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11-23-2002, 03:04 PM
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| | | When is something a "classic?"
I've been wondering about this since I overheard some folks in their mid-20s talking about music hits that were seven years old. All agreed they were classics. Now, I'm used to thinking of a classic as something that has stood up to the back-alley knife of time and emerged with no scars, usually several decades down the road. What do you think?
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11-23-2002, 03:17 PM
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| | Hmm.. something thats still good after 25% or more of your life  
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11-23-2002, 04:48 PM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Zelgadis
Hmm.. something thats still good after 25% or more of your life | That would, in fable's life, include the invention of fire?
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11-23-2002, 04:51 PM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Bloodmist
That would, in fable's life, include the invention of fire? | That depends when he invented fire
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11-23-2002, 05:13 PM
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| | A song is a classic when you can still occasionally hear it AND it is from the seventies.
Seventies rule! 
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11-23-2002, 08:31 PM
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| |  In a broader sense...
...I think that classics are stuff still very much appreciated for what they are despite the years... so much so that members of the generation who were not born/did not grow up when these classics were already hits also appreciate them with high regard. 
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11-23-2002, 09:01 PM
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| | In American Archaeology, things are considered Historical once they are 50 years old. I think the same applies to Antiques (like the Roadshow). But I think the term Classic has more to do with nostalgia and the relative forgetfulness of the hive-mind of a given population. Music of the 70’s is by no means ‘classic’ among my peer group, but these dern kids these days don’t know what real ‘classic’ music is! |
11-23-2002, 11:59 PM
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11-24-2002, 03:51 AM
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| | Fable, you're a classic. |
11-24-2002, 04:45 AM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Zelgadis
Hmm.. something thats still good after 25% or more of your life | Actually, this sounds about right if you ask me.
Different age groups have different classics.
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11-24-2002, 08:30 AM
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| | I actually have a similar question: How modern the "Modern" is/should be?  Do you think people in the later 21st Century will regard 17th Century as "Modern"?
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11-24-2002, 08:37 AM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by Gruntboy
Fable, you're a classic. | Er, well...yes, and thank you for the double-edged compliment, there. I return it, knowing that we're probably the only two people here who could and would discuss the battle of Thermopylae, and enjoy it. 
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11-24-2002, 10:04 AM
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LOL
How ironic - a classic battle from "classical" times. |
11-24-2002, 10:29 AM
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| | Quote: Originally posted by fable
Er, well...yes, and thank you for the double-edged compliment, there. I return it, knowing that we're probably the only two people here who could and would discuss the battle of Theropylae, and enjoy it. | Yeah... I didn't much enjoy that one... Damn Trojan through a rock at me, gave me a spilting headache... |
11-25-2002, 12:51 AM
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| | Classic is something which
1- is "evergreen"
2- has style!
So Iron Maiden are classic!!
Damn, even their last album is a classic!!
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