Rock Music is not dead, and all you little ameobas that think bands like
The Strokes are brilliant, really need to wake up and evolve.
I think that bands like that are actually laughing themselves silly thinking
that all they had to do was puke up some old shitty riffs and all the sheep bought into it.
Thats probably why they named themselves The Strokes.
I for one, need my music to be a little (actually alot) thicker. Something that can inspire and
show new ways of going out about this whole idea of song writing.
People like Mike Patton, John Zorn, Bill Laswell, & late great Miles Davis
& bands like Tool, Isis, Ozomatli, Fantomas, Radiohead, Critters Buggin, Beth Orton and her band, etc...... (have I coverd enough genres)
I even think bands like Queens of the Stone Age, ( as simple as they might be)theyre kinda breaking new ground and I fuckin dig em'!
Ya see bro, if youre dedicated enough, and if you love music as much as me and (im sure) most the people on this site do, you'll find an amazing underground scene. The Internet, gotta love it!
If youre so sick of rock, try Jazz. About seven years ago I got totally fed up with bullshit rock.
I just happened to pick up an album called Bitches Brew. I was hooked! Granted all jazz isnt quite as crazy as BB, but there is alot of amazing jazz out there. Now when I get sick of rock I start listening to jazz
and fall back in love with it, then when that becomes kinda old, I flip back over to my grind crust deathcore.
Its keeps it all from being too stagnant.
Rock is not Dead, try Daughters of Fission!
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Posted 08 December 2003 - 01:37 PM
dude-After decades of premature pronouncements, rock may just really be dead this time around, at least as a living, breathing, forward-looking musical genre. Take a spin around the rock dial. There's the so-called alternative rock on the EDGE, which sounds as stale and mainstream and as unable to shock, offend or thrill as the bands of the late hair-metal era that were swept aside as the offal they were by Kurt Cobain and the grunge movement.
Meanwhile, even the hippest and coolest rock bands of the day -- the likes of the Strokes and the Darkness, the Kings of Leon and the Rapture -- all blatantly recycle past trends, both in their music and in their styles. One minute the small-b buzz bands are recycling the psychedelia of 1968; the next minute the blues-derived pre-metal of 1973 is the vibe du jour. Some young bands even unironically pay homage to bands such as Foghat and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Nostalgia can take you only so far.
you're digging your own grave here... why are you even listening to the radio?? of course all your gonna hear are contemporay bands that play 'safe' music.. by the phrase 'dig deeper' means turn off the radio and find something by going through underground magazines or anything but the fucking radio... The Darkness??? I almost shit myself.. you need to expand bro.
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Posted 08 December 2003 - 02:57 PM
oxes
fucking champs
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paper chase
lightning bolt
the make up
clikitatikatowi
90 day men
replicator
hot snakes (although dirived from the wipers) still rock hard and make me want to jump around like a ten year olf as do the previous mentioned bands listed above
fucking champs
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paper chase
lightning bolt
the make up
clikitatikatowi
90 day men
replicator
hot snakes (although dirived from the wipers) still rock hard and make me want to jump around like a ten year olf as do the previous mentioned bands listed above
-trunkspaceAll the time when I tell people what I do they say, "Oh I don't understand art, I can't even draw." (or worse, "I only like art I can understand.") Well, ya know what, I don't know how to make a car, but I sure appreciate being able to drive one.
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Posted 08 December 2003 - 03:06 PM
Good rock Music.......and best live shows
Les Savy Fav
Melt Banana
Q and Not U
IHYWYP (make me giggle like a ten year old)
and a certain VG cover band makes me feel ten years old again -- sore thumbs....
Les Savy Fav
Melt Banana
Q and Not U
IHYWYP (make me giggle like a ten year old)
and a certain VG cover band makes me feel ten years old again -- sore thumbs....
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Posted 08 December 2003 - 05:52 PM
Have you even hurd anything other than there singles? there shit compeared to the rest of the album. i like there music, i didnt buy there shit just cause eveybody was saying they were "indie". i "really need to wake up and evolve"??? you can kiss my ass...and all you little ameobas that think bands like
The Strokes are brilliant, really need to wake up and evolve.
I think that bands like that are actually laughing themselves silly thinking
that all they had to do was puke up some old shitty riffs and all the sheep bought into it.
Thats probably why they named themselves The Strokes.
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Posted 08 December 2003 - 09:14 PM
hmm.
I prefer stuff that is more a science project than a rock band.
I prefer stuff like enon, dismemberment plan, cex, aesop rock, trunk federation, clinic, octant, spoozys, of course radiohead, and grandaddy, the helio sequence, and even though they are a "the" band, the shins have some kick ass stuff.
and as far as making me feel like I am ten years old, gwen mars always gets me pumped.
