52 Years since Aeromith’s debut album was released. Thought I’d post this to celebrate.

My biggest endeavor yet!! I’m not entirely 100% complete w/ EVERYTHING yet but I am too excited to not share and in regards to the classic rock community I am for the most part complete, just filling in a song or artist as I realize I missed them or if someone has 50s recommendations as that’s the genre I have the least knowledge of (currently working on artists who had their debut in 2003 and beyond in terms of what’s really “left”)

If you’ve followed along my last major project was for what GREW to become one of my favorite genres, I did the Chronological Evolution of EDM and it was received so well by the community and I enjoyed making it so much through not just reminiscing all of my old favorites and the times in my life where I heard them, but also the discovery of stories behind them and a few songs that somehow were hiding in plain sight from me all of this time ‘til now. Well, it’s time to take it back to the genre that laid the foundation of my and I’m sure many others love for music: CLASSIC ROCK.

This behemoth rolodex of a playlist contains all sub-genres from psychedelic to metal to indie, with proper respect given to the classics and the greats who paved the way for not just the rock genre itself but played a part in the formation the entire music industry has taken for the last 75 years! Chronological order is factored based on the release dates of artists debuts in the playlist and the researched release date if it doesn’t match Spotify’s obviously incorrect one. Artists who went solo are attached to the group they were apart of if the time range is close or the category of work is not to large.

I am using a 1.5-2 second cross fade and did take vibe transitions into account when I couldn’t get clear cut release dates. Like the EDM version, my recommended way of listening is by time period/mood, I’ll go as far as saying for parts of this one the groups themselves should be considered because some groups and artists had such high quality bodies of work over time, they have 3-5 albums where each had 3-4 high quality songs and you get a long stretch of songs by the same artist, but I made sure to only do this for high quality songs or specified LPs.

I can’t wait to finish this over the next few days and hear some cool stories some of you may have from your lives seeing these bands live or when you first heard these songs, or bought the records as a kid. Being born in the 1990s I’ve always had such an appreciation for the legends and history of rock and finally I was able to put the pieces together and once this is all set and done I’ll have what I’d consider the complete history of rock in one chronologically ordered playlist!

Thank you for time reading this post and checking out my work and this playlist! I made sure message mods about this since it does include rock history outside of the “classic rock” period as I wanted to get their approval before posting. If it’s something the community really insists I can perhaps take the time to make a modified version for just the specific time period, but initially my goal for the project has been to have a complete anthology in chronological order of rock history. Enjoy and I can’t wait to hear some of your stories!