Rock isn't the same

alright, here's my 2 cents. Great bands today:

1. Foo Fighters
2. Scissor Sisters (say what you will)
3. Wolfmother
4. Scythian (look these guys up)
5. Queen + Paul Rodgers (sorry, had to do it)
6. My Chemical Romance

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Hadrian wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
How's SC Erin? I can't believe I'm gonna say it, but I miss that state. It's not the Real Carolina, but it was ok! ;)[/QUOTE]

Real Carolina?? I'll show you who's the real Carolina! ;-P

I also luuuv me some Foo, btw.

There's always been good bands and crap bands, and in my opinion anyone who thinks that today there are no good bands at all is close minded and is missing some good stuff.

We think of the great old bands like Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, when the 70s come to mind, but yet we forget that there was plenty of shit bands in those days. I won't mention names but they were most likely those that either had a spaceship or some futuristic image on the album cover, or bands that were named after a place.

Now, if we think about today's mainstream which is dominated by emo bands that sound exactly the same, then I'd have to say it's mostly a bunch of shit. However, there are great bands today that truly deserve a good chance to be heard like Wolfmother, Franz Ferdinand, and of course Muse.

I suggest people to give a chance to the new comers. Justr try not to follow the mainstream crap that MTV tries to shove down our throats.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Hadrian wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Adolfo wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Since nirvana, music has been shit[/QUOTE]

NIRVANA????? Foo Fighters kick Nirvana's ass anyday! Better musically by far. Kurt Cobain, overrated - he killed himself. Big f'ing deal![/QUOTE]

Hell no!!! Nirvana are one of teh greatest friggin bands of al time! Foo Fighters don't compare.

When I'm talking to my parents or something about old music I always hear things like, "Oh yeah (name of band) were great." But I can't imagine 20 years from now somebody saying, "Oh yeah Fall Out Boy, they were great!" or something like that. I think that musicians have just become lazy. I can't think of anybody who has the same amount of passion and love of music as Queen for example. And it does all sound the same these days. Queen had so much variety in their music. I don't know if anybody else has noticed, but every singer in a rock band sounds the exact same these days, they have the same voice it's really wierd. But no bands seem to have a distinct sound or identity these days. It's all just the same sound with a different tune. And it seems like it's all singing and nothing about the actual background music. I mean what ever happened to awesome guitar riffs and solos? They just don't exist anymore! There aren't any guitar heroes these days, unfortunately there will never be anyone like Jimi Hendrix again or Jimmy Page or Brian May...I could go on. It makes me really sad and annoyed that I can't enjoy my generation's music. I wish I lived in my parent's generation. (How often do you ever hear that?) I get really annoyed with people who are stuck in their little world of crap music like Justin Timberlake and Eminem and all these random rappers and emo artists and they have never even heard of Queen in their life. Unfortunately I come across too many of those people. It just makes me so mad that people seem to appreciate the lazy passionless crap that's around today over the amazing music of the 60's, 70's and 80's. Just talkin' bout my g-g-g-generation!!! (You know that song by the Who haha)

Sorry for my rant.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Lester Burnham wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Something tells me you need to start listening to other music that isn't Queen or what's considered popular in modern society. There's more music to be found in great indie bands like Yo La Tengo, Apostle of Hustle, Stars, The Decemberists, and so forth. There is excellent music out there - you just need to find it.[/QUOTE]

Indiemusic is extremely boring in my opinion. I have listened to those bands you are listing up. Decemberists are alright, but cant be compared to Queens quality at all.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Sir GH<br><h6>ah yeah</h6> wrote: [/QUOTENAME]A band these days that has similar traits to Queen? One word:

Muse
[/QUOTE]Exactly what I was going to say. There's a bit of Yes in there too.

The dreaded Nickelback are about the biggest band around these days. Sadly, our radio station at work play Rock Star ten times a day. Apart from it's awesome blandness, it's a poorly written song from a story telling POV. I may be pedantic here because I hate Nickelback, but WTF is this all about in the first chorus?

"Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars
Live in hilltop houses driving fifteen cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We'll all stay skinny cause we just won't eat"

Fine, you want to be skinny, and won't to be that way. Excellent strategy for being a rock star. Onto the second verse.

"I wanna be great like Elvis without the tassels
Hire eight body guards that love to beat up assholes
Sign a couple autographs
So I can eat my meals for free"

Just 10 seconds ago you weren't going to eat at all, now you want to eat for free, presumably like that noted model of culinary restraint, Elvis. Just terrible, terrible, terrible storytelling. That'd be like the second verse of Fat Bottomed Girls being about supermodels whose asses you could bounce a quarter off of because they were so small. Inconsisten them, and terrible writing.

