I am a huge fan of music from many eras and genres. Listening to music is a huge part of my life and is something I partake in everyday. I am also a student of music and have studied the violin and music theory and what-not to better enhance my understanding of the thing I love so much.
However, despite my classical training I am still at my core a rock music fan. For years I waited for a rock revival after the “Seattle Sound” died off and I only kept recieving mediocre bands such as Nickleback, Creed, Puddle of Mudd and various other unoriginal angst-filled bands. Then about a year ago I started hearing all these names of rock bands from my friends that I had never heard before, like The White Stripes, The Strokes and The Hives. After months of hearing those bands described as “just good rock music” I decided to give them a try, and I checked out name after name of this new wave of rock groups.
Is anyone else on to how piss poor this “new” sound is? Even The White Stripes, which seem to be the most widely acclaimed new band, aren’t very good. I’d go as far to say that they are a Doors like fluke, just dancing around under a trendy guise looking really pretty but still talentless.
Is this the “New” rock! And if it is, “Why?” If you want to here that type of music go buy a Ramones record or The Velvet Underground. I’m so sick of a lack of inventiveness in music. What happenned to the Radiohead’s and the Smashing Pumpkin’s and the Beck’s of music. Those bands have faded and who has risen in their place, the quirky and trendy teenager who fell in love with the Sex Pistols album they found in there parents attic.
I am of the general opinion that giant steps backwards, in all facits of life, are a generally bad idea.