> 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?
I have to disagree. In the genre of "avant-rock" or "postrock" there
are loads and loads of great new stuff coming out all the time. Bands
like Godspeed You Black Emperor! or Sigur Rós and on the more mainstream
tip, names like Radiohead, Beck, Mogwai or UNKLE, really do rock. Of
course one can argue whether or not all these categorize as rock..
Personally I am scarcely an expert in this genre, but I can only marvel
at variety and eclecticity of stuff my avant-rock-literate mates dig up
all the time..
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