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What happened to ROCK!?
« on: May 20, 2013, 02:56:58 PM »

I was streaming Spotify at work today, as I do, and I popped up the Billboard Top Charts app to see "what's hot"!  I scrolled down to the "Rock Songs" chart and this is what I found:



I like several of these songs, so I've got no axe to grind, but this feels list feels like its filled with more Pop and Folk than rock!?  What gives, aren't there any good rock bands out there making good music?  Have I lost touch with what a "rock" band is!?



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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2013, 03:06:41 PM »

No, it appears that Billboard has.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2013, 03:17:19 PM »

Rock died after the "happy" rock of the 90s, i.e. Third Eye Blind, Weezer, Matchbox 20, Creed, etc. killed it.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2013, 04:00:12 PM »

Not many bands that can say they just play Rock anymore.

If you want good ol fashion rock n roll then you should give Clutch a shot. They're the only band I know of still making music that just makes a damn good rock song.

Their new album Earth Rocker does just that.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2013, 04:03:06 PM »

There's plenty of good rock still being played. You just have to do a little digging.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2013, 04:06:19 PM »

There is plenty of good Rock out there, it's just a question of finding it. You have to look to the independent music blogs to find a flavour you like. Before the demise of Megaupload they were legion. But only a few of the best still function.

I'm a big stoner/desert rock, doom, drone and sludge fan. One of my favourite 'blogs' is http://www.stonerobixxx.net/. After riaa, this guy now mainly supports new talent as well as some majors who still promote releases through him due to his following.

He like others have tons of links to other like-minded blogs where you may find something you like.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2013, 04:38:30 PM »

People looking for rock should rediscover some older bands/artists as well. There's a LOT of good stuff that you may have never heard of before which still is worth digging for as well. New stuff tends to produce far fewer gems/nuggets than before since most of it is rehashed stuff. That's not to say it's all bad, just that the bulk of it is unoriginal to me and always leads me to the thought of "I've heard this before somewhere" about 8 of 10 times.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2013, 04:43:02 PM »

Yeah, a lot of good stoner rock / sludge floating around like Boris and True Widow.
More psych-tinged stuff like Motorpsycho, Circle, The Psychic Paramount, etc.
Then there's more garagey type stuff like Thee Oh Sees, Fresh & Onlys, Kurt Vile, Ty Segall, etc.


And yes, older more obscure stuff to discover like Eroc, Bachdenkle, Kaleidoscope, 50 ft. Hose, etc. etc etc.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #8 on: May 20, 2013, 05:34:59 PM »

It's the same as most other music that happened to get popular- elevated signal to noise ratio, too low entry fee (a double edged blade) and so on...

My problem with the majority of popular music isn't that it isn't rock, it's a commercial venture, therefore highly predictable and boring. It largely promotes values that I've grown to despise and it never ever dares to challenge me. I'd rather listen to silence than a shitty TOP40 radio station that has these 40 songs running on shuffle and a bad joke of a DJ (they are called dj's around here; if I'm not mistaken in English speaking countries you usually call the radio hosts or something). About 10 years ago a radio dj would play the tunes he would have found scouring record shops and other foreign radio stations- i.e. he was an opinion leader who would educate the masses and display his developed taste of music and esoteric knowledge of music trivia. Now the marketing team compiles a safe playlist to keep the average 32yr old single mother of 1,4 children interested and listening to whatever the crap peddlers happen to be saying.

Therefore everyone who actually values music must do the digging for themselves.

Rock is dead, God is in the TV.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2013, 06:07:35 PM »

Well, we called the DJ's in the US as well, but they only ones that had the power to decide what gets played were programs on after 2am, college stations, public radio, or some sh_t small station that couldn't broadcast across the street.  Any significant commercial station, even ten years ago, had a play list that "came down from management". 


a DJ (they are called dj's around here; if I'm not mistaken in English speaking countries you usually call the radio hosts or something). About 10 years ago a radio dj would play the tunes he would have found scouring record shops and other foreign radio stations- i.e. he was an opinion leader who would educate the masses and display his developed taste of music and esoteric knowledge of music trivia. Now the marketing team compiles a safe playlist to keep the average 32yr old single mother of 1,4 children interested and listening to whatever the crap peddlers happen to be saying.

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