For 30+ yr olds-y is rock seem so lame today?!
Question: if u can remember in the mid-late 80s to the early 90s-remember everyone going to a motley crue concert-or maiden-or metallica- and how excited everyone would be-remember metallica-without radio play-the buzz around the school?-ive got a 14 yr old boy now and he likes rap! but he doesnt really like music like we did! is rock dead or what?
Answers: if u can remember in the mid-late 80s to the early 90s-remember everyone going to a motley crue concert-or maiden-or metallica- and how excited everyone would be-remember metallica-without radio play-the buzz around the school?-ive got a 14 yr old boy now and he likes rap! but he doesnt really like music like we did! is rock dead or what?
seems sorta hopeless dont it.
i especially remember the metallica kill em all days, when the only thing you could really compare them to were a handful of obscure european metal bands and perhaps motorhead.
I believe it's the music each generation grew up with. Now all they play now on the radio is mainstream rock, hip hop, and r&b. Some of the songs are so different to what was popular 10-20+ years ago. I mainly listen to old rock from the 90's, but I'm also prone to listening and liking something new. Also it's more about what other people listen to, rather than what they want to listen to. And from that, you develop a liking to what you're used to hearing.
No Rock is not dead! There are still some of us listen to it! I still like the 60's and 70's, also listen to the 80's, 90's, and now on the softer side!
nah. rock isn't quite dead... yet... it's just hiding. there's some good newer bands out there, but a lot of the teenagers i've talked to listen to rap. i remember crowding around a tape player at recess listening to appetite for destruction, and the crazy energy surrounding that before it blew up...
i was actually just asked if i lived under a rock in the 80's because i don't listen to maiden. the kid who asked me was either 14 or 15, so i have faith!
NAW ROCK IS 4 EVERYONE =] DONT MATTER HOW OLD U ARE. MY DAD IS ANCIENT [TO ME ANYWAYS] HE'S LIKE 46 AND HE STILL LISTENS 2 ROCK SO UR GOOD =]
In 3 words: Today's music sucks. Thats why I listen to mostly the classic rock & 80's stations on the radio.
You're kidding, right? I got excited about rock with Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, and then really slipped it into my DNA when the Beatles, Stones, Cream, Hendrix, and the Doors dominated American radio (before there were even any FM stations!). I too, once thought that rock would never be the same when lame bands like Def Leppard, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, and yes, even Metallica became overwhelmingly popular. "Gee," I thought, "How pretentious! Is rock dead or what?" So you see, rock will probably be with us (hopefully) for quite some time, it will just continually morph from one style to another. What will remain in your soul is the sound of rock at the time you entered puberty. So get used to it, rock music will never have the same excitement to you anymore as the music you heard when you were your son's age. And when your son is your age, he will mourn over the loss of rap. And so it goes...
Oh, memories my brother was dating a local radio station DJ, she gave him, and then he gave to me, numerous albums, stamped not for retail sale including Ride the Lightening, going to the Metal Up Your A** tour and so many shows after that, Metallica is the band I've seen the most times live in concert. Favorite was Monsters of Rock 88 in Denver Mile High Stadium they got on the brim of Mile High Stadium and mooned everyone during the Scorpions set. I didn't realize it was their little butts I saw from the field of Mile High until I caught their show in Albuquerque a few months later and purchased a program, saw a picture they took of themselves mooning everyone, they played a a bunch of stuff from And Justice For All and it hadn't been released yet . The kids mine hang out with have some appreciation for the 80's classics like Metallica, but they are the ones who like Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson more than Snoop Dog or 50cent
Rap is crap.
Rock will never die.
Rock is good from the 50's to the 90's but rock now days seems so instrumental coz all you can hear is instruments and can't understand what they are saying.
Sounds kinda weird, my parents said that to me in the 70's
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, huh?
Rock is fine. It has always been fine. It will always be fine. The best bands have never been marketed half as well as the mediocre, and it has only gotten worse over the years as ClearChannel bought out more and more radio stations and trimmed down their already scant playlists. The internet makes it very easy to find bands, but they aren't going to come to you, and your son likely isn't looking for them either.
Rock isnt dead, just changed a little.
I love rock in the 80s-90s, but i admit i love some of the rock out these days.
I though there was a lot of teenagers who are into rock, most of them would get accused of being 'emo', but whatever. Its terrible on the radio, all i ever hear is rap and r&b
ROCK LIVES!! im not anywhere near 30 but i had to say it.
You must not be listening to the right bands. My guess is that you are listening to the sh*t they play on the radio!
Instead try...
The locust
Fantomas
The Dillinger Escape plan
Melt Banana
Daughters
Holy Molar
Dog Fashion Disco
Polkadot Cadaver
isis
mogwai
Cheers,
Christina http://myspace.com/mikepattonisgod
I am not quite 30 but getting there but I definitely understand what you mean. The only band that you mentioned that I loved was Metallica but the whole of the 80's and early 90's produced some hell of a list of bands.
Such as
Metallica
Slayer
Cradle Of Filth
Emperor
Bolt Thrower
Cannibal Corpse
The list goes on and is endless. I would struggle to name any bands that have materialized in the last 10 years or so that I was truly enthusiastic about. I still like the music the same as I did, I just can't find anything that truly makes me excited anymore.
Why DOES Rock seem so lame today?
Perhaps it is the artists who like to ride the coat tails of others. Perhaps because there were so many Rock pioneers in the 60s, the 70s, and some in the 80s.
It's sad when the teenagers, like your 14 year-old who doesn't appreciate Rock (yet - there may still be hope for him, he's young!), ignore four decades of great music. By appreciate, I mean understand what it means to pick up a six -string or bass guitar, a pair of drum sticks, and jam in the garage with three buddies. That is magic and creativity.
Sorry, but talking into a mic, telling others how great your "ride" or your "bling bling" is - bores me silly.
At the age of 49 I've been listening to Rock since the 60's and all the way up to Rock in this day and age. There's great Rock in all decades, dude! Music evolution is cool and the radio sucks (then & now). The harder & heavier the better!
Don't worry if your boy likes Rap, he probably doesn't think the 'music' is all that good but it's enough to piss off his parents just like some of the stuff I use to listen to in my youth for the same purpose.
Gee, thanks babygalnumba
I'm not 30+ I'm 19...The only thing I listen to is Classic Rock, back then music had passion, balls, soul and awesome riffs. Todays music is nothing but utter crap, theres no balls or soul to it not even passion. There's no good guitar solos anymore.
Most of what's on the radio today on Top 40-ish stations sucks. I blame American Idol. Any little teenybopper who can carry a tune in a bucket while singing someone else's song can be groomed and produced and promoted into a Top 40 hit.
Give me a band of musically talented people, who write their own music and play their own instruments, any day. Some groups like that still exist, thankfully, but not enough of them! I'm only 27 yet I listen to mostly music recorded before I was born.