Is rock and roll dead?

[NJmaverick]

or long live rock?

I personally think that we may be seeing it in its death throes

[Strong Atheist]

1. Recommended,

dammit! x(

[peekaloo]

2. It was coughing up blood last night.

or was it merely resting?

[Deep13]

3. It's in its final illness. nt

[Mr. Ected]

4. No way.

It's simply been hijacked by corporate America. The artists still exist and still write and perform great rock and roll. It just doesn't reach the mainstream.

I am right about this. Aren't I?

[baldguy]

5. It should be, but it isn't.

[old mark]

6. One of the ORIGINAL rock and roll stars still plays several hundred

gigs every year since the mid '50's, and still is kicking ass for a living with ZERO media support.

Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis. He is certainly in the minority, but then he always was.
He will be 74 this September.


See; www.jerryleelewis.com/


markO8)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Never fear. Creed is reuniting.

Rock n' Roll, thy savior is Scott Stapp.

[Sebastian Doyle]

32. Even JESUS hates Creed!

Seriously, He told me He thinks Stapp is a douchebag.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

8. Does anyone even make rock music today?

I'm not sure we ever hear 'new' rock and roll nowadays, do we?

[NJmaverick]

9. That's why I think it could be considered dead or dying

they are living on past work

[mitchum]

13. Hey, keep it down! What if the mythologists hear you say that?

You'll break their hearts. And wallets.

[SteppingRazor]

15. Who? Who's living on past work?

I mean, granted, Bruce Springsteen doesn't get his new stuff played on the radio, but as I said in my post below, there's tons of contemporary rock bands putting out great music.

[Swede]

10. Surely you know some young dudes in rock bands.

I know plenty,so no,it is not dying.

[mitchum]

11. Of course, it's alive; it's the eternal soundtrack of youth...

wait a minute...no...it's not

[SteppingRazor]

12. Course not.

There's tons of great contemporary rock bands (see The Hold Steady)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. Music is always evolving and morphing into something. It builds

onto what it has learned and as technology allows for new and different ways to conduct sound. Music is an experiment of the soul longing to be heard.

[scheming daemons]

16. rock and roll is always changing.... now it's punk-pop like Green Day and Fall Out Boy

that is popular...

[Xithras]

29. Or modern rock like Linkin Park, Kings of Leon, or Franz Ferdinand.

The rock of today may not sound like the rock of Zappa, Elvis, or the Beatles, but you can draw a direct evolutionary line between the alternative rock/modern rock/punk-pop bands of today and the rock and rollers of decades past.

Just because the old farts don't like the sound of the youthful rock of today, doesn't mean it's not rock.

[mix]

17. probably, i've moved on and on and on

[Tikki]

18. There are two teen bands in my neighborhood and on my...

daily walks across town I've heard a few more. They all play
what they consider Rock & Roll. Who knows they may be right.

Tikki

[Jetboy]

19. Yes.

But emo-grind-core-thrash lives on.

[Common Sense Party]

20. It's been dead for a while.

[JuniperLea]

21. I had too much to dream last night.... eom

[yy4me]

22. R & R will live so long as there are old timers like me who

remember the great ones.

After we're gone, it will be heralded as the golden age off music. Songs were songs, with beat, rhythm, coherent lyrics and the ability to inspire all of us.

What passes today for music leaves me(an old timer) flat and it does to my children who are in their 40's.

[Steely_Dan]

23. Yep.

The last chance it had was with Seattle grunge...

-P

[NJmaverick]

26. I'm thinking that pretty much was its last chance

[DBoon]

24. it's not dead

It's just pining for the fjords

[bbernardini]

25. Damn. Beat me to it. nt

[DBoon]

37. yes Norwegian death metal is the future of rock

music of the fjords!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

27. Like Frank Zappa said, "Jazz isn't dead...it just smells funny."

Seriously, what do we have left? The dinosaurs are still out there, plodding through their "greatest hist," cranking out the occasional new studio album of songs no one wants to hear, and those young whipper-snappers want to infect the music with "beats" and bullshit. I'm sorry, when it comes to rap, I agree with a statement Gregg Allman made when interviewed by MTV at the R&R Hall Of Fame Awards a few years ago: "Rhymes with CRAP."

Rock and Roll...in the Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee, Little Richard way...

...OR in the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Who way...

is dead'r 'n' a frikkin DOORNAIL, except for occasional spurts of brilliance.

Like Lemmy. And Neil. Everyone else can bite me.

:grouphug:

[kwassa]

28. Rock isn't dead, it just endlessly recycles itself, waiting for a better replacement.

It hasn't had any new ideas in 30 years or so, just periodic revivals of different aspects of it.

The world of music is vast, and rock and roll is one tiny part of it.

[BlueJazz]

30. I usually judge a rock song by either a great "Hook" or how hard the ....

...tune/arrangement is to learn.
Take my word for it..the stuff that's played on the Top 100 now could be learn by a person that would ordinarily be known as: "She/He Sucks"

[cemaphonic]

33. "easy to play" has always kinda been a part of rock

Yeah, there's plenty of rock virtuosos out there, but there's also stuff like "Louie, Louie."

[BlueJazz]

35. True...but at least, most Rock in the past 30 (or so) years took more than...

...a passing knowledge of chords and required a decent Solo or two in the song.

My "Take" on the modern pop music scene is the stuff sounds like the "B" side of some Hit.
I guess what I'm trying to say is ..even a song like "Long Train running" was fairly interesting in that it had some stops and
a nice intro.
Now the stuff just drones on...no form or solos or depth just...ah...well "B" side stuff...

[Captain Hilts]

31. Death throes. nt

[madinmaryland]

34. Rush killed rock and roll 25 years ago.

:popcorn:

[mix]

36. +5-0!

[ghostsofgiants]

38. Fuck no.

And anyone who thinks it is is just lazy, arrogant, or both.