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The Beatles are a lot of things and rock IS one of them. Their primary source of inspiration during their formative years (and beyond) was the birth of rock and roll. I assumed that was obvious.
There is still a LOT of really hard rock coming out right now. Asking Alexandria (which is actually too heavy for me, same with Axewound), Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica still performs, All That Remains, Jamie's Elsewhere, Disturbed, Shinedown, Rise Against to name a very small bit. Might not be the most popular thing anymore, but I remember back in high school (4 years ago) there were a lot of people listening to rock.
Just have to say that as someone who has grown up listening to the current style of pop music, I wish that more good music like the music from before the mid 21st century was played. With the exception of a few bands like Imagine Dragons and Fun., none of the pop music of today is very good, especially when you compare it to the bands and artists that either broke up or that young people don't pay attention to anymore (The Beatles, Kansas, Simon and Garfunkle, U2, The Who, Journey, Boston, Bon Jovi, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd...).
I don't really trust wikipedia for genre tags... but yea, that was the only band in that list I was unfamiliar with and after listening to a bit I would be okay with calling them hard rock. Very poppy, grunge-derived hard rock.
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IMO, the purist rock bands that have been charting as of recently are The White Stripes and Black Keys. I don't think Imagine Dragons qualifies as purist rock that is true to the roots, just listen to Radioactive.
Everything that I hear on the local alt rock station is mostly hipster crap. Mumford and Son with a banjo in every song, really? It seems that the alternative rock bands all use reject instruments from middle school band hall. The three-piece suit and fedora wearers really eat that stuff up.
If someone would point me to some purist rock with the classic elements I'd be happy to hear it. No harpsichords, banjos, synthesizers, or pew pew sounds. I live in the so-called "Live Music Capital of the World" and all the music sounds the same.
There is so much music out there right now that it is amazing. With the ability for people to self produce / self release their material, comes an avalanche of music. So much that you could never listen to it all. Go onto soundcloud or something. You might not like everything you hear, actually most of it will be crap, but you can stumble upon some really amazing stuff. Labels like rock are almost so wide and all encompassing as to be almost useless as descriptions. So get out there and enjoy the old and the new and don't worry about anything dying. Things don't die, they change or they go underground and are hard to find, you have to put in the work to find what you like.
There is still a LOT of really hard rock coming out right now. Asking Alexandria (which is actually too heavy for me, same with Axewound), Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica still performs, All That Remains, Jamie's Elsewhere, Disturbed, Shinedown, Rise Against to name a very small bit. Might not be the most popular thing anymore, but I remember back in high school (4 years ago) there were a lot of people listening to rock.
In order of appearance: unknown, emo, emo/metal, nu-metal, unkown, unkown, I'll give you this one, but it borders on metal, unkown and unkown.
IMO, the purist rock bands that have been charting as of recently are The White Stripes and Black Keys. I don't think Imagine Dragons qualifies as purist rock that is true to the roots, just listen to Radioactive.
The Palm Desert Scene still exists and is still quite popular.
Everything that I hear on the local alt rock station is mostly hipster crap. Mumford and Son with a banjo in every song, really? It seems that the alternative rock bands all use reject instruments from middle school band hall. The three-piece suit and fedora wearers really eat that stuff up.
Needless hate. There's nothing wrong with these guys in theory. The problem is that there are just a lot of musicians that follow every trend in a weak attempt for fame and fortune (am I the only one who remembers the sudden and immense outburst of English pop bands after the success of Franz Ferdinand?). And the hate on non-standard instruments is just immature and you know it. These instruments have their place and the world would be less without them.
If someone would point me to some purist rock with the classic elements I'd be happy to hear it. No harpsichords, banjos, synthesizers, or pew pew sounds. I live in the so-called "Live Music Capital of the World" and all the music sounds the same.
Because that can't be said about rock at all, can it? =P
I think there's also a problem with definitions here. To some people, rock is a broad descriptor for all kinds of bands (see Magmoormaster), under which anything from Elvis Costello to King Crimson fits. For others, rock, without any further descriptor, is the movement brought down to its essence: one or two guitars, base, drums and a vocalist (preferably one of the guitarists) for these people, ZZ Top and their ilk are rock and bands like Bullet for my Valentine are like small children trying to fit into daddy's clothes. To have this discussion, we need to get our definitions straight.
