Classic rock is a specific fucking genre! Eminem will never count. Slayer will never count. Black Sabbath will never count. Miles Davis will never count. Age has nothing to do with it.

Aerosmith's output circa 2000 is classic rock, but it was classic rock at the time. It was classic rock when it was new.

This is aggravating only because it's the same stupidity as using "new wave" or "modernism" to refer to, just, whatever's recent. It is a complete failure to understand how labels work. Linkin Park can't be classic rock for the same reason it can't be traditional blues, folk music, or classical. These words do not just mean... old.

The only reasons people say this shit are (1) simple mistaken ignorance, (2) stupid trolling, or (3) radio stations insisting the only categories of music are "classic rock," "R&B," and "country." Like ClearChannel trapped them in a timeless expanse by playing "the best of the 80s, 90s... and today." Today being the last twenty years.

I bought hybrid theory when it was new, back in 2001. 23 years ago. Still my favorite CD.

I thought we all agreed Linkin Park was NuMetal?

The youngest Millennials are 28 now, I believe.

classic rock

Listen up, whippersnapper. When I was your age, this was considered the Nu kind of Metal.

There are Zoomers who have children in school, so if the supposedly young generation is slowly turning 30, Millennials are ancient now.

Yep, and it's fine. We'll all get old, let's just take care of each other and fix the planet.

Is Linkin Park hyphenated?

I've been told by the kids that American pie is a country song

linkin park is pop music

I take umbrage at them being called "classic rock." Classic rock is, to me, a specific genre of rock music from the 60s–80s, and it has a particular style and sound.

Throwing Green Day and Linkin Park in with the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac just makes the word "classic" meaningless.

Xaviera Hollander said this.

A man's not old until there are no women his own age he finds attractive.

For me it was green day playing on the classic rock station. There's been many many other signs that I'm getting old but I can definitely remember that one.

lol had this happen to me the other day.

Typically I play classic rock at work like the stones, Beatles, eagles, etc and no one bats an eye and sings along. I played a song off hybrid theory and my tech walked by and went “wow that’s a throw back!” I immediately had a mini midlife crisis. That album is almost 24 years old btw, and I still remember the day I bought it.