I’ll have to check him out. You might give a listen to Randy Richter if you haven’t already. He is a German. His band Randy Rich and the Poor Boys did some great rockabilly.
“Rock and roll has been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died.”
Is Rock Dead?
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“Rock and roll has been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died.”
Not from me. Most overrated band ever.
No. A terrible opinion to be sure, but no.
Not even close. The beatles hold that title 😁
I always cringed when the Iowa band played “Hey Jude” at the end of the third quarter.
But their version is much better due to the lack of hideous cackling.
And this is the type of music a lot of rock fans gravitate towards...sounds a lot like Red Dirt and Outlaw Country.
In the sense of the thread, the answer is that it is on life support...but that is ok. We all know the staples of our time but most of those bands had deaths or only play for money grabs. There are still some good rock bands that come out but it is few and far between as the ear of that generation has morphed. You see a lot more acts now that will incorporate synth, beats, pre-recorded loops instead of guitars. It will never be dead but it is now a niche instead of the norm.
I had never heard this but will be adding to my list. Notice the style. Bluesy, southern rock, red dirt country. Just what I was saying in my previous post.
All true, but that doesn't mean things won't change and rock makes a comeback and takes over. One thing that is constant is that the next generation rejects what the generation before them had and will revert back to and build off of stuff from an even prior generation. There will come a day when DJing, autotuning, hip hop crap is played out and the new artists will revert back to experimenting with a guitar and put out their spin on the blues. There have been several in this thread already.
I've also noticed some of the stuff my 19 year old listens to. He wears a Motley Crue t-shirt and bumps out Notorious BIG. Many kids his age are into 80's metal and gangster rap from that era.
Rock isn't dead. It's just changed. People above the age of 40 need to expand their listening habits and get out of the 80's and 90's stuff they have been listening to for the last 20 years. You will never learn to like new music if you don't listen to it. Not to say that old music isn't good, it is, that's why it's still around. But if rock sounded the same now as it did then, well it would be boring.
That said, rock music is far more heavily influenced by hip hop these days and contains far more electronic instruments than the past. It shouldn't be surprising, movies had predicted this trend for 40 years.
Note: I can't vouche for death metal or anything in that genre as I have never listened to it.
That said, rock music is far more heavily influenced by hip hop these days and contains far more electronic instruments than the past. It shouldn't be surprising, movies had predicted this trend for 40 years.
Note: I can't vouche for death metal or anything in that genre as I have never listened to it.
While I would argue that a lot of the new stuff isn't garbage (it's just different), I would agree that it isn't "Number 1" these days. What's interesting is kids aren't listening to one group anymore (with the possible exception of those k-Pop boy bands...I've never understood the appeal of boy bands). When I ask students what they are listening rarely do I ever get the same answer twice. The YouTubing of listening to music has really changed how it is consumed and how people are making money off it. People are making a ton of money just by filming themselves playing covers of other bands and putting it on YouTube. This could be bad because it is taking away from the creation of new music, but then I have seen some of these artists start to create their own songs once they have a following, with the hope that audience translates into music downloads.
As far as mainstream air play, sadly yes.
But as long as great bands like Alter Bridge are out there, LONG LIVE ROCK (-n-Roll)!
But as long as great bands like Alter Bridge are out there, LONG LIVE ROCK (-n-Roll)!
My kids (no pics)-
29 yo daughter - Show tunes, jazz, pop
25 yo son - Mostly nu metal
21 yo son - Christian music
21 yo daughter - 60s/70s stuff like The Beatles, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Yes, Rush along with punk/alt rock
It used to be we consumed our music by listening to what was available on the radio. Songs on the radio were selected by the record companies. They controlled the music and what we could listen to. That was the bad part. The good part was we all had a shared common experience.
Today there are no controls and we can listen to whatever we want from anywhere in the world. The bad part is that our selections are all over the place and we lack that common shared experience.
Today there are no controls and we can listen to whatever we want from anywhere in the world. The bad part is that our selections are all over the place and we lack that common shared experience.
I listen to all kinds of music. Beethoven through present day. I just like *good* stuff. And rock just isn't producing much of it anymore. I've found many more good present day pop/dance/hip-hop tracks than I have rock.
From what I can tell, the quantity and quality of rock has really declined.
Once and a while I'll find a new track I dig, but I haven't bumped into any artists of significance. Now maybe there is some awesome underground stuff -- remember the Pixies never had mainstream success in the US -- that I'm missing... so toss it at me if you've got it.