Just have to say that as someone who has grown up listening to the current style of pop music, I wish that more good music like the music from before the mid 21st century was played. With the exception of a few bands like Imagine Dragons and Fun., none of the pop music of today is very good, especially when you compare it to the bands and artists that either broke up or that young people don't pay attention to anymore (The Beatles, Kansas, Simon and Garfunkle, U2, The Who, Journey, Boston, Bon Jovi, The Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd...).
I don't want to hate on you, but you do understand that you sound like one of those people who replies to videos of the beatles/whatever on youtube with "I'm 11 and I like this music! I'm so much better than other people my age", right?
There are a few factors at work here. Yes, there were a lot of rock bands around back then. You know why? Because that was the fad of that time. The seventies and beginning of the eighties were full of Beatles, Kansases and Pink Floyds, just as the eighties/nineties weer full of glam rock and hair metal bands. You like that music, so you look back at that period as though it was the height of music ever, while in reality, it's just a period where what you liked was mainstream. Furthermore, when you name all of those bands, you do have to realize that you're talking about a lot of time. Whenever people name a swath of bands like that, they're referencing bands over a span of 4ish generations and lumping them together like they all shared the same stage.
Furthermore: look harder. There are lots of bands currently active with sounds like the ones you named (the prog rock corner, softer metal). Transatlantic, the Flower Kings, Riverside, Ayreon anything attached to Steven Wilson, King Crimson are just a few examples. If you keep going in the same circles, yes, you're not going to find any new, interesting bands.
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There are plenty of rock bands still out there. The issue is that they aren't easily accessible since "rock" whether it's traditional rock, or alt rock, or whatever definition you're using to define "rock" isn't currently popular. Indie rock is a big thing right now and that's why you hear things like Mumford & Sons and wonder where rock went. It went nowhere, it just stopped gaining mainstream exposure.
Like people have said, bands like The White Stripes, The Black Keys, and musicians like Steven Wilson (solo, Porcupine Tree, Blackfield) still put out quality rock. Others that I would add to the list that might fit into your definition would be The Gaslight Anthem, Clutch, Nick Cave projects (NC & Bad Seeds, Grinderman) and if you like using Mastodon as a potential "rock" band, then I would add Baroness, Red Fang and Kvelertak to the list as well. You can find this stuff out there, just don't expect to find it on top 40.
I would disagree with those people. But please don't start a genre debate - those are even douchier than his speech.
Except that here it is somewhat important, since, as I mentioned, people have different interpretations of what rock is. For those people who do not believe the Artic Monkeys is a rock band, it may feel like a kick below the belt when they talk about themselves as an example of rock not being dead.
Also: for those interested in the earlier kinds of bluegrass rock kind of stuff: check out Pokey LaFarge.
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Anyway, like many magazine quality articles, it doesn't really have any direction; but, basically, it names the same bands that I have listed throughout this thread: One Republic, Mumford and Sons, Imagine Dragons, etc. Yep, rock and roll isn't dead. At least not "dead" dead.
There are some songs I enjoy from different time periods, classical, rock, rap, and on and on. I find the variety we have available today to be far better as we find different things from the past that add value. I am not impressed by "rock" or worship "rock" as a medium. If it dies, like Blue Grass and so many others, then so be it. We have recordings, Elvis impersonators, and on and on. The legacy of the genre will live on, and I agree with whomever said about the sub genres and mutation. It's just that the system has changed. It seems that techno, dub step and friends, are in vogue now. This is the 21st century after all.
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"You may go if you wish. But remember this: walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush. Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louie Jordon, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny boy Williamson I and II, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Elvis Presley, Lieber and Stoller, and Robert K. Weiss. Turn your backs now and you snuff out the fragile candles of Blues, R&B and Soul, and when those flames flicker and expire, the light of the world is extinguished because the music which has moved mankind through seven decades leading to the millennium will whither and die on the vine of abandonment and neglect."
