Grandpa’s songs are neat.
I was raised on classic rock ^_^
Me too, and I am listening to Grateful Dead’s “Touch of Grey” right now!
Parents raised me on it,and I looove it!
great, this comment page is going to turn into “classic rockers anonymous” with “new music sucks” as the first order of business.
not unnecessarily. perhaps they are just people that are tired of all those fakes that say, “I’m a rocker! I LOVE rock music!” when they are only trying to fit in and be cool.
Double negative fail.
You know, that took me a moment. I thought, “Double negative? What?”
Then I reread it.
Reading comprehension= fail. hehehe
sorry. im stupid. v.v
Not really. There’s good new rock as well. You can like classic rock without hating the new stuff. I tend to prefer rock stations that play a mix of old and new music to the ones that play only one or the other.
My parents had classic rock on the radio pretty much all day. I grew up with it, used to like it. But now I can’t stand it. 20 years or so of classic rock is enough, thank you.
Yup. I was going to say choice e) they haven’t realized that there’s good new music, too.
I think that I would be in the green part, I can remember putting a Beatles or Beach Boys LP on the record player when I was about 6 yrs old!
I’ve eventually graduated to a 4GB 1st-gen iPod Nano which I have every original Beatles album on.
Same. But when I was 5 and it was CDs… but we listened to a few singles (45s, not CDs) last night and LPs are so cool! But i also have the original Nano with like 99.999999% of it being oldies.
wheres the “kids that listen to everything but hard rock section” im sooo sure i fall into that section…
green zone proud to hate rock band and that other game=\
*facepalm* Don’t be proud of unreasonable hatred, kid.
Yeah, exactly. They’re great games. (Although I’m perplexed by him being familiar with Rock Band but not Guitar Hero. For most people it’s the other way around.)
I’m kind of all four, actually. What set it off, though, was a Legend of Zelda AMV to “More than a Feeling”. And possibly the CSI theme song. Or House miming playing “Baba O’Riley” on his desk.
Number agreement fail! “Reasons kids listen to Classic Rock: they are a genuinely awesome kid.” Is that supposed to mean there’s only one such kid in existence? Does he have a dissociative personality? Or are all of the kids in this group a hivemind of some sort?
Also, where would kids who had played the songs in middle school / high school band fall?
Playing it in a band would most likely be under “their friends are cool and got them into it”, assuming your friends were the ones you were in the band with.
Now for the obligatory classic rockers anonymous: My dad played me Black Sabbath to get me to take naps when I was in the crib. I’ve been hooked ever since.
I think he might mean like school band arrangements of classic rock songs. It’s something that a lot of middle school bands use to make that instrumentation more relevant. It has varying success. I played Johnny B. Goode in middle school band and thought it was great. In retrospect it was just kind of OK, but so is all music composed/arranged for middle school band.
I fall into the purple for the most part, and I don’t think that’s a bad way to be. I’m 22 and I’ve been in bands (not counting middle and high school band) for about 6 years, varying from startup local band, to full time touring band (interestingly enough, those two were the same band, 5 years apart), and pulled influences from all different styles of music, so I’ve always had some classic rock influence, but when GH2 came out I really started to get into it, and heard a lot of songs I hadn’t heard in a long time, and really started to like it.
The downside is, there’s no such thing as new classic rock, so it gets a little repetitive to listen to the classic station all the time, and most of my CD collection is not classic rock.
Black Sabbath as lullabies? Wow, your dad is officially awesome.
Yay! I’m blue =P
but its true. my friend thought she was so cool, cuz she was playing “fergie’s song” aka barracuda on guitar hero. and when i told her, she didnt believe me that it was actually a heart song. so sad v.v
For me, it’s a bit of all four… there’s more than one classic rock band, and people can get into each in different ways.
I’m a child.
I listen to extreme metal and darkwave (or gothic dance music to the ones who don’t know), so this graph means nothing to me, but if the graph was to do with them genres I’d just be the green one ;D
Ahh yes! thanfully I would be considered under the Blue one, and a little bit green. I would be an influencer for red. Mia favorite this chart?!?? YES!
My parents got me into it but they are NOT cool.
Supernatural got me into classic rock!
This is bad thing because…?
I’m in the blue. When my dad was raising me he’d play nothing but classic rock on the radio, and on weekend mornings he’d wake the dead by blasting some really awesome LP’s!
(BTW, LP’s sound MUCH better than any digital recreation I’ve *ever* heard)
*shrugs* You have to have such a highly-trained ear to tell the difference that most people just don’t notice. Besides, as awesome as LPs are, you can’t listen to them in your car, now can you?
What the hell?
Teens who listen to classic rock are awful to be around.
thank you XP
No way, I’m a teen and those of us who do are much more fun to be around than those who listen to emo or rap or w/e the hell kids listen to nowadays
As an academic advisor to teens, I totally agree with this, Elx.
Not necessarily. One of my religion teachers in a Catholic school started a lesson on the book of Jeremiah with the statement: “Jeremiah was a prophet. He was also a bullfrog.” When I giggled, I’m sure he was glad that *someone* got the joke.
