From posting on this message board over the course of the last few months I get the impression that many people on here are mostly in favour of new electronic music, as opposed to new rock music. I sort of get the impression that the issue of rock music even being DEAD is one that is debated here, with threads based on the topic, and a lot of threads based on cynical outlooks or critical rapings of current popular trends in rock music. I believe someone even suggested a dystopian/utopian-like (take your pick) scenario where guitars were banned!
Now this, to me, sounds a lot like the Hip Hop is Dead issue that really burns my ass. I get very upset because, like many on this board, I feel it's not fair for someone who maybe doesn't understand or prefer new hip hop to dismiss it as being shit, or even more audaciously, being the cause of the entire genre's death.
I, as well as many of my friends, have been guilty on numerous occasions of sneering at new rock music and dismissing the new, popular rock crowd as being sort of culturally backwards or lost. I realize this may not be fair now, and perhaps my general lack of understanding or involvement in the whole guitar music scene causes me to dismiss it in the same way new Southern hip hop is popularly dismissed.
So I wonder: Are there any people on this board who really rep new rock music the way I rep new hip hop, or grime, or dubstep? I'd like to hear someone's position on new rock music who actually feels very strongly about new rock music and doesn't have any "true-school" biases, or prejudices against it that arise from primarily being interested in another genre.
It's funny because for a period in my youth, I listened to a lot of stuff that was coming out around the whole Brit-pop era: Blur, Radiohead, Oasis, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, Pulp. In High School I listened to a lot of different kind of rock bands here and there too, taking a particular liking to a lot of old punk music, but still the Britpop stuff always strikes a chord with me.
This reveals to me that at one point I was perfectly ok with and throroughly enjoyed popular, mainstream rock music, and probably still would if I heard something like that. The last band I remember liking was Queens of the Stone Age.
So no rock snobs here - just enthusiasts. Reveal yourselves and tell me what's really really good. Seperate the good from the bad. Tell me what you think of the notion of "rock being dead". Are we all just a bunch of genos and skids who are up our own asses?
Just for interest's sake.
...and possibly to ignite a self-righteous mass lynching of boys in tight jeans with make-up on.
Now this, to me, sounds a lot like the Hip Hop is Dead issue that really burns my ass. I get very upset because, like many on this board, I feel it's not fair for someone who maybe doesn't understand or prefer new hip hop to dismiss it as being shit, or even more audaciously, being the cause of the entire genre's death.
I, as well as many of my friends, have been guilty on numerous occasions of sneering at new rock music and dismissing the new, popular rock crowd as being sort of culturally backwards or lost. I realize this may not be fair now, and perhaps my general lack of understanding or involvement in the whole guitar music scene causes me to dismiss it in the same way new Southern hip hop is popularly dismissed.
So I wonder: Are there any people on this board who really rep new rock music the way I rep new hip hop, or grime, or dubstep? I'd like to hear someone's position on new rock music who actually feels very strongly about new rock music and doesn't have any "true-school" biases, or prejudices against it that arise from primarily being interested in another genre.
It's funny because for a period in my youth, I listened to a lot of stuff that was coming out around the whole Brit-pop era: Blur, Radiohead, Oasis, Supergrass, Super Furry Animals, Pulp. In High School I listened to a lot of different kind of rock bands here and there too, taking a particular liking to a lot of old punk music, but still the Britpop stuff always strikes a chord with me.
This reveals to me that at one point I was perfectly ok with and throroughly enjoyed popular, mainstream rock music, and probably still would if I heard something like that. The last band I remember liking was Queens of the Stone Age.
So no rock snobs here - just enthusiasts. Reveal yourselves and tell me what's really really good. Seperate the good from the bad. Tell me what you think of the notion of "rock being dead". Are we all just a bunch of genos and skids who are up our own asses?
Just for interest's sake.
...and possibly to ignite a self-righteous mass lynching of boys in tight jeans with make-up on.
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] - none of them particularly stress the electronic angle or share much stylistically. Three of them are Japanese where these things are known to be done with a higher level of attention to detail.