- Elwood J. Blues
14 years later since Elwood made that speech, he accurately prophesied the state of pop music in the 2010's as they are (except Grunge is dead and Rap is more verbal than violent anymore) case in point: Ke$ha, Rebecca Black, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Pitbull, Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, One Direction, Lil' Wayne, and every last auto-tuned teen, tween, hipster, emo, and digitally sampled amateur out there in the mainstream music industry or on YouTube. There are however a few good modern artists that keep the spirit of Rock N' Roll alive like Fitz & The Tantrums, Muse, Jack Johnson, Ben Folds Five, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, The Killers, Coldplay, Ingrid Michaelson, Adele, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, and Pharrell Williams. I remember watching an interview Larry King (from CNN's Larry King Live) made on his YouTube Channel with Slash from Guns N' Roses where he was asked the question about whether or not If Rock N' Roll is dead as a music genre in today's society and he said that there needs to be a scene for a new revolution of that music genre but skeptics say that the genre is "outdated":
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
"You may go if you wish. But remember this: walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush. Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louie Jordon, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny boy Williamson I and II, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Elvis Presley, Lieber and Stoller, and Robert K. Weiss. Turn your backs now and you snuff out the fragile candles of Blues, R&B and Soul, and when those flames flicker and expire, the light of the world is extinguished because the music which has moved mankind through seven decades leading to the millennium will whither and die on the vine of abandonment and neglect."
- Elwood J. Blues
14 years later since Elwood made that speech, he accurately prophesied the state of pop music in the 2010's as they are (except Grunge is dead and Rap is more verbal than violent anymore) case in point: Ke$ha, Rebecca Black, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Pitbull, Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, One Direction, Lil' Wayne, and every last auto-tuned teen, tween, hipster, emo, and digitally sampled amateur out there in the mainstream music industry or on YouTube. There are however a few good modern artists that keep the spirit of Rock N' Roll alive like Fitz & The Tantrums, Muse, Jack Johnson, Ben Folds Five, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, The Killers, Coldplay, Ingrid Michaelson, Adele, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, and Pharrell Williams. I remember watching an interview Larry King (from CNN's Larry King Live) made on his YouTube Channel with Slash from Guns N' Roses where he was asked the question about whether or not If Rock N' Roll is dead as a music genre in today's society and he said that there needs to be a scene for a new revolution of that music genre but skeptics say that the genre is "outdated":
The 2000´s still had some great rock, but the popular rock bands among our age group seem to be older bands like Pink Floyd and The Beatles.
The beatles I could care less about. Nirvana I could care less about. I see teenagers today walking around with more Nirvana shirts more than ever. A Nirvana shirt is the new "misfit" shirt it seems. You live in Boca Raton- drive north to some local punk rock/rock bands that play here in Palm Beach. It's hard to become a nationally known band the past 10 years so the local and statewide bands are thriving.
All of those bands have played in Palm Beach in less than a month. You may or may not like them it's all opinion. Once you turn 18 your options will greatly increase on music you can go see live. Respectablesin West Palm Beach usually has a lot of live band shows as well as Propaghanda Lake Worth. I work at the 50's diner howleys part time and we have all the latest flyers and advertisements hanging and posted all over the diner. You're more than welcome to say hello my name is Jake. I'm twice your age but I'll be happy to point you in the right direction.
Edit: just read page 2's posts. Wtf is it with people and the beatles?! So they put down the foundation for faster music to be acceptable. OK....and what else?! Will I not understand unless I take acid and listen to yellow submarine or annoying pop songs about teenage love? There are some band followers I will never understand and the beatles and Nirvana are one of them. Elvis I could understand. Sorry just my .02
Edit: just read page 2's posts. Wtf is it with people and the beatles?! So they put down the foundation for faster music to be acceptable. OK....and what else?! Will I not understand unless I take acid and listen to yellow submarine or annoying pop songs about teenage love? There are some band followers I will never understand and the beatles and Nirvana are one of them. Elvis I could understand. Sorry just my .02
Have you listened to their music?
Seriously. I didn't get it either at first, and then I listened to their discography. They're a sensational band. Every member of the band was an excellent musician. All of the modern music scene is influenced by them. They invented metal. It's difficult to over-compliment them, or overstate how revolutionary they were.
There are however a few good modern artists that keep the spirit of Rock N' Roll alive like Fitz & The Tantrums, Muse, Jack Johnson, Ben Folds Five, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, The Killers, Coldplay, Ingrid Michaelson, Adele, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, and Pharrell Williams.
"In the New Generation"
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How cute.
