How did rock music withstand the test of time?

Question

I mean its music is still populer after thirty or 40 years. Although slightly changed a little the music that me and my friends listen to like AC/DC or Iron Butterfly or Deaf Leoperd I latter find out to my suprise that my parents also enjoyed when they were kids. This amazes me, unlike disco or hip hop that dies out in a decade, rock still seems to be alive. How does that happen?

Answer 1

its the music itself........if its great, it will stand the test of time

Answer 2

In the same way people will always listen to the classics, people will continue to listen to Rock & Roll, and of course the Blues and Country music. It may really surprise you if you traced the history of some of the artists of today. Some have been around a very long time. Van Morrison started with a group called "Them" in the early 1960's and his song "Gloria" is still being played on radios today. Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Eric Claptan and Jeff Beck all played lead guitar for another famous 60's group the Yardbirds. The Rolling Stones started in the early 60's and the list goes on. A great place to study groups and follow the history of individual performers within these groups is Allmusic.com.
http://www.allmusic.com.
I know it doesn't answer your question, but I'm not sure there is one. All I can tell you is that many radio stations only play 60's music and they attract massive audiences. I played in a 60's group and of the 75 songs we played, you would probably be able to hum or sing a few lines from 60.

Answer 3

I think rock music stays alive because it is constantly changing. The definition of rock is constantly expanding to include new "mini-genres."

Look back and see that rock music started with Elvis and then moved onto the Beatles.

Then you move on and go into the time of the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. That was probably when rock music was at it's greatest...in the 70s and early 80s.

Go into the later 80s and you have hair bands and the emergence of underground metal, which included Metallica and also the bands that were just awesome like Guns N Roses.

The 90s brought us grunge, another huge genre within the rock genre.

Now, unfortunately, we're in this emo-rock or rock-pop phase. Hopefully it will die out soon.

Rock music and rock artists are constantly re-inventing themselves. Country, Pop, Rap...they all remain the same, which gets mundane, but there's always a new kind of rock music.

Answer 4

Rock is ever-changing, ever-evolving. It always has new blood coming in, and the older acts have staying power. I think a big part is that Rock and all its sub genres are about not just one age, like other types of music are, but can be brought to bear on situations throughout all of life. There's that bit of rebelliousness that flares up in everyone once in a while, and this is a constant of human nature. Rock music echoes that, and so it will always have fans and always have meaning. You don't grow out of the impulse to fully live like you do a favorite color or boy band.

Answer 5

Great observation, Rock and Roll lives, and its probably as strong and vibrant as ever. To me this says that Rock and Roll has all the right stuff: it is flexible, just about anyone can participate, it can take in the best of other brands of music, and it creates celebrites that people can identify with. That said, I have to say that Rock began with a very narrow definition and has expanded to include all types of variations. Much of today's Rock wouldn't have been accepted in the 1960's.

Answer 6

All of rock musician need to have musicals education and some of these things that they learn, is listening to music and find inspiration of the things of the past, because many of the old bands have many interesting guitar solos and mixes of music. And our parents like because in cases it was the fashion and it was another years with real music not GIANTS production.