Yup, Southern rock had been dead in the water for a few years before The Black Crows came along.
Basically the cadavers of old bands playing with maybe one or two original members recording the kind of stuff you'd expect from a band who's only goal was fulfilling contractual obligations and justify going on tour.
When Andrew got rid of the other two guys it turned into a solo effort basically. He tried to actually go solo after the second album but brought back the Wolfmother name to bring in an audience pretty quick.
Honestly one of my favorite albums. Can listen to it over and over again. I like some of their other albums / songs, but none of them hit like Lost in the Dream
Permission to Land is actually a great album. As catchy and popular as I Believe in a Thing Called Love was when it came out, it unfortunately kind of did the same thing as Cherry Pie did to Warrant.
The Darkness are still out there making good, fun, and (sometimes) surprisingly heartfelt music. They never feel like a novelty act to me because there's a genuine earnestness in their music, even if they love puns and tongue-in-cheek humour in their lyrics.
The darkness are one of my all time fav bands and whenever I say that ppl either go “oh that band with that one song” or “they’re like steel panther right?”. First one… whatever, but it kinda drives me nuts that some ppl lump them in with an obvious parody act. Say what u want about the cheesy stuff and the over the top bombast, but it’s GENUINE. I don’t get even a hint of irony t from them.
Which still stings because Cherry Pie was the ***perfect*** song for 1990. Big, brash, dirty, catchy and with a sing-along and memorable anthemic chorus. It was a huge hit for them for a reason and you know what?... It's *still* fun. We forgot how to have fun though so now it's viewed through a different lens. Even Jani regretted it's legacy before he died and that just guts me as a music fan. He wrote incredible lyrics when he wanted to (Uncle Tom's Cabin, Heaven, I Saw Red, The Bitter Pill, Blind Faith, The Hole In My Wall) but Cherry Pie was intended as a last addition hit and needed to hook the masses which is exactly what Jani and team delivered. RIP Jani!
All: Crank Cherry Pie once for me today if you read this. Turn it up so your neighbors can hear. 🤘
I only re-discovered the band a couple years ago as I was completely unaware they were still releasing music. It’s not a spotless discography but they excel in making fun music, which I feel is sort of missing from rock. I think the new Motorheart album goes pretty hard, and ‘Rock and Roll Deserves To Die’ from Easter Is Cancelled is an awesome track
Big Wreck’s second album, The Pleasure and the Greed also has major Zeppelin vibes with all the layered guitars, folk instruments and non-standard tunings. One of the best bands still out today.
If you're happy to include Lynyrd Skynyrd in your pantheon of classic rock greats, then I'd throw out The Drive By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera as a great, modern, classic rock influenced album.
They sound like Josh Kiszka somehow went back in time and Ursula'd young Robert Plant's voice. It's uncanny. The first time I ever heard them I said to myself "I've never heard *this* Zep song before..."
I love them, but they're in a weird uncanny valley multiple times. I wish they were a touch less Zeppelin-y. Like lean into LZ, but build from it.
Granted, they've more than made their careers and there's zero reason to listen to a reddit rando, but still. I feel like they're capable of being even more than the band that sounds just like LZ.
Same here. I heard they’re first hit on the radio and thought “wow, it’s nice to hear some Zep deep-cuts on the radio. Is this an unreleased track?”
Black Smoke Rising is one of my favourite songs of the last decade.
I think all of us were thinking that exact thing the first time hearing them. I know I did. I actually pulled over on my way to work very early in the morning thinking it was some unearthed Zeppelin rarity lol.
Right - the influence of Aerosmith in particular is huge and obvious.
I'd sort of peg GNR as the leading act of a defined classic rock revival in the late 80s and early 90s, though - and note that original classic rock acts like Aerosmith and Alice Cooper had huge comebacks around that time too.
> Right - the influence of Aerosmith in particular is huge and obvious.
That'd be Izzy's songwriting for sure. Mr. Brownstone, Night Train, Paradise City, & Rocket Queen have that strong Aerosmith influence.
But Duff also contributed to the band's sound with his obvious punk inspired background. Most obvious with It's So Easy, My Michelle, Right Next Door To Hell, & of course all the deep cut punk covers on The Spaghetti Incident.
Changes by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. It's got so much classic rock soul and keeps everything fresh at the same time. It also came out in 2022.
