Re: does rock still rock?

From: Marco Baroni (baroni@humnet.ucla.edu)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 22:06:06 MET DST

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    > I have to disagree. In the genre of "avant-rock" or "postrock" there
    >are loads and loads of great new stuff coming out all the time. Bands
    >like Godspeed You Black Emperor! or Sigur Rós and on the more mainstream
    >tip, names like Radiohead, Beck, Mogwai or UNKLE, really do rock. Of
    >course one can argue whether or not all these categorize as rock..
    >Personally I am scarcely an expert in this genre, but I can only marvel
    >at variety and eclecticity of stuff my avant-rock-literate mates dig up
    >all the time..

    I like some of the people you and others mentioned (btw: I never thought of
    UNKLE as a rock band), but I also think that, paradoxically, somebody like
    Beck was an important rockstar of the late nineties exactly in virtue of
    the fact that his rock is very non-rock, so to speak. As opposed to a band
    such as Nirvana, who were great in their being so rock'n'roll: guitars,
    angst, noise, pain, teenage spirit and stuff. I agree that nowadays there
    is some good, or at least interesting, experimental rock-related music
    around, but no good rock'n'roll, in my humble opinion. But this could just
    be me becoming old and more interested in sophisticated production and
    original chord changes than in nihilism, distorsion and angst...

    Regards,

    Marco



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