Muff's Modules & More

confusedinNC · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:12 pm Post subject:

Its my general feeling that rock hasnt really become passe, but it just has in popular culture. To me that really applies to every genre, though. I dont listen to very much straight up 'rock' these days, but if i do, i know im not gonna find it on the radio or television... Shit, I think its probably been at least 5 years since ive ever consciously listened to the radio or watched something on cable television, but every time i do im blown away with how goddamn awful the music i hear on it is. When i do actually listen to rock its more stuff like Torche or Young Widows, and from there, more stoner rock type stuff.

PYJAMAGROOVE · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:13 pm Post subject:

Fuck you!

There. I've said it. nanners

ignatius · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:18 pm Post subject:

Internet forums are passé. See gearslutz for example.

Why it needs to be discussed ? Not sure

hiawog · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:20 pm Post subject:

criticalmonkey · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:24 pm Post subject:

there are lots of good things out there - it's just cool to bag on rock right now in the press and all the hipsters but fashion changes faster than the seasons nowadays

with this new generation all the genre stuff is dying fast - which i love
country is pop is disco is rock is metal is punk is noise = dolly parton with radiohead would be cool

btw - whoever said dubstep was the new rock - the next 6 months from the major labels is going to prove you right
not to mention dubstep hiphop/soul
some of it is actually cool - most of it slated for the may/june release time frame

dougcl · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:31 pm Post subject:

I can't listen to anything but beeps and boops anymore. I hate music.

hiawog · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:33 pm Post subject:

doug, your beeps and boops ARE music. i think most of us would agree.

dougcl · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:42 pm Post subject:

vav · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:59 pm Post subject:

I think i'm just getting old, i hate everything new. The only "new" artist i've really found myself enjoying in the past 5 years or something is Tonetta.

megaohm · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:35 pm Post subject: Re: rock music is passe

Gribs · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 11:17 pm Post subject:

I don't listen to radio because I am tired of commercials and songs and/or sounds that I don't like and/or am tired of hearing. I became bored with so-called "classic rock" a very long time ago and much of modern rock sounds to me like some new band trying to emulate some older band.

Much of the music that I listen to nowdays is much more personal than radio music. I follow people on Soundcloud and youtube who I think are pretty much independent composers/musicians/producers.

M. Rishi · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 1:41 am Post subject:

nikmis · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 2:24 am Post subject:

I listened to to Rock and Roll music once, but I stopped before I started worshiping the Devil.

e-grad · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:56 am Post subject: Re: rock music is passe

Norman_Phay · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:25 am Post subject:

Generally agree that "rock" music is pretty moribund, although I would put most "electronic" music in w that as well, I guess I would say that "beat" music in a certain sense is creatively moribund and has been for years. I mean I remember LFO on the front of NME or MM, claiming that rock was dead, which it probably was at the time, and that was like 1992 or something TWENTY YEARS AGO. And LFO weren't all that as I remember.

I don't give a fuck anymore though really, I prefer listeing to Dick Powell or Alice Faye or Jessie Matthews or Carmen Miranda or Pola Negri or Marta Eggerth or Lillian Roth or Ann Pennington or the Boswell Sisters or Lee Morse (etc etc etc) fuck a rock singer grin

ringstone · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:30 am Post subject:

How much music (including "rock") isn't electronic music by strict definition these days anyway? It's pretty much all digitised, re-sampled, stretched, effected - parts are cut and pasted, chopped so they're in time, re-tuned etc etc.

Cheers
Blair

revmutt · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:41 am Post subject:

If one is a fan of more raw Rock & Roll and Punk there is always waves of new garage burners who are doing it like it was just discovered. Now that may suggest a dead end path but vitality counts.

As for not specifically 3 chord stuff, I suggest Battles as a fine example of the rock form mutating.

Danotranto · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:54 am Post subject:

electronic music makes me bop my head but I have a hard time hanging on to any one song, it seems disposable to me for the most part

Kakihara · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:10 am Post subject:

what does "passe" means? Like "past" or "over" in french, passé?

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