What happened to rock music?

[Kaladin]

 

[HuskerGarrett]

 

[Kaladin]

 

[doublewing]

There are still some good bands out there but not like it was.

Rock bands became convinced by the record labels to produce ballads and top 40 crap in the late 80's and they got away from making good music. MTV and the radio stations wouldn't play it anymore. Same thing for Heavy Metal, it gave way to the stupid Hair Bands for their mainstream appeal.

-The David Lee Roth version of Van Halen became the cheesy Sammie Hagar synthesizer version.
-Aerosmith made bad songs for bad movies.
-Heavy Metal gave way to Faster Pussycat, Kix, Poisson, and that other stupid hair band shit.
-Same thing for Grunge rock - it started with Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, etc, and it became Limp Bizkit, Creed and Nickelback.

 

[SoCal_Corn]

There are still some good bands out there but not like it was.

Rock bands became convinced by the record labels to produce ballads and top 40 crap in the late 80's and they got away from making good music. MTV and the radio stations wouldn't play it anymore. Same thing for Heavy Metal, it gave way to the stupid Hair Bands for their mainstream appeal.

-The David Lee Roth version of Van Halen became the cheesy Sammie Hagar synthesizer version.
-Aerosmith made bad songs for bad movies.
-Heavy Metal gave way to Faster Pussycat, Kix, Poisson, and that other stupid hair band shit.
-Same thing for Grunge rock - it started with Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, etc, and it became Limp Bizkit, Creed and Nickelback.

I love KIX



and have since 1982

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

Tons of great gee-tar music out there. Just pretty much impossible to make money in music these days for almost everyone.

 

[Pipehog69]

Part of it is shifting demographics and changing tastes. In the mid-late 2000s working class whites gravitated toward country and college kids listened to more hip-hop and indie/dance.

Another part of it is the last 2 mainstream rock movements were derivative (garage rock) or terrible (emo)

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Creed is back doing stadium tours. So the most important part of rock music is just fine.

 

[SoCal_Corn]

Creed AC⚡DC is back doing stadium tours. So the most important part of rock music is just fine.

FIFY...or for ME.

 

[Goskers07]

There’s still some great bands out there, but it’s definitely not your 80s power rock stuff.

 

[SoCal_Corn]

There’s still some great bands out there, but it’s definitely not your 80s power rock stuff.

Power Rock stuff is all coming from Europe, save for a few US Bands.

 

[Toe]

Labels realized it was a lot cheaper and more profitable to just find a vocalist and do the rest on a computer.

 

[Goskers07]

Power Rock stuff is all coming from Europe, save for a few US Bands.

Yeah probably a poor choice of words, just more so that it’s not going to have that same old school sound. But there are still some great bands.

 

[Toe]

Just pretty much impossible to make money in music these days for almost everyone.

Not true, music industry profits have rebounded big time in recent years. Like double what they were a decade ago.

 

[Jim14510]

There are still some good bands out there but not like it was.

Rock bands became convinced by the record labels to produce ballads and top 40 crap in the late 80's and they got away from making good music. MTV and the radio stations wouldn't play it anymore. Same thing for Heavy Metal, it gave way to the stupid Hair Bands for their mainstream appeal.

-The David Lee Roth version of Van Halen became the cheesy Sammie Hagar synthesizer version.
-Aerosmith made bad songs for bad movies.
-Heavy Metal gave way to Faster Pussycat, Kix, Poisson, and that other stupid hair band shit.
-Same thing for Grunge rock - it started with Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, etc, and it became Limp Bizkit, Creed and Nickelback.

Creed is back doing stadium tours. So the most important part of rock music is just fine.

I like Creed ftr so 2010 probably wins this one.

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

Not true, music industry profits have rebounded big time in recent years. Like double what they were a decade ago.

Now do the artist cut. It’s a merch and your game now, and that scales pretty dramatically down the food chain.

 

[Scott Hall]

Two types of people in this world. People who like limp bizkit and creed and people who lie about not liking them.

These are both mine and I’ll cherish them forever. Fred was clearly lying when he signed this.

I was 15 in 1998. Music was awesome and tickets were still affordable.

 

[PLA]

I’m still listening to the same rotation of Social D, Ramones, Clash,Rancid,Replacements,Bad Religion,Stiff Little Fingers, Tiger Army,Distillers,Nekromantics. Most were transferred from vinyl to a first gen iPod when it first came out, and put in my itunes account. I pretend that when I here “I wanna be sedated” that it’s DNA goes back to the original album I bought in 78’. In the last year I rebuilt a vintage home stereo, and still rock out to the good shit. I feel bad for the good bands that were destroyed by the invention of “free Music”, and I also feel bad for folks that have never heard good music on a true analog system played loud enough that your neighbors call the cops! I refinish wood floors, and I redid a dance hall floor in a tiny town in SD last week. The building was built by WPA in 1937. Every time I do it I can picture bands like Buddy Holly playing there. Good music is hard to find. When I mean “good”, I mean generational fucking awesome music. Now a good song comes out and it’s done in about 18 months. I always said the great artists that die young refused to sign a deal with the devil. Think about it. I remember when U2 was cool. Joshua Tree comes out and all of a sudden Bono is a faggy weirdo trying to save the world. All time favorite song is “Ball and Chain” Social D.

 

[nja13]

I do know this. In my local nearly-all-white Class C high school, 20 years ago the weight room played nothing but heavy metal and rock. Now it’s nothing but rap.

 

[1HuskerDad]

I’m so glad I grew up listening to rock in the late 60’s, 70’s and 80’s instead of this crap today. That makes me old to some of you but we had great music back then!