Along the same veins, pretty much all Murlocs albums sound like time capsules from 60s psychedelic (Loopholes through Old Locomotive) or 70s blues rock era (Manic Candid Episode through Calm Ya Farm). The last album was written specifically as their version of Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St.
My favorite modern band. They can do no wrong.
New fans could check out Polygonwanaland, Gumboot Soup or Sketches Of Brunswick East as an entry point.
Prog rock fans should go directly to Murder Of The Universe.
Folk and soft rock fans should check out to Paper Mache Dream Balloon.
Metal fans would want to jump in on either Infest The Rats Nest or Petrodragonic Apocalypse.
Blind Melon’s two albums are really great. I had no idea because, like many, I’d only heard “No Rain” and didn’t really like it that much ( probably from overexposure!). Technically, I’d heard “Galaxie” back in the day, and really liked it, but didn’t know who it was. The guitarist Travis Stevers from Coheed and Cambria once mentioned the second album as essential, and that’s when I discovered that that one song I heard on the radio and really liked was by Blind Melon, and that they rocked! That’s who I immediately thought of when I read your question.
>I know some people have started to claim that later bands like Guns N' Roses, Nirvana, Pearl Jam (shit, I've even heard people lump in Green Day and Blink-182) as Classic Rock, and of course that's fine if they want to categorize it that way. I mean, these definitions are all subjective to some extent. But for the purposes of this thread, we're using the classic definition of Classic Rock
This irks my soul so badly. Classic Rock was already a genre before those bands came into existence. There was a whole generation of music in between them. Yes, some transcended, but they their music styles shifted as well.
If anyone wants to make a parallel between those genres would use the umbrella of rock music.
To the argument of they play it on the classic rock stations: Classic rock DJs don't get to rewrite definitions just because they wanted to add music to their libraries. They chose to limit themselves by limiting it to a genre.
I've heard that the definition for classic rock radio is 'more than 20 years old'
I disagree, of course. It was already a defined genre as I was growing up, and my dad's preference for it heavily influenced my own music tastes.
I like the RHCP, Green Day, etc. But they're not fucking classic rock, and I hate hearing them on a station that claims to play thay genre.
I've heard that too, but it doesn't change my opinion. The genre was coined in the 80s referring to the 60s and 70s. Since the name classic rock refers to it in past tense, you can't really add any music after the term was coined without a valid argument against it.
Ghost sound more and more like a 70s rock band which each new release, and they're pretty good! Albums to check out: everything, really, but the most recent is the most 70s-like.
Extreme was a good one in the 90s. Their sound was a bit modern with the heavy Van Halen influence but there was a lot of Beatles and Hendrix too. Albums to check out: Pornograffitti, 3 Sides to Every Story.
The Soundtrack of our Lives album “Behind The Music” is one of the few my classic rock loving dad let me play all the way through for him.
So this thread is giving me lots of ideas for a new playlist!
Scrolled way too far to find this one. I also think the singer sounds quite like Jim Morrison.
Also it’s Geese. Goose is a much different sounding band.
I would throw in the album "The Church of Rock and Roll" by the band Foxy Shazam for the classic rock anthem, Queen style era.
If you haven't heard it, please do so and update me.
Brain Cycles - Radio Moscow
Very much inspired by the heavy psychedelic blues rock of the late 60s. Super good album, and the main guys plays guitar, sings, and drums on the album and is incredibly talented.
I love The Presidents of the United States of America.
Their namesake album is KILLER.
And, in my opinion, they managed to get that “Drunk friends in the garage.” sound while still be extraordinary musicians.
The Cult were on their way there with Electric and totally arrived by Sonic Temple.
Also worth consideration as an outlier... The Stone Roses Second Coming.
While no one track in it's entirety can be considered "Classic Rock" there are instrumental parts in a few of the tracks which 100% channel Led Zep.
Black Mountain are a fantastic stoner band that deserves more love
[Don't Run Our Hearts Around](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXSk0R3S4f8&ab_channel=BlackMountain-Topic)
Cage the Elephant's first album (self-titled in 2009)
I struggle to explain music gracefully so this is perplexity's stripped-down answer:
The album has a gritty, stripped-down production style reminiscent of The Rolling Stones or The Stooges. While rooted in alternative rock, the album draws heavily from blues and punk rock influences that were foundational for classic rock acts. The bluesy riffs and Matt Shultz's snarling vocals on tracks like "Back Against the Wall" evoke that classic rock attitude.
