Re: does rock still rock?

From: R. Scott (framboise@mindspring.com)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 20:54:39 MET DST

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    Rock has become so homogenized. It curdled along time ago. Like you, I was a
    total rock 'n' roll kid (The Jam, The Who, Beatles, Husker Du, The
    Replacements, Early-R.E.M., Minutemen, X, Elvis Costello....). I always dug
    on the funk, R&B, Soul stuff but the angst in a lot of rock spoke to me so
    clearly as a youngster. But once I really started to explore jazz and all
    it's derivations a lot of rock music lost it's importance.

    peace,
    R. Scott
    framboise@mindspring.com

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Marco Baroni" <baroni@humnet.ucla.edu>
    To: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
    Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:17 AM
    Subject: does rock still rock?

    > 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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