I prefer stuff that is more a science project than a rock band.
I prefer stuff like enon, dismemberment plan, cex, aesop rock, trunk federation, clinic, octant, spoozys, of course radiohead, and grandaddy, the helio sequence, and even though they are a "the" band, the shins have some kick ass stuff.
and as far as making me feel like I am ten years old, gwen mars always gets me pumped.
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Posted 09 December 2003 - 09:04 AM
Oh yeah-- that clinic record was the coolest shit that came out last year.
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Posted 09 December 2003 - 09:14 AM
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-trunkspaceAll the time when I tell people what I do they say, "Oh I don't understand art, I can't even draw." (or worse, "I only like art I can understand.") Well, ya know what, I don't know how to make a car, but I sure appreciate being able to drive one.
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Posted 09 December 2003 - 09:20 AM
Nice grammar gamey!
And I'll excuse the "kiss my ass" remark. You must've forgotten yourself
and who you were talking to. Lets just be friends
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The world needs sheep and shepherds.
Cheers!
And I'll excuse the "kiss my ass" remark. You must've forgotten yourself
and who you were talking to. Lets just be friends
.The world needs sheep and shepherds.
Cheers!
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Posted 09 December 2003 - 11:02 AM
Having now been among us as a distinctive form of music and enjoyed a period of popularity for more than forty years, rock's popularity is both a measure and a victim of its own success. It could be argued (but perhaps some proper research should be done) that no other form of music in history has enjoyed the breadth of popularity on a global scale that rock music has. The flip-side (now there's a rock era concept) of this is that as attention-spans have shortened with the development of the Information Age and its sound-bite culture, this has resulted in the need for an increasing speed of stylistic turnover in order to satisfy the public appetite for new things and, in this context, rock now sounds like old music indeed.
Compounding the situation is the fact that since the late 80s, the stylistic evolution of rock music has slowed to the point where it's become almost imperceptible. The music of almost every major international rock artist can be directly linked to an earlier artist or style, and this has never been true in rock music until this decade. I'm not saying that stylistic development has stopped completely, but it may have slowed down to the point where it can no longer generate new, or maintain previous, public interest. If the music can no longer hold public interest, then, in a larger sense, it must be said that the music is becoming irrelevant to a large section of the population.
I would argue that this is, in fact, exactly what happened to jazz music - that a conjunction of evolutionary sluggishness had arrived within its more popular styles, thereby causing an increasing level of boredom or complacency within its established audience, and that a whole new generation of people simply found that it did not reflect their perceptions of the times in which they were living and before you could say, "Minton's," jazz was relegated to a secondary strata of popularity while rock boomed into the new music vacuum.
Compounding the situation is the fact that since the late 80s, the stylistic evolution of rock music has slowed to the point where it's become almost imperceptible. The music of almost every major international rock artist can be directly linked to an earlier artist or style, and this has never been true in rock music until this decade. I'm not saying that stylistic development has stopped completely, but it may have slowed down to the point where it can no longer generate new, or maintain previous, public interest. If the music can no longer hold public interest, then, in a larger sense, it must be said that the music is becoming irrelevant to a large section of the population.
I would argue that this is, in fact, exactly what happened to jazz music - that a conjunction of evolutionary sluggishness had arrived within its more popular styles, thereby causing an increasing level of boredom or complacency within its established audience, and that a whole new generation of people simply found that it did not reflect their perceptions of the times in which they were living and before you could say, "Minton's," jazz was relegated to a secondary strata of popularity while rock boomed into the new music vacuum.
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Posted 09 December 2003 - 11:42 AM
The music of almost every major international rock artist can be directly linked to an earlier artist or style, and this has never been true in rock music until this decade.
That has never been true until now? I beg to differ, sir.
Rock music is a derivation from jazz and blues, so right there any rock band is a derivation of another style. Led Zepellin, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Doors, Black Sabbath; all known as "classic" rock bands, and they all took stuff from other styles.
Rock is all about borrowing things from other genres.
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chlorophyl more like borophyl........... right?
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Posted 09 December 2003 - 12:27 PM
The music of almost every major international rock artist can be directly linked to an earlier artist or style, and this has never been true in rock music until this decade.
Yeah, this is pretty weak.
Example: The Rolling Stones: Name taken from a Muddy Waters song.
Do anything "reproductive" lately?
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Posted 09 December 2003 - 12:37 PM
i think it's hilarious that this
dude and the writer he or she's quoting
are both just using earlier, other
sources of writing for their
research. writing is dead it seems!!
dude and the writer he or she's quoting
are both just using earlier, other
sources of writing for their
research. writing is dead it seems!!
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