Is Rock Dead?

[Hydrazoic Acid]

Rock isn't dead. As Airbourne sang:

"As long as you're alive and we're alive
Rock'n'Roll will never die
From the southern stars to northern lights
Rock'n'Roll will survive..."

 

[Tray73]

Is rock dead? - I used to naively think it was on its last legs with very few really good up and coming rock bands, but I've definitely had my opinion changed in these last few years. You just have to take a look/listen at some of the bands in this thread http://www.classicrockforums.com/forum/f20/retro-heavy-psych-metal-prog-10368/ to see rock is very much alive. Also the resurgence of vinyl (I read that vinyl record sales are at their highest since 1991) I think can only bode well for rock music.



Tenacious D - Rock Is Dead

 

[Big Ears]

I don't know. Who?

Was it Beyonce and Jay Z?

 

[Musikwala]

Who opened the Grammys this year?

No, rock is alive and well.

Beyonce and Jay Z?? :s

 

[Tray73]

Was it Beyonce and Jay Z?

All I know about this year's Grammys is that Queen Latifer married loads of people... or did I dream this

 

[Vehicle]

Who opened the Grammys this year?

No, rock is alive and well.

I don't know. Who?

Was it Beyonce and Jay Z?

Beyonce and Jay Z?? :s

*Note to self* Don't try to pull off facetiousness....you're no good at it.

 

[Big Ears]

*Note to self* Don't try to pull off facetiousness....you're no good at it.

 

[Vehicle]

Seriously, though...

There's no way rock will die, as long as people listen to it, love it, and are inspired to make their own music because of it.

People take what they hear, and those things are the things they carry with them and show up, in a different form or interpretation, in the music they write.

That's why we call it the evolution of music.

At it's core, though, rock is there.

Good music back then, and it's still good now, but let's face it...it'd be pretty boring if everything put out today sounded just like everything from 30 or 40 years ago.

 

[Johnny-Too-Good]

When I initiated this thread it wasn't because I believe Rock to be dead. I merely wanted to provoke a debate to see people's views and where everyone think's we stand on this issue. It appears to me that the genre is changing at a very fast rate of knots, and is a completely different animal to that which many of us grew up with. It's a comfortable option to just stick with what you know, but I'd like to be in touch with any new bands who are breaking. The thing is, increasingly, you've got to search round the net to find them, as you aint going to be hearing them on your favourite radio station.

 

[Vehicle]

It appears to me that the genre is changing at a very fast rate of knots, and is a completely different animal to that which many of us grew up with.

I don't think it's changing, but growing.

It just keeps getting added to, picked apart, folded, dyed, cut up, etc.

But, what we have is still there, still the same.