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Has Rock(& Roll) and all it's sub genres become impotent?

I find myself unable to take any supposed new rock music seriously as time after time it just seems to be either a parody or a tribute to former bands etc!

Whats your opinions on this? Whats your opinion on the future of Rock?

Originally Posted by Philip

Has Rock(& Roll) and all it's sub genres become impotent?

I find myself unable to take any supposed new rock music seriously as time after time it just seems to be either a parody or a tribute to former bands etc!

Whats your opinions on this? Whats your opinion on the future of Rock?

rock started out as rock but has gained influences from every other genre of music, this will continue into sub sub styles of rock etc

rock is an evergrowing conurbation, a bit like a city that starts off small, builds a couple of scummy housing schemes but also builds upmarket houses/churches/etc


hmm not as profound as i thought it would look

[bryn]

Rock is totally dead at the moment, ok there will be a few minor acts producing interesting music, but commercially rock is totally obseolete. Too many people willing to sacrifice musical integrity to make it big.

[bryn]

Originally Posted by stuartmaxwell

rock is an evergrowing conurbation, a bit like a city that starts off small, builds a couple of scummy housing schemes but also builds upmarket houses/churches/etc

Suggesting that bands of today have totally progressed beyond 60s 70s 80s bands??
You must be pretty deluded, rock music today is just a pale reproduction of the riffs and chord progressions of everyone from the beatles to zeppelin / metallica to jethro tull.
If you about it, from the 50s to 80s music went from being quite basic singalong chuck berry style dances ('scummy houses') to the super technical, incredible architecture of the leaning tower of Yngwie Malmsteen (oooh - imagery). But after grunge etc, we're back again to the scummy houses....
I've heard music is meant to repeat itself.

[rach Lexuz]

see i think rock music is getting pretty big right now. depends what you take as "rock" though. There are so many really great up and coming bands from everywhere and these days im getting excited all the time at all these new bands im hearing. but i am pretty exciteable to be honest.

the future looks really really bright and theres lots of drugs and alcohol and real rock stars around. just the way it should be.

Originally Posted by rach Lexuz

see i think rock music is getting pretty big right now. depends what you take as "rock" though. There are so many really great up and coming bands from everywhere and these days im getting excited all the time at all these new bands im hearing. but i am pretty exciteable to be honest.

the future looks really really bright and theres lots of drugs and alcohol and real rock stars around. just the way it should be.

is it getting big because its being pushed by the industry, or because its what people genuinely want? I mean all these bands in the charts offer nothing new atall. I think its just a marketing ploy, playing up to a new generation of naive kids who aren't already sick to death of the derivative rubbish which is being peddled by the major labels and the media.
It makes me fucking puke, to see 15 year old kids worshiping shit like iron maiden and jimi hendrix. It's not because they are enchanted by it, it's because they think its trendy. It was their bloody *parents* who really felt it and loved it.
Where is the sound of this generation? Cuz at the moment, it appears to be the sound of a big corporate fatcat slurping down champagne and shitting mcdonalds cheeseburgers.

[bryn]

Originally Posted by rach Lexuz

see i think rock music is getting pretty big right now. depends what you take as "rock" though. There are so many really great up and coming bands from everywhere and these days im getting excited all the time at all these new bands im hearing. but i am pretty exciteable to be honest.

Bands such as....?

If its the NME type bands I expect you to say due to ure display pic, for example the killers, then I must ask what the hell they contribute to a thriving and interesting scene? other than another clumsy, soul-less, bland sing-a-long for people who don't really understand the traditional ethos behind rock music.

Bands have such pretentious images, I'm thinking the Strokes and their constant Malboro endorsement. Its almost them reaching out to try and seem like their physchadelic era predeccessors. Saying that the Strokes write some ok songs, as do Franz Ferdinand.

[psydoll]

Originally Posted by Philip

Has Rock(& Roll) and all it's sub genres become impotent?

I find myself unable to take any supposed new rock music seriously as time after time it just seems to be either a parody or a tribute to former bands etc!

Whats your opinions on this? Whats your opinion on the future of Rock?

Are you trying to suck up to/antagonise Stripey or what?

[Dave]

I'm feeling slightly odd, because I actually agree with Stripey on this point. There are good bands out there, but the only ones that get hyped are the ones that can trace their "heritage" back 10, 20, even 30 years ago and trade off the reflected glories of the artists of that era without having to contribute anything that hasn't been done before.

[psydoll]

Rock music will always be alive. There's never going to be a time that it's dead despite protestations to the contrary.

Having listened to rock and metal for YEARS I'd say that there's always someone doing something in a way you haven't quite heard before. As long as you can get excited about it, it's not dead.