[atsonicpark]

everything in popular culture has went downhill since the 80's really.

[batreleaser]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

everything in popular culture has went downhill since the 80's really.

amen. ever since then weve had to go deeper into the underground for good tunes. even college rock today is shit frat music. even popular literature has gone downhill. the only thing in the mainstream that is still good is film. especially the past year or so, theres been a lot of big budget flicks thatr i have loved.

[Glice]

Yeah, and wasn't trepanning so much better than these modern fangled MRI machines?

[✌➬]

Umm, not anytime soon. Who cares, enjoy music. Carry on.

[demonrail666]

No, let's discuss the trepanning issue. It's far more interesting than Rock Gods, surely. And i say this as one of the few people on here who still reads Q magazine!

[viewtiful_alan]

Originally Posted by demonrail666

I can definitely see a time soon when the saturation of bands like Coldplay, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, etc, creates a massive critical backlash that will pave the way for a new Guns n Roses type outfit to once again clean up - which will, in itself, lead to yet another Radiohead-of-sorts, and so on. The depressing predictability of Rock is how it never seems able (at least in terms of its more commercial A-List) to break out of this cycle. There's always another Slash waiting in the wings, just as there's always another Jonny Greenwood.

Yeah, and while both have their strengths... one is always infinitley more entertaining to see.

I mean part of teh fun of rock and roll is that its supposed to frighten the elderly... I mean I'm sure part of the fun of liking metal in the eighties was the fact that the pmrc and religous groups were throwing an absolute fit about it..
When your parents music was more scandolous and rowdy than your generation's is something's wrong.
I mean like I've said there's always room for the mellow artists, but when even the "rock" bands have no real star quality there's a problem.
There also seems to be a lack of classic singers either (no morrisons, plants, or hell even osbornes...)

Another truth that I think isn't really faced is that in mainstream music culture, rap is the new rock... it still shocks, and while there is barely any creativity going on in the genre any more, there are still some genuine stars of that genre.

Rap is where music went after Kurt Cobain died and people got tired of the lame post-grunge shit thruted upon us by the radio.

[Cantankerous]

i love some rap

most of the rap i like happened 20-30 years ago though

grandmaster flash ftw
and NWA

[viewtiful_alan]

That was when it was musically interestsing.... even if NWA were shit heads in real life.

I mean you listen to Public Enemy and then you hear Soulja Boy and you just get sad how much mainstream rap has regressed...

[Cantankerous]

lol @ soulja boy


YOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[viewtiful_alan]

I mean what the fuck....
XD
Learn the soulja boy (and many other shit modern rappers) method of song writing: Punch buttons on your cell phone in a pattern until you find something that sounds 'catchy', repeat it for five minutes, and brag about yourself in the third person in less than 10 words for those five minutes.

[Cantankerous]

basically

they're making shitloads of money off it though

[viewtiful_alan]

Yeah...
Doesn't make it cool... XD
Haha I have to hear it far to often, so I can't even give them credit for exploitation XD

[demonrail666]

The problem with the current crop of Rap 'Gods' is that they really are the genre's least interesting figures (musically at least). Say what you like about Clapton, Hendrix, etc, but at least in their day they were on the cutting edge of what they did. you just can't say the same about someone like P. Diddy.

[viewtiful_alan]

I don't know, Lil wayne is pretty interesting.
And Kanye is if nothing a dynamic person... XD

But yeah. Its easy to forget clapton's awesomemness when he became such a wimpy shit head in the eighties...

[Dr. Eugene Felikson]

I can't read a metal magazine without drowning in articles on Disturbed or Corey Taylor's recent onslaught of suck.

 

 

*spews in mouth*

[viewtiful_alan]

I don't think that qualifies as rock god.
I don't think the kids really go crazy for these people
And I doubt either one of them will be immortalized in later generations.

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson

 

Wow. Do people actually take a band that looks like that remotely seriously?

[Dr. Eugene Felikson]

You're lucky if you've never crossed the path of a dim witted teen who swore on either band/artist as the best thing since sliced bread. They breed like rabbits 'round these parts.

[viewtiful_alan]

All the pre-teens who think their problems are unique an life shattering seem to think they are the shit....
And who else thinks the name disturbed is a load of shit? XD
Charles Mannson was distrubed...these guys are just unnecessarily angsty (in the worst way)

[demonrail666]

Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson

You're lucky if you've never crossed the path of a dim witted teen who swore on either band/artist as the best thing since sliced bread. They breed like rabbits 'round these parts.

Haha, I'm sure. although i did have the misfortune recently of having to endure someone trying at great length to convince me that Avenged Sevenfold would totally change my life.