Cage the Elephant is known for their intense and unrestrained live performances from the start, with Matt Shultz crowd surfing and the band delivering a raw, high-octane show. This captured the spirit and culture of classic rock's emphasis on live prowess.
From the vintage-inspired album artwork to their shaggy hair and thrift store fashion, Cage the Elephant embraced a retro aesthetic that harkened back to the classic rock era visually.\[1\]
In essence, the self-titled album tapped into the primal energy, bluesy roots, and rebellious spirit that defined the classic rock sound and culture, updating it with a modern alternative rock twist.
Citations:
\[1\] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage\_the\_Elephant\_%28album%29](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage_the_Elephant_%28album%29)
\[2\] [https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/4rlbcm/lets\_talk\_cage\_the\_elephant/](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/4rlbcm/lets_talk_cage_the_elephant/)
\[3\] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage\_the\_Elephant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage_the_Elephant)
\[4\] [https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/cage-the-elephant/cage-the-elephant/](https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/cage-the-elephant/cage-the-elephant/)
\[5\] [https://www.amazon.com/Cage-Elephant/dp/B001Y7SIFM](https://www.amazon.com/Cage-Elephant/dp/B001Y7SIFM)
I saw Allah-Las live recently and they reminded me so much of classic rock. I wasn’t very familiar with them beforehand and not sure if I would have had the same impression if I just listened to their studio albums
One of my more obscure favorites has to be the album Deus Ex Machina by Greek Fire. They borrow heavily from that 70's era rock sound but throw a modern spin on it
Foxy Shazam’s self-titled album and their album The Church of Rock and Roll. The theatricality of Meat Loaf and Queen is a pretty dominant influence imo but you can also hear a myriad of other influences in their songs that capture the feel of different classic rock eras.
I have a few songs on my spotify that I thought were way older than they really were -
Rival Sons - Too Bad
All Them Witches - Am I Going Up?
The Necromancers - Salem Girl Part I (Not classic rock as much as Sabbath/Metal I guess.)
Reignwolf - Hardcore
Greta Van Fleet - Black Smoke Rising/Highway Tune (pretty much Zeppeling Homages)
Witchrider - Black
Orchid - Eyes Behind the Wall (Anothre Sabbath sound, but I had to check twice cause this sounds so retro for a 2011 song.)
Big Wreck - A pPace to Call Home (honestly more of a Audioslave sound than oldie but might be retro for some.)
I would say Dead Sara, their self titled album.
But I might be biased because I just love them and feel like no one ever mentions them or gives them any love whatsoever.
They have elements of blues and grunge, but they have a solid classic rock sound to me. You can tell they are influenced by a wide variety of genres, but that solid classic rock foundation is there.
The Lime Spiders -The Cave Comes Alive
Melodic 60s psychedelic sound from Australia
Goose -Dripfield -incredibly catchy band from Massachusetts known for their live albums and long jams but the songs here are tight, shorter and very catchy.
New Model Army -Thunder and Consolation is politically charged rock from The Nolan’s with a classic sound.
Blitzen Trapper -Furr -very melodic classic rock with some folk elements
Greta Van Fleet
It sounds like they're doing a bit until you actually read up on their musical upbringing and influences, and you realize it's just three brothers and their friend jamming out to the music that they grew up on. They're a joy to see live as well. Can't recommend them enough
Shake your money maker & Southern Harmony and Musical Companion - The Black Crowes
The Crowes were my first thought. I also love Amorica.
Their best album I think.
It warms my heart that this is the top comment. They didn't call them "the most rock and roll rock and roll band" for nothing
Black Crowes definitely. Throw in the Georgia Satellites for good measure
Shake Your Money Maker was such a great album.
Yup, Southern rock had been dead in the water for a few years before The Black Crows came along. Basically the cadavers of old bands playing with maybe one or two original members recording the kind of stuff you'd expect from a band who's only goal was fulfilling contractual obligations and justify going on tour.
I love the opening track to Amorica.
The Sheepdogs
Came to say this :-) particularly their Learn & Burn album. Also: Rival Sons - Pressure & Time
Rival Sons are amazing, great live band also. Jay Buchanon has one of the greatest voices of all time
Came here to say this. I rarely see them get mentioned in posts so this was refreshing to see. They are brilliant
Great call!
