I didn't think you were a fan. Did you f'ing watch I KNOW WHO KILLED ME yet??

again, I am speaking of the general flux and ebb of pop music. not about specific bands.
I am waiting for it to ebb back towards aggressive angry cathartic rawk.

I recently stopped listening to rock as much as I did a few years ago. And by rock I mean anything with guitars. Except for live bands, and the odd venture into the murky world CDs featuring boys with guitars

And yet, even so, I could tell you there's a shit-ton of music that completely fits your criteria. Herrs Death and Bowels have named a good 20 that bring that sort of thing. Herrs Park and Releaser go on about it all the fucking time. That sounds like a complaint, but what I'm actually saying is that you have, in front of you, that you're looking at right now a MASSIVE resource of EXACTLY the sort of thing you want, and complain about there being a lack of. Which is to say, you are a river-bound horse saying "no man, I ain't drinking that ROCK water, that ROCK water doesn't ROCK".

not complaining of a LACK. complaining of a shift in the masses where they seek out the soft shit, and it will remain so, to clog the used CD bins of the next ten years, much like all the 70's singer songwriter crap cloggged up and continues to clog up the used vinyl bins.

why are you so fixated on music you dislike, why don't you just ignore it? do you even check out the bands people (i.e. us) recommend you? we're trying to do you a favour!
who gives a fuck about fleet foxes?! i think i heard one of there songs once, and it sucked (sounds like the beach boys with their balls cut off right?), but who fucking cares? aside from the musical aberation that was nirvana there haven't been any good popular rock bands since the 70s so what does it matter if you have to dig deeper, it's hardly new.

fuck it I am gonna listen to techno

bleep blee blooop

hell yeah I check it out. again, you are focusing on specifics when I am talking about the pop music as a whoe, trends and ebbs and flows.

fuck trends!

SYG is as great as ever!!!!!!

Rob, only teenagers care about trends, or pop music. Seriously, you're older than me, and there are people posting here who are realised at the age of 16 how futile it is wanting the popular musical landscape to fit your (narrowly-defined) musical desires. If you want good music that 'skronks up to 11', listen to Marras, Bowels, Park, Releaser and all the others. If you want to whinge till the end of time about something most people stop caring about by the time they've graduated then...well, I see you've already found the internet.

Alternately, pop music is in the best health it's been in in my memory.

Also, techno music was, in part, a reaction to the rock dinosaurs. You don't see that because you really are too old for popular culture. As am I. As are most people here.

i think i agree.


if only because of She Wolf and Party in the USA. but agree nonetheless

I love "Party In The USA". I think it's one of the absolute best singles of 2009. Seriously.

I hate you all.



EDIT: for liking that song.

Given how much I raved about Breakout it might surprise you to note I don't really like Party in the USA.

don't worry bout it dawg

just conversin'.

SYG is alive and well!!!!!!

I guess that is the genius of what may be the greatest oppening line in literature

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I actually do think techno and its sub-genres are doing pretty well right now.

edit- it gets the kids to go every halloween.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDi2PVKlKmU

I've been getting pretty heavily back into dubstep of late. I'm only a good 6 years late getting on the ball with that. You're right though. I'm not sure if 'proper' techno still exists, but the guys following it are doing pretty well for themselves.

Well everything is just a derivative from techno. What gets kids dancing over here is electro. I haven't listened to any dubstep, what is good from that genre.