When music fans think about the genre of classic rock, often the big and bombastic comes to mind. Giant stacks of speakers exploding. Guitars and drum kits smashed on stage. Instruments ablaze. Hotel ...

These classic rock albums were pretty stark divergences from their makers' previous works... and they still hit so good today ...

Classic rock didn't end with the '80s. As you'll see in the list of songs below, the '90s offered plenty of reason for rock music fans to tune into something other than the same records they had been ...