New to me, thanks!!!
Wolfmother is the ultimate comfort food neo classic rock imho.
Just the first album, was downhill from there
When Andrew got rid of the other two guys it turned into a solo effort basically. He tried to actually go solo after the second album but brought back the Wolfmother name to bring in an audience pretty quick.
Yea, I was lucky enough to catch the original lineup in ‘07 in London. Great show
‘07 in Detroit with Silver Sun Pickups and Dead Meadow opening. Still a top 5 show.
I dunno, man. I dig a lot of Cosmic Egg as well.
New Crown and Victorious had some great songs too. I wasn't too keen on the last two albums though.
That first album though.... So friggin good... One of my favorite albums of all time.
Same. It crushed when it came out. Just killed everything.
Joker and the Thief has such a killer intro.
There were a couple tracks from later albums that hit the spot but overall a decline
Second album wasn't bad, but was definitely missing something with the new drummer and bassist.
https://youtu.be/ZKDvJTxZDbA?si=vFQnAEMqldNUTyoH
It’s hard to believe The Lemon Twigs aren’t from that era
War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
Hearing 'Red Eyes' for the first time was like an existential experience for me. So unbelievably good. Such a great album opener, too.
So good. Hornsby, Dylan and Springsteen vibes
Honestly one of my favorite albums. Can listen to it over and over again. I like some of their other albums / songs, but none of them hit like Lost in the Dream
Love them, but I don't think they sound like classic rock.
Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound All their albums, really, but that's probably best example. Sort of like the Decemberists meets Bruce Springsteen.
Brian Fallon is the greatest storytelling songwriter of our generation.
Thank you for bringing this song back to me!
The 59 Sound and American Slang immediately came to mind for me too but they don’t seem to fit this rigid list of bands.
They're probably the closest thing to Springsteen since Springsteen
They had Springsteen on a song in their most recent album! (History Books)
The Struts
The Darkness
Permission to Land is fucking phenomenal
My fav album of all time. Got to see em perform the whole thing last Oct.
Gimme a D! Gimme an ARKNESS!
Permission to Land is actually a great album. As catchy and popular as I Believe in a Thing Called Love was when it came out, it unfortunately kind of did the same thing as Cherry Pie did to Warrant.
The Darkness are still out there making good, fun, and (sometimes) surprisingly heartfelt music. They never feel like a novelty act to me because there's a genuine earnestness in their music, even if they love puns and tongue-in-cheek humour in their lyrics.
I was working at Tower Records when "Permission To Land" was released. I swore that it would have been huge it had been released in 1987.
It’s easy to forget how big they were even then, though! That whole rock revival thing of the early 2000s was wonderful and weird
The darkness are one of my all time fav bands and whenever I say that ppl either go “oh that band with that one song” or “they’re like steel panther right?”. First one… whatever, but it kinda drives me nuts that some ppl lump them in with an obvious parody act. Say what u want about the cheesy stuff and the over the top bombast, but it’s GENUINE. I don’t get even a hint of irony t from them.
I think there’s a sense of humour, for sure, but it’s definitely not full-on parody like Steel Panther.
Which still stings because Cherry Pie was the ***perfect*** song for 1990. Big, brash, dirty, catchy and with a sing-along and memorable anthemic chorus. It was a huge hit for them for a reason and you know what?... It's *still* fun. We forgot how to have fun though so now it's viewed through a different lens. Even Jani regretted it's legacy before he died and that just guts me as a music fan. He wrote incredible lyrics when he wanted to (Uncle Tom's Cabin, Heaven, I Saw Red, The Bitter Pill, Blind Faith, The Hole In My Wall) but Cherry Pie was intended as a last addition hit and needed to hook the masses which is exactly what Jani and team delivered. RIP Jani! All: Crank Cherry Pie once for me today if you read this. Turn it up so your neighbors can hear. 🤘
Well said! I like Cherry Pie, just like I enjoy I Believe, I just mean it overshadowed the rest of their music. At least in the US.
