Re: does rock still rock?

From: BAO (tunde@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Fri May 26 2000 - 03:30:15 MET DST

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    ROCK Is DEAD!

    On Thu, 25 May 2000, Sibyl Ruth Bedford wrote:

    > Don't forget, though, that Radiohead and Beck are NOT new bands at all.
    > seven or eight years ago they were new. A lot of the bands that I liked
    > stopped existing, like Nirvana, Concrete Blonde, and Blind Melon, some
    > didn't, like R.E.M., but they naturally changed their style. I'm guessing
    > that the attention (by artists themselves and by the media) given to
    > electronica, and maybe even the death of a couple cool singers, has
    > reduced the music that I liked then to stuff of the past.
    >
    > Not to say that the genre is not continuing in a different flavor, but
    > having changed my taste from classical music (Vivaldi, Haydn, Bach,
    > Brahms, Chopin - from before I could walk), to oldies and alt-rock or
    > whatever the hell they called it, to punk and harder rock, to industrial
    > (yes that means Skinny Puppy), to techno, to synth-pop, to all sorts of
    > electronica and dance music, to more laid-back grooves, and on to the
    > jazzy funky bluesy ends of the spectrum, I'm not the one to say where any
    > one category has landed in the year 2000.
    >
    > -s-
    >
    > > 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..
    > >
    > >
    >
    >



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