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Author Topic: What happened to ROCK!?  (Read 12579 times)

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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2013, 06:36:03 PM »

Same here, there are some really well made shows but usually they get aired when no one is listening. Video won't kill the radio star, iPods and Spotify will.

We used to have programme where our prime minister would come to put on obscure 60-70ies prog and psych rock, that was awesomesauce. It was on one of the biggest radio stations and they somehow stashed him on Saturday evenings when there's not much folks listening. Once the guy used his influence as a prime minister and got himself to play drums in concert together with The Queen. To tell the truth he did play pretty well.

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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2013, 07:26:44 PM »

Btw, thanks for pointing out Stonerobixxx, Numbersixx! Now downloading ALL the monthly compilations!
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2013, 07:40:59 PM »

I guess I don't consider Stoner, Doom, and Drone rock. I lump them in with Metal.

Although Baroness' Yellow & Green Record is amazing Stoner Rock. I highly recommend it.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2013, 08:44:45 PM »

"Stoner" isn't really a genre so much as a sensibility or style. It can be applied to metal or rock, and there's more of a sliding continuum. Stuff like Electric Wizard is definitely in the metal camp, whereas stuff like Church of Misery and Greenmachine definitely blur the lines.

Comets on Fire, Dead Meadow, and Bardo Pond however are in the rock camp.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #14 on: May 20, 2013, 09:53:26 PM »

I agree with you guys. I feel like all the "rock" fans started listening to metal once the radio crap took over. Whether you consider metal a subgenre of rock or not.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2013, 10:35:01 PM »

Maybe we have to re-introduce Chuck Berry to the world again and throw in some Dick Dale for good measure. School Of Rock is not enough for an introduction i.m.h.o.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2013, 12:31:30 AM »

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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2013, 01:53:30 PM »

I agree with you guys. I feel like all the "rock" fans started listening to metal once the radio crap took over. Whether you consider metal a subgenre of rock or not.

If alternative rock is rock, then metal sure as hell is as well.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2013, 03:03:19 PM »

Radio went corporate thereby forever perverting what was once the go to source for new rock acts.

We went underground to hunt them down for ourselves

The internet happened so now we can share those finds

Jools Holland fragmented the audience into cliques when every thing that came out of his mouth instantly became a new sub genre.

We obsessively apply "labels" so haphazardly that any musician who can play more than one instrument is called a cross over artist.

Generation ADD came along and any music that is more than a week old was deemed old school and not worth listening to causing the roots of rock to be lost to an entire generation.

Stick with the internet, subscribe to every "What are you listening to now" thread you can. Avoid radio and any streaming nonesense. Make you own choices and enjoy listening to what you want, not what they have tried to push.

Oh Yeah, Daft Punk actually really sucks. It's just that no one will risk being uncool by admitting it.  :))
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2013, 05:09:47 PM »

Oh Yeah, Daft Punk actually really sucks. It's just that no one will risk being uncool by admitting it.  :))

I would argue that hating on Daft Punk is the epitome of aging hipster cool.  For reference, compare Pitchfork's review of Discovery back in the hipster heyday(i.e. in the pre- "hipster as a pejorative" early 2000s) vs the current review of Random Access Memories.

I am going to say hipster 5 times in my next post.
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