pastro243 said:
CatFangs806 said:
I don't mean completely, but has anyone noticed lately that rock music is not in the same glory that it used to be in. Mainstream music has taken hold with rap and hip hop, and even country. But my main problem is how boring rock music is nowadays. Of course, I'm only 16, so I never lived in the eighties and ninties, but that's mostly the kind of music I listen to. I just wanted to see if anyone else has observed this or seen this happening. Who's getting tired of all this alternative, dumbed down music that's come out recently? There are some underground bands that are good, and some more popular modern day bands that are great. Does anybody think that intense, good rock has taken a back seat to all this alternative or even punk garbage?
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There are really good bands right now like muse. People have gone to either rap, pop or pop rock, which I think has come from pop punk bands like greenday, blink 182 etc.... But there are somo pop rock bands that are better than, for example, Tokio Hotel.
Bands like U2 and Oasis still make great music, I happen to like other new music like Jet, Keane, the artic monkeys, foo fighters, coldplay, muse, the killers, etc...
The thing is, people can still listen to bands like queen, the beatles, the rolling stones, etc..., added to new rock, poprock, punkrock, brit pop bands that appear even if the mainstream is filled with crap, because the mainstream has almost always been about crap, bad music has always existed. The problem with rock(only for this matter) is that it has so much variations sometimes you get lost in them(but I love that its so diverse).
There is also an attitude from people who just follow others and say bands like Metallica, greenday, the offspring, Linkin Park, etc... are sellouts so they refuse to listen to their music ignoring possible good songs in some of their albums.
I can tell you, here in SA people listen to a shit called Reggaeton, and most people love it, even when they know its crap, but there are a lot of people who listen to other music, new and old rock music.
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