Re: does rock still rock?

From: Guy Insalaco (arts@buffnet.net)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 19:41:19 MET DST

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    Rock has been a bit stale, though I've found the Tragically Hip and Gomez
    are 2 band that at least keep some hope alive until the next kid in a
    garage comes up with something.

    guy

    At 10:17 AM 5/25/2000 -0700, you wrote:
    >The Pumpkins diatribe made me think... As a teenager, in the eighties, I
    >was most definitely a (underground) rock fan. Nowadays, while I think I'm
    >quite eclectic, I hardly listen to anything which could be labeled as rock.
    >My impression is that this is not only due to my aging and change in taste,
    >but also to the fact that, after the early nineties, the quality of rock
    >music really went down (where are the Nirvana-Sonic Youth-Dinosaur Jr-Jesus
    >& Mary Chain-My Bloody Valentine of today?) Does anybody else share this
    >intuition?
    >
    >Regards,
    >
    >Marco



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