Electronic contribution to rock doesn't have to kill it. Radiohead proved that. But they were really talented and creative. Radiohead created something new and memorable. I think they were the last "great" rock band.
We just don't have the caliber of musician participating in rock we used to. Partially, I'm sure, because not as many are trying their hand at it to begin with.
The problem with a band like Greta Van Susteren, is while they have talent, they're not very creative, they're retreads. Led Zepplin cover bands don't do it for me. (granted, maybe they've evolved, I haven't listened to them for a while)
We just don't have the caliber of musician participating in rock we used to. Partially, I'm sure, because not as many are trying their hand at it to begin with.
The problem with a band like Greta Van Susteren, is while they have talent, they're not very creative, they're retreads. Led Zepplin cover bands don't do it for me. (granted, maybe they've evolved, I haven't listened to them for a while)
I was a freshman in high school when The Beatles hit the states and a senior in college when Hendrix and Joplin died. I had great music as a teenager.
Today I still listen to music from that era or classical music. Back before retirement I loved doing manual cell counts listening to opera, boy did it drive one of my coworker (who was a pain in the ass) crazy.
Today I still listen to music from that era or classical music. Back before retirement I loved doing manual cell counts listening to opera, boy did it drive one of my coworker (who was a pain in the ass) crazy.
I think the issue is modern rock music has largely moved out of what you would classify as rock music. A lot of modern rock is heavily influenced by hip-hop, electronic, and even dance music in many cases. Some may not include that as "rock", however, I've always thought rock music evolved over time. Rock music in the 70's and 80's didn't sound anything like rock music in the 50's and 60's. You can find influences, for sure, but it was very different. The same can be said for modern rock music, except it is far more influenced by music from the 90's and 2000's. Just more so the hip hop parts of it and less so the grunge part of it.
But that's fine, you don't have to think modern music is rock music to like it. When artists stop making money off music, that's when we need to start worrying.
Music is a cycle. I don't think rock will ever die, but it will certainly go through phases/styles of popularity. Right now it's much easier to make music on your own, sitting alone with a computer than to get out with other musicians and do it the old way... And it's really easy to get the music out there so you don't need to play shows. And with the record industry where it is, they're not looking to break bands left and right anymore like they used to.
Music is constantly evolving. It's a low point for rock. But it will come back at some point.
Music is constantly evolving. It's a low point for rock. But it will come back at some point.
I don't think it'll ever be truly dead, but it's quite clear that Rock 108 seldom plays anything newer than 10 years old. But there were the Beatles in the 60's, then Nirvana in the 90's, and now maybe we're due. But I wont hold my breath.
I think it's very much alive, especially in it's influence on other genres like country but I also think it's evolving to get away from that classic 4 man lead/guitar/bass/drums sound. To be honest a lot of the bands from the "glory days" of rock sound pretty similar. Today it's all about finding a unique sound and not being easily lumped into 1 genre
The answer is yes, no, and you're old.
The fact is that music is always changing. So no, there will never be bands that make music like you used to listen to when you were a kid. So that music is dying. On the other hand kids are still making new music that you hate, which means that rock still lives. You're just the old man that hates it now. Live with it. You think you're cool, but so did you parents when you were listening to the Who or The Stones, or Korn. You get older, but new music stays new.
You're supposed to hate it.
The fact is that music is always changing. So no, there will never be bands that make music like you used to listen to when you were a kid. So that music is dying. On the other hand kids are still making new music that you hate, which means that rock still lives. You're just the old man that hates it now. Live with it. You think you're cool, but so did you parents when you were listening to the Who or The Stones, or Korn. You get older, but new music stays new.
You're supposed to hate it.
Even the most die-hard of geologists will tell you rocks are made of innate matter. So yes, rocks are dead.
American rock is dead outside of a few bands, but it doesn’t seem like the UK will ever stop putting out great bands
I don’t see it coming back either, the culture is lost and kids have no idea how to play instruments like they used to. By the culture being lost, I mean that it needs to go back to being played in clubs every night and not at some stupid 200,000 person festival
If you want to talk about something that is nearly 6’ under, it’s the blues……and without the blues, you don’t have rock
I don’t see it coming back either, the culture is lost and kids have no idea how to play instruments like they used to. By the culture being lost, I mean that it needs to go back to being played in clubs every night and not at some stupid 200,000 person festival
If you want to talk about something that is nearly 6’ under, it’s the blues……and without the blues, you don’t have rock
