Do you think rock music is still alive today??!
Question: Music keeps declining, and pop music and disco and rap with insanely bad lyrics (most of the time) are controlling the airwaves and keeping our young from hearing classic rock hits...
Have we run our path with rock music??
Can Video Games of all things, save rock music ?? such as:
Guitar Hero
Rock Band
Thoughts on good modern rock bands, I know many, but what happens when they stop making music, for some reason I don't picture lots of rock talent in the future but I think, I hope, rock will live forever
Answers: Music keeps declining, and pop music and disco and rap with insanely bad lyrics (most of the time) are controlling the airwaves and keeping our young from hearing classic rock hits...
Have we run our path with rock music??
Can Video Games of all things, save rock music ?? such as:
Guitar Hero
Rock Band
Thoughts on good modern rock bands, I know many, but what happens when they stop making music, for some reason I don't picture lots of rock talent in the future but I think, I hope, rock will live forever
Rock and roll will never die, but it's pulse is seriously weak. Today's rock bands are so slickly produced and painstakingly handpicked (based on image and not musicianship) to appeal to the mall kids and teens flooding the record stores. Obviously this marketing scheme pays off for the labels, but as a seasoned rocker, this sickens me.
Rock and roll is meant to be dirty, ugly, loud, and FUN. Lemmy Kilmister is living proof of that theory. Today's bands look like they just stepped off the pages of Tiger Beat or Teen Magazine, yet they try to convey themselves as serious and hardcore to the public. I lived through the halcyon days of hair metal, and at least they were singing about having a good time while they were dressed like women, instead of this emo crap where they still wear the same makeup but instead they sing about how life sucks and how they want to kill themselves every day. I'm pretty sure that folks will still be listening to Poison or Quiet Riot tunes in the next twenty years, but I highly doubt that any emo/screamo/metalcore band's output will stand that test of time.
I blame grunge for indirectly causing the downfall of rock today. Grunge opened up the floodgates for the millions of shoegazing wannabe rockstars to feel that it was okay to be depressed while playing power chords on their guitars.
There are very few rock bands out there who are contributing something worthwhile to the genre. This is why such "dinosaur" acts like AC/DC, Kiss, Metallica and Black Sabbath continue to draw mammoth crowds while newer rock acts can barely fill clubs after several years of being on the scene. This is why aging rockers like Blackie Lawless and Judas Priest can still have job security.
Video games can only help in the resurgence of REAL rock and roll among the younger generation. Most kids wouldn't be exposed to pioneering rock bands like Sabbath, The Ramones, The Who or Alice Cooper if it weren't for games like Guitar Hero (so personally, I hope they keep making 'em!). At the very least, it educates the kids on why their favorite bands sound the way that they do. (i.e. Sabbath's contribution to darn near every heavy metal band that exists).
I believe that rap is on the decline (thankfully) in much the same way as hair metal burned out in the early 90's. Any metalhead can remember how the music industry glutted the airwaves and record stores with any band that wore fishnet stockings, hairspray and mascara until it all blurred together and people just didn't care anymore. Rap is that way now, if you look closely. Oh sure, the mainstay acts will always be there, but I think it's on it's way to the back burner. Hopefully this emo B.S. will follow suit as well....
Rappers get shot.
Rock never dies.
Rock will NEVER die!!
Rock On!!!
(and about the future- I'll be a big rock star!! lol)
Rock is far from dead. Just don't look in the mainstream for it.
I think in some ways it has. Personally I think the only good genre of rock left today is indie rock. So rock is kidn of on its last legs at the moment, theres always hope that will change though.
No I don't think video games can save rock music because the games are going to cause a decline in creativity. I think a lot of people are going to take the attitude why learn to play a song on guitar, which could take them a long time to do when they could quickly learn to play that same song on guitar hero or rock band and sound better with less effort? But who knows maybe that will just lead to less of the crappy no talent artists that we will have in 10 or so years from taking a serious intrest in music and maybe only the ones who actually have talent go into the music industy and save music.
well even if ppl stop, you're right the classics will keep rock alive forever. But I think that at a certain point it's gonna come back. My theory is this, there was a lot of good Rock during the Cold War. Yet when the Cold War ended, that's when it began to go downhill. When the next major war (or event, like a Depression or something) happens, the rock will come back.
there's my crack-pot theory.
Modern Rock is slowly getting worse but Tom Petty etc. will never die!
ROCK ON
Real music may have died, but it's not dead in the hearts of rock lovers.
Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison dominates my music collection.
P.S. Disco has been dead since 1979.
Peace
I'm 17, by the way.
i was gonna say rock is dead, coz most of the music i listen to was reorded way before i was born!but there are a few gens out there keeping the torch alive and also some old bands kicking around, i saw the only ones last summer at a festival and they were still as amazing as ever!
and queens of the stone age rule!
Rock music hasn't declined, other music genres are starting to gain enough popularity to compete with it (ex: Rap, Metal, Electronica).
If you need more proof though, popular rock bands are;
Foo Fighters
Finger 11
Panic! At the Disco
Seether
Three Day's Grace
Buck Cherry
Daughtry
Evanescence
Red Jump Suit Apparatus
As for classic rock hits, I suppose most of them don't get play on popular stations, but most every town has a "Classic Rock" station.
Classic Metal (ex: Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Guns and Roses, Ozzy, Van Halen) on the other hand are make a comeback, and are often a staple on rock radio stations.
As for Guitar Hero, I know people who have been turned onto older rock bands by the game.
btw, I have a question for you. Where do you live, cause I don't think disco is problem for most of the world anymore. I don't even think I've heard disco on the radio ever, and I've lived in 8 different towns.
i know i have used this quote in several questions dealing with this topic, but rock and roll is never gonna die, as ac/dc said themselves...rock hasn't run its path, maybe good rock has, but as long as someone out there is listening to the songs and playing the music there will always be someone interested, i don't care who he is
as for video games saving classic rock, i think it's pretty obvious that's not going to happen...will it increase interest in such music with the younger generation? absolutely...will it eliminate the interest in rap and hip hop and pop? not a chance
Good rock music hasn't died, it just takes a lil looking for. You just can't hear good ole metal on the radio anymore. you have to search for it. But I promise it's out there.
it's more on the back burner, but rock will never die, there are a ton of excellent rock bands, including some I would say are as good as those from the golden age of rock (late 60's-70's), you just need to know where to look