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Rock Music is DEAD

 
  

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Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
10:35 / 17.11.04
Rock Music is so Dead. Dance music is the ONLY new innovative music we're hearing these days.

It's a shame rock music is dead, but it is. FACT.

What's that you say? What is this "Dance" music?

It's the new Rock music, i've just told you, idiot.

Shame rock's dead i was quite enjoying it. Not as much as Dance music though.

For people in denial of this death. Watch the news, read a paper, talk to someone. It's dead. DEAD i tell you.
 
 
Sax
10:52 / 17.11.04
The above post has fallen through a wormhole from 1990 and should be treated with extreme caution.
 
 
lord nuneaton savage
10:57 / 17.11.04
What ignorant blaggard told you this? Send him to me and I shall settle his hash forthwith!

Has he not heard the insightful lyricism and polished production of the latest Elvis Costello album?

Has the super-sonic return of riverdancing wind in the hair fenians U2 passed him by completely?

And what of the latest album from the giant indie band REM?

Speak man! Tell me from whence you gained this information!
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:01 / 17.11.04
Hang on... are Keane rock?
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
11:03 / 17.11.04
No, Keane are shit.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
11:06 / 17.11.04
No it's 2004 & Rock music is DEAD.

The Darkness can't sell out thier gigs, on the last tour they attempted they had to cancel 5 of the 12 dates. Franz Ferdinand have been told by thier label that if the new single to be released doesn't sell as well as the last they'll be dropped.

British TV ads are already mimicking modern Rock bands. Even the kids think guitars are dull.

It's a shame but it's true. It's ok rockers you can still listen to your old records and wear tight black trousers, members only jackets and winkle pickers. You'll just have to do it in private, so you don't get chased down the street by a group of "on the money" 15 year old calling you "sad".

Come on it's ok, things change. I've checked out some of the new dance music it's bloody good. Matthew Jonson, Ricardo Villalobos, Darqwan, Mocky, Dexter, D.I.E etc etc.

They all look pretty presentable physically as well. Feel the new wave.

Get that guitar amp out ma way hippie!
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
11:14 / 17.11.04

1: U2? Are they rock. They certainly don't ROCK!
2: Bono wears ski classes
3: U2 have been huge for years, they're not part of a growing fashionable movement.

4: REM. Rock? Please?
5: Elvis Costello. Do me a favour. Go get a Fall album.

6: Keane are Rock i suppose, in the modern pop sense. Music for Rugby lads affraid to show any emotion. 10 years ago area managers would be turning it up in the new ford sierra on the m25.

I'm not saying people don't make rock music any more, or even that good rock music isn't getting made. It's just lost popularity in a major way. The scene is struggling.

Rock is DEAD. Embrace the change!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:14 / 17.11.04
I thought Dance was dead and all the dance clubs had been shut, only to be reopened as school disco clubs?

Rock will never die Harrison, because it says something to people emotionally. Does Judge Jules feel my pain? I think not.
 
 
Sax
11:17 / 17.11.04
Norman Cook's new album is suspiciously full of guitars.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
11:20 / 17.11.04
Judge Jules is a tit. He was part of the old movement.

Get with it, check out the new school.

R U All Stuck in the past.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
11:21 / 17.11.04
Norman Cook's album full of guitars? Yes.

Probably why his album fell out of the top 75 after 3 weeks.

This is my point, even old dance acts that are trying to be all rock are suffering.

Rock is DEAD
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
11:29 / 17.11.04
You've obviously never seen GuitarWolf...
 
 
haus of fraser
11:39 / 17.11.04
I think Harrison just did his first pill and pawned his pantera collection the next day cos a girl looked at him dreamily.

dude i was around in 1988 when people said it and meant it - just like you think you do- sadly you are deluded.

Now go join the megadog tribe.

hopefully a tent in tolworth where there's no broadband may wake you up to the idiocy of your comments.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
11:58 / 17.11.04
I was around the as well, back in the day, going to schoom & the brain. It was great, but's it's the past.