HEY!
they are the only good kids to be around
What does it matter how they get turned on to the music? It’s bad enough that people are genre bigots, but now people aren’t good enough if they’re turned onto a genre via a certain venue?
Well, one more piece of pie should be added…and it’s a big one. Todays music sucks.
Agreed.
absolutely.
My parents only listened to classical music when I was growing up. I had to discover all my music myself, and the Guitar Hero/Rock Band games have introduced me to a lot of bands I now love. Classic rock is now one of my favorite genres. I’m not quite a teen anymore, btw, but close enough.
I can’t stand most classic rock, because it’s usually always the same blues/rock song, with all chords, intro/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/solo/chorus, and its kinda annoying. I do like most of the originaly prog rock bands (Rush, Yes, King Crimson) and aside from the Police, I can’t think of much other bands.
I would have to say I got into most of the bands I listen to (in general) out of curiosity. Like “oh, I’ve heard a lot about them, I should check them out”.
A bunch of my kid’s friends listened to a lot of classic rock before guitar hero came out. Why do you think the developers put a lot of those songs in the game? Because the kids already liked them.
Pretty much… but if GH is a gateway to good music and keeps them away from Hannah Montana I’m all for it!
You forgot to add “parents were too cheap and lazy to buy kids new music so kids were forced to love it.”
Kidding. My kids grew up on classic rock and my 12 year-old son and 11-year-old daughter fight for who gets my old concert t-shirts! AC/DC’s Back in Black is a huge bone of contention at this time. It’s a perfect way to get extra chores out of them.
As a side note, my son got in trouble for wearing a Lynrd Skynrd t-shirt with a scantily clad woman (in a bikini, mind you) to school, and it was a phone call that really didn’t bother me at all. Sadly, it became a Saturday shirt.
Bikinis are bad, now? Kids see ladies in swimwear at the beach all the time. I could understand teachers having a problem with the “Fat Bottomed Girls” album cover (girl is either topless/naked, depending on which version we’re talking about), but a woman in a swimsuit isn’t that offensive.
Lol brilliant graph. I am proud to be in the blue. =P
s’true. im in purpleee! pandora4evrr
I was listening to classic before GH, and I’m only twelve. But, I’m awesome at guitar hero. so..
I’ve being raised on metal, classic rock, alternative and grunge. I also have a 3.9 GPA. Coincidence? I think not.
because your music obviously directly effects how you do in school.
Obviously something has affected your ability to distinguish a verb from a noun; perhaps there is some corollary truth to the effect one’s musical taste has on one’s academic performance.
All right, so someone responded with a comment that contained a grammatical error. Does that mean they are that they did not do well in school? No. Their point is still a good one. There are many other factors that contribute to academic success, like commitment to studying, doing homework, and paying attention in in class.
Calling themself “Poop” doesn’t speak well for their intelligence either, nor does it suggest that they’re the type of person who would put much effort into schoolwork. (Technically, “effect” can be a verb, but it’s still wrong, because as a verb it basically means “bring about”.)
Kids who play Guitar Hero listen to the music on it?
I don’t.
Well, I do like some songs on it.
Im blue!!!!
Rock Band? Could have fooled. All they put out any more is pop and country.
ive had to explain to too many people that there WAS music before guitar hero. i hate talking about a song and someone says “hey thats on guitar hero!”
BLUE!! I’m totally Blue…
My dad is a Zeppelin Fan, and my Mum loves Queen and David Bowie…
where’s the section for “they are losers”?
I agree, I am a complete loser, yet I like classic rock
I’m in the blue area. My parents introduced me to it.
It was my favorite genre for years, and still is a favorite genre, but I do listen to a lot of newer stuff, too.
The graph was amusing. Thumbs up!
>_O hehe I remember jamming to the Beatles and Guns n Roses before preschool in the mornings
I’m mostly in the blue and red, small bit in purple, not quite sure about green (lol)
I’m 16 and love most genres of music. Classic rock was my favorite for quite a long time, maybe from the time I was six up until about six months ago. It is still one of my favorites, I love CCR, I love Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, and so many more. But there’s no more classic rock, so it can get a bit stale. I’ve recently got very in to Ska, Reggae, old school punk, and other more specialized genres, while drifting slowly from the very broad genres of classic rock and metal.
i am green!!!!!!!!!!
haha, I am so purple. and American Idol is a little to blame as well. Can that be pink?
I am soooooo green. I feel sorry for kids who like Hannah Montana. They will be deaf by age 12.
yeah, people who get famous through Disney I think are guaranteed to be bad
I was at a multiple church dance (does that make sense?), and I asked for a Grateful Dead song, and he said he wasn’t aloud to play them. But they were also playing Britney Spears songs, including “Oops I did it again”, or whatever it’s called!
I am in the Blue. Grew up listening to it on the radio and though out the house.
