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What Makes a Classic?

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Kai:
Yeah, but you're a troll stormer. You storm castles and shit. Thus making you cooler than the average troll.

KharBevNor:

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Aww, don't be sad! You are a witty troll. Now lets go pillage some Christian settlements.

Also, whatever happened to that VAR idea? That was mint.

saturnine1979:
#1 Music is relative. There's few albums that a whole lot of people are going to agree on as "classic" and even then, there's going to be plenty of people who completely disagree. And then there'll be the people who disagree just because a bunch of other people agree.

#2 ...And completely irrelevant. I enjoy Radiohead. I agree that they're a bit overpraised (if Thom Yorke shat, it might be considered the pinnacle of sound by certain music journalists) and overhyped, but I still enjoy their music.

If you want my opinion, I say that an album's capacity for classic status is mostly based on quality. I'd say that popularity/number of people who enjoy it factors in as well, but there's plenty of insanely popular stuff (late 90's boy bands/britney spears) that is far from quality and plenty of completely obscure stuff that's of insanely high quality. Therefore, popularity could be a factor...but it's more unreliable than quality, I'd say. So I don't have a problem with calling albums from the past 10 years "classic". I say that's a testament to the artist if their album can be deemed classic in its own time.

blindsuperhero:
This is fucking stupid. Is it really essential that every time Radiohead are mentioned, which, let's face it, isn't really all that often, we need to have someone say 'Oh! Oh! You just said Radiohead! I have an opinion on Radiohead which I make sure everyone knows every single fucking time their name's mentioned!'


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Now, most people who think about these things would tend to agree that there are two Radiohead albums that fit the first condition, and another that fits the second. I think it would be pretty hard to argue that OK Computer or Kid A sounded very much like any other album that had come before them.

SeanBateman:
While you're right about Radiohead not sounding like anyone else, it takes more to be a classic than just not sounding like other people. There are musical choices you could make that no one in their right mind would buy or listen to, even though they've never been done before. Even though it might be completely original, I don't want an album that's all nails on chalkboards. In my mind at least, a classic is more determined by the infulence it has on music that comes afterwards. Radiohead might still fit this definition, ut I wouldn't want to make sure everyone knows my opinion on them.

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