I hate the "classic rock is the one true genre" takes. Fuck no it isn't classic rock is pure shyte.
You're probably too young to remember this but music peaked with Hildegard von Bingen, after that it all went downhill.
It’s because boomers have excess wealth to spend on overpriced shit
You say Justin Bieber-I say ACDC
You say Miley Cyrus-I say Led Zepplin
You say T-Pain-I say Slipknot
You say Flowers-I say?? Metallica
You say Pink-I say Iron Maiden
You? say Hip Hop-i say? shut the ---- up
You say Pop-I scream Heavy Metal!!
You say? hanah montana-i ------- punch you in the face
92% of teenagers have turned to Hip Hop and Pop.If you are part of the 8% that still listen to real music,copy? and paste this message to another 5? videos. DON'T? LET? THE? SPIRIT OF ROCK DIE!
Every single gear hobby with an online base devolves to "spend more or don't bother." Cars, bikes, audio, video games, paintball. It's just this
These millenials and their guitars, real music is played on seven-course vihuelas!
You know what I hate? People saying shit like "I was born in the wrong generation, the older music is so much better." No, its actually better to be alive now, when you can stream all the music you want on the internet instead of relying on some jerkoff disc jockey playing what he thinks is important. I'm blowing a giant raspberry and showing my ass.
Same! Besides a lot of the boomer music was pretty subversive for the time. Jimi hendrix, crosby stills nash and young, bob dylan, johnny cash, etc all had some good songs (although a lot sold out unless they died young).
As a non-RocknRoll GenX'er, I love watching rock die. Not that I don't like some rock. Even older stuff. Even The Beatles. But I don't pretend it's the end-all, be-all and some great achievement beyond just a way to pump out songs with 3-5 pieces. It was pretty much dead by 1975 and only saved by punk. Barely.
I dabble in music. My favorite conversation to listen in on is the dude(s), often musicians but sometimes just fans, at the club complaining about how nothing now is real in modern music, and eventually everyone will come to their senses and come crawling back to rock.
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O RLY, dumdum? Explain ten years of hair metal in the 80s. Explain the bland, cookie cutter Seattle sound of the 90s. Explain The Eagles. Most standard rock sucks. And thats not even accounting for the over commercialization of rock in the golden era. The Archies were a fake band in the 60s with a Top 20 hit of Yummy Yummy Yummy I Got Love in my Tummy. Explain that shit and how its all any better than hip hop.
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Now you know what it feels like to be in a band that doesn't play rock. Suck it up. If I worried about making it big playing the types of music I like, I'd never play another gig.
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I counter this by telling boomers about Shanty Club and watching them melt into a puddle at the thought of 300 drunk college students crammed into a tiny bar singing 17th century folk songs.
