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Rock Music is DEAD

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Brigade du jour

20:01 / 21.11.04

Rock will die with Lemmy, not before ...

Loathe as I am to resorting to petty musical semantics, I'm going to resort to petty musical semantics by pointing out to Harrison Ford that there are many, many other forms of music than rock and dance.

I'm not going to insult hir intelligence by naming names, but hey. Just wanted to throw that up the flagpole ... see if it bites.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:31 / 21.11.04

Urgh! You like It Bites. You just said so. Urgh.

Regrettable Juvenilia

22:10 / 21.11.04

"Stoop all the clooks
Cut off the telephoon
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy boon..."

Saint Keggers

22:18 / 21.11.04

You can take my drum solo away when you pry it from my cold dead hands!

Rock will NEVER die!!!

lekvar

22:35 / 21.11.04

The truth is that rock not only is dead, but has been dead since the mid-seventies. Then it died again in the eighties and once again in the nineties.

Face facts, people- Rock is undead!
Long live Zombie Rock!

Brigade du jour

22:39 / 21.11.04

'Zombie-rock'? What, like Thriller?

ONLY NICE THINGS

22:45 / 21.11.04

Rock and dance are both dead. I only listen to circuit bending.

charrellz

02:27 / 22.11.04

I listen to whatever winamp shuffles to.

Genres are dead.

Saint Keggers

03:14 / 22.11.04

Yeah..let's see you take that musical equality and tolerance love all sentiment to a mosh pit! They'll kick your commie hippy face in till you die...then you'll end up a winamputee if you're f-ing lucky!

Haus of Mystery

12:53 / 22.11.04

there are many, many other forms of music than rock and dance.

Oh yeah? Like what?

William Sack

12:56 / 22.11.04

World.

And don't try to tell me that World is dead.

The Natural Way

13:15 / 22.11.04

What "World"? I've heard of Country and Western, Rap and Classical, but not World. And, anyway, regardless, a genre's dead when it's no longer relevant. No one even knows what World or Western are anymore, so for all intents and purposes, they must be dead.

"World"!

HA! Snort!

William Sack

13:23 / 22.11.04

"World" makes me snort too - I think it means music that is not British or American. But look in HMV or Tower Records. There's a tiny section called "World" (stuck in the basement or top floor) so it must be a genre.

ibis the being

14:31 / 22.11.04

"World" used to be code for "reggae" until reggae started getting its own section.

The Natural Way

21:14 / 22.11.04

No, no, no "World" doesn't exist.

Welcome, the future is dance....

COLIN FAVER!

Brigade du jour

14:00 / 23.11.04

Hello, MacGyver? You're clearly not a jazz enthusiast then.

I can lend you some of my magazines if you'd like.

_Boboss

14:03 / 23.11.04

ooh, i'd love to have a look at your jazz-mags thanks very much.

(who wasn't waiting for that?)

Brigade du jour

14:18 / 23.11.04

Cheers Gumbitch, glad somebody took the, ahem, bait.

_Boboss

14:35 / 23.11.04

trust me, the pleasure was mine.

haus of fraser

14:42 / 23.11.04

Having been convinced that Rock is dead i've got no choice but to sell my prize assetts on ebay if you haven't woken up to the truth you may want to bid...

Also in creating the new me is this a good place to start? I'm a bit confused by the old skool new skool thing - are these records good or shit?

Mirror

00:31 / 24.11.04

I'll give you an example. I put on The Rapture at a 500 capacity venue & 150 people turned up.

The reason for that would be that the Rapture are ass. A friend of mine's nephew is in the band, so I've had the opportunity to see them a few times. They wouldn't know a decent lyric if it walked up and raped Luke Jenner's vocal chords.

That'd be fun to watch, actually. To be fair, I have to give them props for the creative use of cowbell. But that's about it.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

08:37 / 25.11.04

"They wouldn't know a decent lyric if it walked up and raped Luke Jenner's vocal chords."

Yeah 'cos rape's so funny isn't it? No it isn't. At all. EVER!

Can someone at least try & formulate an argument as to why Rock isn't dead, in the "popular" / "fashionable" sense. I mean this was the purpose of the thread.

Stop trolling this thread.

lord nuneaton savage

10:51 / 25.11.04

Right, here we go again.
Rock is not dead. It is, perhaps, unfashionable but it is not dead.

It has been a great year for rock, dance, pop and, for all I know, Bulgarian jazz. Music is good at the moment, there are great gigs on all the time. I've seen packed houses for everyone from Sunburned Hand of the Man to the re-formed MC5 to the sodding Datsuns (and next week LIGHTNING BOLT! COME ON!).

People are going to these gigs and coming away excited and inspired before going to a club and dancing their hind legs off to LCD Soundsystem and Mia.

It's not a war. You don't have to choose between the two, and, as far as I can see, people aren't.

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

10:58 / 25.11.04

"Rock is not dead. It is, perhaps, unfashionable but it is not dead."

In the eyes of popular culture Rock is Dead, this is what is being suggested in this thread.
Yet again we have another, but i love rock it's not dead, look there's some great bands that people really like and bla bla bla bla...

Yeah Yeah, i like Lightning Bolt, they're ace & oh my god shock horror there's quite a few bands around that are making good music that people like. However as apopular movement ROCK IS DEAD.

Dance is back.

Anyway Lightning Bolt sound more like drum 'n' bass with live instruments than rock. They're popular because they've embraced dance music & are taking it to another level.

Dance Music.

Haus Of Pain

11:27 / 25.11.04

No Way Man, No Way.

Rock will never DIE.

You pussies will be crying for some ROCK when dance music turns around and bites you on your ass!

YEAH!

Alex's Grandma

12:03 / 25.11.04

Didn't Lightning Bolt split up a few years ago though, after they recorded that football song ?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:53 / 25.11.04

In the eyes of popular culture Rock is Dead

C'mon, man, Ozzy can't take a shit without making the front page. Lemmy gets full-page interviews in the broadsheets. Keith fucking Richards is in the next big Johnny Depp blockbuster- AS A PIRATE!!!

Actually... maybe you have a point.

(shuffles awkwardly) Punk's still not dead though, right?

Baz Auckland

13:44 / 25.11.04

Ummm.. I think the new Wuss-Punk killed Punk dead...

BUT GREBO PREVAILS!

Char Aina

01:11 / 26.11.04

false dichotomy, dude.

all music is dance music, even rock music.
yes, all music.
you may doubt me, but this is because you just havent got the SKILLZ to dance to gregrian chant. or ambient whalesong techno.

Papess

02:07 / 26.11.04

I am with Toksik.

Yay! Get ya groove on ma brother!

Spaniel

Just because none of those guys are dead right now, doesn't mean I can't kill 'em.

Papess

06:36 / 26.11.04

Actually, I've danced to the Tragically Hip before.

Bobossboy: Back away from the can-con. You really don't want millions of mad Canadians beating a path to your door, burning you in effigy now, do you? The Hip are practically national treasures.

Easy feller.

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