Im not a kid anymore
But Id say Im in the green, found all the awesome stuff myself :]
I guess I’m not a kid anymore, going on 20, but I’m proud to be in that green sliver!
I’ve never played Guitar Hero or RockBand, and I don’t believe I ever will, if I can help it.
Oh, come on. They’re fun; only a passing resemblance to real guitar or bass (the drumming is much closer to the real thing… but not -that- close), but more fun than several barrels of monkeys. Don’t be a snob.
You forgot “watches too much Supernatutural“. But actually the first album I bought was Led Zeppelin II when I was 10, so I get to be one of the cool kids. Yay for me.
I am so the blue one x] My parents are way cool when it gets to music =]
:O im an awesome kid
I hope every one of you dies in a grease fire.
Classic rock is homogeneous and derivative of a stiflingly rigid structure of preconceptions about how to create music. Kids who listen to it exclusively do so because they are out of touch. RB is an awesome game, though.
I’m in the green blue and red!
Sad but true. What’s even sadder is that the first few posts are kids talking about where they lie in the graph.
See there are some kids that still listen to the radio, and that’s how I got into classic rock.
Where’s the, “Dragged against will to Beatles Brainwashing Session, formally known as ‘Love, at the Mirage’?”
being able to say “i’m in the purple” is not something proud to of
Its disgusting how true this is
I’m green, purple, and blue! I was listening to classic rock before Rock Band (Pink Floyd has been my favourite band since I was about 12), but the games introduced me to a lot -more- of it. Some more recent stuff too, for that matter. My parents got me into some of it as well, although the ones I liked out of their music pool were kind of scattered, and they mostly preferred 90s alternative and punk rock. However, my love of 80s pop is my own, as is where I’ve branched out to from the aforementioned foundation. (For the record, I’m 17.)
green =)
I should make a new graph with:
1. People who claim to be in the green/blue on this graph (98%)
2. People who are actually in green/blue (2%)
I’ve liked it since I was about 5. I’m 12 now, and I liked because it is actually AWESOME music. I’ve seen the who twice with my dad, and a couple led zeppelin tribute bands. Also seen ACDC. All my friends love it, like me, and my daaad grew up on it, and can play some entire the who albums on the drums, like tommy.
Blue. Not sure that many 9 year old girls (in 1997) learned how to use a turn table just so that they could listen to their mom’s old Zepplin albums. Led Zepplin on vinyl is how God intended it to be heard.
Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Any other rhythm game SUCK! For people who don’t want to put forth real effort and energy into learning something such as dancing or an instrument.
It’s a game. You can apply that to all games, I guess.
Halo, Doom, any other first person shooters SUCK! For people who don’t want to put forth real effort into learning how to kill people!
Mario, Banjo Kazooe, any other platform games SUCK! For people who don’t want to put forth real effort into learning how to JUMP!
See how stupid that sounds?
Blue/Green! WOOT!
LOL my husband is SO in the purple
im getting sick of all these 6, 7 ,12 year olds trying to be cool by saying ” i was raised with it” “i was listening to it before guitar hero” first of all saying that doesnt mean your cool and second classic rock isnt even that good its all the same and i cant stand anymore little kids. and thirdly, guitar hero should have some more originalityand diversity with it’s music because rock/metal isnt the only music made with a guitar
yes it is the only good music in the history of man kind tell me any different and ill kill you of course id never kill anyone im just pissed at your stupidity
the purple suck I discovered metal when I was 9 3 years before guitar hero and rock band and it sucks for me those posers because thats the only music ive listen to since than in fact i typed this in the beet of holy diver so suck it and yes thats my real name
yeah and run on sentences are so awsome to read it makes you look so cool and smart and guitar hero has everything to do with what kind of music you like because classic rock is the only thing that you hear in games like that and yes this is what I said after reading what you posted
Agrees with Kamikaze14, Yeah, my parents didnt want me into this new “Disney Rock”, especially my dad, he LOVES metalica and AC/DC, aerosmith, and queen, the eagles, all the good ones, even judas preist.
So yeah, I’m in the blue, green, AND purple, and I’m trying to get my friends into real music…
ROCK ON
I’m in the green and blue. I’m also in my own section: it’s just SO much better than modern “music”
I’m in green and red =D But i like guitar hero Metallica, and yes i listened to them before i heard about the game =)
im green
yay im a genuinly cool kid!
I’m blue/red
I’ve been listening to Metallica since I was 5, when I heard it on the radio!
I’m blue/ green. Most of “guitar hero” isn’t classic rock though…
im green
WHOO HOO!!
DO MEAT LOAF!!!!
I LOVE THEM!!
i am in the green but i am a newly 30 year old still kicking it though
i think it’s awsome you can enjoy these really songs that will last and last for ever. New music is very good to. I hope my son enjoys classic rock with me something to have in common and enjoy. I hate country never gonna like it. EVER no matter what kind pop sound it makes but my era was smashing pumpkins/ space hoggs/weazer/foofighters/nirvana well try them guys they are really good and if your a talented guitar hero MATELLICA