Beef over.

^I agree. And Nickelback has such a horrible singer! Grrr... I hate them!
Who could believe that rock music has changed so much. In the sixties, seventies, and eighties, we had musicians that were TALENTED. There was Hendrix, Townshend, Clapton, May, Slash, Page, Van Halen and tons of other legendary guitarists that created some of the best compositions in the history of rock, and they all had different styles of playing. The singers actually had distinct voices back then. Just compare Freddie to, let's say, Robert Plant. They sounded nothing alike! Nowadays, most of the crappy new bands sound the same. They suck. WTF happened to originality? I think a lack of originality just proves they don't have any talent.

Making generalized statements is a dangerous, albeit common, game. Dissecting what defines music as memorable is generally an art of futility, simply considering the uncertain shifts of tastes and culture. There was a time I agreed wholeheartedly with the first poster; I was dedicated solely to music composed in the 70s. This served me well until I ran out of new artists to explore, which prodded me into examining the decades before and since. The 80's remain a fairly barren period for yours truly, but I have found some remarkable artists playing today who both create unique music and, alternately, emulate their forebears. These include Coheed & Cambria, Ice Age, The Mars Volta, Proto-Kaw, The Decemberists, Rufus Wainwright, The Shins, Ayreon, 3, The Dresden Dolls, Kaipa, Lake of Tears, Presto Ballet, System of a Down and The White Stripes.
Personally I think the collectively perceived 'decline' of popular music coincides with the abandonment of AOR. We live in a world that celebrates singular songs over the album-length accomplishments of most artists, which is admittedly a terrible and limiting shame.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]LozlanTheMage wrote: [/QUOTENAME]We live in a world that celebrates singular songs over the album-length accomplishments of most artists, which is admittedly a terrible and limiting shame. [/QUOTE]

Hit singles are catchy and instantly appreciated, but then they become overplayed and disposable once people get fed up with them.

There are good albums still made today, but their appreciation takes a while to be spread among the public. It took some years until a wide audience finally discovered OK Computer by Radiohead.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]LozlanTheMage wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Making generalized statements is a dangerous, albeit common, game. Dissecting what defines music as memorable is generally an art of futility, simply considering the uncertain shifts of tastes and culture. There was a time I agreed wholeheartedly with the first poster; I was dedicated solely to music composed in the 70s. This served me well until I ran out of new artists to explore, which prodded me into examining the decades before and since. The 80's remain a fairly barren period for yours truly, but I have found some remarkable artists playing today who both create unique music and, alternately, emulate their forebears. These include Coheed & Cambria, Ice Age, The Mars Volta, Proto-Kaw, The Decemberists, Rufus Wainwright, The Shins, Ayreon, 3, The Dresden Dolls, Kaipa, Lake of Tears, Presto Ballet, System of a Down and The White Stripes.
Personally I think the collectively perceived 'decline' of popular music coincides with the abandonment of AOR. We live in a world that celebrates singular songs over the album-length accomplishments of most artists, which is admittedly a terrible and limiting shame. [/QUOTE]
Yes, I agree that there are some good bands today, but it's just not the same. A lot of new rock doesn't even seem like rock at all, it all seems alternative to me. And, yes, some new bands have their own unique style (such as System of a Down, Avenged Sevenfold, and Red Hot Chili Peppers) but many of the mainstream bands don't. It's sad, but it's true. The world has literally become Radio Ga Ga. :/ I'm not saying ALL new bands suck, I'm just saying that many do. I think I should have been clearer with my previous entry.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]AmeriQueen wrote: [/QUOTENAME]It amazes me that 8 years into the 21st Century the first new material will come out that is Queen related, that it will be only half of Queen(Brian and Roger) with a veteran great on vocals(Paul) and that I would bet at 20 dollars to winning only 1 odds that it will absolutely smoke the best up to then album of the new millenium. This just as how Innuendo smoked the 90's, Made In Heaven right behind it. Nothing today can match Queen, nor come anywhere close. [/QUOTE]

I agree Queen are the gods of music forever but have you heard my band? its not like the crap you hear on Mtv

Treasure Moment>>>>>>>>>>>>all the modern bands put together

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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Atheist wrote: [/QUOTENAME]

I agree Queen are the gods of music forever but have you heard my band? its not like the crap you hear on Mtv[/QUOTE]

I agree!

It's even worse