Stopped taking pills, married.

However i do like rock music, my record collection is full of it. There was a time a few months back when i could drop a dance track, then drop a rock track & peopled loved it. However it's becoming really hard to do that now.

Unfortunately Rock's not cool anymore (much as i enjoy it)

The popular rock scene is dying out, it'll have to go underground. The mainstream view it as DEAD.

The majors got on it as they do & fucked it up for all the rockers. I've been putting on gigs for years & rock gigs just don't sell anymore.

I'll give you an example. I put on The Rapture at a 500 capacity venue & 150 people turned up. At the same venue i put on a clone records nigh with Dexter, Alden Tyrell & Egyptian lover & 650 people turned up. We were turning people away. This keeps happening with gigs. Everyone in the industry is banging on about it. The press will probably pick up on it soon.

Then you'll all be like; "Oh I love dance music"

Rock is DEAD. Gutted but it is.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:01 / 17.11.04
Honestly, I was SURE he was taking the piss at first too, reader. And now we're not so sure, are we?
 
 
w1rebaby
12:03 / 17.11.04
I'd say something but Sax has already made the perfect post, at the perfect time. Surely there should be some sort of award for that. I suggest a big cake in the shape of Shaun Ryder.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
12:10 / 17.11.04
You would say that you old rocker. Shawn Ryder he was dance then went all rock. He's really popular now isn't he?

No he's not.

Dust off the cob webs Grandad, you're roady days are over.

It's true Dance music was fashionable a while ago, before rock got ressurected. Now rock is DEAD. Dance music is back & the new stuff is fuckin' good.

Check it out, don't be so small minded.

ROCK is dead, but you're not!
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
12:29 / 17.11.04
There are only two types of music, good music and bad music.

There are only two types of message board thread, interesting ones and inane ones.
 
 
charrellz
12:30 / 17.11.04
I have but one thing to say on this subject: Dexter hurts my soul.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:50 / 17.11.04
Norman Cock.
 
 
Sax
12:52 / 17.11.04
Judge Jizz.
 
 
_Boboss
12:59 / 17.11.04
who's not sure this is a joke? oh... shocking
 
 
Haus of Mystery
12:59 / 17.11.04
I've heard that dance musicians can sample guitars or even synthesise the sound of guitars!
Therefore I ask you: Where does that leave rock music!?
 
 
haus of fraser
13:26 / 17.11.04
is that you Steve?
 
 
Sir Real
13:37 / 17.11.04
I don't know what it's like on that side of the water, but over here (y'know, where it was invented) rock acts still fill large venues.


And don't even claim that it's because we have'nt caught onto 'dance' yet. We invented that too.

O.K., maybe we swiped it from the black folks, but they're American too.
 
 
_Boboss
13:39 / 17.11.04
dance music? american? rubbish. you mean ibizan mate.
 
 
Sir Real
13:47 / 17.11.04
O, I'll admit that other people do dance better than we do now, but that's just because we were still able to have rock.
 
 
_Boboss
13:53 / 17.11.04
?
 
 
Spaniel
13:57 / 17.11.04
To all my chums IRL but online. Doesn't Harrison's suit name remind you of someone?
 
 
Haus of Mystery
14:01 / 17.11.04
Yes. The actor Harrison Ford. I loved you in 'Air Force One' sir!

but that's just because we were still able to have rock.

Imagine all those third world countries who are...denied rock!
*sniff*
 
 
Sax
14:07 / 17.11.04
I know. Do they know it's Christmas, or what?
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
14:12 / 17.11.04
It's Christmas? WTF!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
14:39 / 17.11.04
Keane are Rock, I suppose... Music for Rugby lads afraid to show any emotion

I saw Keane on television the other day, and there were grown men in the crowd with tears streaming down their faces.
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
14:44 / 17.11.04
Those weren't tears.
 
 
sleazenation
14:45 / 17.11.04
if keane is music for rugby lads afraid to show emotion, is Dido music for rugby lads unafraid of their feminine side?
 
  

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