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Rock Music is Finally Dead

Betty Blue

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[MENTION=6723]phobik[/MENTION] because I know you just LOVE rock. :ninja:

It's a bit heavy on the lyrics but still good.


 

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People have been saying rock is dead for ages, some even write songs about it. This one was released in 2003.

 

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@<a href="http://www.typologycentral.com/forums/members/6723.html" target="_blank">phobik</a> because I know you just LOVE rock. :ninja:

It's a bit heavy on the lyrics but still good.



Out of the Black calls for Into the Everblack :D

 

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Gene Simmons:

“Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered," says Gene Simmons of the rock group Kiss.

Kiss is like the worst band ever.
Ha. I first read the OP as:
Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered by Gene Simmons of the rock group Kiss. ;)

Anyway, commercialized pop is often trashy and vapid, but there is so much independent artistic work out there which we have more access to now that the internet allows more freedom than when music was entirely controlled by record companies. There is so much out there that most people aren't aware of at all, but is intelligent and deep.
 

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finally! now we can have a new hope for our youth. all that rockin and rollin was doing them no good. no good i tell ya. :sage:
 

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You folks are mentioning mostly glam, punk, grunge, heavy metal, rock and roll, while I listen to alternative, indie, experimental, instrumental, post-punk, post-rock. Hence I have no idea why rock is "dead" :shock:
I guess I'm not a purist when it comes to rock, or music, or any form of arts.
 

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There was a bit of garage rock revival in the early 2000's that wasn't all bad. Can that be a death gurgle?

Oh yes. I did love the Strokes' 1st album.There's also been lots of great indie rock since the 80's and 90's.
 

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No, it wasn't.

It was February 3, 1959.

The Day the Music Died - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Granted, there are a lot of references to events and musicians of the next decade in that song. I'm pretty sure the "quartet" is the Beatles, and the "joker" is Bob Dylan.

The Wikipedia article offers no argument, it only states that as "fact." The Wikipedia article, at any rate, is wrong. My argument doesn't fall against a page that offers utterly no argument, only assertion.
 

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That's a matter of opinion and not the topic of this thread.

I hadn't really thought of this in terms of "rock is dead"; however, the last few years have seen such a dearth of good rock music that it seems like radio stations are being forced to scrape the bottom of the barrel. The best rock song these days wouldn't even approach the same level as the worst Kiss song.

People have been complaining about the stuff played on the radio for a looooong time now.

From 1972, hippie-Jesus-Freak Larry Norman's Reader's Digest off of the "Only Visiting This Planet" album (1972):
 

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People have been complaining about the stuff played on the radio for a looooong time now.

From 1972, hippie-Jesus-Freak Larry Norman's Reader's Digest off of the "Only Visiting This Planet" album (1972):

Jesus freaks are always complaining about something. And by the way, 1972 was an amazing year for rock music.
 

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Jesus freaks are always complaining about something. And by the way, 1972 was an amazing year for rock music.
Aye, but on the other hand, I liked the lyrics

Jimi took an overdose
Janis followed so close
The whole music scene and the bands
are pretty comatose


and

I don't dig the radio
I hate what the charts pick
Rock and Roll may not be dead
but it's gettin' sick


which kind of encapsulate the point of the OP : and *forty years ago*.
Some things never change, was my point.

Happy Turkey Day, btw.
 

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Grunge. Nirvana.

IMO Nirvana was really not that good. Much noise.

That was a last gasp. Then the labels had to beat grunge with a dead horse and we got a hundred uninspired knockoff bands.

Ha. I first read the OP as:
Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered by Gene Simmons of the rock group Kiss. ;)

Anyway, commercialized pop is often trashy and vapid, but there is so much independent artistic work out there which we have more access to now that the internet allows more freedom than when music was entirely controlled by record companies. There is so much out there that most people aren't aware of at all, but is intelligent and deep.

Kiss was not horribly bad and certainly not the end of rock music. They were late 70s and early 80s. Def Leppard, Aerosmith, Winger, Stone Temple Pilots, Led Zepplin, Dream Theatre, Motley Crue, Faith No More. These were good bands.

Independent artistic work is not very relevant if nobody ever hears about it.
 
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