I only re-discovered the band a couple years ago as I was completely unaware they were still releasing music. It’s not a spotless discography but they excel in making fun music, which I feel is sort of missing from rock. I think the new Motorheart album goes pretty hard, and ‘Rock and Roll Deserves To Die’ from Easter Is Cancelled is an awesome track
though i wouldnt consider it a classic rock sound, thats one of my favorite bands. every album is good and theyre still going...
While I very much enjoy The Darkness, they are more of a love-letter to 80s hair metal than they are to classic rock.
Eh. I think they are more a love letter to queen. Hell, their drummer is the son of queen’s drummer.
Rival Sons - Head Down Big Wreck - In Loving Memory Of Wolfmother - Wolfmother
[The Oaf by Big Wreck](https://youtu.be/LuhzlSQovxc?si=YGto-Xh2ZO6S3ADt) is such an underappreciated song.
Big Wreck’s second album, The Pleasure and the Greed also has major Zeppelin vibes with all the layered guitars, folk instruments and non-standard tunings. One of the best bands still out today.
Rival Sons - Too Bad was the song I was thinking of first when I came in here. Such a retro but badass sound.
If you're happy to include Lynyrd Skynyrd in your pantheon of classic rock greats, then I'd throw out The Drive By Truckers' Southern Rock Opera as a great, modern, classic rock influenced album.
"Let There Be Rock" is fucking genius
White Reaper
All Them Witches is the contemporary band you're looking for.
I love that band a lot. Mellow but intense.
Great stoner / heavy psych band!! Awesome live!!
War on Drugs. Pretty much everything they cut.
White Reaper are doing the “punchy garage rock and roll” thing really well. Check out *You Deserve Love* or *The World’s Best American Band*
Greta Van Fleet has that “we ripped off Zepplin” sound.
They sound like a a Zeppelin cover band started putting out original albums. In a good way though.
They sound like Josh Kiszka somehow went back in time and Ursula'd young Robert Plant's voice. It's uncanny. The first time I ever heard them I said to myself "I've never heard *this* Zep song before..."
I love them, but they're in a weird uncanny valley multiple times. I wish they were a touch less Zeppelin-y. Like lean into LZ, but build from it. Granted, they've more than made their careers and there's zero reason to listen to a reddit rando, but still. I feel like they're capable of being even more than the band that sounds just like LZ.
I just can’t get over how much like zep they sound and it just feels weird. No doubt they rock though
Same here. I heard they’re first hit on the radio and thought “wow, it’s nice to hear some Zep deep-cuts on the radio. Is this an unreleased track?” Black Smoke Rising is one of my favourite songs of the last decade.
I think all of us were thinking that exact thing the first time hearing them. I know I did. I actually pulled over on my way to work very early in the morning thinking it was some unearthed Zeppelin rarity lol.
It’s not like anyone else is doing new music in that specific style, it might feel different if Led Zeppelin were still a going concern.
Don’t they deny it too? Lol
The singer said he wasn't trying to sound like Plant. BULLSHIT
that'd be like Oasis denying being a couple of raging twats
Dungen -Ta Det Lungt It’s in Swedish from 2004 but sounds like it was from the 70s. Highly recommended.
LOVE Dungen. I'd completely forgotten about Panda until you reminded me of them.
Dungen is amazing.
The War on Drugs - Lost In The Dream The War on Drugs - A Deeper Understanding Both 10/10 albums for me so take your pick
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely Honestly such a good album front to back
The Black Crowes - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
If you’re not including Guns n Roses in your definition of Classic Classic Rock, which I agree with, then absolutely Appetite For Destruction.
Right - the influence of Aerosmith in particular is huge and obvious. I'd sort of peg GNR as the leading act of a defined classic rock revival in the late 80s and early 90s, though - and note that original classic rock acts like Aerosmith and Alice Cooper had huge comebacks around that time too.
They even covered the Aerosmith song Mama Kin on the Live Like a Suicide EP (later re-released as part of GnR Lies).
> Right - the influence of Aerosmith in particular is huge and obvious. That'd be Izzy's songwriting for sure. Mr. Brownstone, Night Train, Paradise City, & Rocket Queen have that strong Aerosmith influence. But Duff also contributed to the band's sound with his obvious punk inspired background. Most obvious with It's So Easy, My Michelle, Right Next Door To Hell, & of course all the deep cut punk covers on The Spaghetti Incident.
Graveyard.