That pretty much proves your point.
The Beatles are a lot of things and rock IS one of them. Their primary source of inspiration during their formative years (and beyond) was the birth of rock and roll. I assumed that was obvious.
As long as musicians like this are around rock isn't dead.
There are still people that aspire to be in a band and play musical instruments.
Erm, the Beatles most certainly are rock. What did you think they were?
There is still a LOT of really hard rock coming out right now. Asking Alexandria (which is actually too heavy for me, same with Axewound), Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica still performs, All That Remains, Jamie's Elsewhere, Disturbed, Shinedown, Rise Against to name a very small bit. Might not be the most popular thing anymore, but I remember back in high school (4 years ago) there were a lot of people listening to rock.
There HAS been a small hard rock renaissance recently though.
Shinedown is hard rock.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinedown
Of course, I have no idea what post you're responding to.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
Everything that I hear on the local alt rock station is mostly hipster crap. Mumford and Son with a banjo in every song, really? It seems that the alternative rock bands all use reject instruments from middle school band hall. The three-piece suit and fedora wearers really eat that stuff up.
If someone would point me to some purist rock with the classic elements I'd be happy to hear it. No harpsichords, banjos, synthesizers, or pew pew sounds. I live in the so-called "Live Music Capital of the World" and all the music sounds the same.
The Palm Desert Scene still exists and is still quite popular.
Needless hate. There's nothing wrong with these guys in theory. The problem is that there are just a lot of musicians that follow every trend in a weak attempt for fame and fortune (am I the only one who remembers the sudden and immense outburst of English pop bands after the success of Franz Ferdinand?). And the hate on non-standard instruments is just immature and you know it. These instruments have their place and the world would be less without them.
Because that can't be said about rock at all, can it? =P
I think there's also a problem with definitions here. To some people, rock is a broad descriptor for all kinds of bands (see Magmoormaster), under which anything from Elvis Costello to King Crimson fits. For others, rock, without any further descriptor, is the movement brought down to its essence: one or two guitars, base, drums and a vocalist (preferably one of the guitarists) for these people, ZZ Top and their ilk are rock and bands like Bullet for my Valentine are like small children trying to fit into daddy's clothes. To have this discussion, we need to get our definitions straight.
I don't want to hate on you, but you do understand that you sound like one of those people who replies to videos of the beatles/whatever on youtube with "I'm 11 and I like this music! I'm so much better than other people my age", right?
There are a few factors at work here. Yes, there were a lot of rock bands around back then. You know why? Because that was the fad of that time. The seventies and beginning of the eighties were full of Beatles, Kansases and Pink Floyds, just as the eighties/nineties weer full of glam rock and hair metal bands. You like that music, so you look back at that period as though it was the height of music ever, while in reality, it's just a period where what you liked was mainstream. Furthermore, when you name all of those bands, you do have to realize that you're talking about a lot of time. Whenever people name a swath of bands like that, they're referencing bands over a span of 4ish generations and lumping them together like they all shared the same stage.
Furthermore: look harder. There are lots of bands currently active with sounds like the ones you named (the prog rock corner, softer metal). Transatlantic, the Flower Kings, Riverside, Ayreon anything attached to Steven Wilson, King Crimson are just a few examples. If you keep going in the same circles, yes, you're not going to find any new, interesting bands.
Like people have said, bands like The White Stripes, The Black Keys, and musicians like Steven Wilson (solo, Porcupine Tree, Blackfield) still put out quality rock. Others that I would add to the list that might fit into your definition would be The Gaslight Anthem, Clutch, Nick Cave projects (NC & Bad Seeds, Grinderman) and if you like using Mastodon as a potential "rock" band, then I would add Baroness, Red Fang and Kvelertak to the list as well. You can find this stuff out there, just don't expect to find it on top 40.
That was one of the douchiest speeches ever, not helped by the fact that a lot of people wouldn't classify the Arctic Monkeys as rock to begin with.
Except that here it is somewhat important, since, as I mentioned, people have different interpretations of what rock is. For those people who do not believe the Artic Monkeys is a rock band, it may feel like a kick below the belt when they talk about themselves as an example of rock not being dead.
