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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