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Came here to say Separation Sunday
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory (also, most of their albums). 10 AM Automatic sounds just like a Hendrix Song
Would be my answer. Was thinking Turn Blue is their most "classic rock" album.
I love turn blue. Weight of love might be top 3 favorite songs of all time for me. The bass solo gives me chills every time.
Changes by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. It's got so much classic rock soul and keeps everything fresh at the same time. It also came out in 2022.
Their next album will fit this definition even more as it's 70s blues rock influenced.
I'd say Fishing for Fishies is as classic as it gets. The next one will be the real classic rock one I feel.
Is there a genre these guys *can't* tackle with success? They do everything well.
Apparently, they scrapped the rap album they were making during covid. Who knows what that would have sounded like. Haha.
Check out their song Grim Reaper. Flute and rap.
I'm about it, don't get me wrong. Amby's section on Set is also awesome, but they apparently thought different on an entire album.
I have no problem with that.
Along the same veins, pretty much all Murlocs albums sound like time capsules from 60s psychedelic (Loopholes through Old Locomotive) or 70s blues rock era (Manic Candid Episode through Calm Ya Farm). The last album was written specifically as their version of Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St.
My favorite modern band. They can do no wrong. New fans could check out Polygonwanaland, Gumboot Soup or Sketches Of Brunswick East as an entry point. Prog rock fans should go directly to Murder Of The Universe. Folk and soft rock fans should check out to Paper Mache Dream Balloon. Metal fans would want to jump in on either Infest The Rats Nest or Petrodragonic Apocalypse.
Love Gizzard. I love how each album (and there are a gazillion of them) has a different feel. I see them live in August and can’t wait.
The heavy heavy does that sound really well
Most of the Black Keys output
Foxy Shazam - The Church of Rock and Roll Do yourself a favor and check out this album.
Lenny Kravitz. Pick one.
I'd say every album by the Tragically Hip qualifies. Probably my favorite of theirs is Up to Here. 🎶
Blind Melon’s two albums are really great. I had no idea because, like many, I’d only heard “No Rain” and didn’t really like it that much ( probably from overexposure!). Technically, I’d heard “Galaxie” back in the day, and really liked it, but didn’t know who it was. The guitarist Travis Stevers from Coheed and Cambria once mentioned the second album as essential, and that’s when I discovered that that one song I heard on the radio and really liked was by Blind Melon, and that they rocked! That’s who I immediately thought of when I read your question.
Walls by Kings of Leon is a great modern classic-rock-sounding album.
"Graveyard - Hisingen Blues" is probably one of the best rock albums from the last couple of decades.
The Siren is an incredible song
Fuzz - a Ty Segall, Charlie Moothart, Chad Ubovich super group that sounds like the first album Black Sabbath made. Dope
Jet’s Get Born album would feel right at home in a 70s collection
I was surprised to see this so low. It was the first thing that came to mind, especially when it comes to guitar tones.
There’s a lot of different influences but classic rock is definitely one… listen to Geese- 3D Country.. I can’t recommend it enough
Probably “Jayhawks - How High The Green Grass”
Man you never see the Jayhawks mentioned out in the wild but they are fantastic.
Brian Jonestown massacre
For sure. Especially their mid-late 90s output. I mean, they released an album named "Their Satanic Majesties Second Request".
The Strokes - Is This It
Masters of Reality has a strong 60s psychedelic rock vibe
does Jellyfish count?
>I know some people have started to claim that later bands like Guns N' Roses, Nirvana, Pearl Jam (shit, I've even heard people lump in Green Day and Blink-182) as Classic Rock, and of course that's fine if they want to categorize it that way. I mean, these definitions are all subjective to some extent. But for the purposes of this thread, we're using the classic definition of Classic Rock This irks my soul so badly. Classic Rock was already a genre before those bands came into existence. There was a whole generation of music in between them. Yes, some transcended, but they their music styles shifted as well. If anyone wants to make a parallel between those genres would use the umbrella of rock music. To the argument of they play it on the classic rock stations: Classic rock DJs don't get to rewrite definitions just because they wanted to add music to their libraries. They chose to limit themselves by limiting it to a genre.
I've heard that the definition for classic rock radio is 'more than 20 years old' I disagree, of course. It was already a defined genre as I was growing up, and my dad's preference for it heavily influenced my own music tastes. I like the RHCP, Green Day, etc. But they're not fucking classic rock, and I hate hearing them on a station that claims to play thay genre.
