Is rock dead?

[zoose]

Elvis is dead.
Lennon is dead.
The record industry maybe...

Rock and Roll will never die.
About 50 light years out from Earth - like an expanding bubble - are the first AM radio rock and roll signals, speeding at the velocity of light.
They passed Alpha Centauri long ago and are racing on to other stars, and in some distant time may be picked up by an advanced alien culture.

Then Little green-blue-purple Men will be rockin the oldies long after we are all mold.

Rock and Roll will cover the Universe

So Let It Be Written
So Let It Be Done

 

[zoose]

For some people rock is dead
I mean I hear to classic rock in front of my friends and they say
"Ew,why do you hear this old awful music?Listen to techno"
I can't believe that they compare ROCK with TECHNO!!!
I tried to explain them about classic rock,so I told them to hear "Stairway To Heaven"
They all hated the song.Yeah that's right.They hated stairway to heaven..
As I said,for some people rock is dead
But for me it's ALIVE!!!

My parents also hated Stairway to Heaven.
Could it be these people are the risen dead of my parents' generation?

Wave some Brylcreem and Guy Lombardo records under their noses and see if they get all excited.

What surprises me is that young teens - and even rednecks in pickups - prefer "hard rock". I once heard a country/western song with the lyrics
"we are young country-
-we like old Waylon and we like Van Halen"

Whenever I hire young men to work my land they always have their radios tuned to the local classic rock stations.
Makes me wonder if hip hoppers and grungers ever do any hard work.

 

[billtjr51]

Simple answer, Rock is alive and well. There are outstanding new rock bands constantly putting out music. If you want to live in the 60's & 70's and listen to the same music you liked then, by the same bands you liked then, (there are tons of great old music), maybe you could get burned out. Rock musicians(young and old) are still cranking out new good music! And the rock from the beginning is still great!

 

[Laser_Jerry]

Simple answer, Rock is alive and well. There are outstanding new rock bands constantly putting out music. If you want to live in the 60's & 70's and listen to the same music you liked then, by the same bands you liked then, (there are tons of great old music), maybe you could get burned out. Rock musicians(young and old) are still cranking out new good music! And the rock from the beginning is still great!

Right on! For me, the new rock breathes new life into the older stuff when its mixed together. A lot of the new stuff sounds great right next to the great classics.

 

[wolfsblood]

The big money today seems to be in rap, pop and country. Green Day's American Idiot of 2004 was an exception.
You young guys in your twenties don't remember a time when rock music was at its peak. In 1979 we had Pink Floyd's The Wall, Led Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door, Van Halen II, The Knack'***** single My Sharona, Head Games by Foreigner, Dynasty by Kiss, Back To The Egg by Wings, Tusk by Fleetwood Mac, Highway To Hell by AC/DC, Night In The Ruts by Aerosmith, and many others all in just one year. And those bands were not old novelty acts, they were kicking ass.

 

[Hepcat]

The big money today seems to be in rap, pop and country.

While I'm not sure that rock is dead, you're right about that point. Rock is not where the big money is these days - other than in the tours being staged by the dinosaur rockers.

It's the Billboard charts that tell the tale though. While rock tunes were all over the charts forty years ago, how many are on the charts these days? The charts are dominated by hiphop and dance divas.

 

[Alocer]

No music form is ever "dead" in my opinion...It may go dormant or not be the big money maker at the time but that isn't the judge of rock n roll in my opinion.

Rock was never about selling the most records or how long you stayed on the billboard charts (even though "Darkside of the Moon" is a record holder in that division) its about bringing quality music to fans. A few new bands have been listed, but no matter what, there will be others as great as the old favorites.

I am a fan of all forms of music (Techno included) and feel that the over digitized sound will slowly give way to a bounce back of organic melodies reminiscent of older tunes. It can even be heard in some techno tunes where they use analog synths to convey deeper bass tones or a grittier sound....

But to knock on any form of music knocks on the Pandora's box of taste. Careful with that one.....

These are all my opinions and as such are bias based on my age and experiences.

 

[Dave78]

This decade, the 00s, has seen the end of great rock. Only the old guys like AC/DC and Metallica still no how to make a real rock record. Forgive me but Nickelback and other Creed clones sound very lame to me. The album format is pretty much a thing of the past thanks to digital downloads. I don't see any current bands making any lasting impact, they all suck. Am I wrong?

Rock bands seem to have an expiration date so I have no expectation they will rock today like they did 20 or 30 years ago (see: Aerosmith, U2, Metallica). That's what I rely on their back-catalog for.

Bands like Creed, Staind and Nickelback may suck compared to what WE grew up on, but today's teenagers are their demographic, not us. We just have to make the best out of what is out there.

And there are some very good rock bands out there that are new to this decade in Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, Crossfade, Fireball Minisrty and Rev Theory. A couple other very good bands who got their start in the late 90's are VAST and Lacuna Coil.

It may not always be easy to find, but there is good music out there. Good luck!

 

[LG]

Missed this one somehow.

Rock is definitely alive and kicking, even if some of the best albums were released by old dinosaurs, there are Plenty of ass kicking bands in Europe that remind me of the 90's in North America, more bands than I can list here have found their way into my library, and while they are not inventing anything brand new, they have rekindled my interest in rock music again.

 

[Magic]

Rock music is alive and thriving. Even guitar rock is thriving....

The newer breed of guitar rock artists include John Mayer, Derek Trucks, John Frusciante, Adam Jones, Jack White, Nels Cline, John Cobbett, Buckethead, Jonny Greenwood, Johnny Marr, Joe Bonamassa, and there are so many more that it would take me a while to list them.

The music and the artists are out there, you just have to listen to the newer music with an open mind. You can't sit back and say "rock is dead" if you don't venture out into the newer music world. Of course these new artists aren't going to sound like the bands of the 70's or 80's, they aren't suppose to! This is the new era of music and they are making a new sound, even if it is considered "alternative". A lot of the newer bands I have to listen to a couple times to appreciate them, but the same gasps and ewww's came from our parents when they heard our music of the 70's