Rock And Roll Is Dead

[Jesper Hvid]

Rescinded; cf. Kurt's suicide note. An heinous, infamous betrayal of the soul, in both cases. Worst of course in Neil's case. How does the misery and death of one compare to the joy of a thousand million. Jesus Syndrome? Didn't stop with Jim Morrison, or all the others went before their time.

It's been at least 25 years since the last truly great band. 25 big ones. A whole generation.



...reminds me of childhood memories... Even then. That very same bitter-sweet sad note, the retro germ, growing inward, like a deformed toenail.



...take me home...

Is this why there is so much plagiarism and unoriginality in rock music nowadays, or are we just talking total confusion with the known, of the heard. The denial of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

The disease of the 21st Cent. A.D.

The reversal of empirical thought. The past only exists, because someone copied it; not the other way around. The delayed Heureka! moment, experienced as a revelation by the uneducated and unmellow minds of a desperately clueless generation.

Rock 'n' Roll suffered it's last systematic bout of self-abuse in the 80s. You cannot squeeze another drop from this wrinkled rag. It was raped to pieces, from all possible angles.

Rammstein and other bands are nothing but the perverse flagellation of the unfulfilled post-80s Rock 'n' Roll-climax.

It's nada.

Paradigm shift request.

[caneparo]

New generation try to live the past instead of making their own music

[Jesper Hvid]

Thanks, caneparo.



Then this 80s banality suddenly becomes hugely significant.

"Is anybody out there" or are we just fuh-fuh-fuh-foolin'...?

Was it just a game. I just gotta know.

I don't believe so. "I'm not foolin' myself!".

[caneparo]

In fact that song is just foo foo fooooling us.
That band had a great sound, huge

[Jesper Hvid]

Innovation, diversification, categorization, duplication, frustration, retaliation.

Should take us back to the start, but we're not frustrated enough. We're too cozy and snug in the duplication department.

It's going to take a paradigm shift, and VolBeat ain't the new fuck-all.

[Andy]

Perhaps we are still too busy to dig tunes from back then, to find the new good ones. Just a thought, anyway.

[DoubleFart]

Rock isn't dead, it's still out there. The problem is that rock isn't popular, so it'll always hide in the shadows. This may be for the best, as it's a free spirit and doesn't have to conform to the rules of being a popular musician or band.

[Cheeveer]

Rock isn't dead, it's still out there. The problem is that rock isn't popular, so it'll always hide in the shadows. This may be for the best, as it's a free spirit and doesn't have to conform to the rules of being a popular musician or band.

This.

In some ways, that's a good thing. If rock/metal would be the mainstream music, it would still revolve around AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Mötörhëäd, Guns n Roses, etc. Yay, blah. Rock & roll is much more diverse today. I don't think any music genre can really thrive when it has mainstream spotlight on it.

[Jesper Hvid]

I agree, but who carries the banner.

[PTRACER]

Most small-time rock bands I've heard seem so desperate to become mainstream, they copy everything that's been done before to the best of their ability, but then come up with stuff that's more clichéd than ever. But does that mean rock is very much dead, or very much alive?

[caneparo]

It is absolutely ok to learn to play music looking at your idols but then you must write your music and express your feelings

[caneparo]

Thanks, caneparo.



Then this 80s banality suddenly becomes hugely significant.

"Is anybody out there" or are we just fuh-fuh-fuh-foolin'...?

Was it just a game. I just gotta know.

I don't believe so. "I'm not foolin' myself!".

[Jesper Hvid]

Nah, people. It's d-e-a-d, dead. As a terminally ill dodo wot trod on a landmine, and then fell onto a landmine. In a minefield for the terminally ill, like.



Nostalgebra is a fine thing.

[PTRACER]

It really is. I can't find any decent rock 'n' roll bands that don't sound a rip off of stuff I've heard before. Or stuff I haven't heard before, because whenever I discover some forgotten, obscure 70s/80s music track it sounds heaps better.

[Jesper Hvid]

It's one of the hardest things I've to deal with, really. I can take stupidity, arrogance, talentlessness, manipulation, falsehood, defeatism and superficiality on so many levels, through experience and with a humouristic sense of the absurd, but for some reason just not that.

How can this fire die out. How is it possible. It's the very antithesis of all the bollocks of the World, throughout history. The Universal "up yours!" to every single one and every one thing, that is designed to turn us all into SHIT.

Perhaps this is interesting in those terms, it's a peculiar early song by Accept (fake live audience overdubs, and various AC/DC "tricks"), who started as more of a Punk band, and then went into Metal - and in the transitory stage made this homage to old school R'n'R.



Lyrics, probably by the mysterious "Deaffy".

I hear a rock 'n' roll guitar
Screamin' wild on the radio
Well, I know what I like
Know and it's right
Gotta take me through the night

The sound is comin' out
It's breakin' down the doors
Like an earthquake
Explodin' your brains
Do it again, power is a natural right

I say, hey rock 'n' roller
Power in your hands
You and your music
Right on rockin' man

You gotta hear it for a while
It bowls you ever like dreamin'
Oh, hell what a night
Keep a rockin' on tight
Hey, boy can't you see the light

I say, hey rock 'n' roller
Power in your hands
You and your music
Make me rockin' mad

Burning, burning
Burning just like fire
Burning, burning
Burning just like fire

Burning, burning
Burning just like fire
Burning, burning
Burning just like fire

I say, hey rock 'n' roller
Power in your hands
You and your music
Make me rockin' mad

Burning, burning
Burning just like fire
Burning, burning
A rock 'n' roll desire

Burning, burning
Burning just like fire
Burning, burning
A rock 'n' roll desire

Burning, burning
Burning just like fire
Burning, burning
Burning just like fire

I say, hey rock 'n' roller
Power in your hands
You and your music
Right on rockin' man

Burning, burning
Burning just like fire
Burning, burning
Burning just like fire

Burning, burning
Burning just like fire
Burning, burning
Burning just like fire

It's not anger, it's the release of anger. In a manner more civilized than any other seen thus far, by this our species, upon this our planet. In a class of its own, and never to be replaced.

As with the mind, a terrible thing to lose, indeed.