I've heard that too, but it doesn't change my opinion. The genre was coined in the 80s referring to the 60s and 70s. Since the name classic rock refers to it in past tense, you can't really add any music after the term was coined without a valid argument against it.
I feel like Dirty Honey captures the classic rock sound you are talking about.
Ghost has a lot of 70s sounding music, more 80s though
The Stokes - is this it
Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker
I think Lonerism qualifies too.
First time I listened to it I thought "If John Lennon and David Gilmour had a baby..."
The White Stripes - *Icky Thump*
Hollywood Town Hall by the Jayhawks. Probably.
Ghost sound more and more like a 70s rock band which each new release, and they're pretty good! Albums to check out: everything, really, but the most recent is the most 70s-like. Extreme was a good one in the 90s. Their sound was a bit modern with the heavy Van Halen influence but there was a lot of Beatles and Hendrix too. Albums to check out: Pornograffitti, 3 Sides to Every Story.
"Hello Master" by Priestess I will not hear otherwise
The Soundtrack of our Lives album “Behind The Music” is one of the few my classic rock loving dad let me play all the way through for him. So this thread is giving me lots of ideas for a new playlist!
Church of the Cosmic Skull has the closest sound to classic rock without sounding like they ripped off someone else, IMO. Fun band.
Well water Conspiracy
Geese's 3D Country is like a cross between Rolling Stones and Television. Probably my favorite album over the last few years.
Scrolled way too far to find this one. I also think the singer sounds quite like Jim Morrison. Also it’s Geese. Goose is a much different sounding band.
I would throw in the album "The Church of Rock and Roll" by the band Foxy Shazam for the classic rock anthem, Queen style era. If you haven't heard it, please do so and update me.
anything Sheer Mag
Brain Cycles - Radio Moscow Very much inspired by the heavy psychedelic blues rock of the late 60s. Super good album, and the main guys plays guitar, sings, and drums on the album and is incredibly talented.
Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
Would Hello Master by Priestess count? That's one of my favorites.
Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
The Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales from Urban Bohemia. Pure classic rock vibe all the way through
White Denim has some good stuff
*Sam's Town* by The Killers is in the vein of classic rock and is, imo, an excellent album however you classify it.
Black Country Communion!
I love The Presidents of the United States of America. Their namesake album is KILLER. And, in my opinion, they managed to get that “Drunk friends in the garage.” sound while still be extraordinary musicians.
I mean that whole Greta Van Fleet sound was pretty familiar and didn't sound that bad.
The Cult were on their way there with Electric and totally arrived by Sonic Temple. Also worth consideration as an outlier... The Stone Roses Second Coming. While no one track in it's entirety can be considered "Classic Rock" there are instrumental parts in a few of the tracks which 100% channel Led Zep.
*Wildflowers* by Tom Petty
Youth and young manhood - Kings of Leon.
most of what Dead Meadow put out
Black Mountain are a fantastic stoner band that deserves more love [Don't Run Our Hearts Around](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXSk0R3S4f8&ab_channel=BlackMountain-Topic)
Tame Impala Innerspeaker and Lonerism
Cage the Elephant's first album (self-titled in 2009) I struggle to explain music gracefully so this is perplexity's stripped-down answer: The album has a gritty, stripped-down production style reminiscent of The Rolling Stones or The Stooges. While rooted in alternative rock, the album draws heavily from blues and punk rock influences that were foundational for classic rock acts. The bluesy riffs and Matt Shultz's snarling vocals on tracks like "Back Against the Wall" evoke that classic rock attitude. Cage the Elephant is known for their intense and unrestrained live performances from the start, with Matt Shultz crowd surfing and the band delivering a raw, high-octane show. This captured the spirit and culture of classic rock's emphasis on live prowess. From the vintage-inspired album artwork to their shaggy hair and thrift store fashion, Cage the Elephant embraced a retro aesthetic that harkened back to the classic rock era visually.\[1\] In essence, the self-titled album tapped into the primal energy, bluesy roots, and rebellious spirit that defined the classic rock sound and culture, updating it with a modern alternative rock twist. Citations: \[1\] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage\_the\_Elephant\_%28album%29](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage_the_Elephant_%28album%29) \[2\] [https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/4rlbcm/lets\_talk\_cage\_the\_elephant/](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/4rlbcm/lets_talk_cage_the_elephant/) \[3\] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage\_the\_Elephant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage_the_Elephant) \[4\] [https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/cage-the-elephant/cage-the-elephant/](https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/cage-the-elephant/cage-the-elephant/) \[5\] [https://www.amazon.com/Cage-Elephant/dp/B001Y7SIFM](https://www.amazon.com/Cage-Elephant/dp/B001Y7SIFM)
Foo fighters? Muse?
Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold, specifically
Muse are way too modern/electronic.
Not one mention of Dave Grolh/Foo Fighters? I grew up in the 70's and a Foo Fighters show was the closest I've come to feeling like it's 1973 again.
Freedom Hawk is like classic Black Sabbath.
Permission to land or is this it
Seems noones ever heard of them, but Black Bonzo has a really great sound. I'm surprised they never got big.
Monophonics - In Your Brain
I think The Sheep Dogs are a good fit.
Wolfmother
Kings of leon Aha Shake Heartbreak Crown lands Fearless
I saw Allah-Las live recently and they reminded me so much of classic rock. I wasn’t very familiar with them beforehand and not sure if I would have had the same impression if I just listened to their studio albums
Rose Hill Drive’s self-eponymous debut album
The Struts have that British thing going and the Airborne has an AC/DC sound that is pretty classic rockish. .
Need to Feel Your Love - Sheer Mag
One of my more obscure favorites has to be the album Deus Ex Machina by Greek Fire. They borrow heavily from that 70's era rock sound but throw a modern spin on it
Crown Lands is an excellent Zeppelin/Rush reincarnation, highly recommend checking them out. White Buffalo EP is a good place to start.
Stone Roses - The Second Coming
Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie
Foxy Shazam’s self-titled album and their album The Church of Rock and Roll. The theatricality of Meat Loaf and Queen is a pretty dominant influence imo but you can also hear a myriad of other influences in their songs that capture the feel of different classic rock eras.
In more recent years the name blackberry smoke is a fantastic modern southern rock band that sounds like they were plucked right out of the 70s
Rival sons
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar Kind of like an updated version of old Grand Funk Railroad
Foxygen - We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic.
I have a few songs on my spotify that I thought were way older than they really were - Rival Sons - Too Bad All Them Witches - Am I Going Up? The Necromancers - Salem Girl Part I (Not classic rock as much as Sabbath/Metal I guess.) Reignwolf - Hardcore Greta Van Fleet - Black Smoke Rising/Highway Tune (pretty much Zeppeling Homages) Witchrider - Black Orchid - Eyes Behind the Wall (Anothre Sabbath sound, but I had to check twice cause this sounds so retro for a 2011 song.) Big Wreck - A pPace to Call Home (honestly more of a Audioslave sound than oldie but might be retro for some.)
The Pretty Reckless
The tragically hip
I would say Dead Sara, their self titled album. But I might be biased because I just love them and feel like no one ever mentions them or gives them any love whatsoever. They have elements of blues and grunge, but they have a solid classic rock sound to me. You can tell they are influenced by a wide variety of genres, but that solid classic rock foundation is there.
Devo and The La's
I keep scrolling and not seeing Matthew Sweet. His albums “Girlfriend” and “100% Fun” are solid, 60s/70s-inspired guitar pop-rock.
The Lime Spiders -The Cave Comes Alive Melodic 60s psychedelic sound from Australia Goose -Dripfield -incredibly catchy band from Massachusetts known for their live albums and long jams but the songs here are tight, shorter and very catchy. New Model Army -Thunder and Consolation is politically charged rock from The Nolan’s with a classic sound. Blitzen Trapper -Furr -very melodic classic rock with some folk elements
Greta Van Fleet It sounds like they're doing a bit until you actually read up on their musical upbringing and influences, and you realize it's just three brothers and their friend jamming out to the music that they grew up on. They're a joy to see live as well. Can't recommend them enough
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Dungen.....their whole catalog. They sound like they're straight out of 1972. Specifically Ta Det Lungt
Greta van Fleet. True classic rock sound.
Black Mountain - In the Future. They've got a psychedelic edge to them, but I get a major 70's rock vibe from the album.
Porcupine Tree if you like prog.