/r/ClassicRock

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Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Waiting

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2025/01/06
19:16 UTC

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Best albums about being divorced in the 1980s?

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2025/01/06
18:59 UTC

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Humble Pie with For Your Love, 1970

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2025/01/06
18:23 UTC

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Fanny - Special Care (1971) | LIVE

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2025/01/06
18:02 UTC

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Thin Lizzy - Hollywood - Live in Germany 1981

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2025/01/06
15:53 UTC

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Cowgirl in the sand/ Neil Young

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2025/01/06
15:42 UTC

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On this day in 1923

Sam Phillips was born in Florence, AL. He was a DJ, record producer, and pioneer of rock n roll. He founded Sun Records. The music coming out of his studio in the 1950s paved the way for the greats to rock our faces off.

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2025/01/06
05:14 UTC

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Rossington Collins Band - Sometimes You Can Put it Out.

RCB was formed by survivors of the Lynyrd Skynrd accident. They feature female lead vocalist Dale Krantz, who was a backup singer for .38 Special. This song is always a pick me up anytime it shows up on my playlists.

Sometimes You Can Put it Out

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2025/01/06
01:48 UTC

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A massive crowd for Elton John at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, CA. October 26, 1975.

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2025/01/05
22:10 UTC

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99% of the time

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2025/01/05
22:08 UTC

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Tommy James and the Shondells with Mony Mony, 1968

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2025/01/05
21:08 UTC

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Tour Jackets

Anyone out there have one? Here's mine.

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2025/01/05
20:04 UTC

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I’ve been keeping a list of all the “10/10” (in my opinion) albums I’ve listened to while trying to explore more classic rock. What are some more 10/10 albums y’all recommend?

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Disclaimer: 10/10 doesn’t necessarily have to mean perfect in my opinion. But on a scale of 1-10, I just couldn’t give them any lower than 10.

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2025/01/05
18:02 UTC

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Aerosmith - Somebody (1973)

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

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2025/01/05
14:51 UTC

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Bring a little lovin' - Los Bravos [HD] | FlixOlé

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2025/01/05
05:44 UTC

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Harmonica Jams

Jamming in the Cave tonight Ozark Mountain Daredevils..If You Want To Get To Heaven!.. who's next with Harmony Jams?

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2025/01/05
04:01 UTC

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Live Bullet

Sugars Best..In my opinion anyway..I know lots of Covers on the Album but His Voice and The Band were on Fire!..

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2025/01/05
02:22 UTC

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The Best & Greatest Rock N Roll, Metal, Indie, and Psychedelic Rock Songs of All Time: The Chronological Evolution of Rock! Over 2200+ songs and 160 hours of the greatest songs in rock history up to now, chronologically organized by me!

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!

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2025/01/04
22:35 UTC

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Tygers of Pan Tang - Hellbound

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2025/01/04
22:01 UTC

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Rick Derringer and Edgar Winter with Rock & Roll Hootchie Koo, 1973

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2025/01/04
20:30 UTC

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Also in Montreux Switzerland , statue of Carlos Santana in front of the Jazz Cafe in the legends garden.

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2025/01/04
18:01 UTC

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Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side

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2025/01/04
16:51 UTC

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Special place. Montreux Switzerland

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2025/01/04
15:16 UTC

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Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic

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2025/01/04
14:51 UTC

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What's your favorite "late bloomer" band?

Mine is Mott the Hoople. Their first four albums were OK but pretty generic hard rock without much personality. Then seemingly out of nowhere they strung together three great ones (All the Young Dudes, Mott, The Hoople) that bore Ian Hunter's unmistakable voice and writing style.

What other great bands took a long time to hit their stride?

112 Comments
2025/01/04
14:43 UTC

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