Also: for those interested in the earlier kinds of bluegrass rock kind of stuff: check out Pokey LaFarge.
http://music-mix.ew.com/2014/03/14/mock-stars-foster-the-people/
Anyway, like many magazine quality articles, it doesn't really have any direction; but, basically, it names the same bands that I have listed throughout this thread: One Republic, Mumford and Sons, Imagine Dragons, etc. Yep, rock and roll isn't dead. At least not "dead" dead.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
This movie clip from Blues Brothers 2000 reminds me of this thread even more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmDjBONCXEo
"You may go if you wish. But remember this: walk away now and you walk away from your crafts, your skills, your vocations; leaving the next generation with nothing but recycled, digitally-sampled techno-grooves, quasi-synth rhythms, pseudo-songs of violence-laden gangsta-rap, acid pop, and simpering, saccharine, soulless slush. Depart now and you forever separate yourselves from the vital American legacies of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Memphis Slim, Blind Boy Fuller, Louie Jordon, Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny boy Williamson I and II, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Elvis Presley, Lieber and Stoller, and Robert K. Weiss. Turn your backs now and you snuff out the fragile candles of Blues, R&B and Soul, and when those flames flicker and expire, the light of the world is extinguished because the music which has moved mankind through seven decades leading to the millennium will whither and die on the vine of abandonment and neglect."
- Elwood J. Blues
14 years later since Elwood made that speech, he accurately prophesied the state of pop music in the 2010's as they are (except Grunge is dead and Rap is more verbal than violent anymore) case in point: Ke$ha, Rebecca Black, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Pitbull, Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, One Direction, Lil' Wayne, and every last auto-tuned teen, tween, hipster, emo, and digitally sampled amateur out there in the mainstream music industry or on YouTube. There are however a few good modern artists that keep the spirit of Rock N' Roll alive like Fitz & The Tantrums, Muse, Jack Johnson, Ben Folds Five, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, The Killers, Coldplay, Ingrid Michaelson, Adele, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters, and Pharrell Williams. I remember watching an interview Larry King (from CNN's Larry King Live) made on his YouTube Channel with Slash from Guns N' Roses where he was asked the question about whether or not If Rock N' Roll is dead as a music genre in today's society and he said that there needs to be a scene for a new revolution of that music genre but skeptics say that the genre is "outdated":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jffnePIT2nA
"Restriction breeds creativity." - Sheldon Menery on EDH / Commander in Magic: The Gathering
"Cancel Culture is the real reason why everyone's not allowed to have nice things anymore." - Anonymous
"For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?" - Mark 8:36
"Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"Every life decision is always a risk / reward proposition." - Sanjay Gupta
It is hard to believe that rock is dead when Fun. was the biggest band of 2012 and Imagine Dragons is one of the biggest ones right now.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
The beatles I could care less about. Nirvana I could care less about. I see teenagers today walking around with more Nirvana shirts more than ever. A Nirvana shirt is the new "misfit" shirt it seems. You live in Boca Raton- drive north to some local punk rock/rock bands that play here in Palm Beach. It's hard to become a nationally known band the past 10 years so the local and statewide bands are thriving.
https://www.facebook.com/EVERYMEN.MUSIC
https://www.facebook.com/rabbitsofrock
https://www.facebook.com/shotgunbettymusic
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Toilets/126232384094583
All of those bands have played in Palm Beach in less than a month. You may or may not like them it's all opinion. Once you turn 18 your options will greatly increase on music you can go see live. Respectablesin West Palm Beach usually has a lot of live band shows as well as Propaghanda Lake Worth. I work at the 50's diner howleys part time and we have all the latest flyers and advertisements hanging and posted all over the diner. You're more than welcome to say hello my name is Jake. I'm twice your age but I'll be happy to point you in the right direction.
Edit: just read page 2's posts. Wtf is it with people and the beatles?! So they put down the foundation for faster music to be acceptable. OK....and what else?! Will I not understand unless I take acid and listen to yellow submarine or annoying pop songs about teenage love? There are some band followers I will never understand and the beatles and Nirvana are one of them. Elvis I could understand. Sorry just my .02
Seriously. I didn't get it either at first, and then I listened to their discography. They're a sensational band. Every member of the band was an excellent musician. All of the modern music scene is influenced by them. They invented metal. It's difficult to over-compliment them, or overstate how revolutionary they were.
Wait, Pharrell Williams?